WALTHAM, (Hampshire) 54. cm. 65 mm. from London, which gives name to the adjucent forest, has the name of Bishops, not Bushops-Waltham, as it is vulgarly called, from a stately seat which the Bps. of Winchester had here before it was ruined by the civil wars. It has a Mt. on S. and Fair Aug. 1, and a ch, sc. In 1723 there was a gang of deer-stealers, called the Blacks of Waltham, because they blacked their faces, when they robbed in the neighbouring forests. They were soon suppressed by a proclamation, and an act of Pt.