ASHBY (CANONS), a parish in the hundred of
GREEN'S-NORTON, county of NORTHAMPTON, 8 miles
(W. by N.) from Towcester, containing, with the chapelry
of Adstone, 203 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese
of Peterborough, and in the patronage of Sir J.
Dryden, Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.
Here was anciently a priory of Black canons, founded
about the time of John, the revenue 'of which, at the
dissolution, was £127. 19.