a town of Northamptonshire, about four miles from Staneford, situated on the river Avon or Nen, and consisting of one street. Edward duke of York in the reign of Henry V. founded and endowed a fine collegiate church here, in which he was interred. At the Dissolution the college and the choir were pulled down, and the bodies of the founder and his family left exposed till queen Elizabeth's time, who ordered them to be interred, and the present monuments to be erected. On the north side of the church is a free school, founded by Henry VII. or Edward VI. endowed with L.20 per annum for a master, payable out of the exchequer by the receiver of the county. The bridge over the river here was first built by queen Elizabeth, 1573, of timber, with three pillars upon the foundation. Daniel, first earl of Nottingham, and the other trustees for William Saville, marquis of Halifax, rebuilt it, in 1722, of freestone from King's Cliffe. On the south-east side of the Cliffe stood the castle; which was of great antiquity and considerable strength. Mary queen of Scots, who had been in the custody of Sir Amias Powlet here, was tried and beheaded in the hall; and her son afterwards, forgiving and even taking into favour her greatest enemy Cecil, only took the childish revenge of beating down the castle; which he so completely demolished, that no more than the earthworks now remain. Within the first work is a farm-house with some carved stones wrought into it, and at the fourth-west corner of the inner trench are some masses of stone-walls. Sir Robert Cotton carried the waincot of the hall to Conington.

**FOU-THEOU**, a city of China, in the province of Fo-nien. It carries on a considerable trade; but is chiefly remarkable for the magnificence of its principal bridge, which has more than 100 arches, constructed of white stone, and ornamented with a double balustrade throughout. This city is the residence of a viceroy, and has under its jurisdiction nine cities of the third class.