The antiquities of England and Wales displayed : being a grand repository of elegance, taste, and entertainment. Containing copious historical descriptions of all the most remarkable elegant and magnificent ruins and ancient buildings ; such as abbeys, castles, monastories, priories and other religious houses, bridges, cathedrals, churches, chapels, towers, gates, arches, walls, antique houses, mansions, ancient hospitals, colleges, palaces, monuments, nunneries and other miscellaneous curiosities of antiquity, situate in different parts of England and Wales ... To which are added, various historical descriptions and many picturesque views of the principal seats of nobility and gentry. As also a display of remarkable antiquites, romantic prospects and other curiosities of Scotland, Ireland, and the Isles of Wight, Man, Jersey, Guernsey, Angelsea, & c ... comprising every thing of importance in the works of Leland, Maitland, Gibson, Dugdale, Buck, Speed, Pennant &c. And including particularly every article worthy of notice in that voluminous and very expensive work published by Captain Grose. In the course of this ornamental work will aslo be given ... a general history of ancient castles, forts, &c. with an explanation of the engines and other machines of war used in former times for their attack and defence. - including an illustration of the terms used in English, Saxon, Norman, and Gothic architecture used in this country. - also a general history of abbeys, and other monastic foundations and a general description of the different kinds of Druidical monuments, &c. Together with an authentic account of Doomsday Book and a specimen of the hands in which it was written soon after the Norman Conquest