. 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 .. . , which fignifies a brow of alders. Thistown is fuppofed by fome to have rifen from theruins of an ancient Roman city, at about fourmiles diilance, called Uriconium,now reduced fmall village, known by the name of V/roxeter,Under the Saxons Shrewibury was a town of con-fiderable In the reign of king Ethelred ILwe are told, that the Danes being grown intole-rably infolent, opprelTed his Saxon fubje(Sl:s, when,that king contrived to deftroy them at once, andfor that purpofe fent a commilHon to all tovv^nsand cities, to fall upon the Danes on the 13th ofNovember 1002, which v^^as executed with greatfeverity. Upon this the Danes were take their revenge, and the next year invadedthe nation under king Swain, killing the inhabi-tants, and burning or carrying av/ay their Ethelred happened to be in ,when the Danes landing in the IHe of Wight,from thence proceeded ta ravage Hampfhire andBerkihiiG 3 upon which he confultcd his council SHROPSHIRE. 39 about what was to be done, when he was ad-vifed to purchafe a peace, with thirty thou-fand pounds weight of filver. They accept-ed the money, and departed for the prefent; butreturned foon after, and never were at reft till theyhad fet a Danifli king on the throne ; this wasCanu
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