Dr. Richard Gardiner gave to this parish a quartern of land, the rent of which to be given one year towards putting out a boy apprentice, and the other year to be distributed amongst such widows as were born in the town.-John Steer and William Muscotte gave each of them half an acre of meadow ground for the benefit of the poor of Floore, for ever. -Gregory Knight left the sum of five pounds, the interest of which is given, by the churchwardens, to the poor.

GAYTON.

Gayton is a pleasant village, about five miles from Northampton. It has Milton on the east, Thorp north, Pattishall west, and Blisworth and Tiffield south.

The church is dedicated to the Holy Virgin, and consists of a body, two aisles, and a chancel, leaded, with a porch on the south side, tiled. The steeple is built with a tower, wherein are six bells besides the saint's bell. On the north side of the chancel is a burying place parted off from it, as large as the chancel itself, wherein lie the family of Samwell.

A piece of ground, called the alms-ground, was long since given to the poor of this parish. Upon the inclosure of Gayton field, in 1600, it was agreed

by the general consent of the inhabitants, to set apart ten acres, on the east side of the alms-ground, in lieu of the like number of acres dispersed in several parts of the same field, which before that time were used as town ground,

The parsonage-house being in a very ruinous and dilapidated state, the late rector, Mr. Hunter, rebuilt it at his own expense.

GRENDON

Is a small village about eight miles from Northampton. It is bounded on the east by Bozeat, on the north by Strixton, on the west by Whiston, and on the south by Castle-Ashby and Yardley.

The church is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, and consists of a body, north and south aisles, and chancel, leaded. At the west end is an embattled tower, with pinnacles at each corner, in which are five bells.

GUILSBOROUGH

Is a remarkably pleasant village, about six miles from Northampton. In Doomsday-book named Gisleburg, in the reign of Henry II, Gildesborn, and in other records, Gildesburch. It is bounded on the east by Creaton, on the north by Naseby, by WestHaddon on the west, and on the south by Ravens

thorpe. Here are two brooks, one of which rising in Camfield's-lodge field, from a very quick spring, and parting Guilsborough on the east from Hollowell, goes on to Northampton: the other dividing this Lordship on the south from Ravensthorpe, joins the former brook in Teeton field.

Here is the seat of William Zouch Lucas Ward, Esq. called Guilsborough Hall; it is a large mansion, and, from its being seated on an eminence, has a very conspicuous appearance.

Upon the top of the hill on which the town is situate, are large remains of a Roman encampment, supposed to have been raised by Ostorius, the Proprætor under the Emperor Claudius. The form of it, like the more common Roman camps, is an oblong square; the shorter sides running from north to south. It seems to have been fenced with a broad, deep, single entrenchment. The agger of this fortification is still visible; and, as far as could be judged, from pacing over an uneven, broken ground, the longest parallel is between five and six hundred feet, the shortest about three hundred. The area included, it is about eighteen acres. It is called the Burrows or Borough-hill, from which appellation, the town is supposed to have received its name. The church, dedicated to Etheldred the virgin,

consists of a body, two aisles, a chancel, with north and south porches, all leaded. At the west end, on a plain coped tower, having four bells in it, is raised an octagon spire,

In Guilsborough is a Free Grammar School, founded by the late Sir John Langham, of Cottesbrook, Bart. The school is free for the youth of Guilsborough, Cottesbrook, Thurnby, Cold-Ashby, or any other place within four miles next adjoining. The government is in a certain number of trustees, who when reduced to four, are to nominate others. Here is also a Writing School, endowed with an annual salary of about £14, arising from the interest. of £200, left many years since, and for this purpose augmented by a subscription of the principal inhabitants.

The hamlet of Hollowell also belongs to the parish of Guilsborough, and likewise the small hamlet of Nortoft, in Doomsday-book named Nortot, and in later records Northtoft. The following curious bequest to this parish, has been copied from Bridges's Northamptonshire :

John Campernon, Esq. formerly Lord of Coton, a hamlet lying in this hundred, but in Ravensthorpe parish, in the hundred of Newbottle, gave a half yard land in his lordship of Coton under Gildesburgh, co

the vicar of Guilsborough, for the time being, and his successsors for ever. But not being given to the alterage of the church, the prior of St. John of Jerusalem, patron of the living, entered upon the said half yard land, and kept possession of it. Whereupon the said John Campernon, gave one other half yard land next adjoining to the former, to the alterage of the said church, on condition that the vicar and his successors should, every Sunday, pray for him in the following words " Ye shall pray for the soule of Mr. John Campernon, sometime Lord of Coton, and all his successors souls, who gave to the alterage of this church one half yard land." And if his name should not be mentioned in the bead-roll once in three Sundays, the Lord of Coton should peaceably enter upon and possess the said land.

HACKLETON,

In Doomsday-book called Hachelintone, and in some later records Hakelton, is an hamlet, belonging to Piddington, lying on the London road, between Northampton and Horton.

The present possessor of the manors of Hackleton and Piddington, is Thomas Mercer, Esq. who has here a ry good mansion-house.