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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69885	Anglia rediviva being a full description of all the shires, cities, principal towns and rivers, in England : with some useful observations concerning what is most remarkable ... : to which is prefix'd a short account of the first origine of our nation, of its being conquer'd by the Romans, as also the occasion of the Saxons and Danes first entring England / collected from the best historians by Mr. Dunstar.	Dunstar, Mr. (Samuel), 1675-1754.	1699 (1699)	Wing D2617; ESTC R17303	46,649	154

produceth such numbers of Cattel of such large proportion that even Spain can scarce afford the like The Principal Towns are these 1. Manchester a very beautiful Town far excelling all others round about it 't is of good resort and is famous for Clothing the Market-place is large and spacious 't is also adorn'd with a very fair Church and College Founded by Thomas Lord Delaware it was in former times called Mancunium and was made a Fort and Station of the Romans 2. Riblechester though it be at present but a small Town yet by Tradition it hath had the repute of the richest Town in Christendom and is reported to have been the Seat of the Romans which the many Monuments of their Antiquities Statues Pieces of Coin and other several Inscriptions digged up from time to time by the Inhabitants may give us sufficient persuasion to believe 3. Warrington a fair Market-Town known by reason of the Lords thereof sirnam'd the Butlers who obtain'd of Edward the First the liberty of a Market for it 4. 〈◊〉 a good well frequented Town famous for it Antiquity but more famous for a convenient passage from this place to Ireland 5. Ormeskirk a Market-Town remarkable for the Sepulchres of the Stanleys the Earls of Darby 6. Preston a Town of good resort so named from the Religious Men dwelling in it 7. Lancaster it was formerly the chief Town of this Shire but at this day it is neither well peopled nor much frequented most of its Inhabitants are given to Husbandry the Territory round about being well Manur'd lying open fresh and fair and not void of Woods Roman Coins are often digged up here and here they say was the plot of ground in which the ancient Town was planted which was destroyed by the Scots An. Dom. 1●●2 't is sufficiently famous in our English Annals for those Noble Persons who have successively born the Title of Earls and Dukes of it the greatest Princes for Revenues of any Subjects in Christendom Westmorland IN Latin Westmoria is bounded on the West and North with Cumberland on the East with Yorkshire and the Bishoprick of Durham and on the South with Lancashire The Air is sharp and piercing purging its self from Mists and Vapours but the Soil for the generality is so unfertile that it can hardly be brought to any fruitfulness by the industry and painful labour of the Husbandman The Principal Towns are these 1. Appleby a Town pleasantly seated encompass'd for the most part with the River Eden but it is at present so slenderly Inhabited and the Buildings so rude and simple that were it not for its Antiquity it deserveth not to be accounted the Shire-Town and to have the Assizes kept in the Castle which is the common Goal for Malefactors in short all the beauty lies in one broad Street which from North to South riseth with an easy ascent of an Hill in the upper part standeth the Castle in the lower the Church and by that a very good School Founded by Robert Langton and Miles Spenser Doctors of Law 2. Kirkby Lonsdale a Town situate on the East side of this Shire the tract of Land lying about it being called Lonsdale it hath a very good frequented Market all the People round about repair hither on Sundays to Church 3. Kirkby Stephen a fair Market-Town of good resort 4. Kendall situate in a Dale on the River Can from whence it had its Name it is the chief Town in Westmorland having two long fair broad Streets crossing one another it is of great Trade and Resort and for the diligent and industrious practice of the Inhabitants so excels the rest that in regard thereof it carrieth a super-eminent Name above them and hath great Vent and Traffick for her Woollen Cloaths through all the parts of England Famous it is for giving the Title of Earl to John Duke of Bedford Regent of France in the time of King Henry the Sixth Cumberland IN Latin Cumbria on the North boundeth on Scotland on the South and West the Irish Sea beateth upon it and Eastward above Westmorlan● it confineth on Northumberland It s ancient Inhabitants though known to the Romans by the name of Brigantes were the natural Britons who called themselves 〈◊〉 The Air is piercing