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Title: A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom ..
Year: 1808 (1800s)
Authors: Capper, Benjamin Pitts
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Publisher: London : Printed for Richard Phillips
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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made a borough by king .Tohn, anda corporation by Henry III. In 1272, Ed-ward I. held a parliament iiere, at which .se-veral useful laws were enacted, now called tliCSlntutes of iJlovceslrr. Richard II. alsoheld a parliament here, and Richard III.who bore the title of duke of (jloiu ester, gavethe city his. sword and cap of maintenance,and made it a county of itself, with juris-diction over the adjacent liuiidieds ofDudston and Kings Barton : but these )irivi-leees wfMO taken away by act of i>arllamentalter the restoration, and the walls wererazed to the ground, because the mhabit-ants had shut their g.ites against Charles T.t; loucesteronce contahied 11 parish churches,but six were demolished d,nrin£V the sicjjein 164-3, and never rebuilt, in the cityand neighbourhood are many remains ofabbeys of black and wliile fiiar.s. ai^d for-merly the religious houses were so uiimeroushcrtj as to have given riic to the moulush \ . > i 4 ^ >S ^ V .■ J. 5 i t? •? ^ S ^ > c =2 f^
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GLO GLO frovorb a-f sxtre as God is in G/o^trra/fr.lii the Siiutheru suburbs are remains off.antony nbbry, toiuulod by the earl of Herc-toi-(l for tlu- monks who wcmc chiven fromM(jnmoiitb by the Welsh. It is now coiiveitedinto out Iliililinjis belonging to adjacent farms.I The market is onWfcdnesdays and Saturdays ;the fairs are on the 5th April, 5th July,■JSth .September, and 28th November.—Alkinss llislary of Gloucester, and lluJgcsGlotireslc rs/i ire. GLorcrsTERSiMRF, a county of Enp-land,in the province of Canterbury and dioce?eof (iloueoster, boumled on the north byWorcestershire and Warwickshire; on thecast by Warwick, Oxford, and AAilts; onthe south by Somerset j and on the west byliie Severn, i\IoninOTith, and Herefordshire :being about 65 miles loTtg, and 25 broad ;comprising S0(),0()() acres of land, of wiiichabout 300,1)00 aie arable, and 450,000pasturage. It is divided into 27 hundreds,viz. Berkley, Bisley, Blidosloe, Eotloe, Brad-ley, St. BriaveUs, Bri-htueli, Barrow

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