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orders for it to be repaired, beautified, and appropriated for 

 the interment of his family. The princefs Mary and the 

 : princefs Charlotte of Wales have been committed to its 

 vault. On the north and eafl fides of the chapel are houfes 

 and lodgings for the dean and canons. The fouth and well 

 fides of the lower ward are occupied by houfes appro- 

 priated to the poor knights. 



Between the two wards or courts of the cattle is the 

 keep, or round tower, for the refidence of the governor of the 

 cattle. It confills of a lofty, artificial, conical mount, fur- 

 ; rounded by a moat, and furmounted by a ftrong fortified 

 tower, which is approached by a flight of loo fteps. The 

 circumference of the whole cattle is 4180 feet; its length 

 from eaft to weft 1480 feet; and the area, exclufive of terrace 

 walks, is about twelve acres. 



On the fouth fide of the cattle is a modern manfion, called 



' the Queen's-lodge, where the royal family refided for feve- 



ral years ; but it is now unoccupied. About half a mile 



S.E. of the cattle is Frogmore, a modern feat belonging to 



the queen. It is principally noted for its beautiful garden. 



To the fouth and weft of the town is Winilfor Fortfl, 



, which formerly was computed to meafure 120 miles in cir- 



• cuit. At prefent it is about 56 miles. A part of this, 



called the great park, confifts of 3800 acres. The little 



park, on the north and eaft fides of the cattle, contains 



about 500 acres. 



Windfor is a large irregular town, difpofed on the fides 

 of a hill, and at its bafe, on the fouthern banks of the 

 Thames. In 1276 it was declared a free borough by king 

 Edward I., who granted to the burgefles a mercatorial 

 , guild, and various privileges and exemptions. He confti- 

 tuted it the county-town. King Edward IV. incorporated 

 ithe burgefles by the name of mayor, bailiff's, and burgefles. 

 By the laft charter of king Charles II., the corporate 

 body is made to confift of twenty-eight or thirty members. 

 ■ A weekly market is held by royal grant, as well as three 

 annual fairs. Near the centre of the town is a guildhall or 

 itown-houfe, which wa« built in 1666. 



i This borough fent two members to parliament in the 

 reign of Edward I. ; but omitted making any returns from 

 II340 to 1446. The right of eleftion has frequently been 

 jcontefted, but was finally fettled to be vetted in all the in- 

 habitant houfeholders not receiving alms. Windfor has 

 continued to increafe in population for the laft 300 years. 

 In 15J5, there appears to have been loooperfons ; in 1801, 

 they amounted to 3461 ; and in 181 1 to 6155, who occupied 

 1051 houfes. The parifti-church is a fpacious building, and 

 ;part of it ancient, though it was formerly only a chapel 

 ;fubordinate to the church of Clewer. In it are feveral old 

 'monuments. On the weft fide of the town are estenfive 

 'barracks, and an hofpital for fick foldiers. 



Windsor, QU, a village about two miles S.E. of New 

 Windfor, was a place of fome confequence at the time of 

 the Domefday- furvey, as by that record it is ftated to con- 

 ;tain 95 houfes, which paid gabel tax to the crown. Some 

 tof the Saxon kings had a palace here, and Edward the Con- 

 jfeflbr fometimes kept his court at this place. After Wil- 

 liam the Conqueror had ereftcd a cattle at New Windfor, 

 'the old palace and the furrounding houfes were gradually 

 Ideferted. A great part of Windfor-park is within the pa- 

 infli of Old Windfor, and includes three lodges : i . The great 

 •odge built in the reign of Charles I. and occupied by the 

 jUuftrious William, duke of Cumberland ; 2. The little 

 jodge or dairy, occupied by the deputy ranger ; and 3. The 

 'n<inor lodge near Virginia water. Beaumont lodge, the 

 j'eat of lord vifcount Aftibrooke, was originally built by 

 lord Weymouth, who died in 1705. There are other fa- 

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mily manfions and villas in this parifli ; one of which was 

 lately fitted up and occafionally occupied by the princefs 

 Elizabeth, now princefs Romberg The Magna Bri- 

 tannia, by S. Lyfons and the Rev. D. Lyfons, Berkftiire, 

 4to. 1806. The Beauties of England, &c. vol. i. by 

 J. Britton, F.S.A. and E. W. Brayley, 8vo. i8gi. The 

 Hiftory of Windfor and its Neighbourhood, by J. Hake- 

 will, ArchiteA, 4to. 1813. This elegant volume contains 

 accounts and views of feveral places in the vicinity of 

 Windfor. The Hiftory of the Royal Refidences, 4to. 

