SOULBURY, a parish in the hundred of COTTESLOE,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 3 miles ("W. N. W.) from
Leighton-Buzzard, containing 547 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln. Sir John Lovett,
Bart, was patron in 1808. The church is dedicated to
All Saints. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists. Robert Levet, in 1710, and the Rev. John
Sambee, in 1728, liberally endowed with land a school
for twenty-four boys and girls, one of the former to be
apprenticed annually.