Wield (St. James)
WIELD (St. James), a parish, in the union of Alton, hundred of Fawley, Alton and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 6 miles (W.) from Alton; containing 278 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £64; patron and impropriator, the Earl of Portsmouth, whose tithes have been commuted for £218. The church is very ancient, and contains a marble monument to Sir Richard Wallop, an ancestor of the earls of Portsmouth.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.