EASTON MAUDIT is a small but pleasant village and parish extending to the borders of Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire, 3 miles south-east from the Castle Ashby and Earls Barton station on the Northampton and Peterborough branch of the London and North Western railway, 7 south from Wellingborough and 10 east from Northampton, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Higham Ferrers, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Wellingborough, rural deanery of Higham Ferrers (first portion), archdeaconry of Oakham and diocese of Peterborough.  The church of SS Peter and Paul is a building of stone in the Pointed style, consisting of chancel with north chantry, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with angle turrets and a lofty octagonal spire containing a clock and 5 bells: on the south side of the chancel are three sedilia and there is a piscina at the east end of the south aisle; the pulpit, a modern work, is of oak elaborately carved, and the sacrarium is inclosed by a beautiful alabaster screen with iron gates; the encaustic tile paving was designed by the Right Rev. Lord Alwyne Compton D.D. Bishop of Ely: the chantry contains a monument to Sir Christopher Yelverton kt. A justice of the King’s Bench in the reign of James I d. Nov. 1612, and another, with recumbent effigies, to Sir Henry Yelverton kt. Attorney General to James I, and a Puisne Justice of the Common Pleas, d. 24th Jan. 1629, and to Margaret (Beal), his wife; there is a third monument to Sir Christopher Yelverton, 1^st. Baronet, d. 4^th Dec. 1654; this family were afterwards Viscounts de Longueville and Earls of Sussex, but these honours became extinct in 1799 on the death of the Right Hon. Henry Yelverton, 3^rd Earl of Sussex.  Thomas Morton D.D. successively Bishop of Chester and Lichfield, and in 1632 translated to Durham, from which he was expelled by the Puritans during the Civil war, acted for some time as tutor in the Yelverton family, and dying here 22^nd Sept. 1659, was buried in the church: Thomas Piercy, or Percy, Bishop of Dromore, in Ireland, 1782-1811, and well known as the author of “The Hermit of Warkworth” and “Reliques of Ancient English Poetry,”  was vicar here 1753-78: the church was restored in 1861, chiefly at the cost of Charles 3^rd Marquess of Northampton, and has 200 sittings.  The register dates from the year 1539.  The living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly value £225, with residence, in the gift of the Marquess of Northampton K.G. and held since 1890 by the Rev. Herbert Arnold Boys B.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.  The Marquess of Northampton K.G. is lord of the manor and sole landowner.  The soil is various, chiefly clayey; subsoil, clay.  The crops are the ordinary cereals.  The area is 1,769 acres; rateable value, £1,447; the population in 1891 was 142.

Sexton, George Fairey.

Letters arrive from Northampton at 8 a.m.  WALL LETTER BOX, cleared at 4.25 p.m. on week days only.

The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Castle Ashby

National School (mixed), built in 1870, for 40 children; average attendance, 20; there is a house for the mistress; Miss Caroline Holoran, mistress.

CARRIERS TO NORTHAMPTON  - Thomas Drage & Summerlin & Darnell from Bozeat, pass through every Tues. & Sat.; William Surridge, from Bozeat, passes through every Sat.