Supplement to the antiquities of England and Wales (1777)
Grose, Francis · London: Printed for S. Hooper · leaf 28
dabout the time that James the I. afccndcd the throne. It is now the property of thecarl of Bute. The tower has been very high, and of great ftrength, and before tlx: invention of gun-powder, impregnable. There was a cavity in the wall, called a whifpcring jiipe, hointhe bottom to the top, which… … Bitrnhani Jbbey, Buckr. BVRNHAM ABBET, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. (Plate L) BuRNHAM, is a village, which gives name to the hundred in which it ftands, andIs fituated about five miles to the north eaft of Eton, and about two miles eaft ofMaidenhead, in Berk/hire. Here A. D. 1165, Richard, King of the…
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