The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832Burnham is a village...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832

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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832

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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832

Burnham is a village of some consideration, in Buckinghamshire, and gives name to a deanery and hundred. Its prosperity has been also augmented by the privilege of holding three fairs annually. It is situate in the picturesque vicinity of Windsor, about five miles from that town, and three miles N.E. of Maidenhead. It was anciently a place of much importance. One of the few relics of its greatness is the ivy-mantled ruin represented in the above Engraving. So late as the fourteenth century, Burnham could also boast of a royal palace within its boundary: but, alas! the wand of Prospero has long since touched its gorgeousness, so as to "leave not a rack behind." The ruin stands about one mile south of the village, and is part of an Augustine nunnery, built in the year 1228, by Richard, Earl of Cornwall, and brother of Henry the Third. He was a vexatious thorn in the crown of Henry, whose long and confused reign, "were it not that for the first time it exhibits the elements of the English constitution in a state of disorderly fermentation, would scarcely deserve the consideration of the philosopher and the politician."1 One of Richard's fraternal acts was placing himself at the head of a formidable confederacy, to which Henry was obliged to yield. The papal power was at this time at its greatest height; Richard had been elected King of the Romans, and from the spoil obtained by the monstrous exactions of his court, he may be presumed to have erected the above nunnery. Of this system of pious plunder we have many proud architectural memorials; though to rob with one hand, and found religious houses with the other, reminds one of the trade of a watermanto look one way and row the other. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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