WILLEN, a parish in the hundred of NEWPORT,
county of BUCKINGHAM, 1 mile (S.) from Newport-
Pagnell, containing 83 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese
of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £7. 10., and in
the patronage of the Trustees of the late Dr. Busby,
who nominate a Westminster student of Christ Church
College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Mary
Magdalene, was erected in 1680, at the expense of
Dr. Busby, head-master of Westminster school, who
endowed it with the great tithes, and gave a library
for the use of the vicar; he also appointed twenty-two
lectures on the catechism to be preached annually.