NOTTINGHAM. 
ftone pillars, forming a oe open — under which 
a part of the fhambles are 
made lately. Deering — they exceeded 1 se in she a 
le of the laft centu e bone-lace manufacture 
likewife a cae of gr t to the t ayy eons to ies 
recent unhappy dilturbances, and the improvements made by 
any of the rears rers feemed to gedes the conclu- 
fion that we fhould 
nevolent de e for which they were founde 
grammar-{chool was ereéted and endowed, in 1513, 
ria Mellors, the widow of a ee bell- rae ee in Not. 
tingha This {chool had almoft fallen into difufe, but in 
1807 1 its importance was revived by the exertions of the cor- 
poration, and now fixty boys are taught in it, not only 
reek and Latin, ifh, wri etic, 
vatis. Anexcellent charity-fchool is likewife eftablifhed on 
the High Pavem entirely olun- 
ath spser ag and maintains fifty poor children of both 
se who are inftru€ted in religion and in Englifh read- 
” "There a are alfo feveral can fchools, {upported on 
the fame liberal principles ; one 
children, and cannes fxieen 
either alon : 
children sees a re Chess and at private feminaries 
in this town, is eflimated to eececd three thoufand. 
The public amufements of Nottingham are fimilar to thofe 
= moft other lar ge provincial towns: Vite _affembli ies, balls, 
f{- 
nce rts, 
ea 
fe emblies balls, and concerts, are held in sje and {pacious 
building in the Low nt. This edifice is ay called 
the “ Ladies’? Affembly "Roomet though the reafon of the 
diftinction, (the exiftence of another, named “ "The "Tradef. 
man’s Affembly,’’) has long fince ceafed to trench upon the 
harmony of fociety, by sole the middle clafles from 
what was termed the polite circ atre is a plain 
ftructure 
Tt was fo 
Savery 
seat modern edifice, two flaties highs Ne lower fas pro- 
jecting fome diftance beyond the upper, and having a balluf- 
trade on the top, aa a oe to which opens the upper 
n front. 
ontained feveral religious inftitu- 
nd fays «6 ere hath been three houfe of freres, 
as I remember, whereof two ftoode toward the wette of the 
town, and not far from the caftelle."’ The Francifcans, ot 
ed Hoy : 
Sturley. The houfe of the Hofpitallers was fituated at the 
northern extremity of the town, near the north road. The 
period of its foundation is unknown, but it was in exiftence 
town. The inhabitants of this houfe nee the Die of cut- 
ting the dead wood in the foreft of Nott St. Se- 
pulchre’s was a brotherhood in the ee "ee Var IIl., 
ut the date - its foundation is not mentioned. In the 
a 
rae was a gui : St. George, and a chantry dedicated 
ary 5 the church of St. eee was a 
ay alfo dedicated to the 
ble sie Vir 
n furveying the vicinity of Nottingham, ate moft pro- 
ingnent objet w which demands attention is the caftle. This 
— is Baar on a bold rock on the weftern fide of the 
tow ilt, in 1680, upon the {cite of a more an- 
cat forrf 0 originally erected by Willia 
and after ards m 
we find it taken poffeffion of by Mortimer, earl of March, 
and the queen mother, asa place of fecure refidence againft 
any efforts of the young saa to bring the hated para~ 
mour to condign punifhme . king wa 
& his object 
called arian hole ; 
tion at the 
ated. 
caftle is ia deferibe d by Leland. & The hafe 
soe is lage and meetly ftrong, being beftes and sieves over 
the ditch into the fecond warde; the frontier of the which 
warde in in entering is eee dds ftronge vith toures and 
portecoleces ; much part of the weft fide of this inner warde 
as the haul and other things be in ruins. ee 
fouth fide 
