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paid yearly to a prieft to pray for his foul, and the fouls of 

 all other benefaftors whofe names fhould be compriled in a 

 table hanging at the high altar. Confidered in an architec- 

 tural point of view, this church is deferving of notice. Ice- 

 land ftyles it " lightfum and fair," and tells us that one Mo- 

 lines, " a man welle lernid," was parfon there in his time. 

 It is a fpacious edifice, and confifts of a nave, chancel, two 

 fide-aifles, with chapels attached, a north and fouth porch, 

 and a large tower at the weft end, furmounted by a taper 

 fpirc. The nave and aifles are embattled, and are ornamented 

 with crocketed pinnacles. Both porches are unufually lofty. 

 The nave has a flat ceiled roof, highly decorated with flowers : 

 it is feparated from the aides by five arches on each fide, 

 fupported by cluftered columns with ornamented capitals. 

 Some of the windows contain fragments of painted glafs, 

 particularly the eafl windows of the chapels, which are large, 

 and difplay feven dayes or lights, feparated by mullions. 

 The font is lofty, and covered with a profullon of tracery and 

 panelling, with fculptural reprefentations on ihields, emble- 

 matical of the crucifixion. The hving is a reftory, in the 

 gift of the duke of Rutland, he having referved the advowfon 

 when he fold the manor : the prefent reftor is the Rev. Mr. 

 Crabbe. This church is the only place of religious worfliip 

 on the eftabliihment in the town ; but there is a chapel of 

 eafe dependent upon it at Staverton, a hamlet within the 

 parifli. Likemoft manufafturing towns, Trowbridge abounds 

 with Diilenters, and confequently contains feveral meeting- 

 houfes. The charitable inilitutions in Trowbridge are an 

 alras-houfe, and a fchool for the education of thirty boys. 

 The former was founded by a perfon of the name of Yer- 

 bury. The fchool-lioufe Hands in the church-yard, near the 

 fpot where the alms-houfe ereftcd and endowed by Ternm- 

 ber was placed, which has been recently taken down, and 

 the funds appropriated to the ufe of the parifh poor ge- 

 nerally. Of the caftle no part is now Handing ; but its fcite is 

 diftinguifliable by the remains of the moat and valla by which 

 it was furrounded. It is more elevated than the town, and 

 ilill retains, in the appellation Court -hill, a marked allufion 

 to its ancient appropriation. As there are no data to deter- 

 mine by whom the caftle was erefted, fo the period of its demo- 

 lition is equally uncertain ; but it muft have occurred previous 

 to the reign of Henry VIII., for Leland fays of it, " The 

 caftell ftoode on the fouth fide of the toune. It is now clene 

 down. There was in it a feven gret toures whereof peaces of 

 two yet ftande." The caftle was formerly approached from 

 the town by a drawbridge over the moat, which has given 

 occafion to a plaufible conjefture that the name Trowbridge 

 is a corruption of Drawbridge, near which the retainers of 

 the caftle might probably have built their houfes in the in- 

 fancy of the town. This fuppofition derives lome fupport 

 from the facl, that fome of the buildings adjoining Court- 

 hill poffefs confiderable marks of antiquity. 



Among the diftinguifhed natives of this town is George 

 Keate, a writer of confiderable eminence in the laft century. 

 He was defcended from the ancient and opulent families 

 of the Hungerfords and Seymours. He died June 27, 1797, 

 aged 67. 



About two miles to the fonth-eaft of Trowbridge is Rowd 

 Alhton, the feat of Richard Godolphin Long, efq. one of the 

 prefent reprefentatives of the county of Wilts. The houfe is 

 large and commodious, and has lately undergone confiderable 

 alterations and improvements, under the fupenntendance of 

 Jeffry Wyatt, efq. arcliiteft. The park is extenfive and 



well wooded Beauties of England and Wales, vol. xv. 



Wiltftiire, by John Britton, F.S.A. 1815. 



TROWEL. See hmvK-Lay(r. 