and of a sharp temperature and would be more biting were it not that the high Hills oppose and break off the Northern Storms and dissolve the falling Snows The Province is very rich the Vales smile with Corn and the Hills with Pasture the Sea affords plenty of Fish and the Land is overspread with variety of Fowls The Principal Towns are these 1. Keswick a little Town seated in a very pleasant Soil being compass'd about with Hills King Edward the Third ordained a Market in this place by the procurement of Sir Thomas Darwentwater the Lord of it Famous it was in times past for its Copper-Mines it being at this day much Inhabited by Mineral Men who have here their Smelting house by Darwent-side which with its fo●ible Stream and their ingenious Inventions serveth them in stead for easy Bellows-works Hammer-works Forge-works and Sawing of Boards not without admiration of such as behold it 2. Cokermouth a rich frequented Market-Town seated in a Valley between two Hills its Buildings are fair and beautiful upon one of the Hills standeth the Church on the other a very strong Castle the Gate whereof carrieth in the Front the Arms of the Percus 3. Papcastle an ancient Castle but at this present almost ruinated however memorable it is in that for a great number of Monuments it layeth claim to a Roman Antiquity among which was found a large Vessel of Greenish Stone engraven with little Images which serveth now for a Sacrarium Regenerationis in St. Brigids Church hard by Several Authors tell us that Fonts were adorn'd with Pictures of Holy Men to the end that such as were Baptized might have before their Eyes the Pictures of those Men whose deeds they were to imitate so saith Pontius Paulinus for in the first Plantation of Christianity among the Gentiles such only as were of full Age after they had been Instructed in the Principles of the Christian Religion were admitted to Baptism and that but twice in the year viz. at Easter and Whitsontide except on urgent occasions at which times they which were to be Baptized were attired in White Garments Exorcised and Exsuffled with sundry Ceremonies which I leave to the Learned in Christian Antiquities 4. Solway-Frith within this very Frith where the Salt-waters ebb and flow the English and Scots by report of the Inhabitants fought with their Fleets at full Sea and with their Horse and Footmen at the ebb which seems no less marvellous than that which Pliny reported not without wonder of the like place in Caramania this Arm of the Sea is called Solway-Frith from Solway a Town of Scotland bordering upon it 5. Penrith a little Town of an indifferent Trade Fortified on the West side with a

very bountiful especially towards the North that being Watered by the River The Principal Towns are these 1. Bedford a Town more famous for its Antiquity than for its Beauty it having sustain'd great damages both in the Wars between King Stephen and Maud the Emperess as well as in the unhappy Dissentions between King John and his unruly Barons the River Ouse divides it into two parts but it is join'd together by a Stone Bridge 2. Dunstable a Town seated in a Chalky Ground well Inhabited and full of Inns it hath Tour Streets answering to the Four parts of the World in every one of which is a Pond of standing Water for the use of the Inhabitants Hertfordshire HErtfordia hath on the West Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire on the South Middlesex on the East Essex and on the North Cambridgeshire The Air is sweet and healthful being seated in a Climate neither too Hot nor too Cold the Soil is pleasant and delightful yielding abundance of Corn Cattel Wood and Grass being destitute of nothing which either affords Profit or Pleasure to Mankind which are more augmented by the many Rivers which arise in it and run through it The Principal Towns are these 1. Royston a Town of late days very famous and much frequented for Malt as also for a Corn-Market which is Weekly held there 2. Hatfield a fair large Town in the upper part of which stands a pleasant Seat belonging to the Earl of Salisbury 3. Hertford it was formerly the Principal Town of the whole Shire but is now fallen to decay 4. Ware a pleasant Town well Water'd and much frequented famous in old time for a Tournament instituted there by the Earl of Pembroke who was unfortunately kill'd by a fall from his Horse They were first instituted A. C. 934. and grew not out of use till the happy days of King James the First 5. Bishop-Stortford a large well frequented Town fenc'd in old times by a Castle 6. St. Albans the Verulamium of the Romans a very ancient Town and well Peopled some old Coins are here oftentimes digged up which are thought