Combs &c. Families of Ashill, Somerset, England

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Ashill, a parish in the hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, county of Somerset, 3½ miles (N.W.) from Ilminster, containing 378 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary of Ashill in the Cathedral Church of Wells, rated in the king's books at £6. 0. 10., and endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Thomas de MULTON, lord of the manor in the reign of Edward II., obtained a charter for a market on Wednesday, and fairs on the festivals of the Virgin Mary and St. Simon and St. Jude. A chalybeate spring, to which a bath has been annexed, said to be serviceable in scorbutic complaints, rises within the parish. (Lewis, 1831)... four miles northeast of Combe St. Nicholas, and six miles southeast of Corfe.

3 Jul 1570 Ashill, Somerset, England. Married: Thomas COOME and Maud HAWKINS (FamilySearch.Org) [NIGI 1998]

See Sparsholt, Berks where a Thomas COME died in 1545 and a Maud COMBE (alias COOMBE) was buried on 23 Mar 1573 (not known if relevant).