MOTTISFONT, a parish in the hundred of THORNGATE,
Andover division pf the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
4 miles (N. N. W.) from Romsey, containing 501
inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with the perpetual
curacy of Lockerley, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at
£ 14.18. 11., and in the patronage of Sir Charles Mill,
Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. Mottisfont
House, a spacious and venerable edifice, occupies a
portion of the site of a priory of canons Regular of the
order of St. Augustine, founded in the beginning of the
reign of King John, by William Briwere, and dedicated
to the Holy Trinity. In 1494, the establishment being
reduced from eleven, its original number of religious,
to three, Henry VII. procured a bull from Pope Alexander
for its suppression, but it continued till the dissolution,
at which period its revenue was valued at
£167. 15. 8.