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Title: 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 ..
Year: 1776 (1770s)
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Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: London: : Printed for R. Goadby, and sold by J. Towers, and by R. Baldwin
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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nged to a convent, and contains fome curi-ous monuments. It was made parochial foon after thediflolution ; and five parilhes being then reduced into one,the rectory is of great value, and the incumbent is lord ofthe manor. Many Roman coins have been found here atdifferent times, and a few years ago as fome labourers weredigging near the market place, they difcovered the remainsof a curious fubterranean chapel, with feveral altars and imagescutout of chalk. Newmarket, notwithstanding its name, is of confider-able antiquity j for in the time of Edward III. the Bifbop ofCarlifle, who was afterwards fo troublefome to Henry theFourth, was called Thomas of Newmarket. It is fixty milesdiftant from London, and chiefly confifts of one fireet, whichis long and well-built; the fouth-fide of it only is in Cambridge-shire, the north-fide being in the county of Suffolk. Theair of this place is very healthy ; and the heath which fur-founds the town is famous for being the fineft courfe in Eng-land y
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THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. i9 land, where there are horfe-races in April and October everyyear. T here are two churches in Newmarket; one on theCambridge fide, which is a chapel of eafe to Ditton, a neigh^bouring parifh, and one on the Suffolk fide, which is parochial.There is a royal palace on the heath, which was built by KingCharles II. and there are alfo feveral feats near the heath, be-longing to perfons of diftindtion. There are here feveral very wide, fteep, and long ditches,which were cut by the Eaft Angles, to keep out the Mercians;one of which being a ftupendous work, much fuperior the reft,has obtained the name of the Devils ditch; the common,people fuppofing it to be more adequate to the power of fpirits,than of men. It runs many miles over the heath. Remarkable Villages, and Antiquities. At Tborney, near Wifbeach, was a very confiderable mona-ftery, founded in the reign of King Edgar. The greateft partof the church is ftill ftanding, and from its majeftic appearance,fome id

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