WOTTON UNDER EDGE, (Gloucestershire) 4 m. S. of Dursley, 7 m. N. E. from Thornbury, 17 S. of Glocester, 83 cm. 99 mm. from
London, is a p. 12 m. in compass, where abundance of hands are employed in the woollen mf. 'Tis a pretty T. on a pleasant
fruitful rise, and has been noted a long time for making cloth. The chief magistrate, who is chosen yearly at the court-
leet of the Earl of Berkley, Ld. of the manor, is called a mayor, and for ever after reckoned an ald. Here is a stately
Ch. with some monuments of that Earl's family, &c. A fr. sc. was erected here in 1385, bv lady Catherine, widow of Thomas
Ld. Berkley. Hugh Perry, Esq; an ald. of London, in 1632, not only brought water to this T. at his own charge, but gave
1000 l. to buy lands for erecting and endowing an almsh. for 6 poor men and 6 women, and for establishing a weekly lecture
in the Ch. and Sir Jonathan Dawes, who was sheriff of London, gave 1000 l. for relief of the poor, and putting out their
children apprentices. Here is a Mt. on F. and Fair Sept. 14.