. 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 .. . ngHenry the Second is faid to have founded a priory,which he ampl^ endowed, and made it a cell tathe abbey of Lonley in Normandy ; but Camdetv.;tells us this is a miftake. However, it has twofairs, on JMay 2, and September 12> for cattldand Iheep. Eight miles weft-north-weft of StogurfyWatchet, which is fituated fifteen miles fromBridgewater, and one hundred and fifty-three fromLondon, and is an ancient little fea-port town, oathe coaft of Briftol channel. This town fuf-fered greatly by the Danes in the years 886, and997. The late Sir William Wyndham built thepier of the harbour, but there are only about feveiior eight veflels belonging to it, which trade in coals,or ferve as coafters. T hey carry the afhes of fea-weed to fupply the glafs-houfes of Briftol, andgreat quantities of it are burnt for that alio carry a great deal of alabafter, whichhere falls from the cliffs by the wafti of the fea,to that city. The inhabitants of this town and neighbourhood Vol. J So. _ _Sp M E Pv S E T S H I R E. 165 rr^i^hbourhood likcwife burn vaft heaps of peb-ble- ft^nes, which are found upon the coaft,for manuring the land, but chiefly to fervt as ^cement for building, no cement being rhore dura?-ble than this, in mafon work, that is to lie underwater, where it will b
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