. 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 .. . HEREFORDSHIRE. 239 Richard the Firft, which continued till the gene-ral fupprefiion, when it had fix nuns, and yet itsrevenue was only valued at 22 1. 7 s. 8d. a Brion, a village about five milesnorth-weft of Wigmore, on the north-weft bor-ders of the county, is famous for its caftle, whichfor fomc ages belonged to a family of diftincSlion,called Brion de Brompton, and continued in theirpolTelTion till the reign of king Edward the Third,when Robert de Harley, marrying the daughterand heirefs of Sir Brion de Brompton, it came in-to the pofTeilion of that noble family. It is atprefent in the poireiTion of Edward, earl of Ox-ford and Mortimer, baron Harley of remains are extremely magnificent, and forthe fatisfaclion of the curious reader, we havegiven a view of them. The gatehoufe is ftill en-tire, and the other parts fhev/, that it has beenvery ftrong and fpacious. At this village is afair on the 22d of June, for horned cattle, fheepand wool. About two miles t
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