TINGEWICK, a parish in the hundred of BUCKINGHAM, and county
of BUCKINGHAM, 2 miles (WbyS.) from Buckingham,
containing 832 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of
Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £12. 16. S., and
in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of New
College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Mary
Magdalene, exhibits some remains of Norman architecture,
and contains a curious brass to the memory of
Erasmus Williams, who died rector of this parish in
1608. Here was formerly a market on Tuesday, granted
in 1246, to the abbey De Monte Rothomago in Normandy,
to which the manor had previously been given
by the family of Finmore. The Rev. Francis Edmonds,
about the middle of the last century, endowed a charity
school with £15 per annum, for teaching and clothing
six. boys and six girls; it is now conducted on the
National system.