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1756,* this place was little better than a 

 village : if this was the cafe, there muft 

 have been lince that time a very coniider- 

 able addition made to it, for it is now a 

 moft refpectable market town : and thefe 

 late alterations may have been the caufe of 

 it's prefent neat appearance. 



The church is a handfome cruciform ftruc- 

 ture, dedicated to St. Nicholas, and has within 

 it an antient monument, to the memory 

 of Richard Herbert, Efquire, the father 

 of the famous Lord Herbert of Cherbury, 

 of whom Mr. Granger -f- has given us 

 this fingular character : " Lord Herbert 

 ftands in the firft rank of the public 

 minifters, hiftorians, and philofophers of 

 his age. It is hard to fay, whether his 

 perfon, his underftanding, or his courage, 

 was the moft extraordinary; as the fair, 



* See his Letters, printed at the end of the prefent 

 work. 



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