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 ...R. Goadby, and sold, 1776 - 424 pages |
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... Roman antiquity , built of brick , with an incruftation of ftone . The defign is a triumphal arch , originally with three apertures , but two of them now closed up , and converted into rooms , to which you enter by doors made in the ...
... Roman antiquity , built of brick , with an incruftation of ftone . The defign is a triumphal arch , originally with three apertures , but two of them now closed up , and converted into rooms , to which you enter by doors made in the ...
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... Romans , had a palace here , which was burnt down by the Lon- doners in an infurrection . Between this place and a fmall village called Worton , there was a mill in the reign of Queen Eliza- beth , for the manufacture of copper and ...
... Romans , had a palace here , which was burnt down by the Lon- doners in an infurrection . Between this place and a fmall village called Worton , there was a mill in the reign of Queen Eliza- beth , for the manufacture of copper and ...
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... Roman temple , and an obelifk , with grafs lopes , and in the middle a circular piece of water . From hence you are led to the wilderness , through which you may ramble near a mile in the fhade . On each fide the ferpentine river , are ...
... Roman temple , and an obelifk , with grafs lopes , and in the middle a circular piece of water . From hence you are led to the wilderness , through which you may ramble near a mile in the fhade . On each fide the ferpentine river , are ...
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... Roman villa , or fome little flation : for in the year 1715 , as Sir Richard Child's gardeners were digging holes for planting an avenue of trees in the park , on the fouth - fide of the lower part of the gar- dens , they discovered a ...
... Roman villa , or fome little flation : for in the year 1715 , as Sir Richard Child's gardeners were digging holes for planting an avenue of trees in the park , on the fouth - fide of the lower part of the gar- dens , they discovered a ...
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... Romans was fought hereabouts . - Harold's Park , fo named from Earl Ha- rold , part of whose demefnes it was , and given by him to Wal- tham - abbey , is about three miles north - eaft of the church . The town of Waltham - abbey is ...
... Romans was fought hereabouts . - Harold's Park , fo named from Earl Ha- rold , part of whose demefnes it was , and given by him to Wal- tham - abbey , is about three miles north - eaft of the church . The town of Waltham - abbey is ...
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