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The poll for a Member of Parliament for the city and county of Norwich, taken the twenty-seventh of May, 1799. (the Parishes and Names of the Voters alphabetically arranged, and carefully copied from the Original Poll Books.) Candidates. John Frere, of Roydon, Esq. - - - - - - - - - - - - 1345 Robert Fellowes, of Shotesham, Esq. 1186 Thomas Tawell, Esq. T. A. Kerrison, Esq. Sheriffs and Returning Officers. By Permission of the Sheriffs.
Norwich (England)Date: [1799]- Books
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The beauties of England: or, a comprehensive view of the chief villages, market-towns, and cities; antiquities; remains of palaces; monasteries; camps; and castles; the two universities: London and Westminster. Divided into the respective counties: and intended as a travelling pocket companion: pointing out whatever is curious, both in art and nature.
Luckombe, Philip, -1803.Date: MDCCLXVII [1767]- Books
Travels over England, Scotland and Wales : giving a true and exact description of the chiefest cities, towns and corporations : together with the antiquities of divers other places, the most famous cathedrals, and other eminent structures, of several remarkable caves and wells, with many other diverting passages never before published / by James Brome, M.A. Rector of Cheriton in Kent ; the design of the said travels, being for the information of the two eldest sons of that eminent merchant Mr. Van-Ackar ; useful for all persons before they travel into foreign countries, and for all those who desire to be made acquainted with the situation and curiosities of these parts.
Brome, James, -1719.Date: 1707- Books
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The sentimental traveller, or a descriptive tour through life, figuratively as a trip to Melasge, in which is included the adventures of a gentleman in the East-Indies: the whole forming a system of education, with instructions to a young gentleman, entering into life. I two volumes.
Date: [1780?]- Books
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Travels in the year 1792 through France, Turkey, and Hungary, to Vienna: concluding with an account of that city. In a series of familiar letters to a lady in England. By William Hunter, Esq. of the inner temple. In Two Volumes. ...
Hunter, William, active 18th century-19th century.Date: 1798- Books
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A new display of the beauties of England; or, a description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, Royal Palaces, Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the Kingdom. Adorned with a variety of copper-plate arts, Cuts, neatly engraved. ...
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A tour to the west of England, in 1788. By the Rev. S. Shaw, M. A. Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge.
Shaw, Stebbing, 1762-1802.Date: 1789- Books
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Travels in the year 1792 through France, Turkey, and Hungary, to Vienna: concluding with an account of that city. In a series of letters, to a lady in England. By William Hunter, Esq.
Hunter, William, active 18th century-19th century.Date: M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]- Books
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The village rambler. A topographical and sentimental excursion, descriptive of The Town and Vicinity of Gainsbrough, situate on the Banks of the River Trent; in the parts of Lindsey, and county of Lincoln.
Date: 1794- Books
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A journey through England. In familiar letters from a gentleman here, to his friend abroad. Vol. II.
Macky, John, -1726.Date: MDCCXXII. [1722]- Books
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A tour in England and Scotland, in 1785. By an English gentleman.
Thomson, William, 1746-1817.Date: 1788- Books
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A journey through England. In familiar letters. From a gentleman here, to his friend abroad. In two volumes. Containing What is Curious in the Counties of, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire, Middlesex, London, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, and Huntington, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, Wales, Cornwall, and the Isle of Man, &c. Vol. I.
Macky, John, -1726.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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A new display of the beauties of England: or, a description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the kingdom. Adorned with a variety of copper-plate cuts, neatly engraved. Volume the second.
Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-Lands of Scotland. ... . By William Gilpin, A. M. Prebendary of Salisbury; and Vicar of Boldre in New-Forest, Near Lymington.
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Observations relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-Lands of Scotland. ... . By William Gilpin, A.M. Prebendary of Salisbury; and Vicar of Boldre in New-Forest, near Lymington.
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Observations on the western parts of England, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty. To which are added, a few remarks on the picturesque beauties of the Isle of Wight. By William Gilpin, M. A. prebendary of Salisbury; and Vicar of Boldre in New Forest, Near Lymington.
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.Date: 1798- Books
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Observations on the western parts of England, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty. To which are added, a few remarks on the picturesque beauties on the Isle of Wight. By William Gilpin, M.A. prebendary of Salisbury; and vicar of Boldre in New Forest, near Lymington.
Gilpin, William, 1724-1804.Date: 1798- Books
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Travels from England to India, in the year 1789, by way of the Tyrol, Venice, Scandaroon, Aleppo, and over the great desart to Bussora; with instructions for travellers: and an account of the expence of travelling &c. &c. By Major John Taylor, of the Bombay establishment; author of Considertinos on a more speedy communication between Great Britain and her eastern dependencies. In two volumes. ...
Taylor, John, -1808.Date: 1799- Books
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A tour from Dublin to London, in 1795, through the Isle of Anglesea, Bangor, Conway, ... and Kensington. by John Ferrar.
