NEWTON-PURCELL, a parish in the hundred
of PLOUGHLEY, county of OXFORD, 5 miles (N.N.E.)
from Bicester,; containing 143 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, with that of Shelswell, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Oxford, rated in the king's books at
£3. 15. 5. J.Harrison, Esq. was patron in 1805. The
church is dedicated to St. Michael.