. 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 .. . enjoyed by theearl of Huntingdoli. This caftle, of which wehave given an engraved view, has been a large andbeautiful ftrudure. We fhall now enter this county from Maiden-Bradley in Wiltftiire, and proceed fouth-weft toBruton, which is feated on the river Brew, orBry, from whence it takes its name, twelve milesIbuth-eaft of Wells, and a hundred and fifteenweft of London. It is a well built, populousplace, with a handfome church, a free-fchool,and a ftately alms-houfe, in a part of an abbey ofcanons regular of St. Auguftin, founded by Ail-mer, earl of Cornwall, in the year 1005, in thereign of king Ethelred. It was pretty well en-dowed at firft, and afterwards had feveral bene-factors ; fo that, at the time of the fuppreffion ofreligious houfes, its revenue was valued at year by Dugdale; and at 480 1. by Speed. Thistown has a ftone bridge over the river Brew, andin the market place is a fpacious hall, in whichthe quarter-feflions are fometimes held for the eaftern IW.^ ib\. i SOMERSETSHIRE. 149 eaftern diviilon of the county. The inhabitantscarry on a good trade, in llockings, malt, ferges,and other commodities. It has a market on Sa-turdays, and two fairs, held on the 4th of May,and the 19th of September, for cattle. At WiTHAAi, a village nine miles north-north-e
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