SALTASH, (Cornwall) the first T. in the Co. is in the p. of St. Stephen, to which its Ch. is a chapel of ease, 184 cm. 226
mm. from London, and but a league from the dock of Plymouth, to which there is a ferry over the Tamar, called the Crimble-
passage. It is a corp. by charter of Charles II. consisting of a mayor and 6 ald. who are stiled the council of the Bor.
and with the burgesses may chuse a recorder. The T. bel. to the honour of Tidmorton-Castle, from which it derives several
large privileges over its haven, viz. a court of admiralty, a yearly revenue from its own boats and barges, anchorage and
foilage from all foreign vessels, the profit of the Crimble-passage, and dragging of oysters, except bet. Candlemas and
Easter, with a coroner's inquest, arrests, &c. The harbour is capable of a ship of any burden. The inh, trade much in malt
and beer. Here is a handsome Mt.-house and townhouse, with a fr. sc. The Mt. is on S. and Fairs on Candlemas and St.
Jame's-days. The Ld. Mohun took this place, in the civil wars, for K. Charles I. The manor of this Bor. is vested in the
corp. who hold it of the duchy of Cornwal; and on the payment of a fee-farm rent of 18 l. a year, have all the toll of the
Mts. and Fairs. The list of representatives for this Bor. begins the 6th of K. Edward VI. As this T. lies so near Plymouth
dock, being at the mouth of the Ham-Ouse, it is much the better for the increase of the inh. of Plymouth dock, who chuse
to come to this Mt. by water, rather than to walk for their provisions to Plymouth T. by land; because the T. boat, in
which they go, brings home what they buy, and because provisions are much cheaper here. The merchants here have some ships
of late that use the Newfoundland fishery.