. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . zed it, and his fucceffors kept it till the5^ear 1350, when it was recovered from the crown by RobertWyvi), a prelate of more courage than learning. After it wastaken by the forces of the parliament in the civil war, they fentorders to have it demolifhed. Pool is fuppofed to derive its name from a bay, called Lux-ford Lake, which furrounds it on every fide but the north, andin a calm
. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . zed it, and his fucceffors kept it till the5^ear 1350, when it was recovered from the crown by RobertWyvi), a prelate of more courage than learning. After it wastaken by the forces of the parliament in the civil war, they fentorders to have it demolifhed. Pool is fuppofed to derive its name from a bay, called Lux-ford Lake, which furrounds it on every fide but the north, andin a calm looks like a pool, or ftanding water. It is diftant 109miles from London, and fent members to parliament in thereign of king Edward the Third : and by a charter of queenElizabeth, this town is fevered from the county of Dorfet, andmade a county of itfelf, with the privilege of a fheriff keepinga court to determine all caufes both civil and criminal, with di-vers other immunities, feveral of which it ftill enjoys, particu-larly the right of trying malefactors within its own jurifdiction,by a comnniilon from the crown, which faves the expence ofentertaining the judges on the circuit. The borough and coun-ty. THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 333 ty is governed by a mayor, recorder, aldermen, a fheriff, a co-roner, a town clerk, bailiffs, and common council men. Themayor, who is admiral within :he liberty, is chofen from amongthe burgefTes; and after he has patted the chair, is always an al-derman j and the firft year after his mayoralty, he rs fenior bai-liff, and a juftice of the peace: from among the aldermen arechofen annually three juflices, the mayor and recorder being ofthe quorum, and the eleition of the freemen or burgefTes, muflbe made by the mayor, four aldermen, and twenty-four burgef-jfes. This town contains about four hundred houfes. Thechurchj which is about two hundred years old, is a large ftruc-ture, but the tower is low, and the wings larger than tbe body,and not equal
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