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Journal and Letters of Samuel Curwen, 1775-1784. to Which Are Added, Biographical Notices of Many American Loyalists and Other Eminent Persons,
Journal and Letters of Samuel Curwen 17751784 to Which Are Added Biographical Notices of Many American Loyalists and Other Eminent Persons Author:Samuel Curwen Title: Journal and Letters of ... Samuel Curwen, 1775-1784. to Which Are Added, Biographical Notices of Many American Loyalists and Other Eminent Persons, by G. a Ward General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1842 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typo... more »s or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Shepton Mallet, Oct. 1. Rode to Bath; -- large meeting of clothiers from neighboring towns in Somerset and Wiltshire, to concert measures to establish, if practicable, the use of the spinning-jenny in these parts, which the weavers raised a mob to prevent. Two companies of dragoons are posted in this town for security of the manufacturers, against the infatuated multitude. Met Col. Salton- stall, who with Mr. Boylston has taken lodgings here for some time past. Departed for Lord Weymouth's seat, called Longleat; his grounds contain the whole parish of Horningsham. Over the entrance in front is the date as follows: -- "Erected by Sir John Thynne, 1569."' The front is an addition to the old structure, the remains of a Carthusian monastery standing round a large square court. Within are pictures of Henry VIII., Sir Thomas Overbury, Lord Strafford, beheaded in the time of Charles I., -- Henry IV. of France, -- Charles I. when Prince of Wales, and his brother James II. when Duke of York, General Monck, -- Charles II. and his Queen, Archbishop Juxton, -- Mary Queen of Scotts, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, Lady Nottingham, -- Archbishop Laud, Cardinal Richelieu, -- Sir Thomas Graham, -- Count Tekeli and lady. Oct. 11. Visited Glastonbury Abbey ruins, attended by a guide named Thomas, who is as great a curiosity as the ruins; for we had no sooner entered on the holy ground than he doffed his beaver and hugged it under bis arm, w...« less