EXCURSION FROM SIDMOUTH TO CHESTER, IN THE SUMMER OF 1803. BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTAL REMARKS, Particularly intended for the Information and Amusement of the Rising Generation. PART II. BY THE REV. EDMUND BUTCHER, England, with all thy faults-I love thee still! COWPER. LONDON: PRINTED BY C. WHITTINGHAM, FOR H. D. SYMONDS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. LEA-WOOD. Ants. Matlock. Cumberland Ca- vern. Sonnet to an old Wig. Cotton-mills. Lanark- Revolution-House. Some Particulars of that great Event. Prince of Orange's Reception at Exeter, Centennary Celebration of the Revolution at Whit- Burton. Tutbury Castle. Litchfield. Cathedral. Garrick and Dr. Johnson. Lady Wortley Mon- tague. Bishop Hacket. Notices of Ashmole, Ben- tham, and Carte. Sutton-Cofield. Birmingham... 324 Bromsgrove. Droitwich, Salt. Salt-mines of Po- land. Anecdotes of Mrs. Bendysh. Worcester. Cathedral. Bishops Latimer, Hough, and Madox. Tewkesbury. Defeat of Queen Margaret. Ass of Verona. Gloucester. Cathedral. College-school; Anecdotes of its Head-Master Mr. Wheeler. Mar- tyrdom of Bishop Hooper. Origin of Sunday- WE have now been several days in this charm ing place, and find it disclosing new beauties upon every examination. LEA-WOOD is the name given to the residence and manufactory of Mr. S. whose guests we now are the dwelling-house stands by the side of the road from Cromford to Nottingham, and, immediately behind it, the workshops, warehouses, and some of the dwellings of the workmen all are constructed of the stone of the country, and, together, form a considerable cluster of buildings. Hills, covered with wood, rise very near the front and the back of the house, and, at a greater distance, this is the case on all sides-it is literally |