a town in Hampshire, seated on the river Wey; W. Long. 0. 26. N. Lat. 51. 5. It is governed by a constable, is indifferently built, being chiefly laid out in one pretty broad street, and contained 2316 inhabitants in 1811. It has one church, a Presbyterian and a Quaker meeting, a famous free school, a large manufacture of plain and figured baragons, ribbed druggets, and serges de Nismes; and round the town is a large plantation of hops.

or AVELTON, a village in Staffordshire, five miles north of Utoxeter. There are the ruins of a castle here, which some would have to be built before the Norman conquest; but Dr Plott is pretty certain that it was erected by Theobald de Verdun, in the beginning of the reign of Edward II. A great part of the walls are still standing, but they are in a very ruinous condition.

ALTO Basso, or in Alto et in Basso, in Law, signifies the absolute reference of all differences, small and great, high and low, to some arbitrator or indifferent person. Pateat universis per presentes, quod Wilhelmus Tyler de Yetton, et Thomas Gower de Almestre, posuerunt se in Alto et in Basso, in arbitrio quattuor hominum; viz. de quadam querela pendente inter eos in curia. Nos et terram nostram altè et bassè ipsius domini Regis supposimus voluntati.

Alto-Relievo. See RELIEVO.

Alto-Repieno, in Music, the tenor of the great chorus, which sings and plays only now and then in some particular places.