The Beauties of England and Wales Volume 16; Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ... with any high ideas of either the eleguet or comfort of the town itself. Nottingham, we are told by Camden, and his whole tab tuent train of copyists, has the honour of giving a name to Ok, county at large. This is evidently softened from the Sua "Snottingham," an appellation given it on account of the sohterranean caverns and passages hollowed out in ancient time; fit houses and retreats under those craggy rocks on the sooth side, hanging over the river Lene. An old etymologist (Asserts) informs us that the Saxon name may be latinized into "Speluncarum Domus," or the house of caverns, and that if binlated into British, it would be " Tui Ogo Banc," a name whid however we have no authority to say was ever given toto place. There is perhaps no town in the kingdom, whose origin is ti in greater obscurity than Nottingham, and there is certain / none which has given rise to a greater variety of conjectures. Stukely says, one may easily guess Nottingham to Awe been an ancient town of the Britons. Ar soon as they lad proper tools, he adds, they fell to work upon the rocks, whica every where offer themselves so commodiously to make housei in, and he doubts not that here there was a considerable collection of dwellings of this sort. Dr. Thorolonf seems to consider all memorials of its origin as entirely lost; and places no confidence whatever in John Rous, a monk of Warwick, and canon of Osney, who, in his history addressed to king Henry the seventh, tells a long tale of the antiquity of Nottingham 980 years before the Christian era;t whki Stukeley's Itinerary, page ]9. t Thoroton's Survey of N-- t Leland in his Collectanea Vol. 3, p. 43, gives os some fragments ft--' Chronicle which he considers as the work of an un...