CHETWOOD, a parish in the hundred of BUCKINGHAM, and county of BUCKINGHAM, 5 miles (S. W. by W.) from Buckingham, containing 131 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to that of Barton-Hartshorn, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and, £600 royal bounty. The church, dedicated to St. Mary and St, Nicholas, was made parochial in 1480 5 it is. remarkable for some beautiful specimens of stained glass formerly belonging to a priory of Augustine monks, founded,by Sir Ralph.de Norwich, in . 1244, which was dissolved on account of its poverty, in 1460, and annexed to the abbey of Nutley: there was also a hermitage, dedicated to St. Stephen and St. Lawrence, founded by a member of the . Chetwode family, the representative of which claims suit and service, by prescriptive right, over this place and the neighbouring townships- and hamlets of Barton, Tingewick, Preston with Cowley, Hillersdon, Gawcott, Lenborough, and Bucks Prebend-end; and accordingly requires the constables of all these villages, which were said to be included within the .limits of an ancient forest of one thousand acres, called, Rockwood, to be sworn at his court leet held here at Easter. . .