**Mallow**, a manor, and also a borough town in the county of Cork, and province of Munster, in Ireland, above 118 miles from Dublin, pleasantly situated on the north bank of the Blackwater, over which there is an excellent stone bridge. Not far distant is a fine spring of a moderately tepid water, which bursts out of the bottom of a fine limestone rock, and approaches the nearest in all its qualities to the hot-well waters of Bristol of any that has been yet discovered in this kingdom, which brings a resort of good company there frequently in the summer months, and has caused it to be called the Irish Bath.

**Mallow**. See Malva, Botany Index.

**Marrow-Mallow**. See Althaea, Botany Index.

**Indian Mallow**. See Sida, Botany Index.

**Malmsbury**, a town of Wiltshire in England, 95 miles from London. It stands on a hill, with six bridges over the river Avon at the bottom; with which and a brook that runs into it, it is in a manner encompassed. It formerly had walls and a castle, which were pulled down to enlarge the abbey, which was the biggest in Wiltshire, and its abbot sat in parliament. The Saxon king Athelstan granted the town large immunities, and was buried under the high altar of the church, and his monument still remains in the nave of it. The memory of Aldhelm, its first abbot, who was the king's great favourite, and whom he got to be canonized after his death, is still kept up by a meadow near this town, called Aldhelm's Mead. By charter of King William III. the corporation consists of an alderman, who is chosen yearly, 12 capital burgesses, and 4 assistants, landholders and commoners. Here is an almshouse for 4 men and 4 women, and near the bridge an hospital for lepers, where it is supposed there was formerly a nunnery. This town drives a considerable trade in the woollen manufacture; Malmesbury, has a market on Saturday, and three fairs. It has sent members to parliament ever since the 26th of Edward I.

William of Malmesbury. See William.