STOKE-under-HAMDON, a parish in the hundred
of TINTINHULL, county of SOMERSET, 5 miles (W.
by N.) from Yeovil, containing 1072 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and
diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books
at £5. 10. 2., and in the patronage of Andrew Bain,
Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Denis. A free
chapel, or chantry, for a provost and four priests, in
honour of St. Nicholas, was founded in 1304, by Sir
John Beauchamp, Knt., in the ancient castle of which,
in the time of Leland, there were extensive remains
near the village, as also in the chapel many old sepulchral
monuments, statues, &c., without inscriptions, and
a flat marble stone, with the effigy of Maheu de Gurney,
dated 1406. Here is a considerable manufacture of
gloves.