A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. l8l 



CHAP. XL 



SHREWSBURY HISTORY CHARTERS 



C ASTLE- W A L LS FREESCHOOL 



INFIRMARY MILLINGTON*S HOSPITA L 



ABBEY THE QUARRY ORPHAN 



HOUSE RELIGIOUS HOUSES - 



CHURCHES PARLIAMENTS B A T TLE 



OF SHREWSBURY SWEATING SICK- 

 NESS SIEGE. 



SHREWSBURY* is an ancient town, 

 feated on a floping ground, and nearly 

 furrounded by the Severn. It was 

 once the capital of Powifland, and the 

 feat of feveral of the princes. The pe- 

 riod in which the town arofe, is not 

 known with any degree of certainty ; 

 but it is fuppofed to have been on the 

 ruin of the Roman Uriconwni, the Vreken 

 Ccafler of the Saxons, and the modern 



* The moft material parts, of the following account of ;his 

 town, have been taken from Mr. Pennant, the reafon for 

 which I have ftated in the preface. 



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