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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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thtwo gates, half a mile diftant from each other.Bquc acquaints us, that the mimber of monksin this monaftery was fo great, that when dividedinto feven parts, every part confifted of at leaft300 men. We have no account of the founderhanded down to us, or of its revenues ; but thelaft no doubt were very great. It was deftroy-ed foon after Auguftine came into England, be-caufe the monks refufed to fubmit to his Romifhceremonies. However, at his inftigation, Ethel-fred invaded the Britons in Wales, who, comingagainft that prince, took the monks with them tapray for their fuccefs : but Ethelfred being con-queror, killed above 1200 of them, naked andunarmed as they were. After this the monafterywent fo to decay, that William of Malmefbury,who lived foon after the conqueft, affirms, therewas nothing here, in his time, but the ruins ofchurches, walls and gates, together with heaps ofrubbifh. Six miles fouth by weft of Chefter, and about fourmiles fouth of Hawarden, is Caergwrley, a villagea,
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FLINTSHIRE. 67 village, near which Is Hope Caftle, featedon the Alen, a fmall river that empties itfelfinto the Dee. It is in the parifh of Eaflyn,oiherwiie called Queen Hope. King Edward theFirft in his grant, made in the tenth year of hisreign to John earl of Warren and Surrey, of thelordfhips of Bromfield and Yal, excepts out ofit the caftle and land of Hope, referving them tohimfelf and his heirs, which before wa^part ofBromfield; which Griffith and Llewellyn, fonsof Madoc, held at the beginning of the war, ei-ther by themfelves or their guardians. Into thiscaftle the faid king retired when the Welfti hadfurprized his army. It is now in the poileftion ofthe earl of Derby. Caergwrley has four fairs, namely, on Shrove-Tuefday, A.ay j6, Auguft 12, and Odtober 27,for cattle. Near the above caftle, mill-ftones are hewnout of the rock, and at a fmail diftance, a gar-dener digging, about the beginning of the laft:century, difcovered a Roman hypocauft, or hot-bath, hewn out of a folid roc

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