is 1 which has no church; 4 which have less than 100 inhabitants each; 7 which have no parsonage-houses; and 21 which have parsonage-houses, which, in a return nade to parliament in 1818, the incumbents represent as unfit for them to live in. The POOR-RATES of this county amounted annually, agreeably to a return made to parliament in 1818, to 185,172l. 17s. 10d.; the number of PAUPERS was 19,013; the ANNUAL RENTAL of all the real property of the county amounted to 652,082l. 108.; the POPULATION, by return of 1821, was 131,977, and the number of houses 24,705. So that, the poor-rates amounted to within a fraction of a fourth part of the rental, and there were, on an average, 3 paupers to every 4 houses throughout the county. According to the same return of 1818, the annual poor-rates of this whole county amounted, in 1776, to only $5,9891., while those of the town of Reading alone now amount annually to about 12,000l. There are in this county 175 persons to each square mile; that is, about 4 acres of land to every person; and there are, within a fraction, 19 acres of land to every inhabited house, not excepting the most miserable of places in the poorest of towns, and not even excepting almshouses. The male population of the county is 65,546. The return states 14,759 families to be employed in agriculture; 8,773 families in trade and handicraft, and 4,158 families to consist of all other descriptions of persons. The male agricultural population must, therefore, be 34,924: of these, about one half must be children, must be past labour, or infirm; there, then, remain, including the farmers themselves, 17,462 agricultural labourers; that is to say, one labourer, on an average, to every 28 acres of land.

ABINGDON, seated on the Isis, in the hundred of Hormer, 56 miles N.W. from London, 17 miles N.W. from Reading. It derives its name from an Abbey of Benedictine Monks, 500 in number, in the time of the Ancient Britons,

where Constantine the Great is said to have been educated; it was destroyed by the Danes, A.D. 955; but afterwards rebuilt by the Abbot Ethelwold, through the bounty of King Edred and King Edgar. Valued, at the dissolution, at 2,0421. 2s. 84d. yearly, now worth 40,842l. 14s. 2d.; granted 1 Edw. VI. to Sir Thomas Seymour; and, he having been attainted, and the estate having

returned to the crown, it was granted, in the 5th Edw. VI. to Sir Thomas Wrath. It has two parishes, St. Helen's and St. Nicholas. It is a corporate town, having a mayor, nine aldermen, and sixteen assistants. It sends one member to parliament. The number of voters is about 500. Markets, Mon. and Fri. Fairs, first Mon. in Lent; May 6, June 20, and Aug. 5, for cattle; Sept. 19, and Mon. before Old Michaelmas, for hiring servants, and Dec. 11 for horses and cattle. Popula. 5,137. ALDATES (St.)-See Oxford. ALDERMASTON, 7 miles S.E. from New

bury. Popula. 653. Fairs, May 6, July 7, for horses and cattle; October 11, horses and pedlary.

ALDWORTH, 3 miles S.E. from Ilsley. Popula. 293,

APPLEFORD, in Sutton-Courtney parish, 6 miles S. from Abingdon. Popula. included in Sutton-Courtney. APPLETON, 3 miles N.W. from Abingdon. Popula. 389. ARBORFIELD, 3 miles S.W. from Oakingham. Popula. 245. Fairs, Oct. 5. ARDINGTON, 2 miles N.E. from Wantage. Popula. 403, ASCOT.-See Winkfield.

ASHAMSTEAD, 4 miles S.E, from E. Ilsley. Popula. 337.

ASHBURY, 7 miles S.W. from Wantage. Popula. 683.

ASTON TIRROLD, 3 miles S.W, from Wallingford. Popula. 355. ASTON-UPTHORPE, in Blewberry parish, and popula. included therein. miles S. from Wallingford. AVINGTON, 5 miles W. from Newbury. Popula, 77,

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BACKLAND with Carswell, 3 miles N.E.

from Farringdon. Popula. 893. BAGLEY-WOOD (Extra Pa.) Popula. 4. BALGRAVE and Hadley, in the parish of Lambourn. Popula. included therein. BARKHAM, 2 miles S. from Oakingham. Popula. 215.

