UXBRIDGE, (Middlesex) with many inns, in the Oxford road from London, from which it is 15 cm. 18 and half mm. and 1 m.
from Great-Hillingdon, of which it is a hamlet, though independant as to itself, having 2 bailiffs, 2 constables, and 4
headboroughs. This place is famous for the treaty in Jan. 1644, carried on bet. the commissioners of Charles I. and the
Pt. then in arms against each other, and gives title of Earl to the noble family of Paget. 'Tis said here was once a mon.
Henry Earl of Lincoln, Ld. of the manor, procured it a Mt. on M. and a Fair Dec. 6 and 7, but both Mt. and Fair are since
changed, the former to Th. and the latter to July 20, and Sept. 29. It was anciently called Waxbridge, and sometimes
Oxbridge. Its Ch. or rather chapel, was built in the 26th of Hen. VI. The r. Coln, from Rickmansworth, salutes this T.
with 2 streams, full of trouts and other fish, one of which runs to Cowley; and over the main stream that runs directly to
the Thames, here is a stone-bridge that leads into Buckinghamshire. There are several corn-mills on this water, and many
waggon-loads of meal are carried from hence to London in a week.