Ferrar, John, 1743-Date: 1796- Books
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The survey and antiquity of the towns of Stamford in the county of Lincoln and Tottenham-High-Cross in Middlesex. Together with the Turnament of Tottenham: or, the wooing, winning, and wedding of Tibbe the Reeu's daughter there.
Date: 1717 [1718]- Books
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The traveller's guide through England and Wales: containing, I. The routs [sic] from stage to stage ... IV. Separate alphabetical tables of all cities, ... To which is prefixed, the largest, most accurate, and compleat map ... By Thomas Kitchin, ...
Kitchin, Thomas, -1784.Date: 1783- Books
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The new description and state of England, containing the maps of the counties of England and Wales, in fifty three copper-plates, newly design'd by Mr. Robert Morden, Exactly Drawn and Engraven by the best Artists. The several Counties described, the Account of their Ancient and Modern Names, Extent, Soil, Former and Present Inhabitants, their Number, Rarities, Market-Towns, and Days whereon the Markets are kept; Hundreds Rivers, Bays, Harbours, Bridges, Minerals, Commodities, Number of Acres, what proportion each County pays to the Land-Tax, Archbishopricks, Bishopricks, Cathedrals, Parish-Churches, Schools, Hospitals, Roads and Distances, Roman Ways, Post-Towns, Men of Note, Memorable Battles and Actions, the Houses of the Nobility and Gentry, an Account of Fairs, &c. The second edition. To which are added, new and exact lists of the House of Peers and Commons, of the Lord-Lieutenants of each County, of the Army, Navy, Officers and Offices, and all Persons in Places of Profit or Trust, belonging to this Kingdom.
Morden, Robert, -1703.Date: 1704- Books
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England displayed. Being a new, complete, and accurate survey and description of the Kingdom of England, and principality of Wales. Containing, I. A full and ample Account of whatever is remarkable in every County, City, Town, Village, Hamlet, and Parish in England and Wales. II. Description of the various Manufactures and other useful Arts established in different Parts of this Kingdom. III. Accounts of the Nature and Produce of the various Kinds of Land, with a complete History of the modern Improvements in Agriculture, Gardening, &c. IV. An historical Account of all the Forts, Castles, Roman Military Ways, Docks, Harbours, Creeks, Bays, &c. with the Particulars of their ancient and present State. V. A full Description of all the natural and artificial Curiosities of this Kingdom; such as Rocks, Mines, Caverns, Lakes, Grottos, Fossils, Minerals, Abbeys, Cathedrals, Churches, Palaces, and the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry. VI. A faithful Narrative of all Improvements made in the Roads, Rivers, and Canals of this Kingdom, for the Convenience of Travelling, and the Benefit of Inland Navigation. The whole forming such an accurate and comprehensive Account of this Country, as has never yet been published, and will be equally entertaining and instructive. By a society of gentlemen: Each of whom has undertaken that Part for which his Study and Inclination has more immediately qualified him. The particulars respecting England, revised, corrected, and improved, by P. Russell, Esq; and those relating to Wales, by Mr. Owen Price.
Society of Gentlemen.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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A critical review of the public buildings, statues, and ornaments, In and about London and Westminister. Originally written by - Ralphk, architect, and now reprinted with very large additions. The whole being digested into a six days tour, in which every thing worthy the attention of the judicious enquirer, is pointed out and described.
Ralph, James, -1762.Date: 1783- Books
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Remarks on London: being an exact survey of the cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and the suburbs and liberties contiguous to them, by shewing where every Street, Lane, Court, Alley, Green, Yard, Close, Square, or any other Place, by what Name soever called, is situated in the most Famous Metropolis; so that Letters from the General and Penny-Post Offices cannot Miscarry for the future. An Historical Account of all the Cathedrals, Collegiate and Parochial Churches, Chapels, and Tabernacles, within the Bill of Mortality: Shewing therein the sett Time of publick Prayer, Celebrating the Sacraments, Morning and Evening Lectures, and Preaching Sermons, both Ordinary and Extraordinary; with many curious Observations. Places to which Penny-Post Letters and Parcels are carried, with Lists of Fairs and Markets. What places sends Members to Parliament. To what Inns Flying-Coaches, Stage-Coaches, Waggons and Carriers come, and the Days they go out; lately collected. Keys, Wharts and Plying-Places on the River of Thames. Instructions about the General Post-Office. Description of the great and cross Roads from one City and eminent Town to another, in England and Wales. A perpetual Almanack. The Rates of Caochmen, Chairmen, Carmen, and Watermen. A perpetaul Tide-Table; and several other necessary Tables, adapted to Trade and other Business. All Alphabetically digested; and very useful for all Gentlemen, Ladies, Merchants, Tradesmen, both in City and Country. The like never before extant. By W. Stow.
Stow, William.Date: 1722