HENBURY, (Gloucestershire) near Bristol, 2 m. from St. Vincent's rocks, is a p. 25 m. in com. of which the part towards
the Severn is marshy. 'Tis also of large jurisdiction; for several lands in 11 adjacent ps. are held of it, and divers
fishings in the Severn bel. to it. In the R. of Edw. VI. it was granted by the crown to Sir Ralph Sadler; after which it
came to the Morses, whose family held it for several generations, till it went, by marriage of the heiress, first to Sir
Sam. Astrey, clerk of the crown in chancery, and afterwards to Simon Harcourt, Esq; clerk of the crown in the K's.-bench;
after whose decease it went to Lady Arabella Walden, her youngest daughter, by Sir Sam. Astrey, who married Henry Ld.
Walden, son and heir apparent of Henry then E. of Suffolk and Bindon. The impropriation of the vicarage bel. to Mr. Fane,
and is worth 200 l. a year. A fr. sc. was erected here by Mr. Edwards, of King's-Weston. In the chancel of its Ch. lies
Sir Robert Southwell, who died in 1702, after having been envoy extraordinary to several courts. Mr. Sampson has a seat
here. In this p. is a camp, with 3 rampiers and trenches, supposed to have been British.