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NEWPORT

Volume 3 · 75 words · 1771 Edition

a port town of Flanders, nine miles south-west of Ostend.

NEWPORT is also a borough town of the Isle of Wight, which sends two members to parliament.

NEWPORT is also a borough of Cornwall, ten miles west of Launceston, which sends two members to parliament.

NEWPORT is also the name of several market towns; one fifteen miles east of Shrewsbury, another eighteen miles south-west of Monmouth, and a third sixteen miles north-east of St Davids.