ower jThe fun is bright; the fields are gayWith people in their beft arrayOf ftole and doublet, hood and fcarf.Along the banks of cryftal Wharf jThrough the vale retired and lowly,Trooping to that fummons holy.And ah, among the moorlands, feeWhat fprinklings of blithe company !Of laffes and of… … OLTON, (fays Dugdale, carefully copiedby the Magna Britannia of 1731,) a mon-aftery of regular canons of St. Auguftine,founded in 1120 by Robert de Romeli, Lordof Skipton-in-Craven, and Cecilia his wife,daughter and heir of William de Mefchines,Lord of Coupland in Cumberland, at Emefey, and by…
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