NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. 
Oundle, then called — is recorded in the Saxon Chro- 
nicley A.D. 709, when bifhop Wilferth died there. In 
ar’s seca this place is mentioned as a market-town 
of confiderable note. 
At St anford ‘Baro the monks of Medenhamftead kept a 
monetarium, 0 
It is not ae probable, but well authenticated, that the 
Saxons, Danes, and Normans alternately and fucceffively ( 
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took poffeffion of the chief {tations, and adapted 
them to their ref{peftive modes of attack and defence. In 
this county Tofeceafter, or efter, was burnt by the 
hale the fame time it was encompaffed with a wall of 
Feels efafical Hiflory, &c.—During the Saxon dynaity, 
this county was under the epifcopal jurifdition of Dor- 
chefter, in Oxfordfhire, and a 0 the year 1072 fubject to 
that of Lincoln. It continued a part of that diocefe, till 
Henry VIII., having feized the temporalities, and fecu 
est the abbey of Peterborough, appointed this town wad 
urch as one of the new fees in the year 15413; at the 
ra time he ordained, by letters iene that it fhould con- 
fift of a bifhop, a dean, fix prebendaries, and an archdeacon. 
A further account of the cathedral and its eftablifhments, 
with fome particulars of the bifhops, will be given under 
the head Per 
18,000 acres and. This fpace, however, is n 
voted to woods. For within the boundaries numerous 
ra r, cattle, horfes, and thee are ed. ee are 
ondon markets. 
tem of ee he ea is grazing, and many o 
juftly noted for their fkilful managements both of their 
land and ftock. 
The farfas e of this county is peculiarly SS for 
cultivation, having neither dreary waftes nor rugged moun- 
tains; but is every where fufficiently regolar for all the 
purpofes of hufbandry and tillage. Every hill is cultivated, 
or may be kept in a profitable ftate of pafturage, and every 
inequality in the furface contributes to its ornament and 
beauty. upper and middle parts of the county are 
abundantly covered with extenfive woods, which are inter- 
feted with numerous viftas and lawns. 
Mr. Jicagiee pee in his ** General View,’’ ftates, that 
there 16 parifhes in this county, 227 of which are in 
a fhate a inclofure, and 8g in open field; befides which, 
there are many thoufand acres of woodlands 8, anda large 
tract of rich, gaa land, called the Great Peterborough 
Fen, in a fat commonage ; fo that fuppofing the in- 
clofed part Br ae county under the moft approved modes 
of management, there is above one-third of the whole, by 
oO means in the beft ftate of cultivation, of which it is 
e county, and is 
fubje& to the difpafturage of the age horfes, a 
of -two parifhes, or townfhips ich comprize what 
‘as corhmonly called the Soke of Psboreune The ri 
part of Salcey Ce but has alfo been difafforefted. Pur- 
county, particularly towards the fouthern fide, and upon 
the borders of Rockingham foreft ; and befides thefe, there 
in the forefts an 
he graphica 
s county, it will be requifite to Feil them 
more 
The itl of Salcey is fituated near the fouth-eaftern 
the Charta de Tr fa an onfequence of a grant of 
a fifteenth part of the eeeables of all his fubjects. 
e lands now confidered as foreft, and in which the’ 
crown is poffefled of the timber and other valuable rights, 
extend in length about two miles and a half, and in breadth 
nearly one mile and a half, and contain 1847 acres, 23 poles. 
“he whole is divided into four walks, Vike anflop, Pid- 
B ithe 
eputy warden, two ve $ 
three yeomen-keepers of the feveral walks of Hanflop, Pid- 
general of the woods and fore 
he number of deer kept in this foreft is about 1000 of 
all forts; and the — hago annually is about 28 brace 
ucks, and 20 of 3 of which four bucks and four 
does are fupplied for this ae of his majetty’ s houfhold, in 
purfuance of warrants from the board of green cloth. 
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