BASSILDON, 6 miles S.E. from E. Ilsley. Popula. 686.

BAULKING, in Uffington parish, and popula, returned therein. 5 miles from Wantage.

BEEDON, 2 miles S.W. from East Isley. Popula, 313.

BEENHAM, 7 miles S.W. from Reading. Popula. 437.

BENHAM, in the parish of Speen, 3 miles from Newbury. Popula. included in Speen.

BESSELSLEIGH, 3 miles N.E. from Abingdon. Popula. 118.

BETTERTON and West Ginge, in Lockinge parish, and popula. included therein.

a Priory of Augustine Canons, founded, in the year 1160, by Ralph de Chaddleworth. Valued at 714. 10s. 7d., now worth 1,430l. 11s. 8d.

CHALLOW (East), in the parish of Letcomb-Regis, 2 miles N.W. from Wantage. Popula. returned with LetcombRegis.

CHALLOW (West), in the parish of Letcomb-Regis, 1 mile from the above, and popula. included therein.

ham. Popula. 1,057.

BISHAM, 2 miles N.W. from Maidenhead. Popula. 707. Here was a Priory of Augustine Canons, founded by Hugh de Spencer, jun., originally for the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. Valued, at the dissolution, at 661l. 14s. 9d. yearly, now worth 13,234l. 15s., granted 7 Edw. VI. to Sir Edward Hoby.

pula. included therein. Wantage.

mile from

CHARNEY, in the parish of Longworth, 6 miles from Abingdon. Popula. returned with Longworth.

CHAWLEY, in the parish of Cumner, 3 miles from Oxford. Popula. returned with Cumner.

BOURTON, in Shrivenham parish, and popula. included therein. 10 miles S.W. from Farringdon.

BOXFORD with Westbrook, 3 miles N.W. from Newbury. Popula. 563. BRADFIELD, 6 miles S.W. from Reading. Popula. 946.

BRADLEY, in the parish of Cumner. Popula. included therein.

BRAY, 1 mile S. from Maidenhead. Popula. 3,159.

BRIGHT-WALTHAM, 4 miles S.W. from East Ilsley. Popula. 450. BRIGHTWELL, 1 mile N.W. from Wallingford. Popula. 546.

BRIMPTON, 4 miles S.E. from Newbury. Popula. 464.

BUCKLEBURY, 4 miles N.E. from Newbury. Popula. 1,143.

Popula. 1,842.

CHILDREY, 1 mile W. from Wantage Popula. 478.

CHILSWELL, in the parish of Cumner, 5 miles from Abingdon. Popula. included in Cumner.

CHILTON, 2 miles N. from East Ilsley. Popula. 229.

CHOLSEY, 14 mile S.W. from Walingford. Popula. 975.

CLAPCOT, in the parish of Allhallows,

Wallingford. Popula. included therein. CLEWER, 1 mile W. from Windsor. Popula. 2,115.

COLESHILL, 2 miles S.W. from Farringdon. Popula. 324.

COMPTON, 1 mile S.E. from Ilsley East. Popula. 482.

COMPTON-BEAUCHAMP, 4 miles S. from Farringdon. Popula. 103. COOKHAM, 3 miles N. from Maidenhead. Popula. 2,734. Fairs, May 16 cattle and pedlary, Oct. 11 statute.

Farringdon. Popula. 306.

CATMERE, 2 miles S.W. from East Ilsley.
Popula. 89.
CHADDLEWORTH with Wooley, 6 miles
S.W. from East Ilsley. Popula. 448.
At Poughley, in this parish, there was

Farringdon, mile from Farringdon, and popula. included therein. CUMNER, 34 miles N.W. from Abingdon.

