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, (14769774531)

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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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ded into feveral prebends ; but about the year1400, a college for a mafter and eight fecularpnefts was founded in the parifli church by John1 revenant, bifhop of Hereford. At Ledbury was alfo an hofpital for a mafter,redtor or prior, and feveral poor brothers and fif^ters, budt by Hugh Foliot, bifiiop of Hereford,in the year 1232, and dedicated to St. Catharine;whofe yearly revenues, at the fupprellion, amount-ed to 22I 5s. clear. It flill exifts, it being re-founded by queen Elizabeth, in the year 1580,for a mafter, who is appointed by the dean andchapter of Hereford, feven poor widowers, andthree poor widows, who are nominated by themafter; and are each allowed 61. 12 s. 4 d ayear, befides cloaths and fire. At a fmall diftance from hence is Bramstillcaftle, which ftands in a folitary place, at thefoot of the weft fide of Malvern-hills. It is aquadrangular oblong, encompafl-ed by a doubledttch of the fame form, and appears by feveralcircumftances in the remains themfelves, as well as
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HEREFORDSHIRE. 225 as by other concurring tokens to be a place of ve-ry great antiquity, tho we fhall not pretend todetermine that it is Roman. Of this ftru6turewe have given an engraved view. There has beenlately difcovered in it a very remarkable cavern.Thomas Rede, Efq; is the prefent proprietorthereof. On returning into the road to Hereford,we proceed to that city, the name of which ispurely Saxon, fignifying the ford of an army,which perfectly agrees with its fituation, it (land-ing on the Wye, which falls into the Severn, andforms part of the barrier between England andWales. As the two nations were almoft conftant-ly at war with each other, this town was general-ly the head quarters of fuch Saxon or Englifhforces as were ftationed in the county j and hereboth armies probably forded the river uhen theypaiTed out of England into Wales, or out ofWelles into England. Some, however, have fup-pofed the name of Hereford to have been derivedfrom Ereinuc, the ancient BritKh name of thec