PAULERS-PURY, a parish in the hundred of CLELEY, county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles (S.E. by S.) from Towcester, containing 1069 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's books at £24. 4. 2., and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. James, contains a curious ancient font- There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. William Marriott, in 1721, bequeathed certain land, directing the income to be applied in teaching six poor boys. The ancient Watling-street passes through the parish, in which coins of Constantino, Maximian, and other emperors have been found. Dr. Edward Bernard, a learned astronomer and Savilian professor at Oxford, was bom here in 1638; he died in 1697 P A Y 313 P E A PAUL/TON, a parish in the hundred of CHEWTON, county of SOMERSET, 9 miles (S.W.) from Bath, containing 1380 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Chewton-Mendip, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. There are places of worship for Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists.