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Rh i 17-' 11ANAI.HI.K. monuments of the Kurla of Lath. There are chapels -jing to the Baptists and Bible Christian.-, and a school founded and endowed by Mrs. lYnt' m, in 1821 ; also an infant school, establish) d in 18-15, and supported by voluntary contributions. The charities of tin |>arish amount to X'J u year. l'( tty sessions arc held in the town. John do Bauipton, a native of this place, who died in 1391, was a Carmelite, and the first lecturer on Aristotle's philosophy at the University of Cambridge. There is a vale l>eatc spring in the parish. ' Inosday and Saturday are the market days. Fain are held on Whit-Tuesday, the Wednesday beiorc Lady- day, the last Thursday in ( i, t,,l., i. ;,i,d the last Wed- nesday in November, lor the sale of cattle and sheep. 1 -"hecp sold hero are celebrated for their size and flavour. HAMPTON HUNDRED, one of the fifteen hunds. or subdivisions of the co. of Oxford, situated in the western part of the county, and bounded on the N. 1 hund. of Chadlington, on the E. by the hun'd. of Wootton, on the a. by Berkshire, and on the W. by Gloucestershire. It comprises the following pars. : Alvescott, Asthall, Bampton, Blackbourton, Broad- well, Broughton Foggs, Burford, Clanfield, Duckling- ton, Koncott, Norton Brize, Standlake, Westwell, Wit- ncy, and Yclford, with parts of Longford and Shilton. Tlie hund. extends over an area of 42,000 acres. BA.M1TON, or r.AMriiix IN THE BUSH, a par. in the hund. of Bampton, in the co. of Oxford, It to the W. of Oxford, and 71 miles from London. It is situated on the north bank of the river Isis, a branch of which runs along the western border of the parish and falls into the Isis at Shifford. The par. contains the chplry. of Sliifford, and the hmlts. of Aston, Bright - hampton, Chimacy, Coate, and Weald. It is a place of great antiquity, its history running back beyond the time of the Norman Conquest. It appears in Domes- day Book as a market town. It had a castle, erected, as is generally supposed, early in the 14th century, by Aymcr do Valence, Earl of Pembroke, who held the manor of Bampton. The town is well built, and has a good supply of water. It has a new town- hall. Its staple trade was formerly in fellmongcry, and leather articles; but this trade has fallen oil, and the market which was held on Wednesday is dis-
 * i ned. The principal occupations of the place are

now agricultural. The living is a vie.* in the dioc. of Oxford, divided into three portions, called Bun; Bampton-Aston, and Hampton-Lew the first being of the vul. of i.'j.JO; the second, of 550; and the third of 300. The Dean and Chapter of 1 : patron, of all three livings. The church is a fine cruci- form y old and of groat interest. Some parts of it are of Norman architecture, others of the English style. It has a central tower surmounted by u lofty spire, and contains two monumental brasses, the oldest being of the year 1420. It is dedicated : Msrj-. There is a free grammar school, founded in 1670 by Kobcrt V< -.%, the, income of which, derived from several endowments, is 54 per annum. Tin 1 National school has also HI : t, and there arc s> parochial charities. The remains of the castle arc con- 1 into a farm-house. Phillips, the poet, author of .illiiig/'was a native of this town (1C7G). -'Gth and 27th of Aupi mori ' m IVmith, its post town. It lirs in . .surrounded on its east and west si of the inhabitants. In working a mine of copper on at Ueaaaud, in the part of the parish, am: - has The living is a vie.* in the dioc. of < nli of the vol. of 1(11, in the patimi. ol the '. cellor. The church is <! A fri- grammar school was Ml Sutton, a native of tin p.ush, whit!, an income from endowment of !<" for school requisites and library. 8ev : guished men have 1 the pupils of thissdu i)r. Mill, the biblical criti marriid the daughter of tin ! U.ihaull well ; and his nephew, Dr. Edmund Gibson, succei bishop of Lincoln and London, liaimlatoi Saxon Chronicles, and editor ol two editions of Can I'.i itannia ; Judge Wilson ; and latterly, 1 ' ishop of Lichfield (1841). Th., . school utMeasand, founded in 1711 bylii the income of which is at present about ' another small endowed school at l;-n:-ln!l, loua . Edmund Noble-the endowment of which ill 1:2 10. per annum. - "1 and ji library, there is a library in the vioai:. the Kcv. Dr. Jonathan Tlnclar, in 175U, which 1 lly in divi. Viscount Lonsdule. The charitable parish amount altogether to 190. N< village is Bampton Hall. BAMPTON GRANGE, a limit, in tin ton, West ward, in the co. of Westmoreland, 1 1 Bampton. r,AIIT,( BAMPTON, LITTLE, a tnshp. in the par. Bampton, ward and co. of Cumberland, 7 W. oi Carlisle. BAN ADA, a vil. in the ]>ar. of K of Leyny, in the co. of Sligo, 3 mi bcrcurry. It U seated in a pleasant spot on t 1 " of the river Moy. A monastery of the Aug was founded here in 1423, and its lofty i standing. Near it is the modern man.-! Abbey, the seat of D. Jones, Ksq. A 1 here, and fairs are held on the 17th ," the IBth Slav, and the 7tli A.. BANAGB 11AKONY, one of the six 1 sions of the co. of Donegal, in the prov. oi i .' ujiying the south-western part of the com bounded on the N. by tin Ai n and of Boylagh, on the K. by the bars, of Kaphoe i S. by II. I i on th. V. Atlantir ( in an. Itcontainsthepars. of (.:;. Jnver, Kileur, Killaghtf. 1'jiper Killyl niard, with ]>arts of Inni.shkecl and 1,< and the town of Ardora. The bar. ha an area < acres. I'.ANAl.lir.l:. ainailii t town in i and bar. of llariy. a.-lle, in Kind's County, i, Inland, 7 miles to tin- N.W. aiul S'J miles from Dublin. 'J'he town, 'ii the south bank of the river Shanna here separates King's County from (. joined by the Little Brosna liv. r, whii 1 .ii just below tin town, llaiiagher was '
 * "tiring village*, on the opposite banks ol tli
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 * 'wn mid parliamentary borough, 1

two rejii.M ntativc". t" th' 1 lii.-li parliament ' Charles I. till the I'nii.n. 'J'he I ofoncloiii in importantl n, and has There are two batteries, iind "ii tl of the river two towers, one of which : 1-i.rt. Th. in l.'nn. r linn i.il were strongly gun! the Irish rebellion of 17'.IM. but owing to the ( circumstances of the country, and ol tin whole of military tactics, they air IMW practically uselei though still k( pt in excellent rejiair are uutcnanti