CATESBY-ABBEY, a parish in the hundred of
FAWSLEY, county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles (S. W,
by W.) from Daventry, containing, with the hamlet of
Newbold-Grounds, 114 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and dio-,
cese of Peterborough, rated in the Icing's books at £ 10,
and in the patronage of T. and M. Scrafton, Esqrs.
The church is dedicated to St. Mary. In that part of
the parish which is named Upper Catesby are some
small remains of a Benedictine nunnery, founded by-
Robert de Esseby in the reign of Richard I.; its revenue,
at the dissolution, was estimated at £ 145 per
annum: there are also the remains of an intrenchment,
named Arbury camp. Of the family of Catesby, one
was beheaded after the death of his master, Richard III.,
and another suffered for being concerned in. the Gunpowder
Plot.