LATHBURY, a parish in the hundred of NEWPORT,
county of BUCKINGHAM,half of a mile (N.) from Newport-
Pagnell, containing 164 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£5. 6. 8., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean
and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church
is dedicated to All Saints. A free grammar school
was founded and endowed with £ 12 per annum, in the
reign of Elizabeth, by Anthony Cave; the right of
appointing the master was vested in the Dean and
Canons of Christ Church college; he likewise gave two
exhibitions, of £6 each, for the scholars: the endowment
has been lost, and the school-room was taken down in
1698. The learned Dr. Chelsam, celebrated for his
defence of Christianity, against Gibbon, held this living.
The parish is nearly surrounded by the river Ouse; an
ancient monastery formerly occupied the site of the
present manor-house.