294 WATERPERRY. OXFORDSHIRE. [ KELLY'S glass to Waiter Curson e.sq. and Isabel (Saunders) his the ClaSISic style, pleasantly situated in an extensive park wife, 1527, and there are bra.sses in the nave to the of rich pastu;re land and pleasure grounds, through same persons, including effigies of both and six children, which flows the river Thame. The soil is loamy; sub-' with four shields and a. mutilated marginal inscription, soil, g:rovel and clay. The chief crops are grass, wheat, divided· by skulls and oross bones: these figures are barley and beans. The area. is 1,8g8 aCTes, a portion of specially interesting as an example of an unusual kind of which is woodland; ratoohle value, £2,548; the p{)pula­ palimpsest: they originally il'epresented other persons lation in 1891 wrus 164. and dated from aJbout 1440-50, but by various alterations Thomley is a hamlet of the parish, 2 miles north from ood additions have been made to suit their present pur­ the villa,gl\ partly in Buckinghamshire, and contains llne po.se: near these is an effigy in brass to Isabel Beaufo, farm and a. few cottages; area is 55r acr-es; rateable the Norman-Frenoh inscription of which is lost: on the value, £so6; the population in 1891 was 18. Lord south wall is a monument to Sir Francis Curson kt. cf C1ifden is the sole landowner. Waterperry, d. 1610: there are r8o sittings, go being free. The register dates from the year 1678 ; an older Parish Olerk, Charles Waters. regisber is in the posseSision of Joseph J. Henley esq. LetteWATERSTOCK is a parish and village, 1 mile north- charge £250, average £r86, gross yearly value £206, net west frO'IIl Tiddington station on the Wyoombe and Ox- income £186, including 13 acres of glebe, with residence, ford section of the Great Western railway, 5 miles west in the gift of W. H. Ashhuf!st esq. and held since 1856 from Thame and 9 east from Oxford, in the Southern by the Rev. James Henry Ashhurst M.A. of Exetel' division of the county, hundred, union and county court College, Oxford, hon. canon of Christ Church, Oxforrl, district Gf Thame, petty s~ssional division of Bullingdon, and surrogate. Bernnett's charity of £8 yearly is dis­ il'ural deanery of Cuddesden and archdeaconry and diocese tributed in money; Q certain number of aged men and of Oxford. The river Thame winds round part of the women of this parish have a claim to nomination as in­ parish. The chureh of St. Leonarrd is a £llllall building mat-es of the Oroke almshouses at Studley. Waterstock of stone, rebuilt; in 1792: the tower and north aisle, House, the seat of William Henry Ashhurst esq. D.L .• which are of Pe:rpendicular date, and the rood stairs J.P. and M.F.El. lord of the manor and sole landowner, are the only portions with any pretensions to antiquity: is a substantial mansion of stone, pleasantly situated on a the church consists m chancel, nave, north ali.Sile, north gentle emin~:mce near the oentre of the village; t11e and south porohes and a tower with a singular bell cDte dining-room contains a good collection of family por­ on its eastern side, containing a clock and 6 bells, the traits ; the river Thame fiOIWs near the house. The soil 3 old bells having been reca:st in 1889 and 3 new ones is gravel and loam; su:bsoil, gravel. The chief crops added: in the north aisle is a canopied monument with are wheat, barley and beans. The area. is 659 acres; :a bust in judicial raoos holding a book in one hand and the rateable vaJue, £1,793; the population in 1891 was q6. other resting on a skull, and an inscription to Sir George Parish Cle.rk, James Paxslow. Croke kt. a Justice of the King's Bench in the reign cf Charles I. and a strenuous opposer of the Ship Money Draycott, a hamlet fmmerly included in the parish of Tax, who died at his house here, r6 Feb. 1541 _2 : some Ickford (Bucks), now forms part of this parish, and is fragments Df ancient glass remain; these include por- situated three-quarters of a mile east distant from the tions of the figure of an archbishop, probably intended village. for George Nevill, who held the see m Ymk from 1464 Post Office.-James Pai!'slow, sub-postmaster. Letteu to 1476; and mutila-ted figures of saints: there is a hand- 1 from Oxford, via Wheabley, arrive at 8 a. m. ; dis- som.e reredns, adorned with a representation of "The patched at 5·45 p.m. ; sundlay, arrive at 8 a. m. ; dis- Last Supper": the font is cylindrical: the wall painting patched at 10.20 a.m. Great Milton is the nearest is also noteworthy: most of the windows are stained ; money order & telegraph office one in the north aisle displays heraldically the National School (mixed), for 30 children; average at- alliances of the Ashhurst family from the time of the tendance, 25; Miss Annie Summersby, mistress Conquest: in the north aisle is a brass, placed by the rector, giving a complete list of the sovereigns ··of Eng- Carriers tPyrton, union of Henley, Thame county court dis- oak were executed from designs by the late Mr. Edwin trict, rural deanery of As ton and arch deaconry and dio- Dol by, architect, of Abingdon: the church was thoroughly cese of Oxford. The town is lighted with gas from restored in 1877 at a C()St (){ £4,029: a reredDs of carved W()rks, the property of Mr. Frank Morris, erected here oak, pan-elled and gilded, representing the Annunciation, in 1866. The church of St. Leonard is a plain building was placed in the ohurch in r88g: there are about 520 of flint with stone dressings, in mixed $tyles, mostly sittings, about haM of which are appropriated. The Perpendicular, and consisting of chancel, nave of eight regist-er dates from the year 1635. The living is a bays, aisles, south porch, organ chamber, south chantrry, vical'age, tithe rent-charge £62, average £47• net yearly vestry and an embattled western tower of the 14th value £2oo, including 61 acres of glebe, with residence-. century, 58 feet in height, containing 6 bells, dated in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1887 rE-spectively 1587, 1635, 166o, 1663 (two) and 1875: the by the Rev. Basil Tilson Shaen Carter M.A. of :Kew stained east window of the sout·h chancel aisle is a C'Ollege, Oxford. 'f!here are Congregational and Prim:i­ memorial to the late Rev. William Preston Hulton :M.A. tive Methodist chapels, and a Wesleyan ch~pel in Shjr­ of Watlington, d. 14 Aug. 1870, and was placed in 1887 burn street, erected in 1812. The Town Hall, "Whiob by Julia Anne (Griffin), his 2nd wife: the east window stands in the centre of the t{)wn, was erected in :1664. by