A Tour from Downing to Alston-Moor - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801 edition. Excerpt: ... ancient family of the Bolds, now extinct in the male line. The parish of Prescot commences at Sankey bridges: Prescot. eight miles farther is the town, seated on a hill, and wellbuilt and flourishing; the intervening country flat, and full of hedge-rows; and the whole parish rich in collieries. The town abounds in manufacturers of certain branches of hard-ware, particularly the best and almost all the watchmovements used in England, and the best files in Europe. Here is, besides, a manufacture of coarse earthen mugs, and of kte another of sail-cloth. The church is large, and has in it an organ, procured from the cathedral of St. Asapli when the new one was erected. Against an outside wall is an upright figure, in stone, of Jofai Ogle of Prescot-hall, with beard and whiskers, in a short jacket and great trunk breeches; with the motto, Veritas vincit. About a mile and a half from Prescot lies Knowsley, the Knowsley. residence of the Earls of Derby ).seated in a park high and much exposed to the fury of the west winds; for,-distant as this place is from the sea, the effect is visible in the shorn form of the trees. This was a manor appertaining to to Latham, and, in the time of Edward II. was held from the lordship of Wydenesse, in this county, an appurtenance to the Honour of Halton, by Robert de Latham, who paid one knight's fee and a relief of five pounds, the money paid by a ward to his superior on coming of age. The house consists of two parts, joining, to each other at right angles; the more ancient is of stone, in which are two small round towers. This was built by Thomas first earl of Derby, for the reception of his son-in-law Henry VII.; the other part, which is of brick, by the late and present Earls. i Portraits. I surveyed with...

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