BRADLEY (MAIDEN), a parish partly in the hundred of NORTON-FERRIS, county of SOMERSET, but chiefly in the hundred of MERE, county of WILTS, 5f miles (N. by W.) from Mere, containing 620 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury, endowed with £800 royal bounty, and £ 600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church is dedicated to All Saints. Fairs are held on April 25th and September 21st. An hospital for poor leprous women, under the superintendence of some Secular priests, was founded by Manasseh Biset, about the close of the reign of Stephen, or the beginning of that of Henry II. About the year 1190, Hubert, Bishop of Salisbury, changed the Seculars into a prior and canons of the Augustine order: the revenue, at the time of the dissolution, was £ 197- 18. 8.