Newnton-Longville (St. Faith)
NEWNTON-LONGVILLE (St. Faith), a parish, in the union of Newport-Pagnell, hundred of Newport, county of Buckingham, 3 miles (S. W. by W.) from Fenny-Stratford; containing 565 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £20. 9. 7.; net income, £273; patrons, the Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford, by whose predecessors the church was erected, about 1415. In the chancel are two piscinæ, one of them bearing the arms of William of Wykeham. An alien priory of Cluniac monks, subordinate to the abbey of St. Faith, at Longueville, in Normandy, was founded here in the reign of Henry I., and suppressed in 1415, when it was granted to New College. The learned Grocyn, tutor to Erasmus, and one of the revivers of classical literature in the sixteenth century, was rector of the parish.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.