CLIPSTON, a parish in the hundred of ROTHWELL,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 4 miles (S. S. W.) from Market-
Harborough, containing 813 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory in three portions, two of which are valued
in the king's books at £11. 12. 8., and the third at
£6; it is in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and
diocese of Peterborough, and in the patronage of the
Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge.
The church is dedicated to All Saints. In 1667, Sir
George Boswell bequeathed land and tenements to endow
a school and an hospital; and Francis Horton also
bequeathed £200 to increase the endowment: they are
for the benefit of the inhabitants of Clipston, Merston,
Nussell, East Farndon, Oxendon, Kilmarsh, and Haselbeck.
The river Ise rises in this parish.