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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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er removed toSouthweek, where it continued till the diflblutionof religious houfes, when it was valued at257 1. 4s. 4d. a year. Between two and three miles north-weft ofPortchefter isFAREHAM, afmalland pleafanttown,fixty-five miles weft by fouth of London, but is oflittle note. It has a market on Wednefdays, anda fair on the 29th of July, for toys. About fix miles to the north of Fareham isBishops Waltham, by a corrupt abbrevia-tion Bush VValtham, its receiving the nameof biiliop from its having formerly a palace ofthe biftiop of Winchefter. It has a charity-fchool,but neither market nor fair. From hence, proceeding two miles weft in theroad to Southampton, you come to Titchfield,a village eight miles fouth-eaft of Southampton,where, in the beginning of the thirteenth cen-tury, was a monafrery founded by Peter de Rupi-bus, bilhop of the diocefe. He cndov/ed it vr^fhfeveral lands and revenues, and king Hepry theThird granted the monks fonie extraordinary pri- viie12.es. i?ijni.j,f.763.
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HAMPSHIRE. i6^ vileges. It was valued at the diffolution at 250 I.a year by Dugdale ; but by Speed, at 160 1. Titch-field has four fairs, vvl. on the Saturday fort-night before Lady-day, May 14, for toys ;on September 25, for hiring fervants, and onSaturday fortnight before St. Thomass day, fortoys- Southampton was anciently called Hantun,from its being feated on a bay, in ancient timesnamed Trifanton, or the bay of Anton, now calledSouthampton-water; but at length it took thename of South-Hanton, or Hampton, to diHin-guifh it from Hampton and Northampton. It isfituated between the rivers IXle and Itchins;,twenty-iive miles fouth-eaft of Salifbury, twelvefouth of Winchefter, and feventy-eight v/eft byfouth of London. This is the county tov/n ofHcimpfhire. It was incorporated by king Henrythe Second and king John; after whTch kingI^enry the Sixth made it a county of itfelf, whiclirenders it independant of the lord lieutenant ofthe county. By its laft charttr, granted by kingCharles the

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