. A description of England and Wales, containing a particular account of each county, with its antiquities, curiosities, situation, figure, extent, climate, rivers, lakes, mineral waters, soils, fossils, caverns, plants and minerals, agriculture, civil and ecclesiastical divisions, cities, towns, palaces, seats, corporations, markets, fairs, manufactures, trade, sieges, battles, and the lives of the illustrious men each county has produced : embellished with two hundred and forty copper plates, of palaces, castles, cathedrals, the ruins of Roman and Saxon buildings, and of abbeys, monasteries,
. A description of England and Wales, containing a particular account of each county, with its antiquities, curiosities, situation, figure, extent, climate, rivers, lakes, mineral waters, soils, fossils, caverns, plants and minerals, agriculture, civil and ecclesiastical divisions, cities, towns, palaces, seats, corporations, markets, fairs, manufactures, trade, sieges, battles, and the lives of the illustrious men each county has produced : embellished with two hundred and forty copper plates, of palaces, castles, cathedrals, the ruins of Roman and Saxon buildings, and of abbeys, monasteries, and other religious houses, besides a variety of cuts of urns, inscriptions, and other antiquities .. . dnefdays, and four fairs, heldon the 24th of February, and the 22d of July,for cattle and cheefe; on the 14th of September,for cheefe; and on the 25th of November, for cat-tle and cheefe. In this town was a monafteryfounded by St. Aldhelm, and dedicated to theVirgin Mary, before the year 705, which is thoughtto have been deftroyed by the Danes. At BarkleY, a mile and a half to the eaftwardof Frome, was an hermitage, or fmall priory,founded by William, the fon of JefFery, beforethe year 1211. It was of the order of St. Auftin,and was dedicated to St. Stephen, and at the fup-prcflion had an annual revenue, computed at 6 2 d. At Charterhouse In Selwood foreft was aCurthufian monaftery, founded by thofe monks, ontheir firft coming into England in 1181, whichwas the firft of that order in the kingdom. Itwas built and endowed by king Henry the Second,who dedicated it to the Virgin Mary, St. JohnBptifi, and All-Saints ; and at its diflblution, itslevenues amounted to 215 1. 153, At SOMERSETSHIRE. 147 At Elm, a village two miles weft of Frome,was difcovered in the year 1691, a pot of Romancoins, moft of which were of Conftantine theYounger. There are here the remains of an an-cient Roman camp, feated upon a precipice, andfcparatcd from the reft of the hills, by a vallum o
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