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Milborne-Port in Somerset County England History and GeographyMILBORNE-PORT, a borough and parish (formerly a market town) in the hundred of HORETHORNE, county of SOMERSET, 2¾ miles (N.E. by E.) from Sherborne, and 115 (W.) from London, containing 1440 inhabitants. This town, which is irregularly built, and consists chiefly of detached houses, is situated at the bottom of a hill, adjoining the river Ivel, on the high road from Yeovil to Shaitesbury. The manufacture of sail-cloth, dowlas, lindsey-woolsey, and stockings, has been superseded by glove-making and leather-dressing. Fairs are held on June 5th and October 28th, for cattle and pedlary. There are nine pieces of borough land, or burgage tenements, and the persons to whom they are conveyed by the proprietors are called capital bailiffs; two of them in rotation preside annually, being called reigning bailiffs, who, at a court leet held in October, appoint two deputies, or sub-bailiffs; and there are two stewards of the commonalty lands, or public property, belonging to the parish, which is divided into three tythings, Milborne-Port, Milborne-Wick, and Kingsbury-Regis. At the last a court baron is held annually, when a constable, tythingman, and hayward, are appointed. Milborne-Port is a borough by prescription, and returned members to parliament from the 26th to the 35th of Edward I., from which time, until the reign of Charles I., it ceased to exercise the privilege, but in 1628 the franchise was restored: the right of election is in the nine capital bailiffs, their two deputies, the two commonalty stewards, and the inhabitants paying scot and lot; the number of voters is about eighty: the two sub-bailiffs are the returning officers, and the predominant influence is in the Marquis of Anglesey and Sir William Coles Medlycott. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £14. 1. 3., and in the patronage of the Marquis of Anglesey. The church, dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, is an ancient cruciform structure, with a large quadrangular tower, and has recently received an addition of four hundred sittings, of which three hundred and fifty are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having contributed £200 towards defraying the expense. There is a place of worship for Independents. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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