*MILBORN-PORT, (Somerset) 1 m. from Sherborn, in the road from Shaftesbury, 98 cm. 116 mm. from London; though it is represented in Pt. is no Mt.-T. nor corp. but it appears in Domesday-book to have had a Mt. once, and 56 burgesses. It is in a manner surrounded by Dorsetshire. It gave name to an ancient family, the ancestors of the Milburns in Monmouthshire. Here are 9 capital burgesses, who yearly chuse 2 bailiffs, that have the Gt. of the Bor. under them, and jointly return the members to Pt. with the 2 stewards, who are chosen yearly out of 9 commonalty stewards, and have the custody of the corp. seal. These 2 stewards also distribute the profits of the lands given to the poor here, of which the said commonalty stewards are trustees. The inh. are about 1100, the houses not much above 200.