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OLD BRIDGE, DORCHESTER, OXON.

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Square, 800 miles. Diocese, four Parishes (viz. Halton, Little Brickhill, Monks Risborough, and Wotton Underwood) in Canterbury: four Parishes (viz. Aston Abbots, Granborough, Little Harwood, and Winslow) in London. ANTIENT STATE AND REMAINS.

British Inhabitants, Dobuni and Cattieuchlani.

Antiquities. Hillesden Church. Leckhamsted font. Borstall Horn, engraved in Archæologia, vol. III.-Aylesbury was the burial-place of St. Osyth, and Buckingham of the infant St. Rumbald.-Brill was a favourite residence of Henry II. John, and Henry 111.-Berrysted House, in Ivinghoe, was the seat of the warlike Henry de Blois, Bp. of Winchester, brother of Stephen.-At Chetwood is the earliest well-authenticated specimen of stained glass in England, which, if coeval with the Church, as appears most probable, was placed there in 1240.

PRESENT STATE AND APPEARANCE.

Eminences and Views. Bow-Brickhill, Brill and Ellesborough hills.

Seats. Ankerwyke House, J, Bla

grove, esq.

Ashridge Park, Earl of Bridgwater.
Aston Abbots, Colonel Freemantle.
Aston Clinton, Viscount Lake.
Barley-end House, Mrs. Lucy.
Biddlesdon House, -Moyer, esq.
Borstall, Sir John Aubrey, bart,
Bradenham, John Hicks, esq.
Brightwell, Hon. George Irby.
Butlers, Mrs. Tompkins.
Caversfield, Joseph Pullock, esq.
Chequers, Robert Greenhill, esq.
Chesham, William Lowndes, esq.
Chicherley, Charles Penfold, esq.
Clieveden, Countess of Orkney.
GENT. MAG. February, 1818.

Court Garden, Viscount Gardiner.
Datchett, Hon. Gen. Needham.
Delaford Park, Charles Clowes, esq.
Denham Court, Sir Geo. Bowyer, bt.
Dinton Manor-house, Rev. W.Goodall.
Dodershall, William Pigott, esq.
Dourton, Sir John Aubrey, bart.
Dropmore, Lord Grenville.
Dunscombe Place, P. D. Pauncefort,
esq.

Eythorp, Earl of Chesterfield.
Formosa Place, Sir S. Young, bart..
Hall Barns, Rev. Edw. Waller,
Halton House, Rev. J. Welis.
Hanslape Park, Edward Watts, esq.
Hartwell, Rev. Sir George Lee, bart.
Hitchendon,

Hitchendon, Countess of Conyngham.
Horsenden, John Grubb, esq.
Hyde Lodge, Robert Ward, esq.
Iver, Lord Gambier.
Langport, Edmund Dayrell, esq.
Lathbury, M. D. Mansel, esq..
Lillies, Lord Nugent.

Richings Park, J. Sullivan, esq.
St. Leonard's Hill, Earl Harcourt.
Shalleston, G. H. P. Jervoise, esq.
Shenley, Rev. P. Knapp.
Stockgrove, Edward Hanmer, esq.
Stoke Farm, Earl of Sefton.

Stoke Place, R. W. H. H. Vyse, esq.
Taplow, late Marchioness of Tho-
mond.

Taplow, Lord Riversdale.
Taplow, Pascoe Grenfell, esq..
Turville Park, Thomas Butlin, esq.
The Vache,
Gaskell, esq.

Waddesdon, Sir George Nugent, bart.
Wavendon, Henry Hugh Hoare, esq.
Weedon Lodge, John T. Morin, esq.
Westthorp House, General Nugent.
Weston Underwood, George Courte-
nay, esq.

Lillingstone, Richard Dayrell, esq.
Linford, Rev. H. U. Uthwat.
Linslade, Sir Andrew Corbet, bart.
Liscombe, Sir Jonathan Lovett, bart.
Little Harwood, Rev. Mr. Langston.
Marlow Place, Owen Williams, esq.
Mile-end, Rev. John Hinde.
Missenden Abbey, J. O. Oldham, esq.
Nether Winchendon, S. B. Morland,
esq.
Newlands Park,
Allen, esq.
Oak-end, R. Sewell, esq.
Oving, Colonel N. Hopkins.
Parmoor, John D'Oyley, esq.
Penn House, Viscount Curzon.
Peterby Lodge, Lord Dormer.
Peerage. Aylesbury Earldom to Bruce: Buckingham Marquessate to
Temple: Buckinghamshire Earldom to Hobart: Wycombe Earldom and
Barony to Petty, Marquess of Lansdowne.-Of Aston Clinton, Lake Vis-
county and Barony to Lake: of Bradenham, Windsor Barony to Windsor
Earl of Plymouth: of Cheynies, Russell Barony to Russell Duke of Bed-
ford: of Iver, Gambier Barony to Gambier of Oakley, Cadogan Ba-
rony to Cadogan Earl Cadogan: of Penn-house, Curzon Viscounty and
Barony to Curzon of Taplow, Leinster Viscounty to Fitzgerald Irish
Duke of Leinster: of Wenge, Dormer Barony to Dormer: of Wotton,
Grenville Barony to Grenville, Chancellor of Oxford.

