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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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ts defence. Someof the walls are pretty entire, and nearly of thefame height as at firft ; and it appears to have beena very ftrong, though not a very beautiful ftruc-ture. We have given a view of the remains ofthis caftle. Thirteen miles north-weft of Ludlow is Bi-shops Castle, which is feated in the road fromLudlow to Montgomery, at the diftance of a hun-dred and fifty-fix miles from London. It took itsname from its having foiTnerly belonged to the bi-ihops of Hereford, who had probably a feat herejand though it is not a large place, it enjeys feve-ral privileges, particularly that of fending twomembers to parliament, it being an ancient bo-rough, and having a corporation, which con-fifts of a bailiff, a recorder, and fifteen alder-men, out of whom the bailiff is annually chofen,and is juftice of the peace and quorum, for thatand the enfuing year. The members of parlia-sment are chofen by the majority of the burgeffes,l^ho are inhabitants, It has a market on Fri- daysj Vol.Wr.pa.sS.
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