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A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain, by a Gentleman [d. Defoe].
A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain by a Gentleman - d. Defoe Author:Daniel Defoe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: one ; and has a beautiful Steeple. The Ruins of a Benedlftine Nunnery, and a. very ftrong Caftle, are flill to be feen here. The latter was fo ftrong, that Hugh ... more »Bigod, its Owner, in the Wars between the Emprefs Maud and King Stephen, with the latter of whom he fided, made this Boaft upon it; Were I in my Caftle of Bungay, Upon the River Waveney, / would not care for the king of Cockney, But yet he was forced afterwards to compound with KingHenryTL. for its Prefervation. It has a Grammar-fchool with 10 Scholarfhips, for Emanuel College Cambridge. In this Excurfion I ftretched to Beccles, ftill fur.. ther North-eaft a large ill-built Market-town, fituate on the Waveney, which is navigable hence from Yarmouth to Bungay, as I have faid. It has a noble Church and- Steeple, and a Grammar and EngUjh School, well endowed. It has a plentiful Market, and a Common of above 1000 Acres. The Streets are well paved and clean, but the Houfes are but ordinary. The Ruins of another Church, called Ingate Church, are to be feen here, which was for.t merly the Parim Church to the Town. Burgh-caftle fcituate at the Mouth of the Wave tity, was a Place of confiderable Note in the Time of the Romans, The Walls on the Eaft, North, pnd South Sides, are ftill ftanding, pretty intire; and the River being a Defence oi; the Weft, no Wall was wanting there, I returned from thefe Excurfions to South.would, in order to proceed on my Journey, according to my firftPlan, But it may not be amifs to mention, before I proceed, That this Town is made famous by an Engagement at Sea, in the Year 1672, between ffie Engltfi and Dutch Fleets, jn theBayoppofite tqthe Town; in which' the brave Montague Earl of Sandwich, Admiral under the Duke of York., loft his Life : his Ship, Royal Prince, carrying 100 ...« less