ASHILL, a parish in the hundred of ABDICK and
BULSTONE, county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (N. W.) from
Ilminster, containing 378 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and
patronage of the Prebendary of Ashill in the Cathedral
Church of Wells, rated in the king's books at £6.0.10.,
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and endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200
royal bounty. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.
Thomas de Multon, lord of the manor in the reign of
Edward II., obtained a charter for a market on Wednesday,
and fairs on the festivals of the Virgin Mary
and St. Simon and St. Jude. A chalybeate spring, to
which a bath has been annexed, said to be serviceable
in scorbutic complaints, rises within the parish.