ASHBY (COLD), a parish in the hundred of GUILSBOROUGH,
county of NORTHAMPTON,' llf miles (N.W.
by N.) from Northampton, containing 375 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's
books at £6. 0. 5., and in the patronage of the Rev.
W. Mousley. The church is dedicated to St. Denis.
Here is a free school for poor children, endowed with
£18 pei1 annum, being a rent-charge left by William
Wickes, in 1710, and £2. 10., a moiety of the rental
of a piece of land devised by Richard Ward, in 1736.
Richard Knolles, the historian of the Turkish Empire,
was born here, in 1540.