146 PRINCES RISBOROUGH• BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. [KELLY'B • tural Association holds a show every year of roots anHorsenden, the­ £100 by Thomas Meade, of Princes Risborough, in 1783, Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford, Georg& for apprenticing poor children; a portion of an estate Stratton esq. and Miss Farrer are the chief landowners. left by Mrs. Katherine Pye, of Bradenham, in 1733, for and there are many smaller owners. The soil is very the education chiefly of children here and at Hughenden, variable, but generally light and chalky on the hills; OD Bradenham, Towerseyand West Wycombe, but also for the lowlands loamy, some parts strong clay; subsoil, chalk the relief of six poor widows; one nomination to Christ's and clay. The chief crops on the light lands are barley, HQspital, left by Richard Stratton in 1772; a meadow, oats and turnips; low lands, wheat, beans and barley. bequeathed by Mrs. Elizabeth Eustace, in 1784, to The area is 4,693 acres of land and 4 of water; assessable­ provide "lots of linen" for the poor; an allotment of value £9,263; the population in the civil parish in 1891 30 ,perches to provide funds for repairs to the (including the ecclesiastical parishes of Lacey Green, chtirch '; and 40 acres granted to the poor in lieu of Loosley Row and Speen) was 2,318, and of the eeclesias. common rights; the total sum amounts to about £36 tical, 1,269. yearly. Several trenches and banks, on the west side LONGW'ICK is a hamlet 2 mil~ north-west, neal" of the churchyard, called "The Mount," and inclosed • with a moat are popularly supposed to be the site of the Icknield way, and has Baptist and WesleyaD a palace of Edward the Black Prince, but called by the chapels. A Church of England service is conducted iD Rev. F. Wise RD. the antiquary, a Saxon camp. Henry the schoolroom on Sundays. Ill. gave the lordship of Risborough to Richard Plan- Sexton, John Barnard Bailey, Church street.

OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIQ,NS &;c. Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel PUBLIO OFFIOERS. Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Market pI. (Sub-Office. Letters should have S.O. Bucks added.­ Assistant Overseer, John R Bailey, Church street Samuel Adcock, postmaster. Letters arrive from Tring Assessors & Collectors of Taxes, Thomas Parsons, Lion by mail cart at 6.45 a.m. & a direct mail from London brewery &; John B. Bailey by rail at 10 a.m. & 7,.3° p.m.; dispatched H.40 a.m. &; Certifying Factory Surgeon, Frank Spencer Watson 6 & 6.45 p.m. via Oxford week days; on sundays arrive M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond. Chiltern house at 6.45 a.m. only; dispatched at 4 p.m Medical Officer &; Public Vaccinator, 5th District, Wy, Wall Letter Box, at Parkfield, cleared at 10.25 a.m. &; combe Union,Joseph Bayle McKayM.D.,M.Ch.MarketpI 5.35 p.m.; sundays, 8,45 a.m Registrar of Births &; Deaths, Princes Risborough Sub-Dis­ Wall Letter Box, Longwick, cleared at 7.35 a.m. & 5.15 trict &; Relieving &; Vaccination Officer, No. 3 District, p.m. week days only Wycombe Union &; School Attendance Officer, Harry George Wood, 2 Hampden villas OOUNTY MAGISTRATES Sanitary-Inspector to Wycombe Rural District Council. Acting for Princes Risborough Division of the Petty Ses­ John Pope Fordom, Parkfield cottage sional Division of three hundreds of Aylesbury. PLACES OF WORSffiP, with times of Services. Jaques Leonard esq. Horsendon house, Princes Ris­ St. Mary's Church, Rev. Josiah Mander, reetor; 10.30 borough S.O. chairman a.m. &; 6 p.m Buckinghamshire Earl of D.L. Hampden house, Great School Chapel, Longwick; 3 p.m Missenden R.S.O Baptist, Bell street, Rev. John Hawley Markham; 10.30 Forrest John esq. Grimsdyke, Lacey Green, Princes a.m. & 6 p.m.; wed. 7 p.m Risborough S.O Baptist, Longwick; 2.30 & 6 p.m Gibson-Craig Henry Vivian esq. lAdy Mede, Little Wesleyan, Station road; 3 & 6 p.m Kimble, Tring Wesleyan, Longwick; 2.30 &; 6 p.m Griffin James Whitehouse esq. Towersey manor,Thame Mission Hall, Aylesbury road Hewett Maj. John Maddy Moore, Uplands, Hughenden, High Wycombe SCHOOLS. Wykeham Philip James Digby esq. D.L. Tythrop ho. Thame National (mixed), erected in 1841, for 140 children; average attendance, 84; James W. Royston A.a.p. Clerk to the Magistrates, Fredk. B. Parrott, Aylesbury master; Mrs. Royston, mistress Petty sessions held monthly on the third thursday at British (mixed), erected in 1836, for 139 children; aver­ the Literary Institute, High street, at H. The age attendance, 90; AIDos Mellers, master places in the division are :-Askett, Ellesborough, National, Longwick, erected in 1874, for 100 children; Great Kimble, Kimblewick, Lacey Green, Little Kim­ average attendance, 8o; Charles Oswald Ayres, master ble, Longwick, Loosley Row, Marsh, Meadle, Monks Risborough, Owlswick, Princes Risborough &; Speen Railway Station. Great Western Railway, Frederick John Buckland, station PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. master; John William Dover (exors. of), agents Assembly Rooms &; Lecture Hall, High street, Herbert Robert Button, proprietor CARRIERS TO :- Inland Revenue Office, George inn, Alphonso Ball, Ayles- Aylesbury-William Coles, from his house, to I Hull's bury, supervisor; officer, John Eckersley, Wellingtonia. Head,' wed. &; sat Princes Risborough London-Absolom Lacey, passes through on thurs. for Literary Institute &; Reading Room, High street, Charles I The Lamb,' Old Bailey Bloss, soo Thame-William Coles, from his house, to I Cross Keys: Princes Risborough Agricultural A.ssociation, W. G. Hum- tues phreys, Owlswick manor Wycombe-William Coles, from his house, to CThreq Volunteer Fire Brigade, Geo. Stratton, captain, &; II men I Tuns,' mono &; fri PRINCES RISBOROUGH. Clark Mrs. High street Farrar Miss, High street PlUVATE USID:BNTS. Dell Mrs. Bell ,street Grange Mrs. Bell street Barlow Mrs, Bardolph villa. East John, Manor farm King Mrs. Wardrobe9 Bell John, 5 Hampden villas East Thomas, Culverton Looseley Joseph, High stree~ Benning Mrs. High street East Timothy, Ohurch street Mander Rev. Josiah (rector) . Burch Mrs. High street East William, Chestnut villa Markham Rev. John Hawley (Baptist), Chilton Allan GeclTgp, Parkhurst Eggle,ton Mrs. Aylesbury road The Manse