CHERTSEY, (Surrey) 16 cm. and 19 mm. from London, has a bridge over the Thames to Shepperton, and a trade in malt, which it sends in barges to London. The H. to which it gives name has the special privilege of exemption from the jurisdiction of the high sheriff, who must direct his writ to its bailiff, an officer appointed by letters patent from the exchequer for life. This was the village to which Cowley, the poet retired, after being jaded with court attendance and where he died. Here is a. handsome fr. sc. created by Sir W. Perkins, who had a seat here. K. Ja. I. granted its Mt. which is on W. its Fairs are the first M. in Lent, May 3, July 26, Sepr. 14. Here was once an abbey, by the ruins of which the streets are somewhat raised; which, were it not also for the bank from Egham to Stanes's bridge, would, by reason of its low situation, be often liable to be overflowed by the Thames. Sir Nich. Carew, master of the buck-hounds to Ch. II. built a fine house here with the ruins of the abbey, in which was deposited the corpse of Hen. VI. (who was stabbed in the tower by order of Richard, D. of Gloster) till Hen. VII. removed it to Windsor.