CAVERSFIELD, a parish partly in the hundred of
PLOUGHLEY, county of OXFORD, but chiefly in the hundred
and county of BUCKINGHAM, 2 miles (N.) from
Bicester, containing, with a portion of the township of
Bicester-Market-End, 208 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £6,
endowed with £8 per annum private benefaction, and
£400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Trustees
of the late Joseph Bullock, Esq. The church is
dedicated to St. Lawrence. Some suppose this to have
been the place where Carausius, the Roman commander,
assumed the purple in 287, and where he was afterwards
slain by Caius Alectus, one of the thirty tyrants: on
Bayard's Green, about a mile from the church, are faint
traces of Carausius' camp.