CADBURY (NORTH), a parish in the hundred of
CATSASH, county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (S.) from Castle-
Cary, ^containing, with the hamlets of Galhampton,
and Yarlington, with Woolston and Clapton, 1003 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the
king's books at £28. 17. 3., and in the patronage of
the Master and Fellows of Emanuel College, Cambridge.
The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a stately and
beautiful pile, pleasantly situated on the ridge of a hill,
Henry V., in the fourth year of his reign, gave license to
Dame Elizabeth Botreaux, relict of Sir William Botreaux
the elder,- to found and endow in the church (which she
had then rebuilt) a college for seven secular chaplains
(one of whom to be rector) and four clerks: it was to
have been dedicated to St. Michael; but it does not appear
ever to have been settled. On the ridge of a high
hill overlooking the village is a Roman intrenchmentj
of an oval form, surrounded by a large double rampart
composed of loose limestone, the produce of the spot
on which it is situated.