. A topographical survey of the great road from London to Bath and Bristol. : With historical and descriptive accounts of the country, towns, villages, and gentlemen's seats on and adjacent to . 4 SURVEY OF THE GREAT ROAD FROM heirs of Sir Bevils second son, Bernard ; ofwhom George, an elegant writer of thiscentury, was created Lord Lansdown byQueen Anne, in the year 1711 ; but dyingin 1734, without male issue, the title becameextinct.—William Earl of Bath, Camdenscotemporary, died in 1623 ; and from hiseldest son, Edward, the title passed, in theyear 1636, to Henry, heir of the secondea
. A topographical survey of the great road from London to Bath and Bristol. : With historical and descriptive accounts of the country, towns, villages, and gentlemen's seats on and adjacent to . 4 SURVEY OF THE GREAT ROAD FROM heirs of Sir Bevils second son, Bernard ; ofwhom George, an elegant writer of thiscentury, was created Lord Lansdown byQueen Anne, in the year 1711 ; but dyingin 1734, without male issue, the title becameextinct.—William Earl of Bath, Camdenscotemporary, died in 1623 ; and from hiseldest son, Edward, the title passed, in theyear 1636, to Henry, heir of the secondearl; and on his decease, in 1654, it wasconferred on Sir John Grenville, as above.—It was revived, in the year 1742, in Wil-liam Pulteney, Esq. who died in 1764 ; andhis son John dying a year before him, thetitle became again extinct: and in the year1789, the title of Marquis of Bath was con-ferred on Thomas Thyne, Viscount Wey-mouth, who now possesses it. Lansdown is supposed to derive its namefrom a monument erected upon it by GeorgeLord Lansdown, in commemoration of theabovementioned victory. The western sideof this monument is adorned with militarytrophies; on the eastern, are the kings. LONDON TO BATH AND BRISTOL. 155 arms, and those of the Grenville family;and upon a tablet on its north side, areverses descriptive of the battle, and inpraise of the valour of Sir Bevil Grenville;as also the following inscription: TO THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OF HIS RENOWNED GRANDFATHER, AND VALIANT CORNISH FRIENDS, WHO CONQUERED, PYING IN THE ROYAL CAUSE, JULY 5, 1643, THIS COLUMN WAS DEDICATED £Y THE HONOURABLE GEORGE GRENVILLE, LORD LANSDOWN, 1720. DULCE EST PRO PATRIA MORI. On the south tablet is the following in-scription: In this battle, on the Kings part, were more officers and gentlemen of quality slain than private men; but that which would have clouded any victory, and made the loss of others less spoken of, was the death of Sir Bevil Grenville. He was in- 1 66 SURVEY OF THE GREAT R
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