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"PAULERSPURY, (or Paul's Bury), a parish in the hundred of Cleley, county Northampton, 3 miles S. by E. of Towcester, its post town. The village, which is extensive, is situated on the Roman way, Watling Street. The parish includes the small hamlet of Heathencote. A portion of the female inhabitants are engaged in the making of pillow lace. Many Roman coins of Constantine, Maximian, and other emperors have been found near the line of the Roman road. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value in the king's books £24 4s. 2d., in the patronage of New College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. James, is a commodious stone structure with a tower containing a clock and five bells. The interior of the church contains two piscinas in good condition, a curious ancient font, an effigy of a Throckmorton, and tombs of the first Lord Bathurst's father, and of the Sheddons. The parochial charities produce about £44 per annum, of which £11 goes to the National school. Dr. E. Bernard, a learned astronomer and Savilian professor at Oxford, was born here in 1638. George Sheddon, Esq., is lord of the manor." [Transcribed from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868 by Colin Hinson ©2010]

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"PAULERSPURY, (or Paul's Bury), a parish in the hundred of Cleley, county Northampton, 3 miles S. by E. of Towcester, its post town. The village, which is extensive, is situated on the Roman way, Watling Street. The parish includes the small hamlet of Heathencote. A portion of the female inhabitants are engaged in the making of pillow lace. Many Roman coins of Constantine, Maximian, and other emperors have been found near the line of the Roman road. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Peterborough, value in the king's books £24 4s. 2d., in the patronage of New College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. James, is a commodious stone structure with a tower containing a clock and five bells. The interior of the church contains two piscinas in good condition, a curious ancient font, an effigy of a Throckmorton, and tombs of the first Lord Bathurst's father, and of the Sheddons. The parochial charities produce about £44 per annum, of which £11 goes to the National school. Dr. E. Bernard, a learned astronomer and Savilian professor at Oxford, was born here in 1638. George Sheddon, Esq., is lord of the manor.

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