UPTON, (Warwickshire) bet. Itchington and Offchurch, bel. once to the mon. of Coventry, but at the Diss. Henry VIII.
granted it to Thomas Ld. Wriothesley, his chancellor; from whom it some time ago came, after passing through several
hands, to the Spensers of Althorp, and since to the late Mr. Spenser of Clardon; and from him to John Snell, of the U. of
Glasgow, who bequeathed this manor in 1679, then at 450 l. a year, for the maintaining Scots scholars, not exceeding 12,
at Oxford, to be chosen from the Coll. of Glasgow, or some other Coll. in Scotland, who were to enjoy the exhibition 10 or
11 years, and then to return home to seek preferment.