DEENE, a parish in the hundred of CORBY, county
of NORTHAMPTON, 6 miles (E. by N.) from Rockingham,
containing, with the hamlet of Deenthorpe, 458
inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough,
rated in the king's books at £24. 3. 6. The Earl of
Cardigan was patron in 1820. The church is dedicated
to St. Peter. Here was anciently a priory, a cell to
the abbey of Westminster, which was suppressed soon
after the Conquest, by cons-ant of the abbot and convent,
who accepted an annuity in lieu of its revenues.