NOTTINGHAM. 
was plundered, and nearly Lei to the ground. It wa 
foon, however, rebuilt, an 153 once more met with the 
e for its re-eftablifhment ; and the 
ae 
him, Nottingham changed mafters feveral times; and a par- 
iament was called here by Richard, in which John’s eftates 
were declared forfeited to the crown, Edward IIT. ai 
held feveral parlia s at this town, in ich were 
enacted thofe laws relative to the fettlement of the Flemith 
anufactu gar 
a 
patriotic law, forbidding all perfons, except the royal fa-- 
this 
mily, to wear any foreign made cloths; and likewife pro- 
hibited the exportation of Englifh wool. 
A curious attempt to infringe on the liberty i eleétion 
took place at Nottingham in the reign o ard II. 
> 
om 
his reftoration at cot, 
afflumption of arbitrary power. He ac aly pro meer 
to Nottingham, and commanded all the “fherifi and judges 
of the different counties to meet him there on important 
bufinefs. T'o thefe, when affembled, he communicated his 
defign of levying an army to chattife thofe noblemen who 
had been moft aétive in reftraining his prerogatives, and 
demanded to know from the fheriffs what number of troops 
they could raife immediately. He further ordered them not 
dificult to raife an 
of their parliamentary rights. 
not fo fcrupulous, fo 
propofed meafurcs, they declared their acquiefcence in them, 
and acknowledged the king to be a ea to all law; but 
notwithftanding this fubferviency o judges, Richard 
found it impoffible to effec his oe a Nor aan, and 
therefore sane Lo 
This to uently became remarkable for having 
been the pices or pe ame for ini troops of Edward IV., 
who caufed himfelf to be proclaimed king here mele after 
his arrival in England, in the y 1461 1485, 
Richard LII. marched hence towards Bofwor th field, where 
he was defeated and flain. In 148 
Charles firft Y forall raifed his ftandard againft the Sele 
ment. The inhabitants, however, being chiefly attached to 
the republican caufe, his majefty was tas obliged to aban- 
don the town, to the parliamentary forc Many interefting 
and curious particulars refpeGting this oats its caltle, and the 
euftoms of the people, during the civil wars, are detailed in 
“ aa of the Life of Colonel Hutchinfon,” 2 vois. 
8vo. 
ie at Nottingham that the meeting took place be- 
tween the earl of Devonthire and a number of other noble- 
men, in order to promote al baie diag of 1688, 
from d -— this s little more 
F democratic al zeal 
no bloodthed ; ; and Nottingham ‘continu ed in quiet and 
profperity till the commencement of the year 1811, when 
the ftate of ovr continental relations having thrown many 
of the manufa€turers out of employment, they erroneoufly 
attributed that effe€t to the adoption of machinery, inftead 
of referring it to its true fource ; and hence were induced to 
form combinations for the parpofe of frame-breaking, fo 
dangerous in their tendency, as to call for the vigorous 
interference of the legiflature. 
Nottingham, with refpe& to fituation, has many advar- 
tages. It ftands on a confiderable eminence, called the Do- 
lorous-Hill, from a tradition that king H 
flaughter of the Bri 
On three fides rife gentle hills, which ferve to fhield it 
from the more hurtful blafts, whilft its fouthern afpeé is fully 
expofed to the enlivening rays of the fun at all feafons of 
the year. From this fide it elecks the fertile and extentfive 
vale of Belvoir, the Nottinghamfhire wolds, and the hills 
of Leicetterfhire ; and exhibits to the traveller, as he ap- 
proachesit, the novel profpe& of three tiers of ftreets, rifing 
regularly one above the other, and apparently embofomed in 
rock, Should he enter from the eaft, the whole mafs of build- 
ing is feen forefhortened ; the tower of St. Mary's church 
and the caftle then appear nearly in one group ; and with the 
long line of the Trent and Leen bridges raife ideas of its fize 
and irsportance, which its feemingly circum{cribed limits 
would not otherwife have juftified. In appr somes = the 
north, the view is of a very oppolite character. a build- 
ing of any defcription can be mannered except rs church 
tower, “ill the traveller reaches the mit of a {mall hill 
above the race ground, when the town baci inftantaneoufly 
upon the view, as if by iar iornaaa 3 and iad to lie in the 
centre of an expanded level be The rivers Leen and 
pear as on a ma oad a fertile ah ftretching 
itfelf beyond them, forms a ftriking contraft to the bleak 
park ; in the centre the barracks f 
them felves ; 3 and the left a windmills, 
which — excite the idea of a Dutch or of a Flemith 
town 
may continue permanent for many ages. Edward the elder 
was the firft who fortified this town, about the year g1o 
but the wall being greatly damaged during the Danith wars, 
it was almoft nce | renewed by the Conqueror and his fuc. 
ceffors to Henry The extent of the town at that pe- 
riod is caer. as that circumftance is not mentioned by 
any author before Deering, who fays that it meafured two 
{tatute miles in circumference, about the commencement of 
