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Rh BEATTOCK. 213 BEAUMAKIS. h lofty towers, standing in a nobly timbered park, 11 stocked with deer. BEATTOCK, in the par. of Moffat, in the co. of Jimfries, Scotland, 2 miles to the S. of Moffat. It is t station for Moffat on the Caledonian railway, 40 miles 1 m Carlisle, and 60 S."W. of Edinburgh. JEAUCHAMP-ROOTHING, a par. in the hund. and i ion of Ongar, in the co. of Essex, 4 miles N. of Ongar. J Contains the hmlts. of Roothing Jlorrell and Bird's ' 'en. The living is a rect. in the dioc. of Rochester, . 244, and in the patron, of the Rev. Dr. Barrett. u church is dedicated to St. Botolph. The parish takes . name from the river Eoding, which rises beyond the }rth "Weald, and falls into the Thames at Barking ek. KAr CHIEF ABBEY, an cxt. par. Kb. in the hund. dale, in the co. of Derby, 3 miles to the N.W. L Dronfleld, and 4 S. of Sheffield. The living is a cur. i the dioc. of Lichfield, in the gift of B. P. Burnell, I [. An abbey for Premonstratensian. canons was I here in 1183 by Robert Fitz-Ranulph, one of t murderers of Thomas-a-Becket, to whom the house icated. Its value at the Dissolution was 157. tower of the present church was part of the abbey i Mings. Beauchief Hall is pleasantly situated on the t a wooded hill. 3KAUDESERT, a par. in the Henley div. of the Bailichway, in the co. of Warwick, contiguous <wn of Ileiiley-in-Arden. Here is the site of a ounded in the reign of Henry II. by Thurstan clMontford, which was long the seat of theDe Montford hiily, and was at length demolished during the wai's lie Roses. There are now no remains of the building. . .arket was formerly held here, under a grant obtained
 * a King Stephen. The living is a rect.* in the dioc.

Vorcester, of the val. of 320, in the patron, of the mcellor. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, i - n the early English style, with a fine Norman arch a the entrance to the chancel, which is unfinished. 1 s village was the birth-place (1715) of Richard lago, . -et once of note, whose father held the rectory. The o.upying the site of the old castle. From Beaudesert J out there is a fine prospect over a beautiful undulating
 * icipal residence is Beaudesert House, a mansion
 * itry, extending 20 miles, from Edge Hills to Malvern.

.KATJLIEU LIBERTY, in the Southampton div. of tl co. of Southampton, surrounded by the New Eorest a the sea, and containing the pars, of Beaulieu and I lury. It has an area of about 15,100 acres. 1EAULIEU, or BEWLEY, a par. in the lib. of the s; ie name, Southampton div. of the co. of Southampton, u niles to the N.E. of Lymington, and 5 S.E. of Beau- i: Road railway station, on the Southampton and
 * 'jliester railway. The village is pleasantly seated on

a .ream bearing the same name, which rises a little ml Lyndhurst, expands, and becomes navigable here
 * binall vessels, and falls into the Solent. In the year

14, a Cistercian abbey was founded here by King J n. It was dedicated to the Virgin, and was valued aihe Dissolution at 428. The privilege of sanctuary attached to it, and among those who made it an a-lum was Margaret of Anjou, Queen of Henry VI., w:>, with her son, took refuge hero for a time after the Mle of Barnet, in 1471; and Perkin Warbeck, in 1498. r' - -dom from arrest for debt is a privilege still enjoyed i: lie manor. The workpeople are chiefly employed in sty-building, and the manufacture of coarse sacking. I living is a rect." in the dioc. of Winchester, val. ", in the patron, of the Duke of Buccleuch, to whom manor now belongs. The church is dedicated to Bartholomew. It was originally the refectory of the n' ?y, and is the most perfect portion of the remains
 * . existing. The pulpit is of stone, singular for its

