HENLEY IN ARDEN, (Warwickshire) 72 cm. 85 mm. from London, near the r. Arrow, was anciently a member of Wotton-Waven, but afterwards annexed to Beaudesert, where was once a castle of the Montforts, and a Mt. kept at it by grant of K. Stephen, which was the occasion of building the T. for the reception of the Mt.-people, at the bottom of the hill whereon the castle stood. The Mt. was held on M. as it is now, and it had a Fair Sept. 1, as it has now on St. Luke's-day. About the time of the battle of Evesham it was burnt; but in the R. of Edw. I. it recovered, and was called the Bor. of Henley. From the Montforts it passed to the Beauchamps Earls of Warwick, and from his heirs it descended in the R. of Rich. II. to Sir Tho. Boteler, whose descendant, Sir Ralph, Ld. Sudeley, in the R. of Hen. VI. obtained for it not only St. Luke's Fair, but another on Whitsson-T. From the Botelers it passed by marriage to Sir John Norbury and Will. Belknap, Esq; who alienating it to Ambrose Dudley Earl of Warwick, it came to the crown by his death without issue, and there continued till K. James I. gave it to John Ld. Digby. Here is a chapel of ease to Waveney, the p. Ch. which chapel was first built in the 41st of Edw. III.