Kearsley's Traveller's Entertaining Guide Through Great Britain (1801):
Devizes is a large and poplulous borough, seated on an eminence. It has a manufacture of serges, and other woollen stuffs. It is supposed, from urns and other antiquities dug in the neeighbourhood, to have been once inhabited by the Romans; and a number of little brass stuatues of the heathen deities were found under a Roman brick here, in 1714, which were carreied abou the kingdom for a shew. Here was once a noble castle. It has a woollen manufactory, and trades much in malt, corn, and all sorts of cattle. Here is a great scarcity of water.
Inns: Black Bear, Castle and Bell
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