MINSTER-in-SHEPPY, a parish in the liberty of Isle-of-SHEPPY, lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 3 miles (E. by N.) from Queenborough, containing, with Sheerness, 8414 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of CanterDury, endowed with £1400 parliamentary grant, and in patronage of Robert Mitchell, Esq. The dedicated to St. Mary and St. Sexbtirg, has a square tower crowned with a turret. There place of worship for Independents. A convent was founded here, in 675, by Sexburg, the mother of Egbert, King of Kent, for seventy-seven nuns, who suffered much during the invasions of the Danes, by whom their house was finally destroyed; but in 1130 it was rebuilt and dedicated to St. Mary and St. Sexburg, by William, Archbishop of Canterbury, for Benedictine nuns, whose revenue, at the dissolution, was estimated at £ 122.14.6: the ruins are still visible near the church. The port of Sheerness, at the western extremity of the parish, and formerly within its limits, has been made a separate vill, with an independent civil jurisdiction.