MORESTEAD, a parish in the hundred of FAWLEY,
Fawley division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 3?
miles (S.E. by S.) from Winchester, containing 80 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, in the
peculiar jurisdiction of the Incumbent, rated in the
king's books at £6, endowed with £300 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Bishop of Winchester. Morestead is within the
jurisdiction of the Cheyney Court held at Winchester
every Thursday, for the recovery of debts to any amount.