According to the Guide to the Records of the Diocese of Salisbury (1973), p. 122, this peculiar covered Gillingham, with its chapelry of Motcombe and tithing of Bourton, but not East and West Stour, which are also chapelries annexed to the vicarage. It was never inhibited, and, according to a manuscript statement about the jurisdiction found among the records, belonged to the lord of the manor of Gillingham; he appointed an official, who exercised all the ecclesiastical jurisdiction. There were two prebends of Gillingham in Salisbury cathedral, but neither their prebendaries, nor the vicar, had anything to do with this jurisdiction.