COTTERSTOCK, a parish in the hundred of WILLYBROOK, county of NORTHAMPTON, 2 miles (N. N. E.) from Oundle, containing 159 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with that of Glapthorn united, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Earl of Westmorland. The church, 'dedicated to St. Andrew, with its tower, is an interesting edifice, exhibiting portions in every style of English architecture, and some remains of stained glass in the fine tracery of the windows: it' anciently had a college for a provost, twelve chaplains, and two clerks, founded in 1336, by John Gifford, clerk, a canon in the cathedral church of York; three' stone stalls still remain in the chancel. In 1658, Clement Bellamy bequeathed land, producing about £5 per annum, for two exhibitions to two poor scholars at Cambridge, and for apprenticing poor children.