MORDEN (STEEPLE), a parish in the hundred
of ARMINGFORD, county of CAMBRIDGE, 5 miles (W. by N.)
from Royston, containing 614 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Ely, rated in the king's books at £6. 18. 6., endowed
with £600 private benefaction, and £600 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows
of New College, Oxford. The church is dedicated
to St. Peter and St. Paul: the steeple fell to the ground
about seventy years since.