NINEHEAD-FLORY, anciently NICHEHEDE is a fmall parifh in the extreme angle of this hundred towards the fouthwest, being fituated betwixt Milverton and Wellington, from which laft parifh it is divided by the river Tone.
A mile eaftward from the church is EAST-NINEHEAD, or NINEHEAD-MONKS or MONKTON; and about half a mile north is the hamlet of Upcot.
In this parifh is alfo CHIPLEIGH-HOUSE, the ancient eftate of the Warre family, now of Edward Clarke, efq.
The manor of Ninehead is included in the Conqueror's furvey in the number of thofe lands which owed fervice to the Bifhop of Winchefter's court at Taunton, and has been always held under that great lordfhip. In the time of Henry I. and King Stephen, it was the poffeffion of Ranalph de Fluri, who in allufion to his name bore on his feal a chevron between three croffes flory, which arms with a little variation of the croffes were afterwards ufed by the family of de Wyke, who it feems by some intermarriage with the Floris became poffeffed of the manor of Ninehead. To the faid Ranalph de Fluri fucceeded Robert and Hugh de Fluri, both of whom were living in the time of Henry II.
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1. These pages are taken from ‘ The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset: collected from authentick records, and an actual survey made by the late Mr Edmund Rack...’ by the Reverend John Collinson [Bath, 1791] The original spelling and punctuation have been retained. For ease of reading on-screen extra paragraph breaks have been added. The original footnotes are not included. The original had no illustrations other than the colophon reproduced on page 6.