a town of Hertfordshire in England, seated in E. Long. o. r. N. Lat. 52° 3'. It is a large place, seated in a fertile vale full of inns, and the market is very considerable for corn. There was lately discovered, Rubens discovered, almost under the market-place, a subterranean chapel of one Rosia, a Saxon lady: it has several altars and images cut out of the chalky sides, and is in form of a sugar-loaf, having no entrance but at the top.

Rubber, India. See Caoutchouc.