RINGWOOD, (Hampshire) near the Avon, 77 cm. 96 mm. from London, was in the Saxons time a place of eminence; and is now a
large thriving T. full of good new brick houses, where they deal pretty much in leather, stockings, druggets, and narrow
cloth; but the neighbouring meadows are frequently over-flowed by the several streams into which the r. is here divided.
Here is a good Mt. on W. for corn, cattle, &c. and a Fair Nov. 29. It was near this T. that the D. of Monmouth was taken
by one Perkin, as he lay hid in a ditch covered with fern in July 1685, after his defeat at Sedgmoor.