The Beauties of England and Wales, or, Delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, of each county (1801)
Britton, John, 1771-1857, Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854, Nightingale, Joseph, 1775-1824, Brewer, J. N. (James Norris), Evans, J. (John), fl. 1812, Hodgson, John, 1779-1845, Laird, Francis Charles, Shoberl, Frederic, 1775-1853, Bigland, John, 1750-1832, Rees, Thomas, 1777-1864, Hood, Thomas, d. 1811, Harris, John, 1756-1846 · London : Printed by Thomas Maiden, for Vernor and Hood [and 6 others] · leaf 110
. It is certain, thatin the time of the Saxons, a church stood on or near this spot,and a community of monks and nuns might probahly be united to * Now well known to be the production of the Rev. Hugh Owen,A. M., F. A, <?., of Shrewsbury. … SHROPSHIRE. 83 to it. The Danes, during their ravages in the ninth century,plundered and depopulated monastic institutions, and this, it isconjectured, fell with the rest. After the quiet settlement„of thekingdom under Edgar, many of the Abbey churches, which hadtill then lain desolate, were taken…
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