*TOTNESS, (Devon) has a fine bridge on the r. Dart, leading to Berry-Pomeroy, 8 m. from Dartmouth, 160 cm. 195 mm. from London, is a Bor. by prescription, and the oldest in the Co. K. John made it a corp. consisting of fourteen burgo-masters, whereof one is a mayor, who, with his predecessor and the recorder, are justices of the peace. There are 20 C. C. and some few freemen, chosen by the mayor and masters. Here is a spacious Ch. with a fine tower, and 4 pinnacles above, 90 feet high, a T.-hall, and a school-house. Its chief trade is the woollen mf. but here are more gentlemen than tradesmen of note, and though the corp. is not the richest in England, yet so well affected are they to the establishment of the present royal family, that its loyal address to the late K. George I. upon occasion of the Vienna treaty bet. the late Emperor and the K. of Spain, will never be forgot, wherein the good people assured his majesty of their readiness not only to grant him 4 s. in the pound land-tax, but, if his service required it, to give him the other 16 s. This T. which suffered many alterations from Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, was formerly walled in, and had 4 gates, but only the S. gate, and some small parts of the rest remain, and it had a castle, whose outward walls are still entire, except the battlements. The famous Roman fosse-way, which began here, though 1400 years old, is still visible in this place. In the R. of Charles I. this T. gave title of Earl to Ld. Carew of Clopton, as it afterwards did that of Viscount to the Earl of Plymouth, a natural son of Charles II. Here is plenty of all provisions, particularly good fish, and delicate trouts. A man will sometimes take up 30 salmon at once, from 17 to 20 inches long, for which they ask but 2 d. a-piece. They catch salmon-peel here with a spaniel trained up for the purpose, which drives them into a shove-net. Its Mts. are T. and S. Fairs May 1, Aug, 15, Oct. 28. The T. bel. anciently to the Lds. Zouch, till the attainder of one of them in the R. of Henry VII. who granted it to Rich. Edgcomb. Sir Edw. Seymour purchased the castle, honour, and manor, in the R. of Q. Eliz. from whose family they have since passed to the Bogans, Here was once a priory. It first sent members to Pt the 23d of Edward I. It being but 7 or 8 m. from the sea, the r. here is pretty broad, and the tide flows 10 or 12 feet at the bridge.