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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-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

Pembrokeshire Cardiganshire Montgomeryshire Merionethshire Carnarvonshire Isle of Anglesey Denbighshire Flintshire Yorkshire Bishop of Durham Lancashire Westmorland Cumberland Northumberland Cornwall Danmonii IN Latin Cornubia it lieth most Westward of all Brittain and shooteth into the Sea with little Promontories in manner of an Horn it hath on the North side the Severn Sea on the West the Vergivian or Western Ocean on the South the Brittish Channel and on the East Devonshire Both which Counties were in ancient time Inhabited by the Danmonii which Name is thought to have been given them from the Mines of Tin which abound in this Place The Principal Towns are these 1. Pensance a very pretty Market-Town near which is that famous Ambrose Stone which being a great Rock is advanced upon some other of a lesser size with so equal a Counterpoise that a Child may stir it with a push of a Finger yet a great number of Men are not able to remove it from its place 2. Falmouth an Haven as noble as Brundusium its self in Italy 't is able to receive an Hundred Ships so apart from each other that neither can see the others Masts 't is defended from the violence of the Wind by the many rising Banks with which it is enclos'd 't is fortified on the East with the Castle of St. Maudit and on the West with the Fort Pendinas 3. Foy a Town renown'd in former Ages for the many Sea Engagements which have been fought near it 't is pleasantly seated on the Banks of the River which bears its Name near the Haven it hath several Bulwarks rais'd for its defence by Edward the IVth A. D. 1460. 4. Padstow the Situation of this Town is very commodious for Traffick with Ireland to which Men may easily Sail from hence in 24 Hours 5. Launston a proper little Town Situate upon the pitch of an Hill remarkable upon the account of the Common Goal of the Country and the Assizes being kept there 6. Bodman a Town of great resort Situate between two Hills and lying out in length East and West its Inhabitants Populous Beautiful in its Buildings famous in ancient times for the Bishops See being kept there which in the Danish Wars was remov'd to St. Germans 7. Leskerd a Town seated on the top of a very high Hill much frequented for its Market and renown'd for an ancient Castle which stands there Devonshire IN Latin Davonia it hath Cornwall on the West on the South the Brittish Channel on the East it is bounded with Dorsetshire and Somersetshire and on the North with the Severn Sea it is a Country enrich'd with very good Mines especially towards the West it hath commodious Harbours on both sides of it it is adorn'd with pleasant Meadows and great store of Woods and is throughout replenished with fair Towns and beautiful Buildings The Principal Towns are these 1. Plimouth a Port Town seated near the Rivers Plime and Tamar which meeting near this place fall together into the Ocean of so great a repute that for the number of its Inhabitants it may be compared with a City such is the commodiousness of the Haven that it admitteth into its bosome the greatest Ships without striking Sail before the midst of its mouth lieth the Isle of St. Nicholas Fortified both by Art and Nature the Haven hath likewise Fortifications on each side and is Chained over when there is an occasion upon an Hill near adjoining it hath a fair Castle for its defence the Town is divided into Four Wards over which a Mayor was ordain'd by King Henry the VIth An. Dom. 1430. 2. Dartmouth a Port Town seated on an Hill near the River Dartmore it hath two Castles for its defence and by reason of its commodious Haven is much frequented by Merchants and furnished with very good Shipping It hath oftentimes bravely defended it self against the French but especially in the Reign of Henry the IVth An. Dom. 1404. 3. Torbay a safe Road and Harbour for Ships near it is a little Village called by its Name 4. Exeter Exonia Isca a City of great Traffick much frequented by Merchants situated on the East Bank of the River Ex upon a little Hill gently arising by an easy ascent to a pretty heighth the Pendant whereof lyeth East and West 't is environ'd about with Ditches and very strong Walls having many Turrets orderly interposed 't is in Circuit a Mile and an half having Suburbs running out a great way on each side it containeth 15 Parishes hath a Castle called Rugemont the Seat of the West-Saxon Kings and afterwards of the Earl of Cornwall which at this day is commendable for little else but its Antiquity and Situation 't is beautified with a stately Cathedral founded in the Reign of Henry the 1st An. Dom. 1110. it hath been thrice Besieg'd but hath always bravely defended its self First by Hugh Courtney Earl of Devonshire in the Civil War between the Houses of York and Lancaster then by Perkin Warbeck that Young imaginary pretended Prince who feign'd himself to be Richard Duke of York Second Son to Edward the IVth Thirdly by seditious Rebels of Cornwal An. Dom. 1549. at which time the Citizens endured so great a Famine that for Twelve Days together they were forced to Eat Horses and to make Bread of coarse Bran moulded in Cloaths till they were at length reliev'd by my Lord Russel and Gray who forced the Rebels to raise the Siege upon which King Edward the VIth for a reward of their Loyalty gave the Mannor of Evyland to this City the Civil Government of which is in the Power of Twenty four Persons out of whom there is from Year to Year a Mayor Elected who with Four Bailiffs has the sole Command of the City 5. Bediford a Town of good resort famous for a Stone Bridge with Arch'd Work where it windeth its self into the River Taw. 6. Axminster a Town renown'd in ancient History for the Tombs of the Saxon Princes slain in the Battel of Brunabrug Dorsetshire Durotriges THE Latin Name Dorcestria it is bounded on the North with Somersetshire and Wiltshire on the West with Devonshire and some part of Somersetshire on the South it lieth open for 50 Miles to the Brittish Ocean On the East it hath Hampshire The Soil of this Country is very fruitful the North part is overspread with Woods and Forests and from thence adorn'd with an innumerable many pleasant Pastures and fruitful Vallies The Principal Towns are these 1. Burport a little Town plac'd between two small Rivers remarkable for its yielding the best Hemp and for the skill of the Inhabitants in making Ropes and Cables for Ships those of the Navy being formerly twisted there 2. Weymouth a little Town join'd to Kings-Melcomb by a Bridge famous in regard of its Haven it is grown of late much greater than it formerly was by Sea-Adventures 3. Dorchester Durnovaria the Head Town of the whole Shire yet it is neither great nor beautiful