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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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is the proper-ty of his grace the duke of Beaufort, lord para-mount of Govv^erland. Of this caftle we havegiven a view. Part of it feems pretty entire, butone end of it is in ruins. Oystermouth Caftle, is finely fituated on aneminence near the fea, five miles fouth by weft ofSwanfey, and has, with the lordfhip thereuntobelonging, been almoft conftantly the propertyof the lords of Gower^ the firft of which lordswere the Beaumonts, earls of Warwick ; and bythem it was conveyed to the crown. King Johngave it to the Breofes, lords of Brecon : fromthem it came by marriage to the noble family ofthe Mowbrays : from thence to the Herberts, andby marriage of an heirefs to the noble family ofthe Somerfets, in which it is now vefted in theperfon of his grace the duke of Beaufort. Someof the walls are ftill ftanding, which fhew thatit has been a place of great ftrength ; and ofthefe we have given a view. Pennarth Caftle is feated in Oxwich bay,eight miles fouth-weft of Swanfey, and has, with- the
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