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Rh AJIHLKSTOX. n AMESBURY HUNDRED. the inhabitant* are employed in the quarries, from which late is procured. Tin-re it a market-house which was 1'iiilt in 17!)t; on tho silo of mi ancient one, also a inics' instituti', ami a small library. A now town- hall was erected in 1 8.'> > upper part of the town is a v. Under a oh grant rlei 1 1., a mayor is chosen annually at Christmas ; but his office is merely nominal, aa the town is iin.l. i tlio jurisdiction of tho county magistrates. I 1 ' ity sessions are hold once a fortnight, and tho county i once in six weeks or two months. Polling for tho couru i ikes place li living is a perpct. cur. in tho dice, of < ' 80, in tho patron, of A. !'. Hnddlogtone, Esq. The old church, which wa made parochial in 1676, was rebuilt in 1812, but it is now disused, a new church having been built in 1851. It is a handsome stone building in th. early English stylo, with a lofty spire and 4 belli. There are chapels 1>. ing to the Independents and Methodists. In 1721 . Kolsick established and endowed a free grammar school here, tho annual income of which is about 130. The market is held on Wednesday, and fairs on Whit -Wednes- day, and the 13th and 29th October. Amblesid. was the seat of the Braithwuites ; remains of it still exist. There are many handsome modern mansions in tho
 * t y. Ambleside is supposed to be the Roman Galarmn,

and the earthworks and various remains of an cxt< Roman found near the tow u. AMl'.U.STuN. it ]ir. in tin- lumd. of Dungleddv, in I'cmbroke, > s, 7 miles to th> of Haverfurdwest. It is watered by a branch of the river Cleddy. It is chiefly interesting as the site of an nt camp, called by the people Guile Finnish, which is supposed to be the remains of a Roman station. Tho popular name arose from tho circumstance that the camp was at one time occupied by Flemings, who settled in Pembrokeshire. Tho living is a vie. in the dioc. of St. David's, val. 183, in the patron, of tho Prince of Wales. The chureh i.s dedicated to St. Mury. There is a chapel b< -loiiTing to t V- ( 'alvinistic Methodists. AMHKKSItriiV, Wiltshire. Set AJUSIU-RY. AMBROSDEN, a par. in tho hund. of Bulling*! the . "I, 3 miles to tho 8.E. of Biccstcr, and 12 N nl. It includes tho chplrics. of Arn- oott and Blackthorn. It is watered by the i i . the ancient Roman way from Dorchester, in the" same county, josses through tho parish. The living is in tho dioc. of Oxford, val. 228, in the patron, of the trusteosof tho la- . i) Turner, Bart. Thechurch, -.itcd to St. Mar)- the n tho early Eng- lish style. It stands on the site of a more ancient one, and waserectedin tho reign of Kdward I. The rectory of village was onco held by tho learned antiquary, lulhur of the "Parochial Antiip of Ambrosdon, Biceater, and other places. I tin-nan!" from tho famous, but legendary, British chid' Ambrosius Aurelius. who had (ho wys) a cam]> while the Saxons besieged Alchcstcr. There are cha : ..- I'.urrh lands, amounting to 40 per annum. AM HI. 1 i>l. I ' i-i'N. a par. in tl bar. oi I', u .-. i-i tho co. of TOV. of Leinster, Ireland, 4 mile* to tho 8.V . -n. It of Tulljrc;.- wnlands of Ballingeal and ing if a i.
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of Altllol div. of the wap. of Manlt-y, parts of Lindsev, in tic- ' iwn- ship i living i-. a pcrpet. cur. in tli" u .In, val. _ which was d'-di- Mias-u-Beck. :. f.-ll down about is/in, l.ut - '''->' - ' i ^ '< M- thodisti aavi a cli 1AM. or A<JMONDKSJ.IAM,apar.,m i-n.h. in i I'.nnili mi, U blind. of Dacorum, in the co. . 1 1 Buckingham, and 26 miles from London, or 30 London and North Western railway. The town _ in a very pleasant valley, watered by the email river Mesbourn, a branch of tin- < 'olno, and surrounded by picturesque and well wooded hills. Tho hamlet of Coles- hill is included in tho parish. Its Saxon name wai Agmundttkam. It was a borough by preset i returned two representatives to parliament from ttH 28th year of the reign of Edward I. to the 2nd of Edward II. Its right was not exercised again till the hitter part of tho reign of James I. Petition for it* ion was made and granted in 162'!. continued thenceforth to return two members ua^l it was disfranchised under the Reform Act in Edmund Waller, the poet, and Algernon Sydney, l been among tho representativ. . of this borough. consists chiefly of one long street, on the from Uxbridgo to Wcndover, crossed !>-. forming part of the road from Chcsham to H it'll Vy- combe. Near the centre of tho town is the townhal], handsome structure of brick, supimrted on pillars, and surmounted by a lantern and clock. Tho lower jKirt is used as a market-house. It was erected about 1680, by Sir William Drake, llart. Tho town is paved and has a good cujijily of water. Tho manu hire of cotton, silk, craj>e, and black lace, formerly car on hero, is discontinued ; wood' numbers for exportation, from the wood of the bocch fj^H which abounds in tho neighbourhood. There are thif^J] flour mills, and an extensive i .d many ' are employed in 11n- n | 'ait. m a red. in tin dioc. of Oxfm gift of Thomas Tyrwhitt Dnil. The church, which is a spacious bri c i utiiry, and was ox ten.'- 1 lands T the intersection of tho two streets. It is dedicated ' St. Marj-. It contains a mausoleum of the Drake 1 in which, and in i .ti-rpsting mo mcnts, besides a fine window of stained glaM, 1 1 HIM Mil tho Twelve Apostles. There aro two places belonging to the Baptists, one to tho Weslcyans, I one to the Society of Friends. There is a free grama^B school, with a revenue of 86, founded in the reignfl i Elizabeth, by Dr. I : r of ham and canon of Windsor; in ; wiB which he also established three si at Christ Church College, Oxford. Tho ivi !. . ndnw^fl by Lord Cheyne, has an ine re il also a Sunday school endowed by William Drake, .Inn., wU 11 IKT annum ; and an almshouso for six ] erected and endowed by Sir William Dr.i workhouse, erected in 1 s:iS, in a handsome building in t Kli/Jibi than Mylc of an hit. < ture. Tho parochial ch amount altogether to 428. ShardeloM Park, T. T. Drake, Esq., is nl' m. t;u
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>'"illiani Tothill, Ewj. The hall stands! hill, overloc ing a prospi < held by family, of wlmm wa-i tin ulrat I'Jill t.f Warwick, the J . and last of the barons. Si . in the n i
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.Mary, Will -,th and. : ; i d in Miii" manner, for holdii. i uket day is TI. Whit-Monday aipl uicllyfori Anu-r.-'h tin i^ th" si at "t a j.-ini-law union. AMI.Kl'uN.a tn.hp. in lli" ].ar. of Siov.e, huml. < South 1'irehill, in the co. of Stuflbrd, 6 mil to il. AMi:sr,n;v iirMH!Ki>. in Wiltshire, i on tin N i l.'-tuli and Kvii'V h I 1 '., by the county of Southampton, on tin- S. by U of Aldirl.aiy and rnd.-iilijcli, and on V. by the h-mdicd ot I'.Kin.h and llol.-. I 1 li" dctiichtd in the pai-H. of Allington, Ameibuiy, Boscombe, liu