MAXSTOKE, a parish in the Atherstone division of the hundred of HEMLINGFORD, county of WARWICK, 2 miles (S.E. by E.) from Coleshill, containing 364 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £5. 6. 8., endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £ 500 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Chandos Leigh, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. The parish is bounded on the west and south by the river Blythe. The castle, formerly belonging to the De Clintons, and then to Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, who richly covered the gates with iron, is still in perfect repair; and there are extensive remains of a priory of Augustine canons, founded, in 1336, by Sir William de Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon, which was dedicated to the Holy Trinity, the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Michael, and All Saints, and at the dissolution had a revenue of £129. 11. 8.