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Rh TKWKESBCJRY, LOWER. 634 THAME. Clares, earls of Gloucester, Despencers, Beauchamps, and other benefactors to the ahbey. There is besides the district church of the Holy Trinity, erected in 1837, the living of which is a perpet. cur., val. 140, in the gift of trustees. The Roman Catholics, Independents, Wesleyans, Baptists, and Society of Friends, have chapels. The grammar school, founded in 1576, has an income from endowment of 55. There are besides a blue-coat school, with an endowment of 40, National, infant, and Dissenters' schools. The charities, including the school endowments, produce about 600 per annum. A mineral spring, similar to that at Cheltenham, occurs at Walton-Cardiff. In the vicinity are Towbury and other Roman camps, and at the house of H. Brown, Esq., M.P., is the Shakespeare cup. Market days are Wednesday and Saturday, the former being chiefly for corn and cattle. Fairs are held on the second Monday in March, the second Wednesdays in April, June, August, and December, the 14th May, first Wednesday after the 4th September, and a pleasure fair on the 10th October, also statute fairs on the Wednesday before and the Wednesday after 10th October. TEWKESBURY, LOWER, ahund. in co. Gloucester, contains Tewkesbury, and the pars, of Ashchurch, Bod- dington, Forthampton, Kemerton, Oxenton, Tredington, and Walton-Cardiff, comprising an area of 11,720 acres, exclusive of. Tewkesbury. TEWKESBURY, UPPER, a hund. as above, con- tains the pars, of Alderton, Clifford-Chambers, Lower Leamington, Prescott, Shenington, Stan way, Great Washbourne, and parts of Ashton-under-Hill, and Bourton-on-the-Hill, comprising an area of 11,720 acres. This hundred forms five different portions. TEW, LITTLE, a par. in the hund. of Wootton, co. Oxford, 3 miles N. of Enstone, its post town, and 1 mile S.W. of Great Tew. The village is wholly agricultural. The living is a vie.* in the dioc. of Oxford, val. 50, in the patron, of the bishop. The church is modern. The parochial charities produce about 2 per annum. There is a National school for both sexes. The Baptists have a chapel. TEXA, an island in the par. of Islay, co. Lanark, Scotland. TEY, a small stream of co. Kent, joins the river Beult, near Staplehurst. TEY, GREAT, a par. in the hund. of Lexden, co. Essex, 7 miles S.E. of Halstead, 4 N.E. of Coggeshall, and 7 W. of Colchester. The village is situated on the river Roman, near its source. The par. includes the chplry. of Pontesbright and the hmlts of Tey Cross and Pattock Green. The manor belonged to Queen Maud. The land is chiefly arable, and is in a high state of cultivation. The living is a vie.* in the dioc. of Rochester, val. 250, besides which there is a sinecure rect., united with that of Chapel, val. 800 per annum. The church, dedicated to St. Barnabas, is an ancient structure with a tower supported on four arches, containing a peal of eight bells. In 1829 the tower was found to have pressed the pillars of the nave so much out of the perpendicular that it became necessary to take down all the building to the W. of it; divine service is now performed in the old chancel and transept. There is a National school. TEY, LITTLE, a par. in the Witham div. of Lex- den hund., co. Essex, 2J miles S. of Great Tey, and 5 W. of Colchester. The parish is situated on the old Roman road from Colchester to St. Alban's, and near the line of East Union railway. The living is a rect.* in the dioe. of Rochester, val. 120, in the patron, of the bishop. The church is dedicated to St. James. TEY, MARKS. See MARKS TEY, co. Essex. TEYNHAM, a hund. in the lathe of Scray, co. Kent, contains the pars, of Doddington, Linstead, and Teyn- ham, comprising an area of 6,210 acres. TEYNHAM, a par. in the hund. of the same name, lathe of Scray, co. Kent, 3 miles E. of Sitting- bourne, its post town, and 3 N.W. of Fayersham. It is a station on the London, Chatham, and Dover line. Teynham is of ancient date, and has the ruins of a place formerly belonging to the Archbishops of Canterbury. It is situated on the river Swale, near Conyer Creek, and was formerly a market town. In the vicinity are traces of a Roman camp. A portion of the land is in hop-grounds, and several acres in cherry and apple orchards, said to be the remains of 105 acres of fruit planted by R. Harris, Henry VIII. 's fruiterer. An accession has lately been made to the parish by the embankment of the island of Fowlcy. The living is a vie. * in the dioc. of Canterbury, val. 230, in the patron, of the archbishop. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has some stained windows, and two brasses, one of them bearing date 1443. The parochial charities produce about 3 per annum. There is a Church lending library, supported by voluntary contributions. The Wesleyans have a chapel. Teynham gives title of baron to the family of Curzon. Colonel Tayler is lord of the manor. THACKLEY, a hmlt. in the chplry. of Idle, West Riding co. York, 3 miles N.W. of Bradford. THAKEHAM, a par. in the hund. of East Easwrith, rape of Bramber, co. Sussex, 6 miles N.W. of Steyning, its post town, and 4 S.E. of Pulborough railway station. The village is situated on an eminence, and is chiefly agricultural. The par. includes the hmlt. of Greenhurst. The Poor-law Union of Thakeham comprises 14 parishes or places. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Chi- chester, val. 585. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is an ancient structure with a tower and five bells. In the interior are monuments to the Apsley and other families. THAME, a hund. in co. Oxford, containing the pars, of Attington, Little Milton, Tetsworth, Thame, Water- stock, and part of Great Milton, comprising an area of of 10,580 acres. It constituted part of Dorchester hund. at the time of Domesday survey. THAME, a par. and market town in the hund. of Thame, co. Oxford, 12 miles E. of Oxford, 10 S.W. of Aylesbury, and 45 N.W. of London. It is a station on the Oxford and Aylesbury branch of the Great Western railway. This place, which is of great antiquity, is situated on the Thames, adjoining the vale of Aylesbury, and comprises, besides the town of Thame, the hmlts. of Moreton, North Weston, Priestend, and Thame Park. Roman coins have been found here. It was the T/iama of the Saxons ; Oscytel, Archbishop of York, died here in 972. At the Norman conquest it was given to the bishops of Lincoln, who founded a Cistercian monastery here in 1138, and of which there are still some remains in the grounds in Thame Park. After the Dissolution the manor was given by Edward VI. to the Protector Somerset, and subsequently to Lord Williams, from whom it passed to the Berties. In the civil war of Charles I. several skirmishes took place here, and John Hampden died at a house till lately the " Grey Hound Inn," whither he was brought home wounded from Chalgrove Field. It is the seat of a Poor-law Union, new county court, and superintendent registry district. The town consists chiefly of two long streets, with a market-place nearlyin the centre of the High-street. The public buildings are the townhall and market-house situated in the market-place, a union poorhouse situated at Priestend, a savings-bank, and commercial branch bank. The population in 1851 was 3,260, and in 1861, 3,245. The employment of the people is agricultural, there being no other trades carried on, except chair and fan making. The living is a vie. * in the dioc. of Ox- ford, val. 240, in the patron, of trustees. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a cruciform structure with a tower erected in 1138, and formerly a chantry chapel founded by the Quatremains of Weston. The interior contains several emblazoned windows and brasses, the earliest dating 1420, also monuments and effigies of the Quatremains, Sir J. Clarke, Lord Williams, and the Dor- mers of Place House, now taken down. Adjoining the church are the refectory, chapel, and other parts of the prebendal house founded in 1241 by Bishop Grossetete, and now converted into the dwelling house of T. J. Clifford, Esq. The Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, i