*PETERSFIELD, (Hampshire) 45 cm. 55 mm. from London, to which it is a great thoroughfare from Portsmouth, and is a populous T. and not ill-built. K. Ch. II. made it a barony, in favour of the Dss. of Portsmouth. It is a Bor. by the stile of mayor and commonalty, who, though incorporated by the charter of Q. Eliz. and others more ancient, have suffered all their privileges to be managed by the family of the Hamborrows, Lds. of the manor; at whose court the mayor is annually chose. It has a Mt. on S. and Fairs June 29 and Nov. 30. Its Ch. is only a chapel of ease.