RAVENSTONE, a parish in the hundred of NEWPORT, county of BUCKINGHAM, 3 miles (W.byS.) from Olney, containing 418 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with the fee-farm rent of the manor of Ravenstone, amounting to about £84 per annum, rated in the king's books at £6. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham. The church, dedicated to All Saints, contains a splendid monument to the memory of Heneage Finch, Earl of Nottingham, and Lord High Chancellor of England, who died in 1682. Besides the gift of the above endowment, and another of £10 per annum towards ornamenting the church, his lordship founded an hospital for six men and six women, with a weekly allowance of three shillings and sixpence each, and a gown every year. A charity school was founded by the Rev. Mr. Chapman, a former vicar, for-all the poor-children of the parish: the income is £ 12 per annum. A small monastery of Black canons, an honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was founded here -by Henry III., about the thirty-ninth year of his reign, which, in the 16th of Henry VIII., was valued at £66. 13. 4., and given to Cardinal Wol- sey, towards the endowment of his intended colleges.