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Identifier: antiquitiesofen01gros (find matches)
Title: The antiquities of England and Wales
Year: 1785 (1780s)
Authors: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
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Publisher: London : S. Hooper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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, with its peculiar privileges, fuch as its own judge or juftice,c urt of Exchequer, which it yet retains, though of a mixed kind, &c. Its dio-cefe is in the province of York, and includes the counties of Cheihire, Rich-. mondfhire, .u^uu vuu go 10 inciter, ^L>cva^ wnich is 20 mnes, and agrees witn tne Itineraryof Antoninus. That this hath been a colony, is proved from inferiptions and coins,and from the remains frequently difcovered there : indeed here the 28th legion, caUled Valaria Viftrix was quartered. The road from Chefter to Bangor, (Bovium)10 miles, has been allowed by all Antiquarians to be Roman. ANTIQUITIES in this COUNTY worthy NOTICE. Afhbury Church Beefton Caftle near Bunbury Birkenhead Priory Chefter Cathedral, Chapter-houfe, Caftle, Bridge, and HypocauftCombermeer Abbey near NamptwichHaulton CaftleHolt Caftle St. Johns Church in ChefterInc Ruins near ChefterMalj)as ChurchNorton PrioryWater Tower at ChefterRudheath, an antient AfylumSanbach ChurchStockport Church
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CHESHIRE. 27 windows. The capitals are of no pofitive order, but of the plainftyle of the unornamented fort in Grymbalds crypt and thatunder the choir of Canterbury cathedral. It feems to me thatthe ufe of it might be in the laft inftance, whatever its originalone was, to have been to read lectures of philofophy and the fci-ences in, and to have been made ufe of as fchools of learning,with rooms over it for the feme purpofe, in various branches.If this is allowed it will carry up the date to 1109, when theBenedictine monks from Croyland Abbey came to Cambridgefor that intent: fome few years after which, about 1112, thecanons of St Giless left Cambridge for Bernewelle. On theirretreat, it is no ftrained inference to fuppofe, that they mightaccommodate thefe profeffors with a building that would befo convenient to them and was of no ufe to themfelves, attheir firft coming hither they were contented with worfe ac-commodations. Mr. Goftling in his account of the crypt under the choir ofth

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