WOOTTON-RIVERS, a parish in the hundred of
KINWARDSTONE, county of WILTS, 3 miles (N. E.)
from Pewsey, containing 400 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and diocese
of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £7. 10. 5.,
and in the alternate patronage of the Master and
Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge, and the
Principal and Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford:
but it must be given to one who has been a scholar,
at either, from Somersetshire. The clmrch is dedicated
to St. Andrew.