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Shepton-Beauchamp (St. Michael)

SHEPTON-BEAUCHAMP (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Chard, hundred of South Petherton, W. division of Somerset, 3¾ miles (N. E. by E.) from Ilminster; containing 637 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £14. 8. 11½., and in the patronage of the Rev. P. Smith: the tithes have been commuted for £365; there are 16½ acres of glebe. £10 a year, arising from certain land bequeathed by Thomas Rich in 1723; and the interest of £100, the gift of Elizabeth Morgan in 1763; are applied in aid of a national school. The latter donor also bequeathed £200, the interest to be applied in apprenticing children.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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