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 June 16, 2024.

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Things Remarkable in this Shire.

Upon the top of a Hill called Minyd-morgan, is a Monument with a strange Character, which the Dwellers thereabouts say, If any man read the same, he will die shortly after.

Upon the River Ogmore, and near unto Newton, in a sandy plain, about 500 foot from Severn, there springs a Well, the water whereof is not very clear; in which, at full Sea (in the Summer time) can hardly any water be gotten, but at the Ebb of the Tide it bubleth up amain. And it is observed that this Spring never riseth up to the brink, or overfloweth.

At Abarbarry in this Shire is a Cave under the bottom of a Hill, and on the top of it a gaping chink: And when the Wind is gathered into that hole, and tossed too and fro in the womb of it there is heard (as it were) a Musical sound, like that of Cymbals.

Giraldus affirms (saith Speed)

That in a Rock or Clift upon the Sea-side, and Island Barry ly∣ing near the South-east point of this County, is heard out of a little chink, the noise (as it were) of Smiths at their work; one while, the blowing of Bellows to increase the heat; then the strokes of the Hammer, and sound of the Anvil; sometimes the noise of the Grindstone, in grinding of Iron Tools; Then the hissing Sparks of Steel Gads as they fly from their heating; with the puffing noise of Flames in a Furnace.