118 IRTELINGBOROOGE, . Goodman Color-Sergt. A. drill in- iMassom Ernest, Railway inn Round Lawrence, farmer, Broadholme structor to R Co. ISt Vol. Batt. Metropolitan Brick & Tile Co. Lim. Rowton Harold, ·hair dresser NorthamptonshireRegt.12 Brook ter brick manufacturers Rye ,Samuel, stationer Goodman Sarah (Mrs.), Sow & Pigs Mitchell George Alvrie M.B., C.M. Saxby Alfred, tailor P .H Edin. physician & surgeon Saxby Hannah (Mrs.), coal merchant Groome Albert, butcher Neville Edward, shopkeeper Saxby Rhoda (Mrs.), confectioner Groome William, grocer Norman Charles, beer retailer Shelton Edwin, beer retailer Hands Henry F. grocer & draper Northamptonshire Union Bank Lim. Sherwood John Charles, shopkeeper Hazeldine Frederick John, shopkeeper (branch); Qpen tues. u.3o to 12.30 Shortland William & Son, boot & shoe Hobbs & Co. curriers & fri. I to 3; draw on Williams manufacturers Hooten Henry, carrier Deacon's Bank Limited, 20 Birchin Shortland Herbert, fruiterer Hooten William, farmer lane, London E C Shortland James, shopkeeper Horn & Partridge, boot & shoe mnfrs Pack Bros. who. boot & shoe manfrs Shortiand John, boot manufacturer Horn Ralph, butcher Parker Th{)mas, White Hmse P.H (wholesale & eXJ?.Ort) Horner George, beer retailer Parsons Frederick Arthur, baker Shrive Latimer, tailC>r Horner Robert, butcher Parsons Geo. frmr. & grazr. Mere ho Small Frank, florist Houghton Joseph E. baker Partridge Frank, grocer Spencer John, wholesale boot & shoe lngyon Jn. wheelwright & blacksmith Partridge Owen, boot manufacturer, manufacturer & farmer Inward Joseph John, Horse Shoe P.H see Horn & Partridge Stewart Orford, stationer Ireson Josiah, furniture dealer Pashley William Frederick, baker Streeton Henry, close upper manufr Industrial Co-opera- Payne Jas. Thos. hide & skin factor Thompson William, plumber & glazier tive Society (Thos.Butler, managr) Payne Ralph MC>rton, butcher Tunn Oliver R. ·shopkeeper Irthlingborough Working Men's Club Parkins & Co. drapers Turner George Herbert, draper & Institute Society Limited (J. H. Perkins Eli, shoe machinist Volunteer Battalion (xst) Northamp- Robinson, manager) Perkins John, grocer tonshire Regiment (R Co. Capt. R. Keech Thomas Alien, beer retailer Perkins l\Iary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Dulley; Color-Sergt. A. Goodman, King Edward, shopkeeper Parkins Percy, plumber drill instructor) King Frederick, grocer Perkins William B. close upper manfr Vorley Alfred, greengrocer Langley 1George, groce1" Pinnock Thomas, horse slaughterer Vorley Mary Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer Leadbeater Thomas, printer Rappit Mrs. shopkeeper & shopkeeper Lightstrung Cycle Co. (E. Millard, H.awlin Nellie (Miss), baker Vorse Edward, collector to the Urban manager) Robb William 1\LB. & C.M.Glas. 11ur- District Council Lilley & C{). curriers geon & medical officer of health to· Waddington }'rank, farmer Lilley Thos.wholesale boot & shoe mfr the Urban Dist. Council, The Limes Warren Josiah, butcher LoTell A. & Sons, blacksmiths Robinson George, gr·ocer Webb Edward, ooal merchant Maddison William E. shoe manufr Robinson Joseph, grocer White William Henry, hair dresser Massom Ellen (Miss), close upper mfr Rossiter Michael Jsph. (Mrs.), grocer Williams John, butcher : SUPERIOR and INFERIOR form a the rent of which, £12, is for apprentice fees; the church parish and village on the road from land of about 19 acres producing £19 for church pur­ to , 3 miles south-south-east from Ket- poses: in 1829 William Green bequeathed £300 in New taring, 4 north from Wellingborough, 8 south-west from £3 per Cent. Annuities, the annual dividends to be and 8 north-west from . applied to the purchase of an ox, cow or sheep, to be The !sham and station (locally in Burton divided among the poor of the parish on Christmas eve : Latimer), on the main line of the Midland railway, is in the same year Mrs. A. Green left £xg xgs. the divi­ about half a mile north-east. The Ise brook separates dends to be devoted to the support of the Sunday school ; !sham from Burton Latimer. The pariSih is in the also £40 Stock, the dividends for purchase of bread for Eastern