Whaddon Hall, Wm. Lowndes, esq.
Winslow, William Selby, esq.
Wotton Park, Marquess of Bucking-
ham.

HISTORY.

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A. D. 1483, at Stony Stratford (April) the Duke of Gloucester, afterwards Richard III. and the Duke of Buckingham, took possession of the person of Edward V.; and in his presence arrested Lord Richard Grey, Sir Thomas Vaughan, and Sir Richard Hawte, who were conveyed to Pomfret Castle, where, with the Earl of Rivers, they were beheaded without trial.

1554, at Ashridge, Elizabeth, afterwards Queen, arrested by Sir Edward Hastings, Sir Thomas Cornwall, and Sir Edward Southwell, on suspicion of being concerned in the insurrection under Sir Thomas Wyat, and, although confined by illness, was compelled to rise from her bed, and set off for London in the Queen's litter.

BIOGRAPHY.

Amersham, John of, friend of De Whethamsted, Amersham, (flor. 1450.) Bickley, Thomas, Bp. of Chichester, Stow, 1506.

Bigg, John, "The Dinton Hermit," Dinton, (died 1696.)

Biscoe, John, nonconformist divine and author, Wycombe, (died 1679.)
Buckingham, John, Bp. of Lincoln, Buckingham, (flor. 1363.)

Bulstrode, Edward, lawyer, (died 1655.)

Butler, Charles, author of "The Female Monarchy," on Bees, Wy

combe, (died 1647.)

Collins, Samuel, divine, Eton, (died 1651.)

Denton, William, physician, Stow, 1605.

Dorman, Thomas, Roman Catholic divine, Amersham, (flor. 1560.)

FINCH, HENEAGE, Lord Chancellor Nottingham, Ravenstone, (died 1682.) Goad, Roger, divine, Houton, (died 1610.)

GRAY, ARTHUR, Lord de Wilton, suppresser of Desmond's rebellion, Whad

don, (died 1593.)

Harley,

Harley, John, Bp. of Hereford, Newport Pagnel, 1504.
Holyman, James, Bp. of Bristol, Cuddington, (died 1558.)

How, Josias, author of a Sermon printed in Red letter, Grendon Underwood. Ingoldsby, Sir Richard, only regicide who had a free pardon, Lenborough, (died 1685.)

King, Henry, Bp. of Chichester, poet, versifier of Psalms, Wormenhall, 1591. King, John, Bp. of London, Wormenhall, 1559.

Lister, Sir Matthew, physician to Charles I. and President of the College,

1565.

Matthew, John, the first Batchelor Lord Mayor of London, in 1491, Sherrington.

Morell, Thomas, scholar, author of "Thesaurus," Eton, 1703.

Nichols, William, polemic divine, 1664.

Osyth, St. daughter of Fredeswald, a Pagan King, Quarendon, (beheaded in the year 600.)

Phillips, Thomas, biographer of Cardinal Pole, Ickford, 1708.

Randal, John, divine, Great Missenden, (flor. temp. Jac. I.)

Stokes, Matthew, antiquary, Eton, 1515.

Temple, dame Hester, lived to see 700 descendants, Latimers, 1569.

Wagstaffe, William, physician, humourist, Cubbington, 1685.

Wendover, Richard de, Bp. of Rochester, Wendover, (died 1250.)

Windsor, Sir William, Lord Deputy of Ireland, temp. Edw. III. Bradenham. Young, John, titular Bp. of Calipoli in Greece, Newton Longueville, (died 1517.)

Young, William, historian of Athens, 1749.

MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS.

Amersham was represented in parliament by the poet Waller, and the patriot Algernon Sydney.

Ankerwyke was the seat of the statesman Sir Thomas Smith; under whose roof John Taylor, the deprived Bp. of Lincoln, died in 1553. Near the house is a yew tree, which, at six feet from the ground, measures 30 feet 5 inches in girth.

Aylesbury, during the interregnum, was represented in parliament by the two regicides, Scot and Mayne; and, in the present reign, by the notorious John Wilkes.

Bletchley was the rectory, and Burnham the vicarage, of William Cole, the well-known Cambridge antiquary.

Brightwell Court was the seat of Charles Boyle Earl of Orrery, the inventor of the astronomical machine named after his title, and the antagonist of Bentley, who, it was said, had rather have been roasted than Boyled. At Buckingham, March 15, 1725, 138 houses, more than one-third of the town, and property to the amount of 40,000l. was destroyed by fire.

