Excerpt from The History and Antiquity of Southampton: With Some Conjectures Concerning the Roman Clausentum The Southampton of Dr. Speed's time, 0. 1770, formed a marked contrast to the town of to-day; in fact, in reading a description of it in the books of that period, we hardly recognise in the fashionable sea-side resort the busy seaport which we know. It seems that the present prosperity is due, in the first place, to the fact that in the early part of George iii's reign Southampton became known to the world of ...
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Excerpt from The History and Antiquity of Southampton: With Some Conjectures Concerning the Roman Clausentum The Southampton of Dr. Speed's time, 0. 1770, formed a marked contrast to the town of to-day; in fact, in reading a description of it in the books of that period, we hardly recognise in the fashionable sea-side resort the busy seaport which we know. It seems that the present prosperity is due, in the first place, to the fact that in the early part of George iii's reign Southampton became known to the world of fashion as an attractive watering place. There is no 'doubt that its fortunes had sunk to a low ebb at that time a passage in an edition of Camden's Britannia, which was published in 1715, bears witness to the decay of trade and consequent loss of wealth and importance. It is-pointed out that the number of fine houses, the riches of the inhabitants, the busy traffic of the harbour, to which reference had been made in earlier editions of the same work, had all become things of the past; that the merchants' great houses were empty and dropping to the ground; that the population had decreased to such an extent that five churches in the town were no longer needed and that the Shipping had declined equally. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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