a market town of Yorkshire, 37 miles south of York. It has been long noted for the manufacture of stockings, knitted waistcoats and gloves. Doncaster gives the English title of earl to the duke of Buccleugh in Scotland, which belonged to his ancestor the duke of Monmouth, but was omitted out of the forfeiture. W. Long. 1. 12. N. Lat. 53. 33.