Excerpt from The Greene Family in England and America: With Pedigrees Boughton, the ancient name of which was Buke ton, is three and a half miles north of the town of Northampton; it was the former seat of the Earls of Strafford. In the twenty-seventh year of the reign of Edward III Sir Henry Greene, Lord of Boughton Manor, obtained for himself and his heirs the grant of a Fair, to be held yearly for three days, beginning on the Vigil of St. John Baptist, the patron Saint of the Parish; and since that time, down to the beginning of the present century, and perhaps later, this Fair is said by a local historian to have been the most celebrated in that part of the kingdom, and resorted to by great numbers for pleasure and business of every description. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.