WYRARDISBURY, or WRAYSBURY, a parish
in the hundred of STOKE, county of BUCKINGHAM, 3
miles (8. W. by S.) from Colnbrook, containing 520 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual
curacy of Langley-Marish annexed, in the archdeaconry
of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the
king's books at £ 14. 10. 5., and in the patronage of
the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is dedicated
to St. Andrew. A Benedictine nunnery, in honpur
of St. Mary Magdalene, was founded at Ankerwyke,
in this parish, in the time of Henry II., by Sir Gilbert
de Montfichet, which at the dissolution was valued at
£45. 14. 4.