Identifier: descriptionofeng04newb (find matches)
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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Auguftine. The church wasfupplied by the canons, or fuch as they appointed,till the fupprcffion, when both the manor, mo-naftery and advowfon, were given to Thomaslord Cromwell ; but he being attainted, they re-turned to the crown, and were by Edward theSixth granted to Sir Thomas Darcy. It was va-lued, at the diflblution, at 677 1. a year, byDugdale ; but by Speed, at 758 1. It is ftill en-tire, and is a regular handfome ftru6lure, confi-dering the time in which it was built, as will ap-pear from the view we have here given of it.There is one fiiir at this village, on Holy Thurf-day, for toys. At HoPvSLEY Parva, a village fix miles to thenorthward pf Colchefter, was a priory of Cluniacmonks, fu^ordinate to a monaftery of the fameorder, iat Therford in Norfolk, founded in thereign of Henry the Firft, by Robert Fitz Gode-bold, and Beatrix his v/ife. It was dedicated toSt. Peter, and fupprefied by Cardinal VVolfeyjwhen the annual revenue of it was rated at 27 h7 s, 11 d, We YcLim.pa^4S.
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ESSEX. 49 We (hall now return to Colchefter, and takingthe road which leads to Harwich, proceed toMankigtree, or Maintree, as it is common-ly called, which is a little dirty town, twelve milesweft of Harwich, nine north-eaft of Colchefter,and fifty-nine north-eaft of London. It has how-ever, a good market held on Tuefdays, and a fairon the 15th of June, for toys. The church is achapel of eafe to Miftley, a neighbouring village. Harwich is fituated twelve miles fouth-eaftof Ipfwich, twenty-one eaft by north of Colchef-ter, and feventy-one north-eaft of London. Itderives its name from the Saxon Word Harewic, ahaven or bay, where a navy may ride, and is fup-pofed to have been thus called from a fea-nght inthe harbour, between the Saxons and Danes inthe year 884. This is the ftation of the packetboats between England and Holland. The har-bour is fafe and fo fpacious, that lOO men ofwar have been feen in it at a time, befides 3 or 400fail of colliers. The mouth of the harbour is athigh v/a

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