g .-eful form and rich sculpture, nearly resembling that ai_ Magdalen College, Oxford. The ruins, which are si -ited in a sheltered valley, comprise the abbot's 1' -ing a square building since converted into a resi- d' ;o for the Duke of Buccleuch, and known as Palace K ise, the dormitory, and the kitchen. The walls appear to have enclosed an area of 20 acres. A hospital, of earlier origin than the abbey, belonging to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, stood on high ground ni'.-ir it, commanding a fine prospect over the sea, whence the village has derived its name. Two granges belonged to the abbey, remains of which exist in the neighbour- hood. At Park Farm, one of them, is the chapel, built of stone, and containing a stone screen. Not far from this is St. Leonard's chapel, and the barn connected with it, above 220 feet long, and nearly 80 feet broad. There is a chapel belonging to the Baptists in the village. Fail's for the sale of horses and cattle are held on the loth April and the 4th September. The par. is very extensive, comprising about 12,040 acres, including Beaulieu Heath, part of a large tract of heath land adjoining the forest. BEAULIEU, a par. in the bar. of Ferrard, in the co. of Louth, prov. of Leinster, Ireland, 2 miles to the E. of Drogheda. It is situated in a fertile district on the river Boyne. The living is a rect. in the dioc. of Armagh and Clogher, val. 73, in the patron, of the bishop. The church contains several monuments of the Montgomerys. The principal residence is Beaulieu House, formerly belonging to the Plunkets, and subsequently to the Titehbornes. BEAULY, a vil. in the par. of Kilmorack, in the co. of Inverness, Scotland, 8 miles to the W. of Inverness. It is seated on the north side of the river and loch bearing the same name. The river is crossed by a good bridge of five arches, which connects the village with Kirkhill. Beauly Loch is an inlet of the Moray Frith. The chief business of the place is ship-building and the coasting trade. There is a salmon-fishery on the river. A priory was founded here in the 13th century by the Lovats, which was occupied by French monks. The ruins stand near the bridge. The site is now a burial- place. Here is a Roman Catholic chapel, and a branch of the North of Scotland Bank. BEAUMANOR, an ext. par. lib. in the western div. of the hund. of Goscote, in the co. of Leicester, 3 miles W. of Mount Sorrel, and 3 S. of the Loughborough railway station. Beaumanor Park, not far from Charn- wood Forest, is a magnificent domain, the seat of W. P. Herrick, Esq., who has erected a handsome Elizabethan pile on the site of the old hall, after designs by "W. liailton, Esq. BEATJMARIS, a par., market town, seaport, and municipal and parliamentary borough in the hund. of Tyndaethwy, in the island-co. of Anglesey, North Wales, 3 miles to the N. of Bangor, and 238 miles from London by the Holyhead railway. It is the county town of Anglesey, and is situated on the north-western shore of the beautiful bay of Beaumaris, near the north-eastern entrance of the Menai Strait. A town existed on this spot at a very early period, and was called Forth Wgyr, and afterwards Bonover. It attained considerable im- irtance as a seaport. On the invasion of the island by jbert, in the 9th century, a severe conflict between the r elsh and the Saxons took place near the town. The English, headed by the Earls of Chester and Shrews- bury, captured the town in 1096, and held the island in subjection till the arrival of a Norwegian force, under Magnus, compelled them to withdraw. The present town is sometimes said to owe its origin to the castle erected here in 1295 by Edward I. He had previously founded the castles of Carnarvon and Conway ; and, in order to secure his conquests, it was necessary to have a fortress and an English garrison in Anglesey, whither the native chiefs had retired, and where they harassed him by promoting frequent insurrections. A site on low ground, then a marsh near the coast, was chosen, in order that by a short channel the fosse surrounding the castle might be connected with the sea. This canal was intended to serve the purpose of filling the fosse, and of admitting vessels to deliver supplies for the garrison. From the situation of the castle the present name of the town, signifying " fair marsh," is derived. The garrison, numbering usually twenty-four men, under a governor, or constable, who was also appointed captain of the