. 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 .. . through thewall, about eight yards diftant from each part of the wall by the v/etV gate, calledGorham block, is twelve feet thick. \t wouldbe endlefs to recount ail the antiquities that havebeen dug up at Veruiam : feveral mofaic pave-ments have been feen, and one in particular wasfound in 1719. St. Albans feat members to parliament as earlyas any borough ;n the kingdom. It is incorporatedby charter, and governed by a mayor, a highfteward, a recorder, twelve aldermen, a town-clerk, and twenty-four affiilants. This borou2;hhas adift:ri6t called a Liberty, which has a jurifdic-tion both in civil and ecclcfiaftical matters, peculiarto itfelf, including the panfnes of Barnet, Sand-ridge, Redburne, Cudicot, Shepehele, Bufny, El-ftre, Langiey-Abbots, Sarret, Walden-Abbots,Hoxton, Ridge, Norton, Rickmanfworth, andWatford. This liberty has ajail, and a jail-deliveryat St. Albans four times a year, on the Thurfdayafter the quarter feulons at Hertford. St. Albans is I HERTFORDSHIRE. 255 « is divided into four wards, in each of which is a» conftable and two churchwardens. Though this town is far from being remarkable?: for its beauty and the elegance of its buildings,t the country round it, being extremely pleafant, abounds with fine feats. The town is bot
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