Views of the seats of noblemen and gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland . icularly fertile, andabound with many fine venerable oaks. In this vicinity and parish arethe picturesque remains of a monastery of the Cistercian order, which wasfounded by Robert, Earl Ferrers, in the thirteenth year of the reign ofKing Stephen. The foundation was liberally endowed by the Earl;and by subsequent benefactions its revenue, at the time of the dissolutionof religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII., was very great. Thedespoiled Abbot and Monks received a pension for life. The fragmentsof t
Views of the seats of noblemen and gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland . icularly fertile, andabound with many fine venerable oaks. In this vicinity and parish arethe picturesque remains of a monastery of the Cistercian order, which wasfounded by Robert, Earl Ferrers, in the thirteenth year of the reign ofKing Stephen. The foundation was liberally endowed by the Earl;and by subsequent benefactions its revenue, at the time of the dissolutionof religious houses in the reign of Henry VIII., was very great. Thedespoiled Abbot and Monks received a pension for life. The fragmentsof the Abbey which remain, serve in some degree to point out thebeauty and extent of the buildings. Dugdale Stratford Dugdale, Esq., was married, in June, 1799, tothe Honourable Charlotte Curzon, the youngest daughter of ViscountCurzon, by lady Dorothy, aunt of the present Earl Grosvenor. Mr. Dug-dale has had for some years the command of a volunteer corps, called theAtherstone Yeomanry, and has been six times returned as one of therepresentatives in parliament for the county of
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