Trowel, Gardai, a tool of the trowel kind, which is 



made of iron, in a hollow or fcooped form, and is an ufelu? 

 implement in taking up numerous forts of fmall plant;; 

 and bulbous roots, and replanting them in pots, fowing in 

 patches, and various other fimilar light works : it fhould be 

 from fix to twelve inches long in the plate, and half as broad, 

 and fixed on a fhort handle, to hold with one hand. From 

 its being hollowed femicircuWly, it is remarkably handy in 

 removing many forts of fmall plants with a ball or lump of 

 earth whole about their roots, fo as not to feel their removal ; 

 hfting feveral forts of bulbous tlpwer-roots, after the flower- 

 ing is paft in fummer ; planting bulbs in patches or little 

 clumps about the borders, as alfo for digging fmall patche- 

 in the borders for fowing hardy annual flower -feeds on ; 

 likewife for filling mould into fmall pots in planting any fort 

 of plants, ftirring the furface of the mould in pots, and frefo 

 earthing them when neceffary : it is alfo highly ufeful for 

 filling in earth about plants in hot-beds, and under frames, or 

 any fmall compartments where a fpade cannot be readily 

 introduced. 



They fhould be had of different fizes to fuit different 

 purpofes. 



TROWERT Island, in Geography, a fmall ifland in 

 the Eaft Indian fea, near the fouth coaft of Java. N. lat. 

 7° 2'. 



TROWERYN, a river of North Wales, which rifes from 

 a lake in Merionethfhire, and runs into the Dee. 



TRO WLE, or TrOLE, the Bowl, in Englijb Antiquity, was 

 a common phrafe in drinking for pafTing the veflel about, as 

 appears from feveral of our old catches. 



TROWSERS, air.ong Sailors, a fort of loof-i breeches of 

 canvas, worn by feamen, &c. 



TROXIMON, in Botany, from Tfii|>uo{, eatable, a name 

 chofen by Gasrtner, without much propriety, for this genus, 

 which he very juftly diftinguifhed from Tragopogon ; fee 

 that article, as well as Arnopogon, thereunto fubjoined. 

 — Gsertn. v. 2. 360, no figure. " Perf. Syn. v. 2. 360." 



Purfh V. 2. 505 Clafs and order, Syngenefid Polygamia- 



tequalis. Nat. Ord. Compojita-femiflofculofii, Linn. Cicho- 

 racex, Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Common Calyx fimple, ovate, of numerous lan- 

 ceolate equal fcales, in two rows. Cor. compound, imbri- 

 cated, uniform. Florets various in number, all perfeft, of 

 one petal, ligulate, longer than the calyx, abrupt, with five 

 teeth. Stam. Filaments, in each floret, five, capillary ; an- 

 thers united into a long furrowed tube. Pift' Germen, in 

 each floret, oblong ; ftyle thread-fhaped, the length of the 

 ftamens ; ftigmas two, revolute. Peric. none, except the 

 permanent, finally fpreading, calyx. Seeds iolitary, oblong, 

 flender ; down feffile, capillary, roughifh. Recept. naked, 

 dotted. 



EfT. Ch. Receptacle naked, dotted. Calyx of feveral 

 leaves, in a double feries. Seed-down fimple, feffile. 



Obf. We do not find the calyx ever " imbricated with 

 unequal fcales," as Gaertner fays it fometimes is. Such a 

 chirafter belongs to Sonchus. Neither is it perfeftly fimple ; 

 for, as far as we can difcern in every known fpecies, the 

 fcales, or leaves, ftand in a double row, or circle, the outer 

 ones alternate with, and overlapping the inner, at their bafe. 

 The fimple feed-down eft'entially diftingui-flies this genus 

 from Tragopogon, nor are the habits of the plants fimilar. 



1 . T . glaucum. Glaucous Troximon. Purfh n. i. Curt. 

 Mag. t. 1667. (Tragopogon Dandelion ; Linn. Sp. PI. 

 Ill I. Willd. Sp. PI. V. 3. 1495. Leontodon Dandelion ; 

 Linn. Sp. PI. ed. I. 798. L. foliis linearibus integris, caule 

 erefto fimphci ; Gron. Virg. ed. i. go.) — Stalks radical, 

 fingle-flowered. Leaves hnear-lanceolate, entire, fmooth, 

 glaucous on both fides. Calyx-fcales fomewhat beaked.. 



— Native 



