SAUNDERTON, a parish in the hundred of DESBOROUGH,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 1 mile (S. W.)
from Princes-Risborough, containing 210 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £13. 9. 7-, and in the patronage of the President
and Fellows of Magdalene College, Oxford. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary. This formerly constituted
two parishes, but coming into the possession of
one individual, they were united, in 1457, and the church
dedicated to St. Nicholas was suffered to go to ruin.