CHARTER-HOUSE-on-MENDIP, a district within the liberty of WITHAM-FRIARY, though locally in the hundred of Winterstoke, county of SOMERSET, 5 miles (E.N.E.) from Axbridge, containing 115 inhabitants. Here was a cell to the priory of Witham, which, as part of the' possessions of that establishment, was granted away in the 36th of Henry VIII.