*BRACKLEY, (Northamptonshire) 13 m. from Northampton, 57 from London, is a place full of brake or fern, says Camden, near the head of the Ouse, with the springs of which it is pleasantly watered, and is supposed to be the third bor. erected in England. 'Twas once a famous staple for wool. 'Tis governed by a mayor, 6 ald. and 26 burgesses. The mayor is chosen annually by the burgesses at the court-leet of the Ld. of the manor, of whom the last was the late D. of Bridgewater. Here are 2 p. chs. and a fr. grammar sc. Here is a Mt. on W. and Fairs the 2d W. in Ap. and another on Nov. 30, for fat hogs, boots and shoes. The Zouches were heretofore Lds. of this place for sundry successions, till it passed by marriage to Richard Ld. Holland, from whom it passed to the Lovels, of whom the last Ld. being attainted, K. Hen. VII. gave it to Thomas Stanley E. of Darby. An hosp. was founded here in the R. of Henry I. by Robert E. of Leicester. The Zouches built a college here, which, though ruinous, is kept up by Magdalen college, Oxf. for a place to retire to in times of trouble and infection, and serves as a ch. s. This place seems to have been famous heretofore for tilts and tournaments.