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Title: A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial ..
Year: 1776 (1770s)
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Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: London: : Printed for R. Goadby, and sold by J. Towers, and by R. Baldwin
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 65 on horfeback, with piftols; and Jeffery fhot Crofts dead at thefirif, fire. . He was banifh- d from France for this duel, and wasafterwards taken at fa by a Turkifhi corfair, and was manyyears a flave in Barbary; qut being redeemed, he came to Eng*land, and in 1678, was taken upon fufpicion of being concernedin the Popifh ph,t, and was committed to the Gatehoufe in,Weftminfter, where he lay a confidcrable time, but was at laitdifcharged, and died in 1682, at the age of fixty-three. Uppingham derives its name from its fituation Upon a rifirgground. It is gi miles from London, and is a neat, compact,well-built town, with an hofpital and a free-fchool, both foundedin 1584. It this place the ftandards for the weights and mea-sures of the county is appointed to be kept, by a ftatute ofHenry the Seventh. Remarkable Villages and Antiquities. Market Overton* a village three miles diftant from Okeham,is fuppofed to have been the Roman ftation, called Maigiduiiumby A

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