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HISTORY and DESCRIPTION of ANCIENT and EMINENT SEATS
and STILES of ARCHITECTURE; in the Preservation of curious
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS; in the GENEALOGIES and
ANECDOTES OF FAMOUS FAMILIES; in DISQUISITIONS upon
remarkable TENURES, and in DELINEATIONS of the FACE of

COUNTRIES.

EMBELLISHED WITH THIRTEEN ENGRAVINGS.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

Printed for ROBSON, New Bond Street; J. WALKER,
Pater-nofter Row; and C. STALKER, Stationers Court,
Ludgate Street; where may be had the first Volume,

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HERE is an exquifite pleasure in rescuing an the memory of past days from the duft fcattered over it by time, which none but those engaged in the pursuit can have an idea of. Imagination loves to look back

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former ages, fill up the remaining outline, which feems fo dull to the incurious, with colours more vivid even than they ever poffeffed in reality. So memory in old-age throws a fairy gleam over the enjoyments of youth more enchanting than the light in which they appeared when present. These are the feelings which actuate the labours of the antiquary of true tafte; with the melancholy delight of a Poet, he loves to revivify the features of the dead, and the manners and arts of ages that are gone. The ftoried windows of churches and castles, the legends of tombs, and the bold figures of the romantic knights of chivalry, which are the objects of his preservation, repay his toil, by the pleafing exercise they afford his fancy. What can give the mind a fuller field for contemplation than the fubject of the Crufades, nor can a man of feeling behold the cross-legged Warrior without a romantic veneration,

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