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, I the 1 l-..*pital the Ot llem i . 'lllll tin' " ^ 1 tliu alibcy bridgi , je, may still be seen, lour colossal ;inti.|tn heads, tnongst some old foundations, and are suppos"! I" up. heathen diviniti. reign of Qu martyrs sin lei in this town for their religious faith. Tin- j .'-out here i> l yean afterwai; : ;, j . ; -..li - v, . r.- hum- at HUM ' n hargo of wi! I in 1664 Sir Matth. hen Mnienoed ( -th on the same charge. Bury ig the birthplace of many distinguished men,

imong whom in d Lord Chancellor Ai.

villc, Bishop Gardiner, Sir Nicholas Bacon, Butt, ly, tin- iinti(|iiarian, Capel Lofft, the friend of the young poets Kirk White and Robert Bloomfleld, Eepton, the landscape gin hop Tomline, and Dr. Blm- field, the late Bishop of London. Lydgatc, the - -iim-cled with the abbey. Two newspapers, called tin' Hi'fij < I'ott and SuryFret freti, are pub- lished in the town. The Keppels, Earls of Albcmarte, take the title of viscount from this place. Wednesday and Saturday arc market days, the former for com, TO visions. A pleasure fair is held on r Tuesday, and a great fair, lasting three weeks, on the luti , fairs for came, horse 1 October and the 1st December. BU 1 ; Y - ' ward and limit, in the par., union, und huml. of Edmonton, in the co. of Middlesex, 1 mile U'iiii-hinoro Hill, Southgatc, and Enfield Chase respi < -tii ly, and 8 miles N. of Lon- don. ! r the New Eiver. BURYTHORPE, n jxir. in the wup. of Buckroso, in

i-t Hiding of the co. of York, 6 miles to the 8. of

Halton, its post town. It lies near the York and Scar- borough branch of the N"itli-Ka>tcni railway, and <les the hmlt. of Thornthorpo. The living is a rect. in the dioc. of York, val. 270, in the patron, of the lord chancellor. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The Wcsleyans have a chapel in the village. BU815Y," a vil. partly in the par. of East Kilbridc, Middle ward, in the co. of Lanark, and partly in the I Mrarns, in the i <>. of Itenfrew, Scotland, 4 miles to the N. of Eaglcsham. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in manufactures. Hero is an United Presby- terian chun h. BUSBY, GREAT and LITTLE, tnshps. in 1): of Stokeslcy, in the 1H>. of Langbaurgh. North Riding of the c<'- '2 miles to the S. "I Ste!. whie! : lie North Yorkshire an- . branch of the North-Eastern railway. BUSCOT, or BURWAS( < >i. I j i. in the hund. of Shrivenham, in the co. of Berks, 2 miles to the .S. 1 . ! Lechlade, in Gloucestershire, its post town. It is pleasantly situated on the bonks of the river Thames, which is crossed at Buscot Wick by St. John's Bridge.

ivinrj is a i dioc. of Oxford, val. 457, in

tin ]. iti :!. of 1'ryse Prysc, Esq. The church, a small lit building, is dedicated to St. Mary, and has several monuments of the Lovedcns, whoso seat IK 'irk. The mansion was built in 1783 by Edward Ion, Esq., one of the chief promoters of the Thames and Severn canal, which terminates at Lechlade. The paroi :i year. The vil- . a par. partly in the eastern div. d hund .nd partly in the north, in div. ot i-'lc.n, in tl - ifford, 3 miles to l>Ht town. It is a ilwy. Mains the : 1 tin- limit.

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Coal is abundant in Essington, and many inhabitants are rni]>lriycil in working tin minis The living is a vic. in t' 1 . Id, val. i : itron. of Phil .iirch is dedicated t" M .M It contains a i in Hugh Hu>: 1 the chancel. The charitable emi the parish amount to 3o per annum. At Moselt-y 11 ill Charles II. took MidtiT li.i at the battle of Worce-: . tim. tin Thomas Whitgreave, whose tomb in in Bushhury chun-h. BVMIIiV. a hmlt. in the par. of Iknmby.'hiii co. of Leicester, 4 miles to th. r.|-Sll-K.Mi, a limit, in the par. of Takr', v, Imnd. of Uttlesford, in l.^*-x, 1 mill S. nt tli. Takcley, and 4 W. of Dunn i BUSHEY, a par. in tin hund. ..| 1 1 .1 nm, in theejMl of Hertford, 1 mile to the S.E. of Watturd, its town, and 16 miles to the N.W. of London by rail, or 1 31 by road. It is a station on the London and NoKH Western railway, and is situated in a detached pu^l the hund., surrounded by the hund. of Cushi... This place is mentioned in the Norman survey by tin- nanu of llitici, and the manor was grant. .1 atti-r the I uuqoM to Geoflrcy de Magnavillc. Bushev was once a ni^H town. The living is a net. in the dxx unual val. ot 7UJ, in tho patron, i.l tin Ke.torifl ter College, Oxford. Tho churchH to St. James. A new church, d. lor, has been erected at Bushey Heath. It is a chllH of ease to the parish church, and t > in the gift of thi deijfl have a chapel; and id B^^B schools. There is a 1 Elizabeth Fuller, of Watford, to be expend, which is distributed to the j.ooi M . Sunday morning. Tin re are several pleasant Mifl of iln- i;. ntry in the nei^'libourhood, among whieh aro Bushey Manor House, Busbey GI-. -. , M. -try Hill. ;.nd Bushey Grange. From Bushey 1 1 considerable height, there is a in..: tho valley of the Thames, embraen minster Abbey, Hampton Co 1 1 1 1 , Thames winding through tho most beautiful I^^H Middlesex and Surrey. BUSH-HILL, a small hmlt. in the j.ar., union, and hund. of Edmonton, in tln-eo. of Middl- lialf mile from tho vils. of Wiiii-hiimi. , and . and 8 miles N. of Loi i I'.l'SIII.l-.^ . i par. in tl ..i tin- hund. of ore, in the 00. ..t Voi-ei-ster. .0 miles I

. and li mil. - to tin . ,,| '!', wki-.-hury. in '

ccstcrshire, its post town. It lies on tin V i n, not far from the Bristol and I living is i well, Esq. The church is dedicated t. Si , ]'. ter. There is a small free school, and endowments |..r t producing about .ITJ a y. u. 1'u m, is the seat of tin 1 >. .wdesweOii It . BUSHMILLS, a small n Billy . e, bar. of Can,-, in th prov. nt 1'Kter. Ireland, H mi which is a station on the Belfast and N and Londonderry and Coleraine railway, tho N. of Dublin. It is pleasantly seated on the sea- iant's Causev;i. at tin- mouth ' n name to the village. 1 I'M -4111 -nti d by visitor,, to tin i has greatly impin.-d ol Int. .ars. There are in thf village

ies, a manufactory

implcmi nts, flour and flax-mills, and a factor; spuming aitaato about 4 milce fimn tin /real J'.-lrt ot the yon i ! y and tin wilted muslin trade. ! HuTiluco stands in this village |

iro also chapels ( r I'i. s!.yterianandWesleyans.