CREDITON, (Devon) vulgo KIRTON, 7 m. from Exeter, 147 cm. 183 mm. from London, stands on the r. Creden; and, in the time of the Saxons, was the See of a Bp. which, tho' afterwards translated to Exeter, the Cathedral is still standing; and here is a meadow called My Lord's Meadow. Here was born Boniface Abp. of Mentz, commonly the German Apostle, because he converted the Heslians, &c. in Germany to Christianity. Its chief mf. is serge, in which it drove a great trade, and was a flouriihing T. till the 14th of Aug. 1743, when above 460 houses were burnt down besides the market-house, wool-chambers, and other publick buildings; so that the loss in goods, and stock in trade, was computed at near 3000 l. and ths loss in houses and goods uninsured, at or near 50,000 l. Here is a Mt. on S. and Fair on St. Lawrence's-day. Here was once a college, and a chapel dedicated to St. Lawrence, long since in ruins, being alienated, together with the Bp's. palace, to the family of the Killigrews. In the R. of Edw. I. it sent members to a Pt. at Carlisle. Here is a ch. sc.