HALSE, a parish in the hundred of WILLITON-and-FREEMANNERS,
though locally in the western division
of the hundred of Ringsbury, county of SOMERSET, 4
miles (E.) from Wiveliscombe, containing 447 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells,
rated in the king's books at £5. 19. 7., endowed with
£600 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and
£300 parliamentary grant. Sir J. Langham, Bart, was
patron in 1793. The church is dedicated to St. James.