GODALMING, (Surrey) on the r. Wey, 28 cm. 34 mm. from London. 'Tis said to have been before the Conquest the See of a Bp.
with a dean and canons, whose houses were in a Street here, called Church-Street, and that the Bpk. was taken from it in
the R. of Hen. II. and the estates thereof conferred on the deanery of Sarum. 'Tis a corporation, by whose charter,
granted, as some say, by K. Edw. III. or as others by Q. Eliz. their chief magistrate is a warden, chose yearly, who has 8
brethren his assistants. The p. is divided into 9 tithings. Its r. abounds with good fish, especially pike, and drives a
grist-mill, two paper-mills, and three corn-mills. Here is a mf. of mix'd kerseys, and blue ones for the Canarys, that for
colour are not to be matched. The best whited-brown paper is said to come from hence, and that the mf. was first set up
here in the R. of James I. Here is also a mf. of stockings; and the place is also famous for liquorice, good carrots, and
store of peat, that burns as well or better than pit-coal; but a woman of this T. (Mary Tofts) lately endeavoured to
render it infamous, by a pretended delivery of rabbets, a vile imposture, by which, however, she for some time puzzled
some noted physicians, anatomists, &c. Here is a Mt. on W. and Fairs Feb. 2, and June 29, both chiefly for horned cattle.
Here is a ch. sc. and on the common an hos. built and endowed about 150 years ago, for 10 old men, by Rich. Wyat, of
Shackleford, Esq;. In 1739 the small-pox carried off above 500 persons here in 3 months, which was more than a third of
the inh.