96 HARDlNGSTONE. -NORTHAlVIPTONSHIRE. [KELLY'S :misehievous persons, who had been allowed to dis-1 & 6,40·p:m.; sunday, arrive 7·30 aoID.; dispat~hed 5'45 figure the monument, a committee was for. for its p-m restoration and protection; and in 1877 t~e Vapidated IllRDINGSTONE RURAL DISTRICT OOUNCIL. steps were renewed and the cross otherwIse renovated 0 under the direction of Mr. Edmund Law architect, of Meets at th{, Workhouse every 4 weeks after the meetIng Northampton, at a cost of £r50, towards which Her I. of the Har~ingst{)ne Board of GuardianS'. Majesty the Queen gave £25. The cross, with the oonsent ChaIrman, J. S. SmIth of the trustees of the Bouverie Estate, has now been en- Clerk, John Haviland M.A. 2 St. Giles' sq. Northampton trusted to the charge and care of the Northamptonshire Treasurer, Alfred Page, Union Bank, Northampton 'County Council. To the south-west of the cross is Medical Officer Hardingstone acres, and supposed to have been constructed by Surveyor, Joseph Cotterell Sturges, 14 Lutterworth road, 'Ostorius, the Roman General, about A.D. 50. During Northampton the war·s of the Roses a battle was fought in Delapre '[ meadows, July 10, 146o, between the royal troops and Police Station, Alfred Osborn, constable in charge the Yorkists, under the Earl of Warwick, in which the HARDINGSTONE UNION. Duke of Buckingham and. other nobles were kill~d: and I Board day, every alternate monday, at 2 p.m. in the Henry VI. was made prIsoner. There are chantIes of Board room, at the Workhouse.

the yearly value of [,85 I'!-S.: a !early.rent-charge oof I The union comprises the following places ~-Brafield-on- £1 6s. 8d. on. land In Collmgtree I~' applIed to the relIef the-Green, Castle Ashby, Cogenhoe, Collingtree, Cour- of. the :r:ecessItous poor. Mr: Ben]amm. Green, late of teenhall, Denton, Far Cotton, Great Houghton, Hackle- thIS pansh, gave. £60, ~o whIch the pansh added £40 ; ton, Hardingstone, Horton, Little Houghton, Milt{)n or the ~hole was laId out m land, and .the rearly rentB are Middleton Malsor, Piddington, Preston Deanery, Quin. applIed to the purchase of br.ead, to be gIveon to the poor ton, Roade, Rothersthorpe, Whiston, Wootton & Yard. -on Easter Monday: the chanty estates, whICh are under ley Hastings. The population of the union in Ig01 was the management of trustees, produce £55 7S. 8d. yearly, II 932 ' area 32 924 acres' rateable value in Ig02, which is applied in ,appr~nticing and in the .distribution £;9:4;4 ', -of bread and coals: the mterest of £270 , gIven by Mr. Chairman of the Board of Guardians, R. G. Scriven John Clark, is annually expended at Chris.tmas in the Clerk to Guardians & Assessment Committee, John 'Purchase of warm coats for the most neceSSItous poor of Haviland M.A. 2 St. Giles' square, Northampton this parish: M:s. Elizabeth .Mu:ray, ?f NortJhamp~n, Treasurer, Alfred Page, Union Bank, Northampton gave £300, the mterest of WhICh IS applIed yearly to the Relieving Officer for the Union John Alfred Bennett 'Purchase of clothing for poor women of this parish: Far Cotton ' • "General Everard William Bouverie, by will, in 1871, left Medical Officers & Public Vaccmators, Brafield district, £500 in 3 per cent. stock, the interest to be given to 10 Edward Parker Norman M.D. Yardley Hastings; Hard- 'Poor industrious families, after .the . dec~ase of two re- ingstone, George Henry Percival M.B. 66 Abington latives of the benefactor, and these dIed In 1886. James I street Northampton' Milton district, Waiter Henry Hervey MoA.. author of "Meditations among the Tombs," Ryan 'MoRoe.p.l. Road~ and some time rector of Weston Favell, was born here Superintendent Registrar, John