by some to be Stamp'd before the coming in of the Romans Near this place Ostorius the Emperor Claudius's Lieutenant is thought to have subdued the Valiant Briton Caractacus Famous it is likewise for Two Memorable Battels Fought between the House of York and Lancaster first Richard Duke of York Anno 1455. gave the Lancastrians a great overthrow took King Henry the VIth Prisoner and slew a great many Honourable Persons Four Years after the Lancastrians under the Conduct of Queen Margaret won the Field put the House of York to Flight and restor'd the King to his former Liberty 7. Barnet a fair Market-Town famous for a great Beast-Market kept there but more renown'd it is for a memorable Battel Fought April the 14th An. 1471. between the Houses of York and Lancaster wherein the Victory happily fell to King Edward the IVth Richard Nevill the great Earl of Warwick being there slain Middlesex Trinobantes MIddlesexia 't is sever'd from Buckinghamshire on the West by the River 〈◊〉 on the North from Hertfordshire by a known crooked Limit from Essex on the East by the River Lea and from Surrey and Kent on the South by the Thames 'T is seated in a pleasant Vale having some Hills around it of a good ascent from whose tops the prospect of the whole is seen like to Zoar in Egypt or rather like a Paradise and Garden of God The Principal Towns are these 1. Uxbridge a Town of late Years very full of Inns and pleasantly situated 2. Stanes a fair beautiful Town near which the Baronage of England assembled together in great Numbers to exact their Liberties of King John A. C. 1215. 3. Hampton-Court a Royal Palace of the Kings of admirable Magnificence Built by Cardinal Wolsey it was enlarg'd and finish'd by King Henry the VIIIth it containeth within it Five Inner Courts 4. Fulham a Town particularly famous for the Palace of the Bishop of London 5. Chelsey a Town of very fair Buildings but chiefly remarkable on the account of the College Erected for the Maintenance of ancient Soldiers it was finished in the Reign of the late King James 6. LONDON the Seat of our Brittish Empire and the Chiefest for Traffick in the World Seated in an excellent Air upon the River Thames its Buildings are Fair and Stately the Streets Spacious it has scarcely any Rival in Europe famous it is for its Magnificent Cathedral thought to be in former times the Temple of Diana but it is now Consecrated to St. Paul London-Stone is thought to have been fix'd for a Mile-Mark such as was in the Market-place of Rome from which was taken the dimension of all Journeys every way 't is thought to be plac'd in the midst of the City LONDON was formerly Wall'd about by Constantine the Great at the request of his Mother Helena but at this time its chief Strength consists not so much in its Wall as in the great Number of its Inhabitant 7. Westminster is a City of its self and has its peculiar Magistrates and Privileges it was formerly more than a Mile distant from London but it is now join'd close to it famous it is for the Abbey the Hall of Justice and the King 's Royal Palace In the place where the Abbey now stand there was formerly a Temple Consecrated to Apollo out of the Ruins of which this present Abbey was Built by King Edward the Third a Work that cost Fifty Years Labour in Building Which Church the Abbots afterwards very much enlarg'd towards the West end and King Henry the Seventh adjoin'd thereto at the East end a Chappel of admirable Elegancy wherein is to be seen his own most stately Monument of solid and massy Copper Essex ESSEXIA on the North the River Stour divideth it from Suffolk on the East it has the Ocean on the South the Thames separateth it from Kent on the West the Lea divideth it from Middlesex and the Stour from Hertfordshire The Air is temperate and pleasant but towards the Waters somewhat Aguish the Soil is rich and fruitful being in some parts so very fertile that after Three Years Glebe of Saffron the Land for Eighteen more will yield plenty of Barley without either Dunging or Manuring the Earth The Principal Towns are these 1. Leyton a fair beautiful Market-Town 2. Chelmsford a fair large Town thought to be the old Canonium of the Romans 't is situated in the midst of the Shire between two Rivers which join themselves together near this place the Assizes of the County are kept here 3. Maldon an ancient Town called formerly Camolodunum famous for Bonduca or Boadicias Victory over the Romons 70000 being slain in this place its Antiquity is apparent from the Coins Helmets and Bones which were dug up in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to which we may apapply these Verses of Virgil Geor. Lib. 1. 493. Scilicet tempus veniet cum