DAVENTRY, (Northamptonshire) or DAINTRY, 60 cm. 73 mm. from London, on the road to Chester, is a great thoroughfare to and
from the N. W. Cos. and therefore has many good inns, which are its chief support. 'Tis governed by a mayor, ald. steward,
and 12 freemen, and gives title of Baron to the Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham, to whose family the manor bel. The Mt.
is on W. Fairs Easter-Tu, Whitsun-Tu, July 23, Aug. 4 and 28, Sept. 21. Here was formerly a mon. and now a ch. sc. The
coins of Roman Emperors are often dug up here; and on Borough-Hill, half a m. from the T. are still to be seen the ruins
of a Roman fortification, 3 m. in com. which is the course for the horse-races. The Roman Watling-Street was turned thro'
it, and runs to Dunsmore-Heath. After the Romans, the Saxons made use of the same camp. 'Tis said, that in Daventry-Park
stood a castle of John of Gaunt. The banks in it resemble those of ponds and canals, with a watry squashy ground betw.
them.