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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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ably it has neverbeen ufed as fuch. The caftle and its area feemto have taken up about four acres of ground ; anda great part of the wall that enclofed the wholeis Hill remaining. Ttiis caftle, of which we havegiven a vicv/ in its .prefent ftate, is faid to havebeen built by Edward, fon of king Alfred, foonafter the year 910, about which time he had ta-ken many towns from the Danes, which he fortifi-ed with cafties. Others with greater probabilityhave related, that the town with its caftle havingbeen deftroyed by the Danes, and lying in ruins,William the Cenqueror granted it to the famousEudo Dapifer, who built the prefent caftle on thefite of an ancient palace. The pr^efent poffeftbris Charles Grey, Efqj It is faid, that at the latequeens-head in the market-place, the ftable androom over it is a Roman ftrudure. In May1763, a Roman mofaic, or teftellated pavement, wasdifcovered on the north fide of the High-ftreet inColchefter, in a garden belonging to Mr. John Bernard^ Tbl.ini,pa,4i-
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ESSEX. 4j Bernard, apothecary and furgeon, late part ofthe yard of the falcon and queens-head inn. Itconfifls of a border of red tefflra, or dies, eachabout an inch fquare, including a curious work-manfnip made of lefTer tejjera^ black, white, redand yellov/, looking like a beautiful carpet. 7^his place is at prefent very populous, and themofi: confiderable town in the cojnty. It is aboutthree miles in circumference, and was formerlyv/alled round, and fome ruins of the walls areflill remaining. The flreets of which two runfrom the top of the hill to the bottom, are fpa-cious; and though not in general remarkablywell built, have a great many good houfes inthem. Eefides the Guildhall, adjoining to v/hichis the town-jail, and a building called Dutch-Baize-hall, belonging to a corporation for thefupport of the baize and fay manufadlures, bothof which are £ne buildino-s. Here are fixteenparifa churches ; but there are not above fix ofthem in ufe, the reft being either decayed, orhave not

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