. 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 .. . around table is ftill preferved, called king Arthurs round table ;it confifts of one piece of wood, and is faid to be above 1200years old ; it has fome illegible Saxon characters upon it, whichare faid to be the names of twenty-four knights, with whomking Arthur ufed to caroufe, and who were called knights ofthe round table. Winchefter is governed, according to a charter pf queen Eli
. 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 .. . around table is ftill preferved, called king Arthurs round table ;it confifts of one piece of wood, and is faid to be above 1200years old ; it has fome illegible Saxon characters upon it, whichare faid to be the names of twenty-four knights, with whomking Arthur ufed to caroufe, and who were called knights ofthe round table. Winchefter is governed, according to a charter pf queen Eli-zabeth, by a mayor, a high fteward, a recorder^ an unlimitednumber of aldermen, out of whom are chofen fix juftices, twocoroners, two bailiffs, twenty-four commorj, council men, atown clerk, four conftables, and four ferjearrts at mace. It is about. THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 343 about a mile and a half in compafs, and almoft furrounded wall built of flint, having fix gates in it, with fuburbs leadingto each from the adjacent country. The buildings in generalare mean, but the ftreets are broad and clean ; there is alfo agreat deal of void ground within the walls, fome part of which islaid into gardens, that are fuppiied upon occafion with waterfrom little canals on each fide of the High-ftreet. In this ftreetis a guildhall, which was rebuilt fome years ago, and the ftatueof queen Anne fet up in the front of it. In this hall are heldtwo courts of record, on every Friday and Saturday. At the eaftgate of the city there is an hofpital, dedicated to St. John, in;the hall of which hofpital the mayor and bailiffs give their pub-lic entertainments. At one end is the picture of king Charles Sir Peter Lely ; and at the other a large table of all the may-ors and bailiffs of Winchefter, from the year 1184; and hereare alfo tables
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