WICKWARE, (Gloucestershire) 85 cm. 101 mm. from London, is a very ancient corp. and mayor-T. in a p. 10 m. in com, and has a Mt. on M. and Fairs May 25, and July 2, the profits whereof bel. to the mayor, who is an ald. ever after his office is expired. The T. is well watered by 2 brooks, over one of which is a handsome stone-bridge, and the wastes of it afford plenty of coal. K. John gave this manor to John Delawar, in whose family it continued a long time, till it was purchased by Sir Robert Ducy, from whom it is descended to the Ld. Ducy Moreton. This p. is much obliged to one Alex. Hosea, a poor boy, a native of it, that ran away from his parents, but met with such fortune in the world, that he gave 600 l. to build a school-house here, endowing it with a very good house in Gray's-Inn-Lane, London, for maintenance of the school-master, which gift is settled by a decree in chancery.