FROXFIELD, a chapelry in the parish and hundred
of EAST-MEON, Alton (South) division of the county of
SOUTHAMPTON, 3 miles (N. W. by W.) from Petersfield,
containing 548 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy annexed to the vicarage of East-Meon, in the
peculiar jurisdiction of the vicar thereof, and in the
patronage of the Bishop of Winchester. The chapel is
dedicated to St. Peter. Robert Love, in 1721, ber
queathed £1000, with which a free school was founded
and endowed for the education of twenty of the poorest
boys of Froxfield, being, in 1767, farther endowed with
£300, the bequest of Francis Beckford, Esq.: the income
is about £55 per annum, for which twenty-two
boys are instructed.