MARKET-OVERTON, (Rutland) 3 m. from Okeham, had anciently a Mt. and was called Overton from its situation on a hilly ground. Here is supposed to have been a station of the Romans, plenty of their coins having been found here. Its Mt. which was on Tu. was procured in the R. of Edw. II. by the Ld. Badlesmere, together with its Fairs on May 6, and Oct. 18. In the R. of Edw. III. this manor bel. to John Vere Earl of Oxford, who married an heiress of Ld. Badlesmere. Upon his flight and attainder for adhering to the House of Lancaster, it was given by K. Edward and the Pt. to the D. of Glocester, who was K. Richard III. but afterwards he recovered it. In the R. of Henry VIII. it bel. to Hen. Courtney Marquis of Exeter, and upon his execution in the same R. it came to the crown; and in the 3d year of Edw. VI. the K's. receiver for these parts accounted in the court of augmentations, for the rents and profits of this manor, the sum of 19 l. 14 s. 6 d.