. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . rock of free-ftone, on the bank ofthe Avon, and a way is cut to it through the rock from each ofthe four cardinal points. It was formerly fortified with a walland ditch, fome remains of which are ftill vifible. The ftreetsare fpacious and regular, and all meet in the center of the town*which being the fummit of an eminence, is always clean : itswells and cellars are cut in the rock,
. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . rock of free-ftone, on the bank ofthe Avon, and a way is cut to it through the rock from each ofthe four cardinal points. It was formerly fortified with a walland ditch, fome remains of which are ftill vifible. The ftreetsare fpacious and regular, and all meet in the center of the town*which being the fummit of an eminence, is always clean : itswells and cellars are cut in the rock, and it is fupplied with wa-ter by pipes from fprings about half a mile diftant. It is a finepopulous town, with only two parifti churches, one of which,St. Marys, is a beautiful edifice. Here are three charity fchools^in which 62 boys and 42 girls are taught and cloathed, andfour hofpitals, one founded in the reign of queen Elizabeth, byRobert Dudley, earl of Leicefter, for twelve decayed gentlemen*with an allowance of 2©1. a year for each, and 50I. to a chap-lain; another founded fometime afterwards, by Sir ThomasPuckering, for eight poor women, and two others founded in1633, for decayed tradefmen. But \. THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 249 But the principal ornament of this place is a caftle belongingto the Earl of Warwick, ftanding upon the bank of the Avon, ona rock which rifes forty feet perpendicularly above the level of thatriver; and adjoining tc the cattle, is a fine terrace fifty feet abovethe fame level, from whence there is a beautiful and extenfiveprofpect of the river, and of the country beyond it. The a-partments of the caftle are well contrived, and adorned with manyoriginal pictures of Vandyke, and other great mafters. h wasoriginally built by William the Norman. Here is a town-houfebuilt of free-itone, and fupported by ftone pillars, in which areheld the aflizes and quarter feflions ; and this town has a goodftone bridge confifting of twelve arches, over the river A
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