MARLOW (LITTLE), a parish in the hundred of
DESBOROUGH, county of BUCKINGHAM, 1 mile (E. N.
E.) from Great Mar low, containing 775 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the
king's books at £8. 5. 10. The Rev. G. F. L. Nicolay
was patron in 1822. The church, dedicated to St. Joha
the Baptist, is principally in the later style of English
architecture. Here was a small convent of Benedictine
nuns, founded, in honour of the Virgin Mary, by
Geoffrey, Lord Spencer, before the reign of John, the
revenue of which at the dissolution was estimated at
£37. 6. 11.