Popula. 1,303.

DENCHWORTH, 2 miles N. from Wantage. Popula. 254. DONNINGTON.-See Shaw.

DRAYCOT MOORE, in Longworth parish, 5 miles from Abingdon. Popula. included in Longworth.

DRAYTON, 1 mile S. from Abingdon. Popula. 498.

DUDCOTE, 4 miles N.W. from Walling

ford. Popula. 197. EASTBURY and BOCKHAMPTON, in the parish of Lambourn, 6 miles S.W. from Wantage. Popula. returned with Lambourn.

EASTHAMPSTEAD, 14 miles S.E. from Oakingham. Popula. 615.

EATON, in the parish of Appleton. Popula. included therein. EATON-HASTINGS, 2 miles N.W. from Farringdon. Popula. 178. EDDINGTON with HIDDON, in the parish of Hungerford, and popula. included therein.

ENBORNE, 14 miles S.W. from Newbury. Popula. 349.

ENGLEFIELD, 44 miles W. from Reading. Popula. 343.

FRILSHAM, 6 miles N.E. from Newbury Popula. 171.

FYFIELD, 3 miles N.W. from Abingdon. Popula. 407.

GARFORD, in Marcham parish, 3 miles from Abingdon. Popula. included in Marcham.

GARSTON (East), 5 miles S.E. from Hun. gerford. Popula. 637.

GOOSEY and CIRCOURT, in Stamford

in-the-Vale parish, 4 miles from Wantage. Popula. included in Stamford. GRAISLEY, in Sulhampstead parish, and popula. included therein, 34 miles from Reading.

GRAINPOUND, in the parish of St. Al

date, Oxford, mile from Oxford. Popula. included therein.-See Oxford. GREENHAM, in the parish of Thatcham, 2 miles S.E. from Newbury. Popula. included therein.

GROVE, in Wantage parish, and popula. included therein, 1 mile N. from Wantage. HADLEY.-See Balgrave.

Popula. 210.

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FARLOW. See Kingston-Lisle. FARRINGDON, in the hundred of Farringdon, 68 miles N.W. from London, 30 miles N.W. from Reading. There was here a Cistercian Abbey, founded in the reign of King John, the possessions of which were, at the time of the Grand Robbery, generally called the Reformation," granted by Edw. VI. to Lord Thomas Seymour; but, upon his being attainted for treason, they fell back to the Crown, and were afterwards granted to Sir Francis Englefield. Market, Tuesday; fairs, Feb. 13 for horses and cattle; Whit-Tuesday for the same; Tuesday before and after Old Michaelmas, statute fairs; Oct. 29 for horses, cattle, and pigs. Popula. 2,784. FARRINGDON (Little), adjoining the above, and in the parish of Langford. Popula. returned with the latter.

Wallingford. Popula. 708. HAGBORNE (West), in the parish of

East Hagborne, and mile S.W. from it. Popula. returned with the above. HAMPSTEAD-MARSHALL, 3 miles S.W. from Newbury. Popula. 304. HAMPSTEAD-NORRIS, 3 miles N.E. from East Ilsley. Popula, 1,111. HANNEY (East), in the parish of West Hanney, 4 miles N. from Wantage. Popula. included in W. Hanney. HANNEY (West), 2 miles S. W. from Wantage. Popula. 1,107.

HARTLEY-DAMMER, in Shinfield parish, and popula. included therein, 3 miles S. from Reading.

HARWELL, 6 miles W. from Wallingford. Popula. 701.

HATFORD, 2 miles E. from Farringdon. Popula. 132.

Wantage. Popula. 863.

Wantage. Popula. 319.

HENWOOD, in the parish of Cumner.

Popula. included therein.

HILL-END, in Cumner parish, and popula. included therein, 4 miles from Oxford.

for horses, cattle, and pigs; Sept. 4 horses, cheese, &c., Nov. 8 for the same. Popula. 5,347.

