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Notes & Queries 



FOR 

SOMERSET AND DORSET 



EDITED BY 



HIGH SORRIS, 

{Somth Pdfuricn, Local Seareiary fcr Somemt to the 

Antiquaries of London^ etc.^) 



AND 

LH.-fRLES HERBERT MAIO, M.A., 

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{Vicar of Long Burton with Holnest^ Rural Doan^ author of 

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SHERBORNE: 
PRINTED BY J. C. SAWTELL, THE PARADE. 

1890. 



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INDEX. 



N3. 
Strode of SWprnn MalLeg, 







IE 



Abbot, Judith,* Maarice* JLTr-nrmoam. 7'"™ -?* 

AnBOTSBrmT, Road rr:. n.-x AairiTa. ?* * ... :?:« 

ABDICK AJTD BTLaTISX. JLJ«3 JLi^Mac- ?.:rjer ... =1^ 

ACUE. HOGSBE.u> .. :=- Ij JLHTTJ*. 'nr >-:crr- . r'f 

SoHXESET :1j rsanr rir-j-j-s :'>j 

AiFord. Joim, of Nortca 5^. 123 X.-j^'.i=L, ?^ J — V* 

Albmi, Ralf, 24IS, W3Z. nc£.:t A:: -..•5. -•'=•'.-»*-:-.. .. -' 'I 

Anmdd 2x21 Aj>rfli*r«uii. 'ma .... acs 

Ale Houses IX 1^5. R.xi^TiA- iin-vz:^' -^r Ajcii-V: 

TiOK or if '' * : 1 :z ; :•' r-.^ 

Alfield, wniiam jca Ea::c.i3jti:-- 2 t-iarriT 1 . 

" All ui the Wio.iKO " :l ♦i-t. : 55 

AHambridgc.CtriaMf Ler. :tT*r:'rl -r E^f^'a-Ji. Siira sr. :-^j iz, 

AlUm, F. J v:. zzi t^vir.vzizrj^. Jt.i;!. r-iriit c . I- il- : f5 

Allen, Joseph, LI^B., Sbertcrze B.ir:'-.*:r7 zi ?;r'-ir2:;{-'.!i. iz»: :i 

School I5 A'lta . . . ' . Lx 

ALLHALIX>WSCrS703«ATBl-4JI^ tOLjSJ. J.ti- ?..f:--j It >:':r_i 

rOED . 23S •: Ji'i:;ri-r -f 

ADin, {Allet. MA:u<ev. iC?.. EiJc.-gr. r.r-r.ce. Tir.i=Aa 5^3 

(Weymoath' 1x5 ht'otr. J. :>j 

Allot, , Sci-cct3A*tsr ir 2 rcr-'. *. 'y. 150 

Rampisham rc^ r-*:..-.. J-.c- r>» 

Alyn, John, cjf CacDfdeO 203 £i- ^ i=:. :. H -.^h. :c 2« . ^ b :', :rj* 3^ 

Amhunt. Chas. Selbr* .'. Ji::!* ilo 

Andrew, John ' 203 Eiz-i* , Scicr.'=i;-*r *; 

Anstice, Edmond, Socth Peeks'- Iii:i:-.»i !'59 

ton. 1705 23 ^«if4. ^ y> 

Appleraid, John 253 E-trttr. :i:r O.rif.. Gintr 232 

Aemai>a, Deteat or thz " BsmrL Eitrari*. V :^--i- *"" 

Spanish 22-ic-r 23? J .-in*. John • ^-i. Sirii • 

Aekada Expenses isr So he?.set' E.tr»- Tt-fnis, B A .'c: Bre-iy 107 

All D DotSET 33 Bf^4. iT. Ji 2;i. 2:0 

AEMOEIALBeAEINGS ..I?,77.«. 112 39^^i>:^ Roek, Z».V;'fi . .". . z66 

Aethce's BuELAL Place 2^3 Ba3.*:-:-,t fox MvsiUT- 152 

Anxndd, R^er, Lord of M22. yr hirrlf.: Henn-, W=5 . . c f Mt- - k t ■:•:: i o3 

of Hdswe^ 27. Thomas. Lord 17 j Eir;.-^'.n, Legacy to Cli-i". of 243 

AnmdcIl,Frands,io8.i8o,Geoi^e, BAi-iTA, SiLPH-irr of 228 

of Cheddar, io«. Sir Matthew, EirkerrOlc, Philip of Shcr:-jrr,c, 

[of Wardonr] 39 Ji-e S7 



^V 2 

Basselt, Joan, Robot 144 

Batch, W;nds Batch aji 

Bita,B.H. n 

Ball) N'unnny, Foundation of . . 3 
^^ Bathanceaster [44] 90 

^^H Bealoo, Edward, of liminetoD . . 17 
^^B Beacchaup Chapel, Stokx- 
^^r under-Haii, DtscovK&y of 

^" SiTEOF 191 

Bi£Duas=Seston izi, I3S-6 


Page. 
Addenda to the VisiUtion of 
Dorsetshire, 16*3. Colby 
andRylands ir? 

Wills. Brown. Series i.&ii. 118 
* Henry VIII. and the Enelish 

Thomas Poole and his Friends. 
Sandford 164 

Wedmorc Parish Register. 
Marriages 1561— 1839. Her- 
^•ey 165 

Somerset Incumbents. Weaver 166 

An Account of the Church and 
Parislj of St, Giles, without 
Cripplegate. Baddeley 167 

The Importance of Preserving 
the Belongings of our Parish 
andothcrChurchcs. Rowc.. 168 
The Tombstone Library. Gray Ib8 

Mansell-Pleydell 839 

A Dictionary of Herald.7. 

Elvin 140 

Church Phxle of the County of 

Dorset. Nightingale 17a 

BiKCcDe, Eleanor. Richard.... 143 

BanctiU-Stimf, W. 184 

Boteler, Jhanet 145 

Botieaui, Rnlph am 

Bouchier, Cicely, John, Earl of 

Bath a4lD 

Bmrdilhn.S.D I7S 

Boureman, Sir William* 

Bourton. John, ofWroihale .... ioi 
Bourton on tbeHill,Fisciaaat.. 365 

Bower.MajorWm 155 

Bowxa, William 153 

Braddon Laurence 1 r3-8 

BRADLK I-'ARH, ANCtENT BUR- 

Braems, Walter 339 


Belj-ndon, Joiin' ioi 

Benet, Thorois 303 

Btnattt, J. A.. 44. 49, 56, 61. 63, 

114, 147, IS*. '58. 176 

BerVelev, Eleanor 56 

Beniard, Lucy, Sir Rubert, Knt. 
and Bait., 9<;, Beoj., Xhos. [07 


Bertoa, Henry de .... 50 

Besiles, wmiam 101 

Bevill. Edward, of Welb 36 


BJcknell, William. 163- no 


Bidddl, Anlbony, Thonuw, of 
Nynebead log 

Bidgood, Richnrd, oTN. Pelher- 

Bigod, Cecilia a4Jn 

BINCOHBE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, 

Caktab 270 

BlMCOUBE TO ABHOTSBURY, 

Road FEOM i7.8j-3 

Bingham, Tolm.M.P. roc ShastoD u 
BigKc, Dr., 137, Edward . . . .138. J54 

Black Steward, Ckrsr Abbey ado 
Blake, Robert, Epitaph ON,. 1^5 
BUnchatd. Susan. William of 
Catharine's Court 37 

Blandford Fire, 1731 bi 




Branscoubb al? 7. 

Branthwaiie, Dr. WOliam. Mm- ^ 
lerofCaiusCoU 108 

Brcwen, [Brunei Henne, of 


JiU«de,,F.A 95 

Bodwdl,J.C J65 

SBBir. C.Q »6. HI, 152, 159 

Bolton, E. j6s, H.C I9 

*"«''. T. 47,99, t70 

BonA¥E!( Taber«l« 150 

1 - Bonham. Edith. Abbess of Shaslon iot 
^^H Books, Notes on 
^^B Mcmoriall of the WcsL Rogers 3 1 
^^H Note« on Bsmick and its 

^^H Church. Batten 31 

^^H Calendar of the Roister of 
^^H Tohn d« DroltensTord. Hob- 

^^M WtM 64 


Bridgman, Sir Orlando ni 

Bridgwater, Henry, Earl of, 

d. 1548 J4I-I 

Bridgwater(BriggewaleT),Friataof 243 
Briefs. Somerset Church ,. zbb 


Brinther, Walter Jo» 

Braadmiad, W. B 138 

Brocas, John, 103, Margaret 103- 
5.0Uver :04 



Page. 

Bn>dln>1n>e, Moiu of 343 

Broltehamplon, Jolin, of Lea, ., 197 

Bromlieldi Somerset 5^- '37 

Btowd. Thomas, CommLssai; of 

Bp, of Line, 1417 tb 

Browne, Sir John, J.P.. 156 

Blt'KANBDXH, SITR OP THE 

Baitlb of 51, 137 

Brmh/ltlH. T. fr. 106 

BiTCKiAND Newton. Local 

Names at 65 

BUCKIAND Newtok, Mamob 

OP iHi 

Bueile, B. 93. J 1 6 

Buckler. Maiy 177 

Bull. William 70 

Boiler, Robert 88 

BvLLBT Marks as Cbukcb 

Walls 314 

btjxstose, huhdbkd op . . i04, iss 
Boria.'C.John, M.P, (Corfe C.).. i8i 
Banard, Elizabeth, Thomas .... 140 
BimsiNGTONBoNE Caves. Con- 

TEMPORAfiY Notice of teie 

DiscovEsv OP 27 

Bnshe. John, of Brodfeild 35 

C. J»9 

Cadbiuy Castle 61 

Caius College, Caubeudoe, 

Ai.TTUNi OP 107 

Camelaiton. Camerton, tiraot of 

Free Wairen at 106 

Camclford. Arthur's Grave at . . 263 
Camps and Hundbeds ..11,61,93 

Cannon Balls. Stkat 19, 78 

Capel, Sir Henry Ilfi 

Catew, Thomai., of Camerton .. 37 
Carter, Richard, of Brockhampton 181 
CAHTtRET. Sir Chaeles. M.P. 

(MUbome Port) 213 

Carteret, Lord, Sir Philip 113 

Casbcard. Robert 237 

Cat Cross 67 

Callcs Ash, Derivation of 61 

Cattv Lane 18, 63 

0.B 174 

Ceely,CoI.Thos.,M.P.(Bridport) 145 
Cerne Abbey, The Bwck 

Steward op 260 

Cerse, The Book of 234 

Cbrne Giant: AMbuorialop 

CORIN.f:US AND Goetmagot 
CaAFE-CHAPPYN , , . .214, J48-9, 25t 

Chafe. Kalherine 215, 250-1, 
Mulctta, Malet^a. Mary 350, 
Molcyns 150-1, Susanna 215, 
350, Thomas 314-5, ^4^-^' 



Page. 

Chaffe, William, Curate of Sloke- 

sub-Hamdon 76 

Chaffee, Mathew, Thomu. of 

Boston, Mass 76 

Chafre, W.H 62 

^ Ch«fin. Bamplcild 249-50, Charles, 

Frances ajo, George. 249-50, 

Hany 250, John 349-50. Mary 

350, Thomas 249-50, William 349 
Chaff upon the Door-step 92,158 
Chal5n,Thomas,M.P.(Poo!e,&c,J 214 
Chafv or Chaffee Family 76 
Chflfj". Margety, Mathew. Thomas 76 
Chalyn, Thomas, of Folke . . 39 

Chain-Shot at Coepe Castle 96 
Chalbl'ry, Dorset, Parish 

Reoistkh of 364 

Chalk. Exudation op ..igh, 213 

Cha m pen eys. Water 245 

Cham pneycs, John 133 

Chantey Priests ', . . . 166 

Chapman. Rd. of Lamton, 40. 

Rd. M.P. (Balhl, Waller, Wm. 

MP. (Bath) ...', 158 

Cra ED Epitaph 106 

Chord, Thcs. M.P., Wm., M.P. 

(Bridport) 181 

Charles 11. and Coaxiwh 

Hall Fo 

CharljTieh Chorchwardens' 

Charterhouse [WiUiam] in Sele- 

wode 344 

Cha*orth, Lady Elizabeth, John 264 
Cheodar, Latin Epitaph at 94 
Checke. Robert, Schoolinasler at 

Dorchester 108 

Cheke, John 198 

Chesilborne.Thos. Keate, of 177 
Chester, Rt Wotp. Dominick, 

M.P. (Minehead) 158.267 

Chester, William, Mavor of Bristol 267 
Chettel. Francis, M.P. (Corfe C.) 

1+4. '81 
Chew Magna, Hundred of ni 

Chikelade, John 301 

Children's Games '33.17' 

Children's Games IN Glaston- 
bury 174 

C.S.M. 2«4 

Cholmely, Eliiabelh 336 

Cholmondelev, Sir William. • 
Christenings, Bread AT 63,153,18^ 
Chnbb, Matthew, of Dorchester 

34,39, Waller, R. of Folke .. 249 
Ckureh.C.M. 50,82 

Church Bim-DERS, Early. 
WlNSCOMilE 3O1 49. 93r '47 



^^ Church Platk, Dobsst and 

» Somerset 88 

Churchill, Jane. Roger ofCathcr- 

alonSS, Wm.ofDorcheslerig, 

Winsloa «5 

Chyles.Agnes.John.ofTyssebuiy zoj 

ClST-VAEN ON DUND«V HiLL 

.44, '80 

CrviL Witt, Curious Incident 

^^ IN TMslWatchci) 137 

^^H Civil War HoAnn. S.Petberlon 177 
^^H Civil War Tract, Dosset . . Mb 


CoTEL. Correix, or Comj 


I 

P.£t. 
lOJ 

loS 

.105 

i» 
56.; 

;i{ 

24311 

Qi 
79 
">7 

."3 
37 

li 

SJ 
236 

181 

.11 

•n 

78 
249 


Cottl, Elye, Sire Elye. 105-6 

Margarel. Edith 

&«.«. Jr.ff. s 

COTTELL OR CoTTLB AHl 
EVERKIT FAMILIES 

Collell, Aon, Joan, Maiy 56 
Smon 


CoTHAV Barton, Kittisford 






Courtney, Sir William 

Cousin, , Fellow of Caias Coll 

Coventry, (Sir) John, J.P., Soml 
Coward, Thomas, of Sbeplon 

Mallett 3- 

Cowx [or Cockea], William ... 
Coi. Mary, Robert 

"is-.^i.^rr.:.' 


^^^ Clarke, Tunes, of Lydiard 109 

^^H aavile, WJUirnn lOI 

^^^H Cbytun, Mr., of Northen 1(17 


^^H CLifpiNQ THE Church 75 

^^^H Cluswukth Rectoet . 2U) 

^^^H Coal Harbour or Cold Har- 

^^H BOUR 109,146 

^^^H Coaxuen Hall and Charlks 


CrackneU.Dr 

Creabien, Richard 

Crttpi.A.J. S. 17i30, 

Crispe. Anne, Ellis.* Sir Nich.* 
138, Nich." 254, Rebecca* . . 

Langlord Budville 

a„.t,j- 

Crosse, Robert, M.P. (Mincbead), 
William 

Crump, H. J 

Cuffe. Joanf. John 38, Robt. . . 1 

Cullum, Anna 239. 253. Cather- 
ine.* 1J9, 253, Sir Dudley,* 239, 
253.4, Sir Jasper.* John, 153, 
Sarfe. 2SJ-4. Sav^.* 253-4. 
S»villa. 239, 253, Sir Thoi.,* 


^^^m Uoaxdcrn HoU. Gliosis at So 

^^H Cockerun, Mrs, MS. ofDoract 

^^^H Legends 2480 

^^H Cogan, John [? of Chard], 3S, Mrs. 60 

^^^H Coke, ^luabelh 153 

^^^H CoKER or Ashe, Stour Payne, 

^^H BoiAKt Sa 

^^H Cbfcr, r. W 80, 151 

^^^^H Coker, Eleanor, 144, £liz. 143, 

^^V 144, Mary, Roger 80, Thomas 14] 

^B a,'h:FT. 7S. '", '44, 170 

^^^K (hitman, J. 15, 94. iSo, zu^ 

^^K CoUins, Bctijainin,M- A-, Minisler 
^^H at NonoD-sub-Hambdeti .... 231 

^^H ColyDeborne. John 30Z 

^^H Combe Ksvnes and Wool 


Cups, Names op 18 

Curtis, , 

CUSTUMAKIUS AflBATHI« DE 
MlLTON 

Cotlcr, Wm., R. of Folke 

Cott. John, Mayor of Bristol. 




^^^H Compton, Thomas 219 


^^^H CONCIXSBURV (denvation of the 


^^^H UONGRESBURV.UOLEUOORSIM 92,142 

^^^H Conke, Roger 202 

^^B Cooper, Anthony Ashley, 1st Earl 
^^H CorfsCastle 47 

^^^ CORreCASTLB,CBAIH-SHOTAT 96 


Dackombejofin, of London, John 
of Templico^be 

DaU,E.R. 

Darner, Lieut.-Col. the Hon. 
Uood 

Danes IN Dorset 

Daniel, Jumcs Patten, S. Pether- 


2(4 

SI 

"77 

23 

266 

■ 


^^H L;onon,Thos., AbboiofCeme.. 161 


Diniel. jr.E. l;2, 127. 



Daccey knd Metnill, Joan, John 

(Lord). Thomas 141 

Dai'Bemev Badoe 1.. 109 

DaitbenevTomb.S.Pethkrton 141 
DArBEh'EA's, SIK Gius, Will, 

„'MS -■■.■,.• *« 

Danbeney. Alice. 141, 144-5. 
Alianore 344, (riles (Lora 
K-G.r 109, Giles |»irj 141.J, 
145. Gillei I44, Marguet 144. 
Mary J4 1 .». »44 Join »4i. »44, 
lolm 141, 345. ihomu I44-51 

WilHam 144-5 

Dau'mty, E. S. 109 

Daubsnv Monuubnt at 

LinoN Chbnev, Dotsrr .. 141 
Dnubeny. Alice, EUi., George, 

James. Wm. 14J 

JtauttHg, W. 104, 105, 168 

Darbv. Christophct, of Askes- 

weil. Joanc 40 

Darii. Margaret. J]7, John 139 

Davyson, jDhn[? of Fceshrord].. 35 

Deacon, Baldwyn JB 

Delaiinc, Sit George 177 

Delpt Ware, Wbsi Countby 14 
Derbv, MMthew, of Dorcheiter 181 
D'EvBBCv, Arms OF PKTBii ,, 163 
Dktil's Stone at Staple Fitz- 

PAIKB ItJ 

D'Ewei. Sit Simond, Willoughby So 
J>i«*iiiio». F. M. 6. 17. 40, i3, 68. 

83, ioi.tsi,iss.isS,iS9,i83, 

Digbv. Edward, Earl of ISS 

Dinham, Edilh. Sir Oliver de . . 105 

D.E.T. t7 

Dobyoi, Audiy, William ...... 95 

DULEMOOJlS1KCl>NGBESBt;RV 91,(4! 

DoUcn. Nicholas itl 

Douestic Anikals, Teshs 

Used IN Talkikoto 8g 

"lone, WilL 49 

k»CHESTEB FAITHINO, I6&9 111 

JOECHESTEIt, St Pitek's 

|;Chcrch. Cahvings AT 156 

tdiestcr, Sutrender of. 164J . , 2b6 
rthrater, George, Earl of .... 155 

I's Wver,ofClofobdi6s 

a DOKSETSHlftE 169 

rr County Akms 119 

T Folk Lose 91 

TjLP.'s ....181,167 

tSET M.P.'S IN THE LONO 

.LAMENT I44 

r. Plan OF ....154, 184, 229 
Un'PoE»IS(Rev.E,D.Stone) 93 



P<Be. 
DoKsET Sessions, 1614-1638 156,111 
Dorset Topooiaphy, i jjg 230. 269 
Dorset Wokds iBnmwud, 

Gundy. Leai, Lamploo, Hive, 

Quonl. Copse or Cop, Thole, 

Chesil. Lerrett) ..^1,114,126,196 
DoiwtCommillee.MinuteBookof 48 
Dorti Editor 11. 15, 40, 63, 6j. 

76, 10;. 13s, 146, Joi, 206,215. 

ii6, ^2&, 229, 235, iji, 354, 

157, 163. »67. 169 

Dove, Richard 150 

Dowinge, . 1632 21 

Downam. John 145 

Dreweit. Alice, Jone, Richard . . 3o 

DkuittFamily 23,80.151 

Dr»M. 0. E 23,62,78, 151 

Duisboifih, 107 

Doncocnbe, John. R. ol B«re 

Hacket 2b} 

DUNI>ftYHlLL.ClST-TAEHON144,lSO 
DL'NSTER, SUIPWBECIC AT, I3S0 l6l 

Duijton. John, R. of Cossingloa 180 
Dyer, France*, Joane, Sir Thomas 

ofSomerford, Thomas ofStreet 36 

Dyer. , a Jacobite 219 

Dutch, II 

E.A.S i-O, 271 

X. C.B 260 

Jbrb, /. (Profmor of Anglo. 

SaiOQ. Oxford) la, 43, 90, 9J, 175 
Earle, Th-M., MP. (Wareham). 

Sir Wallet 145 

Eables-Man 255 

Eakly CauicH BuiLOBRs, 

WlNSCOUBE 49 

East Cokeb, Heraldic Glass 

AT 14 

Easter SepuLcaBK, Tarrant 

HiNTON 96. 148 

Etuter Sepulchre, St. Peter*!, 

Dorchester. 148-9, Buckland 

Newton, Gusiage AJ] Sainli, 

149, Cheriton |N.) ijo 

Eaitmonde, Richard. ofFifehead 

Magdalen 40 

Bdanmit, E. £. P. 17 

Edwards. C «6s 

Edyngdon, John 302 

Egos. Colourino of 60 

Ejected Minister, Meuorul 

to.atCloford 265 

Ekioi, George >]8 

Eleadon. Chr., M.P., Geo., M.P,, 

Wm.. M.P. (LymeR.) l3l 

Elford. John, 1631 si 

Eliat, Steven, of Orchat Windam 367 
Elioi, O. B. 155 



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Page. 

Blyi, .otCaimCoB 109 

ETtcaitJig.F. T- K>S, »9, xii 

Encausttc Tiles »i3 

Ktiqmrtr M7 

Epitapb oM AN IiTFAirr 131 

EitAsuns, Samt 19, 59, 94 

&ainn», Simt, Alms deificsted 

la ^9.39 

Erie, Walter 155 

E.a.P.B. 156 

E SB 41 

&Ki,Anhiir,EBTlof ri],rtf,ii5,iit) 
Eslaii)nt,Geo..EsclicatorofDc]T9et iji 
Srans, Tbomas, of Mmicton, ia, 

ofWraaa 58 

Bvered, Geoffrav, WnHnn, at 

PHlesdon .. ' toS 

Ethrbtt Family ji 

Everett, WHliani, of Bmloo 37 

Etctv, loKn, of Broadwair, 

Kalhenne 3I 

Evens, Matbetr, of Wincanton or 

Cadbnry .................. jC 

Etctj. WiHiara ;• 

EXMOOR Forest 106 

Piithx. Sir Thomas 79 

Pallowfield, Thos ij» 

Farewell . John, of Holbrooke. 

Ursula j6 

Farbg.a. ..I4,[8 

PuTBBbT, , Schoohimster, of 

ttunr, O. C. 09 

Fenner. ] jOj 

Fernban, Edward, Corcan ., ,. 114 

Pierd. The 42 

FillioI*EliMtwUi, WnUant 

Mshet, William Jls 

Fitzhe ib e rd , ABet fo^. Sir 
EdBBumI 103-4, Johanna KSf, 

Reginald IB3 

rrwjAMKs, John, meo 1*69 .. 164 

FmjAKES OF Leweston 117 

Vftijainea, Sir John, orLewcston, 
137.- K5, LeweitoD, Thomas, 
117, Robert of REiBTneh, 

ThoDCuiB 40 

rbytr.O. W. l6,9t 

r.H. J7 

t.M.P. ij* rr4 

Foberr, . Sc()(K^i.<ter ■( 

Newcas tie-on -Tine loS 

FOLK-LORE, ADusttBttop . J6fl 

FoLR-Lose, — Wbatheb PaeiTEms 
leo, iSe, 169 

Pord, Heliasof 50 

ForJ, Diti*. V, or HBydoo »}», 

JcAn, of Norton Haiit*ile ., nj 



PiKb 

FoiTcsUr, Agnes 351D 

FosuM AS A Plack-Namk. . . , 105 

Foster, Abraham 153, John . an 

Fa^T.J.J. (». 6a. 'S>9i>i7f 

Foncbes Cron, Lace,Ci>tncf..,. too 

Fowler, Richard 145 

Foy, Waiter, J. P UJ 

FramptoD. Majcr Tames 15J 

Fraiuids, John, of^Combe Flori, 

Maigatct .. 36 

Freake,Raberte,ofCeBiaeAbbM 39 
Freestone, Colhbert iia 

FaiARV (so CALLED) OF OtIX 
SOUUtSET^HUB CBAKTEK- 
HOPKES Uf 

Friend. John »S3 

FKOST, REJlAKCABUe, tN SoK- 

B'lSB-t ■S9.»65 

Fk\- Faiulv. of Pawlbt .,-, afi9 

Fry, Joan, THE Reqicidie ..jfcH 

Prv, Ann, 73-^ Duldbed 73, 

klii. 74. J»i>«s 73-4. ]o'">. 

M.P.,lbrSha£lan, 53^. r>^, 

John. Joseph 73-4. Uarcaict, 

Martha 74, Maiy 53, Milliccnt 

SO. 73, Stephen, M.D. 73r4 

Thi:mas53-4, 73-4, WOJiam.. $3, 73 

rry.P..A. ..,.SI>,r4. '84. "», rt4 

Fry.e.X^ 6>.l69 

Etye, EUia soi, Ragn, ThoBw 

ofPanlet .. ,. rtg 

f. IT. (r..^, 61. 63, 80.84,85. 

8»9". >44 
Fy^c, Anna, Humphiey . 9c 

e. 9& 

Salhampttm, WBlntm jj 

Gau-op OK GoLUU', John .... 11 
Gallop (Gollop^ diriunbd. Joam 

John, Nxhoniel, Samod, 

Thomas ..,. zi 

Oalbuft A. A. a 

Gallowses ov Luiiis or 

Jurisdictions , 99 

Gardiner, Christt^hcr, Kiands, 

of Ediaaraljbaai K17 

Gatchcll, Tbemas, ot Angetslci^ loS 
ftr, K. tja 

e.s.B na 

GtraalopUi .,..„-..,...,...... V^ 

Gcntil, LeutE .. . ..,..,« 

SKr^«. IT. 124,260,^15,368 

Genniu. WillS«m [Zf» 106 

Cibbes. William, J.P. 156 

etHDOi J XlS 

GlLBEKT. WlLLEAU, ABBOT OT 

BRUTON ,,. J29 

Gilbert. Getuge. 35, G^es [? of 
COrton DeoSaniJ 35-6^193 



Pige, 

, _ B MJ 

GQl, JalmafBadKwotlh. l;oj ., r6 

loQ lo; 

Glasioiuurv, P&orntnAirr 
RsrucRES AT. i6tb ClKT. 95, 

<aecn. Sir Pclei, Bart., Rod-' 
oey. of Hiuduridc Norf. IO9 

QconU. , Schaalmaslet at 

l^tmiQster lOS 

<Hissi)n, Fraods, WOlUa), of 

Rampisham, , FeUaW of 

CaiusCon. . 108 

Glotoh Mxaa 16.6a 

Glodcbstek. TttK Hoitotix or. 

AflDTHB -LAHDovMokaAit' 97 
"Go TO Pot" ....... .ijO.ijt-) 

Goddaid, John, ot Hanlagb .... 103 

Gaetmogcn, (Gogmagos) I40 

Godwyae, wa&am 19S 

Gou>m WAicass. Uaisb 

UASiaoLO 91. 158, 196 

GoUop M Gallaa 

Good, Anne, Jolui of ICaidcn 

Newtoa 4A 

GcKdon, Capt. Roben 155 

GoTKe.JeSnye sj: 

Gc>xes, Ralph, loi. Samuel of 

Wraiall S! 

Goring, General George , 79 

GoiTLD. Gabubi., i6£8 61 

9ntU. J. 61 

GooiJe. P.. FtJowofCaiMCon. I09 
Gowkl, Wiitiaia, oTGiisu^ .. . . 40 

Gicat Hor»e, RidiQe the .. j; 

Greenless. Robert. 1410 t;& 

Oreac, GOes. M. P. (Code C. lad 

Wevmoiuhl IM 

GnneiielJ, Rcnry 19S 

Grevstock, ]oba (Lord), Joan . , £^ 
Gftnc, Gcorxc, MMtef of Shtf • 

borne School 107 

GosTiuf EjStBOMX ia3 

Gnppy. ConMaace, Ridutd 3I5 

Gnppve, vlrs. CoutaiKe. of 

llaUtock aOit 

(7. r. r. afig 

« -. <*i 

Hale, VicUr <1« I> JP 

Hallekuiehi, Walto- 90* 

BalIcIt(Ib«klt}.or Rampuham. 

Sduxdnutler ra^-S 

Balstock. neld-^ftina al 11 

Hauwmll. J£u(oK or s; 

Jbitttk, T. r9s 

Haoleigh. Walts atn 

IbiinaiD. James, of CamuHqmrae 39 



P^e. 
HarbfD, Robeiie of Stallbridgc 

39. 113, Robert. 70,7a 

Hudutge [Hurdine] Ralphe of 

Long Breddie m 

Hatdj-e. Hugh, "Jichola* 363 

Rajis HoLZ, LuLwotTH .... 3M 

Harpat Lane j^y 

HairfagtoD, Jamet 41. [Sit] lohn 
ofK!elwe!ton37, Sir Jotn 4J. 

John 41-1,70 

Hatrji, , Schoolmaiter at 

DoicbMter loj 

Han^-s, John, of Oihene jA 

HartwelTjHenry.of LoogBiuloa] itff 
Harvey, Etii." ij?, Fnndi 107, 
Katherine," Mirtin ij6, Re- 
becca 236, 13S. Ridurd of 

Ljine Re^s ten 

Ilason, Thomis ajs 

H.istingi, Henrv, Jo.ine 113 

Hatch. Willtam, of. \c« England 30 

Halton. Ijuiy I67 

Havilaod. Alex.. .Mayor at 

Dorehestt* Iti 

llawicer. Major Erie, 155. joba 

I*. "3 

HAnM:c FAMiLit or Sosm 
vVrocoMBE JO, 61 

Hares, Mrt. IJj 

Hayne, Morgiti. of Fr}'3r Waddoa <0 

Rayw^, TboBus sAb 

Huelbuty Biyan. Inslimfioa to, 

'617 t.^ 

Heatb. Thomo, LLD 14A 

HELIX PouATIArcDolSFT 19, 5<lw SI 

Htlfar,a.J lij 

Headtev. Robert [ ? of L«igli] . . 38 
ncaALDic Visit A-no:i OF 
Dossrr, 1613. UvEJAti 

Family ijS 

Hetlackendea, Elizabeth,* (tin).* 

ajB Tlonias.' jjj, 138 

Heyi. Thomaiine , ijj 

a.r.y m 

JT. ff: w. 14a 

Itlit,!, T- B. f. ». n 

Hill, Ro[>»T, <rf TaontoB IS 

ilintonCfiaFtertioa**, ' Frtoy'at n^ 
Hippuley, Dcaothie. JohdoflSion 

Eaiioa 38 

Himwly, 'CboauB ,. |p 

HixlgiM. Ilngh, ti% jobs of 
Loftoa j;, Tiios. [? rf 
Wedmorel Joyw, 37. Tnos^fQ, 
Walter, of PaddimoTE MOw^ 
36, Win, of SpecfcingtoB. .... jy 

RotMHBAO. Auk,, — tS^U 

' « ™. «§ 



I 

I 



Bglmn, T. S. 13, iS 

Holway, Cbu., R. of Closwurth ibo 
Holwonhie, Robert ofCaaniDgtan 35 
Holwortliy. George'ijB, Mmj-,* 

Richard* »37. J38 

Hooph!i,BishopofGlo ucestbr 56 

HOOPKRANDUASTBKSFAMILIES 113 

Hoopei, Edward, of Beveridgc. 40 

Botptr.W. til 

Hordn. Robert »0* 

Home. Geoige, Sir John 41 > 4* 

HoBsiNGtoN Cross iii 

Hortoa, Monastery at 6S 

HorwofXl, Mr. ii Mra. rHeralds' 

Office) SS3 

Hoskini, John of Bemister . . . , 40 

HoDiwyf, Sir Roger 345 

Howard, Anne J67 

Howe, Mabel, ■William tti 

Bt$dil, A. S. 144 

HoUe. Richard de 50 

StimpMriyi, E, £ 104 

HuuDREU Ybars' War. The 

Cbukcr's Aid [K TBI .... iS 
Hlkdrxds of Kevnsham and 

CBRWMAONA 113 

HUNCIRFORD OF FARI.EIOH ,. Itl 

Hunt. Robert 70 

Hmite, John, Robert. ofForstODe 107 

Hnrcott in Samerian 99 

Hurford, Ju., of CburlyDch .... 9 

B. W. K 91 

Hfde, John,* of Sundrish, Many.* 
Savell, Savilla. Elii., Frances. 3jl 
Margaret. Strode, Wm., Edw., 

Mary, John. Sarell 353 

HygoQ, William 103 

By*an.J.B 77 

Hyll.Joh(i 19S 

ICBTHVOSAl'RUS AT TlNTIN- 

HuiL, Discovery or am,... 76 

Iford, Nidiolm of. 131 

iLCHESTitH. DiscovERv or 

TKssELATen Pavbmfnt at 36 
Dcbesler. (Yculebeittre) Friars of 343 
He Brewers, DoubleCbild bomat 34 
Des, Edmund and Stephen, of 

Duntish. 1697 37 

Dminster, Briefror. I()6t 166 

Uminster Grammar School, . . 153, 197 

"In the Ybar of our Lord" 37 

Inglebj-, 353 

Ingelnc, Maud, danghter of ... . So 

Innesij, B 363 

Inscrurd Stosk om Winsford 

Isam, Henrv, Phillipc. Roberl , . 140 

ISBAUFAtnLV. 



P»ge. 

Iiham, Cbas., Euaeby, Chulotte 
III, Edw. no, E 111., Gregory, 
140. Henry, John, of Braydon, lio 
Justinian. 140, Katbeiine, 
Mar^-. William of De Brcwen, 1 10 

J.A.'B -.90.178 

JACR-MAN »SJ''9* 

Jtt»m,F S 88. 104 

Tak RiDD 36, I u 

J.B 78. 177, 181, iij, «6i 

J.B.F. 360 

J- 0. 19.94 

Jcffery, Joann» 145, Lieut-Col. 

John IJS 

JeitFreya, Sir George, Chief 

Justice 113 

Jennings, John, of Yeonl 71 

Jenayngs, Mary, Robert, of 

Burton Pynsent, Thomai .... 37 

Ierard, Thomas 303 

ohnson. Samuel 187 

olivet, Thotnas ROt 

«...,/) 9« 

Jones, John, of Lyme Begis .... 39 

J««. T. B IS3 

lonys. Dr., Pilton 13 

J.M.N. 80 

fugge, John 3CU 

uggeh [□, John 10* 

Kan'brygge » 

Kaylwaye, Giles, of Strond, 

Dorset, and of Berry Pomeroy, 

Devon, Henn-ofHomminglon, 

Wills, and of Beny Pomeroy. 198 

Kaynesham. Willinni de. Parson 

of Winscombe 49 

Keatg, Thouas of Chrsii- 

BORBE 176 

Keemer, Henrie. of Pendomer .. 38 

Keene, Edward 33* 

KeUy, John, lone 80 

Kenne, Chnstofer, of Keim, 

Eliiabelh 37 

Keni. Charles, Suunna 350 I 

Ker, Tbo 34 

KfT,\aK,S. W 81 

Ki-rilakt. T. 9' 

Kete, Elizabeth, Tbomoi, of 

Chesselbome 40 

KevNSBAU, Hdndrsd of . .. 113 
Kidder. Bishop, Death of, 1703 16 
King, John. 253, Robt., Fellow 

Caius Coll., . loS 

Kingsealing, The Game of 143 

KingsmiU, Coiutance. Sir John. 

Thomas 3I5 

Kirkup, James, S. Pelheiton ij 

Kite, Fork-tailed iji 



Page. 

KrrnsT'nttD, Cothay Bajiton i8i 
Knowlton Chvrch oe Chapkl 

■ r, 68, 111 

Knyghl, Tolin aoi 

X. iS 

Lamb, J j6s 

Lambaiij. John loi 

Lmmtirrt, JeiH 191, 355 

Lambert, George, nf Henborle . . 40 

Laniberte, Waiiaia , , 155 

Lamfloo, The Game of, 125. 142 
Land, AmieAsuREUENT of, 

IN SOUERSET IS3 

Landchet^ in Dorset 169 

Lane, Thomas. Parish Clerk, 

Glanvilles Wool ton tl8 

laHjdo". F- X. W. 110. 181 

Langetec, Galfr' dc lOb 

Laud's VisitatiokatTauntok 

8, Si, S2, 116 

Laucranns. John 203 

Laver. John, of Yeovil 71 

Law, Rev Matthew, of Wedmore 58 
Lawley, Thomas, of the Coppies 34 
Lawbenck, Jonathan, Rector 
or Haielbl-hv Bbvam and 

Upwev, Dorset 146 

Lawrence, Jonatbjn.Wm.Honora 146 
LicEKSE TO Eat Fish in Lent 57 

Lidiard, Ralph of 50 

Lindsay, Anna, of Poole 73, 74 

tLiuant, Philip, of Taunton 17J 
Otd, W.W. 78 
Lee, Richard, of Winalade 211 
X,Me, Mary. Simon 141 
L«E«, Thomas, LL.D., Master 
irfCaius CoU 107, 108 

Leigh, AgDEa. John. 202. Thomas 

[LeyorUgliJorWells 36 

Lent Crocking 75 

Lent, License tu Eat Fish in 57 
Iiconard. Wm., of Taunton .... 198 

Leaiinton, John de 106 

Levesage. Kdmond J9 

Lewis, Bamabas, J.P. , . .. 156 

Local Stay-at-Hoiies 236 

XMk, W. 94 

IiOng, Thomas, clarkc, of Pen- 

dtxner »3» 

lMig4f, E.I. Ill 

Longge, Hemy, of Bradford, 

Wilu, 202, Lisly 49 

Longstone, The, on Winsford 

Hill 263 

IiOope, John, of Hide 40 

Loinnine, Adeliia of 1420 

I Loveieitie, Albrcta jo, Hcnrj' de 

49. 50 



Lowd, , ofCaiusCoU lOT 

Ludford, [or Linford], EIle r^-j 

Ludlowc, Mr., 1(131 ai 

LutlercU, George, 36, 108. Joan, 
of Dunster Castle, 36, Sir Thoi,, 

of Caibampton 108 

Lultrell, Thomas 70 

Liu^Id 17,18,19,58 

Lye, Edith, John, 37, Thomas . , BS 
LvTCHETT Minster, Pbtke'i 

FiNOKR Inn sn>, '3 

Lytton*, Judith. Lylloi- Trtrodc, 
Sir Rowland, Sir William 

MfClure, B. 151 

Maiow, Robert . sol 

Malet, Katherine, Sir Thomas, 114, 215 

ITaJIaek, Richard 257 

Man, Edward, of Poole 39 

Manifold 34 

Mannfeild, Phillip, of Sherborne 40 
Mannl-Pleydfll, J. (7. . . ..51. 57, 

209, 214, 147. 249, 352, fS5 

Mance, John 201 

Marks, Ancient, in Sokerskt 268 

Morli, Storm at, 1703 16 

Markam, Tohane 245 

Martyn, William 203 

Miutti. O. S 197 

Masters & Hoopek Families iu 

Masters. Basill 262 

Mawdite, John, ofSomerford . 202 

Mawdley, Richard , 38, 123 

Mayo, Jobn. or Cattistock, 

Dorset 123 

Mayo. Edward, John, Thomas , . 123 

Mago, 151 

Jffl^^ B.o 123 

Meg^, Jane, Lawrence, Nicholas, 

irfDownham 87 

MtdUy, J. S 58,61,148,231 

Mellcr, John, Robert, of Cann 

[fCame] 107 

Mtllar, J.W. 78 

Melmortb, Wm., Lincoln's Inn.. 153 
MBNStj ration. Rohan, in 

England 67 

Men:er, Tolm 303 

Mere, Philip of S" 

Merriam, Joseph, ofNew England 30 

Merry, Richard ". S.-irah 253 

MerTyn,Sir John,of FountelGifford 87 

Mill. Robert of the 50 

Miller, [Mellcr], John, of Came . . 39 
Mihur-GiiioH-Culiitm. O. ,.236,254 

IkllLTON, CUSTUUARIVS AbBA- 

TS1«DE 78 

Ministers, Intrtoed, Memo- 
rial Tablets to 231 



Page. 

MiSSIONAKIBS FKOM SOMSKSKT 

TO Palhstink, it>50 s8 

Mohon, Joan, Lady of Dunster .. iSi 
Moleyns, Edward, 113, 248. 250, 

»Uciuy, ug, Suaana, 215 350 
llolyns, William 245 
llDnlcton, West, IiutiluUon to 
iSfo, 1586 iBo 
Homographs, Dokset Atcaxo- 

LOOICAL 235 

Monolith on JBatcoube Hill 

Moore, Thomas, J.P aij 

More, Richard, of Ockford, 

Koberte of M'archam 39 

More, Sir Wm., Chuctiy Presi, 

S. PMherton 245 

MotetoD, Thomas, of Clenston.. JB 
Morgan, DorotUe, Thomas , , . . 3S 
Mortnin, Robert C. of, Land M 

Knolton 68 

MoKTON, Hbnry, Letter 

TKOU, 1640 J7 

Morton. Sir George, of Milbomc 

I St, Andrew, Henry 57 

f Ifostyn,* Bridget. Ricliard 

[ jr*>f>. a. J . 16, 19, 44. 51. 60, 

8), 84, 105. 112, 150, 176, 183, 

irf, 2»7. S3i, 33b, 248, »;o 
Mwmuu,wni., E., ar.Sanun,, m 

HttUR, Robart 102 

wrrsnci Blii , Sir J 143 

ll.P~» PoftDoiiaiiT 181,267 

11,1*.'* Hi« DriKSKT IN THE 

, IaW* rAllLUAMKKT I44 

I ■.l\'» WWSOMBKSItT 158,181, 

an, J67 

K\ VUK SuUKURT IN TBB 

"^KKUAUKNT 41. i8t 

■^RMtv, oTI^Kintocke.. loB 

2^ RwMil 203 

lj^Kii<)i«rt il« lob 

A«*^ John 91, 

Vl N*i)lHi>inbe 90, 
uSin H.Suvtaiy.. a;, 90 
3kW> tt«*<0, Joui .. [44 

sv' 136 

. Hw h\*i«t, M.P.. 

kC-U^hk .' 167 

^K Vi ■>■■' K..W-II ,, 167 

37 



Page. 
Newman, John, clerk, 25, Mary, 

Robert 181, Thoa iSi.s 

Nicholls,- of Cains CoU. .... 108 

Nightmgait, J . £ S3, 233 

Nonconformist Comuunion 

Plate (old). South Pether- 

TON 23 

noncohforuist ministers in 
Dorset, Succkssjoh of .... 265 

Noon's Barrow 159 

Noreis, Robert Ic 106 

Niinu.B. 14, i(>2, 178 

NorthamptoD, Meniy, Earl of . . 18I 

NorlhefoUt, Robert 101 

Norton -sab- Hombdeu, Uarlu on 

Chancel WaL 114 

Norwood, John 239 

Nolle}', Heoiy, of Moocictoii .... 108 
Nottomv. Skeleton iii 

NuVEllBER RHVllES, FiFTH OF I9 

Nowell, Chas., Edw., Hetuy, 
Mary. Roger, of Lillle Merley, 

Oglethorpe, Sir Thbophilus 199 
Oglethorpe, Hlcanora, Ludovlcui, 

Bishop Owen 300 

Old Carved Oak IN SoUBRSET iti 

Olhir, r.L 78, 84 

Orchard, Manor of, in Whit- 

dmrch C 356 

Orford's. Ladv, Garden at 

PlDDLKTOWN J8 

Organs. Iron, BqcklandNkw- 

ton 151 

Orwell, Edward 237 

Ovekwekk, Free Chapel of 

Avleston Sutton, at 94 

Page, J. L. W. a63, 164 

Pake, Anne * 

Palmer, John 49 

Patham. Sir £dw.. Elii 133 

Parish AccorNT Books, Old 

Covers of 175 

Parish Boundaries, Origin OF 170 

Parish Records, Lost 236 

Parisb Registers, Tran- 
scripts or DoEsHT 192 

Parker, Edward R. of Rowberrow 
i;i, Gille5,Hiigh245,ThoB. ,. 239 

Parkers, Joan 20a 

Parliament, Somerset, Meu- 

BEES OF.,.. 41. 158, 181, 21Z, if] 

PARLIAMEN1', DOHSST, Mem- 
bers OF 144. 181, 267 

Passelewe, Robl., Archdeacon of 
Lewes 106 

Passion, Anthony, Elizabeth,... 177 
Paul. H. W. 264.5 



^^^^^^"^ 

' r»ia,ir.B. 130 

Panleu. George ;o, John Lord., no 
Pumceloole. Elii,. Robert ..-. 141 

P«wlell, John j]6 

Psyn,John 303 


X. 11 

P»ge. 
Plants, Flowming, Whitb 


Plans. Ralph. Wm., Bristol ... 109 
P\cMti. John de, E. of Warwick loo 

PJesdell, Ueul.-Co!. E.M 155 

PiiroHBovs- Chasts 153 

Pollandus, Follanus. or Poulain, 


Peatham, John, of Adbeate ..37, 113 
Peasinge. John, or LilUnglon, 
Joane 40 

PcdW. Elizabeth, Sir Kich., o( 

Abbot sley, Hunts 95 

Penn. Cipi. John 155 

PRK NAN T STONE IA2 

Penne, Gila.ofE. CoLet .. .. a68 

PKNSV FAIULV, SOMBkSBT ANU 
DOESBT 368 

Penny, Jane 768, H, B, ;6. 
Thos. 256, Tbos. of London , , 74 


POUPARLAS »' 

Pont Andemn, Hospice de . . . . 84-5 


Pope, Honors 146 

Popbiim,Co).M;.SirSleplien.. 101 

POiTIAJs'II Rkkvk-Staff 6, 60 

Portman, bir Hemy 36, 38, Sir 

Win. jS, ;o, M.P. Ilchesl.t .. iib 
Poulett, ElizalKtll.John isc Baron. 

37, Sir John, and Baron 41 

Poiuiles, Richard Io« 

Powell. Robert, Eschcator of 

Dorset l;? 

Powlet, bir Amias, Aniicia, 


^^LmTBX'G ti-NOKR IMW, LVTCHETT 


^^■nXBEITOH, a.. DANbEKEV 
^H TraiB,AT .. £41 

PRTKeKioN. S., OU) Noncon- 


Pownail, iidward 146 

PowucU. Exelrfell, R. of Wiaiall 58 

Prcsi, John aoi 

Pkestok 10 ABwrsBURi, Road 


Pethca-m BniIge.Counii,TScufflc 79 
Pclhtrlon. b , Altar of h, Mary. 

Limnh (■( b. Peler 143 

Petour, Tliomas 103 

FEVEHKLLS of DoftSKT 86. lot 

Pevetcll, AJice loi, Andrew 86-7, 

103. Jane B;, John 86-8. st 

John de 105, Katherinc. Lucy. 

103. KannTph Kt,, Richard 87. 

Robert 80. Thos. 8;. 103. 

Wm 86-8 

Phtlips, John, of MontaLWe. 

Phcbpp*, 'Rich»rd."si^iiiid"or ^ 


Prewon, John, of Ilmystte 198 

PfiOTBBTANT RB»rGIES AT 
Glastcinbuhv, Ibtll Cknt. 

9Si >5'. '7S 

Prowse, Jolui , i^o 

Prowte, Witliam, o< Letlon .... 39 
PurbeckSocietk'sPapeis s^.^S-o 

Pye, Sir Robert (86 

Pym.Allei « 

Pyne.HnBh.J.P ij* 

Quaker BitrialGeounds 137, 

■53> >84 
Qococy, Roger de, E. of Winlou too 




Phillips. Sir Robert .. 110 


Randalf,John »03 

Rnwles,John.orFirehcadNeviUe 40 

ofUchMter 38 


Pierce, Wm., Bp. of Balh St 
WeUs no 

P1DD1.BTOWN, Lauv Okvord's 
Gardens AT 78 

PiDDLXTRIMTHlDE CH1:BCH, 

Cakvinos at 1(6 

Pike.Mary 237 

PILION CaURCHWAMJHriS' Ac- 

THfll. 'f.2). 42, 145, 158,181,313, 

Pir.e\-.John. [fofHalse] ' 36 

piscis.* Situated in Cobsers 

161. 178, Jfis 
Pin. Richird, of Melcombc R. . . 36 


Reader, T. ^65 

Registers, Parish 306, 264 

Reugious & Chantry Priests a66 
Repingdor., PhUip. Bp. of Line. 36 

Reyndd'sWay 46 

Richards. David, S. Pelherton . . 23 

Rives, Sir John, J.P 156 

Road krom Preston or Bin- 

COMBE TO ABBOTSBURV ..17,83-3 

Roberts, Alex., FeUow of Caius 
College 109 



^^r xa 

Jb«i4«™ ■!;. : 7s.m 

Rocke, Thus., of Teotil 71 

1 Rodnc]-, Anne. Geo., Toane. Sir 
^^ HBDricc. of Stoke Ciffotd .... 35 
^^K Roller.TohD 145 

^^H Bluidrord 107 


Semer, Wmiam 14S 1 

SerE*>^.Jane.»ido*. ofSherbome 39 
" Se«taxt."isOld Documewts 230 

Smivikgto.v Fajuiv 56,89,90 n 

S«vud, J.. Mayor of Dorcbesta. til ^J 

Seymet, Ann. John Tf'^H 

S^^mour, John, of Stoke Wake 39 ^H 

" Skaceu-Eog " DAT 19>74 ^H 

Shait^sbokv Abbsv, Couk ^M 

Roll OF aoi ^M 

Sharp. Dorothy, of Slepoey .... 253 ^H 

Shellon, Edwid .39 ■ 

Shepehurd, Robert »3 ll 

Sheptos iULLLKT, Street 

Nascbsin I» 

Sberwirmk, King's School . 85 
Sberbomc, Relief of the Poor K 136 


^^H Rohan Mensuration at Esa- 


^^1 Roman Hob-DaiJe.] UooU 4H 

^^M Rose. Richard, M.P. (Ly-me R.) 144 

^^H Roseter.JohD I98 

^^H ROSEWE[X,WlLUAK, SOUGBK. Ill 

^^H RowButxow, Institution to, 
^^M 

^^H Royiton, Stray Caimon Ball at 7S 

^^H Rnccole, Richoril. Piocorator of 
^^H 5.Giles-Ho^itai.PDHA<idcnicT 1$ 
^^M Ruclte, Thomas, of New EBglaad 30 
^^H Raller, Henrv. S. Pelhmon.. . 23 
^^H anttir.J F. IS3 

^^M S- 24,32.64.75,96,101,114, 
^^m 126, (iB. [36. 141, 153, 159, 

^H 171, 191, 119. 230, 169 
^^H St, Margakbt's Chapel, Tat- 


Suig-Shag Day 91, 114, 176 

Skip ■ Castle of London." 
1633 SO."*** 

SHHOTK-TIOE Customs 29, 74. 

