Black's Guide to Nottinghamshire - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... excursion xviii. blyth, bawtby, and environs. Blyth is so called, according to the venerable topographer, John Norden, "A jocunditate," which, says Fuller, "I desire may be extended all over the shire; being confident that one ounce of mirth, with the same degree of grace, will serve God more and be more acceptable than a pound of sorrow--a sentiment in which we may concur more readily than we could in the very doubtful etymology from which it arose." This place, which has been appropriately styled a market-town without a market, lies partly in Yorkshire, on the eastern bank of the little river Eyton, four miles south-by-west of Bawtry, and seven miles from Worksop and East Eetford. The market, formerly held on each Wednesday, has long been obsolete. After the Norman invasion, Eoger de Busli, one of the most powerful of William the Conqueror's followers, had a castle here, and this same Eoger, "being of a pious and grateful disposition, with the consent of his wife Muriel," founded here a Priory of the Benedictine order, about the year 1068, to the honour of the Virgin Mary, which was in some respects subordinate to the Abbey of the Holy Mount of St Catherine at Eouen, in Normandy. The Priory church, of which some considerable part remains, is " The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Blyth," by the Rev. John Raine, late vicar of the parish, contains a very complete account of this interesting place, and is one of the best local histories of which Nottinghamshire can boast. a fine old building, now consisting of a nave, chancel, side aisles, south porch, and tower, although it formerly possessed, in addition, transepts, and a large choir, with an apsidal recess at the eastern end, and a massive central tower, probably owing to the...