DURSLEY, (Gloucestershire) 84 cm. 97 mm, from London, had anciently a caatle, which, tho' quite gone, the memory of it is kept up in that called Castlefield. The manor was given, in the R. of Will. the Conqueror, to Roger de Berkley, in whose family it continued, without interruption, till the R. of Edw. IV. and still gives title of Visc. to the Earls of that family; but it descended then by marriage to the Wokeys, who sold it to the Escourts. 'Tis a corp. governed by a bailiff and 4 constables; and its chief mf. is woollen cloth. 'Tis said the inh. were heretofore so noted for craft, that to denote a sharper, they called him, proverbially, a man of Dursley; but 'tis certain the present generation don't deserve to be brandad with that epithet. The Mt. is on Th. Fairs April 25, and Nov. 23. 'Tis said there is a rock of stone here, without any chop or slit, which, tho' soft in hewing, and therefore is called puff-stone, is exceeding durable. Here was formerly a chantry.