Sideeole, Edward, of 50 

Sid*aie. Richard, of Poole 40 

Sfilvestet de Evetdon] Bp. of 

Carlisle 106 

Simons. John, ]. P. Somt IIO 

Simpson. Eliiabeth. [ i of Cricket 

Malherbie] 37 

Sing ALL oi-ER, ■■ One " tAj 

Sinodun 61 

Skeme. BBith.,ofCo. Lincoln 35, 

John of Turner's Piddle 40 

Skutt, Johs. Grant of Arms 

TO JJ« 

Skoll. Anth., Edw., 233. George. 
M.P.. (Poole) 1+4, Joane. 


^H a»iUi«ry. fiiikop of (Ur. Wardi. 

^^H woTih) S 

^^H Sausbubv, Skals or thk 


^H fmvw., 7 163 

^^M 8mH<m.E.A ....lE-g 


^H Sanford, Manor of 49 

^H ««■/«(, IT. « JO 

^^H Sabuu, Akus of teib Diocese 

^^H 219 

^^H Sauoders. Symon, of Bagboioueh 

^^H Savadge, Anne, Thos , of Sidling 40 
^^H Savile, Catherine,* ToIid,* 139, 

^H Mary,* 239 

^^H SaviU.Mar^- 253 

^^H S««cer, Thomas 103 

^H Surth.B.X. 60,171,181 

^^m Scawen, Muy 253 

^H Scovdl,Thos.,ofWichunpton.. 40 
^H Seamer, Yorktihire zs7 


Smalley, , of Motcombc.. . . loS 

Smart, T. »'. FT "to 

Smilli, Frank, J. T. ifij. Thos. 70 
Smilhe. Anne. 35, Hagh, 35. 37 , 
lane, John, MatltiEw, 35, 
Mawde, 3:,(LoDg Asblon) .. 

S.X.P. 9» 

Snigge, Sir George, Joyce 37 

Skow. Trll-Tale . . 157 

Somerset, Bovn-uaeies of . .2, 44 
SomersetCkanteies,Ovkeweeb 94 
Somerset Churchbs iBS 

SDii«r«( Sdilor 16. 39, 40, 77. So, 8a 
i:g. i]8, 148, 183. igi. loo, 113. 
222, 232. 243, 246 

Somerset Election, 1645 41 


^H S«gnc. Sir John 202 

^^H Sel WORTH r Parish, Local 
^^H Place-names in. ,..193, 103, 205 
^^H SSUAFHOKES 96 



Page. 

N Erleigh llS 

(otlEKSKT, E'n-MOLOOVOF I5], 174 

' SowaKSET Historical Inrexes Sj 
Soii&bsktM.P.'s 158, iSi, 112, a6; 
SoMKSsirr Missionakies to 
Palbstikb IN 1650 58 

SOUERSET.OLDCABVBDOAK IK 111 
SOMBKSBT TlUBBE, A.D. Ihj6, 

aJ?, 160 
£Dm«rMti«iMM 11(1, 145. 117 

SOHERS. AsmKAL SlB GEORGB 256 

Somers.Sir Geo., JohaDni, Martha 

256, Mathew 150-7, Nich 356 

Somner, Robcti, uf Olhery . . . , 37 

SPEK£, HUOH— PoLITiCIAS iSj, JI? 

Spmce, HroH—PKisoNEtt 1683-4 ii3 
^peke. Geo., 185, Hugh 113-iig, 
V1S5-190. 217-321. Mary 37 

*^ J.S. «Io 

vicbe, John, Kithwineof 

agh, keniy. . aoi 

Fttz-Faink. Devil's 

Stons at 153 

— .^J^iia. WaUam 139 

L 'SCapIq!tove,ClmsleningCuslDmat b^ 
Star, CdI. George, M.P.fShaston) 

54r '41 

Staveidale. ChanoDS of 344 

SUwcU, Frances, Sir John of 

fcColhe]sllme 36, Sir John, K.B. 
or.SmncrlaD 41 
ephei»s.John 38 
Wkelcj-, Hugh, 36, 38, Joan, 
dT Marsh (Dunster) 36, Thos. . . 38 
stjlo no fleet family of 

Crahborne 94 

StiUingSeet, Anna, Andrei, Edw, 
05, Edw, Bp of Wore , Eb!,94, 
James 95, John 94, Margaict.. 95 
Stctcks at N. Cheriton and Tem- 

plecombe .. iii 

St<>ile,Elii.. Hemy ofMflioQ .. 40 
Stoke-sub-Hamdbh, Beau- 
champ Chapel 191 

Stone, Rev. Wm., ot WimbOTnc 74 

Stimi. IF. r. 84 

STOBM (OKEAT) OF i;oj 16 

Stourton. Alice, Eleanor, Elii., 

John, Richard 143, Wm...i43, 202 
Sttangeways, Thos tol 

STKEET niAMES IN SHEPTON 

Mallet 120 

Sthode, Johm, of Kniobtoh 

■ 6» RvUB, Gbnt »IS, 26i 

^^JODS. OF Sbepion Mallet 

a3&, »S' 



tx, 13 

P"ge. 
Strode, Alice 56, Anna, 239, Anne* 
Chaa. •, Edw.« 56. i37-8,Eli7.* 
23<'-7- '39. »54. Essex 137, Sir 
Geo." 136-8, 354, Geo.*, Jane, 
Jeffeiy, 237, Geoffrey •, John • 
*3*-9. Judith • 237, katficrine" 
139, J54, Margaret • 137, 239, 
Mary •237, 239, 254, Sir Nich," 
'3"-9. Philip* 237. Rebecca" 
236, Samuel •, Savile 237, 
Savilia" 239, Samh " 337, 
Thomas" 236, Sh HuuLrt 156, 
Thomasine * 254, Wm. * 49, 
230-8, 254. 
Strode (Strood, Strond) Aaron. 
Dorothy. Ehz. ;62, Geo. 262-3, 
Hugh, R. of Bere Hacket 263, 
James, John, Moses, Wm... 26z 

Strowde, Alice, Elizabeth 237 

Studley, Giles of Broad Windsor, 
John of Petersham, et Marsh- 
wood 39 

Sturminstbs Maksball 24 

Stykebird, Thomas 99 

Style, Waller 203 

Suffolk. Thomas, Earl of iSi 

S. W- 270 

Swan, Henrv, of NewEngiaod,. 30 

Swanton, W'iUiam 238 

SwBvne. John, of Blanitford 40, 

Miiliceni 53, 73, Robt 53 

AtfHdnon, G Itl 

Swell. St. Catharine's 
CmjEcn 183 

Swelnam, Laurence. 21a 

Sydenham, Joanna 14 J John 198, 
John of Leigh 35, fhos. 145, 
Col. Wm. M.P. IMelcombe 

R-) 14s 

Symes, John 110, Wm. of Chard 38 
SymoniTes, Anne, Gyles, of 
Woodford 40, Wm. of Lyme 

R 39 

S^monrfi. B. 152,251-2 

Talniash, Col. 190 

Tame, Thomas Kxi 

Tap] ine, Thomas . 212 

Tarrant Gunville, Fry of 53 

Tarran-t HiNTON, Easter 

SKFItLCHRB AT 96, 148 

Tatwohth, St. Marcaket's 
Chapel iid, 159, [178] 

Taunton, Reliefof .^ 79 

T.B G 24,92,9(1,152, 158, 

196-7, 229, 26S 

Templecuubb .... 26 

Teshace cultivation. 
Ancient 230, 269 



Page. 

r TunLATBD Patkkekt at 
I Ii.CHiuTER, Discovery of .. a6 
I Tiwihn, Jane, Thos., of LmUow 35 

I * ',„ Church Walls.... 14 

ILCobnel 79 

Rt, Frances, Sii Wm. ,. 267 

1, Robert 202 

1, Frances, Richard .... 152-3 
TWf, G«o., of Foinlmgdon 36, 
Crao, Eliz. 123, Robe 239 

TlNT[NHlILL, iJlSCOVBllV O? AN 
ICKTHVOSAUEUS AT 76 

[ Tmnlyn, George 253 

t Of Place Names ..[159I 178 

-. 78 

^«(CAL Indices of 

_ _I.OCAi. Naubs Q, 65 

fTrMk,0. .2,4 

Trencturd. Sir Geo. 156, John, 
MP. (Dorset) 186, Sir John 
tto, 222. Philippa 220, Sir 
Thoi.. M.P. (Dorset) 145, Sir 

_.""»■ ■■■■ . 156 

Tnvilyan, J«ne, John, of Nettle- 

<iomb« ,s 

TWHleawell alia, Wcver, Thoraas 148 

Ti-»yu-MuUBtk, 24 

WUdyMary 253 

ir"-.* 26, 235 

TBctiw. Peter jja 

Tut)MTV|]«, Thoi., Thomii^ ' of 

_ IImm R*£h .0 

TwUtrtUclohn ;. : 2J7 

li"^.'^./ 63 

T*™*' Samuel, M.D.. M.P., 

i.'™.n5k,i,- "•;« 

T.IF.W.a... ,ji 

n-tor. JA :;;:;.',; '■" „, 

^"'■f'lETrxOLMYOF 20.85 

UUI.J.B ,8, <g. 8» ijatiT 110 

WPP^'^John ,1 

Uplon (Uppion). Elix.* 254. Geo. 

e, »37. 1«a«k. JcfTerye (Geoffrey^ 

Ujiwcy, Manor of ... taf, 

UVEBALB Kam:lt :;■■ lis 

UvcdftU, Henric. of Moorecricheil in 
Valentine, Roeer. Thoa., of 

Woollon Courlnej- log 

Veale, De U, Anne, Eleanor, 

Robtft ,^ 

Ttmit, J>r 10; 

Verses Inscbipbo in Books 228.270 
Vowell all Hoker, Alice, John, of 

Exeter 80,151 



Wadham FAMiir 91, 101-1 

Wadham, John, 91, loi-a, Sir 
John 101, Nidi. 3C, 10I-2, 

SuBonna ....,.-■■ 9'> '^^ 

Wolfe, , ofCainaCoU 107 

Wnle, Susan, Thos,. of Yatlon . . 37 

Walenmd, Robert 106 

Waller, Thomas ^53 

Walrond, Huuphret. of Sea 

152, 197 

Walrond, Henrj' 199, Wm I lO 

Walsingham, Sir Kraneis 270 

Walton, Richard, of Shapwitk 37 
Warburton, George, Dean ofWells «3 
Ward, J. R. 51.(19, :35 149,148,25a 

Warman, Kichaid J57 

Warne's Collection of Dorset 

Coins 225 

Walkins, Richard, of Holwell .. 35 

Watson, Hugh "39 

Watts. Thos , of StJlbridge 40 

" WAYZGOOSE," i.». FIN-GOOSR 308 

W.D loa 

Weather Proverbs ..iGo, 182,269 

Weatherell, . of Gains CoU. 108 

Wiamr, F. W. 56, 113, 140 

Weaver, Walter 37 

Webb, Family of. in Someiset . . 112 

WM,j.a 112 

Webb, Robert, of Clifford, 38, 

Sir Wm. of Motcombe . . , 39, loB 
Webber, Wm.. of Charlynch, it,33 9 

Welden, Colonel 79 

Wrllihgtos, Town OF 104 

Welsh BoscER Race Types.. 184 

Wdshave, John 38 

WeUhe, William [? of Allertonj 37 

Welweton, John 943 

IF. B. P. 20 

West, Alicei04, Sir Reginald 201, 

Wr Thos. 104, Major Younp ,. 153 
Weymonth Noncontormist Minia- 

Wevmoulh, Surrenderor, 1643.. *66 
Wh'atley, Scr\inylon Family of. . 56 
Wheler, Heniy Trevor, of 

Berkelej-, Somerset in 

Whelcomb. Robert <l> 

Whelcombe, Ilngii, of Sherborne 40 
Whilacre, Wm.,M.P. (Shaston) 54 

Whil.iker, Henry, Hester 238 

Whitcombe, Walter, of Yeovil., 70 
White, John, R. of Dorcheiter..21-a 

Whiiewode, JcAn 101 

Whiting.Birthplace OF Abbot 56 
Whiting. Alice 56, Ridiard, 

Abbot, 56, too, 371, Robert., 56 



IfuUx, 



15 



Page. 
Whitlsy, Hundred of .... ioa 

WhythomCjIohn 198 

Whytyng. Tnomas 100 

Wicknam, , Schoolmaster. 

Moulton, Norfolk .. 109 

Widcombe, N., Ha^don Famflyof 20 
Wido, Tenant of Manor of Hals- 

wel]» 1086 27 

Wilkins, J 265 

Williams, John, of Tyneham, 40, 

Mr 253 

Willis, , Schoolmaster, Isle- 
worth, Middx 109 

Wills, , of Axminster 80 

Wilson, , Schoolmaster. 

Westminster 108 

WiMBo&NB, St. Margaret's 

Leper Hosfttal at 20 

Windham, Edmonde [? of Kents- 

ford] 37, Joan, John of Orchard, 

Sir John 36 

Winscombe 49, 93, 147 

WiNSFORD Hill, Inscribed 

Stone on 263 

Winthrop, John, Governor of 

Massachusetts 21-2 

Witchcraft. Feathered Cords 92 
Witchcraft, Sherborne, A.D. 

iUx> 225 

Witham, Friary at 129 



Page. 

WitheUHiU 100 

Wittenham Clumps 61 

Wolly, Mr. Secretary 34 

Wood, John ^.. 265 

WooDWALL, The 2$A 

Wool Parish Register 206 

Wrench. Albreta, GQbert, Robert, 

of Sandiord . . 50 

Wrington Church, Altar of St. 

Erasmus at 59 

Wroth, John 25 

Wroughton, William 202 

rr . fr • M *••« 225* 227 

Wyer, Sicilia 265 

Wylly, Sir Robt., R. of Swell . . 246 

Wylmott. John 198 

Wyndham, Sir Edwvd 102, 

Francis, Wm.» 237 

W'ynterdon, Henry of 50 

Wytecombe, John 245 

Wyveliscombe 93, 147 

Wyvcll, Phillipe, Thos 140 

X 265 

Yeatman, Edith, Morgan 177 

Yeetes, Richard 38 

Yeovil, Great Fire at, 1640. . 69 

York, James, Duke of 55-6 

Young, John of Colliton. Mary . . 53 
Zetn 1 76, 196 




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" Who so shall telle a Ule after a man. 
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Everich word, if it be in his charge. 
All speke he never so rudely and so large ; 
Or elles he moste tellen his tale iintrewe. 
Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe." 



I. The Boundaries of the County of Somerset. — 
The attempt to pull to pieces and put together again our local 
divisions of self government and administration, for which the 
Local Government Bill is said to be the reason, has drawn attention 
generally to the County Boundaries, which the London Bureau- 
crats would alter everywhere, to make up what they are pleased to 
call Union Counties, and it may be well to look at the boundaries 
of Somerset and see what we can find out of their probable age 
and the reasons for them. 

I feel unfit for the work, but it presses, and something shoold 
be done at once ; some one must begin, and others may add and 
correct. It is of permanent interest also, and well deserving of 
continued care and attention. 

Our boundaries are the same now as given in Domesday, 
except that Holwell has been added to Dorset, in which it was 
enclosed, and that some small changes have probably been made 
near Bristol. Ej-ton, Pp. 17-19, discusses some questions, but 
leaveS) I think, this statement untouched. 



Somersit S- Dorset Notes &• Qutries. 3 

This is no mean antiquity. When we go carefully into 
the reasons for the boundaries of our Counties, we find that 
either conquest or possession of property was the guide ; this is so 
plain that it has been generally assumed. 

Our authority for the English conquest is Dr. Guest, whom the 
older antiquaries among us remember with affection. Fellow and 
Master of Caius, well acquainted with English and Celtic 
literature, kindly, courteous and loveable, no mere scholar or recluse, 
but a country gentleman and man of the world, who in the same 
year was Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, and High Sheriff of 
Oxfordshire, he was specially fitted by his habits for local explor- 
ations. He visited and walked over the country carefully, saw 
and studied the nature of the soil, and from its present appearance 
formed a sound judgment of what it must have been when less 
cared for than now, whether swamp, or woodland, or cultivated 
land. 

The earliest portion of our boundaries, if I understand him 
aright, lies between Longleat and Slourhead. The invading English 
were severely defeated in 510, probably by King Arthur, at the 
Mons Badonicus, which Dr. Guest fixes at Badbury Rings, in 
Dorset, near Wimbome. Peace was made, and a partition of 
territory, and it would seem that the high lands of Wilts, chalk 
and greensand, belonged to the invaders, and the Oxford clay 
below on the west, Witharoand Selwood Forest, remained with the 
Welsh, along with atract of impenetrable woodland, of small value, 
northwards and southwards, extending in the one direction to 
Malmesbury and Bradon, and in the other passing by Wincaunton 
and around Sherborne, where it joined the forest of Blackmore, to 
Chetnole, and stil! further westward, along the border between 
Somerset and Dorset, to near Crewkeme. The present boundary 
for a short distance is that of the greensand and Oxford clay, 
near Gear Hill, down which passed the Roman Road from 
Salisbury to Uphill, which is indicated in the new Ordnance Map, 
and which was doubtless destroyed by the Welsh at this lime, 
100 years after the departure of the Romans. The boundary here 
for a few miles north and south is irregular and unaccountable, and 
it does not now so accurately follow the geological lines as 1 should 
expect. That it is extremely old is plain, because it is older 
than our Parochial divisions ; Yamfield and Gasper being in 
Somerset, while they are parts of the Parishes of Maiden Bradley 
and Mere, in Wilts. 

In 676 Osric, King of the Hwiccas, founded Bath Nunnery, 
and gave it a territory of 100 hides or maruntes in a deed which 
Kemble does not mark as doubtful. 

The boundary here north of the Avon, from Swinford in North 
Stoke to Midford, is the same for the county and for the hundred 
of Bath Forum or Forinsecum, the territory of Bath Abbey and its 



4 Someyset S' Dori(t Notes &• Queries. 

outer jurisdiction, the out Hundred, like the oul Parish of St. 
Cuthbert's at Wells. 

It is plain that Bath was then no part of Somerset. Mr. 
Freeman (Vol. I. p. 16) says that the Hwiccas territorf was the old 
Diocese of Worcester, {the Counties of Worcester, Gloucester, and 
part of Warwick). It seems likely that Bath was its south eastern 
outpost. 

Collinson and E)'ton, according to the Gheld accounts in 
Exon Domesday, give 95 hides to the Bath Hundred, and zo to 
the Town; 115 in all. The frontier on the South and East ia 
awkward, and cannot have been the original boundary; South 
Stoke lies beyond Wiinsdike, as does also Freshford, with a vall^ 
between, and Bathford is on the East of the Foss and the Avon. 

If we leave out these manors and take Eyton's calculations, 
for Freshford 3J hides, and for Bathford lo, and add 5 for South 
Stoke (which is Tottan Stoke of Kemble, 486), we get 96^ hides to. 
repre.sent Osric's too, and the Hwiccas would have had an 
excellent frontier, on the South Wansdike, Horscombe, and the 
Camerton brook ; on the East the river Avon and ihe Foss. 

When this territory was added to Somerset we cannot tell. 
The boundary of the County at Freshford and Limpley Stoke »' 
very remarkable. It may be well to mention here that the 
ordnance map seems to shew that Eyton follows Collinson wrongly 
in making the Avon the boundary of Freshford. 

In 7as the conquest of these parts had proceeded so far that 
it was thought necessary to separate off from the Diocese of 
Winchester, the territory west of Selwood, and St. Aldhelm was made 
Bishop, an.oldman, a near relation of Ine, of great repute and 
influence, and of good scholarship for those times. 

History does not record the progress of conquest westward. 
It must have been a matter of detail. The invaders would have 
no difficulty with the country west of Selwood when once they had 
possession of the land between Castle Gary and Sherborne, and 
of the Mendips, which Dr. Guest supposes to have been conquered 
as early as 577. Shepton, Wells, Somerton, Polden hill, would be 
reduced one after another, and Glastonbun' was probably the 
intermediary for peace, or for a succession of useless peaces. 

In 658 the Walas were driven to Pedrida, which is Parret ot 
South Pctherton. This implies that Sherborne and Yeovil, Martock 
and the country of Ham Hill and Montacute, were occupied. The 
Parret wouki soon be forced at the ford of the Foss ; Wigborough 
close by seems to record the fight ; and the rich country from 
Merriott tn Ilford Bridges would be occupied, and from Kingsbury 
to Windwhisile Hill. 

Prom Somerton the Parrel would be crossed at Langpcirt, 
and the hills loading to Ashhill forest occupied. 

But it seems to me that the foundation of a Bishopric west 



Somirsit & Dorset Notes 6- Querits. 5 

rf Selwood, so early as 705, points to a still greater extension 
westward of the English power. 

It is verj- remarkable that the vale of Taunlon-Dean and the 
country beyond, which we have supposed to have been annexed 
when Ine defeated Geraint in 710, was very largely devoted to 
ecclesiastical purposes, Taunton and its appurtenances and 
Pitminsler belonging to the Bishop of Winchester; Wellington, 
Lydeard, and Wiveliscombe, to the local Bishop, and all together 
nearly filling up a huge rectangle of territory, mostly very good 
land, whose boundary on two sides is that of the County for 
nearly 20 miles from KeatsmiJl in Buckland St, Mary,toRaddington. 
The hundreds of Taunton and Kingsbury west, which represent 
these estates, are intermixed in a remarkable manner, which seems 
to show that they had been originally one estate and were divided ; 
their population is now more than half that of Westmoreland, and 
half as much ag^n as that of Rutland. One does not see why after 
70s the Bishop of Winchester should have any place here at all. 
But on the other hand, if the conquest had been made before 
the division of the Bishopric, one may suppose that St. Aldhelm 
might be reluctant to deprive the other Bishop of all his 
possessions, and be content to leave Taunton the nearest part to 
Mm, himself possessing the frontier. 

St. Aldhelm had had instruction at Malmesbury from Meildulf 
at) Irishman, and it may l>e thai the influence of the Church, 
under his guidance, who in a way stood between the two nations, 
nas that which made peace between them, and that these 
immense possessions, uninteUigible to us, were a consequence 
of its power, and of his, for he had long had much influence with 
Ine before he was made Bishop. 

If the view taken here is correct, the victory over Geraint in 
710 must have been a defeat of his in attempting to reconquer 
territory, rather than the original conquest, followed probably by 
a peace more durable than those before. 

1 am aware that the view I am taking does not seem to lie 
borne out by the charters, which all give later dates. But all 
those I can find that are before 900 are doubtful, and if they 
were not, it is not clear to me that a later grant shuts outthe 
possibility of an earlier one. 

Previous to the conquest of Taunton, it seems reasonable lo 
suppose that the coast had been occupied ; Cannington from the 
sea or Polden Hill, and Watchet and Porlock, and the narrow- 
Strip of territory annexed between the sea and Quantock and 
Brendon. Willsneck on Quaniock has led many before me to the 
same conclusion. 

The high and diflicult and uninviting ground of Brendon 
Hills and Exmoor may well have been a later conquest, even 
after that of North Devon ; so also perhaps Castle Neroche and its 
neighbourhood. 



6 Sotnenet S- Dorset Notes &• Queries. 

One may be allowed to suppose that the sea coast of Dorset 
and Devon was ravaged and colonized by degrees, at least as far 
as the chalk extends, the rivers being occupied where desirable, 
while the land north of the Stour. between Dorset and Wilts, and 
on the west adjoining Devon, was left late in the hands of the 
Aborigines. 

TTie Somerset border from Yeovil Junction towards Crewkerae 
looks like a border of defence, and bad land of the Oxford clay 
is included in Somerset, as at Pendummer, " where the devil were 
stodged in the middle of summer." 

Near Chard, where Somerset, Dorset, and Devon are in 
confusion, nothing can at present be said, but it may be pointed 
nnl that for a mile west of Chard an ancient road is the County 
boundary. 

From Gale bridge, between Henstridge and Fivehead 
Magdalen, at the south-east comer of Somerset, to near .Yeovil 
Jmiction, a distance of about 13 miles as the crow flies, the 
boundary of Dorset and Somerset is that of the possessions of 
ihe Bishop of Sherborne, dating probably from the foundation of 
the See, whatever may have happened before. 

Between Calebridge and Penselwood where there seems again 
to have been a border of defence, we are once more in the bad, 
poor country, of which we can give but little account. So also 
north of Gear Hill, until we reach the river Frome at Road ; and 
from thence to the sea, the Frome and the Avon are the boundar)', 
except at Bath, as has been said, and for a couple of miles at 
Freshford and Limpley Stoke. 

It seems possible, in this first attempt, to account for a large 
part of our boundaries ; and as to the rrst, which have been the 
latest settled, we have a limit in the Conquest, and know pretty 
well that Somerset was very nearly what it is now, for some time 
before the great change. 

F. H. DicKiKSON, Kingweslon. 

a. Portland Reeve-staff, — I recently presented to the 
Dorset County Museum a Reeve-Staff or Pole, formerly used in the 
Manor Court of the Isle of Portland, which some little time ago 
I was fortunate enough to be able to secure from the descendant 
of one of the old quarry-owners of the island; and I am now 
anxious to obtain, if possible, a little more information about it 
than at present 1 am in possession of. The history of the staff, so 
far as I have been able to gather it, is as follows : 

The reeve-staff or pole was formerly used for keeping the 
accounts of the quarry-lands, &c., in the manor, and the one I 
had was apparently made of old Spanish mahogany ; and was 
about 8 feet 6 inches in length and nearly an inch and a half 
square, and covered with a variety of cuts and notches, like a huge 
Exchequer tally, of which more anon. It had been in the possession 



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of the family of the gentleman from whom I purchased it for many 
rears, whose ancestors had formerly been quarry-owners in the 
island. Through the kindness of this gentleman I have been 
furnished with the following extracts from the rules of the Court of 
the Island and Manor of Portland {of which Her Majesty the 
Queen is the Lady), when the Court was closed on the 7th Jul) 
1S46, the last occasion of its being held. 

" We present our Manor to be ancient demesne, and land of 
" inheritance, descendable as lands in gavel-kind, with appur- 
" tenances, paying a certain yearly rental of j^i+i +s. 3d., which is 
" collected by a Reeve, taken in course by the Jury from the Rent 
" Roll at each annual Michaelmas Court, which rent is paid at 
" such Court to the Steward for the use of Her Majesty, being 
" Lady in Chief. 

" We also present that all tenants in our Manor are Free- 
" holders, and our rent is certain and collected in the manner before 
" mentioned, according to a staff called the Rene-staff, which is 
" annually cut from the Rent Roll as will appear by such staff."! 

The marks on the staff represent every acre ofland, for which 
3d. has to be paid ; half an acre, i^d.; and for every house a Jd. 
had to be paid. II 14 houses were built on an acre, 6d. would be 
the Court rent. A person could only be reeved once ; that is, a 
different person every year would have to collect the rents and 
pay them over to the steward ; he would be what they called 
reeved, or reeve-man. 

The divisions are made thus : (see staff). 

^3 represents Weston (one of the villages) 
© ., Wakeham „ 

W ,, Easton „ 

V „ Chesil 

O or — „ Southwell* 

The following allusion to the Reeve- Staff occurs in Commins' 
Improved Weymouth Guide (published about 1836)^1 p. 55. " At 
'"^a Portland Arms (where George the Third generally dined 
" when on a visit to the Island) Mrs. Winter will shew the Reeve- 
" Pole, which exhibits the ancient mode of keeping accounts ; it 
" is said to be of Saxon origin, by which the bailiff of the Island 
" collects the manor dues, as on the pole is described every acre 
" of land the place contains." 

And now may I ask, was there only one such staff in use by 
the steward of the Manor Court ; or was a new one furnished al 
every Court, for it would appear from the extract I have given from 
the Court rules that " it was ann«a//K cut from the Rent Roll"? 
I presume that this can hardly mean a new staff; for if so, where 

•I have failed to find the marl; rcprescnling Southwell on the staff; the other 



Somtrset &• Dorset Notes S- Qutries. 

the others ? My informant told mc he knew of the existence 
of no other staff, but 1 fancy I have heard of one being in the 
possession of a gentleman at Weymouth. Could mine have been 
the staff that Mrs. Winter (according to the Guide-book) had been 
in the habit of exhibiting to curious visitors to Portland fifty years 
MgO ? Not long ago I was mentioning the fact of my purchase to 
Uie Hon, Sec. of the Folk-Lou Society, when to my amusement 
he confided to me that he had long been on the look out for a 
rmt-sl-iff, and had been making enquiries at Portland for that 

Suriwse, but without success. I then referred him to the County 
luseum at Dorchester. 

I shall be glad of any information relative to the retve-staff, 
or 10 the old Manor Court of the Isle of Portland, and to its 
present representative or successor. 

J. S. Udal, Inner Temple. 

3. Seals of the Bishops of Salisjiurv. — The Bishop of 
SRlisbury {Palate, Salisbury) would be very much obliged to any 

IierfOns who could lend him specimens of the Seals of the 
ollowing of his predecessors, which are wanted to complete 
the scries of Bishops' Seals of the Diocese of Salisburj-. 

John Bhthe . . . . 1493 

Henry Dean .. . . 1500 

Edmund Audley . . 1501 

Nicholas Shaston . . 1535 

Edmund Guest 1571 

Henry Cotton . . 1598 

Martin Fotherby 161S 

Robert Townson .. i6zo 

John Earle . . 1663 

Alexander Hyde . . 1665 

mples of the Seals of dignity of 

^s frofi Sherlock (1734) to Dcnison (1837) inclusive, 

eeiKeption of that of Bishop Douglas, 

(ONHELDAT Taunton BY ABCHrii.sHOP Lal"d in 

^ atapam'ing estracis from the Churchwardens' 

kfartne Parish of Charlynch 1^23 to 1659, may be 

" "" s «ffoTding evidence of a visitation of his former 

"iop Laud, and of his interest in the same. I 

» or any other visitation by him, is taken notice 

fc*-w."«rlvd in his "Diary." Perhaps this entry may 

'("irmatory nature. 

'\ to the thoroughness of the Arch- 

- the Church of England to Catholic 

■-1 practices. It is interesting to note 

".- of " The Booke concerning lawfull 



Herman 


'075 


Osmund 


.078 


Kogcr 


1107 


locclyn 


1142 


i;ilesde Bridport 


1256 


Walter Scammel 


.284 


Henry Braundeston , 


rz87 


Nicholas Bubwith . 


1407 


John Chandler 


1417 




'485 


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, ts," and its price 6d., and the purchase of " a Carpclt for the 
Comunion Table and Pulpitt Cloth of velvett with silke and gold 
fringe" of so expensive a nature for a small village Church like 
this. The " Raylings for the comunion " I may state are still 
in existence in the Church, and so is the canopy for the font, 
Probably the following extracts may be deemed of sufficient interest 
to be inserted in " Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset." 
\V. A, Bell, Rector of Charlynch. 

Extracts from the Church Wardens' Account Book for the 
Parish of Charlynch. 

1633. The accounts of the said William Webber and James Huifonl for 
their I^hsbursmcnts for the said year as afurcsaid 1633 

For a Boi for Almes iiji. rirf. 

For ihe books concerning lawfull sports virf. 

Paid for a Carpett for the Comunion Table. ) 

and a Pullpett doth of Velvett with Silkc 1 Hi. \ii. iiijrf, 

and Gold Fringe ) 

1C134. The Account of Ihe sud Church Wardens for the aforceaitl year 
IL'34 for iheit Disbursements. 

Paid for a booke of Articles at Taunloo at the Arch 1 - , 

Bishop's VUiuUoD i '"' 

Laid OQl when we were at WeUs at SL James tide ) iu. iid. 

according to my Lord Bishops command f 

Laid out at Brid^aterwhen we gave in our present-) ■ . ■. 

roenl at ye Arch Bishop's Court J "'J'' '"■ 

Paid Im raylinge in ihe Comunion Table iijii. liiii. 

Laid out al Taunton ai the Rcfonualion Court furl |'|, 

dismissing the Presentment j ' ' 

*Paid for setting upp the Almes boi and Tor tneodlng i 
the locks of the same / >'■ 

Laid out for Bread and Wine the Sunday after All ( ■, 

Hallow day ) 'J'' '^■ 

For Bread and Wine against Christmas Dny iji. iil. 

5. Topographical Indices of Local Names. — The great 
value which frequently attaches to the obscure or little known 
names which are borne in rustic lips by the fields, farms, 
hamlets, and the physical features of the country, is now ftiily 
recognized by the topographer. Will it be asking too much 
of the readers of " Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset," 
to contribute each for his own parish, if situated within the Counties 
in question, a list of local names so far as they present any points 
of interest, in order that materials may be gathered for a complete 
topographical index of place-names existing in Dorset and 
Somerset } I have already collected a store of them from my 
own neighbourhood, which! propose to print from time to time 
in the pages of this journal, and if other helpers will give their 
aid in what is a very simple matter, a valuable work will rapidly 
be carried to a successftd conclusion. 

I may perhaps venture to point out some of the interesting 
features an index of tjiis description will present. Many of the 



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fields around us retain ihe names, otherwise lost or forgotten, 
given by the early settlers to the streams, hills, and valleys of the 
country ; others preserve the names or indicate the positions of 
entrenchments, hill-forts, and Roman stations, or mark the sites 
of castles, religious houses, and battlefields ; others the names of 
districts or manors, now so shrunken as to have become the 
designation of a tiifiing patch of soil. In many cases the names 
of former owners or occupiers are still attached to the fields and 
farms which formed a part of their possessions, or a memorial 
survives of the tenures upon which the lands were held, or of their 
ancient mode of cultivation, white in others are preserved 
dialectal words not known in common English, or instances are 
afforded of phonetic assimilation or corruption. Nor should the. 
facetious names which rustic wit has given to many a Held or lane: 
or holding be forgotten, — or the allusions to ancient customs and' 
superstitions which still linger in local nomenclature. 

It is obvious that a topographical index of the character 
indicated will be of value in many directions, and in particular 
it will be of great service in the indenlification of obscure 
localities, mentioned in ancient documents, and in many cases will 
supply material upon which the philologist may exercise his skill. 

In constructing a list of local names in any parish, the 
to be consulted in the first instance will be the Schedule of lands, 
contained in the Tithe Apportionment, in which each field, i 
its name, acreage, and state of cultivation, is commonly given, 

If this document happens to be what- is called, a "Farm 
Apportionment," in which the farms or entire holdings alone are 
mentioned without reference to the smaller portions of land of 
which they are constituted, then in the place of it may be 
consulted the survey of the Parish, used in determining the, 
incidence of the Poor Rate. 

This will form the basis, to which additions may be made fi 
the lips of aged inhabitants who frequently retain traditioi 
memories of names which do not commonly appear in writing. 
Other sources will be found in Inquisitions " post mortem." 
Terriers, Court Rolls, Conveyances of land, Inclosure Acts, 
Auctioneers' Particulars of Sale, and old Estate maps and Rate 
Books, as they may happen to be available. The Ordnance maj 
old and new, will be of service, but too much reliance should m 
be placed upon the accuracy of the former of these surveys. 

In addition to the names of fields, taken from the aboi 
mentioned sources, should be recorded the names of Farms or 
Homesteads, of Roads and Lanes, and of the Physical Features of 
Iht Country, such as hills and streams, — and in towns, the old 
nuniti* of Streets. In all cases variations in spelling should 
bo carcfullv noted, as well as the local pronunciation, which often 
iiiArkivlly differs from the written form. 



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The great variety of descriptive terms which are found 
employed in such a simple matter as the names of fields may be 
seen in the following classification of such examples as have 
_ come under my observation in my own part of Dorset. 

Names which have reference to the condition of the field 

itself. 
I, Extent. 1- Form. 3. Situation. 
+. Purpose to which applied, which may relate either to thf 

past or present use or mode of cultivation. 
J. Quality ot condition of the soil. 

6. Some prominent object in the field. 

7. Haunts of wild animals. 
Names which are descriptive of the physical features of the 

.spot. 
I. Hills. 1. Valleys. 3. Streams. 
4. Fords. 5- Wells. 6. Woods. 

Names attached to sites, (a) prehistoric, (i) historic, such as 

sites of earthworks, camps, religious houses, battlefields. 
Names relating to former ownership. 
I. Tenures, 2. Endowments. 

3. PersonaJ Names. 4. Trade Names. 
Names which have or had a meaning locally understood. 
I. Customs. 1. Legends. 3. Dialect. 

4. Native wit and humour. 
Some of the foregoing classes may appear trivial, and are only 

mentioned to shew the variety which exists, and in constructing a 
topographical index, it will be sudicient to note as a rule those 
names which are comprised in sections B, C, D, and E, together 
with instances which may be classed under the head of curious, or 
the meaning of which may be obscure, for it will be found that 
there is a large proportion of names, which cannot readily be 
assigned to any class. I called attention in Notes and Ql'ekies 
^^6th S, X, 45} to a peculiar example of the change of field-names 
rought about to perpetuate the political opinions of the owner, 
a the case of a farm at Halstock, called Sydney Farm, which was 
iffeied for sale, 5th June. 1884. 

In connection with local names there is a very useful work 
^hich can only be suggested here, but which might appropriately 
1 up by the County Societies. I refer to the purchase of 
e new large-scale Ordnance Maps, now in course of publication, 
1 which might he carefully inserted, by a Committee specially 
appointed for that purpose, such local names in their proper 
positions as have not already been recorded by the Surveyors, 
I sincerely hope that this suggestion will be received with 
k approval in the proper quarters. 

In the next issue of this Magazine reference will be made to 
2 store of field and other local names comprised within the 



Svmtrut & Dorul \otes S- Qmenes, 

be followed, in subsetjoent 
Editok for Dorset. 



parish of Buckland Newton, 
numbers, by other parishes. 



6. Camps and Hundreds, — ^The eatlhen forts which crown 
■o many hills have often occupied the attention of archxologists and 
historianE. But they have been considered almost entirely from 
one point of view, namely the strategical. It has occurred to me 
that there might be another aspect ; — that possibly they may have 
been used throughout the Saxon period as centres of the regular 
military organization. It is well known that every hide of land was 
bound to send its man to the Fierd, that is, the military- muster by 
which yeomen were kept in exercise and fighting order, and by 
which at the same lime bridges and forts were kept in repair. That 
this was so, we know from the oft-repeated formula in every grant 
of book-land. WherethendidtheFierdmeet, and encamp, if not in 
these old forts ? And what were the fortifications which they were 
bound to repair, if not these same ? But if this was so, it seems 
reasonable to look for some relation between these forts and the 
Hundreds, inasmuch as the latter were the primary units of adminis- 
tration. Not that we should suppose a Camp to evejy Hundred, 
but possibly to every two or three Hundreds, as it is likely that for 
military administration the Hundreds united in small groups. My 
queiythcn is, whether in the distribution of such of these forts as 
Ntill remain there is any appearance of a geographical relation to the 
area of the Hundreds? 
Oxfurd, ist February. i88S. ]. Earle. 

•J, C hvrchwarden's Accounts IN theParish OF PiLTON. — 
There is an old book of accounts belonging to the Church- 
wardens of Pilton, containing statements of account and inventories 
of Church goods between 1+97 and 1531. It contains two sheets 
of parchmi-nt doubled into four leaves and seventeen sheets of 
coarse paper, making altogether thirty-eight leaves. It is however 
not quite perfect, as five leaves have been cut out at the end, and 
three in the centre of the book. The book was given into the 
custody of the Vicar and Churchwardens in 1830 by a Mr. William 
Baker. The accounts are complete from 1507 — 1512 and from 
1514—1515. There are in addition, accounts for 1497 and 1498 
and 1530, and an lnventor>- of Church goods, ornaments. Altar 
vessels, books, vestments, rings, and cows, which arc more or less 
complete and full of most inleresiing information for the years 
150J, 1507, and 1509. The latter is the most complete, and was 
begun just before the news of Henry the Vlllh's death was known 
in the parish. 

Among the many items of local news that we learn from them 
are the following. In 1497 a deal of new glass was put into the 
windows of the North Aisle, and this Aisle was dedicated to the 



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Somerstt &■ Dorset Notts &• Qiutie!. 13 

irgin Maty. In 1508 the new Rood loft and screen were mailc 
and painted by a Dr. Jonys. This probably is part of the screen 
that still exists in the Church. In 1509 the Church tower was 
finished ; it is pointed, and the scaffold poles are taken down and 
sold while the holes made for them in the tower are Riled up. 
a house called Saynle Mary House, which seems to stand 
to the Church in the relation of a Church House, was repaired and 
a new thatch roof was put on it. 

The system of endowment for Church expenses by means of 
lurch Cows was then in full vogue, and the names of the hirers 
id those who were surety for them is given on several occasions. 
These accounts have been transcribed by the Vicar of W'ookey. 
id are about to form a portion of a forthcoming volume of the 
imerset Record Society. 

T. S. HoLiiEs, Wookey Vicarage. 

8. "Peter's Finger" Ink, Lvtchett Minster, Dorset. — 
Readers of " Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries " may be 
willing to give their opinions as to the probable origin of the sign 
of the " Peter's Finger." The opinion commonly put forward is 
that the name pf the sign is a corruption of" St Peter ad Vincula," 
the dedication of the Chapel in IheTower of London, a dedication 
known also elsewhere. The late Canon W. H. Rich-Jones, of 
Bradford-on-A von, the author of the S.P.C.K. Diocesan History 
of Salisbury, wrote to me in 1885 : — 

" The name Peter's Finger is by no means uncommon. Thert 
" is a place of that name in Alderbury parish some three miles from 
■' Salisbury. There is no doubt but that the origin of the name is 
"fromthefcstivalof'St. Peter ad Vincula' (August isi). The fact is 
"proved by the same lands being also called ' Lammas lands.' The 
" termisapplied to lands on which from August till a certain period 
" there was a common right of feeding sheep, cattle. &c. I have 
" in some papers memoranda of a number of places of a similar 
"designation." 

I can find no traces of anj' Lammas customs in Ljtchett 
Sinster. 

A gentleman in this County, well known as an antiquary, does 
*oot countenance this opinion. These were his words to me : — 

" If your Church was dedicated to ' St. Peter ad Vincula." the 
*' explanation would be more than plausible, but no one knows who 
" was your patron saint. I am not aware that ' St. Peter ad 
" Vincula ' was much kno^vn jn these parts." 

Hotten's "History of Sign Boards" thus mentions the sign: — 

" At Dawdley, and on the road between Warminster and 
h' Salisbury, there is a very curious sign called 'Peter's Finger,' 
^' which is believed to occur nowhere else. In all probability this 
f^ refers to the benediction of the Pope, the finger of His Holiness 



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'■ being raised whilst bestowing a blessing. St. Peter, being the 
■■ first of the Papal line, was doubtless often represented with his 
" finger raised in old pictures and carvings. The following passage 
" from Bishop Hall's ' Satires' alludes to the finger : — 
' But walk on cheerly, till thou have espied 
' St. Ptltt's fingtr, at the churchyard side.' 

Book V. Sat. I. 

Some years ago there appeared, I think, a letter about this sign 
in the Salisbury and Winchester Journal, making mention of a 
bleeding hand. 

It has been suggested that the origin of the sign might have 
been connected with the supposed possession, in the neighbourhood, 
of St. Peter's finger as a relic. In connection with this theory, I 
may say that the gentleman, who did not think Mr. Rich-Jones' 
explanation tenable, informed me that he was not aware of there 
being any evidence of the existence of a monastic institution at 
Lytchett Minster. There was formerly a St. Clement's inn not 
very far from the Peter's Finger which was kept by a blacksmith, 
according to my informant, an old parishioner, who said that "St. 
Clement was the first blacksmith " as if to account lor its sign. 

Once it was suggested to me that the name •' Peter's Finger " 
might have arisen from the possible existence of a finger-post near 
the inn. My friend, who made this suggestion, took great interest 
in the subject, and thought the relic theory worthy of consideration, 
saying that pilgrims visiting a relic would need a hostelry. 

St. Peter, with keys and a cock, figured on the old sign-board 
\,not, I believe, of many years' standing) as they do now on the 

r resent one. 
.jtchett Minster, Poole. H. Farlev. 

g. Texts ON Church Walls. — When I undertook the recon- 
rtntctjon and enlargement of the Church at AUcrion in 1859-60, 
t diicovcrrd many texts on the walls beneath the various coals 
o( whitewash. It was impossible to preserve them on the 
«««l)i wll of the nave, as a north aisle was added, and the wall 
,^^ vas pulled down. I copied them carefully at the time; 
^MpI m ihey have only been previously noticed in an ephemeral 
t|)h«l •MMUie, twenty years ago, a permanent record of them 
.Jllgr^ZSta be provided in S. &■ D. N. & Q. 

$^«wv entrance door, in red and black letters, was this ; — 

* f^^ A^ Jool* whtft Ihou gotsi to the House of God and be 
^mt ^^t* * ••'' ''*'"' '* S'^ ^^' sacrifice 0/ fooles, for ihey consider 
^4ktt4W4r««lir." 

Vlk^*«M side **re the words, " fesus said Suffer iillle 
t^^M^^ri jMm/ Hum net, lo come unto Me, for of such is Ihi 

'"^teuHW th* entnuice door was this on the north wall : — 



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K Ma/ useti muek swearing skali be filled with iniquity, 
and the plague shall ntvtr depait from his house; if he shall offend, 
his sins shall he upon him, and if he acknowledge no/ his sin he makelh 
a double offence, and if he swear in vain he shall not be innocent, but 
his house shall be full of calamities." — Ecclus. xi. 13. 

Also on the north wall of the nave but more eastward was 
this: 

" Curse not the King, no, not in thy thought; and cursemi the 
rich in thy bed chamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, 
and that which hath wings shall lell the matter," — Eccles. x. ao. 

These tests, and the Apostles' Creed, which was inscribed 
on the south wall, east of the entrance door, I assign to the year 
1638, the date carved on the Tree-stone of the large window 
facing South. 

On either side of the west window but in letters of a much 
later date were two of the offertory sentences, viz., "Blessed 
be the Man that prwideth for the sick and needy, the Lord shall 
deliver him in the lime of trouble ;" and " Whalsoez'er ye ivould that 
men should do unto you, even so do unto thim for this is the law and 
the prophels." 

J. Coleman, Cheddar Vicarage. 

10. Acre. Hogshead. — There is a puzzle in my mind as to 
the double use of two measures, the acre and the hogshead. 

The first, now only a superficial, has been a lineal measure 
also. W. &■ Q., stli Series, viii, August 11, 1877, hath it that, — 

" the use of ' acre ' as a measure of length is not so clear. 

The only passage giving countenance to this is /Hi/or: Orig: Bk, 
XV. Ch, 15. ' Ager habett [sicj passus cxsv vet pedes dcxxv, cujus 
mensura octies computata milliare facit, quod constat quinque 
millibus pedum.'" This is plain. An acre, long measure, is a 
furlong; a name which, thus connected, almost looks as if it 
equals furrow-long.* I have seen somewhere, but cannot quote 
the authority, that 132 furrows, each a furlong in length, make a 
reputed acre super6cial. Bnt this is by the way. My difRcuIty is 
that E)'ton, on the Dorset Domesday, p. 25, gives a table of long 
measure, as therein used, and he makes an acre (acra) only 4. 
perches, or 22 yards. And this is also the dictum of Mr. Ellis in 
JV.& 0; 6th Series, vi, Sept. 16, 1882. 

It is to be observed that Isidore speaks of ' ager,' the 
Domesday commissioners of ' acra." ' Acra ' too, is used as a long 
measure, but of unspecified extent, in the earliest Weymouth 
Borough- charter, of A.D. 1252. Now my query is, as to its being 
right to make 'ager' always a sj-nonym of 'acra,' although 

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authorized by Du Cange.* I need hardly say that in Classical 
Latin it has no such meaning:, 'n either sense ; and that, as to 
' acra," the word is not in Riddle. 

In Migne's Du Cange I failed to find any indication oflheuse 
of 'acra," or even ' perca.' as long measures, Jugeram on the 
other hand is used by Pliny (Riddle says) as = TrXeOpov = ' oo Greefe 
feet. 

Again, as to hogshead, I ask if its use as a timber 
was ever common. A ton of timber is 40 cubic feet. Two 
hundred years ago, I suppose, the transition from ton to tun was 
simple, and a corresponding use of other liquid measure terms for 
cubic measure. At all events (if I may quote myself) in my 
Catalogue of Weymouth Charters, &c,. p. 1+3, there is mention of 
" zg Koomes. j hodghedes and 03 foott." and of '" i tun, t hogs. 
and 3 foot" of timber. The price of the latter lot was 33s. per 
' tun.' The timber was sold by the Corporation, apparently ; and 
therefore presumably consisted of old beams, &c., from a 
demolished municipal building. If so, 33s. seems too much for 
a ion, of fort)"'feet, in 1653. 

H. J. MooLE, Dorchester, 

II. THEGRfiAxSTORiiOK 1703. — Much has been written froDi 
time to time, since the days of De Foe, on the devastation 
wrought by the awful storm of November 17 (O.S,), tyoj. 

The County of Somerset has the remembrance of it in- 
delibly imprinted on its history, owing to Bishop Kidder and his 
wife being killed in bed by the falling of a chimney stack upon 
them. In connection with the event the following original 
records will be of interest. 

The first is from an Overseer's Book belonging to the Parish 
of Mark. 

"The 76 of November, at night 1703 a very Tempestuous 
wind which did strip, ami blow downe houses and mills; and 
Churches received hurt, and in the morning being Satturdaylhe 
sea break in and drowned the Parishes Paulett Huntspill, Bamham 
Brean ; Lympsham grounds, and both Brenls verj- much hurt by 
loss of goods." 

The second is from a Churchwarden's Book belonging to the 
parish of Badgworth, and is in the handwriting of John Gill the 
Churchwarden of that year. 

"This to repair the breeches of the dredfull Tempest done 
to our Church and Tower, which apered with Wonderfull violence 
both by sea and land on the 17th of November, 1703. To our 

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Tower was blown down all the west Batelment, and the to west 
Penicelsand half ye Batelments South Side ye Belfery Window to 
peices. The Church tile blown al of, and all new laftcd and laid ; 
much of the Roucast Beat down all new laid, and a gteadeal of ye 
Plaistering and all of it new done. This was Amazing, and God 
grant that there may never be the like while the world lasleth." 

Mr. Holmes has given us in his • History of the Parish and 
Manor of Wookey' an entiy in one of his Parish books, which 
describes the many ships that were driven out of the sea into the 
meadows tmeades) ' by reason of that very great Tempest,' but 
he has not inserted the subjoined memorandum, and so I take leave 
to give it. 

" Paid to a man of Huntspill, on request that had lost his 
goods by the breaking in of the sea." 

So deeply had the storm impressed men, that in one instance at 
least, its occurrence is recorded on a memorial to the dead. It is 
in Limington Church. 

" Elizabeth younger daughter of Mr. Edward Beaton Gent, 

Kho departed this liie in the 16th year of her age, about 14 days 
jfore Uie great hurricane, in the year of our Lord 1703." 
" LUXFIBLD." 
19. Knowlton Church. — On the left hand side of the high 
ad from Wimbome to Cranbome, and three miles from the 
tter, Btand the rains of a smaJl, but singularly massive dismantled 
d church. Even that zealous local antiquary, Dr. Wake 
nart, of Ctanbome, can tell me little about it, nor did the late 
Lord Shaftesbury seem much better informed. The walls are of 
great thickness, and the architecture evidently of Norman character. 
It does not however follow thai its antiquity is very great and 
though I have heard a Saxon origin claimed for it, that seems to 
me improbable to a degree. 

