BISHAM, (Berkshire) on the Thames, almost opposite to Great-Marlow, anciently bel. to the Knights-Templars, and afterwards
to the Montacutes; of which family, the first E. of Salisbury founded a priory here. After the ref. the manor came to the
Hobys, descended from those of Lempster; and Sir Thomas Hoby, Bt. now has it. The seat of the family indeed is in
Dorsetshire; but when they die, they are generally brought for interment to this Ch. which, though small, is well worth
seeing. On the r. not far from hence, are those, call'd the temple, or brass-mills, for making Bisham-abbey battery-work,
as they call it, viz. brass-kettles and pans, &c. of all sorts, which were attended with very great success 'till 1720,
when it being made a bubble, it underwent the fate of all its cotemporary bubbles.