BOSHAM, a parish in the hundred of BOSHAM, rape of CHICHESTER, county of SUSSEX, 4 miles (W. by S.) from Chichester, containing 1049 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated in the Icing's books at £6.11.3., endowed with £200private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Chichester. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The village is situated at the upper extremity of a creek, to which it gives name, and the parish is bounded on the east and south by Chichester harbour. Two sums of £70 each, one given by George Parker the elder, in 1722, and the other by George Parker the younger, in 1733, have been laid out pursuant to a decree in Chancery, in purchasing a rent-charge of £4, which is paid to a schoolmistress for teaching poor children. So early as the year 681, here was a small monastery of five or six religious, under the government of one Dicul, a Scottish monk. Henry I. granted the place to William Warlewast, Bishop of Exeter, who founded a college of Secular canons, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, which, prior to the dissolution, was accounted a royal free chapel, exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Chichester, and that of the Archdeacon.