Drawn by J. Satmon Engraved by E. Engraved by D. The birth place of The Prince of Wales, born, Nov. Among the numerous distinguished individuals to whom Bristol has had the honour of giving birth, are Lilly, Chatterton, M rs. Mary Robinson, M rs. About a mile down the river from this Castle, is S t. Robert's Cave, the scene of the murder committed by Eugene Aram, which was discovered thirteen years afterwards. This place is celebrated in history as the spot where the assembled barons in , obtained from King John, the grant of Magna Charta.
Charles Street Mary-le-bone. The present substantial building was completed in Warine, sheriff of this county in the reign of Henry I. Benthall, Eyton, Rowton, Amaston, and Wollaston, are all townships of this parish. At Glyn, in this parish, is the celebrated Old Parr's cottage and birth-place, who lived in the reigns of ten kings and queens.
Old Parr's cottage, which has undergone but little alteration since his time; it is timber-framed, rare, and picturesque, within view of Rodney's Pillar on Bredden Hill, in Montgomeryshire. In Wollaston Chapel is a brass plate, with his portrait thus inscribed: "The old, old, very old man, Thomas Parr, was born at the Glyn, in the township of Wennington, within the chapelry of Great Wollaston, and parish of Alberbury, in the county of Salop, in He lived in the reigns of ten kings and queens of England, viz.
King Edward IV. King Charles, on the 13th of November, , and was buried in Westminster Abbey, on the 15th of the same month, aged one hundred and fifty-two years and nine months. At the age of one hundred and five, he did penance in the church of Alberbury, for criminal connexion with Catherine Milton, by whom he had offspring.
The original consequence of this little town was derived from an abbey of Cistercian monks, founded here, about the twelfth century, by Henry I. Its benefactors were many in number, and by the magnificent grants and privileges with which it was endowed, it acquired so much importance, that during the reigns of Edward I.
