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Published for the Editor of The Hiftory of Gloucefterfhire,comprefsed, Dec 31.1803.

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THE

HISTORY.

OF THE

COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER;

COMPRESSED,

AND

BROUGHT DOWN TO THE YEAR 1803.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

BY THE REV. THOMAS RUDGE, B. D.

RECTOR OF SAINT MICHAEL, IN GLOUCESTER.

Nec mihi vitio vertas, si res, quas ex lectione varia mutuabor, ipsis sæpe verbis, quibus ab ipsis auctoribus enarratæ sunt, explicabo, quia præsens opus, non eloquentiæ ostentationem, sed noscendorum congeriem pollicetur. MACROBIUS, SATURN. Lib. i. c. 1.

GLOUCESTER:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY G. F. HARRIS,
HERALD NEWSPAPER OFFICE;

AND SOLD BY LONGMAN AND REES, LONDON; WASHBOURN, HOUGH, AND
ROBERTS, GLOUCESTER; AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS.

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THE

HISTORY

OF THE

COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER.

FOREST DIVISION.

THIS

HIS division contains six hundreds, four market-towns, 55 parishes, besides hamlets, 6050 inhabited houses, 6521 families, 274 uninhabited houses, 15,672 males, 15,221 females, 9975 persons chiefly employed in agriculture, 5052 in trade, &c. 15,866 not comprized in the two last classes, 30,893 total.

VI. DUDSTON and KING's BARTON.-Upper Part.