A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain: Divided Into Circuits Or Journeys, Volumen3S. Birt, T. Osborne, 1748 |
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... formerly im- menfely great , as may be feen by the Monafticon , where is an astonishing Account of the Wealth of the Place . The Church , as it is the Seat of the Bishoprick , is not fo antient as fome others ; the See being re- mov'd ...
... formerly im- menfely great , as may be feen by the Monafticon , where is an astonishing Account of the Wealth of the Place . The Church , as it is the Seat of the Bishoprick , is not fo antient as fome others ; the See being re- mov'd ...
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... formerly counted ominous and prefaging , and which , as fome fay , thrufts its Bill into a Reed , and others , into a Bog , and then gives the dull , heavy Groan or Sound , like a Sigh ; which is fo loud , that ' tis heard two or three ...
... formerly counted ominous and prefaging , and which , as fome fay , thrufts its Bill into a Reed , and others , into a Bog , and then gives the dull , heavy Groan or Sound , like a Sigh ; which is fo loud , that ' tis heard two or three ...
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... Formerly the Town laboured under the Want of fresh Water , which was a great Difcouragement to Merchants and others fettling there . To remedy which Inconvenience , John Smyth , of Heath , in the County of York , Efq ; procured an Act ...
... Formerly the Town laboured under the Want of fresh Water , which was a great Difcouragement to Merchants and others fettling there . To remedy which Inconvenience , John Smyth , of Heath , in the County of York , Efq ; procured an Act ...
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... formerly . The Abbey was founded 1000 Years ago , by Athel- bald King of Mercia , in the Midft of Bogs and Thorns , in Honour of his Chaplain Guthlac , who chofe this Place to mortify in . The Foundation is laid on Piles of Wood ...
... formerly . The Abbey was founded 1000 Years ago , by Athel- bald King of Mercia , in the Midft of Bogs and Thorns , in Honour of his Chaplain Guthlac , who chofe this Place to mortify in . The Foundation is laid on Piles of Wood ...
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... formerly defign'd for the Convenience of those who traveled when the Gates were fhut . In the Church - yard are two Priefts cut in Stone . This must have been a populous Place , from the large Quarries about it , and the Rock lying a ...
... formerly defign'd for the Convenience of those who traveled when the Gates were fhut . In the Church - yard are two Priefts cut in Stone . This must have been a populous Place , from the large Quarries about it , and the Rock lying a ...
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Página 118 - Orders, with Patterns sealed on them, in their Hands ; the Colours of which they match, by holding them to the Cloths they think they agree to. When they have pitched upon their Cloth, they lean over to the Clothier, and, by a Whisper, in the fewest Words imaginable, the Price is stated ; one asks, the other bids ; and they agree or disagree in a Moment.
Página 72 - This engine contains 26,586 wheels and 97,746 movements, which work 73,726 yards of silk-thread every time the water-wheel goes round, which is three times in one minute, and 317,504,960 yards in one day and night.
Página 118 - The merchants and buyers generally walk down and up twice on each side of the rows, and in little more than an hour all the business is done; in less than half an hour you will perceive the...
Página 118 - If a merchant has bidden a clothier a price, and he will not take it, he may go after him to his house, and tell him he has considered of it, and is willing to let him have it; but they are not to make any new agreement for it, so as to remove the market from the street to the merchant's house.
Página 119 - Narva, Sweden, and Pomerania ; tho' of late the Manufactures of this kind set up in Prussia, and other Northern Parts of Germany, interfere a little with them. The third Sorts are such as receive Commissions from abroad, to buy Cloth for the Merchants chiefly in Hamburg, and in Holland, &c.
Página 252 - Nor were these hills high and formidable only, but they had a kind of an unhospitable terror in them. Here were no rich pleasant valleys between them, as among the Alps; no lead mines and veins of rich...
Página 268 - For a memorial of her last parting in this place With her good and pious mother the Right Honourable Margaret Countess Dowager of Cumberland. The second of April, 1616.
Página 72 - ... minute, and 318,504,960 yards in one day and night. One water-wheel gives motion to all the reft of the wheels and movements, of which any one may be ftopt feparately.
Página 22 - England ; fo inviting, or rather wheedling them forward, till by degrees they are all gotten under the Arch or Sweep of the Net which is on the Trees, and which...
Página 117 - Market is chiefly to be admired as a Prodigy of its Kind, and perhaps not to be equalled in the World. The Market for Serges at Exeter is indeed a wonderful Thing, and the Money returned very great ; but it is there only once a Week, whereas here it is every Tuesday and Saturday.