LOTHERS, a parish in the liberty of LOTHERS and
BOTHENHAMPTQN, Bridport division of the county of
DORSET, 2 miles (E. N. E.) from Bridport, containing
857 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol,
rated in the king's books at £ 14. 5. 7., and in the pa-
tronage of the Crown.  The church is dedicated to St.
Mary Magdalene. Here was an Alien priory subordinate
to the abbey of Mountsburgh in Normandy; at the suppression
by Richard II., being then valued at £80 per
annum, it was bestowed on the priory of St. Anne, near
Coventry; but, in the time of Henry IV., it was restored
to its ancient owners, and after the dissolution
by Henry V., it became part of the endowment of Sion
abbey, Middlesex.