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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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vale on thebanks of the river Corvc, called Corvefdale. Thetown is divided into four wards, and is encom-pafTed with walls, in which are feven gates. Ithas an old caftle creeled by Roger de Montgomeryfoon after the conqueft, great part of which is inruins; fome apartments are, however, entire andfurniflied ; the battlements are very high, thick,and adorned with towers. It has a neat chapel,in which are the coats of arms of feveral of theWelch gentry, and over the ftable doors, areihofe of queen Elizabeth, the earl of Pembroke,^and others. The walls of the caftle were origi-nally a mile in compafs, and before it was a lawnthat extended near two miles, but a confiderablepart of it is now inclofed. Of this caftle, whichwas a palace belonging to the prince of Wales, towhom it ftill belongs, we have given an engravedview. , a ■ The church is an ancient venerable edifice, inthe upper part of the town. In the choir is aninfcription relating to prince Arthur, brother ta kin^X JW.JM./fu.3^.
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SHROPSHIRE. 31 king Henry the Eighth, whofe bowels were de-pofited in the choir. In the fame choir is a clofet,called the Godt-houfe, where the priefts ufed tokeep their confecrated utenfils ; and to this churchthe earl of Powis lately gave a new organ, whichcoft 1000 1. Ludlow gives the title of vifcountto that nobleman, who has a feat at Oakley parknear the town. There is here alfo a meecing-houfe, which ferves both the Prefbyterians andBaptiib, who are unable to keep two different mi-nifters. In the marktc-place is a conduit with alofty flone crofs upon it ; and in a niche, on thecrofs, is the image of St. Lawrence, to v/hom thechurch was dedicated. Here is alfo an alms-houfefor thirty poor people, and two charity-fchools,in which fifty boys, and thirty girls are both taughtand clothed. The town has a good bridge overthe Temd, which turns many mills in the neigh-bourh )od, and acrofs which are feveral wears.Provliions are here very cheap, and the town re-ceives great benefit from i

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