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Worminghall (St. Peter)

WORMINGHALL (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Thame, hundred of Ashendon, county of Buckingham, 4¾ miles (W. N. W.) from Thame, containing 314 inhabitants. It formerly had a market, granted to John de Rivers in 1304, with a fair on the festival of St. Peter and St. Paul. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £6. 18. 10.; net income, £58; patron and impropriator, Viscount Clifden. An almshouse for four women and six men, was founded in 1670, by John King, and endowed by him with property now producing a rental of £80. There is also a fund of £20 per annum, arising from bequests, distributed in bread among the poor.

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

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