*NEWPORT, (Isle of Wight) a large populous T. the chief of the island, called in Latin Medina; from whence the whose island, on the E. and W. sides of it, is called East-Medina and West-Medina. It stands on Cowes r. which falls 7 m. below into the sea, vessels of small burthen bring merchandise to its key from Cowes, where the larger are forced to unlade. It was a very ancient Bor. by prescription, with the title of bailiffs and burgesses; but did not send members to Pt. till the R. of Q. Eliz. K. Ja. I. incorporated the T. with the privileges of a mayor, 12 ald. recorder, and 12 C.C. Here was made that, called the treaty of the Isle of Wight, bet. K. Cha. I. and the Pt. commissioners in 1648. Here are Mts. on W. and S. Fairs on Whit-M. Tu. and W. It gave title of E. in the R. of Cha. I. to the Ld. Montjoy, and that of baron to the Ld. Windsor in that of Q.Anne. Its Ch. is a chapel of ease to Caresbrook. The mayor is chosen out of the ald. on the Th. preceding the Sunday before Michaelmas. Here is a ch. sc. well endowed, and it had once a priory.