. 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 . tly screened from the sight by plan-tations: the whole forming a delightful re-sidence. Both sides of the vale, from LittlecotPark to Ramesbury, are fertile, and wellsupplied with wood; as is the district we C 18 SURVEY OF THfc GREAT ROAD FROM pass through, in returning from hence, tothe great road. FROXFIELD. Proceeding on our journey, we arrive atFroxfield, a long scattered village, on theBath
. 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 . tly screened from the sight by plan-tations: the whole forming a delightful re-sidence. Both sides of the vale, from LittlecotPark to Ramesbury, are fertile, and wellsupplied with wood; as is the district we C 18 SURVEY OF THfc GREAT ROAD FROM pass through, in returning from hence, tothe great road. FROXFIELD. Proceeding on our journey, we arrive atFroxfield, a long scattered village, on theBath road, about two miles distant fromHungerford; remarkable for a noble alms-house, founded and endowed by SarahDutchess of Somerset; as appears from thefollowing inscription, written on a marbletablet, over the gateway of the building. INSCRIPTION. Somerset Almshouse for twenty poorwidows, founded and endowed by the rightnoble Sarah, late Dutchess of Somerset, de-ceased. Built and settled, according to the will ofthe said Dutchess, by Sir William Gregory,Knight, one of the Justices of their Ma-jestys Court of Kings Bench Compter,A. D. 1694, enlarged, for twenty more, in1773, completing the LONDON TO BATH AND BRISTOL. 19 This edifice is of a quadrangular form,having a small chapel in the centre of thecourt: it contains separate, neat apart-ments, for all the pensioners. The yearly-stipend to each was originally eight pounds,with clothing, an allowance for fire, andsome advantage from the garden. By goodmanagement, that sum is now nearly dou-bled ; which enables them to live in a verycomfortable manner, and reflects infinitehonour on those gentlemen to whose carethe direction of this benevolent institutionhas been intrusted.—An example highlyworthy of imitation. A salary is allowed to a clergyman, whoreads prayers every Wednesday and Fri-day, and preaches a sermon on the Sab-bath. Pursuing our journey from hence, highgrounds, well cultivated, and sprinkled withwood, occupy
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