CURRY-MALLET, a parish (formerly a market
town) in the hundred of ABDICK-and-BULSTONE,
county of SOMERSET, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Brains*
ter, containing 461 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
with the perpetual curacy of Curland annexed,
in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath
and Wells, rated in the king's books at £24. 1. 3.,
and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is
dedicated to All Saints. The act of parliament passed
in the 2nd of Edward III., which vested the duchy1
of Cornwall in the king's eldest son, annexed Curry-
Mallet to it, and it still continues a part thereof. A
weekly market, and a fair annually on the eve, day,
and morrow of All Saints, were granted by Edward II.
to Hugh Poyntz, then owner of the manor, who, in
the 18th of the same reign, was summoned to parliament
by the title of Lord Poyntz, Baron of Curry-
Mallet.