Country churches were probably often strongly built in 
Norman fashion after Norman architecture had ceased to be the 
rule. The curious feature of Knowlton Church is, however, that it 
stands in the midst of seven — Dr. Smart saya — concentric circum- 
vallations, though it requires the eye of an antiquary to trace the 
outer rings : the inner ones are distinct and interesting. Can 

Ryone throw light on the history of Knowlton Church and 
: the date of its downfall ? 
A. J. H. Crespi, Wimbome. 
13. Road from Preston or Bincomre to Abbotsbury, — 
ill those who have old maps of Dorset tell us if there is 
irked a direct road along the valley from Preston, or Bincombe 
to Abbotsbury ? Short pieces of road occur at intervals tending 
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are now, having been gradually destroyed during the last 40 years. 

Were many of the many Roman " Ways " running so ? 

Is there any record of their use or of their being stopped ? 
E. A. Samson, Upwey. 

[No trace of this road appears in Isaac Taylor's map of 
Dorset, of the date of 1765. — Editor for Dorset.] 

14. " All in the Wrong." — I wish to discover who was the 
author of "A New Ballad" called "All in the Wrong, or the 
Parson -hunters at Fault," near Asbridge, Somerset, and what 
were the circumstances which gave rise to it. It consists of 
eleven stanzas, the first of which runs thus: 

" Ye sturdy fat Graziers and dairymen blunt, 
Who make it your sport a poor Parson to hunt, 
Pull in for a moment, attend to my song. 
And I quickly will prove you are all in the wrong. 
Sing Tantararara, wrong ail, wrong all, 
Sing Tantararara, all wrong." 
It is a skit on proceedings that took place in the neighbour- 
hood of Banwell, Badgworth, Biddisham, and Weare, and is dated 
Bath, June 3, 1791. 

Can any one throw any light on it ? 

" LuiFIELD." 

15. Armorial Bearings. — " On a btnd, Ihrtt marlUts" — I 
shall be glad if any One can tell me to what family belong 
the above armorial bearings engraved on a piece of plate that has 
lately come into my possession. They probably belong to some 
old Cheshire family. The engraver has not made it possible for 
me to give a more detailed description. 

H. Farley. 

16. Names of Cups. — In the will of Sir John Trevclyan of 
Netllecombe (1511) is this : "To Jane my wife a Cup covered 
called ■ The Mygkeil." " Robert Hill, of Taunton (fsSf). leaves 
one piece or silver called " The Null," and a pott of silver called 
" The Skynkinge pott." Robert Cuffe, of Rowlands (1571). speaks 
of ' my Cup called The Berall Cuppe.' What is the Myghell ? 
Is it the metheglin cup ? Is there any piece of silver known as 
the Nut ? The Skynkinge pott is merely the drinking cup placed 
on the table, and the Berail Cuppe, I conjecture, is the Burial 
Cup, used on the occasion of funerals. 

L. 

17. "Cattv Lane." — Is "Catty "an abbreviation of "Cather- 
ine ?" A thoroughfare in Cheddar which is thus designated is called 
' Catherine Lane ' in an old map, and I therefore conclude that il 
was once known by ibis title. Bui I am inclined to regard 'Cat- 
hay' as the original word. Is "Catty" often found in Somerset 
or Dorset, as applied to places ? 

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Somengl &• DtruS Sfitt 6> Qtma. 

i8. Strat Caxicox Bjuxs. — Ihaveptdedapjcaanoaballsin 
iiif life, about the same sue, aboU i^lb. wtigfat, and 6 or 7 incbes 
round: ihese most likelr are from Fairfax's cviverins: one was 
foand in the rick-vanl at Kingston Rossell and two at Upwejr. 
Another was receatlv foood ai Osmington Mills, weighing jolbs. 
I ox., and being 10 inches in cimimference. 

Can anjr one suggest a dale for thai r 

E. A. SAH50S, Upwejr. 

ig. Fifth of Noyshbex Rhyhis. — Some few rean aco 1 
heard the boj^ at Pill near Bristol, commemoraiiDg Guj Fawkes' 
daj in the following lines : — 

" Remember, remember the fifth of November, 
The gmipowder treason and plot. 
For I see no reason why gtmpowder treason 
Should ever be forgot. 

Holloa ! hoj% : holloa t boys : let the bells ring. 
Holloa ! bo>'3 : holloa ! boys : God save the Qoeen. 
Ladies and gentlemen who sit by the fire, 
Pm yoor hands in yoor pockets to help the braod-Gre. 
And whenever this Popery shall retnm. 
Into the brand-fire: he shall bum ! 
A rope, a vope to hang tbe Pope I Hip, Hip. Hunah 1 
Give US another to bang his brother ! Hip, Hip, Hurrah I " 
Are the last ei^t lines local; or are they common to 
mciations of Guy Fawkes ? 

" LCXFIELD." 

ao. Helix Fom-^tia in Dorset. — Have any jV. fi" Q, corres- 
pofkdeats thoroughly searched in Dor^t for Helix Pomatia? It is 
inclnded in the list of Dorset Land Shells on Da Costa's 
authority. But neither Mr. Mansel-Pleydell nor Mr. Damon, two 
of our chief conchologists, have ever found it there, I believe; 
nor had Pulleney in his day. From the very remarkable fact that 
this snail abounds at. and, as regards that district, not more 
than a quarter of a mtle from the remains of a Roman villa at 
North Leigh. Oxfordshire, it may be that Roman sites are the 
likeliest places to i)e searehed. Here, however, at Durnovaria, 
this deponent knoweth it not. By the way. Unde derivatur 
Pomatia? Is it from a man's name P I can see no likely clue in 
Uddell or Riddle. 

H. J. MouLE, Dorchester. 

ai. St. Erasmus.— There were altars dedicated to this Saint in 
the Chnrch of S. Cuihbert at Wells, of S. Andrew at Cheddar. 
and in the parish Church of Noitlccombc. What otiicr examples 
are there in Somerset ? St. Erasmus is more commonly known now 
as St. Elmo. 

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22. Baddanhyrig. Badbury, — CananyofyourreaJcrsinfonn 

me what is the origin and meaning of the Saxon name, Baddanbyrig, 
of the encampment and hill overlooking the Stour Valley, now 
known as ' Badbury Rings ' and where the name occurs in 
Saxon Literature ? 

wj:.p. 

23, Family of Hayixjn op North Widcoube. — Can any of 

Siur correspondents give me any infonnation regarding the 
aydons who were at North Widcorabe (a hamlei of Chewton 
Mendip), in the i6th and tTth centuries? Did they come from 
Norfolk, Hertfordshire, or Devon ? and when did they settle at 
Widcombe i" They appear to have died out or left Widcombe 
about 100 years ago. I have information that some of the Haydons. 
either the Somerset or the Devon branch, settled in the United 
States of America, sailing from Plymouth in 1630, and that many 
of tlieir fellow passengers came from Somerset. 

A Farm House said to have belonged to the family is still 
standing at Widcombe, but there are no traces now of the Manor 
House which also belonged to them. Part of the Haydon 
property is now held by the Duchy of Cornwall, but I cannot say 
whether the Haydons held in their own right, or on leases from the 
Duchy. Can anybody tell me from what part of Somerset there 
was a migration to America in 1630, or throw any light upon the 
disappearance of the Haydon family from Widcombe in Charles 
II's reign ? Any infonnation on these points will be thankfully 
received. 

R. C. W. Raban, Paulton Vicarage. 

34. St, Margaret's Leper Hospital, Wiu borne. — Much 
attention has of late been directed to the spread of Leprosy, 
and Archdeacon Wright. Rector of Great ham, Hants, has 
been writing some interesting letters to the Times on the subject. 
The frequency of leper hospitals in the older towns of England, I 
need hardly dwell upon here, but it proves that at one time leprosy, 
as indeed is well known, was common enough, and that special 
provision was made for the reception and isolation of unhappy 
sufferers from perhaps the most terrible disease to which 
humanity is subject. Can any of your readers throw light on 
the time when St. Margaret's, Wimbome, was last used for this 
purpose P 

A. J. H. C RES PI, Wimbome. 

25. Ettmolooy op Ubley, the name of a parish in the 
Deanery of Chew. Is it in any way connected with the word 
'■ ubbley " (oblation) used for the sacramental wafer or bread in 
Sir ITiomas MaJoty's " Morte D' Arthur " vid. Book xvii. Chap. 10. 
" And then the Bishop made semblant as though he would have 
gone to the sacring of the Mass. And then he took an uMy 
which was made in likeness of bread," Sec. ?" 

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Who was Ajcylus? — In Rodney Stoke Churchyard is an 
upright tombstone about loo years old, on which after name, 4c., 
occur these words 

" Like Axylus of old 
He was hospitable rich and good." 
Is this a quotation, and who was Axylus ? 

In the " Fortunes of Nigel " Chap. xvii. I find (i propos of 
^J>uke Hildebrod) " Let us enter the evei-open gate of this second 
' "lylus." 

T. H. F. HiCKES, Axbridge. 

iy. JohnGalloporGollop. — Infomiation is sought regarding 
John Gollop (or Gallop) and Christobel his wife who went to 
America, it is believed from the County of Dorset, in the early 
part of the 17th century. 

John GaJlop is known to have sailed in the ship Mary and 
fphn, which arrived at Natascot (the name of which was changed 
9 Hull in 16+6) the joth of May, i6jo. He joined the First 
HChurch, 5th January, 1634. (Memorial Hist., Boston, p. 568), was 
made a Freeman, I St April, 1634 (Mass. Rec. Miscellaneous, p. 
368), and died in Boston, nth Januaty, rSso, (Rec. Com., p. 19,) 
His will is one of the earliest on record. Christobel his wife 
followed him at a later date, undoubtedly in the ship Griffin, 
arriving at Boston, 4th Sept., 1633. They had four children, 
John, Samuel, Nathaniel, and Joan, who were all probably bom 
in England, and accompanied their mother to America. 

John Gallop is supposed to be identical with "Johannes 
Gallop de Mastern sX. 33 = . . . " who occurs in the Gallop 
pedigree in the Visitation of Dorset, 1613, — son of John G., by 
his wife ... daughter of Crab, third son of Thomas Gallop, of North 
Bowood, who died 7th April, 8 Jac. (1610)." This supposition 
however requires confirmation. Will some reader of "Somerset 
and Dorset Notes and Queries " endeavour to place it beyond the 
possibility of doubt, and also supply the parentage of his wife, 
and the birth-place of his children ? 

The following letter from Governor Winlhrop to the Rev. 
John White, Rector of Holy Trinity and S. Peter's Dorchester, 
Dorset, which is printed at pp. 116 and 127 of the Proceedings 
of the Mass. Hist. Soc, 1860-1, will shew that John Gallop was 
well known both to the writer and the receiver of it. 
" Reverend and Worthye Sir, 

I salute you in the Lorde, beinge much comforted 
to lieare of your heallhe and in hope at lengthe to see and 
enjoye you heere that you may reape some fruite of all your labours 
care and coste bestowed upon this worke of the Lorde. 

I wrote to you by the last return, how I had undertaken to 
paye them of Dorchester for Jo. Gallop and Dutche their wages 
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England so as Imarvayle you should have any further trouble about 
it. I have also payed Jo. Elford the remainder of his wages 
being xi/. and other accounts heere, so as I thinke there is now 
nothing to be demanded for suche reckoning. I have disbursed 
above 300/. for the Companyes engagements heere but I have 
some cattle and olde Kettles, &c., for it. and I hope more than 
enough to satisfie'me. 

I have much difficultye to Keepe John Galloppe heere by 
reason his wife will not come, I marvayle at her womans weaknesse, 
that she will live myserably with her children there, when she 
might live comfortably with her husband heere. I praye perswade 
and further her coming by all meanes, if she will come let her have 
the remainder of his wages, if not let it be bestowed to bring over 
his children, for so he desires. It would be about 40/. losse to 
him to come for her. .... 

John Gallop hath written to some of your neighbours for 11 
Dozen of Cod lines. If he provide them and bring them to you 1 
praye deliver him this bill inclosed, if not I desire you to furnish us 
so farre as this bill will goe and some Cod Hooks also. Thus 
earnestly desiring your praiers and longing for your presence I 
commend you to the Lorde and rest 

Your assured in the Lordes Work 

Jo: Winthrop. 
Masschusettsjuly 4 1631" 

This letter is addressed "To his Reverend and verie loving 
Friende Mr. John White, minister of the Gospell these dely\'er." 
The Bill enclosed runs " Brother Dowinge, I praye paye unto this 
bearer by the allowance of Mr. John While of Dorchester twelve 
pounds. It is for fishing lines to be sent me into Newe England. 

So I rest Your loving brother Jo : Winthrop. 
Masschusetls in New England, July 4, 163Z." 

Augustus A. Galloupe, Beverly, Mass., U.S.A. 

a8. Defeat OF THE Spanish Armada. — By the time the second 

' D. N. & Q. is due, England will be preparing to 

_ iiTtorcenlenary of the above event. It is quite possible 

k 'tCMtemporary reference to it may exist in the older 

iMan; Churchwardens' account books, or other public 

tiKihe Archives of the County famihes in the district 

_ied ^ this Magazine. Should such be discovered to be 

!b t6* EuUtors will thankfully receive any communications 

— "^t aibjcct ; and the earlierlhe better. The Plymouth 

'kM boon formed for promoting the Armada 

aiumcdlhe igth July, the day on which the 

0Snt sighted off the English Coast, as the first 

nj ^triutic demonstration. The programme 

bjhiiMwicA) processions and tableaux, marine 

■"^ K *>f Armada relics and pictures, with other 








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[objects of interest, &c. Further information may be obtained 
"rom the Hon. Organizing Secretary, Mr. W. H. K. Wright, whose 
Pofiicial address is " Drake's Chamber, Plymouth." 

ag. Druitt Family. — Can any readers of " Notea and Queries 

for Somerset and Dorset " give me instances of the occurrence of 

the name Dmitt in Parish Registers. &c., &c., or on monuments 

. or grave-stones } I shall be glad of any information concerning 

^}he various French and English families bearing the name, as I 

n trying to put together an account of them. The name is spe!t 

D many ways, Druitt, Druit, Drewett, Drouet, Droett, Drouot, 

>ctng some of the most common. Is anything known of the 

f Draetts of Exeter, with whom Hooker was connected ? See Life 

tof Hooker in vol. I. of Keble's edition of his works. 

G. E. DRutiT, 8, Strathmore Gardens, Kensington, W. 

, Old Nonconformist Communion Plate at South 
(Petherton. — Mr. James Patten Daniel has in his custody as the 
senior surviving trustee of the Society called "The Old Meeting" 
in Palmer Street, in the above town, two silver beakers each 
containing precisely eight ounces. The Hall-mark would indicate 
that they were manufactured in 1 693-4. They are of beaten silver, 
and are ornamented with rude repousse, work ; one displaying a 
pattern of acanthus leaf rising from the foot, the other a kind of 
floral scroll surrounding Us body nearer the lip. 

These beakers were formerly used in celebrating the " Ordi- 
jiance," or Holy Communion, in the old meeting above referred 
ito, presumably from the establishment of the connexion until its 
illapse in first half of the present century. 

The date of its foundation was A.D. 1688, just after the cele- 
brated " Declaration of Indulgence " in James the second's time, 
when what was called the " Cause " here commenced. 

The services were at first probably held in some convenient 
place, or private house suited to the occasion, since it was not 
until the year 1705 that the Old Meeting House was built on a 
site given by one Edmond Anstice, an influential resident land- 
owner. 

It was maintained at first by a Presbvterian Congregation, 
which however, as in many similar cases, lapsed at length into 
Unilarianism. The first Unitarian Minister is believed to have 
been a Mr. Henry Rutter, whose connexion with the Society 

?resurnably commenced in 1716 and ended with his death in 1736. 
'here is no record of any baptisms having taken place in the 
chapel between December 13th. 1715 and November 17th. 1747, 
when a Mr. James Kirkup having been appointed Minister the 
sgister was resumed. 

That gentipman dyinjr in 1781, was succeeded by the Rev 
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nominal ministry until 18+6 when he died, but no regular service 
was held after about 1S+3. The last baptism took place in 1844. 

Since the death of Mr. Richards the beakers have been in thj 
possession of their present custodian. 

The above details are given, as tracing the probable historj- 
of these pieces of plate, from the date of their first use. 

Il would be interesting to discover what other plate, if any, 
of a similar character and origin, is still existing in the Western 
Counties. 

H. NORKIS. 

31. Manifold. — This word almost out of use in ordinary 
conversation or composition occurs not unfrequently in the Church 
services, and is always I beHeve pronounced as if written 
'* mannefotd." We have of course heard of Horace's dictum 
as to une being the arbiter in such cases, but is it not likely that 
here an error has crept in ? Manifold has nothing obviously to 
do with " manifest. ' It is connecieil with such words as 
two-fold, four-fold, and so on, " Manifold " meaning a large but 
indefinite number. It ought then I contend to be pronounced 
as if spelt " mennyfold." 

T. B. G. 

32. A Piece of Delft Ware with a We.st-Country 
History. — It may possibly interest Somerset readers, to be 
informed that the contemporary Delft plate commemorating the 
fate -of the double child bom at He Brewers in A.D., 1680, (vide, 
Roberts's " Lifi Gfc, of James, Duke of Monmouth," Vol. 1. 
pa. 117, and Whiting's " Perieculion expos'd" pa. 99), the sale of 
which at Langport, In August last, was noticed under the above 
heading in the " Weslem A nliguary" ioTOciober, 1887, has recently 
found a place in the very valuable collection of Mr. J. Eliol 
Hodgkin of Childwall, Richmond, Surrey. 

S. 

33. Heraldic Glass IN East CoKER Church — IntheSouth | 
Transept window are the following arms : — 

1st. and 4.th. argent, 3 greyhounds statant, sable. 
md, and 3rd. argent, a saltire gules, within a bordure bezante^, I 
sable. J ' ' ' 

Query. — Whose arms areithe)- .' 

G. Troyte-Bullock, N. Coker House. 

34. Stlrminster Marshall.— The Rev, J. Cko.ss. Baillie I 
House, Wimborne, has forwarded a document relating to the I 
Church of Sturminster Marshall, extracted from the archives of \ 
the " Hospice de Pont Audemer," Normandy, and recently 
(January, 1885,) sent him by M. Fouquez the Cur6 there. 



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The church of Slumimster Marshall was a portion of the 
possessions of the Hospital of St Giles in that town, and the 
document appears to be a grani of the Church, it., oftlie Rectory, 
with certain lands and tenements in Charlelon belonging to the 
Hospital, and now in the King's hands by reason of a war with 
France. — to John Wrothe, John Newman, clerk, and Brother 
Richard Ruccoie, Procurator of the said House, upon payment to 
the King of a yearly rent of 54 maik*. — so that there be allowed 
to the said procurator for his support £<) 6s. 8d., out of the sum 
of 54 marlts aforesaid. 

The copy of the document which here follows is without date, 
and appears to be an abstract from the original, rather than a 
comflete transcript. It may be useful to preserve it in the pages 
o( S & D. N. & Q.. as it supplies some names which do not 
OCCQT in Hutchins. (Vol. iii., p. 365, 3rd Edition). 

Archivea derhospicedePontAudemcr. Sine B., Portcfeuille 
I S9. No. 8. " Johanni Wrothe, Johanni Neweman clerico, et fratri 
I Ricarilo Ruccoie procuralori domus leprosorum Sancti Egidii de 
. Poote Adomari in Normannia, . . Ecclesias de Slurmynstre Mareschal 
in Comitatu Orcestrix que est ejusdem domus, ac quarumdam 
terrarum et tenementonim cum pertinenliis in Charletonn in dicto 
comitatu ad eamdem domum spectanlium, in manu regis occasione 
gacTTx Francis existentium, habendo a festo Purificationis Beats 
Maris hoc anno, .et quantumdiu dicta guerra duraverit; reddendo 
ihde Regi quinquaginta et quatuor marcas per annum ad Koacaria 
Paschs et Sanctt Michaelisperasqualesportiones, vel infra mensem 
postea sub pxna solutionis dupH. Ita quod alioccntur dicto 
procuratori ad Scacaria prsdicta annuatim pro sustentatione sua 
novem libri sex solidi et octo denarii de qtiinquaginta et quatuor 
marcis prsdictis. Et st contingat dictum fratrem Ricardum obire 
vel mare transire quod tunc prsdicli Johannes et Johannes reddanl 
Regi pro custodia prsdictam integram summam quinquaginia et 
quatuor marcarum absque allocatione dictarum novem libranim 
ses solidonim et octo denariorum habenda; ac solvendo decimas 
et alias quotas cum clero quoties et quando. etc., nee non suslen- 
tando domos et sdificia prsedictis Ecclesis terns et tenementis 
pertinentia necnon supportando omnino onera eisdenn Ecclesi» 
terris et tenementis incumbentia sjve spectantia. Per sumcientem 
manucaption em in Cancellario conveniendo ac duplo- ■* Dommo 
Cancellario pro thesaurario Anghs." 

This document is described in the following general !«""« 



' charte par laqueile nn liveque d' Angletcrre 



donne a 3 



religieux Anglais du prieurfi de St Guilles subvenir ii leurs besotna 

pendant les grandes luttes de France et d'Angleterre P". ^'* 

(13— 4) litre original en parchemin el 3 copies sur papier UPces). 

A cette 6poque le procureur de St Gilles 6t^t \VroSe 

I Ruccoie. Les deux autres Anglais avaient nom Jean et 

1 Jean Neweman." „„„ n_„ 

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35. Discovery of Tesselated Pavement at Ilchestsr. — 

On the Z4th or December last, as some men were levelling the 
ground in the garden of Ivel Hottse at Northover, they came upon 
some teBselated pavement about eighteen inches below the suriace. 
This they at once proceeded to destroy, and they unfortunately 
succeeded in exhuming about a bushel of lesserx before the mis- 
chief could be averted. 

Those I have seen are of three colours, viz., white, pale brown, 
and blue, from an inch square, to 1 k jin. and 1 x ^in. : and 
fairly well polished. 

Unfortunately the occupier " cares for none of these things," 
so that nothing at present can be done beyond chronicling the 
discovery, Somerset Editor. 

36. Gloton Messe. — In A.D. 1417, Bishop Repingdan of 
Lincoln, through his Commissary, Thomas Brown, issues a Monitio 
against certain persons in the Archdeaconry of Leicester accused 
of celebrating " Gloton Messe" on the five festivals of the 
Blessed Virgin Ma:y. It appears that great feastings took place 
on those days, and probably there was much drunkenness, but I do 
not understand exactly what the office was which they said in the 
churches, and which brought down the commissary's threat. I 
should be glad of some further information on the subject. 

T.S.H., Wookey Vicarage. 

37. Natural History Anecdote. — The disadvantages of 
a Hollow Tree as a Residence in stormy weather. A caution to 
parents. Some years ago an old ash fell during an autumn storm 
near the entrance gate at Stafford House, near Dorchester. It 
was on a Saturday night, the tree was left lying during Sunday, 
and a stock-dove was seen hovering anxiously in its neighbourhood. 
On the Monday the workmen came to remove the tree. They 
turned it over, and out of a hollow fell some young stock-doves, 
weak from exhaustion and want of food. They perished very 
soon after the men . had taken them with a \iew to their 
resuscitation. Curiously enough, the tree must have fallen so that 
ihc hollow lay flat towards the earth, and so the parent bird was 
unable to get to them with food, and the unfortunate little ones 
were imprisoned, and experienced al! the horrors of a siege and 
death from starvation. G. W. Flovek, Stafford. 

38. Templecombe, — Is there any record of the Knights 
Templars in Somerset, at Temple or Abbas Combe .^ What is the 
best book to consult on the history of the Knights Templars in 
England ? 

Charlotte. G. Boger, St. Saviour's, Southwark. 

39. Jan Ridd. — Is anjlhing known of John Ridd the hero 
of Blackmore's Novel "Loma Doone?" Was he a real character? 

Charlotte G, Boger, St. Saviour's,' Souihwark. 



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40. " In the year of our Lord." — Old legal documents 
generally introduce the date of the year with these words, and 
sometimes with the form ■' In the year of our Lord Jesus Christ." 
I have nut a large acquaintance with ancient deeds, but the 
variation from the common form, which occurs in the following 
extract from a Dorset Deed, strikes me as unusual : — 

" This Indenture made the fourteenth day of December, In 
the nineth yeare of the Reigne of our soveraigne Lord Kins 
William the Third of England etc., And in the yeare of our Lord 
God one thousand six hundred and ninety seven, Between Edmund 
lies of Dunlish within the parish of Buckland Newton in the 
County of Do rsett yeoman, of the one part, and Stephen lies of 
Buckland Newton aforesaid yeoman, of the other pan, witnesseth 
that the said Edmund lies in consideration, etc." 

The spelling is as in the deed. 

E. R. pEARCE Edgcumhe, Somerlcigh, Dorchester. 

41. Family of Ml'sorave. — Can any one give information 
I the famDy of Musgrave, resident in Kingston, near Taunton. 

in the 17th century ? Was Dr. William Musgrave who was 
Secretary to the Royal Society in 16B4, a native of Kingston ? 

P.M., Chard. 

43. Manor of Hai^well. — Canany of your correspondents 

enlighten me as to who was Wido, who held the Manor of 

Halswell, Somerset, of Roger Arundel in A,D. 1086? (See 

CoUinson's " Somerset," Vol. 1, p. 80). 

D.K.T., Torquay, 

43. PoMFARLES. — Leland, Vol. z, 73. — 44. (one is the page, 
the other the folio) mentions after Glastonbury " Pont perius, 
4 arches, where Arthur cast in his sword." 

This bridge is now called " Pomparles" ; " Pons Perilis" in 
the list of County bridges, and " Pons Perillous" in that of the 
Sessions roll of 1765. It was repaired at various times by the 
county after 1709. 

It is called " Strete Bridge " in the perambulation of Glaston 
Twelve Hides of 1501, which begin at Brutash, nearthe bridge on 
the way to Street, East side, where there were then three ash trees. 

I do not see any mention of the bridge in Collinson. 

In a roll {kept at Longleat) of a Glastonbury Hundred Court 
of about 1418, an order is given to scour the Brue from ■• Pons 
periculosus " to Prior's wear. Is there any earlier mention of the 
bridge, and can any one give a reason for the name.-' 

F. H. Dickinson, Kingweston. 

44. Contemporary notice of the Discovery of Bok- 
RiNGTON Bone Caves. — "January g, 1797,35 two young men were 
pursuing a rabbit in Burrington Coomb, they observed it take 



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shelter in a small crevice of the rock. Desirous of obtaining the 
little animal, they with a pickaxe enlarged the aperture, and in a 
few minutes were surprised with the appearance of a subterraneous 
passage, leading to a large and lofty cavern, the roof and sides of 
which are most curiously fretted and embossed with whimsical 
concreted forms. On the left side of the cavern are a number of 
human skeletons, laying promiscuously, almost converted into 
stone. Burrington is it miles from Bristol, and the cavern about 
three parts of a mile from Langford, Somersetshire." Sporting 
Magazine, Feb., 1797, Vol. 9, p. 183, 

45. The Church's Aid in the Hundred Years' War, — 
In 1+15, the whole of England was excited with the prospects of 
a new war with France, and great preparations were made by the 
young King, Henry V.. and his advisers, to make sure of victory 
over our adversary of France, and it was on October 75 that the 
memorable victory was won at Agincourt. Archbishop Chicheley 
is said to have brought on the war as a means of postponing the 
question of the confiscation of Church property, a subject the 
House of Commons was then rather given to discuss. Whether 
this is true or not, at any rate the Church of England did its best 
to supply Henry with men and money. In July 1415, while the 

iireparations were being made, the clergy of the diocese of 
lath and Wells were ordered to provide sixty men sufficiently 
armed, eight hundred and thirty archers, and a certain number of 
men called "hoblarii." And in 1417, as the war still lingered on, 
the demand on the diocese of Bath and Wells for men was fifty- 
seven fully armed men, seven hundred and seventy archers, and 
twelve "hoblarii." As there were seventeen dioceses in England, 
and as this diocese was by no means one of the large ones, if 
they all provided a proportional contingent, whatever may have 
been the motives of Archbishop Chicheley, it cannot be said that 
in that year the Church of England was deficient in patriotism. 
But in addition to this supply of men, we must remember that 
money as well was voted. Two tenths were voted by Convocation, 
and ific account of the Abbot of Cleve still exists. He had been 
made the collector in the diocese of Bath and Wells of the first 
of iho two tenths, and his account for the first tenth from the 
sipiriiualilics and temporalities of the clergy of Somerset amounts 
to /14b 8s. 9td., allowance being made for a certain alien priory 
at Norton, in the Deanery of Ivelchester, and the Archdeacony of 
Wi'lls, which being now vested in the Crown could not be charged 
with the taxes raised by Convocation. If we consider that this 
was only one half of the grant, and that during the early years of 
Iho fiftccnlli century, the grants from Convocation were made 
almoiil yearly, we will obtain some idea of the assistance which the 
Church gave to Henry ilie Vth. during the Hundred Years' War. 
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46. — Shrove-Tide Customs. "Shackle-Egg" Day, &c., — 
In some of the parishes in South Somerset, two or three Shrove 
Tuesday observances that had survived until within the memory of 
people stilt living have since become obsolete. 

About fifty years ago. it was the practice in most of the 
smaller village schools, for the children on the morning of the 
above-mentioned day, to bring each an egg and deliver it into the 
hands of the master or mistress on arrival, for the following 
purpose. 

At the close of morning school, all the eggs (having been 
previously marked each with the owner's name in ink), were laid 
side by side, in a com sieve (or " range" as it is locally called), 
which being placed on the ground was briskly " shackled," or 
agitated to and fro until the shells were cracked. The child 
whose name appeared on that last broken, or possibly not broken, 
was awarded a trifling prize, and duly installed as the hero or 
heroine of the day. I can remember that on such occasions, it 
was usual, as affording an instance of the depravity of human 
nature, to revive the legend of some m>thical young sinner who, 
having been convicted of the crime of boiling his egg, was duly 
held up to the reprobation of his fellows, and thrown out of court 
accordingly. 

Query. Was this custom a common one (as I suspect) in the 
West of England, in the beginning of the century ? And if so 
what significance, if any, was attached to its observance ? 

Was it got up simply to afford the teachers a cheap mode of 
keeping Shrove-tide in the orthodox way, by eating pancakes ? 
Or, was it the survival of an older custom of observing the 
carnival in a mild manner among the rising generation, by giving 
up a small modicum of animal food to one, who was in bye-gone 
days almost as much a spiritual master a% the priest himself i* 

Or, again, had it anything to do with a custom, similar to that 
which existed so late as the year 1818 in the North of England, of 
ekeing out the income of a schoolmaster by a gratuity on the part 
of the scholars, at Shrove-tide, called the " Cock Penny " ? (vide, 
Brand's " Popular Antiquities." C. Knight's Ed. Vol. I. pa. 39). 

The word '" shackle " is a local term for the noise made by 
the attrition of small stones, as marbles, or of bits of metal 
when shaken together; (.g., the cymbal-like scales in the hoop of 
a tambourine are called " shackles " in this district, although I 
cannot find the word in any of our provincial dictionaries. The 
nearest approach to it, is in J. C. Hotten's "Slang Dictionary," 
where the word " shackly" is given as "loose, rickety, Z>nJDajA(re." 

It survives in the word " lam-shackle " (which is not a 
dictionary word, by the bye), and evidently has its derivative in the 
Anglo Saxon " saacan," to shake. 

Another custom in this place, (South Petherton), was, for the 
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and ran through the streets throwing pot-sherds, previously 
collected for the purpose, against the doors of the principal 
inhabitants, at ihe same time singing out lustily some doggrej 
tines in which the word " pancake " figures with much promin- 
ence ; having done this they made their escape as fast as possible. 
Mention of a similar custom obtaining in Spain, as welt as in 
Cornwall, is made in Brand (op. cit. Vol. I pa. 41 )■ Strutl in his 
"Sports and Pastimes," (Hone's Ed. i8j8, pa. 284), also speaks of 
simitar boisterous sports on Shrove Tuesday. 

After thus noisily enjoying themselves the same young parties 
used to meet in the market-place, join hands, and after " thread- 
ing the needle," adjourn to the Church-yard close by, and 
endeavour to encircle tlie church, stilt holding hands. This 
over, whether they succeeded or not, their day was ended, and in 
the words of my aged informant, '■ they maade haaste whoam an 
tackled inta bed, quite atired out." 

Perhaps some of our readers would kindly tell us how much, 
if any, of the above has existed in other districts ; offering more- 
over any remarks thereon that may point to the origin of similar 
customs here or elsewhere. 

Somerset Editob. 
47. Ship "Castle of London" 1638.— Can any one tell 
me if the ship " CastU of London" was making voyages from ports 
in or about the counties of Somerset or Dorset in i6j8? In the 
month of July 1638 shearrived in Boston, (Mass. ) harbor, bringing 
Thomas Rucke, William Hatch, and Joseph Merriam, as "joint 
undertakers," and also Henry Swan, son-in-law to Rucke. 
I am offering a reward for Henry Swan's pedigree. 

VVm. M. Sargent, Portland, Maine, U.S.A. 
48. — Early Church-Builders — Note. Somersetshire is 
famous for its fine village churches. 

Query, How came they there? Take Winscombe for an 
example- The present edifice is said to have been built by 
Bishop Ralph de Salopia, who died 1363, but the architecture is 
that of a century later, and has puzzled arch»o legists. Can any of 
your readers refer to the documentary evidence on which the 
statement on the Bishop's tomb at Wells is founded ? Can any- 
one go further back, and say when and how the previous building 
was erected ? and whose remains were interred in the stone coffin 
now lying empty outside Winscombe Church ? But a still more 
interesting Query is. How and when was the first church built ? 
We can suppose it to have been the work of the monks of 
Glastonbury, or of the " Fraternity of the Blessed Virgin," who 
dwelt on the site of Winscombe Court ; but where can we find 
any satisfactory evidence? When we think of the difficulty of 
raising the little modern church at Sandford, (the subscn]n'ions 
being begun by a liberal dissenter !) we are the more disposed to 
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*eostIv churches which are the inheritance and admiration of their 
luld like to know the history of those pious 
ms by which they were offered. 

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49. TWO NEW BOOKS. 

" Memoriai^ of the West. Historical and Descriptive, 
collected on the borderiand of Somerset, Dorset, and Devon," 
by W. H. Hamilton Rogers, F.S.A, (Roy. 8vo., Exeter; 
Commin, i838). 

On opening this somewhat sombre looking volume and 
finding, within, its beautifully illustrated pages, one is almost 
unconsciously reminded of the chrysalis and the butterfly. 

It is confessedly a labour of love. "' Written entirely as a 
recreation during such intervals as were found available amid the 
more prosaic employments of a busy life."' in leafy Colyton — 
inted in fair Torquay — published in the Metropolis of the west, 
are constrained (after something more than a mere glance at 
contents), to confess that in the case of these '" Memorials," 

's labour has not been lost. 

Mr. Rogers is well-known as the author of " Antient 
Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of 
Devon," a book that has already taken its place as a standard work 
in the library of many a country gentlemen in the West, and he has. 
:bi the volume now before us. amply sustained his well-earned 
^pulalion. 

In this, his latest publication, he exhibits a rare versatility in 
research. Indeed he is equally at home when describing the 
residence and la^ resting-place ofai7lh century bell-founder in the 
little village of Closworth, and when descanting on the eventful 
careers and the palatial residences of the Horseys of Clifton- 
Maybank— -the Yonges of Colyton — the Wadhams of Merefield, 
the founders of the college that bears their name in Oxford — the 
Courtenays — the Poles — the Daubeneys of South Petherton and 
Barrington — the Carews of Ottery — and the Drakes of Ashe, with 
their immortal descendant the great Duke of Marlborough ; of all 
of whom he writes with the loving regard that appertains to a 
Student familiar with their characters, their times, and the scenes 
in which they lived and moved. 

His wording, though it may not be always of tlie purest 
Anglo-Saxon t}-pe, never jars upon the senses, whilst many sweet 
bits of scene painting, and frequent short stanzas of original 
verse enlivening his pages, proclaim him to be possessed of the 
poetic fire.* and well qualified to regard the fair glades of Eastern 
iDevon with the eye of a true artist. 

We can heartily commend this elegant book to the notice of 
all lovers of the " West Countree." and would direct their early 
attention to its attractions ; since we are given to understand that 
the issue is a small one, and that it will not in all probability be 
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The numerous illustrations, chiefly by Mr. Roscoe Gibbs, are 
beautiful in design and admirable in execution. The typography 
leaves little or nothing to be desired, and if the author should 
prove to be not gui'/g correct on some moot points in genealogi-, 
and if it should turn out that the great victor of Blenheim was not 
bom actually within the walls of ' Ashe Haule," a fact questioned 
by Mr. Cornish in the January number of the ' Western Antiquary,' 
and not, we take leave to submit, quite proved by the somewhat 
petulant letter of ■' ARamillies Wig," in the " Western Chronicle," 
or if when the reader turns the leaves to look for a fact, he too 
frequently stumbles over a sentiment, all is condoned when we 
burrow into the fascinating " Memorials " themselves, and 
accompany Mr. Rogers to the scenes he so vividly describes 
[herein. 

If we may permit ourselves to say aught in disparagement of 
this book, it would be to express our disappointment that the 
author has permitted it to go forth to the world without an index 
or even a pretence of a table raisonme of contents, whereby the 
busy reader may be enableJ to seize at once on a fact or point of 
interest, in a volume so replete with matter that is at once both 
valuable and entertaining. 

s. 

"Notes on Barwick and its Church." — By John 
Batten, Esq , F.S.A., tYeovil, 1888, iimo. pp. 24.) This small 
parish history, the first number of "The Western Chronicle 
Historical Series," is one on which we can honestly congratulate 
all parties connected with its appearance. 

Written by a true antiquary, it is an admirable example of 
what is wanted for every parish, before material for a really 
valuable county history can be collected. When the reader has 
reached its 14th page, his first feeling will be one of wonder that 
so much reliable information has been compressed within so 
small a compass — , his neit will be one of surprise that it can 
possibly be produced for the small price of three pence. 

Its whole subject-matter is so closely interwoven that it 
would be difficult to give any extract that would be complete in 
itself. Suffice it to say that every parish has its history, if it 
could meet with such a historian as Mr. Batten, whose research 
can only have been equalled by his industry. The little book 
ought to be in the hands of every one of our subscribers, as well 
as on the table of all who set a value on any connection with the 
county of Somerset, the nursery of so much that has made the 
English nation what it is. 

Among much other information the author gives a list of 
incumbents from the 1 3th century to the present lime : some 
extracts from the Registers in the i6th century; and a list 
of inscriptions on the grave-stones in the church-yard. 

A well executed vignette of the Church on the cover, adds to 
the attractions of this very useful booklet. 5; 




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50. Armada Expenses in Somerset and Dorset, A.D. 
1589. — The eventful Annus Domini 1588 had past and gont. 
The pride of Spain had been humbled to the dust ; her vaunted 
forces had been subdued ; her invincible Armada had been 
scattered to the winds ; and now the cost had to be reckoned 
up and provided for. 

The Queen, brave and proud, but astute and penurious as her 
grandfather, was by no means inclined to fleece herself or under- 
go any personal privation, in order to reward the super-human 
exertions of her victorious soldiers and sailors 1 and indeed, after 
all was said and done, the country had been saved, and the 
country should reward her saviours. 

The arrears of pay to those brave men amounted to a sum 
which was something enormous for that period, notwithstanding 
the sacrifices made by individuals, and by various rich corporations 
throughout the kingdom ; whilst to this must be added the cost of 
the vessels supplied by the different seaport towns upon the coast. 

"To meet these arrears and other charges, it was necessary 
to raise money quite independent of the subsidies or taxes ; for it 
must be presumed, seeing the overwhelming evidence existing 
among the state papers, that Imperial taxation, then as now, was 
no easy burthen to the English ratepayer." 

Large subsidies had already been granted, and yet the cry was 
still for more. 

" To mate an ixtraordinary subsidy, and so ruin the nation 
at one stroke, in order to mett the cost of the defence made 
against the invasion, was loo much even for Queen Elizabeth. 
so she adopted a wiser and less repulsive course ; she 
borrowed by way of loan, from 2416 of her subjects, out of the j6 
counties of England, a sum approaching ^75,000, an amount at 
that date very considerable, and especially so, after the extraordinary 
charges each county had already borne in making other provision." 

This measure was accordingly carried out in the spring of 
15S9, and the loan was called for by circular letters addressed 
under sanction, or by command of the Privy Seal, to the presumably 
wealthy inhabitants of the respective counties. The honeyed terms 
in which this " Benevolence " was demanded are so curious that 
I venture to give a verbatim copy of the letter to a Shropshire 
gentleman, the original of which is perhaps still in existence. 

"BV THE QUEENE, 

Trusty and welbeloved, we greete you well. Wheras for the 
better w^^standing of the intended invasion of this realnic, upon 
the greate preparacons made by the King of Spayne, both by sea 
and land, the last yeare, the same having been such as the lyke 
was never prepared at any tyme against this Realme, we were 
enforced for the defence of the same and of our good and loving 
subjects, to be at infinite charges, both by sea and land, especially 
I' foi that the said intended invasion tended directly to the conqueit 

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of this realme, and finding also by such intelligence as wc dayly 
receave that the lyke intent the next yeare by the said Kingc for 
the wiiistanding whereof yt shall be necessary for us to prepare 
both by sea and land, w='' cannot be plormed w'l'out greate 
charges. We have therfore thought yt enpedient, having 
alwaies found our good and loving subjects most ready 
upon such lyke occasions to furnish us by way of ioane 
of some convenient porcons of mony agreable w*** their estates 
^y/th ^f. [lave and mynd alwaies to repay) to have recourse 
onto them in lyke maner at this present, and therfore, having made 
choyce in the severall ptes of our Realme of a number able to do 
us this kinde of service, w'^'> is not refused betwixt neighbo' and 
neighbo'. Amongst this nomber we have p'ticulerly named yoa, 
Thomas Lawlty, for your ability and good will you bear to us and our 
Realme, to be one. Wherfore, we require you to pay to our use 
the sume of Twenty-fyve Pounds to such p'son, as by our Lieu- 
tenn* of that county shal be named to you by his hand wryting. 
And these our Lres of Pryvy Scale subscribed by the pty so 
named by our Lieutenn' that shall receave the same, confessing 
the tyme of the Receipt Iherof shalbe sufficient to bynd us our 
heires and successors, duely to repay the said some to you or to 
yo' assignes at thend of one yeare from the tyme ofyo' payment. 
Yeven under my Pryvy Scale at our Pallace of Westm'- the xx* 
day of ffebruary, in the ixxj*'' yeare of our Reigne. 

Tho. Ker. 

To o' trustie and welbeloved, 
Thomas Lawley, of the Cop- 
pies, gent." 

The amount demanded was not always paid with readineia 
or absolute punctuality, and in some cases not at all. The Lieu- 
tenants of counties having made some " bad shots " in their listi, 
a few of those not able to pay got off on petition. One Matthew 
Chubb of Dorchester, who was charged to pay ;^so by the igth of 
March, addressed a memorial to Mr. Secretary Wolly, setting 
forth that "neithec the Lord Leutenant nor the Deputie Leuten- 
ants have certified the sufiiciencie of yo' supphant to be able to 
lend her ma"' anie some of money." 

We are not told whether this somewhat brusque reply of aQ 
individual to Her Ma'"'' request attained its desired end, but the 
consequence of a remonstrance offered on the pan of the whole 
County of Somerset was, that although it was originally assessed 
at ^3,000, her gentry paid but ^1,300, "for that many trayned 
souldiers and some others, being charged the last yeare, were 
charged with this loan e." 

It does not appear that any remission was made in the case 
of Dorsetshire. It was a wealthy county, and forty-seven of it* 
gentlemen were asked to contribute the sum of £',<)$'>■ 

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valuable little book by Mr. Noble,* which has for the mosl part 
supplied the material for the foregoing observations. The Author 
has given us in detail all the requisitions made in j6 English 
counties, from which 1 have taken the liberty to extract the 
offidal lists, so far as Somerset and Dorset are concerned. 

Those charged with ihe duty of selecting names have not 
always acted with uniformity, for whereas but a few only of the 
gently in the former county ate particularized, every one in the 
latter, with a single exception, has his or her residence recorded. 

An attempt has been made lo supply this de6ciency as regards 
Somerset, and a few short remarks have been added here and 
there for both counties, which it is hoped will render the list more 
acceptable to those who are disposed to take an interest in the 
proprietary and occupancy of the district, three centuries ago. 

SOUERSETT. £ 

John Sydenham, of Leigh ii die Marcii 50 

Probably of one of the Leighs in Lydeanl St. Lawrence, in 
which p»ri5h Ihc Sydenliajnshddp[npettyintbe(6th ccnlury. 
It was certainly not Leigh ia Winsham (Ihe scat of Ihe Men- 
lej's) ai surmised in a note in " Somerset Willi," I, p. 71. 

Richard Watkins. of Holwell lodim 15 

Now in Dorset, rotmecly in Somerset. V.S. 157J, p. 89. 

John Davyson, Gen. 15 dit Marcii ij 

? of Freshfoid near Bath. V.W. 1613, p. 37. 

John Bushe, of B rod fei Id ^nmo dit Apriht 50 

Thii Manor stood on Droadlirld Down, in the parish of 
Wrineton. N.W. ofthctown. Vid. "Somerset Wills," (where 
it is called ■■ lirodweU ") Vol, I. p. 2*. 

Robert Holworthie sicundo die Aprilis 15 

of Cannington and Bridgwater. "Somerset Willi" 1, 
p. 30. 

Richard Bidgood eodem 15 

of (North) Pelhertoo. V.S. 1613, p. 75. 

Gyles Gilbert eadem 5° 

.' orCorton Denham, V.S. 1 573, p. 109, where there is named 
a Gilbert, marked as either •• George " or " Gregory," the 
Editor being uncertain which. Query, might it not bare 
' been "Giles?" 

I Jane Smithe, ofLonge Ashton auiitto die Apiilit 15 

She was widow of Mallnew Smithe, second son of John 
Smithe of Long Ashton, whose eldest son Hueh died in 1580, 
She was daughter and co-heir of Thomas Tewther of Ludlow, 
Salop, and widow of Bartholomew Skeme. Co. Lincoln; their 
daughter Anne =; George Rodney, Am. 3rd son of Sir 
JIaurice Rodney of Stoiie Gilford, (Rodney Stoke). CoUinion, 
Vol. II, p. 193, and V.S. 1623, p, lot. The latter was tba 
husband of 
I Joane Rodney eodem t% 

•■• Thh Naues of those Perwos who subi^ribed toward* the li*(iUM of 
I tliis Country at ihe time of the Spanish Armada, 158S. and ibe aninunti tach 
I contributed." With Historical IntioJuction by T. C. NciaLH. l^iuAoa. A. 
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»ho was the daughter of Sir Thos. Dyer, of Somerford, Co. 

WUts, Kt. CoUinson III, p. 604. and V.S. 1573, p. ;o. 
George Lulterell, Armig. 8 die Aprilit 5° 

This must have been the owner of Dunster Cattle who :=: 

Joan daughter of Hugh Stewkeley of Marsh, in Dunster. 

CoUinson II, iz. 
rhomas Vlyev eaJem 15 

Probably Thos, Dyer of Street. V.S. 1613, p. 35. 
John Pirrey, Gen. eodem 15 

? Perry of Halse. V.S. 16J3, p. 84, 

Walter Hodges eodem 15 

of FuddimoreMiltoD, near Ilchester. V.S. IJ73, d. 11. One 

of a large family who had representatives at Ilchester, and 

later on at Speclunglon, Luftoa near Yeovil, Wcdmot-e, 

Cbinaoek, Sec. V.S. i6ij, p. 53. 
Sir John Stawell, Miles eadem 100 

ol CotheUtone; he ^ Fruices daughter of Sir TbomasDyei, 

Kl. CoUinson III, 151. 
Thomas Leigh, of Welles toJem 15 

of the Leys or Leghs of Ley in Beer Ferris Co. Devon. V.S, 

1573, p. 4t. (According to CoUinson, III. 407, the last Thos. 

Leigh of WeUs died in 1551. probably a misprint of the 

6gures.) 
Nicholas Wadham, Armie;. eodem 50 

orMetelield, near Ilminster ; the founder of Wadham CoU: 

Oion. Vid. Rogers's "Memorials of the West" p. I47etseq.; 

also CoUinson, I, 48. 

John Hartys, of Otherie eoJem 15 

Hugh Bampfeild, Anniger of North Cadburie eodem .... 100 

The only mention I can find of bim is a notice of letters of 
Admon, taken out May l6lh, 1590. •■ Someisct WUli" Vol, 
I, p. II. 

John Windham, of Orchard foiifm 1$ 

Vide CoUinson III, 490, for curious circumstance connected 
with bis birth. 

loane Windham, Vid. todem ij 

There appears no " Joane," in the Windham pedigree, V.S. 
•573. *ho could have been a widow in 1589. The wife of the 
above John W. of Orchard was loane, daughter of Sir Henry 
Portman of Orchard. Portman. V.S. 162J, p. 127. 

Edward Bevill of Wells eodem «S 

'leorge Giliiert fnJem «5 

f of Whitcombe in Cottou Denham. V.S. 1573, p. 109. ((irft 
Gilii G. supra.) 

George Tilly, Gen. of Pointingdon todem ij 

VS. 1573, p. 134- 

Robcrte Cuffe, Gen. todem 15 

of Creech Si. Michael. V.S. 1573, p. IS. 

lohn Farewell, eodem 50 

of Holbrooke near Wincanton, and of Bishop's HuU near 
Taunton. He r^ Ursula, daugbtet of John Pbelips of Mon> 
tacme. V.S. 1573. P- H- 

J ohn Ftauncis. Ar. eodem t( 

of Combe Flory near Taunton. He =1; Margaret, daughter 
of Sir John Windham. V.S. 1573, p. 15. His descendants 
JnheritedFord Abbey, Co. Devon, ana look thenameofGwyn, 



Sonurttt Sf Dwsit NoUt 6* Qwriii. 

in the i8lb century. 

Edmonde Windham. toJtm 

> of Kenlsford in St. Decuman'*, ailed ■■ Edwitd '■ in V.S. 
"STJ. P- 90- 

Robert Sommer, of Otherj- g die Aprila 

Mawde Smithe, Vid. eodem 

Widow of Hugh Smiihe of Long Athlon, nA "Biccombe." 
CoUimon I, ;». 

Richard Walton, eodem 

of Shapwiok. Collbsoo III, 417. V.S, 1573, p. 134- 

John Pearham, Gen. of Adbeare todtn 

[ in Trent. Collioson III, 516. 

' Thomas Carew, Gen. todem 

of Camerton. neat Baih, V.S. 1573, p. 7. fT. C, of Crow- 
combe. WQuld be " Armiger.") 

Walter Weaver, eodem , 

William Reade, eodcm 

Robert Jennyngs, 1 1 die Aprilis 

of Button Pynsent. He died in 1593. (Sorat. Wills I. p. 18) 
and was Gt. Gt. Gtandfathet of the Thomas Jennines who = 
Uuy Speke. Both these latter were deeply implicated in 
Monmouth's tebellion. Roberts' " life of Monmouth," VoL 
_ I. P- 307- 

I Elizabeth Simpson. Vid. todtm 

I There were Simpsons at Cricket Malherbie. V.S. 1573, p. 13. 

