A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain: Divided Into Circuits Or Journies. Containing, I. A Description of the Principal Cities ... By a GentlemanD. Browne, T. Osborne, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, J. Buckland, J. Rivington, S. Crowder and Company W. Johnston, T. Longman, T. Lowdes, B. Law and Company T. Caslon, and G. Kearsly, 1762 |
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... College , which he furnished with Secular Priefts and other Ministers , and likewife endowed it bountifully . Near Sudbury is Melford , a pleafant Village , and perhaps the largeft in England , being about a Mile in Length . The Church ...
... College , which he furnished with Secular Priefts and other Ministers , and likewife endowed it bountifully . Near Sudbury is Melford , a pleafant Village , and perhaps the largeft in England , being about a Mile in Length . The Church ...
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... College of Priefts with a Gild to the Holy or Sweet Name of Jefus , the Situation of which I could not find ; and an Houfe of Grey - Friars at Babwell , or the Toll gate . But at this time there are only two Churches , which indeed are ...
... College of Priefts with a Gild to the Holy or Sweet Name of Jefus , the Situation of which I could not find ; and an Houfe of Grey - Friars at Babwell , or the Toll gate . But at this time there are only two Churches , which indeed are ...
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... College Cambridge , where Sir Nicolas was educated . The Mafter enjoys a Salary of 201. per Annum , befides the Benefit of the School house , and the Uther 87. with a House and Yard . The School - house was in the Gift of the late ...
... College Cambridge , where Sir Nicolas was educated . The Mafter enjoys a Salary of 201. per Annum , befides the Benefit of the School house , and the Uther 87. with a House and Yard . The School - house was in the Gift of the late ...
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... College , Cambridge . In this Excurfion I ftretched to Beccles , ftill farther North eaft ; a large ill - built Market town , fituate on the Waveney . It has a fine Church and Steeple ; a Gram- a Grammar and English School , well ...
... College , Cambridge . In this Excurfion I ftretched to Beccles , ftill farther North eaft ; a large ill - built Market town , fituate on the Waveney . It has a fine Church and Steeple ; a Gram- a Grammar and English School , well ...
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... College , London . From Cromere we rode on the Strand , or open Shore , to Weyburne Hope , the Shore fo flat , that in fome Places the Tide ebbs out near two Miles . From Weyburn Weft lies Clye , where are large Salt - works , and very ...
... College , London . From Cromere we rode on the Strand , or open Shore , to Weyburne Hope , the Shore fo flat , that in fome Places the Tide ebbs out near two Miles . From Weyburn Weft lies Clye , where are large Salt - works , and very ...
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Page 12 - we go to the uplands again and fetch another " ; so that marrying of wives was reckoned a kind of good farm to them.
Page 233 - Never, in all my life, left the country without regret, and always returned to it with joy. The fight of a mountain is to me more...
Page 22 - THIS INDENTURE made the twenty sixth day of June in the thirtieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c.
Page 190 - ... tis two or three years before it gets to Chatham ; for if once the rains come in, it stirs no more that year, and sometimes a whole summer is not dry enough to make the roads passable.
Page 93 - It is not to be wondered at, if the town of Cambridge cannot receive, or entertain the numbers of people that come to this fair; not Cambridge only, but all the towns round are full; nay, the very barns and stables are...
Page 9 - It is probably conjectured that the spat in twenty-four hours begins to have a shell. In the month of May, the dredgers (by the law of the Admiralty Court) have liberty to catch all manner of oysters, of what size soever.
Page 56 - Ipswich; but on the contrary if he was to view the city, either on a Sabbath-day, or on any public occasion, he would wonder where all the people could dwell, the multitude is so great.
Page 93 - ... and so many butchers and higglers from all the neighbouring counties come into the fair every morning with beef, mutton, fowls, butter, bread, cheese, eggs, and such things, and go with them from tent to tent, from door to door, that there is no want of any provisions of any kind, either dressed or undressed.
Page 9 - May it is felony to carry away the cultch, and punishable to take any other oysters, unless it be those of size (that is to say) about the bigness of an half-crown piece, or when, the two shells being shut, a fair shilling will rattle between them.
Page 392 - Water, descending, as it distills from the Sides of the rocky Passage: By the Fall of Water heard, farther in, it is probable there may be rocky Descents in the Passage: The Drippings from the Sides have worn the Passage, as far as it can be...