Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11

Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 - Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set.

THE QUEEN'S PALACE, PIMLICO. MIDDLESEX. The birth place of The Prince of Wales, born, Nov.r 9. 1841, also of the Princess Royal, born. Nov.r 21, 1840. Drawn & Engraved for Dugdales England & Wales Delineated. CITY OF BRISTOL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND SOMERSETSHIRE. Among the numerous distinguished individuals to whom Bristol has had the honour of giving birth, are Lilly, Chatterton, Mrs. Mary Robinson, Mrs. Hannah More, Southey, Sebastian Cabot, the first discoverer of the continent of America, & many others. RUNNEY MEAD, OR MAGNA CHARTA ISLAND. NEAR EGHAM, SURREY. This place is celebrated in history as the spot where the assembled barons in 1215, obtained from King John, the grant of Magna Charta. [A] ABBERBURY, or Alberbury, a parish and township, partly in the hundreds of Cawrse and Deythur, in the county of Montgomery, and partly in that of Ford, in the county of Salop. Warine, sheriff of this county in the reign of Henry I., founded an abbey for black monks, a cell to Guardmont, in Limosin, which, at the suppression of alien priories was bestowed by Henry VI. upon the college founded by Archbishop Chiechley. Benthall, Eyton, Rowton, Amaston, and Wollaston, are all townships of this parish. At Glyn, in this parish, is the celebrated Old Parr's cottage and birth-place, who lived in the reigns of ten kings and queens. Old Parr's cottage, which has undergone but little alteration since his time; it is timber-framed, rare, and picturesque, within view of Rodney's Pillar on Bredden Hill, in Montgomeryshire. In Wollaston Chapel is a brass plate, with his portrait thus inscribed: "The old, old, very old man, Thomas Parr, was born at the Glyn, in the township of Wennington, within the chapelry of Great Wollaston, and parish of Alberbury, in the county of Salop, in 1483. He lived in the reigns of ten kings and queens of England, viz. King Edward IV., King Edward V., King Richard III., King Henry VII., King Henry VIII., King Edward VI., Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, King James I., and Charles I.; he died in London, (sixteen years after his presentation to Did penance at the age of 105. King Charles,) on the 13th of November, 1635, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, on the 15th of the same month, aged one hundred and fifty-two years and nine months. At the age of one hundred and five, he did penance in the church of Alberbury, for criminal connexion with Catherine Milton, by whom he had offspring." ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 37519
Author: Dugdale, Thomas
Release Date: Sep 24, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English