 1817, by J. Pyne, a very handfome and interefting work, 

 contains feveral views of the ftate apartments in Windfor- 

 cattle. The Architeftural Antiquities of Great Britain, 

 4 vols. 4to. by J. Britton, contains feveral views, and a full 

 hittory and defcription of St. George's chapel. 



Windsor, a large townfhip in the fouth-eaft corner of 

 Broome county. New York, erefted in 1807 from the eaft 

 part of Chenango; fituated 15 miles E. of Chenango; 

 bounded north by Chenango county, eatt by Delaware 

 county, fouth by the ftate of Pennfylvania, and weft by 

 Chenango. Its extent is nearly 15 miles fquare, and it has 

 two pott-offices. It is traverfed by the Sufquehanna river. 

 In 18 10 it had eleven faw-mills, feven grain-mills, a fulling- 

 mill, and carding-machine, eight fchool-houfes, one houfe 

 of worfhip, a population of i960 fouls, 138 eleftors, and 

 nearly 300 families. 



Windsor, a town of Nova Scotia ; 25 miles N.W. of 

 Halifax. — Alfo, a town of the ftate of Vermont, capital of 

 a county of the fame name, which contains 34,877 in- 

 habitants ; the town contains 2757 inhabitants; 92 miles 



N.W. of Bofton. N. lat. 43° 33'. W. long. 72° 22' 



Alfo, a town of the ftate of Connedlicut, on the weft fide 

 of the Connecticut river, in the county of Hartford, with 

 2868 inhabitants ; 3 miles N. of Hartford — Alfo, a town 

 of Maffachufetts, in the county of Berkfliire, with 1108 

 inhabitants; 136 miles W. of Bofton. — Alfo, a townfhip 

 of Pennfylvania, in Berks county, with 1358 inhabitants; 

 70 miles W. of Philadelphia.— Alfo, a townftiip of Penn- 

 fylvania, in York county, with 1739 inhabitants. — Alfo, a 

 town of New Hampfhire, in the county of Hillfborough, 

 with 238 inhabitants. — Alfo, a town of North Carolina; 

 23 miles S.W. of Edenton. — Alfo, a townfhip of Lower 

 Canada, on the St. Francis. 



Windsor, EaJ}, a town of New Jerfey, in Middlefex 

 county, with 1747 inhabitants. — Alfo, a town of the 

 United States of America, in Connefticut, on the eaft fide 

 of theConnefticut, oppofite Windfor, with 3081 inhabitants. 

 Windsor, IVefl, a town of New Jerfey, in Middlefex 

 county, with 1 7 14 inhabitants. 



Windsor, New, a poft-townlhip of Orange county, 

 New York, on the weft bank of the Hudfon ; 100 miles S. 

 of Albany ; bounded north by Montgomery and Newburgh, 

 eaft by the Hudfon, fouth by Cornwall and Blooming- 

 grove, weft by Montgomery and Wallkill. Its medial ex- 

 tent eaft and weft is eight miles, and north near four, giving 

 an area of about 30 fquare miles. Its population in 1810 

 confifted of 2331 perfons, and its fenatorial eleftors were 

 147. It has two poft-oflices, viz. the village of New 

 Windfor, pleafantly fituated on the weft bank of the Hud- 

 fon, and having confiderable trade ; and Little Britain, faid 

 to be difcontinued in 1813. This townfhip has feveral 

 mill-ftreams, and the land is occupied chiefly by farmers, who 

 enjoy much of the independence refulting from profperous 

 induftry. The whole is well watered by fprings and brooks. 

 Windsor Forejl. See Windsor. 

 Windsor River, a river of the ftate of Connefticut, 

 which runs into the Connefticut, 4 milci N. of Hartford. 

 3 T Windsor 



