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from other parts ; and on this account, and from its 

 never being broken up, we frequently find it both deep 

 and rich. 



There are other monuments to be met with, held in 

 great veneration by the lower clafs, and particularly 

 thofe of the Roman Catholics, fuch as ftone crofles, 

 many of which are filled with hieroglyphic figures, 

 and holy wells, as they are called, where people make 

 ftations, or perform a kind of pilgrimage. The com- 

 mon people not only aft this kind of mummery, as they 

 fuppofe, for the falvation of their fouls, but give the 

 waters to their cattle, at certain feafons, as an antidote 

 agaiaft diforders, which probably do not exift. 



SECT. 1 6. Churches Reftdent Clergy Glebes, and 

 Glebe-houfes. 



WITH very few exceptions, the clergy are all refi- 

 dents. /There may be fome inftances of pluralifts, but 

 this is not common in this county at prefent. As to 

 glebes and glebe-houfes, the queftions are anfwered in 

 the firft chapter, under the Divifions of the county. 



SECT. 



