BEAUTIES

་་

OF

England and Wales:

OR,

ORIGINAL DELINEATIONS,

TOPOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE,

OF

EACH COUNTY.

EMBELLISHED WITH ENGRAVINGS.

BY THE

REV. J. NIGHTINGALE.

VOL. XIII.-PART I.

Incorrect pedigrees, futile etymologies, verbose disquisitions, crowds of epi
taphs, lists of landholders, and such farrago, thrown together without me-
thod, unanimated by reflections, and delivered in the most uncouth and
horrid style, make the bulk of our county histories.

GOUGH.

LONDON:

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HIS GRACE,

THE MOST HIGH, MIGHTY, AND MOST NOBLE PRINCE,

CHARLES HOWARD,

DUKE OF NORFOLK,

EARL MARSHAL, AND HEREDITARY EARL MARSHAL OF ENGLAND,
EARL OF ARUNDEL, SURRY, NORFOLK;

Baron of Mowbray, Howard, Segrave, Brewese of Gower, in Caermarthenshire,
Fitz-Alan, Waren, Clun, Oswaldestre, Maltravers, Greystock, Furnival,
Verdon, Lovetot, Strange of Blackmere;

PREMIER DUKE, EARL, AND BARON OF ENGLAND,
NEXT THE BLOOD ROYAL;

AND CHIEF OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILY OF THE HOWARDS,

A PEER OF THE REALM,

WHO MAINTAINS THE TRUE DIGNITY OF ITS ANCIENT NOBILITY,
BY PROTECTING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES

OF THE PEOPLE,

BY ADVOCATING THE CAUSE OF UNIVERSAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM,
AND BY ENCOURAGING LITERATURE AND THE USEFUL ARTS,