I John Lye, eodcm 

Hi* ( } ) dauEhter Edith = Thomai Nappcr, of Tiotinhull. 
V.S. 1613, p. 77. 

I John Harrington, Ar. lodtm , 

' of Kelweiton, near Bath. He was Godson to Queen Eliza- 

beth, and was afteiwatds KnJehted. Collinion I, lit. 

William Galhampton, T4 du Aprilis 

Symon Saunders, 15 dit Aprilis 

of Bagborough. .V.S. 1613. p. gr. 

George Upton, Armiger 17 dit Aprilis 

of Worminster, near Well*. V.S. 1573, p. 83. 
William Hodges. Gen. lodtm 

of Speckinglon. near Ilchester. V.S. 1573. p. 34. 

John Hodges. Gen. eodim 

_ of Luhon, near Yeovil. V.S. 1623, p. 53, 

\ William Cowx. 1 1 die Aprilis 

PosHbly Wm. Coikes, V.S. 1613. p. 25, Originally a Chel- 

wotlh family. 

I William Welshe, eodem 

I ?ofAlletlon. V.S. 1613, p, 60. 

E Chrislofer Kenne, Armiger eoitn 

ofKenn. V.S. 1613, p, h\. His daughter Eliiabelh = John 

III Baton Poulelt. of Hinton St, George. 

^ Thomas Coward, of Shepton Mallett eodem 

Thomas Hodpes, eodem 

Probably of Wedmote. Somt. Wills I, 83. There was also 

another Thomas Hodges who := Joyce, daughter of Sir George 

Snigge, md Baron of the Exchequer. Somt. Willi I, it. 
[ Thomas Wale, of Yatton eodem 

His daughter Susan =: Wm. Blanchaid, of "Catharine's 



38 Somtrut S- Dorset Notes S- Queries. 

Court " Co. Somerset. VS. 16S3, p. 9. 
Dorothie Morgan, Vidua todcm 15 

Sbe was daughter of John Kippisley, ol StoD Easlon, aad 

widow ofThomas Morgan. V.S. 1573, p. 115. 
Ko!)ert Webb, 16 die Aprilis 50 

orCIiSonI, itiBcckington. V.S. 1613, p. 114. 

Richard Veetes, eodem 13 

Sir Henrie Portman, Miles 9 die Aprilit 1 00 

ol Orchard Portman. He was son ofSii Wm. Portman, Lord 

Chief JusticeofEngkndmHeniyVlII's reign. V.S. l(>^l, 

p. 127. 
Matl'.ew Ewens, Armiger eodem 15 

of Wincanlon or Cadbury. V.S. 16J3, p. 36. 
William Symes, of Chard terdo die Maii 50 

V.S. 1G13, pp. jo-ito. 
John Every, of Broadwaie todem 25 

A member of the family at Cotthay in Kittisfoid, near Wivcl- 

iKombe. Somt. WiUs I, p. 73. 

John Hawker, 1 3 die Maii 15 

"iTionias Raymond, 1 7 die Maii 1] 

ofChard, BODofWm, Raymond of 11 Chester. V.S. 1613, p. 90. 

Somt. Wills 1, p. 31. 
Hfntic Keemer, Armiger 13 die Junii jo 

of Pendomer. V.S. 1613, p. 36. 
Joane Cult, Vidua 7 die Junii 15 

i CV)/(, widow of John C. of Creech St. Michael, neat Taun- 

Ion. V.S. 1573. p- >8. 

Jijhn Affonl, of Norton 6 die Junii 15 

— Stewkeley, Vidua ultimo die Juiii ij 

She was probably the widow of HugnS. of Mnrsh in Duniler, 

« of Thomu his ion. V.S. 1573, p. 80. 
Dabvtw Hrndley. the ^ of October 50 

Thli was probablv R. H. ofLeigh, in Winsham. V.S. 161], 

|h 48. Somt. WUU I. p. 15. 

Mm Cmui. the 6 of October 15 

TKtubly a member of the Cboid family of that uame. V.S. 

HhtJ. \\ tb. Somt. Willi 1, 16. 

bkn Vpfalt. M< 7 October ij 

fclb»SlMh«a».M* jorfay is 

B«M»««l><Mcon Mf ji day 15 

Wta Witlriuii*. Ihi tame day 25 

Jvbn $W»J«*icke. Ik* first of December 15 

' tW« of th« iu>l Broadway family. Katherinc Erery =; 
».:4t«Kk of tfaat place. Somt- Willi I, p. 73. 

■ '•■e b day 15 

■ • iiolM. "V.S.,"atandsfor the Heralds' Visitation of 
I0»). (Colby). "V.W.." for tfie Heralds' Visitation of 
■ Sonifrsct Willfc" for the Rev. Fredk. Brown'i 

. Vills," piivately printed by F, A, Crisp, 1887.) 



SS(IStW£lH 



40 Somirut £• Darut Notes S- Qiurits. 

John Rawles, of Fifehead S" 

OfFirehtadNe\Tlle. Visit., 1613. H. i. 169, 

Richard Chapman, of Lamton 15 

Gyles Symondes, of Woodford. Gen 25 

" 'S^Ji ju'y '4- Gyles, 50Q of Mt. Gyles Simonds of 

Woojdflord, and Anne his wife, buried." Charminsler Register. 
John Swayne, of Blandford, Gen 25 

Sm H. iii, 453- 

John Skerne, of Turner's Piddle, Gen 15 

John Loope, of Hide, [Bere Regis.] 25 

George Lambert, of Henburie jo 

Lower Henbury in Sdurainster Mirsliall, H. iii, 353. 

Thomazin Turbervile, of Beere Regia, Vidua 15 

Daughter of Robert Fitz-James ofRedlynch, and widow of 
Thomas Turbervile of Bcre Regis. H. i, ij8, 

Richard Sidwaie, of Poole 25 

Thomas Watts, of Stalbridge 25 

John Williams, of Tyneham, Gen 25 

Visil., 1623. H. i. 617. 

Edward Hooper, of Beveridge 25 

Visit., 16J3, H. iii, 384. under Bovcridge. 

Richard Eastmonde, of Fifehead Magdalen 25 

Morgan Hayne, of Fryar Waddon, [Portisham.] 25 

Visit.. 1623, H.ii, 376. 

Thomas Evans, of Muncton 25 

Henry Stoite, of Milton 25 

Thomas Kele of Chcsselbome, living 1623, married Eliiabeth, 
daughter of Heniy Stoite of Millon, in Com. Dorset. 
Vi^lt„i623. 

John Hoskins, of Bemister, Gen 25 

Visit., 1633. H. ii, 113. 

Christopher Darby, of Askeswell 15 

John Peasinge, of Lillington, living 1623. married Joane, 

daughter of Christopher Darby, of Askeruellc. Visil., 1613, 

Christopher Derby was buriedalAskerswell, 1613, H.ii, 176. 

Thomas Savadge, of Sidling aj 

iohn Goofl, of Maiden Newton, married Anne, daughter of 
'homas Savage of Sidling. Visit., 1633. 

Phillip Mannfeild, of Sherborne 15 

Hugh Whetcombe, of Sherborne 15 

"1610 Dec. 23rd, Hewgo 'Wlielcome, senex sepull." Sher- 
borne Register. 

William Gowld, of Gussage, Gen . , 25 

Thomas Scovell, of Wichampton le 

H, Ui, 478. 
N.B — H. stands for the 3rd edition of HulcMnt's Hlslorr of Done), 

The Editors. 
51. Defeat op the Spanish Armada. (I. i. 28.) — In view 
of the approaching tercentenary of this event, and the large con- 
tribtJtion which Poole made to the English fleet, may I suggest 
that some subscriber shall give us particulars of the ships, their 
tonnage and crews, which sailed to join Drake at this memorable 
period of ourhistor}'? J.J. Foster, 36, AlmaSq., St. John's Wood. 




Semtrut £• Dorut Nota 6* Qmstus. 41 

5a. In a Furniture Shop in Ljine Regis, I saw, last year, a 
tar^ Iron Chest for sale. It was of Foreign make, and was said 
to have come from one of the Armada Ships, and to have been in 
the Custom House of Lj-me until the disuse of that building. 

E.SB.. Belmont, Parkslone. 

53. M.P's. FOR Somerset in the Long Parliament.— 
The order of these as given in the £/ue Book Returns is somewhat 
vague. The original members were Sir John Poulett, Knt„ 
afterwards 2nd Baron Poulett, and Sir John Stawell, K.B., of 
Somerton. At a somewhat early stage of the Civil War troubles, 
on August 8, 1641, both these members were " disabled " by vote 
of the House " for endeavouring to execute the Commission of 
Array." Poulett afterwards sat in the Parliament at Oxford, 
from which assembly Stawell was "absent by leave." The 
Blut Book states that their seats at Westminster were 
filled on the 13th July 1646, by John Harrington. Esq.. and 
George Homer, Esq., who were returned " vice James Harring- 
ton and George Homer, Esqs. whose election was declared 
void " — and in a fool note adds that James Harrington and George 
Homer were " probably elected vice Poulett and Stawell disabled 
to sit," The actual circumstances of these elections were as 
follows :— 

After the disablement of Poulett and Stawell the scats 
continued vacant for more than three years, — till October zsth, 
1645, when Writs were ordered to fill them. An election followed 
in due course — on ind December following, — John Harrington 
and George Homer, Esqs. being retumed. That the former 
was John and 10/ James Harrington is clearly set forth in the 
Memoranda \eh hy him "as to his entry into Parliament," and 
quoted in Howard's " Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica"{vol. 
iii. 399) in which under date of jist March 1646, he writes "I 
first sate in the House of Commons." 

Owing however to certain irregrularitiesat the lime of election, 
a Petition of Freeholders was presented against this Return, and the 
matter was referred in the ordinary way to the Committee of the 
North, which on April 14th decided the whole election to be void. 
Report was made to the House on June znd, from which we 
gather the nature of the irregularity complained of. It seems that 
the High Sheriff, Sir John Homer (father of one of the candidates) 
having received the Writ of Election, published the Election lo 
be at Ilchester on the ist December, " On that day above one 
thousand Freeholders resorted to give their voices. The Clerk 
of the Court having called the Court betwixt 8 and g a.m. when 
there were not above twenty Freeholders gathered together, 
attempted to adjourn it from Ilchester to Queen's Camel, about 
four miles from thence, on alleged sickness being at Ilchester. 
The Freeholders present protested, and proceeded in the business 
till eleven. In the meantime a letter sent lo the Sheriff desired 
him to come to Ilchester, and to make the Election there, which 



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sons to ■ 



he refused, alleging the sickness there, and sent Ms two 
the Clerk of the County to adjourn, who commanded the Crye; 
make Proclamation, which some of the Freeholders commanded 
him not to do at his peril. Thereupon, the Clerk of the County, 
not having read the Writ of Election, adjourned the Court to 
Queen's Camel, against the consent of the Freeholders, and rode 
to the Sheriff at Queen's Camel, and called a Court. But the 
time of Election being passed, he adjourned to next morning at 
Eight, and sent noiice to the Committee and the Gentlemen at 
Ilchester. Next morning the Writ was read, and Mr. Homer and 
Mr. Harrington were elected." The House resolved to agree 
with the Committee " that the Clerk of the County adjourned the 
Court against the consent of the Freeholders, that the Election 
is void and that a new Writ shall issue." In his Memoranda, Mr. 
Harrington writes of this decision of the Committee thus, — "April 
I4.th, 1646. It was last night resolved at the Committee for the 
North that Sir John Homer had done illegally and the election 
of his son and me was unlawful." 

Under the further Writ of June 2nd, a fresh Election was held 
on July 13th, when Harrington and Horner were re-elected, the 
former taking his seat, he tells us. on July zist. — In the " Purge" 
of December 16+8 both members were secluded, the seats- 
remaining vacant till the close of the Parliament in 1653. John 
Harrington is known as Harrington " the Parhamentarian " from 
the circumstance that, contrary to the tenets of his family, he 
embraced Puritan principles, and adhered to the Parliament all 
through. He was seated at Kelston which he inherited from hi* 
father, Sir John Harrington, Knt., in 1612. He died about May 
1 654., his Will being dated z i st April, and proved 6th July of that 
year. In the above reference (Misc. Gen. et. Her. iii, 399) he is 
erroneously styled " M.P. for Bath 1646-165+-1656." He sat for 
Somerset and on/)' in the Long Parliament 1646-1648. The "John 
Harrington Esq." who represented Somerset in the twoCromwe!- 
lian Parliaments of 1654 and 1656, and Bath in that of 1659. was 
I behevc, son of the Long Parliament Member — bapt. in 1617. 
died in 1700. The before-mentioned George Horner succeeded 
hta father at Mells in October 1659. He was Knighted in June, 
1660, and buried at Cloford, Feb. (9th, 1676-7. 

W. D. Pink, Leigh, Lancashire. 

54. Baddanbyrig. Badbury near Wimborne; (I. i. 11). — 
The query of W.E.P. introduces matter of great historical interest, 
and one which is still confused with some relics of error. In 
vernacular English literature Baddanbyrig is mentioned once only, 
niimcly in the Chronicles under the year 901. The accession of 
Eadweard son of Alfred was troubled with a rival pretender to the 
throne in the person of his cousin Aethelwald, whose strength lay 
in Dorset and Hants, and who seized the two fortified places of 
Wimborne .md Chrislchurch. The King advanced with the Fierd 



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Somerut S- Dorset HoUs &• QwriiJ. 



43 

" od he gewicode xt Baddanbyrig wid Winbuman," i.e. until he 
encamped at Badbury, nearWimborne. This is a very interesting 
geographical notice, and it places the identification of 
Baddanburh with Badbury Rings beyond reasonable doubt. 

But interesting as is this detail in the movemenis of 90 1 , the 
notice is chiefly precious for a light which it throws upon an event 
that happened nearly 4.00 years earher. The battle of Mons 
Badonicus between the Britons and the Saxons, where the latter 
suffered great loss, is commonly dated at 510. This battle is 
referred to by Gildas, and after him it was mentioned by Beda in 
his Church Histotj- 1, 16. The battle-field has been placed at 
Bath, and the spot definitely selected for it has been Banner 
Down, chiefly because of the likeness in the sound of the names. 
And although, as Mr. Dickinson reminds us. Dr. Guest identified 
Mons Badonicus with Badbury, yet the notion that it was at Bath 
is very persistent, and is from time to time repeated. This may 
partly be due to the words of Giidas. who places it near Severn ; 
but we cannot doubt that the stronghold of this identification lies 
in an association with the Latin name of Bathonia for Bath, as if 
Badonicus were equivalent to Balhonicus. It seems to be over- 
looked how violent an anachronism it is to bring in a name that 
was never seen before the tenth century to explain a name in the 
history of the sixth. At the time of the battle of Mons Badonicus 
the name of Bath was simply Aquse or perhaps Akeman ; and the 
names of Bath or Bathonia did not as yet exist. 

And it is not only a phiJoJogical confusion but a chronological 
one also, that is created by this whimsical identification of Mons 
Badonicus with Bath. For if we follow the natural order of events 
we see the struggle at Badbury about 510, and then more than half 
a century later in 577 the barbarian war reaches Aqua, which fell 
into the power of the invaders as a consequence of the battle of 
Dyrham. The siege of Mons Badonicus in the interval is most 
serviceable to the student of history, as helping him to measure 
the progress of the Saxons from the coast inland, and as contribu- 
ting towards the impression that their warfare was a colonizing 
warfare, and not an aimless and wanton devastation. This seems 
to result from the slowness of their progress ; and thus Badbury 
forms an important point in the chronological scale, and helps to 
interpret the series of events. 

»J. Earle. Oxford, jist March, 1888. 
55. Dr. Guest, as quoted in Hatchins's Hist, of Dorset, (1868) 
iii. p. 176. seems lo connect this name with the word ' bath.' He 
says : — " It (Badbury Rings) exhibits ample proof of Roman 
occupancy, though I believe no Roman baths have yet been 
discovered in the neighbourhood." In a note he adds; — "The 
A.S. Balh, a bath, was a neuter substantive ; but the name for 
Bath appears to have been a feminine substantive, Batk-t, gen.. 



Somtritt S-Dorut Notts S- Queritt. 

Bath-an ; whence Bathanceaster, the city ef Bath-e. In Hamp- 
shire and its neighbourhood the final and medial th was often 
pronounced J ; hence, if there were Roman baths near Badbury, 
the locality would probably be called Badd-e. In the chronicle 
Badbury is termed Baddanbyrig, the bury or fortress of Badd-e. 

Huntingdon calls this fortress Bath-t, ad Balkan, lib. 

V. The Welsh name was probably Dinas Badon." 

As to the occurrence of the name Baddanbyrig the Anglo- 
Saxon chronicle says of Eadweard, son of i^Ilfred r — '■ Jia rad se 
cyning mid firde od he gewicode set Baddanbyrig wid Winbuman." 
This in the translation is : — " Then the King rode with a force, 
until he encamped at Badbury, near Wimborne." A.S. Chron. 
(1861) i. 178 &ii. 74„ 

H. ]. MouLK, Dorchester. 

56. If the Syllable "' bad " may be taken as a form of the 
Celtic " bed," may not the derivation of Baddanburybe ■'beddan." 
plural of "bedd," a grave? The surroundings at the only two 
places I am acquainted with where the name Badbury occjrs 
exactly suit this meaning for it. In the immediate neighbourhood 
of Badbury Rings, near Wimborne, there is a cluster of barrows, 
and singularly the name appears in the parish of Poymington, near 
Sherborne, as a field-name in a district where there are still 7 or 
8 barrows. Perhaps some of your correspondents who know of 
other Badburys, i.g., the manor so called in Wihshire, will tell us 
if there are barrows there as well. 

J. A. Bennett, SoLth Cadbury Rectory. 

57. This word occurs in A.S, Chronicle, pp. 178, 9, {Ed. by 
Thorpe), Longman, 1861. It is simply the " burg of Badda." 

F.W.W. 

58. Thb Boundaries of Somerset. Second Notice. — 
Erton expresses .i doubt concerning the boundaries of Somerset on 
the scn-bord iind at Exmoor. 

As to the first he is plainly right, and at p. ig stales the 
CUa i:oTTectlv in general ; to do so in detail would require much 
Cir? and coutil not be done shortly. He does not seem to have 
bWB aware of a fact, which strengthens his argument, that, at the 
M<l of the lost century, Slert Point, at the mouth of the Parrett, 
became an island, whether by accident or, as I rather suspect, by 
mixchief. I do not know for certain. The estuary of the Parrett 
at tlunii)ull and Durnham has been in consequence more exposed 
10 the wMh of the sea than before, and the channel has moved 
■kkwjMli lt>wAtdi the East. Old sea walls of stone in Burnham 
wttU'ti ti«t been long concealed by sand have been uncovered, and 
W HuKti^utl givM expense has been incurred, as well recently, 
tt%^Mi uifWt the mischief was done. At first the Huntspill walls 
i ttpik^«<J <Uk ihe faith of a rate which was to be made, but the 



Sementt &• Dorset Notes &• Qunits. 

Judges under the guidance of Lord EHcnborough held all the 
proceedings to be bad. because they had been begun by the ancient 
customary standing juries, which from time immemorial had done 
thesewerswork.underthe directionsofthecommissioners, instead of 
juries summoned by the Sheriff. But for the sea walls the river 
would have encroached on the land in Bumham and Hunlspill, 
and altered the coast line aUogether, 

It is very difficult to say what may have happened in 2 
times at the mouth of the Parrett. The interference of man, 
Eyton suggests, hinders the river now from changing its course. 
It did so formerly. New channels were formed, and the old ones 
speedily filled up with the river deposit. The parishes at the 
mouth of the Parrett are mixed up in a very remarkable manner, 
even so high as Bridgwater, where Waher de Douay held land — 
Horsey and other islands — " in/tr duas aguas." according to 
Domesday, 

Brean extends now towards the South as a narrow strip of 
land along the shore, and it would seem that much of the Parish 
has been washed away by the sea. It is in Bempstone Hundred, 
and so is Bumham, with Berrow a part of the Glastonbury posses- 
sion of Brent inter\-ening between ; and it is possible that Brean 
and Bumham were anciently united in what is now Berrow flats, 
while it is probable that at the mouth of the Parrett there were 
many islands. 

The other point Eyton makes concerns Enmoor. a small 

Sortion of which SeCraS 10 be in Devon. As I understand it, the 
.ural economy of our country in ancient times required that each 
manor should be fenced off from its neighbours, excepting always 
outlying parts, and arable or pasture common fields, which belonged 
to two or more manors, as at Sedgemore and elsewhere. The 
manor boundaries would be also county boundaries and definite, 
and I am inclined to suppose unchanged in detail. In Exmoor, 
with common rights appurtenant to manors in both counties, it 
is difficult to sec how there could be certain and well defined 
county boundaries, and they may have been altered. 

An examination of Greenwood's map has led me to make 
some conjectures about the English conquest of the sea coast of 
Somerset, which I wish to add to these remarks, and I should have 
sent this paper sooner if I had been able lo consult the like maps 
for Dorset and Devon : but neither at the British Museum nor at 
the Geographical Society, nor at the Athenffium Club, are they to 
be found. It seems to me that Portbury Hundred has been 
formed by gradual conquest from Portishead, at the mouth of the 
Avon, as the first settlement. And hkewise to the west of Parrett, 
Cannington Hundred from Cannington or Combwich at the 
mouth of the latter river, and in the same manner Williton Hun- 
dred from Watchet.andCarhampton fromMineheadorDunsterand 
Porlock. There must have been early ravages of the coast from 
the Severn, and early conquests, probably before our ancestors 



46 SoHursit Or Dafsil Nola &• Queries. 

became Christians. There is a line of road nearly straight . 
Somerset from Sherborne to Walpole below Puriton and P 
near the mouth of the Parrett. It is practicable all the way, 
in the wettest season, except at Marston, and where it crosses the 
Foss, and at two places near. A few fagots properly disposed 
would make it passable at all these places. This road in Bulleigh 
was called " Reynold's way," and gave name to a Hundred of the 
Gheld accounts, which is now the Eastern part of Whitley Hun- 
dred. 1 incline to think it a mihtary road of conquest, and that 
when the English power was settled at Sherborne and had 
conquered Polden hill, this road was used to make secure the 
conquest of the coast and of the islands at the mouth of the Par- 
rett, and that it led to the incorporation of the coast conquests 
previously made with Somerset and therefore with Wessex. 

The settlement at Cannington would soon extend itself to 
the woodland on the north side of Quantock, and alongthe coast, 
until it met the like settlement from Walchet, which in its turn 
would meet the still further Western settlements ; thus one can 
see how West Somerset was made wherever there were valleys or 
flat ground, and the long western coast extension seems to 
be accounted for. 

There is a remarkable hill-road from Exmoor to Quantock, 
along the Brendon hills in a direct line, and from thence crossing 
the intervening country, which is not so high, to Triscombe, in 
Quantock, and oddly enough there is another Triscombe at the West 
end of Btendon on the same road between Ciitcombe and Exlon. 
This road is the South boundary of Carhampton Hundred forthirteea 
miles, viz. from Stone in Exford to Elworthy. 

The composition of Carhampton Hundred as shewn by the 
Gheld accounts, and the free manors which helplo make up iheother 
great hundred of the West, now called Williton Freemanors, seem 
to indicate that this part of the county was at first composed 
of small independent jurisdictions, which may well have 
been the consequence of independent conquests made one 
after another, and the road I have mentioned may for 
a. time have been a treaty boundary between the aggressors 
from the North, and the Welsh on the South. If so, the 
territory between lExmoor and Wiveliscombe will have been 
the latest conquest, and its Southern limit along with Exmoor, 
the most recently formed boundary of Somerset. 

F. H. Dickinson, Kingweston. 

59. CoRPE Castle. — All antiquarian admirers of the noble 
niins of Corfe Castle will be disposed to feel grateful to its owner, 
Mr. Bankes, fir having lately cleared away the ivy from one of the 
towers of the inner gateway, thus laying open a singularly fine 
specimen of masonry, of the 13th century, as well as some 
interesting architectural leatures, which previously were wholly 
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Freeman calls it, still covers the corresponding tower, and it 
insidiously and alanningly creeping over other parts of the 
building. Before many years are expired it will conceal some of 
the most interesting details of the south side of the Keep, and it 
already partially covers over the ornamental portion of the 
doorway in " the Chapel of St. Mary in the Tower." 

The lofty isolated fragment of the east side of the Keep, 
which in so remarkable a manner withstood the force of the 
explosion that utterly destroyed the adjacent walls, certaiolf 
presents a magnificent specimen of ivy, but after ail it is but ivy, 
which can be seen elsewhere, and one longs to look underneath 
it. In the days of my boyhood it only reached to about half its 
present height, and I recollect a portion of an arcade near the 
summit, which interested me even then, and which I should very 
much like to examine again with more experienced and more 
critical eyes than I possessed when these details were visible. 
Unfortunately at that lime little reverence was felt for ancient 
buildings, and little eflfort was made for their preservation. Thia 
noble fragment of early Norman masonry was only thought worthyas 
asupport for the ivy, justasa hop pole is useful as a support for hops, 
and with that view the stem and roots were protected by a wooden 
paling. I fear there is now no hope that the blinding weed can 
ever be cleared away from this part of the ruin, as the task would 
be one of much difficulty and danger. 

J Thomas Bond. Tyneham. 

6o- AsciENT BcRiAL AT Bradle Faku. — The following 
communication has been received from the Rev. O. L. Mansel, 
Rector of Church Knowie in the Isle of Purbeck, in which parish 
the tomb that he describes has been discovered. 

" Description of an ancient tomb found in April, 1SS8, 

^L in a dM on Bradle farm, about a quarter of a mile south 

H of Bradle farm house. 

V Whilst the field was being ploughed the foot of one of the 

"liorses sank into a hpliow place, which, on being examined, 
proved to be a grave containing a skeleton in a perfect state of 
preservation. The grave is constructed with tiling stones, roughly 
squared but carefully put together edgeways,' with covering slabs 
of the same material. It is eleven feet in length, and 1^ foot in 
breadth, and is about one foot beneath the surface of the ground. 
The remains, which appear to be those of a tall and strongly 
built man, were placed in the middle of the tomb, with feet 
toward the west, the head and feet being equidistant from the end 
stones. In the space beyond the head some bones were found, 
but which did not appear to belong to the skeleton. The feet 
and legs were resting on a subsUnce, reduced to fragments about 
^ inch thick, charged with oxidised matter densely studded with 
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About ti years ago a grave similarly constructed, but smaller 
and co^n-shaped, was found in the same field about loo yards 
from the one above described." 

Mr. Mansel has submitted some of the "oxidised matter 
studded with stoutish nails having convex heads " to Mr. Franks, 
the accomplished curator of the British-found antiquities in the 
British Museum, who has kindly replied that " Discoveries of this 
kind have been made before, and the conclusion come to was that 
the remains were those of Roman leather boots studded with nails. 
There are in the British Museum a considerable number of more 
or less perfect shoes of Roman period found in the old bed of the 
Thames in London, and in these the nails are certainly of a 
similar kind." 

These interesting remains of Roman "hob-nailed boots" 
have been sent by Mr, Mansel to the County Museum at Dor- 
chester. 

A 

6i. Regulation ofAle Houses IN 1645. — lencloseacopyof 
an original document which I find in the Church chest of South 
Cadbury, and hope that you may be able to print it, as it is not 
only interesting in itself, but may be the means of bringing to 
light similar records. 

A few years since, it was my good fortune to find the original 
Minute Book of the Dorset Committee in the Muniment Room 
at Kingston Lacey, From its contents it would seem that each 
Committee was practically supreme in its own County, in many 
civil and ecclesiastical mailers. " The Committee Book is most 
" interesting, as it reveals what was practically the Church of the 
" Long Parliament. The Squires kept the Clergy in order and 
" did not allow the Clergy to keep anybody else in order," as 
the historian of that period writes to me. 

Very possibly the similar volume for this County may still be 
in existence, and if any of your readers can give any informalioti 
about it they will be doing a good service. But even if we cannot 
recover so full a record as that would be, we may build up some 
account of the Committee's operations if any of your correspon- 
dents will send you such isolated specimens of their proceedings 
as that enclosed herewith. 

" Somerset. — Wheras divers complaints are made unto us the 
Comittee of this County appointed by ordinance of Parliament 
that very many disorders and inconveniences doe accrewe 
Jmto this County by reason of the mulliplicjlie of Alehouses, 
these are therfore to will and require you the next Lordes day 
after receipt heerof to give publique notice in everie severall 
parish within your tithinge that noe person or persons whatsoever 
from the time of the said notice doe presume to keep any common 
Alehouse or to sell any Ale, beere, cyder, or Ferry, in their house 
or elsewhere, without warrant first had for the same under the 



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hande of the standing comittee of this County or the major 
pan or them, unlesse it be in Garrison Townes, or the headquarters 
of the Armies now beinge or to be in this County, or to or for the 
only use of the said Armies. And yf any person or persons shall 
after notice heerof offend in the premises, this Comiltee will 
proceed against against {sic) such ofTendor or offenders according 
to the lawes and statutes of this land. And you are heerby 
streightly charged and comaunded to present unto this Comittee 
all misdemeanours committed in your Tithing against this present 
order. And heerof we require you not to faile as you will answere 
the contrary at your utmost perill, given under our hands at oar 
Comiltee Chamber in Axbridge, the 7th day of October. 1645. 
To the Tithingman of North Cadbury. 

John Palmer. Will. Strode. 

Allejt. Pym. Tho. Hodges. 

Tho. Hippisly. Lisly Longc. 

Jno, Barnard. 

Will. Done, Constable." 

J. A. Bennett, South Cadbury. 

EarlyChurch Builders. ^ — WiNscoMHE.(l.i.4B.) — The 

early history of Wynescombe, or Winscomb. can be traced 

through the documents belonging to the Dean and Chapter of 

Wells, noiv calendared and published by the Historical Commis- 

m Report. Vol. X., part 3. 

I. A,D. 1084.. Winscombewasone ofthemanors ofGlaston- 
bury Abbey at the time of the Domesday Survey ; con- 
sisting of 15 hides. (Eyton's Domesday Studies, i., 
JO+-5-6., ii., 37-a.) 

II. A.D. II 19. After the dissolution of the shorl-Iived union 
of the See of Bath and the Abbey of Glastonbury, in 1 1 1 8-g, 
Winscombe was one of the manors ceded to Bishop Jocelin 
by the Abbey, as the price of independence, — (Adam of 
Domerham, 469-474) — confirmed by Royal Grant in 1116 
(R. 3. f. 95.) 

III. A.D.J136. Henry de Lovcsestre gives 4} acres in the 
Manor of Sanford, a meadow, and a wood, of which the 
boundaries are defined in Winscombe, to the Church, and to 
William de Kaynesham, the parson. 

IV. The Church is dedicated to S. James, August i6th, in the 
30th year of Bishop Jocelin's Episcopate, 1136. (R. 3, f. 
too.) 

V. A.D. 1139. Bishop Jocelin granted the Manor and 
advowson of Winscombe to the Dean and Chapter of Wells, 
in augmentation of their common fund, on the day of 
dedication of the Cathedral Church of Wells, — the day of S. 
Romanus, October Z3rd, 1239. Reservation was then made 
of so much land as would supply five marcs for the endow- 
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vacant, and the nppointment of the Vicar given to the Dean ' 
and Chapter of Weils. (R, i.. f-so.. R- 3., f. g;.) ' 

VI. A.D. 1236- Other grants of parcels of land and wood 
are given by the same family — AJhreta. daughter of Henry 
de Lovesestre, and wife of Gilbert Wrench ; also Robert, of 
Sandford, sonandheirofAlbreta— to the Church. {R. i f 

■00.) 

In these Charters there are local name.s of lands, and names of 
attesting witnesses. Among the latter occur Ralph of Lidiard. 
Philip of Mere, Stephen of Sandford. Henrv of Wynterdon. Victor 
de la Hale. Robert of the Mill (de Molcndino). Henrv of the 
Barton (de Berton). Helias ol Ford, Edward of Siducole, and 
Richard de Hulle. 

C, M. CHrRca. Wells, 

63. Helix Pomatia in Dorset. (I. i. 10.) — Mr. Moule raises 
two very- interestingqueslionsinthe first numberof 5". & D. Notes 
& Qufrirs, with reference to this mollusc, whether or not it is 
indigenous, and what is the etymology of ils specific name, pomatia. 
With regard to the first, our modem British conchologists including 
E. Forbes, Gwyn Jeffreys, unanimously admit its British origin. It 
seems impossible to arrive at a different conclusion, as it is an 
abundant snail on the other side of the Channel, and probably had 
made its way far within our borders before the two countries 
became disconnected. The theory of its introduction by the 
Romans during their occupation of this island is, I conceive, of 
comparatively recent date, perhaps as late as the early part of the 
present century. Aubrey, who wrote in 1656, says of (?) Heiix pomaiia, 
"The great snailes on the downs of Albury in Surrey (twice as 
large as ours) were brotight from Italy by. , . .Earle Marshall about 
the year 1638." Da Costa, who wrote in 1777. in addition to 
Aubrey's statement just quoted, says that Sir Kenelm Digby 
dispersedthem about Gothurst in Buckingshamhire, and that Lord 
Hatton scattered them in the coppices, at his seat at Kirby in 
Northamptonshire. None of them seem to have thriven as they soon 
disappeared. If these statements are to be relied upon, it is clear 
an edible snail was introduced from Italy, but it could not have been 
Helix pomatia, which is only found in the extreme northern part 
of Italy, — Lombardy. Helix lucotum, Mull, takes its plac " ' 
Roman Provinces as an article of sn^-diet. Du Puj, who gives the 
geographical distribution of H. pomatia, omits Italy altogether, 
assigning to it a decidedly northern extension. It does not occur 
in France south of the Auvergne, and is absent throughout the 
Mediterranean and Pyrennean Districts. Its British distribution 
is now nearly the same as it was in Lister's time (1678), viz Surrey, 
Hertford, Kent, Oxford and Gloucester. Dorsetshire was 
included in Lister's list, but Pulteney, while admitting the 
possibility of its being a Dorsetshire snail, candidly says it had 
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only a small portion of what was once Romanized Bnlain, 
and the sites of so many Roman cities and strongholds, notably in 
Yorkshire, shew no trace of Httix pomalia either above or beneath 
the soil, its claim to Roman origin is very much weakened, 
irrespective of the fact that it is not a Roman snail. 

With regard to the etymology of pomalia, the false operculnm 
with which the animal invests the mouth of the shell (ptrislomt) 

Erevious to hybemization suggests the name to be a 
derivative from rafi^^y^, to cover with a lid. The animal is 
unable on account of its comparatively large size to retire 
into the inner le cesses of the shell, for its fleshy body 
("ieaucoup Je VianJe" as a French peasant once expressed 
himself to me about it,) more than Alls up every portion, 
as>A requires something more than the thin hyaline film with 
which mostof the members of the Helix family protect themselves, 
Bnd by which a higher temperature is kept up during the period of 
Tiybemizaiion. Nature furnishes this species, and a few others, 
notably llrlix aptrta, whose shell is about two-thirds the size of the 
animal, with the power of exuding a calcareous gelatinous substance 
from the mantle, which it stretches over the mouth of the shell in 
three distinct layers, theouter of which is whitish. Itii; somewhat 
convex and protects the animal from the cold and damps of t 
winter. At the return of spring, and when active vitality ii J 
restored, this temporary protection is cast aside and abandoned. 
It differs from the true operculum, which is a living organism 
hed to the body of the animal. Like a closed door it keeps 
owner snug and comfortable when shut in and in a stale of 
. Cydo^toma W'^uni is the only British land-shell which ts 
led with a true operculum. 

J. C. Mansel-Pleydell. Whatcombe. 
iril 16th, 18S8. 

64. Mr. Mansel-PIeydcll and the Rev. A. E. Eaton havekindly 
,en to me about this snail, both of them doubting the Roman 

origin of the race in England and its existence in Dorset; and 
both of them giving the derivation of the name. Mr. Eaton writes 
as follows: — "The late Mr. J- Gwyn Jeffreys discredited the 
popular notion of Helix Pomaiia being a snail introduced into 
England by the Romans, and considered that in all probability itia 
quite as indigenous to this country as the common garden snail 
•ji- Aspcrsa. I have not met with this snail in Dorset." 

H- J. MocLE, Dorchester. 

65. PoMATiA is derived from the Greek vC^fia, a lid, from the 
thick calcareous plate with which the apple snail accurately covers 
the aperture of its shell previously to hybernation. When I lived at 
Everleigh, Wiltshire, H. pomaiia -^-as then {1868) to be found there. 
At Villenenve, in Switzerland, where I saw them in August. 1877, 
ithey are common. Da Costa states, on the authority of Aubre?, 




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that H. pomalia was introduced into England about the middle of 
the i7ih centiir)- Ijy Chas. Howard Esq.. and mentions as localities 
Surrey (abundant,) Oxfordshiie (not uncommon,) Gloucesterstiire, 
and about Frog Mil! in Dorsetshire. 

J. H. Ward. Gussage S. Michael. 
March 3Jst, j888. 

66. The Site of the Battle of Drunankurh. — Mr, De 
Gray Birch, in the preface to the second volume of his English 
Charters, fixes the famous battle of Brunanburh in A.D. 938, 
Bromficld in this County. Aniaf, a leader of the Northmen, who 
seems to have had Ireland and whatever was then called Scotland 
under his power, was defeated with great slaughter and retired to 
Dublin. 

I will explain, as shortly as I can, the reasons for thii, 
identification. A Charter {Kembit, 374. and marked " doubtful,") 
professes to give two places to Taunton ; Withiglea, which Kemble 
18 probably right in supposing to be Widley, just north of 
Portsmouth, and Cearn. for the sail works there, which is probably 
Charmouth. The same grants are also made by looi. also 
marked " doubtful, " but it may be well to add that Cearn is shewn 
to belong to Taunton in 600, which Kemble treats as genui 

The words in 374 are. " Acta est hsec pnelata donatio anno ab 
incamatione Domini Nostri Jesu Christi, Dccccxxxvni in qua 
anno helium factum est in loco qui brunigafeld dicitur ubi anglis 
victoria data est de c»lo." These words do not look like a 
contemporary statement, but they agree with William of Malmesbury, 
and may have been taken from him. He states that Anlaf came 
to Athelstan's camp at dinner-time, as a musician, was well 
received, and noticed everything. When he was gone, one who 
had been "Junelus hospilw " with him, and would not betray him, 
informed the King, and bad him change his quarters. He saved 
himself by doing so. and Werstan, Bishop of Sherliorne, who- 
came in late and occupied the vacant place, was slain next 
morning when the attack was made. The battle lasted all day.. 
The West Saxons are mentioned in several accounts, and in on^. 
the Mercians. 

Bromficld, (" Bninafella" in Domesday, " Brunefeld " ih*' 
best reading of the MSS. of William of Malmesbury,) is incon* 
niently West for this great battle. The Parret from the sea 
Bridge, which was the ford of the Fossway Just above Soutb 
Petherton, must have had its course through lakes and morassei 
passable only at Combwich and Langport, and one does not see 
why the English King should have entangled himself in this 
difficult western country. 

Anlaf might land near Cannington and have a march ofsome 
eight miles to Bromfield, a commanding position to protect 
Taunton. 

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snivey here, tells me that there is a camp, well-defined, called 
Ruborough. about a mile north of Bromficld church. 

F. H. Dickinson. Kingwcston. 
67. John Fry. the Regicide. — In the course of mjr 
researches on the pedigrees of the Fry family, I liave come 
across many references to a certain John Fry, one of the Judges 
of King Charles I. and as I find he was a Dorsetshire man. I 
think a brief account of what I have found concerning him will 
not be unacceptable to the readers of " Somtrsel &• Dorset Nola 

In the first place, then, I will give a short statement of what 
Rev. M.trk Noble says of him in his "Lives of the Regicides,** 
though it is incorrect in several particulars. In Vol. 1, 147, he 
«ays:~ 

"John Fr^' was seated at Yarty, near Membury, in the 
" county of Devon, and was, I think, son and heir ol William 
" Ftj-, Esq. of that place, by Man-, daughter of John Voung of 

"Cullilon, This gentleman (John Frj') had great 

•'abililies. which gave him celebrity at first, but he had no 

^" stability. Leaving his own Church, he was constantly 
"shifting his religious creed, and like vast numbers at lhi» 
" period, he could not help shewing his weakness to the public ; 
"he was Presbyterian, Independant, Arian ; conned and des- 
" pised by all parties ; his works were doomed by the Parliament 
" 10 l>e burned by the common executioner, as erroneous, 
" profane, and highly scandalous. He was appointed one of 
"King Charles' pretended Judges, and attended all the 
" meetings in the Painted Chamber from January 8 to 15 
"inclusive. He sal in Westminster Hall upon the 10, 11 and 
■'i», but not upon the last, neither did he sign the warrant 

»" for the execution, 'He died in the year 1650, having just 
•• been expelled from Parliament, and in danger of some signal 
" punishment for his going greater lengths in religion than the 
** masters judged proper The Regicide was succeeded 
■' in the estate and seat of Yarty by his son John." 

Mr. Noble is quite wrong in saying that John Fry the 
Regicide was of the Devonshire family. He was undoubtedly of 
the family seated at Tarrant Gunville, in Dorsetshire, with branchei 
at F.wrme Minster, and neighbouring villages; and, though hit 
father's name was William, it was another William Frf 
altogether, this one having married Milicent daughter of Robert 
Swayne. 

Perhaps the strongest proof I can bring to boar on my 
assertion that John Fry was of the Dorset family, is to be found 
in a Chancer)- suit of the year 4 James II, 168B, referring to a 
certain property that had been his, where, to quote the 
interrogation bearing on this particular point directed to his own 
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" Interrog.4. Didtlie said John Fry act in the prosecutions 
"of the horrid treason of the murther of his sacred majistie 
" the King ? and is not the said John Fry the same person as 
"is mentioned by the name of John Fry, to be excepted out 
"of the general pardon and oblivion made in the 13th year of 
"Charles II?" 
The reply of Thomas Fry is as follotts : — 

" but whether the said John Fry did act in the 

" prosecution of his sacred majestie he (deponent) doth not 
" know, but the said John Fry is the same person as 11 
" mentioned by the name of John Fry, to be excepted out of the 
"general pardon and oblivion made 13 Charles if." 

It is perhaps hardly to be expected that a son would readily 
admit that his own father had been a murderer. 

As to John Fry's religious views, Noble seems to have been 
pretty correctly infomied, and a reference to the books which he 
wrote, and of which there are copies in the British Museum, 
namely, "The Clergy in their Colours," and "The Accuser 
ashamed," will convince anyone of the strange doctrines he seems 
to have held. 

A fuller and more trustworthy account of the Regicide, 
however, is to be found in Wood's " Athens Oxonienses," Vol. 
iii, col. 703, where, under article Francis Cheynell, he states that 
John Fry was of Bursoy, co. Dorset. This place, written Bushey 
Stool on the Ordnance Alap, though still called Bussey Stool in 
the locality, is situate on the extreme northern border of Dorset, 
and is in the parish of Tarrant Gunville. 

John Fry sat in Parliament as Member for Shaftesburj*, and 
Hutchins (History of Dorset, Vol. iii, p. (ci) gives the list of 
representatives for that town, 16 Charles I, as 

" Samuel Turner, M.D., (in his room, deceased. John Bingham, 
"Esq.), William Whitacre, recorder. Esq, fin his room, 
"deceased. Colonel George Star, who also dying, John Fr)-, one 
" of the Regicides, was chosen in his room.") On reference 
to the House of Commons' Journals Dr. Samuel Turner seems 
to have been disabled from sitting jfth Sept., 1645, and it was 
not his death that caused a fresh election. A fresh writ was 
issued, 7th October, 1646, to elect a Member in place of William 
WhitacrB deceased. Another writ was issued on ijth October, 
1647, to elect a fresh Member in place of Col. Star deceased, 
when there seems to have been a contested election, as on list 
March, 1647-8, the " whole business concerning the election of 
Shaftesbury was referred to the consideration of the Committee 
of Privileges " and it is not till 16th September, 1648. thai John 
Fry is mentioned, when he was present at a call over of names. 
From this day, onwards, till zmd February, 1650-1, his name is of 
frequent occurence, as he served on numerous Committees, and 
seems to have taken an active part in the nianagcmenl of 
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As to John Fry's pan in the trial of King Charles. I find he 
wdS named as one of the Commissioners to try the King, and that 
he sat in Westminster Hall, or the Painted Chamber, on the 
following occasions, viz : — Saturday. 10th January. 1648-9, 
Morning and Afternoon sittings of Monday the imd and ijrd 
January, and the Afternoon sittings of zsth Januarj-. He, 
however, did not sit on the 27th January, nor did he sign the 
sentence of execution. 

The reason for his not sitting after the 15th January, was that 
the i6th January 

" It was resolved that Mr. Frye a member of this House do 

withdraw during the Debate touching the information given 

against him ; Ordered, that Mr. Frye do continue suspended 
*■ from sitting in this House and executing of his duty here as a 
" member, till he shall give better satisfaction to this House ; 
" Ordered that Mr. Frye do forbear to sit in execution of the 
" commission for Tryal of the King until he shall give better 
" satisfaction to this House." 

May we not from this take a charitable view of this man's 
character, and perhaps infer that he felt he could not go the lengths 
his colleagues wished him, that he was opposed to the whole pro- 
ceedings though forced to take part in them, and that to rid 
themselves of a man who possibly might upset their plans with 
regard to the King, the rest of'the commissioners " ordered that 
he should forbear to sit until he should give better satisfaction to 
this House?" 

I would here refer readers of the S. &• D. N. &• Q. to two 
very able articles upon " The Death Warrant of Charles I " that 
appeared in Notes and Queries 4th Series, vol. x. p. i-ii, &c., 
written by the late Mr- W, J, Thorns, which are well worth attention. 

As John Fry had died before the Restoration (Noble says 1650 
but this is the date of his final expulsion from the House, his death 
not taking place till between igth December 1656 and 15th June 
1657, the dates respectively of his will being made and proved) 
his person could not be touched, but for all that he was excepted 
out of the Bill of General Pardon and Oblivion passed in 1 z Chas. 
II, and I find in an Act passed 13 Chas. II, entitled "An Act declar- 
ing the paines, penalties and forfeitures imposed on the estates 
and persons of certain notorious offenders excepted out of the 
Act of Free and General Pardon," that the lands and estates of 
John Fry. which he had on isth March 1646, were forfeited to the 
King. 

1 have not yet been able to refer to the Records stating what 
these estates precisely were, though no doubt a return was made 
and is still in existence at the Record Office. I have seen it 
stated that alt the lands of the Regicides were appropriated to the 
use of James Duke of York, after\sards James II. and it is certain 
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his will, was granted by the Duke of York in 1677 to Eleanor 
Berkeley, daughter of Lord Fitzharding, which seems lo confirm 
this impression. 

Having made a recantation of the views which had apparent- 
ly so incensed the House of Commons jiisl before the execution 
of ihe King, he was allowed to return to his parliamentary business, 
and I find he again took an active part judging by the number of 
Committees he served upon. His religious opinions however were 
again the cause of his suspension, and after three whole days' 
debate, (one of them being a Saturday which was a day Parliament 
rarely assembled!, it was finally resolved on Saturday, iind Feb. 
1650-1, "that Mr. Fry be disabled to sit as a member of this 
House during this Parhament." 

The debate was concerning two books entitled " The Clergy 
in their colours, or a brief character of them," and " The Accuser 
shamed, or a pair of Bellows lo blow off the Dust cast upon John 
Fly," which books were ordered to be bicrnl. some in the New 
PaJace yard at Westminster and some at the Old Exchange. 

This of course closed bis Parliamentary career, and I presume 
he retired lo his country home in Dorsetshire. 

E. A. Fry, Yarly, King's Norton, Birmingham. 
(To be cimlitiudi.) 

68. Bishop Hoopek. — Bishop Hooper of Gloucester was 
almost certainly a Somerset man by birth. Can any of your readers 
kindly give any information about his birthplace and family ? 

J. A. Bennett, Sduth Cadbury. 

69. The Birthplace of Arbot Whiting. — ! shall be glad 
if anyone can tell me the birthplace and parentage of Richard 
WTiiting, last Abbot of Glastonbury. 

He had a brother Robert, whose daughter Alice married 
Edward Strode. 

(Sec " Viiitalion of Somcnel," i6zi, pa. 108). 

F. W. Weaver, Milton Clevedon. 

Ser%1NGT0N Family. — A family called Servington owned 

" lived in the parish of Whatley, Somerset, in the 13th 

In the church of that parish there is a very 

jbent figure of a Crusader (legs crossed at knee, 

on a pedestal of 1 3th century work. The shield 

ann bears " on a chevron three stags' heads 

" No name or initials. Can any one give me 

about the family ? 

W.L. 
■t CWmLO" Cottle and Everett Families. — I shall 
1^^ ^ 'fcftlwMJnn of the marriage of Symon Cottell with 
^^ « • dbOMi 1675-81. and Sj-mon Cottell with Joan 

lA^ftaTOOi in the County of Somerset. 
OhMk^AU^ t?*^ Mar}', the daughter of the last named 




Stmerstt & Dorset Nota 6* Qvtries. 57 

t'Shmion C'ottell. married at St. Cuthben's, Wells, Mr. William 
ISherelt. of Bruton. Bailiff. Of what family was this William 
I'Sverett ? 

W. H. COTTELL, Yeolmbridge, Wood Vale. 

Forest Hill, London. 

7a, Letter from Henry Morton, 1640. — ^The following 
letter, written in the former half of the 17th centurj' from France, 
by Henry Morton to his falher Sir George Morton of Milbome 
St- Andrew, will probably be of interest to the readers of S. &• D. 
Sot€t &f Qiuries. It is on a sheet of paper, %\ inihes by 6J 
inches, and is addressed "To the honble Sir George Morton 
Knight and Barronet my honored (father," and docketed " Mr. 
Henr^- Morton to his Father." 

J. C. Mansel-Plevdell. Whatcombe, 
Most honored S'- 

Since it pleased your honour to write to me I liave written 
you twice, but now I lately received a letter and cloth for a suit 
only with some other things from Bartholomew Layne. In my 
last I wrote ycnir honour what exercises I now diligently practise, 
to wilt Riding the great Horse, fensing, vauting and dansing every 
day in which I take as much paynes as possible I can to attain to 
the perfection of them in which I praise God I have greatly 
profited for the time I have been at them, especially in riding and 
ffencing, for I lose noe time in following them. 

And now, good S'- these exercises are ven' cosiiy for 1 pay 
for riding the Great Horse 3 pistoles a month, for 1 exercise every 
morning except Thursday, sometimes 6, sometimes more or less 
severall horses, after that vaute fence and danse : [ I pay a pistole a 
month for these exercises.) Wedine then at z of the clock, dance, 
vaute and fence againe. This we doe day by day. There is a very 
good company of rank and flashion. My humble sute therefore 
unto you (good S' ) is to send me monyes answerable, for I am 
indebted to Mr. Blashford zo pistoles at the lest, and besides am 
altogether out of clothes both Linen and Wolling. Wherefore 
(deare flather) I beseeche you to send me a speedy supply of 
money, to the end I may diligently goe onwarde before the hcate 
of thi^ yeare comes in, for then we must of force give over Riding, 
thus with prayers to God for your good health I most humbly lake 
my leave and rest in hope. 
I Your dutifull and obedient Sonn till death 

I "Caen, this aoth March, 1640." Henkv Morton." 

