FAWSLEY, a parish in the hundred of FAWSLEY, county of NORTHAMPTON , 5 miles (S. by W.) from Daventry, containing 22 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and dio- cese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £7. 9. 7. Sir C. Knightley, Bart, was patron in 1819. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, contains several fine monuments of the Knightley family, lords of this manor since the time of Henry III.; and at whose mansion, Fawsley park, the parliamentarian party came to their decisive resolutions previously to the breaking out of the great civil war. A weekly market was formerly held on Thursday. Dr. John Wilkins, a celebrated divine and mathematician, was born here in 1614.