division of the county, hundred of Orlingbury, the poor to be distributed at Christmas: the Constable's 1>etty sessional division, union and county court dis- land of 3 acres yields £3 for public uses and there is a trict of Wellingborough, rural deanery of Rothwell school charity of £3 yearly. The trustees of the late (first portion), archdeaconry of and dio- Mr. Perry, of Cottingham, are lords of the manor; Miss .cese of . The church of St. Peter is an Green~_ of !sham, Mrs. Jones, Henry Harper esq. and the ·edifice of stone in the Norman and Decorated styles, rector are the principal landowners. The soil is of a -consisting of chancel with north and south chapels, 1 good fertile mixed character; substratum, great oolite -clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, north and south limestone, sand and ironstone and upper lia.s clay. 'Porches and an embattled western tower containing a The chief crops are cereals. The area is I,401 acres ; clock and 6 bells, one being the gift of James Marriott rateable value, £6,6so; the population in 1901 was 34~. esq. of this parish: en the eastern gable of the nave Sexton John Mitchell sen is a small bell turret: in each of the chapels is a piscina ' ' · and in the south wall of the chancel a hagioscope: in Post O:ffice.-George Talbutt, sub-postmaster. Letters the pavement of the chancel is a small inscribed brass arrive by foot messenger from Kettering at 7·45 daily to John Boyville esq. ob. 1493 ; the effigy is lost and the except sunday; dispatched at g.~o a.m. & 5·30 & 7·5o inscription much worn: in 1.87o the church was reno- p.m. Burton Latimer, I! miles distant, is the nearest vated and restored, the chancel new roofed, and the money order & telegraph office north porch erected, at a cost of £r,ooo: there are Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1840 & about 130 sittings. The register dates from the year enlarged in 1875-6, for Ioo children; average attend- I70I. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £145, ance, 59; Miss Mary Ann Buswell, mistress including nearly 300 acres of glebe, with residence, in Railway Stations. the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough, and held since . . xgoo by the Rev. Edward James Atkins M.A. of Cam- Fmedon, Arthur RoJ!er, statiOn master . bridge University. The Wesleyan Reform chapel, built in !sham & Burton Lat1mer, Thomas Fourt, l!ltatton master :r861 at a cost, including site, of £350, has sittings for Carriers to Wellingborough, Thomas Shrive, wed. & sat.; 1 200 persons. The charities include 13 acres of land, Kettering, Thomas Shrive, fridays .A.tkins Rev. Edward James M.A.(rec- Ooleman Henry, blacksmith Manger Henry, florist tor), Rectory Oorbett Isaac, farmer Mitchell Alfred, painter Green Miss Ellis ~ Everard, geReral merchants Palmer Andrew, shoe maker Mar:riott James, Sant Hill home (Alfred Tu.rner, sub-agent), Isham Randall Geo. rnmer (steam & water), Maudson Mrs railway 11tation & corn merchant Randall David John Everard Hugh, farmer Reynolds Hannah (Miss), grocer Saintsbury Miss Fortescue William, farmer Shrive Thomas, carrier James Richard, o~~hoe maker Ward Thomas, beer !retailer COMMERCIAL. Johnson George, Old· Red Lion P.H Wells Alfred, farmer Bagshaw Sydney Francis, farmer Kemshead John, farmer Whitney 'William, jobbing gardener Biddies & Church, coal merchants Lewis Alfred, builder Willis Robert, shopkeeper (William Wittering, a,!!'ent) Lew1~~' Charles, builder WilS'On Edwd. beer retlr. & wheelwght Bayes Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper Lewis John, tailor

.ISLIP is .a village and. par~sh very pleasantly situ-j ston, rural deanery of Higham Ferrers (second portion), ated on a. h1ll about half a mile from Thrapston, from archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborougl1. which it is separated by the Nene, in the Northern The church of St. Nicholas is a small but beautiful division of the county, hundred of Huxloe, petty ses- edifice of stone in the Late Perpendicular style, con­ aional division, union and county court district of Thrap- si!ting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch