STOGURSEY, or STOKE-COURCY, a parish in
the hundred of CANNINGTON, county of SOMERSET, 8-5
miles (N. W. by W.) from Bridg-water, containing, with
the hamlet of Fairfield, 1362 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Lilstoclc
annexed, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese
of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books
at £16. 7- 6., and in the patronage of the Provost and
Fellows of Eton College. The church is dedicated
to St. Andrew. The parish is bounded on the north by
the Bristol channel. Ten children are instructed for a
rent-charge of £2, bequeathed by Mr. Daniel, in 1764.
A Benedictine priory, a cell to the abbey of L'Onley in
Normandy, was founded here in the reign of Henry II.,
which at the suppression was valued at £58 per annum,
and granted by Henry VI. to Eton College.