. 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 .. . near relation, Rich-ard Fox, bifliop of \\ inchefter, he foon diltin-guiihed himfelf by his political abilities. He wasdeeply concerned in all the public tranfa61ions ofthat long and active reign ; particularly in the af-fair of the kings divorce, and the work of the re-formation. After poileffing a great number ofinferior church preferments, he was raifed, inIs35, to the fee of Hereford, which he enjoyedtill his death. He died at London May 8, 1538,and was interred in the church of St. Mary Mon-th aw in Thames-Street, Three miles fouth-weft of Stanley is Cam-^BRIDGE, a village remarkable for its bridge, whichthe Danes paffed over loaded with fpoils, but werefoon after attacked by the Weft Saxons and Mer-cians, when the fight becoming very bloody, threeof their princes v/ere flain. A mile and a half north-weft of the formaer liesSlymbridge, a village whofe church is a largelofty ftrufture, adorned with battlements, and arpire ilecple. It has an ifle on each fide, and a very VolMpa 12,. G L O C E S T E R S H I R E. 125 very handfome veftry joining to the chancel. Se-veral hamlets belong to this parifli. Six miles weft of Stanley is Berkeley, a townfeated on a branch of the Severn, twenty milesnorth of Briftol ; this is an ancient borough, go-iverned by a mayor and aldermen. T
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