CLAYDON (STEEPLE), a parish in the hundred
and county of BUCKINGHAM, 5§ miles (W.) from Winslow,
containing 804 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of
Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £ 13. 3. 9., and in
the patronage of Mrs. Verney. The church is dedicated
to St. Michael. Thomas Chaloner, Esq., in 1656,
built a school-house, and endowed it with £ 12 per annum,
but the endowment having been lost, the proprietor
of the estate pays to the schoolmistress two
shillings per week. At the period of the Conquest, this
was the most populous place in the hundred: in an
adjoining wood, an earthen vessel, filled with coins of
Carausius and Alectus, has been discovered.