a town of the West Riding of Yorkshire in England, in W. Long. 1° 17'. N. Lat. 53° 48'. It stands on the north side of the river Aire, over which it has a stately stone bridge, hath been long famous for the woollen manufacture, and is one of the largest and most flourishing towns in the county. On a market-day one may see a long street full of standings, and these filled with cloth for sale. Of this cloth large quantities are shipped off at Hull, for Holland, Hamburg, and the North; whence they are dispersed through the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, &c. John Harrillon, Esq.; a native of this town, was a great benefactor to it, by building and endowing a church, hospital, and free-school. The corporation consists of a mayor, 12 aldermen, and 24 assistants. On the market-days, when the market-bell rings, which is at seven in the morning in winter, and six in summer, the clothiers bring out their cloth from the inns; and when the bell ceases, the chapmen come into the market, match their patterns, and in an hour's time, perhaps, bargain for 20,000l. worth. The bell rings again at half an hour past eight, upon which the clothiers give place to the linen-draper, hardware-men, shoemakers, fruiterers, &c. There have been 500 loads of apples belonging to the last of these here upon a market-day. At the same time there is an equal plenty and variety of fish and butchers-meat exposed to sale. Great quantities also of white cloth are sold in a magnificent hall, where notice is given by a bell when the sale begins. Not only woollen goods, but coals and other commodities, are conveyed from hence by the Aire to Wakefield, York, and Hull. In a house here, called Red-hall, there is an apartment in which king Charles I. lodged, and which, on that account, still bears the name of the king's chamber. There was a castle here anciently; and now there is a stately town-hall, and parochial church called St Peter's. On the roof of it, the delivering of the law by Moses is finely painted in fresco. Here are also two charity-schools, a work-house, several almshouses, and meeting-houses, one of which last, belonging to the Presbyterians, is a very handsome building. This town gives the title of duke to the family of Osborn, and has several medicinal springs about it.