A Guide to the Peak of Derbyshire: Containing a Concise Account of Buxton, Matlock, and Castleton, and Other Remarkable Places and Objects Chiefly in the Northerly Parts of that Very Interesting Country |
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adjoining ancient appears arch Ashbourn Ashford Ashover Bakewell beautiful beneath betwixt Bolsover Bolsover castle building Buxton called castle Castleton cavern celebrated chapel Chatsworth Chee Tor church Countess of Shrewsbury Cromford Derbyshire Derwent descended distance Duke of Devonshire Earl of Shrewsbury edifice elegant eminence entrance erected excellent extent Eyam feet fluor formed gallery Haddon Hall Hardwick Hall height Henry hill hundred Kedleston late lead length lime limestone lofty Lord magnificent Mam Tor manor mansion marble Matlock Bath Middleton Dale miles from Buxton mineral Monsal Dale mountain noble numerous orchis ornamented Peak persons Pisc precipice Queen of Scots remarkable residence river Dove river Wye rock Roman Rutland side singular situated spacious spar spring steep stone strata summit three miles Tideswell tion tower twenty Vernon Viat village William Cavendish William Peverel Wirksworth wood Wormhill yards
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Page 156 - Indeed had she loved herself as well as me, she had fled from the pit of destruction with the sweet babes, and might have prolonged her days ; but she was resolved to die a martyr to my interest. My drooping spirits are much refreshed with her joys, which I think are unutterable.
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Page 19 - Its height is about ten feet, and its circumference in the widest part nearly thirty : its bottom has somewhat of a convex form ; and the rock on which it stands appears to have been hollowed to receive it. At a little distance northward is a second...
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Page 183 - I did not only deface the tabernacles and places where they did stand, but also did take away crutches, shirts, and shifts, with wax offered, being things that allure and entice the ignorant to the said offering; also giving the keepers of both places orders that no more offerings should be made in those places till the King's pleasure and your Lordship's be further known in that behalf.
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