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Title: 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 ..
Year: 1769 (1760s)
Authors: Newbery and Carnan, publisher
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Publisher: London : Printed for Newbery and Carnan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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le and pigs. Wilton, about a mile north-weft of Rofs, isremarkable for an ancient caftle belonging to thefamily of the Greys. According to fome authors,it was built by Hugh Longchamp ; but we are in-formed by Mr. Camden, that kino; John gaveWilton, with the caftle, to Henry Longchamp,who was flierift of this county in the rei^n ofRichard the Firft. It ftood on the top of a hill,but is now in ruins. Three miles fouth of Rofs is Goodrich Caf-tle, which is pleafantly feated on the river Wye^and was given by king John to VVilliam Marfhal,lord Marihal. It was afterwards the principal featof the Talbots, earls of Shrewibury, but is nowin polFefTion of the duke of Kent, the noblefamily of the Greys having ever fmce the reign ofEdward the Firft been lords of Wilton, and othereftates in its neighbourhood. A great part of thewalls areftill ftanding, and the gatehoufe is almoftentire. It appears to have been a very ftrong, fpa-cious caftle, built after the ancient manner. Of the Tbl.ini.pa.iZ^SS
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HEREFORDSHIRE. 233 the ruins of this (lru6ture we have gi<^en a view,for the fatisfadtion of the curious reader. At Flanesford, a village upon the Wye, alittle to the fouth of Rofs, Richard 7albot, lordof Caille Goodrich, in the year 1347, built andendowed a fmall priory of black canons, and de-dicated it to St. John JBaptift : this was valued atthe diflblution at 14 1. 8 s. 9 d. a year. From Hereford a road extends north-eaft toBromyard, a fmall town on the road from Wor-cefter to Leominfter, fituated in a country full oforchards near the river Frome, one hundred andtVvcnty-four miles from London. It is a fmall, ob-fcure town, half a mile in length, and has a mar-ket on Wednefdays, with five fairs, held on theThurfday before the 25th of March, for horfesand horned cattle ; on the 3d of May ; on Whit-fun Monday, the Thurfday before the 25th of Ju-ly, and on the Thurfday before the 29th of Oc-tober, for horned cattle and flieep. In the churchof Bromyard were three canons or prebenda

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