MOUNTAGUE, (Somerset) or MOUNTACUTE, 3 m. W. of Yeovil, it said to have had the name from its hill rising to a sharp
point, whereon, as Lediard reports from common tradition, there was anciently a castle, as well as a chapel, and at the
bottom a priory, all long since demolished; so that the chief building now is a house, one of the most remarkable in the
W. of England, being all of square free-stone, very large, with a magnificent front. It was built by Sir Edward Phelips,
serjeant at law, whose grandson dying without issue, it is gone into another family. This is the place that gave name to
the family of Montacutes, as it has done the titles of Marquis and Baron, and now of Visc.