73. License to eat Flesh in Lent. — Several examples of 
this are to be found in the original A''. 6* Q. 5th Series, ix, zi6, 
274, 317; but I have not seen this one from the parish of 
Wiaxall, Somerset, in print. It is of comparatively late date, 
lew, if any, 1 believe being found later than 166S. 

"Somsett. Whereas Samuel Gorges of Wraxall, in the said 



'Smifut^iiorut Notts &■ Qiurits. 

County, Esq., aged 63 years, or thereaboute, and Jane his wife, 
aged about 60 years old, have beene both longe sicke of the gout 
and the stone, and are not able to eat fish all this tyme of Leat, 
and other fasting days woui manifest hurt and p'judice to their 
healths, These are ther'fore that Ezekiell Pownell, Rector of the 
Pish Church of Wraxall aforesaid, doth certirye, and doe by these 
presentes Licence the said Samuell Gorges and Jane his wife, 
to eate flesh according to the iawe in that case made and pvided. 

Given under my hand this eleventh day of March, 
Ano Domini, 1660. 
Thomas Evans, Churchwarden." 

There is another such Licence in the case of the Rev. 
Matthew Law's wife at Wedmore, of the date (I think) of 1631. 

LUXFIELD. 

74. Somerset Missionaries to Palestine in 1650. — I 
read the other day in Wakeman's " The Church and the Puritans," 
page 173, "In 1650, four Someisetshire men sold all their property 
" and embarked at London for Palestine, believing they had a call 
" from God to preach the gospel in Galilee." The writer is giving 
instances of fanaticism. Can any of your readers say where an 
account of this fact is recorded, or give other instances of the same 
thing happening in Somerset, and the exact neighbourhood from 
which such emigrants came ? 

J. B. Medley, Lullington Rectory. 

75- The Purbeck Society's Papers. — Can anyone tell me 
what constitutes a complete set of these interesting Papers, which 
I now believe to be very scarce in a perfect state ? I have lately 
become the possessorofhalfa dozen numbers, published at inegular 
intervals from 1856 to i86g. Unfortunately the parts were never 
numbered, and though the continuous pagination enables one to 
determine the order in which the parts should come, it does not 
make it certain how many numbers were comprised in the first 
volume. The first number that I have, comprising 1856-1857, 
commences at p. 79, clearly shewing that there must have been 
at least one more number before it. Rightly expecting to glean 
some information from Mr. Mayo's recent publication, Btbtieikeca 
Dorsttiensis, (the standard work for all Dorset Bibliography for the 
future), I consulted its pages, and find that he states that the 
publication comprises proceedings of the Purbeck Antiquarian 
Society for 1855 and subsequent years,and was printed by C, Groves, 
Wareham, (1856, 8vo), This is not entirely correct however.for 
the last three numbers Ihave,~i86o, 1863, 1869,— were printed by 
W. Shipp of Blandford. Mr. Mayo goeson to say that it "begins 
at p. II with an Introductory Paper read at Corfe, 9 Nov. 1855, 
and includes vol. i, to the end of 1 860, and No i " of Vol, ii," 

Why does it begin at p. 22? Moreover my numbers shew that 
vol.! does nol end with the number dated i860 (which oddly 



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Samrxt S- Dorut Notes <5* Qiunts. 59 

enough contains a paper read in Feb. 1 86 1 ) because the jiagination 
continues through the next number published in 1 663, which 
consisted merely of a paper on the " Fiora of the Isle of Purbeck." 
With that number however appears to have ended the first volume, 
unless some further number was published between that year and 
1869, when No i of Vol. 11 was issued, containing papers on the 
"Ancient Manor Houses" and "Ancient Families" of Purbeck, 
by Mr. T. Bond, and commenced a fresh pagination. This would 
appear to have been the last number issued by the Society. 

My own opinion is — and this is confirmed by Mr. Mayo — that 
I have now ajl the Papers issued by the Society, with the 
exception of the JirsI number. May I soon be able to obtain 
that I Perhaps Mr. T. Bond, or Mr. Manscl-Plejdell. the President 
of our own Dorset Natural History and Antiijuarian Society, may 
not be disinclined, in giving me the information I ask, to add a 
little more as to the formation, career, and demise of the old 
I'^nrbeck Society, whose mantle has now fallen on the broader 
tfioulders of our Dorset Field Club ? 

J. S. UnAL, Inner Temple. 

[The Collation in Bibl. Dorset, was taken from a copy, 
(apparently not complete), in the Bodleian Library. There was no 
copy (1885) at the British Museum.] 

76. St. Erasmus. (I. i. 11.)— There was an Altar to St. 
Erasmus in Wrington Church, in the Chapel to the South of the 
Chancel. 

This is proved from an extract from the Will of Edmond 
Levesage. now in the Registry at Wells, in which mention is made 
of "Sayni f/jjcf^'x Aultcr," j£''-af/ne being a corrupt spelling of 
Erasmus The extract given in full will be found in the forth- 
coming number of the Proc ; of the Som : Arch, and N. H. Soc : 
in an account of the Parish of Wrington. The Will of Edmond 
Levesage was proved iSth July, 15+7- 

Besides the altars dedicated to this Saint at St. Cuthbert's 
Church, Wells, and St. Andrew's, Cheddar, there is an old Marble 
Sculpture in Norwich Museum representing his Martyrdom, also in 
Bonn Cathedral. 

He was martyred A.D. 303, and his festival was kept ind 
June. He is represented with a windlass in his hand and bowel 
wound round it, (see "Emblems of Saints as distinguished in Works 
of An." bv F, C, Husenbeth. 3rd edition, edited by Augustus 
Jessop. D.b., 1882.) There is also a Chapel dedicated to him in 
West minster Abbey, the smallest in thcChurch, which seems to have 
been fitted up temp. Richard H. Above the Doorway is in- 
scribed SANCTUS ERASMUS 
in golden letters but the Statue of the Saint is gone. He was 
Bishop of Campagna.* 



ee Smtrut S- Dontt Netti *• Qiuriis, 

(See '■ Abbi:y Church of St. Peler, Westminster," illustrated hj 
J. I'. Nealc, with letterpress by E. W, Brayley, Vol. ii, 1823.) 

Will J. C. (I- i. 21.) be good enough to state on what 
authority is based his statement that the name of St. Elmo is now 
used for that of St. Erasmus ? 

H. M. ScARTH, Wrington Rectory. 

77. PoKTLANit Reeve-Staves. (I. i. i.) — As the individnal 
who paid an unsuccessful visit to Portland, in search of the Reeve- 
StafT, >\hich Mr. Udal has been so fortunate as to secure, I may 
perhaps be allowed to say that any envious feelings, which may 
nave threatened to rise in my breast, have been quite set at rest 
by the generous and commendable use he has made of his 
discoverj', viz, by having deposited the Staff in the Dorset 
Museum. 

For the information of those interested in such relics, I will 
add that Mr. T. I). GrovesofWeymoulh has become the possessor 
of another, about which he has been kind enongh to send me the 
following particulars. He says : " It has the mark for Southwell 
in its place on the same side of the square as that for Wakeham, 
but about a foot above it. Its form however is net circular, but 
oval, or rather, it is a lenticular depression. Southwell must, I 
should think, have but lew holdings compared with the other 
parishes. Examples, whether official or not I cannot say, are 
not unfrequently met with, and could of course be cut to order, 
if desired." 

J. ]. FosTEK, 36, Alma Square, St. John's Wood. 

78. As I had it in my mind that there is another Reeve-Slaff 
of the Manor of Portland, besides the one so kindly presented to 
the Dorset County Museum by Mr. Udal, I wrote to a Wey- 
moiilh friend to enquire. It seems that there are many. He 
says : " I have one which was made last year. My brother also 
has one, and so has Mr. C; and there arc plenty of them in 
Portland, as I believe a fresh one is made every year for each 
Reeve." All this notwithstanding, I think that there must be 
something special about Mr. Udal's staff. It is of some con- 
siderable age, and having been carcrully mended, it must have 
liccn thought valuable, and a staff to be used on only one 
occasion would hardly be made of good mahogany. 

H. j, MouLE, Dorchester. 

79. Thk Colouring of Eggs. — I shall be obliged if any 
of your readers can give an answer to the following questions. 
When does an egg receive its colouring ? Must it be mature in 
order to receive its colour ? Is the life of the bird necessary to the 
colouring f My wish to know has arisen from the following 
circumstances : — 

The keeper at Orchardleigh killed a hen Kestrel Hawk. Two 
eggs well loluured were found in the nest, but after the bird was 



Soiturut &■ Dorset Notts &• Queries. 



6i 

ail, a tliinl egg was taken from the bird ^ui'lt whilt, though or 

Ul siee. I wrote to " The Field " and received for answer, * The 

W^tgg is coloured as soon as it has received its calcareous shell, the 

^colour being fixed on exposure to the light. In some cases, 

'*K>wever, the colour never gels fixed, b'^t will wash off.' This 

hite egg, however, has its perfect shell and was never washed. 

J. B. Medley, LuUington Rectory. 

Gadkiel Gould. — Could any one give me information 

" about Gabriel Gould who was Master of the Trinity Free School, 

Dorchester. Dorset, in the year 1668 .-' I am anxious to find out 

who his ancestors were, also where he was marped (date 1645- 

1658), and where buried (date 1692-1693). 

A. Gould, 10, Cleve Road, West Hanipstcad. 

Y 81. Caups and HuNDREiis. (I. i. 6.) — The suggestion 
that our early Camps may have been centres of the regular 
military organisation of more than one Hundred exactly 
meets the case of Cadbury Castle, in South Cadbury. It 
is one of the most important Camps in the countrj'. but is situated 
at the extreme Southern border of its Hundred, Catash or Cailes 
aah, within a quarter or half-a-mile of Horethomc Hundred. If 
however these two Hundreds had one common place of muster. 
then Cadbury becomes central and very conveniently situated for 
,both. The usual meeting place of the Catash Hundred for civil 
;s, was not, I think, at Cadbury, but at a place called The 
iree Ashes, on the highway between Castle Gary and Sparkford. 
field at this spot still bears the name RunnjTnead, "the 
"meadow of the runes, the ancient Anglo-Saxon field ofcouncil." 
(Taylor's " Words and Places," p. 196, ed. i88j.) 

Will any of your readers give a derivation for Cattes ash ? 
Can the " Catte " and the " Cad " of Cadbury be the same, and 
i"War"? 

J. A, Bennett. 

8l. It has struck me that Professor Earle's suggestive enquiry 
aa to the relation between " Earthem forts and Hundreds," may 
help to explain the origin of some names to be found tn what is, 
I presume, his own adopted County, viz, Oxfordshire. I refer to 
Sinodun and Wittenham, concerning which a great authority, 
viz, Mr. G. T. Clark, has remarked, " few spots are so rich in 

ginta of interest in the histoiy of our Island." (On Roman 
fcnsive Works, Arc hseo logical Journal, Vol, 37, page 37S, etseq.) 
In this locality, which is close to. the Oxfordshire Dorchester, 
we find a strong Celtic camp, called in old days, Sinodun. (By 
the way, what is the origin of the prefix Sino P The place a Dun 
nnmistakeably is, conspicuous for many miles round, and com- 
mandinglhe fertile valley of the Thames.) But this camp has an- 
stherand clearly later name, viz, Wittenham (also called nowadays 



^^.both. 
^^% fiel 



I Can 

I aato 



Somtrsti &• Dorut Notts 6* Queries. 

from the trees on its summit, "Wittcnham Clumps.") This title 
seems to point to a Saxon use, just as I venture to suggest the 
termination of another camp of undetermined anti(.juity, viz, Pound- 
burj', clearly indicates Saxon occupation. 'J'o return to Proressor 
Eatle's query, a collation of the names of the Hundreds with 
old Maps should throw valuable light on the subject, and would 
be an illustration, if any were needed, of the value of Mr. Mayo's 
topographical indices of local names. 

J. J. Foster, 36, Alma Square, St. John's Wood. 

83. " Gloton Messe." (1. i. 36.) — ^T.S.H. may perhaps be 
interested in the following quotation from I. D'lsraeli's "Curiosities 
ot Literature." Under the heading "Ancient and Modem 
Saturnalia" (p. 166, edit. 12). he says:^ — "We had in Leicester, 
in 1415. what was called a glullim-mass, during the five days of 
the festival of the Virgin Mary. The people rose early to mass, 
during which they practised eating and drinking with the most 
lealous velocity, and, as in France, drew from the comers of the 
Altar the rich puddings placed there." From this I gather that 
it was not the actual office, but the proceedings during the office, 
that must have called down the threat of the Commissary. 

G. E. Druitt, 8, Strathmore Gardens, Kensington, W. 

84. Family of Havtion. {L i. 23.) — A Hayden Genealogy 
was commenced in 18S5, Address, " New England Genealogical 
and Historical Society," No 18. Somerset Street, Boston, (Mass) 
U.S.A.; also address "Town Clerk," Windsor, Connecticut, U.SA., 
where there are several persons of the Hayden family, well informed 
in their family history. 

William H. Chaffee, P.O. Bos 3068, New York. 

85. Pedigrees of this family ivill be found in — 
1564, Visitation of Devon, p. 126. 

1610. Visitation of Devon, p. i+^- 
Wesicole'9 Devon, p. 579. 

There were several branches of this family located at Lymp- 
aoMC. Ebford in Woodbury, Cadhay in Ottery St Mary, and Hills 
■I KitBungtoD. 

F.W.W. 
9k. Blandford Fire, 1731- — In the account of the fire at 
1 Fofnm, in 1731. by Malachi Blake, mention is made of 
■jiwn iu upon oath" (sworn to by each individual) 
mied to i+'.oo**-" 
IS, vol L. p. 131 (ind edition), reference is made 
ecnquirymade in 1773, of the families residing in 



■>^»M^ ^axe if these two returns are in existence, and if 
^^^^^s Eton ihe " accurate enquiry, fitc," give the names 

iW LJIIW fMlti " 

GMh Sw Frv, Caedmon, Albert Road, Walthamstow. 



Somerset &» Dorset Notes <?• Queries. 63 

SThe list of the sufferers by the fire at Blandford may be 
1 among the County Records, preserved in the Shire Hall, 
Dorchester, in the custody of the Clerk of the Peace. These 
records may be seen at the time the Quarter Sessions are being 
held, viz., the first week in January, April, July, and the 2nd week 
in October. Application should be previously made at the office 
of the Clerk ot the Peace, Sherborne. 

Editor for Dorset.] 

87. AxYLUS (I. i. 26.) — ^Axylus was a Homeric hero, famed for 
his hospitality. 

" Next valiant Diomed Axylus slew, 
" The son of Teuthranes, who had his home 
" In fair Arisba ; rich in substance he, 
" And loved of all ; for, dwelling near the road, 
" He oped to all his hospitable gate ; 
" But none of all he entertained was there 
•• To ward aside the bitter doom of death : 
" There fell they both, he and his charioteer, 
*' Calesius, who athwart the battle-field 
" His chariot drove ; one fate o'ertook them both." 

Lord Derby's Iliad, vi. 14-23. 

F.W.W. 

88. Bread at Christenings. - In the Saturday /Review of 
the 17th December, 1887, it is recorded that in Camiola, at the 
baptism of an infant, it is customary for the nurse to take a loaf of 
bread to the Church and present it to the first person she meets after 
the ceremony is over ; and the question is asked, "Is this custom or 
the like ever practised in England ?" 

I can remember many years ago, in the village of Staplegrove 
near Taunton, seeing a man coming from the Church, on the 
occasion of a christening with some bread in his hand. He told 
me it had been given him by one of the christening party, whose 
duty it was to present it to the first man he met, the infant being 
of the male sex. In the case of a female, the like ceremony 
would have taken place with the first woman on the road. 

I enquired afterwards of a labourer if he had ever heard of 
the custom? He replied that he had had seven children 
christened, and on each occasion he had done the same thing. 

Charles J. Turner, Staplegrove. 

89. Catty Lane. (I. i. 17.) — ^The Syllable Cat is not uncommon, 
^.j?^.'Cattnells,"Cattwell," Catsgore,' 'Catcombe,' ' Catcut,' ' Cathays,' 
* Cottys,' 'Catmead,* 'Catts barrow/and 'Catpans,' near Wimborne, 
' Cathanger,* ' Cathole,* * Catsleys.* 

J. A. Bennett. 



Sowur^t S* Dsr$(t Notts iS* Qtiiries. 

NOTES ON BOOKS. 
^^ ' C&LEKDAR of ihC REGISTER Of ^OJfn bt jBroluiufBlb, 

||^p|||»a||B*TK anil Wells." (A.D. ijog-ijig.] Edited from the 

''WMU^tke Wells Registry by Rt. Rev. BiSHor Hoiihouse: 
ffejffSiJbtp of Nelson, N.Z.) 1887. — This volume (also privately 
fedlAed} is published for the subscribers to the " Souekset 
Kkord SociKTV," and in the preface it is described as "the 
coMribution to history- of such facts as lie embedded in the 306 
lltlios of Bishop Drokensford's Register of his administrative acts." 
The period these embrace hes in the earlier portion of the 
•«*Mfut 14th (.entury, and it is scarcely too much to say that the 
f»Ris»I of even ibis Ciz/fn</tir of Bishop de Drokensford's Registers 
iflwds the reflective antiquary much information that may be 
woght in %-ain elsewheie. 

John de Drokensford was not simply a Bishop dealing 
VBcltisivi-ly with Diocesan afTaire as we now understand them ; he 
«as also one of those remarkable Lawyer- Ecclesiastics who 
GoeuMaded themselves to the crown by their business-like 
iM^its. and thcit dominant qualities as men of world. Always 
Moving from place to place, he had at least sixteen ofiicial 
tMHicoces. and occupying each one of these from time to time as 
OCCaswa sirred, he was enabled to supervise a large diocese with 
WBCtitttde xntl dis^iatch ; in this way acquiring that personal 
4l;^<ui<>''L'!'^<' **'''' his clergy and their respective cures, which 
WiiJ' . •.[. however central, would at that date have 

■-^ible. As affording an outline of the parish 
■•,\iy of Somerset during that comparatively 
:.iar furnishes us with a mass of information 
_; and instructive. 

■>.r.ible Bishop Hobhouse, whose mind is a 
u riyrj- of Ecclesiastical lore, it would be hard 
■ •.ompilation of the kind, and we tender our 
^- "Somerset Record Society," for giving a 
Ills of Drokensford's Register to the world. 
', recently called into existence, has thus 
:'< in the future. 

-i."h«ntriesof Somerset," by E.Green, F.S.A. 
^y F. H. Dickinson. 
':i:ion and Montacute Abbeys," by J. Batten, 



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ftB^ 



rlvin^etfonl Family," fire, &c., &c., 

: thtf brief notice of its valuable labours 

.1 o *\v have not yet sent in their adhesion 

.,,■ lieg torefer them to the Rev, J. 
Kettory, near Bath, the indefatig- 
-, -.: Record Society." 



Somerset &• Dorset Notes &■ Queries. 65 

gt. Local Names. Bucklakd Newton. (I. i. j.) — In 
fulfilment of the promise made in the first number or 5". & D. 
?t\'les 6" Queries, a list is now given of the principal field and 
other local names existing within the confines of the parish of 
Buclda.id Newton. It should be premised that this parish 
comprises six tithings, one of which, — Plush, — is wholly detached 
from the remaining portion, being cut off by projections from 
Alton Pancras and Mappowder. Those names which belong to 
this isolated tithing are indicated by an asterisk. 

The names given are those now in use, and reference is made 
to the local pronunciation, where it is at all noteworthy. Those 
placed within brackets are older forms mentioned in Hutchins, 
or elsewhere. 

Editor for Dorset. 
BucKLAND Newton, alias Bockland AnBAs. 
TlTHlNrtS. •Plush FoUy Coombes's Hill 

BttcUand tRevels Coward's Hill 

" " ■ " Rew Cran's >[m 

Shamell Green 
(ShamMl, CliameU) 
TUey 
(Tyllej'gh) 



(Bocland, Bocliekndc) 
BiocklioniptDn 

Pr. "Brockctlon" 
Dnntish 

(Dunelisse, Donetysse, , _ ^ — 

Dtmeiiisse. Douatyssh) •Whiicd 



Dogbury 
(Doggenebenrc) 

Flinty Hill 



Knoll 

Minteme Pan-a, or 

Lit lie Mini erne 
PlBsh 

rplis, Plvsshl 
Hahiets and Farms. 

"Armswell 

(Anningeswell, Hct- 
mingeswell, Etminges- 
wold) 
BeauUeu Wood 
Pr. "Bewley Wood" 



Wooifotd's Water 
Pr. "Oolver's Walcr" 
Tkt faUetcinf are Farm 

Duntiih Elms Farm 
Knap's Hill Farm 
Miller's Farm 
Lawrence's and Smeth- 

am'a Farms, now united 
Thresher's or Court Farm 

Othtr Snutti:— 
Bladeley or Bradley's 

House 
Castle Hai 



Is Hill 



Knap 



I Hill 



.r Sylv. 



11 glreo. c 



Llch 



Li 1 tie Minteme Hill 
•Monkwood HiU or Mum- 
per's Hill 
J Mount Silver 01 
■North Hill 
•Ritehills 

Revel's Hill 

Timins's Hill 
'West Hill 

Vallkvs. 



(Bowcombe, Buccombe, 

Buckham) 

Pr. •' Bookham " 
fBrockhampIon 
tChason 

(Chalveslon. Chawson] 
tCIinger 

(Cleyhangte, Clianger) 

Dunlish 
tHenley 

Mini erne Parva 
•Monkwood Hill 
•Net bei broke 
tNoake 

(Koke, Nooke) 

Part in. 



rflpUcvd DnnUab 
GonviDe, Little 
Manor House 
Pleasant Spot 
Hiixs. 
•Ball. Great 
Beak Hill 
Bladeley or Bladeslcy 



Hill 
Bocombe Knoll 
Botman's Hill 
Breach Hill 
Buckland Hill 
Buckland Ridge c 

Hill 
Caioes's Hill 



Buckland Bottom 
Hawcombe 
([locombe, Holcombe) 

I^jnscombe 
'Nettlccom'kie 
Sloopland's Bottom 
'Thomcombe 
Streams tt Springs, 
Bottnan's Water 
HuDtwell 
Rugwell 
Spring Head 
Ridge Twin waters 

Woolford's Water 



Somerset &■ Dcrsit Notes &• Queries. 67 

A curious instance of the origin of names may be seen in the 
appellation "Cat Cross," mentioned in this list. It arose in the 
following way:— An inn, called the Red Lion, formerly stood 
near this spot, but the sign was so badly drawn that the rustics 
facetiously denominated It "The Cat"; — "ubj ruricolae ludibundo 
vocabulo appellant" "The Cat," — to adopt a phrase occurring in 
early charters. From the inn the name passed to the intersection 
of the roads, a " Three- legged Cross," as it happens to be, 
which still retains it, though the inn has disappeared. 

92, Roman Mensuration tN England. — The Romans 
when they settled a colony divided il into "CenturiK," and of 
necessity as well as for purposes of taxation, surveyed it. They 
began by drawing a line from east to west called the " decumanui" 
OT " decimanus," onginaUy " duo-eimanus," because it divided the 
land into two parts — as I find it stated tn Facciolati, — and another 
from south to north called " cardo." Parallel to each were 
cardo or decimanus primus, secundus, tertius, there might be 
maximus ; and sinislerior, or dexterior. The centuria is said to 
have consisted of 100 Jogera. and the squares made by the lines 
just mentioned to have marked out the centurise and separated 
them one from another. I do not know how this may be. If I 
were concerned in dividing a new country for myself and 
my neighbours, I should not make the roads go round my 
allotment, but through the middle of it, and have my homestead 
where they crossed. I have noticed in various places in the 
Ordnance map of South England that roads and fences and 
parish boundaries go very much in squares, in Essex, Kent, 
Cornwall, Sussex, and in Somerset north and east of Taunton, 
and at Henstridge and Horsington, and have long suspected 
that where this is the case, we have some remains of Roman 
mensuration. At Ilchester six ancient roads meet. The best 
known and most important is the Foss, and there is an older one 
to Old Sarum, and others to Dorchester and Somerton, all still 
used, as well as one to Montacute, of which traces remain on the 
map, and which was reported as having been partly stopped up 
in the returns called the Hundred rolls made soon after the 
accession of Edward 1. This road is in a line with the 
Foss, on the other side of Ilchester ; and there is another ct 
right angles to it, leading westward to Pill Bridge and Kings- 
moor. No one doubts that the Foss was a Roman road, and it 
seems to me evident that this road and its extension to Montacute, 
was the " Cardo Maximus " of the Roman survey of the 
immediate neighbourhood of Ilchester; and the road to Pill 
Bridge, one end of the " Decumanus Maximus," In this case 
the lines are not quite properly orientated, and the same is the 
case elsewhere. We may well suppose that a few degrees east 
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Sarum was nearly in a line with the western part or the Foss 
which leads to South Petherton, and Windwhtsile Hil!, and 
Axminster ; and I conceive that wlien necessity pointed to a new 
road direct to Bath, it was used as a principal line ofthe mensura- 
tion of the district for a few miles round Ilchester. There are 
remains of Roman mensuration elsewhere. Elis^e Reclus, in 
his beautiful book of geography, "Europe Meridionale," page 
344, gives a map of part of Italy on the line of Roman road, the 
Via Emilia, from Modena and Bologna towards Ancona, con- 
taining Faenza and Imola. copied from the Austrian Etat Major 
map, which lays out the country in squares, between that road 
and the marshes of the Po. 1 have been unable to see the Austrian 
map in London, but I have seen another of the country between 
Treviso and Padua, further north, mentioned by M. Reclus, and the 
squares consist of 123 acres, which is exactly the size given by 
our author from the other map. Supposing that these squares 
are centurise, and allowing for roads, this hardly gives no acres 
for a centuria. So far as I can make out at present, the lines of 
roads in England indicate a larger quantity, if tliey are really 
boundary lines of centuria;. I will therefore ask your readers 
to see what they can make out for themselves with the new six- 
inch Ordnance map. 

F. H. Dickinson, Kingweston. 

93. Knowlton Church or Chape!.. (I. i, 11,) — ^This 
picturesque ruin stands on elevated ground, and is surrounded 
by a deep circular entrenchment, one of a group of circles which 
were, perhaps, coeval with those of Avebury, to which 600, B.C., 
has been assigned as a possible date. Here, as at Avebury, the 
fosse is wUhin the agger. The enclosed space is supposed to 
have been used for Druidic ceremonies, or for law gatherings, 
such as that which was depicted on the third compartment of the 
shield of Achilles. Knolton was afterwards the head of a 
hundred (cantref), and here in Saxon times the humlred-grmol 
may have met. and the Yeomanry have assembled for weapon 
leaching (waep;;ntace). 

At the survey of io36 Knolton formed part of the vast 
possessions of the Conqueror's half-brother, Robert, Count of 
Mortain. The chapel of Knohon was attached to the monas- 
tery of Horton, founded, according to WilHam of Malmesbury, 
A.D. 961. A charter of Edward the Confessor to that Monas- 
tery is printed by Mr. B. Thorpe. Knolton chapel occurs in a 
Bull of P. Eug. Ill, A.D. 1145, " Ecclesia de Hortona cum 
capellis de Cnolton et de Chisilburi,'' [Chalbury] ; and again iti a 
Bull of P. Ales. Ill, A.D. 1163, " Hortona cum ecclesia ejusdem 
villae et capella de Cnolton ei ecclesiae adjacenti." From an 
inventory drawn up in 1551 it appears that there were then three 
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li -rton), and that ihe Curate of the Parson of Horton officiated 
liiere and at Knolton. In the same year King Edward VI, who 
was connected through his mother's family with the proprietors 
of KnoHon, visited Woodlands in this parish, on his way to 
Salisbury. 

" Arx gratum hospitium Woodlandia praebuit, et quae 
Caesaris et Burgi a nomine nomen habet." 

After the visit of the Commonwealth Commissioners. A.D. 
1650, the chapel was disused. It was repaired in 1730, and about 
the end of the reign of George II. Divine Service ceased to be 
celebrated there. 

The present ruined fabric, built of flint and sandstones of 
different colours, was probably erected during the period of 
transition from Romanesque to Gothic, and comprised Chancel 
with N. Aisle, Nave with N. Aisle, S, Porch and low rectangular 
Tower. The entire length (internally) is5z feet, and the breadth 
rj feet. 

The Chance!, (11 feet 11 inches, by 10 feet z inches), 
opens into the Nave by a semicircular arch, (8 feet 6 inches, by 
4 feet 8 inches), with plain abaci, 33 inches square and 5 inches 
in thickness, having the lower edges chamfered. The sione 
work of the E. and S. chancel windows has been removed. The 
chancel aisle, of the same length, is 9 feet 4 inches broad. The 
east wall alore remains. 

The Nave was separated from the N. aisle by a wall, 30 
inches in thickness, in which were two plain semicircular arches. 
That to the W. alone remains. The N. aisle was 5 feet 6 inches 
in breadth. Its outer wall has fallen. 

The S. Porch, which has fallen, was of the unusual length 
of iii feet. The south doorway {8 feet by 3 feet 8 inches) has 
a semicircular arch with plain abaci, the chamfer on the lower 
edges tieing surmounted by a narrow channel. This doorway 
and the chancel arch bear a resemblance to presumed Saxon 
*ork. 

The Tower, which measures internally 8 feet by 8 feet 6 
inches, is of early English character, and opens into the Nave by 
a pointed arch (6 feel g inches by 13 feet) of two orders without 
imposts, and with continuous chamfers. In the lower stage the 
W. window has two trefoil- headed lights. In the upper stage are 
two windows, E. and W., of one trefoil -headed light each. 

There is no font, and no piscina or sedile. Probably, too, 
there were no interments, Knolton beingonly a "capella" to the 

J. H. Ward, Gussage S. Michael. 

94. Great Fike at YeotiIl, in 16+0, — The town of 

Veovil has suffered several times from fire. In i4+9- ''7 

houses were deslroyed inchiding much property belonging to the 



70 Sufiurset &• Dorset Notes S- Queries. 

Chantries ; Bishop Beckington granted forty days' indulgence to 
charitable contributors on this occasion. Again in the early part 
of this century a large portion of Jliddle Street was burnt down ; 
both these fires are well known lo students of local history; not 
so the conflagration which produced the lengthy document now 
printed for the first time. From the complete oblivion in which 
all tradition of this fire has been buried, I am unable lo add any 
details to the account as given in the " Protecion," but if any 
reader should be possessed of information on the subject, I hope 
it will be communicated to a future number of N. &• Q, 

E.H.B. 
" A Protecion for losses by fire graunted unto the 
" Inhabitants of Yeovill in the County of Somersett. 

-CHARLES by the grace of God King of England Scot- 
"land (Trance and Ireland defendor of the faith TO ALL 
"and singular Archbishops Bishops Archdeacons Deanes and 
" their Officialls Parsons Vicars Curata and to all spirituall 
"TCisons And also to all Justices of Peace maiors Sheriffs 
"Bailiffs Constables Churchwardens and head boroughes And 
" to all Officers of Citties Boroughes and Townes corporate 
"* And to all other our officers ministers and subjects whatsoever 
-tbejr be aswell within liberties as without to whom these 
'pceaeoU shall come greeting WHEREAS We are credibly 
"^g^vCB to understand as well by the humble supplicacion and 
"^gtidoa of our poore distressed subjects the Inhabitants of 
"^TcoMcQ in our County of Somersett as also by a certificate 
C the general quartersessions of the peace holden at 
_ Iter for the said County the sixth day of October last 
t t440 under the hands of our trusty and well beloved 
i Sir William Portman Baronett Thomas LuttreH 
. Saith William Ever)' John Harrington George 
. Kobett Harbyn Robert Hunt and William Bull 
* ^uboes of the Peace for the said county That 
KurnppoB the eight and twentieth day of July last past 
a .itMHK i»e of the Clock in the aftemoone of the same 
- -JSfe Euppened to our said Towne of Yeovell being an 
HiKiattkMTovneasuddayne and grevious misfortune of 
MBg in the house of one Walter Whitcombe which by 
i IDB dnoess of the season, the winde being strong 

1 the itrestable vehement and terrible flames 

^^AiiKS.iiMrt space utterly consume waste and bume 

t awt three dwelling houses besides many 

inkin^ lived twoe hundred families con- 

S iMndred persons at the least of men 

* "bs very many barnes stables staules 

_> md outhouses to the number of twoe 

KWhamu! hay wood coale householdstulTc 



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" and other wares and goodes, they having housed most of theire 
** hay and made provision of coale wood and other necessaries 
" for the whole year following for themselves families and 
"cattell, which were all burnt wasted and consumed by the 
" saide fire amounting in all to the value of Twelve Thousand 
" pounds, a great part of which people receiveth reliefe and 
" not able to subsist without the same and are about the 
" number of three hundred persons and a great part of them 
" Trades men whoe had only their houses and trades by which 
"they formerly lived in good sort and fett many people on 
" work and relieved many but are now themselves destitute of 
"houses or any means to relieve themselves and theire families 
"as appeareth to our foresaid Justices uppon the oathes of 
"John Jennings gentleman John Laver gentleman Christopher 
" AUambridge and Thomas Rocke able and su(!icient Inhabi- 
*• tants of the saide Towne verifying likewise that by this 
" untimely accident our said poore Subjects are greatly 
" impoverished and utterly undone left in great distresse and 
" misery, who have humbly besought us of our aboundant and 
" gracious goodnes and clemency We would be pleased to 
" provide some convenient meanes for theire reliefe and mayn- 
" tenance by granting them hcence and power to aske and 
" receive the charities of weldisposed people for theire support 
"and livelihood unto whose request as also nppon the 
" certificate of our foresaide Justices We most willingly have 
" condjscended and esteemed noe one thing to be more 
" necessary then the re-edifving of decayed Townes and the 
" relieving of the poore distressed people thereof, have thought 
"good to commend the same to the charitable consideracion 
" of all our loving Subjects within the said County of Somersett 
" and of the other Counties and places hereafter mencioned 
" Not doubting but that all good Christians rightly and duly 
" considering the premisses will be ready and willing to extend 
" their liberal! contribucionns in soe good soe necessary and 
"so charitable a deede KNOWE ye therefore that of our 
" especial! grace and princely compassion We have given and 
" granted and by these our Letters Patent under our great 
" Seale of England doe give and grant unto the Inhabitants of 
" Yeove!! in our County of Somersett aforesaid and to their 
" Deputy and Deputies the bearer or bearers thereof full 
" power licence and authority to aske gather receive and take 
"the alraes and charitable benevolence of all our loving 
" Subjects whatsoever inhabiting within the Counties Shires 
•• Citties and priviledged places throughout the whole kingdom 
" of England and Domynion of Wales (except the Counties of 
"Leicester Nottingham Derby I^ncaster Yorke Northumber- 
" land Cumberland Westmerland and Durham) for and toward 
" the recovery of their said losses and the reliefe and maynter.- 



Yoto S- QmtUs. 

L ;oe auur 3S are fiu to partake of this 

itg lu -.ijr Jireciions hereafter expressed 

■ •■ -ill mtl command you and every of 

11-; ..itti ;rini;s as the Inhabitants of Yeovell 

.iiv ,r Deputies the bearer or bearers 

iirto anyyour Churches Chappells 

: J receive the gratuities and charit- 

.;ul snbjects quietly to permit and 

A:ihoat any manner your lett or 

;■■- said Parsons Vicars and Curats 

■i" a charitable devocion deliberateh 

V tenor of these our Letters Patent 

iT^ofunto our said subjects uppon 

r the same shall be tendred unto 

i-.ion of the date hereof Earnestly 

'■ them to extend their liberail 

- and charitable a deed AND you 

!.r\' parish where such collecion is 

■ i-ollect and gather the almes and 
;" all our loving Subjects as well 
> hat shalbe by you soe gathered to 

.irsclves endorsed on the backside 

■ or the Coppy or Briefe hereof in 

■ ft^res And the some and somea 
.itdorsed Our will and pleasure is 

. ^-rr or bearers of these our Letters 
lol lo receive the same and to no 
■■;inio you shalbe required AND 
--A.-nire is for the more assurance 
... rn^ in the receipt accompt and 
^ .vllccted by virtue of these our 

■ .1.T jhall receive any of the moneys 
. Jiall>c appoynted thereunto by 

-,\ and scales of Edward Philips 

-___ .-,^»nd that the moneys collected 

K WK^ tfealtx distributed amongst such of 

t M^rh fire, only as neede the same 

Hct feMf publique charity and by such 

k. t^Mftit fitt and sett downe in 

^1^ persons last named, at such 

kMWting as by them shalbe from 

t tkM purpose It being not our 

e lire otherwise of ability and 

._it Ust named not thought fitt to 

^ Aould be made partakers of it, 

^^^j, y appoynt in whose hands the 

-A mt %C! "** ^r^ untillthe same shalbe 

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" according lo the true intent and meaning of our royall will 
" and pleasure herein declared any Statute law ordinance or 
" provision heretofore made to the contrary in anywise notwith- 
■■ standing IN WITNES whereof We have caused these our 
" tetters to be made Patent to continue for the space of one 
"whole yeare next after the date thereof and not longer 
"WITNES ourselfe at Westmynster the seaventeenth day of 
" November in the sixteenth yeare of our Raigne." 

E. Harbin Bates, Newion Sunnaville. 

95. John Fry, the Regicide. (I, ii. 67.) — ^Turning now 
I ■ to his genealogical historj-, I find that he is that John Fry who 
is mentioned in the Visitation of Dorset of 1623, who is stated to 
be JEt. 1+ in that year. This would make him to be bom in 
1608 or 1609. In an Inquisition post mortem, taken on the death 
of his Grandfather, William Fry, it is stated that John's father, 
William Fry, was married to Milicent Swayne, at Tarrant 
Gunville, on ijth Nov., 5 James I (1607). He seems not to have 
been the eldest child though the eldest son, three daughters. 
Ann, Milicent, and Dulcibel, being staled as older than he was in 

From a Chancery suit referring to him I find that he married 
four times; by the first wife he had a son, John, (who died 
1690) ; by the second he had a son, William, who died previous 
to 169s ; no son by the third wife ; and by the fourth wife 
four sons, namely Thomas, Stephen, James, and Joseph. The 
only one of these four wives whose name 1 know is the fourth, 
who was Anna Lindsay, of Poole, who proved her husband's 
will in 1657. She died in 1666. Both the Regicide and also 
his wife mention in their wills a certain William Frj-, of Ash- 
grove, a farm not more than three miles from Bursey Stool, but 
in Wiltshire, and both of them style him Brother-in-law. From 
other information I possess I have undoubted proof that this 
\Villiam Fry, of Ashgrove, is my own direct ancestor, and it ia 
principally the endeavour to find out precisely how he could be 
brother-in-law to both John Fry and his +th wife, that has led me to 
record the above facts relating to the Regicide. Even now I am 
fierplexed about it, and John Fry, having had four wives, makes 
it all the more complicated, so that any one who can supply the 
names of any of John Fry, the Regicide's, first three wives, will 
be doing me a great service. 

Whether there are living still any direct descendants of the 
Regicide is. too, a subject full of interest, and it may not be out 
of place to state what is known of his sons and daughters. 

John and William, the two eldest sons by his first and second 
wives respectively, had no children, or at all events no male 
issue, or the property of their father, which, though forfeited to 
the Crown as already stated, seems in part to have been bought 



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l>acJt or restored, would have descended to them. John, the ' 
eldest, died about i6go, and in his will directed all his estate to 
be given to William Fry, of Ashgrove. This will Thomas Fry, 
the half-brother of John, (being the eldest son of the Regicide 
by Anna Lindsay, his 4th wife), contested, and it is from the 
Chancery- suit between Thomas Fry and William Fry, of Ashgrove, 
that a good deal of the foregoing information is gleaned. 

Thomas Fry died between 1 69+, (the date of this suit), and 
1709, which is the date of the will of his brother, Dr. Stepher 
Fry ; 1 have not, however, been able to find a will of Thomas' I 
Fry. 

This Stephen Fry, Doctor in Medicine, was a Fellow c 
Trinity College, Oxford. He took his B.A. degree in 1671, M.aJ 
in 167s, B.M. in 16S1, and M.D. in 1683. He was executor off 
the will of the Rev. Wilham Stone, who was one of the officia]d 
and minister of Wimbome Minster in 1661, and who foundedl 
"Stone's Hospital" in Oxford. Stephen Fry bequeathed ^^iiDoal 
to this hospital; he mentioned his nieces, (not, however, 1ȴ 
name), daughters of his brothers, Thomas and James Fry, both ' 
deceased, which shows that these two married ; but whether they 
had issue male does not appear. The executor of Dr. Stephen 
Fry's will was his nephew, Thomas Penny, of London, pre- 
sumably a son of one of his married sisters, and it was proved sth 
April, 1710. Stephen apparently was unmarried. 

Of James Fry it is only known that he was a grocer i 
Bristol in 1 694, and that he married and had some daughters, ; 
before stated, 

Joseph is nowhere mentioned eiccept in his mother, Anna 
Fry's, will, and he probably died between 1666 and 1694. 

Of the daughters, Mary, the eldest, married Sa 
Coysgarne, of Bristol ; Elizabeth, or Margaret, (Martha ?J, 
married a Mr. Penny, father of Thomas Penny, of London, who _ 
was Executor of Dr. Stephen Fry's will ; and Ann was probably 1 
the wife of John Seymer, as stated in HuUkxm's Dorset, Vol. IV., 
;j. 66. 

If tliere are any male descendants of John Fry, the Regicide, 
ihey must therefore come through either Thomas or James, or 
failing them, through Joseph Fry. 

E. A. Fky, Yarty, King's Norton, Birmingham. 

96. Shrovetide CusTOM-s — "Shackle Egg Dav." — (Li.4.6.) 

I observe Mr. Norris says he cannot find (he word "shackle " in 
any provincial dictionaries, but if he refers to Barnes's Glossarf, 
Dorchester, 1S86, he will find— 

Shacklen — shaking about, etc. 
Shockle — to shake about lightly, etc. 
Shockly — that shockles. 



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Shockle-apple — an apple so ripe that the pips can be heard 
lo shoclde. 

J. J. Foster, ^6 Alma Square St. John's Wood. 

,;. "Sherd Throwing." — Iremember the throwing of sherds. 

when I wasa little boy.at Great Torringlon, Devon; that is, 1 saw 

[hem at the door in the morning, but whether there had been 

dancing or other ceremonies the evening before, I do not recollect, 

■ ^od, if there were, I was probably in bed at the time. 

H Frederic T. Colby, Litton Cheney, 

^1 98. "Lent-Crocking," — In Hone's " Year Book," for iSjz, 

"pwe 800, a communication from the late Rev. Wm. Barnes of 

Dorchester describes the custom of sherd-throwing at Shrove-tide. 

under the above heading. The doggrel verses alluded to in I. i. 46, 

are thus given. 

*" I be come a shrovin', 
Vor a little panktak, 
A hit o'biead o' your biaWn ', 
Or a little truckle (hecae o' your own miakin', 
IfyoD'U gi' me a little, I'll axaa moore. 
If you don't gi' me nothin,' I'll rottic your door." 
The learned Antiquary, writing fifty years ago, speaks of this 
as an old Dorsetshire custom. He says that it was observed also in 
Wiltshire, where however the begging rhymes were omitted, but 
the doors pelted as a matter of course. Mr. Barnes was of opinion 
that the ceremony was a carnival relic of Roman Catholic times. 
and he concludes his paper by adding "The broken pots and 
dishes orginally signified that, as Lent was begun, those cooking 
vessels were of no use, and were supposed to be broken; aiid the 
cessation of flesh-eating is understood in the begging for pancakes. 
and bread and cheese." 



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99. *■ Clipping the Church." — (From A. S. Clippaji, to 
embrace or hu^-.) Descripiioos of this ceremony are given in 
Hone's " Every-day Book," Vol. I., 215, and in " The Journal of 
the British Arch Ecological Association," Vol. I., 149, 150. 

In the former it is noticed as taking place in Warwickshire. 
in the latter as occuring in Shropshire; but in both as being an 
^asltr, and not a " Shrove-tide " custom. I find no mention of it 
"'"^ in Brand or Strutt, 



100. Miss Charlotte Sophia Hume, in her most valuable and 
interesting volumes on " Shropshire Follt-Lore," p. 311, gives at 
length a description of a Shrovetide custom, called "Clipping 
the Church." the children joining hands and encircling the 
edifice. This seems identical with the custom mentioned by the 
Somerset Editor. 

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101. Chafy or Chaffee Faiiily. — In the Parisli Register of ' 
Slock Gaylard, Dorset, occurs the baptism oi Mathew, son of 
Thomas and Marg'ery Chafy, iznd September, 1601. Can any 
reader of S. &* D. N. &• Q. supply the date of his death or 
burial from the Register of this or some other parish, and point 
out where the will of Thomas Chafy, the father of Mathew, may 
be found ? Abstracts of al! the early wills found al Somerset 
House, London, have been received, but no clue has been obtained 
from them. A Mathew Chaffee was admitted a member of the 
First Church of Boston, Mass., "the J4th of yc 6th moneth, 
1636," and with his wife Sarah, upon their consent, was dismissed, 
"ye 10th of 6th month, 1655." They had no issue. A Thomas 
Chaffee look up lands in Hingham, Mass., July 17th, 1637, from 
whom all the Chaffees in the United States to-day (excepting a 
few families direct from England) can trace their ancestry. He 
died in America in 16S3. It is supposed that Mathew and Thomas 
were related, but the fact is not established. I wish to meet with 
ali the information I can relaUng to them, or the family to which 
they belonged, and to ascertain the name of their place of 
residence in England, and shall be grateful for assistance of any 
kind. Dorset, 1 believe, was their native county. 

W. H. Chaffee, P.O. Box, 3068, New York. 
P.S. — Is there an engraving or picture extant, which 1 can 
buy, of ancient Chaffcombe, Somerset ? 

[The Churchyard of Stoke-sub-Hatndon, near Montacule, 
Somerset, contains a considerable number of memorials of a 
family of Chafy, descended from William Chaffe, Curate, early in 
the lyih century. Does the Register of this parish throw any 
light upon the query of our correspondent ? 

Editor for Dorset.] 

103. Discovery of an Ichthvosauros at Tintinhull, 
NEAR Ilchesthr.— The skeleton of a large specimen of the 
above animal was discovered on May ist, i38S, in a field called 
" Long-ground," in this parish, by some labourers in the employ 
ofMr, S.B. Penny, the owner. In thecourseofexcavatingapond. 
ihey found, at a depth of about eight feet in the marl clay, some 
vertebrae, which proved to be those of the extremityofthe monster's 
tail. The proprietor at once gave instructions to fullow up the 
fossil remains with all care. After a couple of days" work, nearly 
the whole of the skeleton was laid bare, when it proved to be of 
the following dimensions : — 



e length 



Extreme li 
Divided t 

Length of head and neck 
Length of body 
Length of tail 



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VTulih al base of head . . . . . . ■ ■ J 5 

Width across front paddles, from tip lo lip . . 70 

Length of paddle preserved, upwards of . . 1 b 

So that this lizard must have been one of ample size. 

It is matter for regret that although the general outline of 
the head and body and paddles was abundantly clear, yet the 
principal bones of the head and the ribs were either mudi 
broken or altogether missing, the position of the paddles being 
chiefly discernible by the remains of their scattered bones ; one 
of these, however, was fortunately almost perfect, and it is hoped 
will be well preserved. The animal had evidently died in the 
natural posture, i,e., prone with outstretched paddles, and its 
carcase had not been much displaced by the wash of the 
waters in which it laj-. 

The marl in which it was found is the upper surface of the 
bloe lias crossing our Island, and is easily worked by the spade. 
The situation of "Long-ground" is about three quarters of a 
mile from the low tying alluvitmi called "The Moors," once 
doubtless flooded by the common estuary of the Ivel and the 
Parret. 

J. B. Hyson. Tintinhull Vicarage. 

EfOTE. — It is believed that there is no record of a Saurian 
ving been hitherto found in lIUs district, so far to the 5. .but the 
fact of the Has lying so near the surface, removes this discover}- 
from the region of the marvellous. The undersigned has in his 
possession a number of Saurian bones exhumed four or five years 
ago, from a depth of 12 feet, in digging a well at Muchelney, five 
miles as the crow flics, to the N.W, of Tintinhull. In this 
instance, they are all cased in a considerable thickness of crystals 
of Iron Pyrites. 
~ Somerset Editor.] 

103. Armorial Bearings. (1. i. 15.) — In reply to Mr. 

riey's query in the ist number of S. &f D. N. & Q., perhaps 

the piece of plate, lately come into his possession, once belonged 

(i) to the Family of Davers, of Rougham, in SuflTolk. They 

bore " Argent, on a Bend ^Us 3 martlets," but are, I think. 

now extinct. 

(2) or to the '" Foots," who bore "Argent on a Bend aiure 3 
martlets or." This is perhaps more probable, for the last 
Sir Thomas Foot, Bt. was succeeded in his title and estates 
(by virtue of limitations in the patent of Creation), by 
Arthur Onslow Esq., of Altham, in Lancashire, whose son 
Richard was created Lord Onslow in i6j+. 

[3) The Curzons bear " Argent on a Bend saile 3 martlets." It 
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Unless there be any line engraving on the shield, I fear it 
will be hard to distinguish from which family the article originally 
came. 

W. Wynn Lloyd. 

104. In the Visitation of Cheshire, A.D. 1580, (Harl. Soc. Vol. 
1 8, p. 1 8+), one of the quarterings of the Newlons of Coole ia 
that of the family of Hinlon, viz., Argent, on a Bend Sa., 3 birds 
of the field. Edmondson gives them as martlets, 

V. L. Oliver, Kenilworth, Ascot. 

105. H. Fariey mayperhaps find an answer to his question in the 
Gent's Magatiiu, Vol. XVII, March, 1841, I have in my posses- 
sion an engraving from that volume, representing a monument 
in memoir of Samuel Edmund Hopkiiison and Elizabeth his 
wife, which is or was at Hacconby, in Lincolnshire, The shield, 
which stands between the wife's initials, bears the arms in ques- 
tion. 

G. E.DRriTT. 

106. CusTUMARitrs AflBATHi^ DE MiLTON. — Can any of 
your readers inform me whether the MS. " Custumarius Abbathise 
(!e Millon," from which Hutchins quotes in his Hisiorj' of Dorset, 
is still in existence, and in whose possession it is ? At one time, 
Hutchins says, it was in the hands of Mr. John Bailey, Rector of 
South Cad bury. 

J.B. 

107. Lady Orford's Gardens, at Piddletowk. — 
Horace Walpoie, in his tract " On Modem Gardening." speaking 
of tiiesome and repeated uniformity of symmetrical gardens, goet 
on: — "At Lady Orford's, at Piddlctown, in Dorsetshire, there 
was when my brother married a double enclosure of 1 3 gardens, 
each, 1 suppose, not much above an hundred yards square, with 
an truAladc of correspondent gates ; and before you arrived at 
tbcsv. you passed a narrow gut between two stone terrasses 
that rose above vour head, and which were crowned by a line of 
pyrttuiidal yews.'' 

Are> there any remains of this unnatural design still existing ? 

TOPLARIDS. 

to& ANOvaBR Stray Cannon Ball.— Some time about 
l«U Kastcr, my brother, Mr. Alfred Mellor, whilst making some 
alU-ii.iioii^ ut Koyslon near the village of Churchinford on the 
& " ' iti<- upon anotdcannon ballimbedded in abank. 

