Nottinghamia vetus et nova. Or an historical account of the ancient and present state of the town of Nottingham / Gather'd from the remains of antiquity and collected from authentic manuscripts and ancient as well as modern historians. Adorn'd with beautiful copper-plates; with an appendix, containing besides extracts of wills and deeds relating to charities, diverse other curious papers. By Charles Deering, M.D.

  • Deering, Charles, 1695?-1749.
Date:
1751
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Credit: Nottinghamia vetus et nova. Or an historical account of the ancient and present state of the town of Nottingham / Gather'd from the remains of antiquity and collected from authentic manuscripts and ancient as well as modern historians. Adorn'd with beautiful copper-plates; with an appendix, containing besides extracts of wills and deeds relating to charities, diverse other curious papers. By Charles Deering, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The prefent City oi Sailshury is not fo old, taking its Date from Henry III. Gloucester tho’ more ancient, is a County but fince Richard III. And heterlorough hut imcQ Henry VIIL There are befides about 40 Towns owned by the Romans^ of fome of which there is hardly any more left than the bare Names, others are dwindled into inlignificant Villages, fome from their beginning to this very Day are never rifen to the dignity of a Corporation, fome who where formerly Parliamentary Boroughs reduced to Poverty, defiring to be excufed fending xMembers to-Parliament have by that loil: their Rightjand feveral of thofe have by late Application with Difficulty recovered the fame by freih Grants, fome in the Reign (h ) of PhlUp Mary^^omt oi(i) QnQtn Elizabeth^ iomt of (k) James the ill. and fome even fo lately as Charles L Very few of the whole Number have continued in a tolerable Condition, and fewer.are tloiiriihlng now. Bemdes thefe, there are about iix Cotemporaries with our Town, of which Taunton^ ^aniworth^ Bridgeport^ and Ipfwlch made an equalFigure with Nottlngha7nmEdssjard the Confe{[or-s Time. But Northampton had then but 60 BurgefTes, and Lhi-Regis which is now in a.flourifiling State, was then the leall coniider-able of all the iix. r- v ' Ik fhort thus much may be faid in pure julfice to the Blace wffiich is the fubjeff of my Pen ; that the Town o^ Nottinghamcan claim as a Town of Note the .Age of 900 Years, as a coiniHefable Borough 700, as a Mayor’s Town 457, (and that even the Metropolis of the Kingdom of has not been governed by a Afayor above 100 Aears longer.) As a Parliamentary Borough 460 Years, during which Time it has conilantly fent two BurgeiPes to Parliament, and a County fwhich Honour and Advantage but a very fmall Number of Boroughs are polTeiied of) 292 Years. That it has undergone both Fire aod^Sword, and w'eathered all the Viciffitudes of Time, holding up its Head, ever Trading, hardly at any Time w-antiiig fomeproiitable Alanufaclury or other to employ the poor, conlianrly advancing, and at this Time enjoying the moil profperous State it ever was blelled with, or any inland Town can hope for. The Truth of all which will clearly difcover itfelf to the. Reader in the follov/iiig Sheets. CONTENTS for the Sanctity of her Life, and ift. repnted Saint. For that when by a folemn Vow /he had devoted herfeif to the Service of God and a finfde Life, Earl courted her for a Wife, and pnrfuing her in Flight v;as (as the Story p-oes) miraciiloufly ftruck Blind. This Lady built here (at Oxford] a Religious Houfe as a Trophy of her preferved \h.gimx.y^AnKO C. 700, &c. {ffV/ar^Hck. (/) Ahddjfone. {k) Hartford -mvI St. Alban s did fend no Meinbers from the latter End of Ed^xard III. to the Charter of Ed-zvard VI.