an arrondissement of the department of the Loire and Cher in France, seven hundred and thirty square miles in extent. It comprehends six cantons, divided into forty-eight communes, containing, in 1836, 47,722 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name at the junction of the Romorantin and the Saumre, and has some beautiful promenades on the bank of the former river. It contains 1200 houses, with 7181 inhabitants, who manufacture to a considerable extent woollen cloth and tanned leather.

ROMSEY, or Rumsey, a large market and borough town of the county of Hants, seventy-three miles from London. It is in the division of Andover, of the hundred of King's Somborne, and stands on the river Test, on the road between Southampton and Salisbury, and is surrounded by pleasant meadows, which, by irrigation, are rendered highly fertile. It is divided into two parishes; with one church in common, a spacious building in the form of a cross, which, in ancient times, was the chapel of a richly endowed abbey. All the early abbesses were of royal blood, and so distinguished by their piety as to be deemed saints. The trade, which formerly consisted in making woollen stuffs, has nearly been annihilated; by the late law it elected annually four aldermen and twelve counsellors, who chose the mayor. The population was in 1801, 4274; in 1811, 4297; in 1821, 5128; and in 1831, 5432.