DESBOROUGH, a parish in the hundred of ROTHWELL,
county of NORTHAMPTON, 1 mile (N.N.W.) from
Rothwell, containing 90S inhabitants. The living is
a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the
king's books at £8, endowed with £10 per annum private
benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. R. S. Cotton,
Esq. was patron in 1800. The church is dedicated to
St. Giles. Ferdinando Poulton, an eminent lawyer, who
compiled the statutes at large, from Magna Charta to
the 16th of James I., was born here 5 he died in 1617,
and lies buried in the chancel, under a plain slab, with
a latin inscription.