. 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 .. . pur. Here that prince granted to Ro-ger Ive, redlor of the chapel of St. John Bap-tift, at Adbrighton, two acres of land, for build-ing a college upon it for a mafter and five chap-lains, dedicated to St. Mary A4agdalen, togetherwith an hofpital for feveral poor perfons. Tothis^college Roger Ive left three chalices of filver gilt,two filver phials, three gilt crofles, three bells tothe fteeple, with feveral veftments and books fordivine fervice, and encreafed the ftipends of eachof the five chaplains, upon condition of theirpraying particularly for the fouls of all the faith-ful flain in the fight of Battlefield. The annualrevenues of both thefe endowments, were valuedat the fupprefiion at 26 1. is. \i. At Westbury, eight miles to the weftwardof Shrewfbury, is a fair, held on the 5th of Au-guft, for horned cattle, fheep and horfes. Haghmon, a village four miles north-eaft ofShrewfbury, had a priory founded in the year1100, by William Fitz-Allan, for regular canons- of Vvl. ,; SHROPSHIRE. 45 of the order of St. Au^uftine, and dedicated toSt. Mary and St. John the Evangelift. It hadmany endowments and large revenues from timeto time conferred upon it by feveral great men,among whom were fome of the Welch princes, allof which were confirmed to the church and ca-nons b
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