. A description of England and Wales, containing a particular account of each county, with its antiquities, curiosities, situation, figure, extent, climate, rivers, lakes, mineral waters, soils, fossils, caverns, plants and minerals, agriculture, civil and ecclesiastical divisions, cities, towns, palaces, seats, corporations, markets, fairs, manufactures, trade, sieges, battles, and the lives of the illustrious men each county has produced : embellished with two hundred and forty copper plates, of palaces, castles, cathedrals, the ruins of Roman and Saxon buildings, and of abbeys, monasteries,
. A description of England and Wales, containing a particular account of each county, with its antiquities, curiosities, situation, figure, extent, climate, rivers, lakes, mineral waters, soils, fossils, caverns, plants and minerals, agriculture, civil and ecclesiastical divisions, cities, towns, palaces, seats, corporations, markets, fairs, manufactures, trade, sieges, battles, and the lives of the illustrious men each county has produced : embellished with two hundred and forty copper plates, of palaces, castles, cathedrals, the ruins of Roman and Saxon buildings, and of abbeys, monasteries, and other religious houses, besides a variety of cuts of urns, inscriptions, and other antiquities .. . king Flenry the Third. Inprocefs of time it. came to Thomas of Woodftock,duke of Gloucefter, who is faid to have been fe-cretly fmothered at Calais with pillows, in theyear 1397. Afterv/ards it came to Edmund ofLan^ley, earl of Cambridge, and duke of York,brother to the above Thomas of Woodftock, dukeof Gloucefter. The prefent pofTeflbr is Sir Fran-cis St. John, Bart. It is now demoliflied, exceptthree or four lofty ruins, which fhew it was for-merly a magnificent ftru6lure, and of which wehave given a particular view for the fatisfadlion ofthe curious reader. In this village a fair is heldon the 24th of June, for toys. From Raleigh one road extends northward toChelmsford, and another weftward through Bille-ricay, which is only a chapelry to a parifh calledGreat Burfted, and has nothing worthy of no-tice ; and from thence it enters the London roadto Harv/ich, a little to the north of Brentwood. Brentwood, or Burntwood, is ten milesweft of Raleigh, and eighteen north-eaft of Lon- doni. I ill li ESSEX. 33 don. It Is only a hamlet, or divifion of a parlfh,called Southwold Cum Brent, but has good inns,and is a populous place. The county affizes havebeen often held here, and horfe-races are frequentlyheld on a neighbouring plain, called ParHowWood common. It has a market on Thurf
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