. 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 .. . ertainly a muchJarger place formerly than it is at prefent, as itfent three Clips, and fixty-two men to the fiege ofCalais, in the year 1359; and befides its church,or Father parochial chapel, here was a chapel dedi-cated to St. John Baptift, and another to , which were {landing fince the year 1500 ;and there is alfo a piece of land on the north fideof the town, now called St, Johns was alfo a priory of Auguftin friars, begunabout the twenty-third year of Edward the Firft.,An hofpital for a mafter and brethren, dedicatedto St. Leonard, in the reign of king Edward theSecond, and a chantry. Orford had formerly agood harbour, and the caufe of the decay of thetown feems to have been owing to the fca havingbeen many years withdrawn from it. On a pro-montory called Orfordnefs, not far from thetownj^^is alighthoufe for the diredtion of feamen failingnear the coaft ; and this promontory is a goodflielter for fliips, when a north^eail: wind blov^s hard l\ J T?/,VA
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