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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 379 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OUNDLE , a See also:

market-See also:town in the See also:Northern See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Northamptonshire, See also:England, 302 M. N.E. of See also:Northampton by a See also:branch of the See also:London & See also:North-Western railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 2404. It is picturesquely situated on an See also:eminence, two sides of which are touched by the See also:river Nene, which here makes a deep See also:bend. The See also:church of St See also:Peter is a See also:fine See also:building with See also:Early See also:English, Decorated and Perpendicular porticos, with a western See also:tower and lofty See also:spire. Oundle School, one of the English public See also:schools, was founded under the will of See also:Sir See also:William Laxton, See also:Lord See also:Mayor of London (d. 1556). There are about 200 boys. The school is divided into classical and See also:modern sides, and has exhibitions to See also:Oxford and See also:Cambridge See also:universities. A second-grade school was instituted out of the See also:foundation in 1875. Oundle has a considerable agricultural See also:trade. See also:Wilfrid, See also:archbishop of See also:York, is said to have been buried in 711 at a monastery in Oundle (Undele) which appears to have been destroyed shortly afterwards, and was certainly not in existence at the See also:time of the See also:Conquest.

The See also:

manor, with a market and tolls, was among the possessions confirmed in 972 by See also:King See also:Edgar to the See also:abbot of See also:Peterborough, to whom it still belonged in ro86. The market was then See also:worth 20S. yearly and is shown by the quo warranto rolls to have been held on Saturday, the See also:day being changed to See also:Thursday in 1835. After the Dissolu-379 tion the market was granted with the manor to See also:John, See also:earl of See also:Bedford, and still belongs to the lord of the manor. The abbot of Peterborough about the 13th See also:century confirmed to his men of Oundle freedom from See also:tallage, " saving to himself pleas of portmanmoot and all customs pertaining to the market," and they agreed to pay 8 marks, 12s. rid., yearly for their privileges. The town was evidently governed by bailiffs in 1401, when the " bailiffs and See also:good men " received a See also:grant of pontage for the repair of the See also:bridge called " Assheconbrigge," but the town was never incorporated and never sent members to See also:parliament.

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