a town of Oxfordshire, 56 miles from London, is noted for the birth and baptism of Edward the Confessor. By the late inland navigation, it has communication with the rivers Mersey, Dee, Ribble, Ouse, Trent, Darwent, Severn, Humber, Thames, Avon, &c. which navigation, including its windings, extends above 500 miles, in the counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, York, Lancaster, Westmoreland, Chester, Stafford, Warwick, Leicestershire, Oxford, Worcestershire, &c. It has a good market for sheep, and some remains of an ancient palace, said to have been king Ethelred's. Here is a charity-school. The chapel wherein Edward was baptized stood at a small distance north from the church, is still called the king's chapel, was entirely defaced during Cromwell's usurpation, and converted to the meanest uses of a farm-yard; at present it has a roof of thatch. It is built of stone 15 yards long and 7 broad, and retains traces of the arches of an oblong window at the east end. This manor was given by Edward the Confessor to Westminster abbey, to which it still belongs.