'1 ■' ;il and weighed about nine pounds. It would 

N, I an uninteiesiing task to hunt up its history, 

^. - "-'nnexion, if any, it had with the events of the , 

sW*^ i.ji :h ihu %t-vt^Dtieeiith century. 

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[Tliere can be but little doubt as to the above mentioned 
missile being a relic of Goring's force investing the town of 
Taunton during the Civil War. In the month of May 1645, Fairfax, 
having just been entrusted with the supreme command of the 
Parliamentary Army, was requested to march to the relief of 
Taunton, then closely besieged by the Royalists. He had proceeded 
as far westward as Blandford, when he was hastily recalled in 
consequence of the King having left Oxford in order to commence 
liis summer campaign. Fairfax however at once despatched a 
strong brigade under Colonel Welden, charged with orders to raise 
the siege if possible. This was successfully accomplished by that 
officer, on the memorable eleventh of May, Goring, believing that 
the Parliamentary General with the whole of his army was attack- 
ing him, executed a 'Sauve qiti ptut' movement in the direction of 
Pitminster and the Blagdon Hills, "where they took up their 

3 Darters in the fields "; whilst Welden entered the town of Taunton, 
lus affording the gallant Blake that relief for which he had so 
long been waiting, and his brave troops their much wished for 
supplies of food and ammunition. 

And now occurred one of the most curious, as well as one of 
the most disgraceful military episodes of the whole Civil War, 
sarcastically characterized by Clarendon as the " CounterscuiBe 
at Petherton -bridge," which he thus describes. After narrating 
the foregoing circumstances, he proceeds to say that " this Supply 
raised the Siege, the Besiegers drawing off, without any loss ; and 
the Party that relieved them, having done their work, and left some 
of their Foot in the Town, made what haste they could, to make 
their retreat Eastward ; when Goring fell so opportunely upon 
their Quarters, that he did them great mischief; and believ'd that, 
in that disorder, he had so shut them up between narrow passes, 
that they could neither retire to TaunloH, nor march Eastward ; 
and doubtless he had them at a great advantage : by the opinion 
of all Men that knew the Country. But, by the extreme ill dis- 
posing his Parties, and for want of particular Orders (of which 
many Men spoke with great licence) his two Parties sent out, 
several ways, to fall upon the Enemy at /V/A^r/on -Bridge, the one 
commanded by Colonel Thomhitl, the other by Sir William Court- 
ney (_both diligent, and sober Officers) they fell foul on each other 
to the loss of many of their Men; both the chief Officers being 
dangerously hurt, and one of them taken, before they knew their 
error ; through which the Enemy with no more loss got into, and 
around Taunton." {Hisl. Meb>*. Fol. Ed. 1732, pa. 454.) 

By the end of May the siege was renewed, and the garrison 
was again reduced to great straits. At the commencement of 
July Fairfax, having in the meantime fought the decisive Battle 
of Naseby, and also defeated the King's troops at Leicester, really 
did come in person to Taunton, and finally released the town, on 
which occasion Goring, "having burnt his huts, again drew to 
Blackdown," just before retreating to Soroerton and losing the 



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Battle of Langport, (Savage's Hist . of Taunton, p. +17.) 

Such is a brief r^Kwe of some important events occurring in 
the Taunton district in 1645, and I think it is but fair to regard 
Mr. Mellor's cannon ball as a nineteenth century witness to the 
correctness of seventeenth century history. 

Somerset Editor.^ 
109. Charles i r and Coaxdon Hall. — In Wilson's 
Memoirs of DeFoe it is said that, after the Royalists were defeated 
at Worcester, Prince Charles, (afterwards Charles 11.) escaped, 
and tried to find means to leave the country. Whilst at Lyme for 
that purpose he was suspected, pursued, and followed to Coaxdon 
Hall, in Chardstock, Dorset, where he was concealed by Mrs. 
Cogan under the large hoop which she was wearing. After the 
soldiers had vainly searched the house and departed, she found 
him a place df security until it was prudent for him to venture to 
leave ; she then gave him another disguise, and he proceeded to 
Trent. 

1. I should be glad to know what foundation this story had, 
or who was Wilson's authority. I see in " The Book of the Axe," 
(187s edition.) it is stated that the truth of this story is more than 
questionable. 

2. Mr. Pulman, in "The Book of the Axe," says "Sir 
Simond's [D'Ewes] son, Willoughby, sold Coaxdon to the Cogans, 
and it fUHK to the Wills's of Axminster, from whom it was pur- 
chased by the late G. Clarence, Esq., whose family reside at the 
hall." How (lid Coaxdon come to the Wills family ? 

3. What is the history of the ghosts, " the tall old man " and 
" the yellow dog," which are said to roam about Coaxdon Hall 
at night } 

4 J. St. N. 

no. Druitt Family. (I. i. ilf.) — Arms. Sable a chevron 
argent between three cinquefoils rooted up vert, leaves argent. 

In the 156+ Visitation of Devon, p. 136, 1 find that Richard 
Drewett Esq., of Exeter, married Jone, d. & h. of John Kelly. 
Alice Drewett, d. & h.of Richard Drewetl aforesaid, married 
John Vowell, als. Hoker, of the City of Exeter. 

F.W.W. 

III. CoKER OF Ashe, Stour Payke, Dorset. — Required 

the unmarried Surname of Mary who married Roger 

Coker about 1658. Their first child was baptized at Stour Payne, 
zfth May, 1660. As this is the only missing link in an other- 
wise unbroken Pedigree of ten descents, I should like much to 
find it. Perhaps the family pedigree of some one of your readers 
may contain the information I seek. If so, I should feel greatly 
obliged by its being sent to me, either direct, or through the pages 
ofS, &• D. N. &• Q., and if anyone of your Clerical readers 
should discover it in his Parish Register, I will thankfully remit 
him the customary fee for an Extract. 

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iia. Archbishop Laud's Visitation at Tal'nton. (I. i- 4-) — 
I have been vainly hoping that some reference to the Rector of 
Charlynch's very interesting article on the above subject, would 
have been made ere this. 

It seems that in the i6th and 17th centuries, it was, though a 
Blare, yet not an unknown thing for a Metropolitan Bishop to hold 
ivisitalions throughout his province. As an instance, we find Laud 
I* taking an early opportunity of so doing after his translation to the 
See of Canterbury ; and the extracts from the account books of the 
Churchwardens of Charlynch during that eventful period of our 
Church's history, seem to me to warrant an attempt at least to find out 
something more, relative to this visitation, its causes, and its conse- 
quences- Myetfortsinthisdireclion have not beensignally successful, 
but I give what I have gleaned for what it is worth, in the hope that 

iby so doing, I may stir up others to achieve greater results than it 
has been my fortune to accomplish. 
Mr. Kershaw, the able and courteous Librarian at Lambeth 
^ace, wntes thus to me on the subject ; 
" On referring to the printed copy of Laud's " Diary " pre- 
served here, 1 do not see reference to his visitation of Bath and 
Wells in 1 63+; but in the "^ffii/^w" of that Archbishop, 1 find 
the record of this visitation of which I send you a note as follows. 
Register. {Laud). 
Lambeth Lihrary. 
Extract from Ducarel's M.S. Indei to the above Register. 
L Visitatio Metropolitica EccI: Cath : S" Andreas Wellen : ac 
Cjvitate et Dioc; Bath : et Wellen : A.D. 1633-163+. foL 
106^ 
II. Inhibitio facta Dno Gulielmo Bathon : et Wellen : Epo ne 
jurisdictionem ecclesiasticie exerceat pendente visitatione 
Metropobtica ibidem. 
Dat: Ult" die Feb. 1633, 
Jiegiif : Laud. lOS^- 
in. Similes inhibitiones directae Decano et Capitulo Wellen :, 
Archidiaconis Wellen :, Bathon : et Taunton. 
Jfegist: Laud. 106^. 
In these, I do not find any mention of Archbishop Laud 
himself being at Taunlon ; all these are officially worded documents 
in legal terms, as to the conditions of the visitation. 

By Laud's Register, it appears that the visitation articles he 
tiaed for the Cathedral Church of Exeter, were used also at Balh 
and Wells. 

These Registers certainly afford evidence of a visitation of 
Bath and Wells in 163+. Most of Laud's MSS. arc in the Bod- 
leian ; very few at Lambeth." — S. W. Kersuaw. 



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his Map of Ancient Dorset. Hence 1 conclude that he thought 
the road in question to be Medieval — a pilgrim-way as 1 haveheaixi 
it called by someone. It can hardly have escaped Mr. VVarnc's 
eye, for near Abbotsbury it is very conspicuous. 

H. J. Moi-LE, Dorchester. 

116. I have looked through several old maps of the last centurj- 
that I have in my possession, and I fail to find any trace of such a 
road as suggested by your correspondents. The earlier maps of the 
County, of the century preceding, (Kip's 1607, Speed's i6io-i66i, 
Janson's 1640, Hollar's 1676. Morden's 1695.) show nothing of the 
roads existing at those periods. 

J, S. Udal, Inner Temple. 

117. Somerset Historical Indexes. — The Editors have 
made good use of Collinson in the interesting notes to the list of 
persons made to pay for the resistance to the Annada, (I. ii. 50.) 
and I appreciate their work the more, because there is no good 
index to Coilinson. 

Every now and then, some among us who have more zeal than 
discretion raise a cry for a new County History, We ought first 
to make proper use of the materials we have already. 

We want first a good and proper index to Collinson, distin- 
guishing history and explanation, pedigree and anecdote, from 
reference to names, whether of places or persons. The last are 
valuable for research, — metaary indeed, — but are an impediment 
if mixed up with the others, when they become most annoying 
and embarrassing. We want, then, the like done with Phelps, 
Savage, Rutter, and other materials, and lastly to incorporate with 
these, the " Transactions " of our County Society, the larger part 
of which is already well indexed. When we really know what 
we have got, and can see its inaccuracies and defects, we can talk 
of a new history ; meanwhile we may well be content with what 
may be collected and preserved by our County Society, and by 
your " Notes and Queries." 

Will any one with leisure or the requisite ability undertake 
this work ? 

F. H. Dickinson, Kingweston. 

118. Acre, Hogshead. (I. i. 10.) — Through the kindness of 
my friend, Mr. Barrett, of Weymouth, I have a definition of an areal 
acre, which, to my mind, not a little clears up the difficidty about 
ager and acra. He says that Dr. Littleton's Dictionary. 1713, 
gives: — "Acra. Agra ab Ager. An Acre, 40 perches in length and 
4 in breadth." I am hereby confirmed in my suspicion that, at 
least in some cases, afftr and acra, as long measures, (whatever 
may be the case as to areal measure,) are not s>*nonymous ; but 
that ager = 40 perches = 1 furlong, as Isidore says ; and arra = 



+ perches, as Ellis and Eyton say ; and I am a little upheld in my 
hesitating conjecture that furlong may = furrowlong. rather than 
forty long. 

I have heard nothing about hogshead, as a timber measure. 
But Mr. Barrett corrects me in my idea that the timber sold by 
the Weymouth Corporation — in 1651 not [ 65 3 — was from a 
Municipal building, for it belonged to "the State." I think it 
was from the Civil War forts, dismantled about that time. 

H. J. Mottle, Dorchester, 

119. Names op Cups, (I. i. 16.) — For the names of these 
cups which are takenfrom "Somersetshire Wills," (1st Series,) "Old 
English Plait" by Mr. Wilfrid Cripps, should be consulted. 

Myghelt is probably a family name. 

Nulls were cups made out of a cocoa-nut and ornamented 
with gold or silver, 

Btrall, this is a cup made of beryl or rock crystal, (see O.E.P. 
pp. 219, i8t.) 

*Skynkinge pot, for the derivation of this word see Skedts' 
Dictionary, sub nunckion. 

F.W.W. 

130. " MygheU " is Michael. In the First Quarto text (1598) 
of " Htnry the Fiurth" Part I„ Act IV., Scene iv., the opening 
line reads thus : " Arch. Hie good sir Mighell, beare this sealed 
briefe," &c. The Quarto has the spelling " Mighell " in the 
other occurrences of the name throughout this scene. The First 
Folio text (1623) of the same scene has "Michell." With regard 
to " Nutt," a drinking cup, I quote Higins's (or Higgins's) defini- 
tion, Jn \i\s" Nimtndalor" 1585, p. 133, col. i: ■'Ooscyphium, 
I^ulum in out formam oilongum, qua specie igigiantur nuces Jndica 
ttmis argenti laminis inclusa apitd naslralts. uioaxvifiioi', Afhenao : 
lameisi dtscrtpel illic Aschpiadm dcscriplio u nostra. A kinde of 
drinking pot or cup fashioned like an egge : a tun, or nut to drinke 
in," 

W. G. Stone, Walditch. 

lai. Ancient standing cups were frequently shaped like a 
cocoanut, or the nut itself was mounted, and on this account were 
commonlycalled''Nuts." An illustration of the latter kind maybe 
seen p. 277, Cripps' Old English Plate. These cups often received 
particular names, having been called after Saints, etc. Nettlecombe, 
bye the bye, possesses the oldest English hall-marked chalice and 
paten c. 1459, (p, 189 ibid.) Might it not have been presented or 
bequeathed by an ancestor of the Trevelyans ? 

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laa. King's School, Suerbornb. — Amongst theTenison 
MSS. in the Libraiy of Lambeth Palace is the "Bishop of 
Bristol's certificate of Ordinations, Pluralists, Lecturers, School- 
masters, Physicians, and Nonconformists in the Diocese of 
Bristol, 1665." (MS. 539, fol. 315, &c.) This report appears to 
have been made to the Archbishop, and the portion of it which 
relates to the King's School at Sherborne may be worth recording 
in S. &• D. X. &• Q. Perhaps the present Head Master may be 
able to throw some light upon the nature of the School Orders, 
which did not meet with the approval of the Governors in those 
days. 

The Bishop reports "There is alsoe another free Grammer 
schoole at Sherborne in the County of Dorset founded by King 
Edward the Sixth plentifully irdowed with divers Lands, 
manners & hereditaments of a Considerable Value by the yeare, 
the Goueraors whereof, are the cheife men of that Towne by the 
appointment of the founder. These men doe lett & sett those 
lands allowing the Schoole master & Usher their sallery, but doe 
dispose of the remaynder as themselves please, they are by their 
statutes to make orders (by which the schoole is to he governed, 
and to pay the sallery) cum advisamento Epi Bristoll, but these 
late times hath taught them to Cast of that yoke, And they being in 
the peculier of the Deane of Sarura, the Bishop of Bristoll hath noe 
power to require their obedience, soe they Doe what they 
please, the Schoole- master his name is Joseph Allen a Bachelor 
of Lawes, but what their Usher is, or whether they haue any or 
noe I cannot leame, Vpon their entreats I tooke some paynes 
to make them schoole orders, but they refuse to receive them, 
because they thinke those orders to entrench upon their preroga- 
tives, which I humbly conceiue is worth your graces cognisance." 

A 

123. Ublet (I. i. 15).— I find Ubbanleah in Index to Cod. 

Dip. which Kemble queries as Uhley, Somerset. It is best in 

trj-ing to discover the derivation of place-names to find all the 

ancient forms ; and proceed by general laws. 

Ubbanleah means simply the lea or meadow of Ubba. Cf. 
HubberhoJme, Yorks : Hubberston, Femb. 

Tumbtli is the somewhat odd form under which Ubley 
appears in Domesday. 

F.W.W. 
134. In order to explain this name, itwould be well to lindthe 
earliest forms of the word. To connect it with uhbly (Old French 
oublie, from Latin Mala, vide Brachet.) recalls the old-fashioned 
etymologies such as would connect pimpU with the Greek pimplimi. 
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the latter half of the 
name, — Itj, may be assumed to have the same sense as in other 



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place-names, i>. a lea or pasture. If the ancient spelling can be 

shown to be U'piej', the meaning is evident. The prefix »/-is 
common in place-names ; but it is difficult to understand how it 
could become ui-, even in the Somersetshire dialect. And after 
all it must be remembered that the name may be, like so many 
others in the county, of Celtic origin. 

F. J. Allen, Mason Coll : Birmingham. 
125. The Peverells of Dorset. — Hutchins, in his History 
of Dorset, mentions two families named Peverell, one of Bradford 
Peverell, the other of Newton Peverell, the progenitor of the two 
families being " John Pcverel, de com. Dorset., 2 Edw. I. 1273," 
but further back he does not trace the pedigree, though he suggests 
a Robert and Andrew, about whose connection with the family he 



It has been presumed that all the Peverells were descended 
from an Illegitimate child of William the Conqueror, some say a 
son, and others say a daughter, but the generally accepted legend 
is that Maud, daughter of Ingelric, formerly mistress of the 
Norman Invader, married Ranulph Peverell, possibly the same as 
Ranulphus Peppereilus of the Domesday book. There was also a. 
William Peverell, said to have been the Conqueror's son, and there 
may have been others of the name ; certainly, by the beginning of 
the 1 2th Century, there were verj' many Peverells; but all this is 
beside the mark, as I will not go furlhur back than the above men- 
tioned, 

RoHKRT Peverell, who is found in the Roluli Chartari in the 
first year of King John f iigg-iioo], " Robertus Peverell, Bradford. 
10 li. terr'." He may have been the son of Robert Peverell of 
Sussex, of the Pipe Rolls of 7 Henry II. In the ' Excerpla Rotuli 
Finium,' under date of z8 Sept., 11. Henry III [1217], Andrew 
Peverellisenteredaspayingafineforlandsheldbyhisfather, Robert, 
in Blachinton [Sussex], and Berton [Southampton]. These manors 
were afterwards held by the Peverells of Newton Peverell. We 
may presume that 1 227 was the date of the death of this Robert, 
as Andrew is described as his heir. 

Andrew Peverell, perhaps the same Andrew who appears 
on the Scutage Rolls, 6 Henry III [1221-2.] Hutchins mentions 
that he was summoned to the wars against France, 26 Henry IH 
[1241-1], but he does not appear to have [lerformed militaiy 
service in person, as under date of 24 August, 26 Henrj' III [1 2^2], 
the king commanded to be paid " to our beloved and faithful 
Andrew Peverel 100 s.. for which he made a fine with us for his 
passage, and which he paid at our Exchequer, because the same 
Andrew, by our command, sent, in lieu of himself, a certain knight 
for our service." [Issue Rolls]. There is an Andrew Peverel in a 
list added to awrit summoning " faithful nobles to London " in 
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1156-57] Andrew Peverell held Newton with Chedington and 
thelwere. In the same year these three places, with Wavesbrig 
are returned in an Inquisition Post mortem as belonging to Agnes 
Peverel. 

John Peverell, the first named in the pedigree drawn up by 
Hutchins, is doubtless the same as the one found in the Rotali 
Hundredorum, [1173-74]. Under Dorset is recorded "Hund' 
Sci' Georg'. Itm Johes Pev'el tenet Bradeford deRege p. feodum 
uni militis," There was in 1178 a John Peverel of Sussex, who 
could not take upon himself the order of knighthood because he 
had not found any manucaptors ; though married, he was childless. 
There were others of the name summoned for military service 
in 1177, 1300, and 1 301, but it is not possible to absolutely identily 
him with all of these. According to Hutchins this John Peverell 
had two sons, the eider, John, founded the family of Bradford 
Peverell, and the other, Thomas, was the ancestor of the Newton 
Peverell branch. 

John Peverell. of Bradford Peverell, has attached to 
his name by Hutchins the date 1310: it is also stated that his 
wife's name was Isabella. In i32+-i5this John gave one messuage 
and 17 acres of land in Little Windsor and also land at Charmouth 
to the Abbot and Convent of Ford, and the same year, according 
to the Inquisitiones ad quod damnum, he appeared for that Abbot 
conceminf these and other lands, In the Fladtonim Abbreviatio 
under Dorset, 1303, John Peverell is mentioned in connection with 
" fossati sui apud Bradeford ". We find in the Parliamentary 
Writs that he was appointed conservator of the peace for Dorset, 
and raised levies. He was knight of the Shire in 13 16, 1310, 1321, 
1321, 1314, and 1317- In 1312 he was entered on the roll of the 
Battle of Boroughbridge as " Sire John Peverel ". His armorial 
bearings are there recorded as "gerounee dargent & de gules." 
He is described as knight, as early as 1316. 

Richard Peverell, his son. Hutchins assigns to him the 
year 8 Edw. HI, [1334-J5], and says heheldhalf afeeat Bradford 
Peverell, to Edw. HI, [1346-47]. 

Concerning the rest of this branch of the family I can add 
nothing to Hutchins's account until we come down to 

William Peverell, of Burdolston, 8 Henry VIII. [1516-17] 
Hia wife viaajane, daughter of Philip Baskerville. of Sherborne, 
Dorset. She survived her first husband, and married Sir John 
Mervyn of Fountel GifTord. whose first wife she became. She 
was buried at Fountel. William Peverell had an only daughter 
and heiress, 

Jane Peverell, who married, first, Nicholas Meggs of 
Downham. _Byhimshehadason, Lawrence Meggs. BradfordPev- 



,T 5* Onerics. 

. r.:i. 1770. AlthouirhHiitchins 

...- Meggs died'circa 1 570, 'thus 

. -.e states in his acccount of 

. :" Cathcrstone, married Jane, 

:: . -vidow of Nicholas Meggs. 

-. ::rrect, as we find in the 

■ i^ueen Elizabeth that '^/oan 

;,— : airainst her bv Thomas Lve, 

:-.e deeds of lands held of the 

.-•^ • of Bradford PeviToll, and a 

: .'r. The manor of Miickleford 

"i-i.iford Peverell. and seems, 

: :he death of Robert Biiller, 

• 3ridford, to the IVverells of 

Fran'ces B. James. 

■•v5?r AND Somerset. — In the 

• '"r.-^m the Dorset portion of the 

^-i.:.: by desire of the Bishop, it is 

; ..irge number of Klizabethan 

-V c. .ixisting. A very considerable 

\. ;.::r.g the usual four Hall marks 

mark, no doubt tliat of tlie 

.;ro of provincial manufacture. 

:>::-.o annexed illustration shows. 

v\ners having inscrilu'd dates 

:/.o second, -• when* the pieces 

.- > ^me twenty years later. Tlie 

v> is pretty much the same in 

known Klizabethan examples. 

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;*,::he neighbouring Ccnmty of 

:/ rublish some account of the 

.: .^ delay as possible, the writer 

^-; these maker's marks has been 

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127. Terms used in talking to Domestic Animals. — In 
controlling the movements of domestic animals by the voice, 
besides words of ordinary import, man uses a variety of peculiar 
terms, calls and inarticulate sounds — not to include whislhng — 
which vary in different localities. 

The undersigned is desirous of collecting words and express- 
ions (oaths excepted) used in addressing domesticated animals in 
all parts of Oreat Britain and abroad. 

In particular he seeks information as to : 

(1) The terms used to start, hasten, haw, gee, back and stop 
liOTSes, oxen, camels, and other animals in harness. 

(1) Terms used forcallingin the field; cattle, horses, mules, 
asses, sheep, goats, swine, poultry, and other animals. 

(3) Exclamations used in driving, from the person, domestic 
animals. 

(4) Any expressions and inarticulate sounds used in addressing 
domestic animals for any purpose whatever (dogs and cats). 

(s) References to information in works of travel and general 
literature will be very welcome. 

Persons willing to collect and forward the above mentioned 
data will confer great obligations on the wTiter ; he is already 
indebted to many correspondents for kind replies to his appeal for 
the Counting-oul Rhymts of Children, the results of which have 
been published in a volume with that title. (Elliot Stock, London.) 

TO indicate the value of vowels in English please use the 
vowel-signs of Webster's Unabridged, and in cases of difficulty 
spell phonetically. 

All correspondence will be gratefully received, and materials 
used will be credited to the contributors. 
Address, 
Professor H. Carbington Bolton, l-niversity club, 
New York City, U.S.A. 

128. Servincton Family. (I. ii. 70.) — ^This family was seated 
at Longford Caslle, co. Wilts. 

Pedigrees will be found in Hoare's Wilts IIL v. 17. Hutch- 
ins's Dorset iii. +11. 156+ V"- of Devon p. 188. 

The name is sometimes spelt Ctrvynnlon. 

In the forthcoming volume of " Somirut fncumbenls," now 
being edited by Rev. F. W. Weaver, it will be seen that the Ser- 
vyngton family presented to What ley from 1344 to i486, and it 
appears that the advowson was still in their hands in 1571. 
Collinson (IL 131.) says that the effigy referred to represents one 
of this family, who were tenants of the Manor of Whatley under 
Glastonburj- Abbey. 

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lag. The Arms described in the query are those of Servington. 
Sir Oliver de Servinpon did homage to Abbot Monyton'of Glaston- 
bury for one fee, one half in Whatley, the other in Longbridge 
Deverill, in A.D. 13+3. This date agrees exactly with the style of 
the details upon the tomb in Whatley Church, which are of i+th 
century work. In the 13th century the fee was held by Uie 
Walerans. 

J.A.B. 

130. Bathanceaster. (I. ii. 55.) — If the words quoted by 
Mr. i\Ioulc from Hutchins are really from the pen of Dr. Guest, 
they must be regarded as the product of his inceptive studies. 
Bathanceaster does not mean the city of Bath-e as a feminine sub- 
stantive making a genitive ffat&an. The form Bathan is a dative 
plural of bEe<t=bath (neuter gender), and is only an orthographical 
variation of Bathum. But the form Bathanceaster is so singular 
altogether, that it is easy to see what may have urged Dr. Guest 
to an extraordinary effort of explanation. I believe the form 
occurs but once, namely, in the Chronicles of the year 577 ; and I 
apprehend it has been engendered in that place by a process of me- 
chanical botching. In fact. I regard Bathanceaster as that vile 
thing which commentators call vox nikili. The city of Bath has 
had two historical names since the beginning of the Saxon period, 
and of these the earlier was Akemanceaster, and the later a^t Ba^um. 
Now Bathanceaster is neither the one nor the other, but merely 
a botched form made rtUt of both ; and I think that it was by some 
ignorant meddling with the text in that very passage that the mon- 
strosity was produced. I imagine the original reading in that 
place to have been Acemanceaster, and that a wiseacre scratched 
ont the first four letters and substituted the three letters Bafi. It 
is many years since I have seen the MS. at Corpus Christi College, 



Cambridge (A), but I i 
either in that book, or in 
in the British Museum 
written over an erasure. 



1 remembrance that 
of the two Cotton MSS. (B and C), 
first part of this Bathanceaster is 



J. Eari.e. 

131. Dk. William Musgrave. (I, i. 41.) — CollinsonsayslhatDr. 
William Musgrave was bom in 1657, at Charlton Musgrove, near 
Wincanton. But Dr. Munk {Roll of Coll. of Phyi.) says that he 
was the third son of Richard Musgrave of Nettlecombe, near 
Taunton, bom 4th November, 1655. He lived in Trinity Lane, 
now called Musgrave's Al'cy, Exeter, and was buried in the 
Church-yard of St. Leonard outside that city, where in 1873 I saw 
his grave-stone, crossed by the footpath, . and split across. I 
called the attention of the Council of The Royal Arch reo logical 
Institute to it, but the Church has since been rebuilt, and I do not 

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know the fate of the stone, 1 
cannot have failed to take care of it. 

Thomas Kersi-ake, Wynfrid. Clcvedon. 

132. An Account of Musgrave of Combe Sydenham is gi«n in 
CoUinson III., 548-9. 

In IS73 Visitation of Somerset {ed. F. W. Weaver) p. 18, it 
Ie said that Simon Court married Agnes, daaghter of JcAn Mus- 
grove of Kingston. 

Two Musgrave Wills are given in p. 57 of " Somenetihire 
Wills" ist Series. See also pp. s, 41. 

F.W.W. 

133. Family of Wadham. — In A.D. 1650, JtAa Wadham 
__ie from Somersetshire, England, and settled in Weatheisfi«ld 

'Connecticm, U.S.A. 

Xi) Are there any means of ascertaining his ancestry and place of 

birth? 
(1) The christian name of his wife, whom he married in England, 
was Susannah. 
Who can tell her family name ? 

H.W.S. New Yoik- 

134. Dorset Folk Lore. — As Honorary Secretary of the 
•Folk Lore Society may I ask for contributions towards Dorset 

Folk Lore through the medium of the pages of 5'. SfD.N.S- Q. ? 
Mr. H.J. Moule has been good enough to send me a few notes 
which I have inserted in a recent nnmber of the Folk Lore 
.Journal, but there must surely be a rich harvest yet to be reaped 
this fascinating subject in Dorset. 

J. J. Foster. 

135. Dorset Words. — Briuward. Gdndy. Leak. Lamp- 
). — May I ask the meaning of the following terms which I find 
Barnes's Glossary of the Dorset Dialect f 

Brimward. The same as borrid, or boarward. P. 51. 
t is borrid ? 

Gundy. Having the Gund. P. 68. What is good ? 
Lear. An ailing in sheep. P. 77. What is lear .^ 
Lamploo, An outdoor game amongst boyx. P. 77. How ii 
this game played ? 

J. J. FOSTEK. 

136. Hrv-E. QuoNT. Copse or Cop. Tbol8. Chejiil, 
Lekrett. — ^The Dorset Field Clob on its last excnnion (Aogust 
16th,) crossed from the mainland to the CheiU bank by way of 
I^mgton Hivt, in a boat propelled with oars pivoted on a Thale, 
passing through a wide and thick piece of wood called the Cep or 

^'iM' of the oar. For propulsion over the water and mud M low 



, a pole with cratch-shaped end was i 



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The boats used for fishing are cailed f.trnHs. I have ray view of 
the derivation of some of these terms, but will reserve my remarks 
untU later on. Meanwhile I should be glad to have their etymol- 
ogj- discussed in the pages of S. S' D. N. & Q. 

T.B.G. 
137. Golden Watches. Marsh Marigold, Callka paluslri. 
(IJnn.) — On my recently bringing home a bunch of these Flowers, 
I was told by my Servant (a native of Osmington, Dorset), that 
they were called in thai village " Goldtn Walchis." As I cannot 
find this name in the "Dictionary of Plant Names ".by Britten 
and Holland, or in Pryor's " Popular Names of British Plants," 
I should be glad to know if they are so called in other parts of 
Dorset. 
May 31st, 188S. S.M.P. 

138 Shig-Shag Day. — Why is the 19th of May, in the South 
\\'est Counties, called Shig-Shag Day, a name which I believe 
was applied to it before the Restoration ? 

W. 

139. Chaff vpon the Dookstep. A Piece of Somekset 
FoLK-LoRE. — A few months ago I read an incident in the Globe 
Newspaper, illustrating a superstition said to be current, I think, 
in Somerset, The belief was that for one to scatter chaff c 
doorstep of his next-door neighbour, amounted to an accusation of 
that neighbour's being given to beating his wife. Can any of the 
readers of S. & D.N.& Q. illustrate or corroborate this ? Can it 
be connected with the slang expression, "to chaff" ? 

G. W. Floyer, Stafford, Dorchester, 

140. Witchcraft. --The rope through which the witches 
used to milk their neighbours' cows, is mentioned in the witch- 
irink of past centuries. Is there any recollection of such ropes in 
East Somerset.-' Acord with feathersstuckin, which wasfound under 
the thatch of a cottage in West Somerset, has been conjectured to 
be such. Feathered cords ate used in Italy as means of bewitch- 
ing, but they are small, so as to be hidden in the bed-straw of the 
Intended victim. Is the savti for scaring and turning deer, made 
by tmg feathers at short distances on a long cord, to be seen still 
in hast Somerset ? It is used in some parts of England, in very 
ntsiriy its classical form. 

E. B. TvLOK, Museum House, Oxford. 

141. "DoLEMOORs" IN CoNGREsnfRY. — Collinson, (^Hul. 
S*»*- Vol. III. pa. 586) describes the annual allotment of the 
pottions of this Common among the commoners, by lots, which 
Ct>n»isled of apples with the tokens of the pieces of land cm < 
thi-m. such ai a horn, oxen and mare, poleaxe, &c. How late did 
>ucll mode of oltoiment go on into this century, and do any of the 



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Hd people remember the sj-mbols in question well enough to cut 

E. B. Tylor. Museum House, Onford. 
Camps Amd Hundreds. (I. ii. 81.)— Mr. Bennett en- 
quires arter the origin of the ptcHx in Catash and Cadbur^-, and 
asks whether they may both be the same, namely ' Cad,' meaning 
■ war.' I have never had much confidence in this Keltic 
explanation of the prefix in Cadbury ; and I would rather think 
that they may both be named from the cat, not of course felis 
domesticus, but felis catus, the wild cat, wliich was formerly one 
of the most conspicuous among the wild animals of this country. 
That Catmore in Berkshire is named after this animal I find what 
may almost be called documentary evidence. The subject would 
be too long to pursue here; but there is a note upon it in 
my Land-Charters, p. 475. Mr. Bennett's list of names in I. ii, 
89, seems to me to be evidence in the same direction. 

J. Earle, Swanswick Keciorj', Bath. 
143. Earlv Church Bltilders. Winscombe. (I. i. 48, 
L ii. 6z.)— Is there any reason to believe that Winscombe Church 
was re-built, as commonly supposed, by Bishop Ralph of Shrews- 
tniy ? Godwin says so, but his authority was clearly the Canon of 
^ells, whom however he misquotes. Godwin's words are 
Ecciesiam prseterea condidit de Winscomb, ledes apud Claverton 
cameram perpulchram apud Evercrich." But the Canon's 
itement is different. " Construxit de novo capeliam de Wynes- 
mbe, et totam curiam de Claverton et unam cameram 
Tionestaro valde sumptuosam apud Evercrich." According to 
Wharton, one of the two MSS. reads Wyvelescorabe for Wj-nes- 
combe in this passage, but in any case it is clear that the works 
enumerated were all improvements in the Bishop's Manor houses, 
and that what he re-built was not the church of Winscombe, but 
a private chapel. Godwin in var^-ing the words, has altered the 
sense. 

The chance! of the church dedicated by Bishop Jocelin still 

Edmund Buckj-E, 13 Bedford Row, W,C. 

Dorset Poems. — In a recent small volume of poems, — 
Derica by E.D.S., — (published by Kegan Paul, Trench and Co.. 
1888,) there will be found a Sonnet to Dorchester, (p. i.,} and also 
4 poems in the Dorset Dialect. These consist of 3 dialogues and 
one monologue: the dialogues are between Jan Stokes, the stay-at- 
home labourer who is no ' pollytician,' and his brother, Gearge, 
who studies poUtics, and goes olT to London on a visit to White- 
chapel. 

Their subjects are the new title of ' Empress of India ' given 
the Queen ; the acquisition of Cyprus by England ; and the 



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pictures at St. Jude's, Whitechapel. The monologue by Hadge 
represents the spirit of 'Independence' in the modem labourer, who 
repels all false charity, and only wants independence and brother- 
hood. 

Noa, Noa — taint clothes nor warmth nor vood 
Nor 'eet advice — "tis brotherhood. 
The poems are full of humour, though perhaps not quite so 
genuinely Dorset as those of Mr. Bames. The allusions in the 
book make it clear that the writer is the Rev, E. D. Stone, a native 
I frf Dorchester, late fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and 
I Assistant Master at Eton College. 

W. Lock. 

145. Somerset Chantries, "The Free Chapell of 
Atleston Sutton " at Overwere. — In the recently printed 
Sorvey and Rental of Chantries &c., which the Somerset Record 
Society has issued, this Chapel is noticed as " utterly decayed " in 
" 15+8. But after the lapse of 340 years, the site on which it stood 
M distinctly visible. If I mistake not, the stones of this tittle 
SanctuuY may still be seen in the walls of the Manorial pound, 
mA the adjacent farm. Twenty years ago, an old man told mc 
Aat be recollected hearing his grandfather speak of having seen 
Iksbrv which formerly unlocked the Chapel door. 

J. Coleman, Cheddar. 

1^ Ijitin Epitaph at Cheddar. — Can any one 611 up 
ite iHOcds that are wanting in the following epitaph on a stone 
ikCbKUu- Church-yard ? 

■* SCotrorem quemlam et lacrymas compescite vesiras 

IGobis is terns quod breve tempus erat : 

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i^ml St EaASMCs OR St. Elmo. (I. ii. 76.) — In reply to 
^ %^bt Pttboidaiy Scarth, my authority for identifying St. 
^^BM i«lb St. Elmo is Mrs. Jameson in her " Sacred and 

"^ J.C. 

iMI nirnriTT Family, of Cranborne. — The extracts 
~ " tan) SlilUngdeet, Bishop of Worcester, and have 
B pttated, as the registers of Sutton,- co. Beds, 
_f*m Rector, do not commence till i6go; they 
^gyb>p'5 Transcipts ; — 
' " " B StilHngfleet and Mrs. Elizabeth Ludford, 






Somerut &• Dorset Nola & Queriis. 95 

660 Feb. 14. Edward, 3. of Mr. Edward StilHngfleet and Audrea, 

bapt. 
1661 June lb. Audrea, d. of Mr. Edward and Audrea StilHngfleet, 

bapl. Bur. zo Nov. 1662. 
1663 Nov. 3. Margaret, d. of Mr. Edward and Audrea Stillingfleet, 

bapt. Bur. 15 Nov. 1663. 
1663 Jan. 11. M'ris Audrea Stitlingfleet, bur." 

According to the inscription on his tomb in Worcester Cathe- 
dral, (Brown Willis' Ca/A^rfr,i/i, 1.655.) Edward SUilingBeet was 
twicemarried,— first to Audry, d. of William Dobyns, gent., who 
was mother of the three children above mentioned, of whom only 
Edward survived ; by his second wife, Elizabeth, d, of Sir Nicholas 
Pedlev, (Le Neve's Knighls, p. 174.) of Abbotsley, co. Hunts, 
Knt.,'by Lucy his first wife. d. of Sir Robert Bernard, of co, Hunts. 
Knt. and Bart., he left issue, James, and Anna who married 
Humphrey Fyshe, of St. Andrew's Holborn, whose family was of 
Northill, CO. Beds ; mar. lie. dated 11 June, 1695. (Harl. Soc. vol. 
sxiv, p. 116.) 

The John Stillingfleet who married ElizabethLudford(?Linrord, 
this name occurs several times in the registers) was probably a 
brother of the Bishop. 

F. A. Blayhes. Bedford. 
June, 1888. 

149. Protestant Refugees at Glastonbury in the 16th 
Century.— Mr. Kershaw, the Librarian at Lambeth Palace, in his 
valuable little book bearing the title, " ProUilanls from France in 
Ihtir English Home" (pp. 13.-14.), thus writes, 

We now {c. 155S.) hear of the refugee settlement at Glaston- 
burj', of itself an important and memorable event, revealing as it 
did. the great care that the Protector Somerset took to support the 
(^use ol the exiles, by planting the weaving trade in that town, 
where he had acquired estates. Sir William Cecil and Cranmer 
were also interested in the establishment of this church, and by 
their means one Pollanus was appointed " Superintendent." The 
death of the Duke of Somerset very much disturbed the work of 
the exiles ; their employment was well-nigh gone, and in their 
distress they applied to the government for assistance. That being 
granted, their occupations were resumed, and in this matter Polla- 
nus had taken great trouble. On the decease however of Edward 
VI. the congregation was dispersed, and many fled to Frankfort. 
The settlement had consisted both of Walloons and French, and 
their liturgy was framed on the lines of that at Strasbourg, where 
Valerand Poulain, or Pollandus, had been pastor before coming 
to Glastonbury. The foundation of this church appears to show 
clearly the relations of our policy with foreign communities, and 
perhaps more than all, a certain sympathy between Cranmer and 



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(he Protector Somerset, on religious matters. Their service con- 
tained passages which are to this day used by the French 
Protestants, so that in many respects a unique and historical 
interest gathers round this " strangers " church." 

All this is very interesting, and any remarks en Mr, Kershaw's 
statements would doubtless be highly appreciated by the readers of ' 

a; s- q., s. &• D. 



igo. Chain-Shot at Corfe Castle. — A large cannon ball, 
to which a chain had evidently been originally attached, having 
lately been picked up at Corfe Castle, it would be interesting to 
find out when Chain-Shot was first used. The generally received 
account is, that such missiles were invented by De Witt in 1666 
for the purpose of damaging the rigging of English Ships. 
(Haydn, Diety. of Dates. \ 

Corfe Castle, it will be remembered, underwent two sieges, 
vii., in 1643, and in 1645, in which latter year it was " slighted," 
by order of the Parliament. 

Perhaps some of your readers may be able to explain this 
discrepancy in the dales, or else set Mr. Haydn right. 

Ralph Bankes, Kingston Lacy, (owner of Corfe Castle.) 

151. Eastkk Sepulchre, Tarrant Hinton. — On the North 
side of the Altar in Tarrant Hinton Church, Dorset, is a niche or 
recess, oblong, about 7 feel long, less than a foot deep now, but 
l^robubly deeper al an earlier date, with figure of an Angel at each 
of lhtfU(>per comers, with this inscription, " Venite et videte locum 
ubt positus erat Do minus." The four last letters of "erat" are 
curiously carved within the first leller E. Al each of the lower 
corners nrc Icltors, one legible as T, probably the initalsofthe 
pemons who erected the Sepulchre. 1 am told that there is an 
example in Lincoln Cathedral. Are there any others in the West of 
Knglnnd 'i 

G. 
6tli July 1888. 

I^a. Skmaphorhs. — I have in my possession an original 
dntwtng of the Semaphore which during the last French war stood 
on High Stoy near Minterne, and I wish to found on it an account 
of the ntiitions in the county of Dorset and their mode of working. 
Might I ask readers of ^. &• D. N. &• Q. to favour me with 
iltfornuiiim on the subject, especially as to localities and situation ? 
1 havu- also a copy of the changes in the positions of the signalling 
boards, but no clue to their meaning. 

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153. The ' Honour or Glolxbstbr ' and thb ' Land 
OP Morgan." — I should like to ask those who have made 
researches into the historical evidences relating to Uie ' Honour 
of Gloucester ' Trora (say) 1060 to 1300, if they can throw any 
light upon the extraction and family history of those Norman 
knights who were associated with Fitihamon, in the conquest of 
the Southern part of what is now the county of Monmouth and 
as much of the county of Glamorgan as extends from Monmouth- 
shire to the Neath river? 

Perhaps the scope of this enquiry will be more clearly 
perceived if I give a somewhat long extract from Mr. G. T. Clark's 
" Land of Morgan," where Fitzhamon's conquest is more fully 
dealt with than will be found elsewhere. Mr. Clark is speaking 
of the modem county of Glamorgan, and sa>'s, 

" All the greater tenants with the exception of the Lords of 
Avan and Senghenydd, and perhaps one or two more, were of 
Norman blood, and also held estates in England, chiefly in the 
Honour of Gloucester, within the counties of Gloucester, Somerset, 
Devon, and Dorset. The Liber Niger gives a list of the knights 
who held of the Honour, and jn it occur the names of twenty 
who also held lands in Glamorgan. These are Berkerolles, de 
Cardiff, Cogan, Constantine, Croc, Grenville, de Londres, Maisi, 
de la Mare, Nerbert, Norris, Pennard, Reignv, St. Quintin. Le 
Sore, Somei}', UmfraviUe, Villers, Walsh, and de Winlon. This 
list moreover, for some unknown reason, omits a number of other 
knightly tenants who held lands in Devon, Dorset, and Somerset, 
also within the Honour, and many of whom not only held lands, 
but have given their names to parishes and Manors in Glamorgan. 
Such are Bawdrip, Hawey, de la More, St, John, and Turberville, 
and in the tatter class Barry, Bonville, Cantelupe, Fleming, and 
Inlly." {Inlmd. p. 3.) 

For the purpose of this enquiry, no other evidence than the 
'^extract just quoted, need be offered in proof of the intimate 
connection which must have esisted between the fendal tenants 
of the Honour of Gloucester, and the Lordship Marcher of 
Glamorgan, of the time ofFitzhamon and his immediate successors. 

The history — particularly the descent of Manors, etc. — in the 
one, must throw light (one would think) upon corresfKinding 
changes in the other. Yet it does not seem as if anything like a 
combined study of these two p>ortions of the possessions of the 
Earl of Gloucester had yet been attempted. How much has been 
done separately, it is impossible to say. Is ' Collinson ' to be taken 
as the ' highwater mark ' of the study of the Somersetshire side of 
the question .^ I am not competent to pass an opinion upon 
Col iin son's work as a whole — upon the ' whole ' that is, of the 
section here touched upon — for I have not read him " from cover 
to cover." In the few instances in which I have consulted him, I 
have found him sadly deficient, or superficiaJ, or both. I may 



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have been unfortunate in my rererencea, but the results have not 
encouraged me to proceed further. 

In Glamorganshire, a recent publication of Mr, Clark's 
(unhappily only for private circulation) ought, as I would fain hope, 
to help on the study of this question by one well-defined stage. 
I allude to his volume of early Glamorganshire Charters, com- 
prising (as I understand) those relating to Glamorganshire 
contained in the " Additional Charters " in the British Museum. 
I have consulted the Official Calendar to these Charters and — 
speaking from memory — I believe they relate chiefly to lands in 
the Hundred of Dinas Powis, in the most southern part of the 
county. The Somersetshire Student, or as I ought rather to put 
it, the Student of the Honour of Gloucester, should if possible 
see this collection. It is in material of this kind that the answer 
to the enquiry I have propounded must be sought for, and therein 
lies the hope of its being obtained. If this field has been 
explored, or partially explored, by some diligent worker, it would 
be well to know what answer his labours afford to the question 
asked. If it has not been explored, — if collections of Charters 
relating to the 'Honour' are lying unworked either in public 
libraries or in private hands, — then it must be evident to all, that 
there is yet something to be done in the way of historical research 
in relation to the ' Honour of Gloucester." 

David Jones, Wallington, Surrey. 

154. The PoRnECK Society's Papers. (I. ii. 75-) — ^The 
first paper of the series is a guide to the geology of the Isle of 
Purbeck, by the late Rev. J. H. Austen, published in 1851, and 
consists of 20 pages. Then begins a new title-page, " Papers read 
before the Purbeck Society," followed by an introductory paper 
read by Mr. Austen at Corfe, gth Nov., 1851. This paper com- 
mences with page 20, and the pagination of the subsequent papers 
continues in regular sequence to p. 3 1 7, which finishes the volume. 
Then begins another volume, printed in somewhat superior style 
and on better paper, ending with p. 58. This new series only 
contains two papers about Purbeck Manor Houses and Purbeck 
Families, by T. Bond, together with three papers by Mr. Austen, 
viz., ■* A systematic catalog-.;e of the land and freshwater shells ; " 
" Domesticity of a Herring gull;" and "On reliques of Kim- 
meridge CoaJ." This, so far as I know, completes the series, for 
the papers were published rather irregularly, and at considerable 
intervals, and I am not aware of any one of subsequent date. 

The Society was originated and mainly kept alive by Mr. 
Austen, who was then residing in Purbeck. The meetings were 
pleasant social gatherings, made more attractive by luncheons 
occasionally given by some of the members, and by the presence 
of several agreeable young ladies who usually attended them. 
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subjects for discossioD which were suited for bonnets as well as for 
heads, for it is no treason to suppose that some of the audience at 
least appieciated live dogs more than dead Hods. 

The young ladies, however, manied. and the luncheons 
ceased, Mr. Austen left the neighbourhood, and his interest in it 
flagged. Notices of many of the objects of antiquarian interest in 
the island were just at that time being published in the new edition 
of Hutchins's ^li/orya/'/Jofw/, and the area being very limited, 
there was Utile more to be said on subjects of that nature. Thus 
the Society languished, and at length came to an end. The papers 
are, for the most part, of general as well as local interest. 

T. Bond. Tyneham. 

155. "The Purbeck Society Papere" began in 1855 with a 
|nper read at Corfe Castle, and the first No. was published in 1 S56, 
lis first page being numbered it, as a paper, written by Mr, 
Austen and published in 1S5Z, and entitled "A Guide to the 
Geology of the Isle of Purbeck, &c., &c.," was incorporated, and 
supplied the previous pages. Vol. I. has 317 pages. Vol.11, has 
58 pages (as far as I know). lis contents are : — " On the Ancient 
Manor Houses of the Isle of Purbeck, The Families anciently 
residing in Isle of Purbeck. A Systematic Catalogue of the land 
and freshwater Shells. Domesticity of a Herring Gull, On 
Reliques of Kimmeridge Coal. On the Tumuli of the Chalk 
Range." 

" The Purbeck Society " died a natural death. Members had 
died or moved, and subjects were nearly exhausted from which to 
draw further papers. 

0. C. Farrer. Binnegar Hall, Wareham. 
Aug. zi, 188S. 

156. Gallowses OF Lords OF Jurisdictions. — I was told 
[the other day that some one was working at the ancient jurisdic- 
:.tions in this county, where the Lords had the right of Capital 

lishment, and it was suggested that you might insert notes of 
ipwn places of execution. 

I send notes of some, and would invite others of your 
Contributors to do the like. 

In the second volume of the " Hundred Rolls," [Inquisitions 
taken in the md year of Edward I.), at pages 121 and 128 occurs 
the following statement, viz., that the manor of Hurcolt. part of 
Somerton, had been exchanged by King John with Robert of 
Newburgh for Poorstock in Dorset ; that Lucy of Newburgh, who 
then held it in dower, had appropriated in the time of Thomas 
Stykebird, Bailiff of Somerton, an acre of ground by Karybrygge, 
" u6i Ballivi de Sunurton sokbant tenert duelliim de prisonibus suis" ^ 
(in another place where "diullum lalronum sold fieri") "el ihi 
lelebani aniiquilus essepoul, (the pillory) el poslea furee." 



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Gary bridge after more than six hundred years still has the 
same name, a carriage bridge now, probably a foot bridge then. 
I remember a raised causeway on the East side, which I conceive 
to have belonged to the foot bridge, and on the other side the 
approach to the ancient ford is plainly to be seen. Behind the 
causeway is a fiat space close to the river which answers to the 
above description, and above it is sloping ground where spectators 
sat to watch the ' fun,' Some fifty or sixty years ago, several 
skeletons were found a little higher up on the other side of the road 
just above where the Turnpike house lately stood ; the bodies no 
doubt of the wretched persons hung after the battle. I do not see 
how Lady Newburgh could have got possession of the land as her 
private property, unless it was disused for the Wager of Battle ; a 
sign of advancing civilization. 

There is at Netllecombe a roll of accounts of Thomas 
Whytying provost of West Pennard, of the year from Michaelmas 
of the 15th Henry VIII, and the loth of Richard Whityng, which 
I take to be 1533, six years before the Abbot's cruel execution. 
Among the expenses incurred is the following item, "ei allocatur 
ei ij iol, pro faclura furcarum lotalilcr de novo apud Wilhell hyll." 
This place I conceive to be above Parbrooks on the boundary of 
the Hundred of Glaston Twelve Hides, between the two Pennards. 

I see in Greenwood's map ' Pouches cross ' between Clat- 
worthy and Brompton Ralph, which seems to tell its own tale of 
the gallows first put up, then disused, and at last displaced by 
some pious soui substituting the Cross of Christ, 

The new Ordnance map marks 'Fourches lane' as the bound- 
ary ofCarh am pton Hundred towards Old Cleevejust souihof Withy- 
combe, marking I suppose the gallows of the Lords of Dunster. 

