a town of Huntingdonshire, 16 miles from Cambridge, and 57 from London. It has a bridge on the Ouse, opposite to Huntingdon; was formerly a Roman city, by the name of Durostorpontae, where many Roman coins have been often dug up; and according to old writers, in the time of the Saxons it was the see of a bishop, and had a castle built by one Gorman a Danish king, from which the town was called Gormanchester. It is reckoned one of the largest villages in England, and is seated in a fertile soil, abounding with corn. It is said that no town in England kept more ploughs at work than this has done. The inhabitants boast they formerly received our kings as they made a progress this way, with nine score ploughs at a time, finely adorned with their trappings, &c. James I. made it a corporation by the name of two bailiffs, 12 assistants, and the commonalty of the borough of Godmanchester. Here is a school, called the Free Grammar-School of queen Elizabeth. On the west side of the town is a noble though ancient seat of the Earl of Sandwich. Near this place, in the London road between Huntingdon and Caxton, is a tree well known to travellers by the name of Beggar’s Bush.