The new description and state of England; containing the maps of the counties of England and Wales, in fifty three copper-plates, newly design'd by ... and exact lists of the House of Peers and C - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1704 Excerpt: ...Porletsti. worth,thc Seat of the Wakes, descended fromjtancient Barons of Wake and EJloteville. Patestiul, Grgenes-Norton, of which « Norton-Dany, and U'ardon, Places of Note for several Fa-our Learn. milies who inhabited there in former Days. Rcvœndju In the North part of the County rises die River Aufona, didous D. or Avon, now called Nen, in a Hill where three Rivers Wake, issue, and run divers ways. Cherwel ro the South, Learne t6 the West, and this Avon or Nen to che East. Neat to the Spring-head is Catesby, the Name of an Ancient FamiIyj one of them a desperate Papist, W3S concern'd in the Gunpowder-Plot. Hard by is Fawefty, th'e Seat of the Knight ley's, an Honourable Family. A little to the East is Wedon on the Street, and Northerly Aithvp, the Scat of the Spencers, not far from Holdenby-Hnufe, a Noble Structure, built by Sir Christ. Hatton, Lord Chancellor and Pri-..' vy Counsellor to Q. Elizabeth, now in the Possession of the Earl.of Feverfham. This River runs next to Nortbampton, in Lat. Northantonia, a pleasant City, wall'd, having Northam« a beautiful Prospect into the adjacent Plains, four Parish-Pcon Churches, and the Ruines of an old decayed Castle upon the West part of it. Tis now govern'd by a Mayor, two Bayliffs, twelve Magistrates, a Recorder, a Town-Clerk, fye. Tis the County-Town, privileged with a Goal, the Assizes, the Sessions, and is an Honour belonging to the Right Honourable George Earl of Northampton, of the Noble and LoyalFamily of the Comptpns. It was burnt by the Danes, destroyed again in the Barons Wars. And An. 1675. it had the Misfortune to be a great part of it reduced to Ashes; but since 'tis built more beautiful than ever. The Nen runs next to Cafile-Ast.'by, the Seat of the Earls of Northampton, Teardley...
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