Haviland M.A.. 2 8t. 26th February, 1714. Delapre Abbey, the. property. of the Giles' square, Northampton; deputy, John R. Phillips, trustees of the ~ate John Augustus Sheil Bouv~rIe esq. 2 St. Giles' square, Northampton -and now ~he reSIdence of John Cooper esq. J.P. IS a1;Jout Registrar of Marriages, Frederick Russell, Piddington; balf a mile south from. Northampton, and stands ID a deputy, Clarence Russell, Piddington well-wooded ~nd undU;latmg park of 346 a~res; the abb~y Registrars of Births & Deaths, Brafield sub-district, 'Was founded ID the reIgn of Stephen, by SImon de St. Llz William Jones, Denton; deputy, Miss Agnes Robinson, tbe younger, Earl of. Northampton, for nuns of the Denton; Hardingstone sub-district, Frederick Russell, Clun.lac o.rder, and dedI~ated to St. Mary de la Pre or de PiddingtoIl; deputy, Clare:nce Russlill, Piddington; PratIs; ItS revenues,. ID 26 Henry VIII. (1534) were Milton sub-district, John Alfred Bennett, Far Cotton; valued at £IIg, and It was s~J.rrendered Dec. 16th, 30 deputy, William Wright, Far Cotton Renrf V~I1. (r538): of ~h~ anCIent structure,.part of the Workhouse, Wootton, to hold 130 inmates, Rev. George dOl;mlte-rles and the prIDcIpa~ entrance remam as when Lynch Kemp, Wootton, chaplain; Waiter Ho Ryan, bmlt, but the sou;thern portIOn of the abbey ha~ been Roade, medical officer; Samuel Crowther Crompton, :uuch altered at dIfferent date~.. J. A. S. Bouvene esq. master; Mrs. Oaroline Crompton, matron; Sarah 1S lord of the manor. The SOlI IS clay and loam; sub- Judkins assistant matron 'Soil, stone and gravel. '!he chief crops are wheat, barley Hardingst~me Rural District Council Infectious Diseases and grass. The ar~a I~ 2,480 acres; rateable value, Hospital is a corrugated iron building, erected in 1893, £8,835; the populatIOn ID 1901 was 760. to hold 14 patients Cotton End and Far Cotton, formerly hamlet!! in this School Attendance Committee. parish, were incorporated in the borough of Northampton Meets at t~e Workhouse eve;y two months. ior parliamentary purposes in 1868, and constituted the Clerk, John Haviland M.A. 2 St. GIles' sq. Northampton vivil parish of Far Cotton under the" Local Government School Attendance Officer, In. Alfd. Bennett, Far Cotton Act, 1894." In pursuance of the Local Government Board A ISchool Board of five members was formed Nov. 22nd, Provisional Orders Confir=ation (No. 14) Act, r90o, 1895; Thomas Porter Jones, clerk & attendance officer which came into operation 9th November, 1900, the Schools. grea~e: part of Far Cotton ci~il parish was a~ded to ~he Board (mixed & infants), built in 1866, at the expense of mUDlClp31 boroL1~h of Northampton, the remamder bemg the late General Bouverie, & enlarged in 1895, for 160 annexed to Hardmgstone. children; average attendance, 85; Arth. Blick, master; Post & M. 0., T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., & A. & I. 0.- M'rs. Georgina l"ield, infants' mistress John Ogden, sub-postmaster. Letters delivered from Carriers to Northampton :-John Jackson, daily; Charles Northampton at 7 a.m. & 4.35 p.m. ; dispatched at 1.45 Cox, daily Bouverie John Augustus Sheil COMMERCIAL. Higgs Francis, Crown inn Bouverie Mrs Abbott WilIiam, sanitary inspector for Jackson John, shopkeeper & carrier Brice Ernest Edward, The Firs Hardingstone Rural District Council J ackson Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Cooper John J.P. Delapre abbey Anderton John, dairyman & farmer, Jones Thomas Porter, clerk & atten- Ewen Alfred, Hillside Bottom Lodlre farm dance officer to Hardingstone school Gibson George Langford,The Heights Blunt John, carpenter board "Gray William Parker, Rush J\