Sarum
an important settlement of the early Britons, in Wiltshire, about a mile and a half N. of Salisbury, then a Roman station, and afterward the residence of the West Saxon kings till England_became_one kingdom. Till the time of Henry III. it was an important city, but it is now chiefly known for the privilege it enjoyed for more than 500 years of sending two members to Parliament after it had ceased to be inhabited. It SASKATCHEWAN headed the list of "rotten boroughs," and was disfranchised by the Reform Act of