WYCOMBE, CHIPPING or HIGH, a municipal and parliamentary borough and market-town of England, Buckinghamshire, pleasantly situated on the Wick, a small affluent of the Thames, 29 miles W. by N. from London. It is a neat and well built town extending for about a mile and a half along the valley in which it is situated. The parish church is a fine old structure in the perpendicular and decorated styles, with a highly ornamental tower, 108 feet high at its west end. The town-hall is a large brick edifice, erected in 1757, and supported on stone pillars. There are also places of worship for Methodists, Independents, Baptists, and Quakers; a free grammar and other schools; and numerous paper and corn mills on the Wick and its affluent the Rye. The making of chairs is the chief branch of industry carried on. Its market is important for corn and other agricultural produce. Adjoining the town is Wycombe Abbey, the seat of Lord Carrington. Wycombe is governed by a mayor, four aldermen, and twelve councillors; and returns two members to parliament. Pop. (1851) of municipal borough, 3588; of parliamentary borough, 7179.
1 Lenfant, Hist. du Concile de Constance, tom. i. p. 110. Gilpin, who is not very critical in his inquiries, has stated that "he translated many of them into his native language, having with great pains made himself master of the English." (Lives of John Wycliffe, and of the most eminent of his Disciples, Lord Cobham, John Huss, Jerome of Prague, and Zisca. Lond. 1765, 8vo.)
2 If the reader has any inclination to see how perfidy and cruelty can be justified by a true Jesuit, we beg leave to refer him to the elaborate publication of Hieribertus Rosweyde, "De Fide Hereticis servanda ex decreto Concilii Constantiensis Dissertatio cum Daniele Thaeo Schola Detichensis Moderatore; in qua, quoniam de Husso Historia est excusitur." Antwerpen, 1610, 8vo.