Bulstrode was built in 1686, for his own residence, by the inhuman Lord Chancellor Jefferies.

Burnham, Desborough, and Stoke, are the three Chiltern Hundreds.

Ditton was the seat of Sir Ralph Winwood, author of "Memorials," and Secretary to James 1.

Drayton Beauchamp was the rectory of "the judicious" Hooker, author of "Ecclesiastical Polity."

At Edlesborough in 1675, was buried Michael Feun, aged 124; and in the church-yard is a monument for Thomas Edwards, author of "Canons of Criticism," who resided at Turrick in this parish, and died there 1757, aged 58.

At Eton, Bishops Fleetwood and Pearson, the learned John Hales, Sir Robert Walpole, Lord Chancellor Camden, and Cole the Cambridge Antiquary, were foundation scholars. Oughtred the mathematician, Boyle the philosopher, Waller the poet, Pitt Earl of Chatham, Horace Walpole Earl of Orford, Gray the poet, Bryant the mythologist, Abp. Cornwallis, Charles James Fox, Pratt the first Earl Camden, Nicholas Hardinge, Clerk of the House of Commons, and his son George, the eminent Welsh Judge, were educated here. The procession of the scholars "ad montem" to collect money for

salt,

Salt, whence the place has acquired the name of Salt-hill, appears to have been coeval with the foundation of the College, and most probably was the same as the antient customary procession of the Bairn or Boy-bishop.-In the Chapel were entombed John Longland, Bp. of Lincoln, confessor to Henry VIII. Sir Henry Savile, scholar, Sir Henry Wotton, statesman and poet, and its Provost, Francis Rous, Speaker of Cromwell's Little Parliament. In the cemetery belonging to the Chapel lie the remains of the ever memorable "John Hales."

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Farnham Royal was the burial-place of Dr. Chandler, Bp. of Durham, and of the mythologist Jacob Bryant, who resided at Cippenham (where he was frequently visited by their Majesties, the King often coming alone and staying several hours with him), and died there in 1804, aged 89.

Fawley Court was the seat of Sir Bulstrode Whitlock, anthor of "Memorials," who died in 1675, and was buried in Fawley Church.

In Fenny Stratford Church is the monument of the antiquary Browne Willis, who died in 1760, aged 78.

Gregories was the seat of the statesman and orator Edmund Burke, who, by his masterly exposition of French principles in all the fullness of their deformity and lerrors of their operation, "stood between the dead and the living," and "stayed the plague!"

Grendon was the rectory of Samuel Clarke, author of " Biblical Annotations and Concordance," who was ejected by the Act of Uniformity, and died at Wycombe in 1701.

Hall Barns was the seat of the poet Waller.

In Hambledon Church is the monument of Sir Cope D'Oyley and his wife, with a quaint poetical epitaph, most probably by Quarles, who was Lady D'Oyley's brother.

Near Hampden House, a little South of the avenue, was the land for which 20s. ship-money was assessed on the patriot Hampden, whose resistauce occasioned the memorable trial. He died June 24, 1643, about three weeks after the battle of Chalgrove-field.

At Hartwell, in 1810, died her most Christian Majesty Marie Josephine Louise de Savoie, consort of Louis XVIII. Hartwell was finally quitted April 20, 1814, by Louis XVIII. who made his public entry into London the same day.

In Hedsor Church-yard is the monument of Nathaniel Hooke, author of the Roman History, who died in 1673.

At Hitcham was buried Dr. John Freind, the historian of physic, who died in 1728, aged 52.

In Hitchendon Church-yard is the monument of Joseph Stennet, the Sabbatarian Baptist, who died in 1713, and whose portrait was engraved by Vertue. At Horton, Milton resided with his father.

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Ickford was the rectory of Calybute Downing, a celebrated divine of the 17th century.

Lathbury was the donative of Dr. Chelsum, who defended Christianity against Gibbon.

Middleton, or Milton Keynes, was the rectory, from 1693 till his death in 1726, of Dr. Wotton the critic and antiquary, whose "Reflections on Antient and Modern Learning" were written here in 1694.

Newenton Longueville was the rectory of William Grocyne, tutor to Erasmus, and the first Greek professor at Oxford.

Newton Pagnel in 1645 was under the government of Sir Samuel Luke, the original of Butler's "Hudibras.” In the Church-yard is a poetical epitaph by Cowper, on Thomas Abbott Hamilton, who died in 1788.

In Oakley Church were buried Admiral John Tyrrel, who died 1692, and James Tyrrel, author of "History of England," who died in 1745.

Olney was the vicarage of Moses Browne, author of " Piscatory Eclogues;" and for many years the residence of the poet Cowper, whence he removed to Weston Underwood.

In Quainton Church is the monument of the Orientalist Richard Brett, one of the translators of the Bible, who was rector from 1595 till his death in 1637.

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