FRENSHAM, a parish comprising the tything of
Dockingfield, in the hundred of ALTON, Alton (North)
division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, and the tything
of Chart with Pitfold, in the hundred of FARNHAM,
county of SURREY, 4 miles (S.) from Farnham, and containing
1433 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Surrey, and diocese of
Winchester, endowed with £5 per annum, and £100
private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of Robert Conner,
Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has lately received
an addition of two hundred and eighty one sittings,
of which two hundred and thirty are free, the Incorporated
Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels
having granted £ 150 towards defraying the expense
The river Wey runs through the parish, in which alsoarfe
two extensive sheets of water, and a mineral spring
FRENZE, otherwise THORPE (PARVA), a parish
in the hundred of Diss, county of NORFOLK, 1 mile
(E. by N.) from Diss, containing 60 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's
books at £2.13.4., and endowed with £200 royal bounty,
James Smith, Esq. was patron in 1824. The church
is dedicated to St. Andrew.