It is not a very savoury quest, and the less so from the danger 
of confounding these judicial curiosities with places like Jack 
White's Gibbet, where the road from Castle Cary to Wincanton 
crosses that from Maperton to Bratton ; where ordinary malefactors 
have been hanged and left as a terror to evil doers in more recent 

The new Ordnance map shews on Blackdown to the south 
of West Buckland, ' Furches comer,' where the great domains of 
the Bishop of Winchester on the east, and those of the Bishop of 
Bath and Wells on the west, united, and where the gallows of the 
jurisdiction of one of them, — possibly of both, separate and facing 
each other, — were set up. 

There is also a place called " Stone Gallows ' somewhere in or 
about Taunton. 

Half way between Langport and Curry Rivel is " Gal lows - 
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1 conceive thai l!ie best knowledge of ancient feudal jurisdic- 
tions can be got from the early ' Itinera ' of the justices. While 
various circumstances kept alive local liberties in England and 
strengthened and established them, it was the policy of our kings 
to centralize the judicial power in the hands of their officers and 
have it exercised locally. 

These officers, when they went their circuits had especially 
to enquire by what authority the Lords had power of life and death. 

There is a well known story given by the Bishop of Chester 
of the Earl of Warren producing his rusty sword used at Hastings, 
as his authority, and I remember reading in one of the Iters that 
the Prior of Bodmin had a hard time of it for hanging a man ; not 
that the man was ' not guilty.' there was no (jueslion about that, — 
that did not mailer! — but that there were grave doubts as to the 
Prior's having the /-^A/ to hang. 

These rights, which seem lo us so wrong, lived longer on the 
continent than in this country, and appear to have been more 
extensive. Hallam, says that, {apparently in Poitou), " a Baron's 
instrument of execution stood on four posts, a Chitelain's on 
three, while the inferior Lord who happened lo have la han't 
juslice, was forced to hang his subjects on a two-legged 
machine." According to Viollet le Due, the posts were of 
stone, and he adds that Counts had six, Dukes eight, and the 
King as many as he pleased. He gives in his beautiful book on 
Architecture a shocking plan and picture of the Fourches ofMont- 
faucon with sixteen posts and three rows one above another, there 
being room for /^r/j' ^/fi^rf ' pendardsV These were situated near 
Paris, outside the Barriere des Combats on the N.E. side of the 
dty, apparently on what is marked on my map as the Buites 
Chaumont, lo the N. of P^re la Chaise. 

It was here that the great Admiral Coligni was hung up after 
his murder on the morning of St. Bartholomew, when ibe king 
came to see him and said that dead enemies did not smell bad. 

F. H. Dickinson, Kingweston. 

157. Wadham Family. (L iii. 133.) — Though I cannot 
definitely answer H. W. S.'s questions, the following brief 
particulars may perhaps enable him to obtain the desired infor- 
mation in other quarters. 

t. It seems probable thai John Wadham of 1650 was a 
member of the family of the Wadhams of Branscombe, Devon, 
who afterwards settled at Merelield, in the Parish of Ilton, near 
Ilminsler, Somerset. Sir John Wadham was one of our Judges, 
Itmp. Richd. U, and his grandson John, married a daughter of Sir 
Stephen Popham, through whom the Ilton property was derived, 
Nicholas Wadham (a lineal descendant of this grandson) and his 
wife were the founders of Wadham Coil., Oiion ; the former died 
in 1609, and the latter in i6t8 ; they were buried in Ilminsler 



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Church, where their brass effigies rest on a tomb of marble and 
alabaster, with a long Latin inscription over it. I do not know 
what issue they left * but eventual!)' the property must have passed 
into the female line, as it appears by a Latin inscription on the 
tomb that it was repaired in 1729 by Sir Edward Wyndham, Bart., 
and Thos. Strangeways. Esq., who are described as two of the co- 
heirs of Nicholas Wadham. 

I. I do not know who the John Wadham of 1650 was, but 
John was evidently a favourite Christian name in the Wadham 
Family, and it is probable that the registers of llton or Ilminstcr 
would disclose his baptism, parentage, and marriage. 

W. D., Bath. 
[A vciy good aeconot of this (amij is ei^Eii in Rogers' " Mt rarialt of ik* 
irMl,"pp. 148-1 72.— SoMT. Ed.] 

158. There was an offshoot of the Merefield family living at 
Catherston Lewston, near Lyme Regis in Dorsetshire, in the iGth 
and 17th centuries ; leaving issue in two branches, some of whom 
bore the christian name " John," about the time of Ehzabeth, or 
James L (Cf. Hutchins' " Hist. DorstI," Vol. II, pa. 115.) 

Administration of the effects of one Susanna Wadham of 
North Curry, Somerset, was granted to her husband John Wadham, 
on Dec. 8, 1 675. (Brown's " Somene/s/iirt Wills " series I, pa. 50.) 
This is most probably in the Will Office at Somerset House, or 
otherwise in the Registry Office at Taunton, 

WillthishelpH.W. S. ? 

2. 

159. The Peverells of Dorset, (I. iii. 115.) — Conlinutd. 
But to return to the younger son of John Peverell of 1273. 

Thomas Peverecl, op Nbwton Peverell. In 3 Edw. Ill 
[1174-75], he held " the third part of a knight's fee in his manor 
of Blecchrnton " [Rotuli Hundredorum], In Jan., 1 287, he — here 
called Thomas Peverell, of Berton — was appointed conservator oF 
the peace in Co. Southampton, and the following month was 
' amoved ' from that office " because of infirmities," [Pari. Writs], 
but he appears to have survived many years, as the inquisition on 
his death was not taken until 21 Jan., 1305, when he was found 
seized of Blach)-nton manor and Alfricheston tent, [Sussex], 
Berton maner [Southampton], Niweton maner and Burlebury 
clausam [Dorset], Ryp maner, Chalvyngton villa, Saperton 
unum messuag', Sonntyngs maner, Iwehurst maner [Surrey — mis- 
print for Sussex] ; and that his heir was named Andrew. 
Hutchins says that at the time of his death he held Newton of 
Ralph Gorges in socage. He had two contemporaries of the same 
names, Thomas Peverell. of Manesbrigg, Southampton, and 
Thomas Peverell, of Sampford Peverell, Devon, from whom it is 
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Andrew Peverell, who, accoriiingto the inquisition on his 
father's death in 1305. was aged 34, is mentioned in the Parlia- 
mentary Writs as of Dorset and Southampton. He " proffers the 
service of one knight'ii fee and an half performed by three 
' Servientes' with three barded horses" in 1310. He was con- 
servator of peace in Sussex in 1315, and in the following year he 
was certified as " Lord of the Township of Bcrton, Southampton, 
and one of the Lords of Windham, Ewhurst, Ripe, and Sutton in 
Sussex." In 1519 he was one of the Assessors and Collectors in 
Sussex of the 1 8th and 1 ith granted in the Parliament of York, he 
was constantly called on for militarj- service an<l to raise levies, he 
was Justice of Assize in 1319-20. he was Knight of the Shire in 
1324, and was the same year appointed to levy archers and to act 
on a Commission of Array, but was "ill and feeble of body and 
unable to act in the above." He however lived three years longer, 
the date of his Inquisition post mortem being i Edw, III [1318-29], 
Beside the possessions of which his father was seized, he had " La 
Bere, 6oac., and L'ichet, soac." in Dorset, as well as Ecsete, 
Shirynton. and Hethfeld in Sussex. His wife was A/ice, whose 
~ iquisition post mortem was taken 10 Edw. Ill [1336-37]. They 

Andrew Pevekell. Knight. In the first edition of 
!utchins he is said to have been 24 years old at the time of his 
father's death. In ij Edw. Ill [1341-42], he was called upon to 
raise archers [Inquis. ad quod damnum]. Probably it is he and 
his son who are mentioned in 1365-66 in the Antient K.dendarsand 
Inventories as "Andre Peverel and Andre filiusejus, Milites." An 
Inquisition Post mortem on Andrew Pevereil. chevalier, is dated 
49 Edw. Ill [1375-76]. He was seized of the lands before men- 
tioned, including " Bere juxta Canford and Newton juxta 
Sturminstre," besides Hallond in Sussex. His widow. 

Katuerine, survived him two years. The Inquisition on her 
death was taken 51 Edw. Ill [1377-78]. In it are mentioned Bere 
and Newton with several of her late husband's estates, and in 
addition Silmeston, Saxton, and Lewes prior in Sussex. 

We now come to a point that is not quite clear. Hutchins 
aays Andrew had two daughters and coheiresses, one married to 
Filzherbert, and the other to Brocas, From the Antient Kalendars 
above quoted it would appear that he had a son Andrew. The 
three Andrews in direct succession make it uncertain to whom the 
coheiresses were sisters, though it is natural to sup])Ose that the 
third Andrew is referred to. In the Rotulorum Originalium, in 
connection with the Peverell estates, we find entered several times, 
tmder date of 1375-76, "Edmundo Fitzherberd militi fiho 
Reginald! Alio Lucie unius sororum Andre Peverel militis defuncti 
. -U Johanni Brocas filio Maigarete fiUe Alesie alterius sororum 
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married, but there is reason to suppose that her daughter, Margaret, 
married Oliver Brocas, Lucy's husband and son may both have 
been named Reginald, At all events the property passed into the 
hands of Fitzherbert and Brocas, and it is possible that 
'* Edmundus Fitzherberd Chevalier et Johanna uxor ejus " had an 
only daughter Alice, wife of Thomas West, Chevalier, into whose 
hands certain of the lands passed. 

It is rather remarkable that a family, so widely spread over 
England as the Peverells, should have become extinct so long ago, 
About the middle of the 1 6th Century the name had almost entirely 
died out. 

I acknowledge with grateful thanks the assistance of Mr. H. 
J. Moule in drawing up the above notes. 

Frances B. James. 

160. HUNDREDSOF ABDICK AND BuLSTONE, AND WhITLEY. 

Can any of your readers inform me from whence the Hundreds of 
"Abdickand BuIstone,"and "Whitley," derived their names? Of the 
40 Hundreds in this County, though by far the largest proportion 
of ihem take their name from some Town, Village, or Hamlet, 
there are a few named after some tree, stone, or cliff, where the 
Hundred Courts were formerly held. May not "Abdick"bea 
comiption of some place ending in Wick, and " Bulstone"have some 
such origin as " Bempstone ", and " Whitstone " ; the stone in this 
case assuming the shape of a bull's head ? As regards the Hundred 
of " Whitley "', may not this be a corruption of Wheatley, signifying 
some meadow in or near Wheathill. a parish in the Hundred, and 
and in which meadow the Hundred Courts were held? Perhaps 
some old deeds. Court Rolls. Terriers, or other documents, might 
throw light upon the derivation of the names of these Hundreds. 
W. Daoreny. Bath. 
161. The Town of WEtLiNGTON. — I should be glad to have 
the opinions of any readers as to the etymology of the name of 
the West Somerset town of Wellington. Mr. R. S. Chamock has 
suggested "the town of the Gualen," i.t. the old wall. Is it 
possible that the present position of Wellington marked the 
boundary of King Ina's Kingdom, and a point of separation 
between West Saxons and Britons ? The local pronunciation of the 
name of the town is at present " Wall-eton". In or near Wellington 
there are such names as Buckwell, Champford Lane, Farthing's 
Pits, Old way, and Ford Street. Any suggestions as to the 
etymology of these names or indeed anything helpful in working 
out the history of Wellington, will be gratefully received. 

A. L. Hi;mphrey5, Ealing Dean, Middlesex. 

i6a. Ship "Castle of London." (I. i. +7.) — lean give but this 
much of an answer to Mr. Sargent — that the ship in question waa 
probably ml of or from Weymouth. In the Catalogue of Wey- 
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and Trom that port, about the epoch in question, and the 
" Castle of London," does not appear therein. But I do not say 
that the list is complete. 

H. J. MooLE, Dorchester. 

163. The Word " Forum " as a Place-name. — Can any 
of your readers infomi me whether there are other Hundreds in 
England which bear the suffix " Fonim," besides those of Bath 
FoKUM, and Wells Forum in Somerset ? 

The Bath Abbey appears to have been the owner of large 
property in the greater portion of the parishes comprised in the 
Hundred of Bath Forum, and no doubt the inhabitants of these 
parishes resorted to Bath as their Market-town. The See of Weils 
possessed the main portion of the property comprised in the eight 
parishes fonning the Wells Forum Hundred, and Wells was no 
doubt the Market-town for the inhabitants of these parishes: 
which circumstances, it is presumed, sufficiently account for the 
suffix "Foram" to these two Hundreds. 

In Dorset there is the town of " Blandford Forum." although 
the Hundred in which it is situate, is simply known as " Blandford." 
The town was probably so called, partly to distinguish it from 
Blandford St. Mary, the adjoining parish, and partly because it was 
the principal Market-town in that neighbourhood. 

William Daubeny, Bath. 

164. CoTEL, CoTTELL, OR CoTTLE, FAMILY. — The subjoined 
Iharter confirms Collinson's account of this Norman Family 

having been settled at Camerton, but his descriptive pedigree at 
Vol. 3, pp. 317,469, does not include this Elye Cotel who was 
doubtless of full age in 1148, and the Father of Sire Elye Cotel 
of the same place, who was a Knight in 17th Edward ist 
(Knighted at Westminster), was at the battle of Falkirk with a 
Knight's retinue in 1298 {Btt/e Roll) and "with the King in all 
hys Warres agaynst Robert de Bruis as appearelh by an old 
Chronicle." He died at the Castle of Sampford Peverell, Devon, 
in 1337, leaving by his wife Margaret, daugtiter and co-heir of Sir 
John de Peverell, a daughter and heiress, Edith, 30 years of age 
and wife to Sir Oliver de Dinham. This last Eli Cote! gave the 
manor of Camerton to the Church before his death. His other 
possessions in Devon, Somerset, and Wilts, passed through this 
(laughter and heiress to the Dinham Family. 

Sir Eli Cotei's Arms, "or a bend gulis," (see Collinson's 
I Introduction to Vol. I, page I.) are amongst the earliest recorded 
I Anns in Heralds' College, and have been the invariable Coat 
I Armour of all of the name using Arms, to this day. 
1 As I am working up a history with pedigrees of this ancient 

I name in Somerset, I shall be grateful for any Cottell or Cottle 
linformation from Deeds, Court Rolls, and Parish Registers. 

W. H. Cottell, Yeolmbridge, Wood Vale, London, S.E, 



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Apditional Charter. 15,917. British Ml'seom, — 
firanl of Fi«e Warren of the Manor of Camelnrton (Caraerion), 
Somerset, to Sire Elye Cote!, Ktiight, by King Henry III., dated at 
Woodstock, 20th May, 1148. 

Henricus Dei gr'a Rex Angl' Dns Hibn Dux Norm' Aqt' et 
Com' And eg" Archiepis Ep'is Abbtibvis Priori bus Comitibus 
Baronibus Justic' Vicecomitibus Prepositis Ministris et otfiibus 
Ballivis et Fidelibus suis Salin Sciatis nos concessisse et hac carta 
n'ra confirmasse p nobis et hetedibiis n'ris dilto nobis in Xp'o 
EJye Cotel qft ipe et heredes sui inppetuii heant libam Warenna in 
omibus diiicis t'ris suis man'ij sui de Camelarton Iia qi n'lls 
intret t'ras illas ad fngandt! in eis u'l ad aliquid capiendii qft ad 
Warennam ptineat sine Hcentia et uoluntate ipius Elye u'l hcrcdu 
suorum sup forisfacturam n'ram dece libriim Qvare uolum* et 
lirraiter p'cipim" p nob et heredibus n'ris qS p'dts Elyas et 
heredes sui inppetuii heant libam Warenna in ouiibus dnicis t'ris 
suis man'ij sui de Camelarton Ita qtt nulls iniret_^ t'ras illas ad 
fugandu in eis u'l ad aliquid capiendu qd ad Warenna ptineat sine 
licentia et uoluntate ipius Elye u'l heredum suorum sup forisfactura 
n'ram decern libraru sicut p'dtfii est. His teslibus ven'abili in 
Xp'o patrc S. Karl ep'o (i) Robto Passelewe Archidiacon' Lewens' 
Rog'o de Quency Comite Winton' JohS de Plesset' Comite 
Warwyk Johe de Lessinton Robto de Muscegros Galfr' de Langelee 
Robto Walcrand' Robto le Noreis Willo Germin et AHis, Dat' p 
manH n'ram apud Wudestoke vicesimo die Maij Anno regni n'ri 
t'cesjmo sccto. 

With the great seal of K. Henry HI appended. 

165. A Chard Epitaph.— In " Brice's (Exeter) Weeilj- 
Journal" if August ij, 1718, is an article on Epitaphs, containing 
the following : — 

"The next is an Epitaph which whoever pleases may 

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If any chance to come this Way 
To sec where poor Ttyphena lay, 
The young Tryphena let's you see 
That this World is but Vanity. 
Sbee little tho't on the Hour of Death 
So long as Shee enjoyed Breath, 
But now Shce s dead, what can be said 
More then this, Shee died a Maid." 
Then succeeds a running comment upon it. Is the 
■till preiiorved ? 

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l66, A1.UUNI OF Caius Colleok. Caubkidge. — The 
following list, comprising all the names of natives of Botset and 
Somerset admitted to Caius College, Cambridge, (hiring a period 
extending from 1560 to 1680, with interesting panicalars relating 
to parentage and previous education, has been furnished by Dr. 
Venn, Senior Fellow of the College. Readers of 5, 6" D. 
If. &• Q. may "be able to supply some further information, not 
already in print, relative to the persons named, and this will be 
gladly welcomed by Dr. Venn, and will be forwarded to him by 
the 

Editor for Dorset. 
DORSET. 

SAiiwAiES, Thomas : son of Thomas Samwaies, gent. Bom 
Bincombe, Dorset. School, Sherborne, under Mr, Grove. 
Age 16. Admitted June +, 1611, sizar of Mr. Cousin, Fellow. 
I [B.A., 1614. Presented to Bincombe, Nov. 23, 1663.] 



r ol his surety, Mr. 



; of Robert Mellet 
i, and taught at home 



[ years. Age 18. Admitted Aug. 20, 1613, s 
I Duisburgh. Matriculated Nov. 17, 1613. 

Meller, John ; of Cann, Dorset ; s( 
I Esq. At Dorchester School, under Mr. Han 
I at Bredy ('Bridey') by Mt. Thomas Barnes, B.A. Age 15. 
f Admitted fellow-commoner, March 13, 160J. Surety,the Master, 
f Mr, Thomas Legge, L.L.D. 

Gardiner, Francis ; son of Christopher Gardiner, gent. 
' Bom at Edmonsham ("Ensum"), Dorset. Educated in London, 
under Mr. Farnaby, three years. Admitted pensioner lo the 
bachelors" table, Oct. 27, 1618. Tutor and surety, Mr. Lowd. 
Previously, for about two years, at St. John's College, Osford. 
[Bji.. 1619. M.A. 1613.] 

HUNTE, Robert ; son of John Hunte, Esq., of Forstone, 
Dorsetshire. School, Rampishani, under Mr. Hawletl, six years. 
Age 16. Admitted pensioner to ihe bachelors' table, Oct. 5, 1625. 

GiLtiNGHAM, RicHAKD: son of Richard Gill ingh am, rector 
I of the parish Church of Lillington, Dorsetshire. Bom there. At 
' school [at Rampisham (?)] under Messrs. Hartwell and Hallet, 

seven years. Age 16. Admitted Aug. 31, 1629, sizar of his surety, 

Mr. Wake. [B.A. 1634, M.A. 163S.] 

Harvey, Francis; son of Richard Harvey, merchant, of 
Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire. Bom there. At school at Ilminster, 
tinder Mr. Conduit, and also in Somersetshire, six years. Age 15. 
I Admitted pensioner to the bachelors' table, June 9, 1629. 



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NoTLV, Henry; son of Henry Notly, husbandman. Bom 
at Monckton, Dorset. School, Dorchester, under Mr. Cheeke. 
Admitted 1619, sizar of Mr. Nicholls. 

Bartlet. Henry ; son of William Bartlet, rector of 
Monckton. School, Newcastle-on-Tyne, under Mr, Fobery, ayear 
and a half. Age 17. Admitted Nov. 26, 1618, litt. grat,, sizar of 

his surety, Mr. Robert King, fellow. 

Webbe, William; of Motcombe, near Shaftesbury, Dorset; 
son and heir of William Webbe, Knt. Educated at home under 
Mr. Smalley, Age 13. Admitted fellow-commoner . Jan. 17, 
i6o|. Surety, his uncle. Dr. Wm. Branthwaite, Master of the 
College. [Died in College, June 17, 1613.] 

MuNDEN, Henry; of Poorstock, Dorsetshire ; son of Henry 
Munden, genl. School, Dorchester, under Mr. Cheeke, a year 
and a half. Age 17. Admitted April 10, 1616, litt. grat., sizarof 
hia surety. Mr. Weatherell. [B.A. 1619.] 

Glisson, Francis ; of Rampisham, Dorset ; son of William 
Glisson, gent. School, Rampisham, under Mr. Allot, seven years. 
Age 18. Admitted scholar, June z8, 1617. Surety, Mr. 
Weatherell. [B.A. i6io, M.A. 1614, M.D. 1634, Reg. Prof, of 
Medicine, 1636 — 77,] 

Glisson, Henry; son ofWm. Glisson, gent., of Rampisham, 
(' Rainsam '), Dorsetshire. At school there, six years, under Mr. 
Hallett. Age 17. Admitted scholar, July i, 1615. Surety, Mr. 
Glisson. (Afterwards Fellow of the College.) [B.A. 1618. M.A. 
1631, M.D. 1640.] 

EvERED, William ; son of Geoffray Evered, yeoman. Bora 
at ' Spilsdone,' (Pillesdon ?) Dorset. At school at Rampisham (?) 
under Mr. Hallett, four years. Age zo. Admitted sizar, April 18, 
1631. Surety, Mr. Glisson. 

SOMERSET. 

Gatchell, Thomas; son of Thomas Gatchell, husbandman. 
Bom at Angersleigh, Somersetshire. School, Pitminster, under 
Mr. Glenvill. Age 18. Admitted sizar, Oct. 10, 1657. 

LuTTERELL, Geokge ; of CarhamptoH, Somerset; son of 
Thomas Lulterell, Knt. Educated at home. Age 15. Admitted 
fellow-commoner, litt. grat. July 4. 1576. Assigned a cubicle 
with Dr. Legge, Master of the College. 

Arl'ndell, George ; son of Francis Anindell, minister. 
Bom at Cheddar, Somersiet. School, Westminster, under Mr, 
Wilson. Age 18. Admitted Scholar, Oct. ft, i^H- [Died ip 

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ClaRkb, Jambs ; of Lydiard. Somersetshire ; son ot James 
Clarke, gent. School, Taunton, under Mr. Bande. Ape r5. 
Admitted scholar, Iht- grat., July 8, 1590. Surety, Mr. Alexdr. 
Roberts, M.A., Fellow. [B.A. 1593, M.A. 1597.] 

BiDDELL, Anthony ; son of Thomas Biddell, gent., of 
Nynehead, Somerset. Bom there. Schools, Langford Budville 
(' Butlield '), under Mr. Crofts, one year; and Milverton. 
Admitted sizar, under the care of Mr. EUys, Ap. 29, 1675. [B.A. 

167!.] 

Gleen, Rodney; son of Peter Gleen, Bart., of Hardwick, 
Norf. Bom at Piton, Somersetshire. School, Moulton, Norfolk, 
under Mr, Wickham, eight years. Age 16. Admitted pensioner 
to the bachelors' table, Feb. 10, 1665. 

Dackombe, John ; of London ; son of John Dackombe, 
Knt.. of Temple Combe, Somersetshire. School, Isleworth, 
{'Thistleworth'), Middx., under Mr. Willis. Age 17, Admitted 

fellow-commoner. litt. grat.. Dec. +, r6i+. 

Valestine, Thomas ; of Wootton Courtney, Somerset : son 
of Roger Valentine, yeoman. School, Sel worthy, Somerset, four 
years. Age 18. Admitted pensioner minor, ' tertii ordinis," hit. 
grat., Nov. 17, 1576. Assigned a cubicle with his surety, Mr. P. 
Goulde, M.A., Fellow. 

Platts, William ; of Somersetshire ; son of Ralph Platts, 
vintner. Bom in Bristol. School, Merchant Taylors', London, 
under Mr. Augar. Age 17. Admitted sizar, May i6, 1631. 
[;B.A. 163+. M.A. 1638.] 

167. The Daobkney Badge. — Canany or)'Our readers throw 
light on the origin of the Daubeney Badge — "two bat's wings 
addorsed sabJe, tied by a cord or" ? 1 bcHeve there is no record of 
it before the reign of Henry VIL, so I presume it must have been 
adopted as a badge by Giles, Lord Daubeney, K.G., of South 
Petherton, who lived in that reign, in addition to his crest, the 
Holly Tree. It seems possible that this nobleman may have been 
allowed to assume it in order to commemorate his victory over the 
French at Dixmude, when the English forces which he commanded 
gained an important victory over the enemy, whom they surprised 
by night. The English loss was slight. Lord Morley being the 
only man of distinction who was slain. The ■ Bat's wings ' would 
aeem natural emblems of a victory gained by a night attack. This 
theory may or may not be correct, but I should be grateful for any 
information which would throw light on the date and cause of 
origin of the badge. 

E. K. Daubeney, Eastington House, Cirencester. 



no Somerset &• Dorset Notes S' Queries. 

i68. St. Margaret's Chapel, Tatworth, — In my native 

village of Tatwonh, in Somerset, there is a place of meeting ofthe 
"Particular Baptists. " called St. Margaret's Chapel. In pre- 
Reformation times it was, I believf, a Chanlrj- attached to the parish 
Church of Chard. Can anyone lell me into whose hands it passed 
at the Reformation ? Can any one also tell me the etymology of 
the name "Tatworth " ? 

Frederic E. W. Langdon, Parrocks Lodge, Chard. 

169. IsHAM Family, of SoiiERSET. — In Edmonton Church 
there is a brass with the following inscription : — " Here iyeth 
buried the bodies of Edward Nowuli the sonne of Henry the sonne 
of Charles the fourth sonne of Roger Nowell of Little Merley in 
the County of Lane, esquire and Mary his wife the daughter of 
William Isham of Ilbruers in the co. of Somersett Esq. they had 
issue 3 sonnes and i daughter viz. Henryc Isham Edward and 
Katherine. Henry dyed the rest survive, this Edward dyed the 
18 daye of Nov, 1616 and Mary dyed the 25 of Feb. 1600." 



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On a shield are the Isham a 



mpaled with those of Nowell. 



In the " Calendar of State Papers, Domestic. 1637," are the 
following references to the Isham family. 

Page 165. "31 May, Whitehall. The Council to Bishop 
Pierce of Bath and Wells, John Lord Paulett, John Coventry, John 
Robert Phillips, and John Simons, jusrices of peace for co. 
Somerset. We send a petition of William Waltond, complaining 
of John Isham, of Braydon [Bradon ?] and William Bicknell, the 
one for having last year, when this city was infected entertained 
six or seven persons that came from hence without bringing certifi- 
cate of their health," &c. 

Page 580. "Nov., 1637. Sir John Coventrj', Sir Robert 
Phillips, and John Symes referees of a petition of William Walrond, 
presented against John Isham and William Bicknell to the same. 
Report that Isham did receive certain persons into his house 
coming from Westminster in July 1636, which were his own 
children. Whereupon Walrond commanded Isham to coni 
himself and his family in his house, according to his Majesty's 
orders. Isham and his family conformed, saving one Lulf, who 
went out by persuasion of Bicknell, who used him to carry his com 
and conversed with him." 

I should be very much obliged for any information as to this 
Somerset family of Isham, and specially from Monumental 
Inscriptions or parish registers of lie Brewers, Bradon, or any 
place with which they were connected. The artns are somewhat 



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So recently as 1834, Dec. 11, Charlotte, 4-th daughter of Rev. 
Charles Euseby Isham, Rector or Polebrook, co. Northampton, 
raarried Rev. Henry Trevor Wheler, Rector of Berkeley, Somerset. 
He was bom 9 Aug., (804, and died i8 April, i860. She died at 
Windsor 30 Aug., 1885, aged 77. 
H. Isham Longden, M.A., Finedon, Wellingborough, Northants. 

170. William Rosewell, 'Solicitor General.' — Can any 
of your readers give me information concerning William Rosewell, 
Solicitor General to Queen Elizabeth, and his connection with 
" the manors of Southbrent. Staplcton, and Alforde ", in Somerset ? 
All the published pedigrees of the Rosewell family arc in fault, but 
any information outside of the Somerset visitations would be 
acceptable. 

ROCKBEARE. 

171. Old Carved Oak in Somerset. — In a child's story 
book, entitled " TAe Haf-py Home, &c.," by Henrietta Lushington, 

146, I met with the following : " I have heard that gangs of 
workmen from the Netherlands, driven from home for their 
Protestant faith by the cruel Duke of Alva, used to go about the 
countiy seeking employment as wood-carvers, and that the quantity 
of old oak-carving we find scattered about Somersetshire is their 
work. Why that part of England seems to have been the special 
scene of their labours I really don't know." I never heard this 
before. Can any correspondent of S. & D. N. &• Q. tell me 
whether there is any tradition to that effect ? It would be an 
interesting subject to follow up. Are any of our family names 
Flemish or Belgian ? 

CuARLOTTE G. BoGER, St. Saviour's, Southwark. 

17a. HoRSiNGTON Cross, &c. — Can any reader give a 
descriptive history of Horsington Cross, or of the Stocks at North 
Cheriton and Templecombe ? 

George Sweetman, Wincanton. 

173. Dorchester Fahthikg, 1669. — As this token is one of 
no little interest to numismatists, it may be in accordance with the 
fitness of things for the original order for its coining to be 
enshrined in S &•. D. N. &• Q. I found it in one of the old minute 
books of the Corporation of Dorchester. The book is labelled and 
catalogued C.15. There is another reason for quoting the order. 
It gives an uncommon English form of A.D, It is therefore worth 
printing, perhaps, if only for comparison, on this point, with "In 
the year of our Lord," of which Mr. Pearce Edgcumbe spoke in 
(I. i. +0). 



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" Feb. y s. 



. This day ordered and desired y' M'-Taaper 



Twei 



I copper Farthings for y* benilfel of y pore of ihia 
Borough and that y" Town Armes be engraven on one side and 
HD* on y» other side where HD be Dorchester Farthing and 
under HD y" date of y« Lord." 

This order was made by J. Seward, Mayor, and seven bur- 
gesses. Now. all students of Dorset tokens know that this H.D. 
token is a puzzle. It has been conjectured that H.D. stands for 
Haviland, as being Mayor at the time. In the first place I venture 
to ask if such a way of indicating a name on tokens is a common 
one ? Further, we see that not Haviland, but Seward, was the 
Mayor's name in Feb., 1 668-9. Haviland, it is true, was elected at 
Michaelmas (4lh Oct.), 1669. But it is to me incredible that the 
Corporation can have immortalized him by anticipation. 

H. J. MouLE. Dorchester. 

174. Armorial Bearings. — I should be glad to identify the 
arms on an old silver seal, apparently of the 1 6th century — a demi- 
lion rampant, impaling a fesse wavy between 3 escallops. 

Frederic T. Colby, Litton Cheney. 

175. Hooper AND Masters Families. — The Somersetshire 
names ot Hooper and Masters are to be found in families of the 
small farmer class in the west of the county Cork, Ireland. These 
Hoopers and Masters are quite aware of their English origin, 
though not of the circumstances which brought them to Ireland ; 
they have, in fact, become so Irish, that thirty years ago, when 
Irish was generally spoken by the peasantry in that part of the 
country, many of them (like their Celtic neighbours) could only 
make use of that language. 

Wm. Hooper, Templeogue, Co. Dublin. 

176. Hundreds op Kevnsham and Chew Magna. — Can 
any one inform me as to the existence of published records of the 
Hundreds of Keynsham and Chew Magna, for the 17th and 18th 
centuries, other than Collinson's History P Also if anything is 
known respecting a family named Webb, living in the above dis- 
tricts during that period ; which family held estates in Jamaica 
during some portion of the time, certainly during the latter part of 
the 1 8th century? 

John R. Webh, z Vernon Place. Birkenhead. 



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177. Hugh Speke: — Prisoner, 1683-4. — A scarce tract, of 
some eighty pages, has lately come into the possession of the 
undersigned, and it has been deemed worthy of a rather lengthened 
notice, seeing that its contents relate to a memorable episode in 
English History, and illustrate moreover several important facts 
connected with the course of events, in these Western Counties, 
during the latter part of the Seventeenth Century. 

It will be remembered that upon the failure of the " Rye- 
House Plot "in 1683, a number of conspirators were committed to 
the Tower, amongst whom were the Earl of Essex, Lord William 
Russel], Mr. Algernon Sidney, and others of lesser note. The 
Earl of Essex was said to have committed suicide, on the fourth 
day of his imprisonment ; a circumstance which was considered 
tantamount to an admission of guilt, and, so regarded, was doubt- 
less the cause of the very hard lines meted out to Lord William 
Russell, who was immediately thereupon convicted, condemned, 
and executed. Of the remaining conspirators, some, among whom 
was Monmouth himself, escaped to the Continent, whilst others 
took their trial later on. 

The chief reason for doubting the crime being that of suicide, 
was the thoroughness with which the act was carried out. At the 
inquest it was proved that the wound " cut the wind-pipe to the 
Vertebres of the Neck, both the Jugulars being thoroughly 
divided"; and Evelyn has left on record, "that an Esecuiioncr 
could hardly have done more with an axe. There were odd 
reflections upon it." ("iJiiirj'," July 13th, 1683.) 

Thus much has been thought necessary by way of introduction 
frio the pamphlet, which bears the following title ; — 
• THE I TRYAL | OF | LA URENCE BRADDON \ AND I 
HXJGH SPEKE, Gent. | Upon an | INFORMATION | OF | 
High -Mis demean or, Subornation and | spreading false Reports, j 
Endeavouring thereby to raise a Belief in His Majesties | Sub- 
jects, that the late Ea'rl of ESSEX did not | Murlher himself in 
the TOWER, contrary | to what was found by the Coronas 
Inquest. I Before the Right Honourable Sir George Jeffreys, 1 
KNIGHT and BARONET, | Lord Chief Justice of His Majesties 
Court of KINGS-BENCH, | and the rest of the Reverend 
JUDGES of that Court, holden | at Wtsiminsler, on Friday, the 
7th of February, 1683. ] 

r.ONDON : 
I Printed for Benjamin Tooke at the Ship in S. PauPs | Church- 
Yard, 1684. | 

The pamphlet bears the following " Imprimatur " on the fly- 
leaf facing the Title : 

" I do appoint Benjamin Tooke to Print the TRYAL of 
Laurence Braddnr. and Hufh Speke ; and Order that no other Person 
presume to Print the same. 

Geo. Jeffreys:' 



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"That whereas Arthur Earl of A'wf.r, the nth of/u/t; in the 
Thirty Fifth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles 
the Second, by the Grace of God, of England, ScollanJ. Fiame, 
and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c., was committed to 
the Prison of our Lord the King, in the Tower of London for 
certain High-Treasons by him supposed to be committed. And 
the said Arthur Earl of Esstx being a Prisoner in the Tower of 
London aforesaid, for the High-Treason aforesaid, the 13th day 
of July, in the aforesaid Thirty Fifth Year of the Reign of our 
said Sovereign Lord the King, that now is ; not having the fear 
of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the 
Instigation of the Devil, at the Tower of London aforesaid, in the 
County of Midiltsex aforesaid, himself feloniously, and as a Felon 
of himself, did kill and murther, as by an Inquisition taken at 
the Tmver of London aforesaid, in the County of Middlesex afore- 
said, the 14th day of /I'h, in the year aforesaid, befor Edward 
Fernkam, Esquire, then Coroner of our Lord the King, of the 
Liberty of the Tower of London aforesaid, upon the \-iew of 
the body of the said ArlhurEar] of Essex; and now in this 
Court remaining of Record more plainly does appear. They 
the said Laurence Braddon and Hvgk Sptke not being ignorant of 
the Premises, but contriving, and nialicioualy and seditiously 
intending the Government of our said Lord the King of this 
Kingdom of England, into Hatred, Disgrace and Contempt to 
bring, the isth day of August, in the aforesaid Thirty Fifth year 
of the reign of our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is, 
and divers other dayes and times as well before as after, at the 
Parish of S. Clement Danes in the County of Middlesex, with 
force and arms, &c., falsly, unlawfully, maliciously, and sedi- 
tiously did conspire and endeavour to make the Subjects of our 
said Lord the King of this Kingdom of England, to believe that 
the Inquisition aforesaid was unduely taken, and thai the said 
Arthur Earl of Essex by certain Persons unknown, in whose 
Custody he was, was Killed and Murthered. And to perfect 
and bring to effect their malicious and seditious Contrivances 
aforesaid ; they the said Laurence Braddon and J^ugh Speke at 
the Parish of S. Clemen/ Danes in the County of Stiddlesex 
aforesaid, the jsth day of August, in the Thirty Fifth year 
aforesaid, falsly, unlawfully, unjustly, maliciously and seditiously 
did conspire to procure certain false Witnesses to prove. That 
the said Arthur Earl of Etsex, was not a Felon of himself, 
but that the said Earl of Essex by the said Persons unknown 
was killed and murthered : And to perswade other Subjects of 
our said Lord the King to believe this to be true, they the said 
Laurence Braddon and //«gh Speke falsly, maliciously and 
seditiously, then and there in writing did declare and cause to 



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Somenet 6* Dorstt Notes S- Queries. 115 

be declared, the said Laurence Braddon to be a Person that 
would prosecute the murther of the said Earl of Essex ; to the 
great Scandal and Contempt of the Government of our Lord 
the King of his Kingdom of England, to the evil example of 
all others in the like case offending, and against the Peace of 
our Sovereign Lord the King, his Crown and Dignity. To 
this Information the Defendants have severally pleaded Not 
Guilty, and for their Tryal have put themselves upon the 
Country; and His Majesties Attorney-General likewise, which 
Country you are ; Your Charge is to enquire whether the 
Defendants, or either of them, are Guilty of this great Mis- 
demeanour whereof they are Impeached, or Not Guilty P^^. If 
you find them, or either of them. Guilty, you are to say so ; if 
you find them, or either of them. Not Guilty, you are to say so, 
_ and no more, and hear your Evidence. 

■ Then Proclamation was made for Evidence." 



The evidence went to prove that Laurence Braddon had 
maliciously and falsely spread a report that the Earl of Essex had 
not committed suicide, but that he had been murdered by some 
person or persons unknriwn, the King and his brother the Duke of 
York, afterwards James II., being within the Tower precincts at 
the time (which latter was indeed the case) ; and thus by implica- 
tion connecting these Royal personages with the alleged crime. 
He was accused, moreover, of having suborned false witnesses, 
notably two children, to state that they heard shrieks, and saw a 
bloody razor thrown out of the Earl of Essen's chamber window, 
on the morning of his death, and also to seeing it picked up by a 
woman in a white hood, who came out immediately thereafter, and 
straightway re-entered the Tower. Braddon was also proved to 
have gone into the country endeavouring to obtain witnesses to the 
fact that news of the murder was current in divers places, such as 
Andover, Marlborough, Frome, &c.. on the morning of the event, 
iV., long before the truth could have possibly reached those 
localities, had the case been one of unpremeditated suicide. 

Before starting on his journey, he had taken the precaution of 
arming himself with a letter of introduction from his friend Hugh 
Speke, of which the following is a verbatim copy : 

" London Lincaltu Inn August i$th 1683, Wednesday Night 
10 a Clock. For the ever Honoured Sir Rol/erl Alkj-ns,' Knight 
of the Balh, at his House oi Nelhtrmtll near Hinu on the Old 
_ in Gloucester-shirt. 
^Honoured Sir, 

*A retired Judge. 



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"The Bearer hereof is one Mr. Braddon a very honest 
Gentleman, whose Father has at least Eight Hundred per 
Ann. in Cammalt; It seems it is his Fate to be the only 
Person that follows, and Prosecutes the Murder of the Earl of 
EsHx, and he has made a very considerable discovery already 
of it, notwithstanding the hard Stream he rows against, as 
things stand and are carried on at present. But indeed 1 think 
it could never have fallen on so fit a Man, for he has been a 
very hard Student, and is a Person of a very good Reputation, 
Life and Conversation and has a great dea! of Prudence, and 
has as much Courage as any one living whatsoever. He went 
away on a sudden hence Post towards Murtthrough to make 
some farther discovery, and what he has discovered he will 
give you a full accompt, and of all the Transactions hitherto 
above it. I lent him my Man to go with him for fear he 
should come to any mischief, for most here fear that he will be 
either stabbed or knock'd in the head, if he do not lake great 
care of himself, seeing he came into these parts I thought it 
not amiss to go and advise with you how he had best to pro- 
ceed in it, and I did charge him not to let anybody know who 
he was, that it might not be known that he had been with you ; 
For I would not for the whole World that you should come to 
any prejudice in the least for your kindness towards us. For 
we labour under many difficuhies as the Tide runs at present. 

" Pray call Mr, Braddon by the name of Johnson when he 
is with you, I have given him the same Item. We hope to 
bring on the Earl of Essexe's Murder on the Stage before 
they can any of those in the Tower to a Tryal.* He being 
in great hast I have not time to write more, but to assure that 
Mr, Braddon is a Person of that Integrity and C"urage that 
no body needs fear to trust him. 1 was very willing that he 
should take your advice in this case which is of so great a 
moment, seeing he came within twenty or thirty miles or there- 
abouts of your House. He will give you a full and clear 
Relation of every thing in that Affair, and how hard they have 
been upon him. Sir Henry Cafeli told him, that it was a 
thing loo great for him &c. All which Mr. Bruddon {that 
you are to call Johnson whilest he is with you at your house) 
will give you a true Relation of. Mr. Braddon hath been at 
a great Trouble and Charge already about it ; I know few that 
would have ventured to have undertaken this Affair besides 
himself as times go. I received yours this day, with the great 
pains you took, and the Letler to the Lady Russel which finding 
unsealed 1 sealed, without looking into it, and carried it my 

*Ttiis eridentty refers to Algernon Sidney and oilier^ concerned in the Rye- 
Honsc riot, wlio u-erc then awiuting their trial, 
t Essex's brother. 



Somerset &• Donet Notts &> Queries. 117 

self; she returns you ten thousand thanks, and says, she knows 
not what return to make you for your most extraordinary kind- 
ness. I have not time to write any more at present by reason 
that Mr. Braddmi alias Johnson stays only for this my Letter. 
I am Sir, 
Four moU obliged Friend and most humble Servant, 

HUGH SPEKE." 

This letter never reached its destination, having been found. 
r together with other incriminating documents, on the person of 
Braddon when he was intercepted on his journey* by the officers 
of justice. It was, however, sufficient to condemn Speke in the 
opinion of Jeffreys and the two judges associated with him. The 
evidence against Braddon, though for the most part circumstantial, 
was clear so far as it concerned the suborning of witnesses and 
spreading libellous reports, which, ipsis factii, were calculated to 
throw great odium on the King and the Duke of York. 

Speke was also arraigned on the same evidence, and accused 
" of as High Conspiracy as ever has or could well happen in our 
days, of throwing the Murther of a Person that killed himself, upon 
the Government." 

Braddon's defence was an attempt to prove that all he had said 
was true, and that all he had done was in bona fide. 

Speke protested his entire innocence, but acknowledged 
having written the letter, pleading as his excuse that Braddon, 
being a personal friend, had called on him to ask the loan of a. 
saddle and a man to accompany him to Marlborough, which favour 
was granted, together with the aforesaid letter of introduction, 
concerning which he stated, that 

"it was late at Night and he had been at the Tavern 
drinking a Bottle of Wine or two with a Friend and might not 
so well consider what he did write." 
He also said in reply to another question, 

" I writ it at such a time of the Night after I had been at 
the Tavern, that I knew not well what I writ." — 
ran excuse of which Jeffreys spoke in the following terms : 

" It seems he used to be often at the Tavern, and had been 
there when he writ this Pious Letter, and so his Saintship 
broke out in a tit of Drunkenness, for most of our Reformers 
of Religion now a days, want common Morality. And yet they 
are wonderfully Zealous for Reformation and Religion ! " 

It will be readily believed by those who know anything of the 
times, that after these words of Jeffreys', his defence availed Mr. 
Speke as little with the Jury as with the Judges. 
The Report of the trial concludes thus : 

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" Then the Court arose, and the Jury afterwards gave in a 

private Verdict, which the next morning was repeated in Court 

and recorded. And by that Verdict they found the Defendant 

Laurence Braddon guilty of the whole matter charged upon him 

in the Information, and the Defendant Hngk Sfiehs guilty of all 

but the conspiring to procure false witnesses, and of this they 

found him Not Guilty." 

The prisoners' counsel moved for an arrest of judgment, 

which was, however, ovemiied, and on Monday, the zisl of April 

following, after Jeffreys had made some strong remarks on Mr. 

Speke's conduct in his usual coarse and brutal manner, the following 

sentence was passed on both prisoners, Mr. Justice Wythens being 

the spokesman : 

" The Court for this offence, 

" Sets upon you Mr. Bradden the Fine of loooA and 
order that you find Sureties for your Good Behaviour 
during your Life, and that you be Committed till this 
be Performed, And for you Mr. Sptke (we have con- 
sidered that you are not so highly Guilty as Mr. 
BraJdon, you are Guilty of a great Offence, but not so 
Guilty as he, and therefore) we think fit to set upon you 
the Fine of looo/. and that you find Sureties for your 
Good Behaviour, during your Life, and be Committed 
till you perform it." 
X. Ch. Just. Marshall take them in Custody, and use 
them as they ought to he used. 

Counsel. My Lord, Mr. Spekt^s Bail is discharged, I 
suppose } 

L. Ch. Jusl. Ay. they must be, as to this matter, but 
nothing else but this. 

Then they were carried ajvay to the King's- Bench." 
But judging from accounts in the State-Paper Office, the con- 
finement of a Gaol was no new experience to Mr. Speke. It seems, 
according to the biographer of the Duke of Monmouth, (who, as 
has been seen, was himself implicated in the Rye-House con- 
spiracy), that soon after the date of Braddon's arrest. Speke was 
taken into custody and kept under a guard of soldiers for eighteen 
weeks, at the expiration of which time he was released on bail : 
but five days afterwards he was again arrested in his barrister's 
gown within the precincts of Westminster Hall, in an action of 
Scandalum Magnalum, at the suit of the Duke of York, and carried 
to the Gate House Prison. Measures were taken to defend this 
action by the subject of our notice, at the cost of a thousand 
pounds, but it was counUrmanded the night before it was to have been 
tried at the Hertford Assizes. The evident object of all this, was 
to prevent Mr. Speke from assisting his fnend Braddon in his 
investigations concerning the alleged murder of Essex. 



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The fresh imprisonment to which he was now sentenced 
lasted for upwards of four years, during the eariy part of which he 
was permitted a good deal of liberty on paying an unconscionable 
price for the same, and giving unexceptionable security. At 
length, however, he was again subjected to close confinement, and 
this detention was doubtless the means of keeping him from taking 
personal share in Monmouth's ill-starred insurrection. 

This, as we know, was not the case with his venerable father, 
the 'Squire of White Lackington, who already lay under a heavy 
penalty for implication in a pretended political riot some time 
previously, and whilst this and his own fine together with costs, 
(amounting to £1^27 6s 8d), remained unpaid, and so long as 
sat isfaclon- recognisances demanded in both cases, to the enormous 
extent of j^3o,ooo, were not forthcoming, Hugh Speke was detained 
in " durance vile " ; and here he remained, altho' well able to pay 
the fine, because he would not expose his friends to the risk of 
being security for him, whilst he was inwardly resolved to oppose 
the King, now James II. 

At last the King himself proposed that his prisoner should 
pay into the Exchequer the sum of ^'5000, as a pledge of his own 
and his family's good behaviour, with the Royal promise that in 
case they demeaned themselves to his satisfaction for a certain 
period that was named, that amount should be returned to himself, 
and a pardon granted to those of his relations who had been con- 
cerned in the Monmouth Rebellion. 

To these terms Mr. H, Speke ultimately agreed, and at length 
in 1686 he retired from London altogether, and took up his 
residence in Exeter, where he was afterwards elected counsel for 
the City. (Cf. " TJ,e Life. Progresses, and Rebellion of James, Duke 
of Monmouth," by G, Roberts. Lond. : 1844, Vol. II., ch., lutxiv.) 

It is proposed in a future Part to notice briefly the career of 
lilugh Speke as a " Politician." 

Somerset Editor, 

178. Dorset County Arms. — By the Local Government 

of 1888, the new County Councils, which are to come into 
existence next January, are to be considered as " a body corporate, 
and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal." 

Now, I believe it to be true, that no county, as such, has any 
armorial bearings. The subject has been discussed before in the 
pages of Notes &• Queries, and where insUnces have been quoted 
they have generally been shewn to have been adopted as badges 
merely. 

But now that by law all County Councils are to have a 
"common seal," is it not time that it should be considered what 
is the best and most fitting emblem to adopt as that of the Dorset 
County Coundt ? We know what the arms of the Borough of 



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Dorchester are (the three towers, with the quartered shield of 
England and France surmounting them), but in the Heraldic 
Visitation of Dorset, 1623, published by the Harleian Society in 
1885. under the editorship of Mr. J. P. Rylands, F.S.A., occurs a 
drawing of what may be taken as intended for the arms of the 
ciiun/i . In the centre of the seal is a fleur-de-lis with the word 
" Dorchestre" above it — with the legend " Sigillvm f/n/Ya/w Dor- 
cestrix " — (the italics are mine). On a separate shield are shewn 
the arms of the Borough of Dorchesier as I have given them 
above. Where the originals of these seals are, I do not know, but 
I have heard that the Borough still retains some old seals in its 
possession. 

I rather imagine ih.e fleur-de-lis to be the anns of Digby, a 
member of which family may possibly have been Lord Lieutenant 
at the time when the seal was struck. Anyhow, I think I have 
said enough to invite discussion upon the subject, which I trust 
may lead to the adoption of a suitable seal, if not for the county, 
at all events for the County Council. 

J. S. Udal, Inner Temple. 

P.S. — I may add that a similar dilemma arose when it was 
desired to put some armorial bearings over the entrance to the new 
Museum at Dorchester. Eventually, I believe, the Borough arms 
were adopted. 

179. Steekt-namksatShbptonMallkt.— Theancienttown 

of Shepton Mallet has several very odd street-names, of which the 
following are the chief: — 

I. Oslry (with long 0), two lanes named respectively the 
Great and the Little Ostry. Popularly supposed to be corrupted 
from Ostelry : but more probably Oasl-ery. The name oast for a 
malt-kiln is no longer used in the district, so Oslry conveys no 
meaning to the inhabitants. 

I. Kilver Street, a street which crosses a stream ; now by a 
bridge, but formerly by a ford, it may be. In Saxon place-names 
Kit ot Chi I =3. stream (cognate with German quelle), and ver=a. 
ford (from A. Saxon vetb/ar an ?) as in Den-ver and Twi-ver-ton, 

3, Quarr, a street supposed to occupy an old quarry. 

4. Garslon Street, pronounced Garson, or more often Gasson, 
The spelling may be artificial, as the name is not likely to be con- 
nected with the town of Garston in Lancashire. 

J. Cowl Street, also known in old documents as Gold Hilt. 
Both names may be corrupted from a lost earlier form. It is not 
likely to be Cold Street, as the situation is peculiarly warm. 



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6. Leg Square, This sounds as if named after some person : 
I and possibly this may be the case with the two previous. 

