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INTRODUCTION

TO THE

ORIGINAL DELINEATIONS,

TOPOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE,

INTITULED

THE BEAUTIES OF

England and Wales.

COMPRISING

OBSERVATIONS ON THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE BRITONS; THE
ROMANS IN BRITAIN; THE ANGLO-SAXONS; THE ANGLO-DANES;
AND THE ANGLO-NORMANS:

TOGETHER WITH

Remarks on the Progress of Ecclesiastical, Military, and
Domestic Architecture in Succeeding Ages.

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BY J. NORRIS BREWER.

"To be the Heralds of our Country's fame,

Our first ambition, and our dearest aim."

GOUGH.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. HARRIS; LONGMAN AND CO.; J. WALKER; R. BALDWIN;
SHERWOOD AND CO.; JOHN CUNDEE; B. AND R. CROSBY AND CO.,

J. CUTHELL; J. AND J. RICHARDSON; CADELL AND DAVIES; C. AND
J. RIVINGTON; AND G. COWIE AND CO.

1818.

HUGH,

Second Duke of Northumberland,

&c. &c. &c.

THIS INTRODUCTORY VOLUME

TO THE

BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES,

FORMING THE COMPLETION OF THAT WORK, IS INSCRIBED

WITH PROFOUND VENERATION.

THIS Volume was patronised by His

Grace; and, by permission long since awarded, was to have been honoured with the sanction of his ILLUSTRIOUS NAME as its Patron. - The whole of its contents display the transitory nature of earthly glory. Alas! the page of Inscription is woefully emphatic. Between the intention and the act, the noblest work of Goda GOOD MAN-passed from the earth!

Praise cannot now be deemed adulation! The writer, therefore, indulges in freedom of expression; and INSCRIBES THIS WORK TO THE MEMORY OF A NOBLEMAN who sustained the true dignity of his Rank by the Courtesy of

the