a town of England, in the county of Surry, on the river Wey, 35 miles from London. It is a corporation; by whose charter their chief magistrate is a warden chosen yearly, who has 8 brethren his assistants. The parish is divided into 9 tithings. Its river abounds with good fish; and drives a grit-mill, two paper-mills, and three corn-mills; over which river a new bridge was begun July 22d 1783. Here is a manufactory of mixed and blue kerseys, also a manufactory of stockings; and the place is also famous for liquorice, and store of peat that burns better than pit-coal; but a woman of this town (Mary Tofts) in 1726 endeavoured to render it infamous, by a pretend-