PAINSWICK, (Gloucestershire) 79 cm. 94 mm. from London, so called from its old Lds. the Pains, is finely situated in the best air in the Co. The p. is 12 m. in com. and has a brook running through it into the Stroud. Audomar de Valence, E. of Pembroke, when Ld. of this T. purchased a charter for its Mt. on Tu. and its Fair on Sept. 8. besides which, it has another on Whit-Tu. Ap. 1 and 3, and the Tu. before St. James and All-Saints-day's are great Mts. for sheep. The Jerninghams have been the late owners of it, with a good house and park. Sir Will. Kingston by his monument in the Ch. appears also to have been Ld. of the manor. Here is a ch. sc. and a mf. of broad-cloth. At Sheepscomb one of its hamlets, there is a gallows.