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, (14583954347)

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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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fs derived from thede Ferrers, the ancient lords of the town,, whofearms were three horfe-fhoes, and whofe name inx-ports workers in iron. Of this caftle we havegiven an engraved view. There is here a church dedicated to All-Saints,which is a fine ftrudure, with a lofty fpire, alfaa free-fchool and an hofpital, built and endow-ed in the reign of king James the Firft, by thereverend Mr. Robert Johnfon, minifter of NorthLuffingham, a village about four or five milesfouth-eaft of this town. Here is alfo an hofpitalvery much decayed, founded and endowed byWilliam Dalby, a merchant of Exton in thiscounty, in the reign, of king Richard the Second,about the year 1398. It was dedicated to SuJohn and St. Anne, and confifted of two chap-lains and twelve poor men, who were to pray forthe good cftate of that king and Ifabel his queen,and after their deceafe, for their fouls; but in theyear 1421, Roger Flore, of Okeham, Efq; be-coming the patroDj made feveral alterations and additions rcLlW.pa. 70
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RUTLANDSHIRE. i7 additions to the former Tratutes. It v/as valued atthe diiTolution at 12I. los. a year. It is, how-ever, flill in being, but the prefent governorsmaintain that it is a new foundation, and confe-quently of a different patronage. In 1711, acharity-fchool was opened for teaching and cloath-ing twelve boys, and the fame number of girls.Here were anciently two markets on Wednefdaysand Saturdays, but at prefent there is only one onthe laft-mentioned day, with three fairs, held onthe 15th of March, for horned cattle and fiieep ;on the 6th of May, for horned cattle, fheep and afnew of ftone horfes, and on the nth of Septem-ber, for horned cattle, iheep and fwine. Before the reformation it v/as cuftomary for de-votees to go on pilgrimage to a fpring in this pa-rifh, at about a quarter of a mile from the town,in honour of the Virgin Mary, and this fpring isilill called our Ladys well. Geffery Hudfon, a perfon remarkable for hisdiminutive ftature, was born at Okeham in 1619,anddescriptionofeng08newb