CHELTENHAM, (Gloucestershire) 8 m. in the road from Glocester to Winchcomb, and 95 from London, has its name from the
brook Chilt, which passes through it into the Severn from Dowdeswell. The p. is 10 m, in com. It drives a considerable
trade in malt, and has a Mt. on Th. and Fairs on Holy-Th. and St. James's Day: But this place is most frequented for its
mineral waters, which are of the Scarborough kind, and were, not many years ago, found out by the resort of vast flocks of
pigeons hither, both to provoke their appetite, and quench their thirst. This manor paid Edw. the Conf. 9 l. 5 s. a year,
and 3000 loaves for his dogs; and 20 l. a year to Will. the Conq. and 15 l. yearly for bread for his dogs. K. Hen. III.
granted the manor to Will. Longespee, E. of Salisbury, but the benefits of the Fairs and Mts. to the inh. The E's.
grandson forfeiting the Lp. by going out of the realm without leave of the K. it was seized, and settled afterwards on the
nunnery at Sion-House in Middlesex. After the Ref. the crown held it many years, but it came at last to the Duttons,
ancestors to the late Sir Ralph Dutton of Sherborn. Besides a ch. sc. a hos. was founded here in 1578, for 6 poor people,
by Rich. Pates of Glofter, Esq; of which C.C.C. Oxford are governors. Here was once a chantry.