PRIVETT, a parish in the hundred of FAWLEY,
Fawley division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 5
miles (N. W. by W.) from Petersfield, containing 229 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed
to the rectory of West Meon, in the peculiar jurisdiction
of the Incumbent. This parish is within the jurisdiction
of an ancient court, called the Cheyney Court,
held at Winchester every Thursday, for the recovery of
debts to any amount.