Identifier: antiquitiesofen01gros (find matches)
Title: The antiquities of England and Wales
Year: 1785 (1780s)
Authors: Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791
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Publisher: London : S. Hooper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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to beat a parly,whereupon a treaty followed; and having obtained very ho-nourable conditions (even beyond expectation in fuch extremity)viz. to march out, the governor and officers with horfes andarms, and their own proper goods (which loaded two wains) thecommon foldiers with their arms, colours flying, drums beating,matches alight, and a proportion of powder and ball, and a con-voy to guard them to Flint caftle; he did, on Sunday the 16thof November, furrender the caftle, the garrifon being reducedto not above fixty men, who marched away according to theconditions. Many traces of thefe operations, fuch as ditches, trenches,and other military works, are ftill difcernible in the groundsabout it. The fite and ruins of this caftle at prefent belong to Sir RogerMoftyn of Moftyn, in the county of Flint, Bart. This plategives a general profpec~t of the ruins as they appear when feenfrom the fouth. It was drawn anno 1773. Plate I. prefented amore particular view of the great gateway. BIRKE-
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CHESHIRE. 33 BIRKEHEDDE PRIORY. ThIS priory was, as appears from different writers, alfo calledBricheved, Byrket, and Burket-wood priory. It was foundedin the latter end of the reign of Henry II. or in that of Rich-ard I. by Hamon Maffey, third baron of Dunham Maffey,who placed therein fixteen Benedicline Monks. A manufcriptin Corpus Chrifti College, Cambridge, makes them canons ofthe order of St. Auguftine. It was dedicated to St. Mary andSt. James. In the Monafticon are two charters of the faid Hamon Maffey.In the flrft, he grants to this monaftery in free alms, half anacre of land at Dunham, and an acre at Lacheker, with the ad-vowfon of the church of Bowdon; and in the other, the libertyof choofmg their own prior, granted before by Pope Alexander :from whence it feems, as if the papal permiffion for fuch electionwas not then fufhcient without the confirmation of the patron. At the diffolution, its revenues were eftimated at 90I. 13s. perann. according to Dugdale; 102I. 16s. iod. S

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