. 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 .. . abrazen pot, covered with a white pafte or clay,as hard as brick, which contained two otherearthen pots, the innermoil: of which was coveredv/ith fliuff like velvet, and tied with a filk this there were v/hole bones, and many pieces-of fmall bones, Vv^rapped up in fine filk. Theywere fhown to the abbot who owned the land,who took them for relicks of faints, and laidthem up in his veftry. At Coggefhall was an abbey of Ciftercianmonks, founded by king Stephen and Maud hisqueen in the year 1140, and dedicated to the Vir-gin Mary. William de Humberftane, with thekings licenfe, gave the manor of Tillinghan tothefe monks, for the finding of one wax lightto burn before the high altar, at the abbey churchin the time of high mafs daily. At the generalfupprefFion it was valued at 251 1. a year, byDugdalej but at 298 1. by Speed. The marketat this town is on Saturdays, and it has one fair,on Whit-Tuefday, for horfes and toys. Castle-Henningham, fo called todiflinguifh it ^.. ESSEX. ,41 It from Slble Henningham, is a village upon theCoin, ten miles north of Coggefhall. Here acaiHe was built by the family of the Veres, after-wards earls of Oxford. Here John de Vere, earlof Oxford, entertained Henry the Seventh, withall pofTible fplendor and magnificence, and havingon
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