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Title: Picturesque views and description of cities, towns, castles, mansions, and other objects of interesting feature, in Shropshire, from original designs, taken expressly for this work, by Mr. Frederick Calvert, engraved on steel by Mr. T. Radclyffe, with historical and topographical illustrations
Year: 1831 (1830s)
Authors: West, William, 1770-1854 Calvert, Frederick Radclyffe, T
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Publisher: Birmingham : William Emans...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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Townshend; Anne Elizabeth; Elizabeth Katherine,married, in 1822, to the Honourable Robert John Smith; Isabella Elizabeth Annabella;Henrietta Maria; Selina Louisa. This nobleman obtained his peerage by patent, dated 17th of July, 1821. Lineage.—Sir William Forester, Knt., married Cecil, third daughter of James, thirdEarl of Salisbury, and was succeeded by his son, William Forester, Esq., who married, in 1734, Elizabeth, only daughter and heiress ofGeorge Weld, Esq. of Willey Park, by whom he had two sons; George, who diedunmarried, and devised his fortune to his nephew, (the present peer,) and Cecil Forester, Esq., father of Cecil Weld Forester, Esq., now Lord Forester, by Anne,daughter and co-heiress of Robert Townshend, Esq. Creation—17th of July, 1821.*—Motto—Semper eadem. * This noble family has a grant from Henry VIII. to John Forester, Esq. of Watling-street, in the County of Salop, towear his hat in the royal presence. The grant is now in the possession of Lord Forester.
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OF SHROPSHIRE. 120 DoWNTON Hall, the seat of Sir W. E. Rouse Boughton, Bart.—This magnificentmansion is admirably arranged upon a hill, surrounded by glens, and gently risingeminences, in a highly cultivated demesne. It stands a little beyond the Ledwick Brook,within three miles of Ludlow, and commands some exquisite prospects of the surroundingcountry. Sir W. E. Rouse Boughton, has two other mansions, one in the County ofMiddlesex, the other in Worcestershire; but Downton Hall surpasses them both, from thegrand and romantic scenery that surrounds it. Burke, in detailing the lineage of thenoble families of the Rouses and Boughtons, speaks of their high antiquity in the severalCounties of Sussex, Worcester, Warwick, Gloucester, and Hereford. Dr. Nash, in hishistory of Worcester, says, that the original ancestor of the Rouses, in this County,attended William, the Norman, in the conquest of England, which is confirmed in theroll of Battel Abbey. It was dignified by a Baronetcy in the p

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