HAMPTON-LUCY, otherwise BISHOPS-HAMPTON, a parish in the Snitterfield division of the hundred of BARLICHWAY, county of WARWICK, 4? miles (E.N.E.) from Stratford upon Avon, containing 554 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, rated in the king's books at £51. 6. 8., in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Rector, but wills are always proved in the presence of the Bishop's registrar at Worcester, and are deposited in the registry there. George Lucy, Esq. was patron in 1815. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. A free grammar school was founded in 1635, by the Rev. Richard Hill, who endowed it with estates now producing about & 143 per annum, for-which about sixty boys from the parishes of Bishop's Hampton, Charlecote, Alveston, and Wasperton, receive an English education only, classical instruction not having been given for many years past. In 1723, the Rev. William Lucy, D.D.; gave £2000, in support of four scholars from this establishment at St. Mary Magdalene's Hall, Oxford, but, being ineligible from the want of classical instruction, selections are now made from-other foundations.