MILTON-KEYNES, a parish in the hundred of
NEWPORT, county of BUCKINGHAM, 3 miles (S. by E.)
from Newport-Pagnell, containing 338 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£20, and in the patronage of the Eaii of Winchilsea.
The church is dedicated to All Saints: the southern
porch has an ancient open-work screen on each side.
Dr. Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, was born
here in 1662; he died an exile in France, in 1731; and
Dr. William Wotton, a learned divine, critic, and historian,
the author of " Reflections on Ancient and Modern
Learning," was rector of this pai'ish from 16Q3 till
his death in 1726.