LUFFIELD-ABBEY, a liberty (extra-parochial),
partly in the hundred of BUCKINGHAM, and county of BUCKINGHAM, and
partly in the hundred of GREENS-NORTON, county of
NORTHAMPTON, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Buckingham.
The population is returned with Stowe. A Benedictine
priory, in honour of the Virgin Mary, was founded here
about 1124, by Robert Bossu, Earl of Leicester, which,
falling into decay from the inadequacy of its endowment,
was suppressed in 1494, and annexed to the collegiate
church at Windsor; but in 1500 it was given to the
abbot and convent of Westminster by Henry VII., who
was then building the chapel still known by his name.
In the reign of Edward IV. its possessions were valued
at £19. 19.2. per annum. A farm-house occupies the
site of the conventual buildings, of which no traces
remain.