MORTHOE, a parish in the hundred of BRAUNTON;
county of DEVON, 4 miles (S.W. by W.) from Ilfracombe,
containing 280 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Barnstaple,
and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at
£9 19. 3., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean
and Chapter of Exeter. The church, dedicated to St.
Mary, contains an altar-tomb to the memory of Sir
William de Tracey, -who, in 1308, founded a chantry,
and, after the murder of Thomas a Becket, ended Ms
days in a hermitage at this place. A school, conducted
on the Madras system, has been established here.
Within the parish is a Druidical monument, termed
Mortstone.