CHARLTON-MUSGRAVE, a parish in the hundred
of NORTON-FERRIS, county of SOMERSET, ] mile
(N. N. E.) from Wincanton, containing 366 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells,
and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's
hooks at £13.10., and in the patronage of the Rev.
Paul Leir. The church is dedicated to St. Stephen.
Dr. William Musgrave, physician and antiquary, was
born here, in 1657; he died in 1721.