CUMNER, a parish in the hundred of HORMER, county of BERKS, comprising the chapelry of Wootton, the township of Cumner, the tythings of Botley, Bradley, Chawley, Kenwood, Hill-end, Stroud, Swinford, and Whitloy, and the liberty of Chilswell, and containing' 1303 inhabitants, of which number, 508 are in the township of Cumner, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Abingdon. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £24. 17-, a&d in the patronage of the Earl of Abingdon. The church is dedicated to St. Michael: in the south transept are .two ancient tombs of abbots of Abingdon: they had formerly a residence here, called Cumner hall, but few vestiges of it are now to be seen. It is noted as the scene of the murder of the Countess of Leicester, by the direction of her husband, the favourite of Queen Elizabeth. There is a small endowment for a school. A mineral spring here was formerly in great repute, but is now disused.