HURSTBOURN-PRIORS, a parish in the hundred
of EVINGAR, Kingsclere division of the county of
SOUTHAMPTON, . 2 miles (W. S.W.) from Whitchurch,
containing 404 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the incumbent,
rated in the king's books at £ 12. 19. 4., endowed with-
£300 private benefaction, and £ 200 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester. The
church is dedicated .to St. Andrew. Hurstbourn is
within the jurisdiction of the Cheyney Court held, at
Winchester every Thursday, for the recovery of debts to
any amount..