| Birmingham (England) - 1830 - 308 pages
...who wrote in the reign of Elizabeth, and is also before quoted at page 23, speaks of the place as " swarming with inhabitants and echoing " with the noise of anvils (for here are great num" bers of smiths);" to which Bishop Gibson, in his edition of Camden's work, adds, " and of other... | |
| Great Britain - 1853 - 888 pages
...after ; for Camden, in his " Britannia," which appeared in the reign of Elizabeth, thus writes : " Bremicham* swarming with inhabitants, and echoing with the noise of anvils — for here arc great numbers of smiths. The lower part of the town is very watery. The upper part rises with abundance... | |
| John Alfred Langford - Birmingham (England) - 1868 - 578 pages
...nothing remarkable but its church; then to Breniicham, warming with inhabitant«, and echoing with tlie noise of anvils, (for here are great numbers of smiths)....place, that from hence the noble and warlike family of Brcmichaias in Ireland had their original and name." In 1G90, Alexander Missen, in his travels, says,... | |
| Lionel Cecil Jane - Great Britain - 1905 - 440 pages
...cloth trade, Manchester for its cottons, and Liverpool for its populousness, while Birmingham is " swarming with inhabitants and echoing with the noise...of anvils, for here are great numbers of smiths." In short, the new towns continued to rise at the expense of the old, and the places which are now noted... | |
| Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - Agriculture - 1906 - 614 pages
...states : " I came next to Solyhul which has " nothing remarkable but its church then to Bromwicham " swarming with inhabitants and echoing with the noise " of anvils (for here are a great many smiths)." The inhabitants of Birmingham have always been advocates for liberty and the... | |
| H. C. Darby - Science - 1973 - 340 pages
...emerge - places like Stourbridge, Dudley and Walsall, and especially Birmingham. Camden found Birmingham 'swarming with inhabitants, and echoing with the noise...of anvils, for here are great numbers of smiths', and its tanneries and fulling mills were being displaced by forges and blade-mills. It may then have... | |
| Ann Hughes - History - 2002 - 416 pages
...was one of the most prosperous iron smelting areas of the country, and Birmingham was, said Camden, 'swarming with inhabitants and echoing with the noise...of anvils (for here are great numbers of smiths)', and Rowland's research indicates that in the 1650s over 60% of Birmingham's inhabitants were involved... | |
| Humphrey Lloyd - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 368 pages
...Already, more than a hundred years before, a traveller could note that 'I came next. . .to Birmingham, swarming with inhabitants and echoing with the noise of anvils, for here are a great many smiths'.7 Apart from one or two water mills used as blade mills, most of the output was... | |
| Henry Winram Dickinson - Great Britain - 1937 - 272 pages
...material respect from that of Leland. Camden says1 (translation) that six miles from "Sutton Colfield" is "Bremicham swarming with inhabitants and echoing with the noise of anvils for here are many blacksmiths". Other topographers write in a similar strain, eg in 1627: "Bremincham, inhabited... | |
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