CLIFFE (KING'S), a parish in the hundred of
WiLLYBRooK, county of NORTHAMPTON, 31 miles
(N. E. by N.) from Northampton, and 88 (N. N. W.) from
London, containing lOSO inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of-Northampton, and diocese
of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at
£13.16. 3., and in the patronage of the Earl of Westmorland.
The church is dedicated to All Saints. This
was formerly a market-town; the market, which was
held on Tuesday, has fallen into disuse, but there is still
a fair on the 29th of October. The Rev. William Law,
a nonjuring divine and polemical writer, was born .at
this place, in 1686, where, after residing in it during the
last twenty years of his life, he died in 1761. A school
for twenty boys and fourteen girls, and three almshouses,
were- endowed, principally with a bequest of
lands and houses, by Elizabeth Hutchinson, in 1745,
which yield an annual income of £260.