AMERSHAM, (Buckinghamshire) or ASMONDESHAM, 24 cm, and 29 mm, from London. 'Tis an ancient bor. governed by burgesses, lies in a Vale bet. woody hills, near the r. Coln, and has a fr. s. founded in the R. of Q. Eliz. and Fairs on Whitsun- Monday and Michaelmas-day. Here was a chantry; and in the bloody R. of the Popish Q. Mary many good protestants suffer'd martyrdom in this T. and neighbourhood. There is a fine seat here, called Shardelowes, the manor of which bel. form. to the noble family of the Russels; but, about the restoration of K. Cha. II. was sold with the bor. to Sir Will. Drake, Bt. in whose family it now remains. The T. consists of a long street, in the road from Uxbridge to Buckingham, divided about the middle by a shorter cross street; in the intersection of which stands the Ch. which is the best rectory; and, as its Town-hall, or Mt. house, is the handsomest in the Co. The former was well endow'd by its patron, Geoffery de Mandeville, E. of Essex, in the R. of K. Stephen. The latter was built about 70 years since, by Sir William Drake Knt. nephew of the above mentioned purchaser, vho died in 1669, unmarried. It is a brick structure on arched pillars, and has on the top a lanthern and clock. Mt. on Tu.