MANTON, a parish in the hundred of MARTINSLEY,
county of RUTLAND, 3 miles (N. by E.) from Uppingham,
containing 229 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books
at £10, endowed with £400 royal bounty, and £200
parliamentary grant. G. W. Smyth, Esq. was patron
in 1820. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. A
college or chantry was founded here, in the 25th of
Edward III., by William and John Wade, for a master
and two brethren, whose revenue at the dissolution was
valued at £22. 18. 6.