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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
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1: in-to five Englifli counties and part of Wales. Thecaitie chiefly flood upon the top of the hill, butfome buildings v;hich belonged to it were placedupon the declivity. Of the ruins of this ftruc-ture we have given an engraved view. It wasbuilt by Dudo, or Dodo, a Saxon, about the year700, and fuccefiively fell into the hands of feve-ral families, but now belongs to the lord Dudleyand Ward, who has a noble feat formed out ofthe ruins of the caftle. In the hall is a table,all of one entire plank, which, before its beingfitted up there, was twenty-five yards in length,and one yard in breadth; but being too longfor the hall, jfeven yards nine inches of itwere cut ofF, and made a table for the hall of aneighbouring gentleman. At Dudley caille Gervafe Paintrli, lord of thismanor, in obedience to the will of Ralph his fa-ther, founded a monafiery before the yci\r 1161,and filled it with Claniac-iUDnks from Wenloek—in Shropfhire, to which this houfe v/as accounted a cell FrI. m.pa. -zw.
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STAFFORDSHIRE. 241 a cell. It was dedicated to St. James, and at thefuppreflion, its revenues were valued at 36 1. 3 s.per annum. The town of Dudley lies near thecaftle, but is in a fmall diftrid^, included in Wor-cefterfliire, though furrouri4ed by this county. At Abbots caftle, five miles fouth-wefl ofWolverhanipton, upon the borders of Shropfnire,is an ancient fortification, which ftands on a highpromontory, and is fuppofed to have been Britifh,It has a fteep ridge for half a mile together, withhollows cut in the ground, over which tents arcthought to have been pitched. At the village of Kinver, nine miles fouthof Wolverhampton, is an ancient fortifica-tion of an oblong form, the longeft fide a-bout three hundred yards; and in a piece ofpafiiure ground near this village is a large ftonsfix feet high, and twelve feet in circumfe-rence, called by the inhabitants Battle-Stone, orBolt-ftone. On the top of it is a rude refemblanceof three heads. Some fuppofe, this (lone to haverbeen a B

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