a parliamentary borough, and manufacturing town of England, in the county of Lancaster, on the Irwell, 8 miles N.N.W. of Manchester. The general appearance of the town has latterly been much improved by the widening of the streets and the erection of many handsome edifices. The parliamentary borough, comprising the townships of Bury and Elton, in 1851, had 31,262 inhabitants. Registered electors (1851-52) 959. It has returned one member to parliament since the passing of the Reform bill; and is governed by 3 constables appointed by the Earl of Derby, lord of the manor. It has 3 churches, 6 chapels, and numerous dissenting places of worship, Kay's free grammar-school, with two exhibitions of L25 each at either university, a newsroom, mechanics' institute, several public libraries, a savings-bank, and a dispensary. Its manufactures are very extensive and flourishing, consisting principally of cotton and woollen goods, with print and bleaching works, which received a great impulse from Kay's invention of the fly-shuttle and dross-box, and the establishment of extensive print-works by the father of the late Sir Robert Peel. That illustrious statesman was born at Chamber Hall in the vicinity. It is connected by railways, as well as by canals, with Manchester, Bolton, &c. In the vicinity are extensive coal mines.

Bury, Richard de, see Aungerytle.