. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . tants,the mayor, by an old prefcriptive right, is coroner not onJy ofthis place, but f theifleof Purbeck, and another fmall ifland 5on the fouth fiae of the bay of Pool, called Brankfey Ifland :he has been fupreme magtttrate here ever fince the time of kingHenry the Sixth ; and the mayor in office, the preceding mayor,and the recorder, arejuftices of the peace; the officiating mayora
. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . tants,the mayor, by an old prefcriptive right, is coroner not onJy ofthis place, but f theifleof Purbeck, and another fmall ifland 5on the fouth fiae of the bay of Pool, called Brankfey Ifland :he has been fupreme magtttrate here ever fince the time of kingHenry the Sixth ; and the mayor in office, the preceding mayor,and the recorder, arejuftices of the peace; the officiating mayorand recorder are of the quorum, and are empowered to hold theirown feffions. Here are three churches, St. Martins, Trinitychurch, and St. Marys church, which are all three fupplied byone minifter, who preaches at St. Marys, the great church, thefummer half year, and at the two others alternately in the win-ter. The tower of St. Marys is the chief ornament of thetown. The fori in and about this place produces vaft quantitiesof garlick ; but the chief trade of the town is in tobacco pipeclay, of which the beft in Great Britain is dugout of a hill inthe neighbourhood, called Hunger Hill. Corfe-Castle I lit m A. Ait v. HI 1 N F ty liiiliM
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