BARTON (ST-DAVID), a parish in the hundred
of CATSASH, county of SOMERSET, 5 miles (N. E. by N.)
from Somerton, containing 368 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and
patronage of the Prebendary of Barton in the Cathedral
Church of Wells, rated in the king's books at £8,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, £400 royal
bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant.