England's remarques giving an exact account of the several shires, counties, and islands in England and Wales. In every of which you have I. How the county is bounded. II. The length, breadth, and circumference. III. The temperature of the air, and fertility or barrenness of the soil. IV. What commodities each shire or county affordeth. V. In what dioces, and how many parishes in it. VI. The number of Parliament-men, hundreds, and market-towns. VII. In every shire you have the name of the city or shire-town, with the latitude thereof, and how it bears, with the reputed and measured distance of the same from London, the road to the same; how governed, and the coat of arms, and what other things are therein remarkable. VIII. You have the names of such noble families as have been dukes or earls of each county since their first constitution. IX. Whatsoever is eminent or remarkable thorow-out the whole kingdom. To which is added a travelling map, describing the principal roads thorow-out England.
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England's remarques giving an exact account of the several shires, counties, and islands in England and Wales. In every of which you have I. How the county is bounded. II. The length, breadth, and circumference. III. The temperature of the air, and fertility or barrenness of the soil. IV. What commodities each shire or county affordeth. V. In what dioces, and how many parishes in it. VI. The number of Parliament-men, hundreds, and market-towns. VII. In every shire you have the name of the city or shire-town, with the latitude thereof, and how it bears, with the reputed and measured distance of the same from London, the road to the same; how governed, and the coat of arms, and what other things are therein remarkable. VIII. You have the names of such noble families as have been dukes or earls of each county since their first constitution. IX. Whatsoever is eminent or remarkable thorow-out the whole kingdom. To which is added a travelling map, describing the principal roads thorow-out England.
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London :: printed for Langley Curtis in Goat-Court upon Ludgate-Hill, and sold by Tho. Mercer at the Half Moon under the south-east corner of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill,
1682.
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"England's remarques giving an exact account of the several shires, counties, and islands in England and Wales. In every of which you have I. How the county is bounded. II. The length, breadth, and circumference. III. The temperature of the air, and fertility or barrenness of the soil. IV. What commodities each shire or county affordeth. V. In what dioces, and how many parishes in it. VI. The number of Parliament-men, hundreds, and market-towns. VII. In every shire you have the name of the city or shire-town, with the latitude thereof, and how it bears, with the reputed and measured distance of the same from London, the road to the same; how governed, and the coat of arms, and what other things are therein remarkable. VIII. You have the names of such noble families as have been dukes or earls of each county since their first constitution. IX. Whatsoever is eminent or remarkable thorow-out the whole kingdom. To which is added a travelling map, describing the principal roads thorow-out England." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A38421.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.
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Things Remarkable in this Shire.
In the year 1469. At Wolney in this County, K. Edward the 4th gathering his Forces together to recover his former Loss, was suddenly surpri∣zed and taken Prisoner, by his Brother George D. of Clarence, and Richard the Stout E. of War∣wick, and thence conveyed to Middleham Castle in Yorkshire, whence he suddenly escaped and came to London.
At Gofford Gate in the East part of Coventry, hangs the Shield bone of a Wild Boar, far bigger than the greatest Oxe bone (it is very likely to be an Elephants) with whose Snout (as the tale goes) the great Pit called Swainswell, was turned up.
At Shugbury are found such Stones as are made mention of in Gloucestershire, called Astroites, or Star-Stones.
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At Lemington, (a great distance from the Sea) a Salt Spring ariseth.
At Menham-Regis are three Fountains, which it should seem are streamed through a Vein of Allum. The Water looks and tastes like Milk. It procures Urine abundantly. It is very Soveraign against the Stone; And good to cure Green Wounds, Ulcers and Impostumes Being drank with Salt it loosens the Body; but with Sugar it maketh it Costive. It turneth Wood into Stone (saith Speed) and (saith my Author) I my self saw some sticks that were fallen into it, some part of them Ash, and the other part Stone.
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