NEWLAND, in Hurst parish, and popula. included therein.

NORCOTT, in St. Helen's parish, Abingdon, and popula. included therein, 1 mile from Abingdon.

NOTTINGHAM-FEE.-See Upton. OAKINGHAM, or WOKINGHAM, in the bundred of Sonning, 32 miles S.W. from London. It is a corporate town, having an alderman, high steward, recorder, burgesses and town clerk. Market on Tues.; fairs, April 23, June 11, Oct. 10, Nov. 2, for horses and cattle. Popula, 2,810.

ODSTONE, in Ashbury parish, and popula, included therein.

PADWORTH, 7 miles S.W. from Reading. Popula. 271.

rence, and St. Mary. It is a corporate town and borough, having a mayor, twelve aldermen, twelve burgesses, town-clerk, and other officers. It sends two members to Parliament, the right of voting being in the freemen, and the inhabitants paying scot and lot, and it is one of the few boroughs in the kingdom that remain, as yet, unsubjected to the arbitrary will of opulent individuals. It has a very large market on Saturday; fairs, Feb. 2 for cattle and pigs; May 1 and July 25, horses and cattle; Sept. 21, cheese, horses, cattle, and hogs. Popula. 12,867.

REMENHAM, 5 miles N.W. from Maidenham. Popula. 380.

RUSCOMB, 5 miles N.E. from Reading. Popula. 208.

SANDFORD, in St. Helen's parish, Abingdon, and popula. included therein, 4 miles N.E, from Abingdon.

ing. Popula, 703.

parish, and popula. included therein.

Popula. 122.

ham. Popula. 771.

PURLEY, 3 miles N.W. from Reading. Popula. 196.

RADLEY, 2 miles N.E. from Abingdon. Popula. 500.

READING, situated in the hundred of Reading, on the Kennett, near its confluence with the Thames, 38 miles W. from London, and from the capital towns of the adjoining counties distant as follows:from Oxford 22 miles, from Aylesbury 27 miles, from Guildford 25 miles, from Winchester 26 miles, from Salisbury 48 miles. It is the capital of the county, but was in ancient times a much greater place than it is now. There was here a great Abbey of Benedictine Monks, founded in the year 1121, by Hen. I. Income, at the dissolution, 2, 116l.3s.94d. now worth 42,323ł. 15s. 10d.; granted 4 Edw. VI., to Edward, Duke of Somerset; also, a Friary, on the north side of Castle Street, founded in the year 1400. When the Protestant Reformation came, this Priory was granted to the mayor and burgesses to be a bridewell. The late county prison was anciently a Convent of Nuns, but now, since the building of the new prison, the old one has become the place of a Methodist meeting. It has still three parishes; namely, St. Giles, St. Law

SHAW with Donnington, 2 miles N. from Newbury. Popula. 531. At Donnington there was a Friary of the Blessed Trinity, founded 16 Rich. II., valued at 20l. 16s. 6d., now worth 4164. 10s. SHEFFORD (East), 4 miles N.E. from Hungerford. Popula. 490.

SHEFFORD (West), 4 miles N. from
Hungerford. Popula. 380.
SHILTON, 7 miles N.W: from Farringdon.
Popula. 256.

SHILLINGFORD, 2 miles S. from Farringdon. Popula. 271.

SHINFIELD, 3 miles S. from Reading. Popula. 1,065.

SHIPPON, in St. Helen's parish, Abingdon, and popula. included therein, 1 mile from Abingdon. SHOTTESBROOK, 4 miles S.W. from

Maidenham. Popula. 135. Here was a Chantry or College, founded in the year 1337, by Sir William Trussel, Knt.; valued 331. 18s. 8d., now worth 6781. 138. 4d.; granted, 2 Edward VI., to Thomas and Edward Weldon. SHRIVENHAM, 4 miles S. W. from Farringdon. Popula. 1,879.