STOKE-CHARITY, a parish in the hundred of BUDDLESGATE, Fawley division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 6 miles (S. by E.) from Whitchurch, containing 144 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £15. 13. 6., and in the patronage of the President and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. This parish is within the jurisdiction of the Cheyney Court held at Winchester every Thursday, for the recovery of debts to any amount.