. 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 .. . s of the walls have a multitude of fmallpillars, as had likewife the whole church ; butmod of them are beaten down. Between themthe walls were adorned with the pictures of faints,which may ftill be difcerned. On the fouth fideof the cloyfters was a great hall, but the townspeople bought the flones of the vaults underneath,to build a market-houfe for meal \ but in this theywere their own enemies, as the ruins of the abbeybrought a great number of flrangers purpofely toview them, which is ftill their greateft trade, as itwas formerly their only fupport. But thefe ruinsare now in fo miferable a condition, much ftonebeing carried away for different purpofes, thatfew people fpend much money in the town. Ofthefe ruins we have given a view. It having been recorded in ancient fongs, thatthe Britifh king Arthur was interred in the abbeychurch of Glaftenbury, king Henry the Secondordered a fearch to be made there for his tomb;and about k.^^vi feet under groi^nd, a kind of tomU- Ib/. JWpa,y^, SOMERSETSHIRE. 15;; tomb-ftone was found, with a large plate of leadfixed in it, on which was the following infcrip-tion, in barbarous Gothic letters : hic iacit SEPVLTVS INCLITAS ARTVRIVS IN INSVLA AVALONiA. About nine feet below this monu-mental {lone, was found a coffin of hollowed oak
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