Sampford-Brett (St. George)

SAMPFORD-BRETT (St. George), a parish, in the union of Williton, hundred of Williton and Freemanners, W. division of Somerset, 15 miles (N. W.) from Taunton; containing 238 inhabitants. This place derived the adjunct to its name from the family of De Brett, to whom it anciently belonged, and to one of whom the effigy of a cross-legged knight among the monuments in the church is traditionally assigned. At Aller are the remains of a manor-house supposed to have been the residence of one of the Wyndham family, to whose memory there is a marble monument in the church, with an elegant inscription in Latin. The Taunton and Minehead road passes through the parish. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £7. 19. 7., and in the gift of the Rev. Charles Tripp, D.D.: the tithes have been commuted for £300, and the glebe comprises 36½ acres. The church, in addition to the monuments above named, contains several to the memory of deceased rectors.