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Thorpe-Mandeville (St. John the Baptist)

THORPE-MANDEVILLE (St. John the Baptist), a parish, in the union of Brackley, hundred of King's-Sutton, S. division of the county of Northampton, 6 miles (N. E. by E.) from Banbury; containing 154 inhabitants. It comprises by admeasurement 900 acres: stone is quarried for the roads. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £10. 2. 11.; net income, £281; patron, R. P. Humfrey, Esq. The tithes were partially commuted for land in 1773; the glebe altogether contains about 175 acres. The church, which is almost wholly of the 14th century, contains monuments to the Pargiter and Humfrey families: the ancient iron frame that belonged to the pulpit hour-glass is still preserved.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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