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Title: Antiquities of Great Britain, : illustrated in views of monasteries, castles, and churches, now existing.
Year: 1807 (1800s)
Authors: Hearne, Thomas, 1744-1817 Byrne, William, 1743-1805
Subjects: Monasteries Castles Architecture
Publisher: London: : Printed by J. Phillips... and published by the proprietors T. Hearne and W. Byrne
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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r a chaque angle; mais il ne refte a prefentaucun veftige de Tours, fi ce neft de celles qui eftaient a 1entree; &celles-ci ne font pas conformes a fa defcription, car dies font fituees au centrede la facade onentale. On pourrait peut-etre conjefturer que les deux efca-liers, qui font encore dans leur entier, & que lon voit dans lEftampeapartenaient originairement a des Tours; & on pourrait dailleurs croire quily en avait deux autres aux angles oppofes, pour donner au Chateau un airplus regulier. Les Berkleys aggrandirent & embellirent beaucoup ce Chateau avecIargent quils tirerent de la rancon des prifonniers faits a la bataille dePoitiers. On a bati dans linterieur de ce Chateau une grande Ferme fort commode,occupee aauellement par Mr. Tugwell, connu pour avoir perfedlione, enbien des points, les inftrumens propres a 1agriculture. LEftampe reprefente le S. E. du Chateau & de la Ferme, avec une partiede leglife de Beverftone. Le Plan en a ete tire en 1776. N • V
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// . STMABlTs ABEET YOBK;/^^a^>;/^ hanAoa.lu&litrM&i fix the Act directs (S (_j£ Ttie Figures by F. Bartolozzi. 7 Scpi.illS.byXWvAniet X-WItyrue St. M A R YS ABBEY, YORK, LA B B A I E D E Ste. MARIE Is pleafantly fituated without the walls of the city, having a gentle declivityfrom its weftern front to the river Oufe; it is bounded on the eaft by Boo-tham, on the north by St. Marys gate, and on the fouth by the walls of thecity and the multangular tower. The area on which this once magnificentAbbey flood, is about three quarters of a mile in circumference. It appears from the account given by Stephen, who was the firft Abbot ofit, that this Monaftery owed its origin to a perfecution which he and his bre-thren fuffered from William de Percy, a Baron in the reign of William theConqueror. This nobleman, at firft, had patronifed their inftitution at Whit-by ; but feeing what improvements they made in the lands he had beftowedon them, he repented of his donation, and, collectin

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