HAVERSHAM, a parish in the hundred of NEWPORT,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 3 miles (W.byS.) from
Newport-Pagnell, containing 289 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and
diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £15.
- Kitelee, Esq. was patron in 1827. The churchj
dedicated to St. Mary, exhibits portions in the decorated
style; it contains a beautiful altar-tomb, with a recumbent
effigy under a rich canopy, supposed to be that of
Elizabeth, Lady Clinton, heiress of the De la Planches,
whose fourth husband was Sir John Clinton.