DIRECTORY.] 489 QUAINTON. [BUCKS.] Cotter Elizabeth (Mrs.), milliner &c. Church street Loosley Richard William, grocer & ironmonger; High street Cotter James, f'ellmonger & woolstapler, Church street Martin Thomas, farmer, Monkton farm, Speen Crook Joseph, Bell, & chair maker, High street Nash George, wheelwright, High street Darvill Richard, baker &c. High street Nottingham Joseph, boot & shoe maker, Duke street Dormer Eli, beer retailer, Loosley road Paine Edwin, baker & miller, Don::ett Charles, general dealer, Bell street Parslow Solomon, blacksmith, High street Dover John William, George commercial inn, & inland Parslow Thomas, farmer, Speen revenue office, High street Parsons Thomas Rogers, ale & porter brewer & hop mer- Dover William Henry, Railway tavern, Railway station chant, Market place East William, veterinary surgeon, High street Partington Samuel, Cross Keys, High street Edmonds John, shopkeeper, Longwick Payne Caroline (Miss), ladies' school, High street Edmonds Thomas, Red Lion, & wheelwright, Loug·wick Perrin J olw, tailor, Duke street Eggleton Benjn. chemist & druggist & stationer, :Market pl Porter James, boot & shoe maker, Duke street Eg!:l"leton Ellen & Sons, farmers, Wardrobes Piper Elizabeth (1\Iiss), day school, Bell street Eggleton George, farmer, Culverton Plater Alfred Thomas, engineer & millwrig·ht, Aylesbury rd Feasey J ames, farmer, Randall William, blacksmith, Floyd J atnes, gardener, Bell street Rogers Abel, maltster & corn dealer, Market place Floyd .John, farmer, Lacey green Rogers William, IJuke of Wellington, Longwick Floyd Joseph, shopkeeper, Lacey green Russell George, mealman, Culverton mill Foster George, tailor, Duke street Saw J oseph, beer rPtailer, Parkfield Gibbons Samuel, farmer, Speen Smith Josiah, butcher, Duke street Gill Sarah (Miss), general dealer, High street Stevens Charlotte (Mrs.), King William, Speen Gilks Thomas, chair turner, Loosley row Stevens George, tailor, Speen Ginger John, beer retailer, Lacey green Stone Thomas, farmer, Lacey green Ginp,-er Martha ( 1\'Irs. ), day school, I,oosley row Stratton Charles, landowner & farmer, Church end Gomme John, blacksmith, Loosley row Stratton Charles, farmer, Longwick Goodchild James, farmer, Longwick Stratton J ames, farmer, Church end Goodchild .John, farmer, Longwick Sulston Thomas, Buckingham Arms, Duke street Harding Edmund, blacksmith, Longwick Syred James, boot & shoe maker, High street Harding· William, farmer, Speen Syred Thomas, Crown, & bricklayer, Duke street Hanwell Thomas, beer retailer, Parkfield Tapping Anu & Son, shopkeepers & butchers, Duke street Hawes Jesse, shoe maker, Lacey green Tarrant Martha (Miss), landowner & farmer, Allscott lodge Hawes Thoma~, farmer, Longwick 1'Pmpemnce ~· General Provident Institution, Duke st Hickman Richard, greeng·rocer, Duke street 'I'horp \Villiam, chemist & druggist & stationer, High street Hillsden George, boot & shoe maker, Duke street Tomkins Thomas, wheelwright, Loosley row Holes William, shopkeeper, High street Tyler Peter, farmer, Loosley row Hoflk James, blacksmith, Longwick Uff William, harness maker & beer retailei", Church end Hopcroft Job, tailor, High street Walker William, wheelwright, Longwick Horwood Henry, farmer, Longwick Ward Jacob, carpenter, Speen Horwood Joseph, farmer, Longwick ·ward Jesse, carpenter, Loosley row Howard Maria (Mrs.), turner, Loosley row Walker Thomas, Sportsman, Longwick .Jacob William, blacksmith, High street 'Varren Thomas Abbotts, M.R.c.s., L.A.c. surgeon, High st Janes Henry, Sprat, Loosley row W eleh Richard, butrher, Longwick Janes Henry, beer retailer, Flowers bottom West James, Rising Sun, & baker, Church street Johnstone Wm. farm bailiff to John Alison, esq. Manor farm West John, haker, High street Kingham James, White Horse, Longwick ·west Sarah (Mrs.), day school, Duke street Kingham George, farmer, Longwick Weston Trayton, grocer & draper, High street Kirby J ~>sse, butcher, Market street White Robert, farmer, Longwick Lacey Benjamin, draper & !lrocer, Duke street White Thomas Eggleton, builder, Duke street Lacey ,Tane (Mrs.), beer retailer, Loosley row Williams Thomas, farmer, High street Lacey Jeremiah, Black Prince, Parkfield Willott Abraham, farmer, Lacey green Lilley Sophia (Mrs.), Pink~· Lily, Parslow's hillock ·wood John, shopkeeper, Speen Little George, parcl1ment maker, High street Wright Thomas, plumber & glazier, Market place Loosley J oseph, farmer, Summerlays Young Thomas & J ames, mealmen, Park mill

