COMPTON, a parish in the hundred of WESTBOURN-and-SINGLETON, rape of CHICHESTER, county of SUSSEX, 9 miles (S.W.by. W.) from Midhurst, containing 233 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Up-Marden annexed, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £ 13. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Chichester. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has a mixture of the early English and decorated styles of architecture. Edward Flower, in 1521, founded a free grammar school, with an endowment of £100, to be laid out in land. Thomas Pelham gave £80, with a rent-charge of £20, and, in 1528, William Spicer conveyed other lands in furtherance of this charity, the total income of which, amounting to £28 per annum, is paid to the master of a boarding, school, to whom no application has ever been made to teach children gratuitously. The Rev. Dr. Cox, in 1741, bequeathed £100 for teaching poor children of Compton and Up-Marden. A donation of £30 by the Rev. Robert Middleton, and one of £20 by Timothy Burrell, Esq., in 1716, for the education of poor children, have been, with a further sum of £100 given by the latter, appropriated for a workhouse, in which a school is kept.