BYFIELD, a parish in the hundred of CHIPPINGARDEN,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 7 miles (S.W.
by S.) from Daventry, containing 903 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's boqks
at £28, and in the patronage of the President and Fellows
of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The church is dedicated
to the Holy Cross. In 1694, Samuel Greenwood
bequeathed a rent-charge of .£3.14. for teaching seven
poor children-; and, in 1779, the Rev. John Knightly
left £2. 17- 6- per annum, which is now paid to the
master of a Sunday school.