BUNNY, a parish in the northern division of the
wapentake of RUSHCLIFFE, county of NOTTINGHAM,
7 miles (S.) from Nottingham, containing 395 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, with Brad--
more, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese
of York, rated in the king's books at & 6. 14., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of Lord Rancliffe. The
church, dedicated to St. Mary, is partly in the decorated,
and partly in the later, style of English architecture,
with a tower surmounted by a crocketed spire.
A school for the poor children of Bunny and Brad1-
mpre, the building for. which was erected in 1700, has
an endowment 'in land, producing £60 per annum, the
gift of Dame Anne Parkyns, who also founded an almshouse
for four poor widows, and endowed it with £16
per annum, which was augmented with & 5 annually by
h<$, husband, Sir Thomas Parkyns: this benevolent
lady also assigned an annuity of £30 for apprenticing
poor boys.