NEWTON, a parish in the hundred of WISBEACH,
Isle of ELY, county of CAMBRIDGE, 3 miles (N. N.W.)
from Wisbeach, containing 368 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, with the vicarage of St. Mary in the Marsh,
in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Bishop
of Ely, rated in the king's books at £18. 14. 9. The
church is dedicated to St. James. A college, or chantry,
in honour of St. Mary, was founded here, in the reign,
of Henry IV., by Sir John Colville, Knt., consisting
of a warden, four chaplains, four clerks, and ten poor
brethren, whose lands at the dissolution were annexed
to the rectory of Newton.