7 44 BRINGTON. . [KELLY S bis countess, 1851; and Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth for the villages of Great and were (Seymour), his :znd wife, 1877: in the chancel is a established in 1892 by the 5th Earl K.G., P.C. floor stone with arms to Lawrence Washington, 1616 a well 202 feet deep being sunk in the marlstone rock. (who removed here from Sulgrave), and Margaret K.G., G.C.V.O., P.C. is lord of the manor (Butler) his wife; and there is also an inscribed brass, and principal landowner. The soil is clay and gravel; with the same arms differenced by a crescent, to subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, :Robert Washington, younger brother of the above, barley and oats ; about half the parish is pasturage. .ob. 1622, and Elizabeth his wife; Lawrence Washing­ The area is 3,o6B acres; rateable value, £4,796; the ton, above mentioned, was the father of the Rev. population in 1911 was 681. Lawrence Washington M.A. of Sulgrave, and rector of Purleigh, Essex, 1633-43, whose two sons, John and LITTLE BRINGTON is a hamlet about three-quarters Lawrence, emigrated in 1657 to Virginia, and from the of a mile south-west from the village of . former descended George Washington, the first President The chapel of ease, erected in 1856, at the sole expense of the United States: the Washingtons of Sulgrave and of the 4th Earl Spencer K.G. is a building of stone in Brington were related to the Spencers through Catherine the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, (Kitson), Lady Spencer, first cousin of Lawrence Wash­ south porch and a tower with spire at the north-east ington, mayor of in 1532 and 1545: the angle, containing one bell, and has ISO sittings. The arms of this family, "arg. two bars gu, in chief three Baptist chapel here, an edifice of red brick, erected in mullets of the ~cond," were adopted with modifications 1825, seats 280 persons; adjoining is a large room, as those of the United States of America: there are built in 1887 by subscription, and used as a Sunday also brasses to the wife of Viscount (d. r81B), school. and for concerts and meetings. The land is .and to her infant son ; to Charlotte Frances Frederica, about two-thirds pasture, the remainder arable. The wife of the 5th Earl Spencer (d. 1903), and to Margaret, soil is a mixture of loam, ·clay and gravel. wife of the present Earl Spencer (d. 1906): during the , from which the hundred is named, is a small years 1903-4 the church was restored, the walls being hamlet, included in the parish of Brington. renovated, the western gallery removed, the seats ll'emodelled and the floor relaid: the chancel was pro- Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Great Brington.-Miss Florence -vid~d by Earl Spencer with a marble floor, and panelled Brown, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from North- in oak along the south wall: a new lectern and carved ampton at 7· 10 a.m. & 12.15 p.m.; sundays, 7.30