*BEDWIN Great, (Wiltshire) in the E. part of the Co. towards Berks, 57 cm. and 72 mm. from London. 'Tis an ancient bor. by prescription; and in the Saxons time was a city with a castle, the ditches whereof are still visible. It was formerly the Lp. of Gilbert, E. of Clare; came afterwards to Hugh, E. of Stafford; and from his family to Henry, D. of Buckingham; but on his attainder and death, K. Ric. III. gave it to John Howard, afterwards D. of Norfolk. The Ch. is a spacious tabrick in the form of a cross, built of flints very strongly cemented; and some of the family of the Seymours, particularly the great Marquiss of Hertford, who died in 1660, are interred in it. The T. is governed by a portreeve, chose by a jury at the court-leet, held yearly by the steward of the Ld. Bruce, who is Ld. of the bor. and the portreeve chuses a bailiff and other officers. The Mt. is on Tu. Fairs Ap. 23, July 15.