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in it for fome time, and was buried here. 
The Mosswians, Methodifts, and Quakers have alfo chapels 
in the town. In t ar 1811, this town was found to 
contain 1623 houfes, and 8427 inhabitants. 
: 322. 
John of Northampton, o according to his Latin name, 
Joannes Avonius, was a Carmelite friar in this his native 
ace. He was the inventor of the Philofopher’s Ring, a 
kind of pepe callin alma 
this place ; as were 
Chefter ; William Bea 
Brown, the celebrated rane of the Brownitts. 
About ore mile fouth of Northam apts on am elevated 
bank adjoining the public road, is an elegant = one cos 
which was erected a i hi 
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Simon de St. Liz, jun. earl nb MWonhantton In the 
neighbouring lage of Har one dg born James 
arvey, author « Medit an ns amon ombs,”’ 
ift 
Bridges, efq. a ley, 
Beauties of England, a xi. by J. Britton, a the Rev 
J. Evans. 
NorTHAMPTON, a large uneven county of Pennfylvania ; 
in the N.E. corner of the ftate, on Delaware river, which 
feparates it from New Jerfey and New York; it is divided 
into 27 townfhips, and contains 30,062 inhabitants: —Alfo, 
townfhip in Buck’s county, Pennfylvania, including 942 
ater e —Alfo, a town in Northampton county, Penn- 
fylvania, on the S.W. bank of Lehigh river, five or fix 
iles S.W. of Bethlehem, containing 573 inhabitants.— 
oo acounty of Halifax diftrict, North Carolina, bounded 
N. by the ftate of Virginia, containing 125331 inhabitants, 
of whom 6206 are tapes —Alfo, a maritime county of Vir- 
inia, on the point of the peninfula, which forms the E. 
be of the entrance ~ a ak bay; having the ocean 
an mack county N.3 wits outhern raelaai! 
ford; and containing a foe era ‘church, a 
court-houfe, gaol, and about 250 dwelling-houfes, of which 
many are handfome buildings. Its meadows are extenfive 
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and fertile ; and it carries on a spares trade. This 
and contains 2190 inha- 
ownth cinta county, New 
Jerfey, eanpr be dee about ae acres, half improved 
and half moftly pine-barren. ‘The chief place is « Mount 
Holly.” It contains about 150 heute an epifcopal chunks 
a Friends’ meeting-houfe, and a market-houfe; 22 miles 
; from Trenton 
NORTH "AMPTONSHIRE, a rea h . ne, pete and 
nearly in the centre of the ifland, is fee 
fhire, Rutlandfhire, an ~ 
bridgefhire, Bedford hire, and Huntingdonthire on the eaft ; 
y Buckinghamfhire and part of Oxfordfhire on the fouth ; 
and the Charwell fecures it from another part of Oxfordhhire, 
whilft the river Leam, for a fhort diftance, and the old Ro- 
man Watling-ftreet, feparate it from Warwickfhire on the 
weft, ‘The extent of Northamptonfhire may be eftimated at 
nearly 66 miles in its longeft diameter, viz. from its moft weft- 
nho to the remoteft north-eaftern limit near 
acrofs to in the fouth, alfo from Pec lomich: ina 
- northerly direQion to Peakirk, it does not ga eight miles. 
The circumference may be confidered 216 miles, and the 
fuperficial area of the whole has been computed at 550,000 
acres ; but the lateft authorities referred to in the poor re- 
turns to parliament, ftate it to be 61 7,000 acres, of which 
290,000 are faid to be arable ; 235,000 in pafturage, and 
about 86,000 uncultivated, including woodlands. It con 
tains I city, 11 market-towns, 336 parifhes, and, accord- 
ing to the population return of ' 1, there were then 28,995 
houfes, and 141,353 inhabitan 
At the time of the general Denn furvey, there were 30 
hundreds and wapentakes in the county of Northampton, as 
ee them recorded in Domefday Book. When this 
a 
furvey was made, a sig ew part of Rutlandfhire was in- 
ae in the county of pton; but inthe fifth 
of king Joh men ade of it as a feparate fhire ; 
Rom yy recon &c.—When tke Romans took poffeffion 
of the central part of Britain, they found it occupied by a 
tribe of people known by the name of Coritani; thefe being 
fubjugated, sane Bad foon began to = layed 
roads es fo Two great roads, via-ftrat 
nected 