QUAINTON, with SRIPTON LEE, DENRAM and DODDERSRALL. QuAINTON, or, as it was originally called, Qnainton stand his four children; on the base of the tomb is sculp­ Mallet, with the hamlets of Shipton Lee, Denham and tured the figure of a human skeleton with an hour-glass. Doddershall, is a large and widely scattered village and The living is a rectory, of the value of £650 per annum, parish, pleasantly situated, 7 miles north-west from Ayles­ with residence; the Rev. Edward Newton Young, B.A., bury, in the union and county court district of Aylesbury, is the incumbent. Here is a Baptist chapel. In the hundred of Ashendon, rural deanery of Claydon, arch­ village are the remains of an ancient stone cross. There deaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Oxford. The are eight almshouses, erected in 1687, for poor widows church of St. Mary is a large and handsome structure and widowers, by R. Winwood, Esq., son and heir to Sir in mixed styles of architecture, consisting of a nave, aisles, Ralph Winwood, Knt., principal secretary of state to King chancel, and tower at the west end in which are 5 bells James I., but only four of which are occupied, in conse­ with chimes, also a small chapel at tbe north side of the quence of the depressed state of the funds. There is also a chancel: the chancel, which is very spacious and in good charity left by Christabella Dowager Viscountess Saye and repair, contains several marble monuments and tombs Sele for apprenticing poor boys, both of this and the adjoin­ of great beauty and antiquity, amongst which may be ing parish of Grendon Underwood, but in consequence of mentioned one to the learned orientalist Richard Brett, one the accumulation of the funds, for want of a sufficient num­ of the translators of the Bible; also a very magnificent altar­ ber of objects of the charity, t\ school has been established, tomh to Robert Dormer, Esq.; the sculpture of the body of which is partly supported out of the surplus arising there­ the deceased, which is lying on its back, is supposed to be from. Petty sessions are held at the White Hart inn. of Italian workmanship, and is beautifully executed, while The population in 18()1 (including the hamlets) was 929; two other figures, lite size, are respectively at the head and the acreage is 5,3G8. feet, one standing and the other kneeling, both expressive SHIPTO~ LEE is a hamlet of and situated in the pari<>h of grief: there are also several brasses in excellent preser­ of Quainton, about one mile north-west from the villag·e, vation; one, in the year 1485, to John Spence, rector, and and 7 miles south-west from Winslow, in the hundred of a remarkable female half figure, which bears the name Ashendon, and union of Aylesbury. Johane Plessi, 1360: in the chapel, on the north side of the Parish Clerk, l\Jichael Cff. chancel, is a very finely executed altar-tomb to the memory -- of Richard Winwood, Esq., wl10 died in the year 1689; POST OFFICE.-John Shirley, poi.ltmaster. Letters are the monument, which is in beautiful white marble, repre­ received through Winslow at 8.4:J a. m.; dispatched at sents the deceased in a recumbent posture, cased in complete 3.10 p.m. The neare"t money order office is at \Vaddesdon armour, with the exception of the head, and on the wall Parochial School, Elisha Grimsdale, master hangs his helmet surmounted with the crest; behind him CARRIERS TO AYLE8BURY.-JamesKee\lle, wed. & sat.; rests his lady in an attitude of grief, and on the sides William Read, wed. & sat.; Edward Warner, wed. & sat