ROYSTON, a town of Hertfordshire in England, seated in E. Long. o. 1. N. Lat. 52. 3. It is a large place, seated in a fertile vale full of mts, and the market is very considerable for coin. There was lately discovered,

discovered, almost under the market-place, a subterraneous chapel of one Rosia, a Saxon lady: it has several altars and images cut out of the chalky sides, and is in form of a sugar-loaf, having no entrance but at the top.