. 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 .. . a harbour, where 500 fail of fhipsmay ride fafe in a bafon ; it is defended by three oftles, befidesforts and block-houfes, and its entrance may, upon occafion, be(hut up by a chain. Here is a large quay, and a fpacious ftreetbefore it, inhabited chiefly by merchants, who carry on a confi-derable trade to Portugal and the plantations, but efpecially toNewfoundland, and from thence to
. 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 .. . a harbour, where 500 fail of fhipsmay ride fafe in a bafon ; it is defended by three oftles, befidesforts and block-houfes, and its entrance may, upon occafion, be(hut up by a chain. Here is a large quay, and a fpacious ftreetbefore it, inhabited chiefly by merchants, who carry on a confi-derable trade to Portugal and the plantations, but efpecially toNewfoundland, and from thence to Italy with fifh. Here alfo isthe greateft pilchard fifhery of any part of the weft, exceptFalmouth, in Cornwall 5 and the fhipping and trade of thistown in general were the moft confiderable of any in the coun-ty, except Exeter, till Plymouths increafe in both. By a grantof Edward III. the burgeffes of this town are toll free through-out all England j and in the reign of Richard II. they obtainedthe exclufive right of exporting tin. Dartmouth-cajlle is very ancient; for there has been a chapelin it ever fmce the time of Edward III. and belongs to Stoke- Flemicg psiSiB^ir^s^pr ?M ■ ,! IS .iniiliiiH. j)U. THE BEAUTIES QF ENGLAND. 365 Fleming church, which is two miles off; but the ftone tuwerand fpire were built by the inhabitants not many years ago. Biddeford, orBfiDiFORD, i. e. by thefordi is thus calledfrom its fituation upon the river Touridge, which a little farthernorth joins the river Taw, and falls with it into that part of theBritifli Channel called Bay. It is 202 miles fromLondon, and is governed by a mayor and aldermen, a recorder,a town-clerk, with ferjeants and other officers. It has a particu-lar court, in which civil aclions of any kind are brought and de-termined for any fum. It is a clean, well-built and populoustown, and has a ftreet three quarters of a mile long, running pa-rallel to the river, with a noble quay and cuftom-houfe, wherefhips can l
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