LAUNDE, a liberty (extra-parochial), in the eastern
division of the hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER,
6 miles (W.N.W.) from Uppingham, containing
36 inhabitants. A priory was founded here, in the
reign of Henry I., by Richard Basset, and Maud his
wife, for Black canons of the order of St. Augustine,
the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was valued at
£510. 16. 5.: the chapel and burial-ground are still
preserved.