MUSBURY, a parish in the hundred of AXMINSTER
county of DEVON, 2 miles (B. by N.) from Colyton, containing
375 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, k the
archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's
books at £19. 11. 8., and in the patronage .of George
Tucker, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.
The river Axe passes between this parish and Colyton.
Ash House, now occupied as a farm-house, derives interest
from having been the birthplace, in 1650, of the renowned
Duke of Marlborough, whose mother was then
on a visit to her father, Sir John Drake. Within the
parish is an ancient fortress, of an elliptical form, having
a double intrenchment enclosing an area of twenty acres.