NEWTON-LONGVILLE, a parish in the hundred
of NEWPORT, county of BUCKINGHAM, 3 miles (S. W.
by W.) from Fenny-Stratford, containing 486 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's
books at £ 20. 9. 7, and in the patronage of the Warden
and Fellows of New College, Oxford, by whose predecessors
the church, dedicated to St. Faith, was erected
about 1415. In the chancel are two piscina, one of
them bearing the arms of William of Wykeham, and of
others. An Alien priory of Cluniac monks, subordinate
to the abbey of St. Faith, at Longueville in Normandy,
was founded here in the reign of Henry I., and sup
pressed in 1415, when it was granted to New College,
Oxford. The learned Grocyn, tutor to Erasmus, and
one of the revivers of classical literature in the sixteenth
century, was rector of this parish.