WESTON-UNDERWOOD, a parish in the hundred
of NEWPORT, county of BUCKINGHAM, 1 mile (W. S.
W.) from Olney, containing.420 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham,
and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with a rentcharge
of £8 and £200 private benefaction, and £400
royal bounty, and in the patronage of Robert Throckmorton,
Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence.
The parish is bounded on the south by the
river Ouse, and contains the ancient seat, now uninhabited,
of the Throckmorton family, who have also a
neat Roman Catholic chapel here, with a handsome residence
for the priest. In this pleasant village Cowper
resided for several years during the latter part of his
life; and the neighbourhood is supposed to have
furnished many of his descriptions of rural scenery.