Ambulator: or, a pocket companion in a tour round London, within the circuit of twenty five miles. Describing whatever is most remarkable for antiquity, grandeur, elegance, or rural beauty: including new catalogues of pictures, and illustrated by historical and biographical observations / to which are prefixed a concise description of the metropolis, and a map of the country described.

Date:: 1793

Credit: Ambulator: or, a pocket companion in a tour round London, within the circuit of twenty five miles. Describing whatever is most remarkable for antiquity, grandeur, elegance, or rural beauty: including new catalogues of pictures, and illustrated by historical and biographical observations / to which are prefixed a concise description of the metropolis, and a map of the country described. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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qiieiit difpute, this Pope wrote a letter to the degraded Mo- narch, which difplays the deteftable pretenConsof the court of Rome, in thofe gloomy ages': “ Whatever you have ] as Emperor, you have fi'om us ; for, as Pope Zacharias ; transferred the Empire from the. Greeks to the Germans, fo can we transfer it from the Germans to the Greeks. ■ It is in our power to beftow it upon whom we will. Be- fides, we are appoLntecfby God to rule over kingdoms, and nations, that we may deftroy, pluck up, build, plant, &c.— Yet did this haughty Pope leave his mother to be maintained ^ by the alms of the church of Canterbury.—Langley Bury j near this village, was built by Lord Chief Juftice Raymond, | w ho bequeathed it to Sir John Filmer, Bart. It is the reli- j|] dence of Mr. Baron Hotham. See Cecil Ledge. ACL'ON, East and West^ two villages, five m. f. l. on | the Oxford road. At Weft Afton are the houfe and ex- ■ tenfive grounds of Lieutenant General Morris. Eaft Adlon C is noted for its medicinal wells. H ADDINGTON, a village, three miles to the E. of Croy-H don, at the foot of a range of hills, to which it gives the.'i name of Addington Common. On the bi ow of the hill,^' toward the village, is a clufter of fmall tumuli, about 25^ in number. The Lord of the Manor holds it by the fervice: 'i of making his Majefry a mefs of pottage at his coronation, j A mefs was acccordingly prefented .to his prefent Ma- jefty, at his coronation, by Mr. Spencer, as Lord of the j Manor. ADDINGTON PLACE, the handfome feat of James Trecothick, Efq. in the parilli of Addington. Jt Hands half a mile from the church, in the centre of the park. It. was begun, in 177a, by the late Alderman Trecothick, and finiflred by the prefent- proprietor, who is Lord of the Manor of Addington. , ADDISCOiMBE PLACE, the feat of T.ord Hawkcftiury, near Croydon, was built, about 85 years ago, by Sir Wil- liam Draper, Governor of Greenwich Hofpital, from whom it defeended. to the prefent proprietor Captain Charles j Clarke. Lord Ilawkeftniry, who has a leafe of it for his j life, has lately beautified it, and improved the plantations, : On the call front of the houfe is this infcrij)tion in Roman capitals

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