HOM-LACY, a parish in the hundred of WEBTREE,
county of HEREFORD, 6 miles (S. E.) from Hereford,
containing 389 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of Hereford, rated in the
king's books at £8, and in the patronage of Sir E. F.
Scudamore Stanhope, Bart. The church is dedicated to
St. Cuthbert. An abbey for Premonstratehsian canons,
in honour of the Blessed Virgin and St. Thomas &
Becket, was founded and endowed with divers manors,
by William Fitzwain, in the time of Henry III. In the
manorial mansion Pope wrote his poem entitled " The
Man of Ross."