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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29627	An historical account of Mr. Rogers's three years travels over England and Wales giving a true and exact description of all the chiefest cities, towns and corporations in England, Dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick upon Twede : together with the antiquities, and places of admiration, cathedrals, churches of note in any city, town or place in each county, the gentleman above-mentioned having made it his whole business (during the aforesaid time) to compleat the same in his travelling, : to which is annexed a new map of England and Wales, with the adjacent parts, containing all the cities and market towns bound in just before the title.	Brome, James, d. 1719.; D. J.	1694 (1694)	Wing B4857; ESTC R39940	65,229	160

restoring of Eye-sight to the Blind and is also of great use in strengthening the Limbs of weak Persons SUTTON WALLS Amongst the other Varieties we were entertanied with in this County there were some Remains of Antiquity called Sutton walls Near to the Village of Marden are the Ruins of some antient great Buildings in all probability supposed to be the Mansion-house of Offa when Renchester flourished or at least when Hereford was but in its Infancy This Offa being King of the Mercians having invited Ethelhert King of the East-Angles into his Palace under colour and pretence of bestowing his Daughter upon him in Marriage by the Councel of his ambitious Wife in hopes to succeed him in his Kingdom basely and treacherously caused his Head to be stricken off by one Grimbert his Servant and his Body being buried on the Banks of the River Lugg was afterwards removed to Hereford and over it was built a Cathedral by King Milfred which was since dedicated to St. Ethelbert Having sufficiently recreated our selves with all the pleasure pastimes and rarities in this County we began to think to return towards London and went from this City to a place called Ross in this County a Town noted for its famous Houses of Slates and Stones as also for a great number of Blacksmiths hammering out their living upon their Anvells and when we were past that Town we soon came into the Confines of Gloucestershire of which hereafter Gloucestershire Being within the Confines of this County we found it most fertile watered by the River Severn and be-set with Woods and thick Groves 't is happy in the enjoyment of all things which are necessary for the Use and Service of Man the very Hedges and Land are well stored with Apples and Pear-trees and their fragrant blushing Colour invites the wandering Travellers to refresh himself with their most Wholesome Juices And as Concerning this County in General the Towns stands thick together in most parts of this County and so 't is populous the Houses numerous and well built the Churches fair and handsome and so 't is honourable but that which is one of the greatest Blessings of all is the River Severn there is not any River in all our Nation for its Channel broader for a Stream Swifter and for Variety of Fish better stocked though sometimes it overflows the Banks and when it hath roved a great way it retires back again as it were triumphing over the Conquest of the Land This River Severn or Sabrina was so called from Sabenia a fair Lady concerning whom there goes this Story Loarnie the eldest Son of Brutus who came first into Britain took to Wife the Daughter of the Duke of Cornwall but notwithstanding this he kept a very beautiful Mistriss and by her he had a Daughter whom he named Sabenia whereupon he grew so enamoured of her that after the Death of his Father-in-law the Duke of Cornwall he put a way his Lawful-Wife and Wedded his Mistriss his Wife was so extreamly netled at this that she immediately repaired into Cornwall and made her Complaint there amongst her Friends and Relations and having gathered a great Power to revenge her Injury she fought with her Husband Loarine and Slew him and buried him at Trynobant or London afterwards executed her Revenge still in the highest Degree She took the Lady with her fair Daughter Sabenia too and drowned them both in this River The first place of Note we came to in this County was the City of GLOCESTER This City is well seated and as well inhabited and of a considerable Trade by reason of the Severn which being Navigable Boats of great Burden come up to their Key side loaded with several Commodities 'T is governed by a Mayor and Aldermen and is adorned with several fair Churches amongst which the Cathedral is the chief and most glorious Erected by Alfred Archbishop of York and Bishop of Worcester it hath been by the charity of good Benefactors much enlarged King Edward the Second lies here Interred under a Monument of Alablaster and in the Quire under a wooden painted Tomb lies Robert the Eldest Son of William the Conqueror who was deprived both of his Life and Kingdom by his younger Brother Here is likewise to be seen the Monument of Lucius the first Christian King that ever was in England about the Year 179. The Pillars of this Church are of an extraordinary thickness scarce to be parallel'd in any Church in England but that which makes it more remarkable is a place at the East end of the Quire called The Whispering-place 't is a Pentagone-Arch in the from of a Semicircle 30 Yards in circuit and so rare a piece of Art That if any Person stands at one end of it and whispers never so softly he that lays his Ear to the other end will discover distinctly the Words he speaks Then next Town of Note we went to was TEWKSBURY a Market-Town of good Note and of a great Trade for Cloth and Stockins 'T is situated amongst the pleasant Rivers Severn on the one side enricheth it on the other side Avon and another small River which comes from the East over each whereof stands Bridges which give entrance into it It hath been counted famous for the great Battel fought here between the House of York and Lancaster utterly Subverted In the Reign of King Henry the Third there is a story of a Jew that lived in this Town Recorded That falling into a Jakes or Privy on the Sabbath or Saterday by no means for Reverence of that Day suffer any Helping-hands to come and pluck him out of that unpleasant Hole whereupon the then Earl of Gloucester having some Intilligence of his refractory Sullenness gave a strick Charge that no one should dare to take him out on the Sunday for the Reverence of that Day and so the poor Circumsized-Wrecth perished in that most Loathsom Dugeon through his own folly This was about the year 1259. The next place of note we went to was CICITER which the River Ornus or Churne Rising amongst the Woods near Corbely is very commodious for Mills This Place doth appear to have been of great Antiquity and Renown The Brittish Chronicles shew that this Town was burnt being set on fire by a Company of Sparrows through an Invention devised by on Gurmund certain it is that the Inhabitans shew a Mount below the Town which they report this Gurmund did cast up they corruptly call it Gurmund's Tower Hear is likewise to be seen some ruinated Wall of an old Abby 't is now beautified with a very handsome Church having a high spired Steeple and a Market once a week Many other things are very observeable which will be too tedious to relate We went from hence to FAIREFORD a place well known for its curious Church-Windows in which are most rarely pourtrayed in Painted-glass the whole history of the Bible From hence we went into Oxfordshire Which being once entered into we could not