LOTHERS, a parish in the liberty of LOTHERS and BOTHENHAMPTON, Bridport division of the county of DORSET, 2 miles (E.N.E.) from Bridport, containing 857 inhabitants.

The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £14. 5. 7½., and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. Here was an Alien priory subordinate to the abbey of Mountsburgh in Normandy: at the suppression by Richard II., being then valued at £80 per annum, it was bestowed on the priory of St.Anne, near Coventry; but, in the time of Henry IV., it was restored to its ancient owners, and after the dissolution by Henry V., it became part of the endowment of Sion abbey, Middlesex.

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