Board-Cross, a street.— Can this be from a crucifix? 
I There is no stream over which a board-crossing could have existed : 
I besides, the local dialect for " go across " is " go athert," 

Ca/sash, a sleep crooked lane. Was it named after a tree, 
I or is it a corruption of another word ? There is a hundred of this 
e in the county. 

9. Bowlish (with cw as in now), a suburb. Possibly for 
Bow-finch, where l'ow=bndge, and /;>n:A= village. The hamlet is 
on the sides of a stream where a main road crosses, 

10, Darsill or Z^arj-A///, a suburb. On referring to Skeat's 
Dictionary I find mention (under " Dace ") of Old English darce, a 
dace ; from Old French dars, meaning (i) a dart, and (2) a dace. 
This does not seem to explain the name. The hamlet of Darshill 
lies between two steep hills ; but the brook at the bottom is too 
shallow and stony for the dace to live in. 

There is no reason for excluding French origins for some of 
these names ; for the town was under the lordship of the Malets, 
and it stiU has the plan of a Korman country town, as anyone may 
recogfnise who is acquainted with such towns as Vire and Falaise. 
It lies in a steep-sided gully : the old streets are narrow and 
crooked; but the greater part of the town was built without 
regard to streets, and the thoroughfares were made afterwards. 
Thus the town consists mostly of courts, alleys, and isolated 
houses : and the houses abut in all kinds of ways upon the lanes, 
Gome presenting their sides, others their backs, and others again 
even sticking out comerwise. 

Frank J. Allen, Mason College, Birmingham. 

180. KNOWXTON,(I.iii.g3.,i. II.)— I read with much pleasure 
the Rev. J. H. Ward's note on this old ruined Church, as it 
contains some particulars relative to its structural remains and 
original foundation which I had not seen previously described or 
noticed. If, as he is inclined to think, there exist indications of 
Saxon work in the building, I can corroborate this by the opinion of 
the late Mr. Beresford Hope, no mean authority in Church 
architecture, which he expressed to me after an inspection of the 
ruin. 

Knolton is altogether a remarkable spot and carries us back 
into the mazes of a very remote antiquity. The best account of it, 
so far as I know, is to be found in Mr. Warne's " Ancient Dorset," 
the latest work on the Anliquities of this County. The ancient 



193 Semeruf S- Dorset Noles &• Queries. 

Earthworks arelo many persons of higher interest than the Church, 
though the mere Tact of a Christian Church haring been built 
within a circular enclosure, undeniably of Celtic construction, at 
once opens a wide field for conjecture and enquiry. It is not my 
intention to go any length into this inviting subject, but I feel it 
to be incumbent on myself to take this opportunity for correcting 
a mistake into which I seem to have blindly led my friend Dr. 
Crespi, from his note in the first Part of this Paper. I regret very 
much that I did not make my verbal communication to him in 
more intelligible temis, and I desire now to explain myself on the 
question of these earthworks al Knolton both for his and my own 
satisfaction. I could not have spoken designedly of the existence 
ofwrrti circles, and their coneenln'c arrangement, and am very 
sorry that what I did say left this impression on his mind. Now 1 
beg to state that the earthworks are four in number, placed at 
irregular interspaces of many yards from each other, and that one 
of them only retains its circular form perfect and is that one in 
which stands the ruined Church. 

T.W.W.S., Cranborae. 

i8i. Beduan = Sexton. — In the Churchwardens' accounts 
of the parish church of Frome, which begin with 1567. there is 
frequent mention of an oEficer called the " Bedman." His earliest 
mentioned duty is that of " gathering the holy loffe," for which he 
receives is. ivd, ; while on the Receipt side occurs : 

" For the Iioly loffe of the beJmao " ivu. 

In 15S0 "was paid for a new shoyell for the bedman" U. 

15^9 ■' for a scoope far the bedman " ii. 

1616 " for a sho*cIl for the beedeman" xij4< 

These entries seem to identify the Bedman with the Sexton ; 
and this is corroborated by an entry in 1590, " Cuthbert Freestone 
is elected newe Bedman by John Champneyes Esquire, so long as 
he discharge it orderly." The right of appointing the sextons of 
Frome parish is at the present day exercised by the owner of the 
neighbouring estate of Orchardleigh ; and this manor was till 
about 40 years ago held by the Champneys family. 

The title " Bedman " occurs in the books of accounts till the 
middle of last century. 

Can anyone supply other instances of this use of the title for 
a parish officer ? Also, at what time of year was it usual to gather 
the holy loaf? for in 1569 this occurs : 

" Paid the Bedman as alowed by aundent custome for bis diner 

on lofe Sunday " ivd, 

and the same year 

" Paid at the visitation for the Wardcnes and the postes diner the 

Monday after Lofe Sunday " irt, 

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182. John Mayo of Cattistock. Dorset. — The Rev. 
John Mayo, bom 1565 in the parish of West Orchani, near 
Shaftesburj". who matriculated at Oxford in 158J. and was the 
probable author of " The Pope's Pariiament" in 1593, and Rector 
of Cattistock, 1614-1634., had issue three sons, John, Edward, and 
Thomas. 

Can yonr Dorset readera give me any information concerning 
his family, especially Ms eldest son. John, which will serve to 
identify the latter wilh the John Mayo who emigrated to the New 
England Colony, October. 1639, sailing, it is thought, from 
Plymouth, and landing at the site of the present town of Itarnstable, 
Cape Cod, Mass ? 

H. O. Mayo, M.D., 147 Fifth Avenue, New York. 

183. Armada Expenses. (I. ii 50.) — The lollowing errors 
of commission and omission in the list of contributors given at 
pp. 35-40. have been kindly pointed out, and are hereby gratefully 
acknowledged by the Editors. 

Errata. 
Pa. 37, line 12, '■ CoUinson III. 516." refers (o Thomas Cnrew, [ih/™). 
Pa. 38, in the note al the end or Somerset names, "V.W. 1573" 

should be -v. W. 16*3." 

Remarks. 
John Pearham, Gen., p. 37. 

The Parhams were nflcrwards of Pointington, V.S. 1623, 

p. 142. Sir Edwd. Pnrham. Kl. = ElU. d, and h. of Geo. 

TiUy Esq. of Pomtingdon. Collinson, II. 377. 
Simon Saunders, p. 37, 

In his will, proved May 11, 1591 (Somt. Wilh. !«. Scr. p. 56.) 

he is'desoibedjas ■' of Taunton, Somt, Clolhicr."* 
Thomas Coward, p. 37, V.S, 1613, p. 30. 
John Hawker,, p. 38. 

Of Vagc, in Chilthorae Domer, V.W. 1(113, P- 5^. and 

CoUiuson, 111. ai7. 
John Afford, of Norton, (.w in Noble's List}, p, 38. 

Should be John Ford of Norton Hautvile. V.S. 1613, p. 4], 

and Collinsoo. II. loS. 

Richard Mawdlcy. p. 38, 

Of Nunoey. V.S. 1623. p. 73. 

Robert Harbyn, p. 39. V.S, 1613, p. 46. 
"Giles" Gilbert, pp. 35-36. 

Could ceitainly not have been recorded in error for "George," 
or '■ Gregory," in V.S. 157J, p. 109 

F, W. Weaver. Milion CIcvedon. 
• Btgboroneh ii id Taunton Dean,— Ed, Soubbsbt. 



134 Somerset &■ Dorset Notes &• Queries. 

Joan Cutt, Vidua, p. 38. 

John Cull, Mayor of Brisiol in 1565.66, by will dated 
any. lo, 1571, bequeathed to his wiie Joan, " ihe 
manor and lordship of Burnell, co. Somersclt." (Rev. 
T. P. Wadley's" Jiffroitio/arutof WilU:' 1886, p. 109.1 
She I think would be the ■■ Jean Cutt. tidua," who contributed 
^15, towards the Armxla eipenses. John Cutt died of the 
Plagueia Bristol in 1575. '" Burnett Church there is a fine 
moDUniental brass to him, on which are represented himsetf, 
bil wife, and their eight sons, and four daughters. 

William George, Clifton. 

184. Shig-Shag Day. (I. iii. 138.)— Our people caJl the 
19th of May "Sh-t-sack" day. Any one not ready with an oak 
leaf on that day, used to be and is still sometimes the legitimate 
object of kicks and cuffs. So it was at Winchester thirty years ago, 
but we had not the name. 

J. A. Bennett, South Cadbury Rectory. 

185. Fifty years since, in South Somerset, the ordinary 
greeting of schoolboys on the agth of May was, in a bullying tone 
and with a threatening look at any one not decorated with an 
oakleaf (or an oak-apple if procurable), " Jit-jack I" This word, 
bandied two and fro for a minute or so, was usually silenced by 
the presumed prepetrator of the sin of omission replying, 

■' You are " Jit-jack " for calling me so. 
For I've got some oak {leaf) in the heel of my shoe," 
a precaution almost universally taken by country schoolboys at 
that time. 

The word " Shig-Shag " is a corrupt form of one of those 
odious lurms which characterized the amenities of Cavaliers and 
Roundheads at the Restoration, de quo ef. "A Classical 
Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 3rd Edit. London. 1796. 

Z 

[Similar communications have been received from T. B. G. 
and C. H., the latter of whom mentions that the expression was 
elaborated in his youth, spent in the S.W. counties, into 
" Sh-t-shack, Lousy-back, 
Go and tell the Lord of it." 
Halliwell mentions the form " Shick-Shack," as used in 
Surrey.] 

186. Dorset Words. (L iii. 135) — • Bom'd' is a corruption 
of ' Boar ward.' 

' Gund ' in sheep is a disease which affecU the skin, and by 
consequence the wool, which drops off. It is highly conUgious, 



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I and is the sarae as the ' Scab ' or ' Shab,' having analogies with 
E pustular itch {scabies) in human beings. Der. A.S, GHn(/=matler, 
poison. 

' Lear' is not a disease in sheep ; it is a temi applied to the 

colour and condition of the wool, often produced by artificial 

nieans in order to promote the sale of the animals. There is 

however a disease named ' Lewer' or ' Lure,' which is a running 

ire in the cleft of the hoof, sometimes, though erroneously, 

infounded with the ordinary ' foot-rot.' 

' Lamploo,' s. favourite schoolboy game in the West Country, 
' half a century since, is thus played, 

A Goal having been selected and bounds determined, the 
promoters used to prepare the others by calling at the top their 
voices, 

"Lamp! Lampl Laa — ol 

Those ihat don't run shan't play — o I " 

Then one of the ' spiyest ' lads is elected to commence, thus ; 
First touching the goal with his foot, or leaning against it, and 
clasping his hands so as to produce the letter W in the dumb 
alphabet, he pursues the other players, who are not so handicapped , 
— when, if he succeeds in touching one without unclasping his 
hands, they both make a rush for the goal. Should either of the 
other boys succeed in overtaking one of these before reaching that 
spot, he has the privilege of riding him ' home ' pick-a-back. 

Then these two boys (i.e. the original pursuer and the one 
caught) joining hands, carry on the game as before, incurring a 
similar penalty in case of being overtaken as already described. 
Each successive boy, as he is touched by the pursuers, has to 
make for the goal under similar risks, afterwards clasping hands with 
the rest, and forming a new recruit in the pursuing gang, in whose 
chain the outside players alone have the privilege of touching and 
thus adding to their numbers. Should the chain at any time be 
broken, or should the original pursuer unclasp his hands, either by 
design or by accident, the penalty of carrying a capturer to the goal 
is incurred, and, in my lime, was always enforced. 

Of course a good deal of mirth is caused by a big boy 
capturing a little one, and having to ride him home, — by cleverly 
dodging a fast runner, as a hare does a greyhound, — and by many 
other ev ' ' ' ■ ■ > - -> - •■ - 

agihty. 

In my part of the world (W. Somerset), the pursuing boys, 
after starting, were in the habit of crying out the word ' brewerre ' 
or ' blewarre ' ; noise appearing to be quite aa essential to the 
game aa speed. 



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136 Somtrut &• Dorut Notts &• Qiuria. 

I may mention that za years ago, or less, the ^ame «u 
common in some parts of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, and, 
amongst English schoolboys, even in Brussels. I have been told 
that it was sometimes called " Chevy Chase," in one or more of 
those districts, 

S. 

187, Copse or Cop. Tholk. Chesil. Lerrett. (I. iii. 
136,) — In reply toT.B.G.'s query as above, I would submit thai 

• C4«i/-bank ' is a bank of gravel or pebbles, fr : A.S. ceottl 
=a gravel. 

The ' Thole' is the part of the gunwale that supports the oar, 
fr: A.S. '/W = to bear. 

The ' Cop ' or ' Copse' of the oar is derived fr : A.S. ' cosp ' or 
'lofii' = a fetter. 

'/.ffw//' may mean a sort of feny boat or small vessel for 
short distances, fr; A.S. 'lidran' = to pass over. 

SOMBRSETIENSIS. 

188. Archbishop Laud's Visitation. (I. i, 4.-J — The 
Churchwardens' Book of Accounts at Pkome contains no mention 
of Archbishop Laud's name, but in 1635 occurs the entry: 

" Paid It the Archbishopp's Visitation jvi," 

Other payments precede this, tallying in some respects with those 
quoted hy the Rector of Cbarlynch : 

"For a book concerning dandng by the King's aUowance virf. 

For a table coDceming laarriage whicb hangs in the pulpit ivd. 

For B copy orprescntmenl to the view of the Church it. yujd. 

For 1 new flaggons rriji. nd. 

For a bread plate for the Commonion ij/i. 

For a cloth for the pulpilt Ui m.vid. 

For a cover for the fonnll vjj*. 

For a paper boke to write strange preachers' auatt in ivj. 

Paid at Well! for a leryar for the vScorag lands u," 

In the year 1615 Archbishop Abbott also held a visitation in 
this diocese, for the same book of accounts has an entry in that 
year: 

" Paid at my Lord of Cinterberie's vissiiation vi». viijA" 

No special improvements seem to have followed, unless it be 
the introduction of Erasmus's " Paraphrase ", which is thus noted ; 

"Paid to Mr. Tuylor for the booke that's tyed In the Church,, vij. 

For ihe dea that houldes it i*," 

This book, or its successor, remained chained in the chnrch 
porch until the alterations effected by the late Vicar. 

Archbishop Grindal had also held a visitation in this diocese, 
U the follouing entry in 1577 testifies : 



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I viidtacon for the charges of 
OUT uuuier ana out oiu , Ti. iviJ." 

W. E, Daniel, Ftome. 

189. FiTZjAMEs, OF Leweston. — I am anxious to know if 
any desctntianls in the male line of the family of Fitzjames. of 
Leweston, Dorset, are still in existence. It is well known that 
upon the death of Sir John Fitijames, in 1670, his estate passed 
to his daughters and coheiresses, his only son, John, having pre- 
deceased him. There were, however, male descendants then 
living of Thomas Fitzjames, the brother of Sir John, and, to go a 
generation further back, the male issue of Sir John's uncles (the 
younger brothers of Leweston Fitzjames) were fairly numerous. 
What became of the posterity of these cadet branches of the 
family ? It is unlikely that they have become totally extinct, and 
e still occurs occasionally in newspaper announcements of 
birth, death, and so forth. I shall be obliged if any one bearing 
the name of Fitzjames, or possessing information regarding the 
later pedigree of the family, will communicate with me through 
the medium of 5. 6* D. N. &• Q 

A 

igo. Quaker Burial Grounds, — Will correspondents 
furnish a list of Burial Grounds belonging to the Society of 
Friends, whether now in use or not, situate in the County of 
Dorset i I am aware that such are to be found at Bridport, Lyme, 
Weymouth, Nether Compton, and Ryme Inirinseca. Are there 
any others ? 

EnQ DIRER. 

Addenda to the Visitation of Dorsetshire, 1613. 
Edited by Rev. Dr. Colby, and Mr. J. P. Rylands. 1888. 8*». 
Pp. viii, 54. 

Readers of S. &f D. N. &f Q., who are interested in Dorset 
Genealogy, will be glad to know that under the above-named title 
a Supplement to the Volume of Dorset Pedigrees, issued in 1885 
by the Harleian Society, has been printed by Messrs. Mitchell and 
Hughes, 140 Wardour St., W. The work has been carried out 
under able editorship, and is particularly interesting to Dorset 
men, as containing a collertion of Pedigrees from a MS. in the 
County Museum. This MS., recently in the hands of the late 
Rev. Charles Bingham, and by his widow presented to the 
Dorchester Museum, was formerly possessed by Browne Willis, 
and is annotated with remarks in his handwriting. It was made 



e»^i<. 



t Nota 6- QMeria. 

g his history of the County. The 
D +5 pedigrees, enriched with abstracts 
« bj the late Rev. Frederick Brown. The 



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s or Somersetshire Wills, etc.," copied 

; collections of the late Rev. Frederick 

. FjiJL. isi Series, privately printed for F. A. 

s alre;uly rendered ' Yeoman's Service ' in reducing 
■MMKzmCs of infinite value to the genealogist and the 

^ __r^tM>IWBas never done them a better turn than when 

HM^ itk« book'ibnB these " A&slnji/s of Somerstt IVi/ls." 

jLOtaml ««st-co«mtry clergyman of high culture and refined 
«■■(, l6s late Mr. Frederick fironrn spent a good many of the 
fe|BK<M«ift tiihis life in extracting personal refi:rences from all Wills 
Mirfk^ Sotnertetshire men, to which he could gain access, dating 
%flk(6A 6r»t tulf 01 the i6th, to the latter halfof the iSth centuiy. 

T>> '^uulu his own words he "considered the Wills in the 
1||MkV«uvv *,"ourt. to be a rich mine of information to those who 
ifcirin itf iDvtr^gatc with accuracy the history of the county 
iH^bw \)i Kujjtanvl : — illustrative also of the names, manners, 
-jiMiniM- dtv«Sv personal ornaments, furniture, modes of speech, 
4(hl 4J ib« stwUin^ of their times, as well as of historical facts and 

Tth! vohunc before us consists of the First Series of these 
^MUw;i». jfivvn to the world by Mr. Crisp, by permission of Mr. 
BtwtutX liuDtty, having first undergone editorial supervision L>v 
\fi>j>M,' WHiiM.'at Kvac^vgists Dr. Jackson Howard, and the Rev. F. 
*. Wt.M*«i. ttlsproJucedinaconvenient. but somewhat expensive 
flitm, -iihl .iJthkfttjjh we must confess to disappointment with the 
4fi<w«lviM<.-iit .,vr rather now -arrangement) of its contents, yet an 
«,tiMii<tblc itislcx Jt the end, minimises to a great extent the incon- 
vtmai^< that would otherwise have resulted to the student. 

i.'xhci Scuf* 4IV to follow, to which we would direct the 
^Wiitiii'ii ot ^ur readers. The first is almost, if not quite, sold 
4it^ UK. ..'iL cil^alK^■l.! price already commanded by the present 
^uu:- . 'Ki' of its appreciation by those for whose 

^({Ms ' compiled. 

\!t. Crisp on this result of his labours on 

k^ikt.1 . ..i::i of Somerset, and we look forward with 

iiMvi«iafr W i<W tt^^HjiUoncc of the yet unpublished ' Abstracts.' 

»•♦••*•• 

liUK<f iA« ;ttK>vo was in type, the second series has been dis- 

et4t Alwt t>f ihia w« can s^trak in precisely the same terms as 
iHttl'H>'>'^ ^ BMk« the preceding volume. 



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193. Thk So-called 'Friary' op our Somersetshire 
Charterhouses. — We have in Somersetshire ihe remains of the 
two oldest Carthusian Monasteries in England, With am and 
Hinton. One very interesting fact in regard to them has never, 
so far as I know, received the attention it deserves. 1 allude to a 
feature common to both, but shared, I believe, by no other of the 
English Charterhouses — the ' Frary ' or ' Friarj-,' as it is 
popularly called. It will be the aim of these notes to work out 
the relation of the ■ Friary ' to the Monastery itself, taking the case 
of Hinton, and applying general conclusions to Witham as well. 

Friary, or Friary Green, is a little recess in the woods which 
skirt the banks of the River Frome, about a mile above its Junc- 
tion with the Avon near Freshford Railway Station. A few 
tumble-down cottages are dotted about here and there on the 
tineven surface. The lowest of these stands just above the brook. 
In the basement may still be traced the ' thorough ' of an ancient 
water-wheel. It is, in fact, a mill of considerable antiquity. High 
up in the garden we find a depression which was at one time a 
reservoir ; and above this again another tank or reservoir can be 
traced. These were fed by a stream from the woods, which is now 
diverted. Elsewhere a piece of allotment ground still bears the 
name of " Old Church,' The tenants frequently dig up pieces of 
elaborately wrought stone. A morning's search brought to light 
pieces of tombstones and other relics, when 1 last surveyed the 
place. The inhabitants have traditions of vaults in • Old Church,' 
jutd speak with some curiosity of the disappearance of the 
abundant water springs in the wood above. The little hamlet 
deserves a visit. It is a sweet secluded spot, reminding one of 
Dr. Freeman's description of Bee in the days of Heriuin.* As 
the crow flies, it is rather more than a quarter-of-a-mile from the 
niins of the Priory, which stand at a considerably higher elevation. 

Conversation with a Carthusian Monk, and some study of the 
'Annales Cartusienses,' (now in progress), and other Carthusian 
works, have enabled me, I think, to recover the history of 
•Friary." I will briefly summarise what 1 have found out. (i) 
The early Charterhouses possessed, besides the Monastery itself, 
a ' Domus Inferior,' which was built, as the name implies, at a 
lower level, and often at some distance from the ' Domus 
Superior.' No modem Charterhouses possess this lower house. 
The later statutes of the order scarcely favour their retention even 
where they do exist. The design was copied from the " Correria,' 
a lower house added to the Grande Chartreuse, A.D. 1129. The 
addition was made at first partly as a kind of 'lodge" to the 
Monastery, and partly, no doubt, as a farm and infirmary on lower 
ground, with more genial surroundings. (z) The ' Domus 
Liferior ' had its recognised occupants. These were, first of all, 

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the lay brothers or Fraint Convent, with other lay folk attached 
to the Convent, either by profession or as hired servants. These 
' mercenarii ' are duly recognised in the Old Statutes. The whole 
community of the lower house practically formed a village of some 
size. In ihe i6th century the Grande Chartreuse had some zooof 
these ' mercenarii,' (3) The Domus Inferior had its recognised 
rules and customs. Tlie whole was under the management of a 
Procurator, who spent his time chiefly in the work of its superin- 
tendence. The Cook, the Baker, etc., were specified officials, 
(+) The House had its definite use and relation to the Convent. 
The very idea of a Charterhouse demanded silence. Hence the 
noisy work of milling, carpentering, etc., was remhted to the 
' Domus Inferior.' Here the ' cilicium ' for the monastic habit 
was made; here, in the first instance, all guests were received, and 
only those judged worthy of the honour, were sent on by the Pro- 
curator to the Father Prior at the Monastery ; here sick monks 
were sent for change of air, and only so with the strictest injunc- 
tion to silence ; here strict account was taken of flocks and herds 
and possessions. In a word, the ' serving of tables ' was per- 
formed by the Brothers in the lower house, whilst the Fathers 
waited on God above. (5) The observance of their Religion was 
verj- sensibly provided for ; due regard being had to the rat'son 
tP&tre of the Order, and to the demands of the incessant details 
of daily work. The Lay Brethren attended a church of their own 
in the ' Friary.' There appear to have been two regular daily 
services, and only two or three masses were said each week, as a 
rule. The Brothers said prayers in their mother tongue, afterthe 
Office of Prime. The Procurator exhorted them daily in chapter, 
and was bidden to be careful to take every opportunity of retire- 
ment in the midst of his daily business. Week by week, on 
Saturday evening, some of the Conversi repaired to the Monastery 
to pass the Sunday there, returning to the rest of their Brethren 
on Monday morning. This was also the case on certain greater 
festivals. The Conversi had their own choir in the long narrow 
' superior ecclesia,' (6) In very early times there were no burial 
places in the ' Domus Inferior ' or its \icinity.* The dead Conversi 
were carried up to the cemetery in the ' Domus Superior.' All 
others who died in the halidome, were buried in the nearest 
churchyard. Pope Boniface VIIl. licensed the introduction of a 
cemetery for the lay folk unprofcssed, A.D. 1300. 

The position of Friary accords very well indeed with this 
description of a ' lower house.' At the beginning of the century 
considerable remains existed of the church and other buildings. 
The mill still stands. History and tradition show a close connec- 
tion between Iford (i-mile distant) and Friary. I have been told 
that past generations had heard of a causeway connecting the two. 



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Somtrui &• Dorset Notes &• Queries. 131 

Certain it is that, in the year 1361. Nicholas of Iford gave the 
Prior and Convent four messuages, one miil and one carucale of 
land {Inquis. A.Q.D. 36 Edw. III., n. 45). The mill is there now. 
Leland saw a ' Grange large and well-builded,' which, from the 
direction of his journey, must have stood close by that mill. 
Tradition points out its actual site in the mill garden. Eighteen 
years before the gift of Iford Mil!, the mill at Friary had been 
Stopped by bad seasons which impoverished the community. The 
Precentor of Wells thereupon granted them the right of patronage 
over Hinton Church as a partial rehef of their necessities. 

There is a curious entry in Bishop King's Register, under 
date June 6, 1498. It appears to concern Friary: ' Licentia 
concessa priori Domus Loci Dei de Henton, quatenns diversa 
corpora in quodam loco prophano inter vepres et alias venenosas 
bestias humata inibi in locum consecratum transferantur.' At first 
sight one is inclined to read ' viperas,' but ' vepres ' agrees with 
the dense undergrowth which still surrounds ' Old Church.' 
Whether the said bodies had been recently buried or not, it does 
not say. They can scarcely be the bodies of dead ' famuli el 
tnercenarii " buried outside the halidome, before the cemetery 
vas made. 

Local pronunciation, which is often a safe guide, might have 
taved many of those who have mentioned ' Friary ' from connecting 
it with ihe ' Friars ! ' The rustics consistently call it "Vrairy," 
making it rhyme with ' Fairy.' The word, of course, is a corrup- 
tion of ' Fraterium.' It occurs in more than one ancient mention 
as ' Fraiy' or ' La Frary', i.e., the abode of the Lay Brothers. 

We may then, I think, picture the ancient ' Friary' as a 
smaJl village, of which the Church and Chapter House formed the 
centre, with certain other buildings grouped round them. 1 find, 
too, mention of a dove-cot which was willed away or sold after 
the dissolution. It is interesting to note that a large dove-cot is 
still to be seen in the gable over the Library of the Priory, Thus 
it would seem that the Hinton Carthusians were igreat keepers of 
doves or pigeons. All these monastic buildings, as I conclude 
from the position of 'Old Church ', were on a slightly higher level, 
whilst belowthem stood mills and the cottages of the 'mercenarij.' 
All the land in the immediate neighbourhood belonged to the 
Monastery : that in Hinton Parish by the original gift of the 
foundress; and much in Kreshford, Iford, Westwood, and as far 
as Avoncliff, by subsequent gifts. 1 should imagine that the 
shepherds, neatherds, ploughmen, etc., lived for the most part 
at or near Friary. The same would appear to have been the case 
at Witham, where, in the year 1459, the Prior asked Bishop 
Bekynton to consecrate a cemetery, and allow the erection of a 
baptismal font within the chapel ' de la Frary.' In fact, as Mr. 
Tunt points out* in his Dioiesan History, ' a parochial family 



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had grown up ' round the Friary. I have not yet traced a similar 
license for Hinton. In the hard times of the 14th century, it 
would appear that the 'parochial family' at Hinton Friary had 
sadly dwindled down. Of those who still lived there, many were 
subjected by neighbouring justices to the cruel operations of the 
labour enactments which disgrace those days. The Prior gained 
an ample privilege from King Edward III. in respect of the 
merceoarii of the balidome, and subsequent Kings confirmed it. 
The Charter Roll speaks of the ' callidae macMnationes ' of the 
informers and justices, which may go some way towards corrobor- 
ating Canon Perry's assertion* of Carthusian unpopularity. Their 
self-contained contemplative life did not attract outsiders. 
Edward III. made certain concessions to the Prior, in respect of 
the tanneries, at Friary. Doubtless, the hides were sold at the 
annual fair (still existing) on May Day, at Norton St. Philip's, 
which extended over three days, in accordance with a grant from 
Edward I., A.D. iigi. 

Everything goes to prove a strict analogy between the general 
arrangements of VVitham and Hinton. When St. Hugh carae 
over to take charge of the struggling community, one of the first 
questions to be settled was the relative position of the Domus 
Superior and Inferior.f When he became Bishop of Lincoln, he 
still loved to resort, says his biographer, to the ' coetus gemini 
consistentium ibi Monachorum et Conversorum.'J It is curious 
to note the contrast between the present condition of Witham 
and Hinton. At Witham, all the interest centres round the 
beautifully restored church of the Lay Brothers. The visitor, 
Iwwcver, does not know where to look for the site of the Priory, 
At Hinton, the case is reversed. The Frian is passed and repassed 
i^ntinually by visitors to Farley, who find no traces of its ancient 
importance, whilst those who wish to see what remains of the 
Charterhouse, arc taken nearly a mile off to the early English 
Chapterhouse and Refectory, which have survived the ravages of 
time. 

1 would add that thpse who wish to gain an idea of the later 
Ckuterkoiues, should visit Mount Grace. It lies at the foot of a 
^MK oTtbe CIcveiund Hills. One glance shows the abandonment 
Mlkc'OnAiQal design at Witham and Hinton. I believe that no 
Bllj^ti OMitcrhouse. after Hinton, possessed a ' Domus Inferior.' 
TW MTXt fi,mtH)ittion, in order of time, viz Beauvale, was 1 1 8 years 
jtoir--T K> Hinton. It then became somewhat fashionable to build 
x>iHiiTVi"ir-Tr Six more were added by the date of the battle 
^ JhMWW*wU Tbeir architecture and arrangements differed with 
^^ ^M» t|f lino ftom their Somersetshire predecessors. 

H£NRY Gee. 



4«lM^«tAM)M*ir. 



tAnn. Carlus. II. 483. jriiid, HI. Cf6. 



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P.S. — I am collecting all the materials that I can find fnr a 
complete sketch of Hinton Abbey, or Henton Priory, as it ought to 
be called. (No Charterhouse is designated an Abbey.) I should 
be extremely obliged by any information that would help me. I 
am fairly conversant now with the story in outline through its 
whole length, and have searched all oicwBj sources of informatiun. 
I Address : Rev. Henrv Gee, The Hostel, St. John's Hull, 
Highbury, N. 



194. Children's Games. — Two or three years ago I wrote 

a Dorsetshire woman, who was nursery maid in our family when 

I I was a child, asking her to write down all she remembered of the 

I round game rhymes she used to teach us children, and I think 

I that her account of four such games may not be uninteresting to 

(he readers of this paper. I may add that she comes from Lyme. 

Aiout Ihe Afiilbtrrj Bush. — You form a round ring, and 
go round and say, ' Here we go round the mulberry bush ' four 
times, and say, ' of a cold and frosty morning ' ; and then say, 
' This is the way we wash our face ' (pretending to wash your 
face), four times ; and then say, ' Of a cold and frosty morning ' ; 
I and afterwards wash your Hands and Feel, and Comb your Hair, 
[ and so on, all ending with ' of a coid and frosty morning.' 

1, Silly Gravels, which is a round ring dance, saying, 
' Silly Gravels, Silly Gravels, the grass is so green. 
The finest young lady that ever was seen.' 
Here you pick out one of the girls' or boys' names that is playing, 
and say, 

' Oh Silly, O Silly, your true love is dead ; 
I send you a letter to turn round your head.' 
And so on, until they have each turned round, and then it ends. 
Another round ring dance is 

' On the carpet you shall kneel. 
As the grass grows on the field : 

(One is to knee!) 
Stand upright upon your feet. 
And choose the one you love so sweel : 

(Here chooses one) 
Now you are married, I wish you joy. 



First a girl and ther 



1 boy; 



Seven years after, son and daughter : 
Pray, young couple, kiss together. 

4. Another, not a round ring, is: — 

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134 Somtrset &• Dorset Notes S- Queries. 

service. She has some in each hand, and leads ihem up to the 

Lady, saying, 

' Here comes the Lady of the land. 
With sons and daughters in her hand. 
Pray, do you want a servant to day ? ' 

She says, 

'What can she do?' 

The Mother answers, 

■ She can brew, she can bake, 
She can make a wedding cake 
Fit for you or any Lady in the land.' 

The Lady says, 

■ Pray leave her.' 
The Mother leaves her child, and says, 

' I have left my daughter safe and sound. 
And in her pocket a thousand pound, 
And on her finger a gay ring, 
And I hope to find her so again ; ' 
repeating this, until all are gone. 

A few days are supposed to pass, after which the Mother calls 
to see her children ; and the Lady tells her she cannot see them. 
The Mother calls again, but still the Lady says she cannot see 
them. At last she insists on seeing them, and the children are all 
Bat down behind the Lady, and the Mother asks one child what 
the Lady has done to her, and she tells her the Lady has ' cut off 
her nose, and made a Nose Pie, and never give her a bit of it," 
and each one says she has done something to them, and made a 
Pie. and when all have told their tale, they all turn on her and 
pul.s her to Prison." 

The first of these games is, I fancy, common throughout the 
oonntry, and shootd be in this fonn : — 
" Here we go round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, the 

mulberry bush ; 
Here we go round the mulberry bush, of a cold and frosty morn- 



ing. 



F.M.P. 



{To be Canlinutd.) 



B the md and jrd games mentioned above by our corres- 
;. the following variations occur as they are played at Long 



«. •Gwwi Gravels ' for ' Silly Gravels," ' Fairest ' for ' Finest,' 
MUih^MUurd line a girl's Christian name is always used in the 
||h««tiAtt woni ' Silly.' 

k bl iAm (UM the tines are these : 



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135 



" Sally, Sally Walker, {or Walter), 

Sprinkled in a pan of water," 

" Rise up, Sally, for a young man." 

" Choose for the best one, choose for the worst one, 

Choose for the pretty gir! that you love best." 

" Now you're married I wish you joy. 

First a girl, and second a boy. 

Seven years after, a poor man's daughter. 

Pray, young couple, come kiss together." 

Editor for Dorset.] 

195. (a) Beduan = Sexton— (*) LoFB Sunday. (I. iv. i8(.) 
(a) In pre- Reformation times Beadsmen were not unfrequently 
appointed Sextons of Churches. They also held inferior offices in 
Cathedrals, as at Durham. The Chantry at Abbotsbury, (founded 
1505,) had its Beadsman; "etbedmannoquiobitumetanniversarium 
huj'usmodi denunciabit annuatim quatuor denarios." (Hutchins' 
Dorse/, 3rd Edit., Vol. 11, p. 735.) In the Churchwardens' 
accounts of Wimbome Minster, among other entries relating to the 
Beadsman, are the following. (Hutchins III. pp. 157 — 159)- 

1495. " For a bell bought for the bedmnn, and for b clapper to the 

same ajrf." 
Ijoo— J. t' For a key for the Churchyard gate, and for Ihe 
storehouse : in ibe custody of the bedeman." 

1505. " paid (0 (he bedman, for ' slreeking *of ye cherclie' agitiaal 

Culhberea's Sunday," 
1531—8. " Payd to the bedman for blowing of the organs." 
In the '* Hesperides," published in 1 S+S. will be found some 
lines entitled " The Bedman or Gravemater." 

(i) By a constitution of Giles, Bp. of Sarum, issued 1256, the 
parishioners were required to provide the " panis benedictus " 
evitj/ Sundaj: Of the 15 demands made by the Cornish and 
Devonshire insurgents in 1547, the 7th was, " We will 
have holy bread and holy water every Sunday." (Froude's 
Hi'sJ. of Eng. c. 26.) The bread, when hallowed, was dis- 
I tributed by the Priest after Mass, The custom lingered on 
throughout the greater part of Elizabeth's reign. The " holy loaf" 
was quite distinct from the " housel " (Holy Communion), and 
was so regarded in Saxon law ; ■' To hlafe ne cume ne to husle." 
(Thorpe.) 

In an inventory (a.d. 1450 — i) of St, Andrew's, Bridport, is 
the following entry. " Alonge lowell y wroujttc to houselle pepylle 
of V yerdys longe." " To wells of lynnen " for houselling are 
Btill used in Wimborne Minster. 

J. H. Ward. 

f •■■ To slreek," to liy out for display, 10 decorate, not in Bames'sDorsct Glossary. 



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136 Sotiursel S- Dorset Notes S- Qiuriis. 

[Notes on Holy Bread, by Ed. Peacock, F.S.A., will be found 
in The Anliquafji, Vol. xvii, p. igi.] 

196. (j) In answer lo Mr. Daniel's first quer)', permit me to 
quote the following from Herrick's " Hesperides," (Reeves, 1859, 
P- 39S-) 

■' The Bbdmam or Gravemajier." 

Thou hasl made many houses for the dead. 
When my lot calls me to be bnried. 
For love or pittic, prcthee Icl there be 
I 'th' chuicD-yaid made one tenement for me." 
But this affords no explanation of the origin of the term. 
Was the Sacristan, — the precursor of our modem Sexton, — 
ever called a ' bede,' or prayer man ? (fr. A. S. Bed. prayer.) The 
Frome entry, under the date 1616, would almost seem to imply a 
phonetic afBrmative. 

Or, is ' bed ' here derived from A. S. Bed or 8edd, a bed ? 
(Cf. Ogilvie's " Imperial DicUonary" where ' Bed, 8 ' is given as 
"the grave. Isa : LVII.") Again, is the A. S. .fferf cognate with 
the Celtic Bedd, which certainly means a grave? e.g. " Bedd 
Gelcrt." 

(i) To Mr. Daniel's second question I would reply that 
Professor Bosworth tells us, that Hlaf-masse means " the loaf mass 
or feast — Lammas-day," (August ist), "the day of first-fruit 
offerings, when a loaf was given to the priests in lieu of the first 
fniiw." (Brewer.) 

" Lofe-Sunday " wonld I take it be the Sunday next after that 
date. 

2. 

197. Charles II. and Coaxden Hall, (I. iii. 109.) — 
J-St-N. asks whether the account given in Wilson's Memoirs of Dt 
rV, relative to an alleged visit of Charles II. to Coaxden Hall, in 
the parish of Chardstock, Dorset, has any foundation in fact, and 
apon what authority it was made. May I be allowed to refer your 
correspondent to an article of mine on Charles II. in Dorset, 
which appeared in Vol. VIII. of the Dorset Natural History and 
Anti^uariait Field Club Proceedings (1887), wherein the whole sub- 
Jact of hii wanderings within the boundaries of the county, derived 
ftom the most authentic historical sources, was exhaustively 
tiffatod ? In case your correspondent has not access to the above 
paper, or to (he authorities therein cited, I may say at once that 
tho whole slor)- is apocryphal. The course the King took after 
iMvlng Trent, (on the borders of Somerset and Dorset,) on the 
morning of zmd September, 1651, did not lead him to Lyme at 
all ; hix nearest approach to it was Charmouth, where he stayed 
the Minio night — the night during which he expected to cross over 
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early in the morning, and passing through Bridport, stayed the 
next night at Broadwinsor, whence he returned to Trent, which he 
reached the following evening. This, therefore, would allow no 
time for a visit to Coaxden, unless indeed the supporters of its 
claim to Royal honours can show that it is one and the same place 
with " the country house of my father's, distant both from Lyme 
and Charmouth about a mile and a-half," to which Capt, Ellesdon 
alludes in his Litter to the Earl of Clarendon, as being the place 
where it was arranged that the King and his parly should meet 
him on their way from Trent to Charmouth, in order to settle the 
final arrangements for the King's crossing over to France that 
night. The possibiUly of this the distance of Chardstock from 
Charmouth and Lyme would preclude ; and were it otherwise, it 
is quite clear that the visit above mentioned to Capt. Ellesdon's 
father's house was made under circumstances of the greatest 
secrecy, and certainly gave rise to no such exciting adventure as 
that of the King's taking refuge under a lady's " hoop ! ! " In all 
probability what may have suggested or given colour to the 
romantic story may have been the fact that a few days after a party 
of soldiers did pay a visit to Pilsdon Manor House, in the Vale of 
Marshwood, not very far off, and certainly did insult some young 
lady there, on the pretended excuse that she was the King in dis- 
guise. I have not the last edition of Pulman's Book of the Axt, 
but this suggestion is made in a note to the first edition of that 
work, published in 1854, and appears to be not an improbable 
one. The fact is that a great many of our old houses are anxious 

I to obtain the honour of having sheltered Charles n. in bis wan- 
derings after the battle of Worcester, without having any better 
claim to it than that of Coaxden. It was the occasion of my 
enquiring into a similar claim put for^^'ard by Pilsdon, that led to 
my paper in our Field Club's Proceedings — a claim I was obliged 
also to negative. J. S. Udal, Inner Temple. 

P.S. — In the interests of Dorset Folk-lore, I shall be glad to 

I leam more of the Coaxden ghosts — " the tall old man " and " the 

I yellow dog" — alluded to by your correspondent. 

ig8. TheB.^ttleofBrunanburh. (Lii.66.) — Ruborough 
I Camp, locally known as the ' Money Field,' stands on a spur of 
I the Quantocfcs, about a mile north of Broomfield Church, between 
I two ancient roads leading from Bridgwater to Taunton, in one of 
I which, passing through Enmore Park, a stone axehead was lately 
P found. The camp, like most others in Somerset, is of British 
' origin, and of far great antiquity than A.D. 538. It is of triangular 
shape, surrounded by an agger and fosse, and with a second line 
of earthworks on the exposed side. From the camp an under- 
ground passage, about 100 yards in length, led to a spring of 
1 'water on the side of the hill. The mouth of this passage is now 
■.dosed, and the hill itself planted over. 



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These camps were used a3 places of refuge to wliich the 
Britons retired when attacked by more powerful tribes. They were 
sometimes occupied by the Romans as ' cas/ra fzsfira.' and also by 
the Saxons and Danes, The latter are said to have sailed up the 
Parret in 877 ( ?) ; the inhabitants fled to the Quantocks ; the Danes 
were defeated and driven back to their camp, somewhere near 
Bridgwater, so that a battle may have been fought near Ruborough, 
but there are no traces of interment, nor any local traditions as in 
the valley of the Axe. 

There seems no good reason to suppose that the battle of 
Bninanburh was fought in Somerset, It was owing to the 
occupation of his father's kingdom of Northumbria by Athelstan 
that Anlaf fled to Ireland, and it was to recover it that he returned. 
He would therefore land in the north and not in the south, and 
the old tradition is probably correct in stating that he joined his 
ally, the king of Scotland, and sailed up the Humher, but being 
delayed by the seige of York, was attacked and defeated at 
Brunandune or Bninanburh, supposed to be Brumby, in Lincoln- 
shire. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says " So too the brothers, both 
together, king and Etheling, their country sought, West Saxons' 
land, in the war exulting " : which would seem to prove that the 
battle was no/ fought in Wessex. 

W. B. Broaduead, Enmore Part. Bridgwater, 

fA very suggestive, though by no means absolutely conclo- 
ittle book on this subject, has very recently been published 
by the author. Mr. T. Holdemess, of Drifiield, in Yorkshire ; * in 
which he adduces strong reasons for identifying the site of 
i^thelstan's great victory with a spot, called by the rustics of the 
neighbourhood, " Heeads," (the " Vin-heidi" of Egill) situated, 
as I understand him, between the villages of Kirkbum and Battle- 
bum, by Driftield, close to the river Hull, where it empties itself 
into the Humber. 

Somerset Editor.] 

199. Heraldic Visitatiox of Dorset, 1613: Uvedalb 
Family. — I trust that one of the main features of our new 
S, Gf D. N. &• Q. will be the study of heraldic and genealogical 
subjects; and that, incidentally to that study, it will keep a watchful 
eye upon those publications that issue from time to time from the 
public or private press, and which affect the local interests of the 
two counties. 

The Harleian Society has recently 11885) published the above 
Dorset Visitation from the Harl. MS. 1166, fo: z5, under the 
editorship of Mr. J. P. Ryiands. F.S.A. In that publication a 
pedigree is headed as Vidal. which is referred to in the index as 



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Somtrsei S- Dorset Notes <§• Querits. 139 

. Vaalt, and which in the original MS. is unqueslionably Vuidall, 
It is perhaps unavoidable that sometimes mistakes will occur in 
transcribing from the crabbed and cramped handwriting or so many 
of the heraldic MS. Visitation books ; more especially is this the 
case when a north -countryman, (as I believe I am correct in saying 
thai Mr. Rylands is,) deals with uncommon west-country names. 
Other\vise. the editor would not have confounded the name of 
VitJal, (an existing Devonshire family.) with that of UvtdaU, (for 
which the pedigree is undoubtedly intended,) by allowing himself 
to be misled by the interchangeable " u" and "v" of the period. 
In the "Addenda" to that Visitation, which under the joint 
editorship of Mr. Rylands and Dr. Colby, F.S.A., were issued in 
18S8. from the MS. now kept in the Dorset County Museum, the 
head-note of the pedigree is more nearly correct, being given as 
Uvidatl, and the names in the body of the pedigree being the same ; 
the addition of a west-country editor enabling them, in this case, 
to get over the change of the vowel. I may add that Berry, in his 
Hants County Gtnealogits, heads the pedigree correctly as UvedaU, 
though Uvedali occurs throughout the genealogical tables. In 
Hutchins's Dorset it appears variously as UvedaU, UvedaU, Udall, 
and in other cases, with only one '• 1," as in my own name. Mr. 
Rylands is, however, the first to my knowledge who has made the 
name out as "Vidal." which is, as I have said, the name of an 
existing Devonshire family ; and to which, (if Burke's General 
Armory be correct,) is assigned what clearly appears to me to be a 
different form of the Uvedale arms and crest. This grant, if 
correct, most be modem, and would infer some connection with 
the Uvedale family of Hants or Dorset, but what that connection 
■B I know not. 

Whilst I am upon the subject of the Uvedale family may I be 
allowed to ask, (in elucidation of the interchange ability of the 
" u " and " V,") Was the name in olden times always pronounced 
as spelt ? I know that the great heraldic authority, Sir William 
Dugdale, in his AnIienI Usag* 0/ Aims, speaking of the great 
changes in surnames he had known, amongst others quotes that of 
Vuedale into Vdal — the latter name being unpronounceable unless 
the first letter be accepted as a " U." Again, it is somewhat 
curious thai at a time when a branch of the Uvedales were seated 
at Horton. the then owner of the place was described in an old 
black-letter law report, of the lime of Charles I. ( Aleyn's), as " Sir 
William Udal, of Horton," — in an action of Udal v. Udal, for 
committing waste in reference to timber. This leads me to ask 
the above question. 

J. S. Udal, Inner Temple. 

300. ISHAM, YSHAM. OR ISAM, FaMILY. (I. iv. 169.) 

[haps the accompanying references may prove of service to Mr. 

— i-Longden, in his researches. 



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(a.) Isham pedigree. See Visitation ofSomerset, 1 573, (ed. 
F. W. Weaver,) pp. 39, 71, 

(i.) Isham marriages. See Foster's " London Marriage 
Licenses," pp. gB, 390, 745, "J7- 

(<-,) Berr)''s Hants, p. 154. 

Thomas Biirrard, of Walhampton, Lymington, Hants, born 
161 1, died 14 Dec, 1661, buried at Lymington, — Eliz., d'. of 
Gregory { /utli'm'ait, according to Sir Thos. Phiilips" Visitation.) 
Isliam, of Barby, co, Northton, born 1605, died Oct. ibSo, at 
Westminster. 

{J.) See nine references to Isham, in Marshall's " Genealo- 
gis/'s Guid<." 

[,(.) Visitation of Devon, 1564, p. iij. Phillipe dau. of 
Thos. Wyvell, of Crediton = Hen. Isam, of Isle Brewers, 
Somerset. 

(/.) See Visitation of Gloucester, 1623. (Had. Soc. XXL) 
p. 4. 

(g.) Isam, Robert, sup. for B.C.L. z6ih May, 1463. Rej. 
Univ. Oxon. Vol. L (Oxford Hist. Soc.) p. 36. 

F. W. Weaver. Milton Clevedon. 

aoi. The Cekne Giant : A Memorial of Cokin^us and 
GoETjiAGOT. — One, if not the earliest, mention we have of Britain 
is that Brutus, a Trojan Prince banished from Italy, and his com- 
panion CoriniEus, with their followers, landed at the shore of 
Totnais, a part of the Island of Albion, inhabited by none but a 
few giants. Here they settled themselves; and Brutus after a 
time called the island Britain, and his companions Britons ; and 
CorinKus. in imitation of his leader, called the district where he 
and his companions settled, Corina. after his own name, {undt 
Cerne.) It is said that Corinaeus was fond of encountering the 
giants, and among them was one called Goemagot, or Gogmagog, 
said to be of prodigious strength. One day when Brutus was 
holding a solemn festival to the gods in the port where they at 
first landed, this giant, with twenty others, came upon the Britons 
and made a dreadful slaughter. But the Britons afterwards 
assembling together in a body, put them to the rout, and killed 
every one except Goemagot, whom Brutus ordered to be preserved 
alive, out of a desire to see a combat between him and Corinseus, 
who took pleasure in these encounters. Corinasus. overjoyed at 
this, threw aside liis arms, and challenged the giant to wrestle 
with him. At first CorinECUs and the giant, standing front to front, 
held each other strongly in their arms, and panted aloud for 
breath ; but Goemagot, presently grasping Corinaeus with all his 
might, broke three of his ribs : at which CorinEus, highly 
enraged, roused up his whole strength, and snatching the giant 
upon his shoulder, ran with him, as fast as the weight would allow 
him, to the neighbouring shore, and then, getting upon the top 



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Fofahigh rock, hurled down the savage monster into the sea, 
where, falling on the sides of the craggy rocks, he was dashed to 
pieces, and coloured the waves with his blood. Such is, in brief, 
the story of Geoffrey of Monmouth, who wrote in tiie early part of 
the twelfth century, and stated he took it from a very ancient book 
in the British tongue. 

In the 'Antiquary' for last May, (Vol. xvii„ p. 214,) 1 
endeavoured to shew from this story that the giant figures in the 
London Guildhall were intended to represent Corineeus and Goe- 
magot ; but i!i;U by lapse of time the name of the classic hero has 
been lost, and the giants' (corrupted) name of Gogmagog has been 
divided, and part assigned to each of the figures, viz., Gog and 
Magog.* I there aJso claimed Portland and the Fleet Harbour as 
the site of the port of landing of Brutus and Corinaeus, (and not 
Totnes, Devon), and the Ceme Giant as the representation of the 
giant defeated by Corinseus : but it did not then strike me that 
' Ceme ' was derived from Corina and Corinieus. My information 
was derived from a pamphlet, ' The Mvlh of Brulus the Trojan' by 
R. N. Worth, F.G.S. But many years ago (1877), after reading 
' A Primaval Biitisk Mttropolh; of Mr. J. Kerslake, of Bristol, 
(which was my first antiquarian study.) I suggested to him, (and 
aisoXo ' Nolet and Queries') that Portland in Loegria was more 
likely than Chrislchurch to be the ' Totnais Shore ' and Port ; but 
he would not have it. 

Lately a dissertation on this figure has come under my notice, 
entitled 'Baal Durotrigensis,' in which the writer. Mr. John 
Sydenham, hazards an opinion that this gigantic figure repre- 
sents the pagan divinity El, of the Sun- worshippers ; and that it 
is a memorial of a triumph achieved there by Sun- worshippers 
over Serpent- worshippers. But in a note is stated 'There is a 
tradition that this was to commemorate the destruction of a giant, 
who, having feasted on some sheep at Blackmore, and laid him- 
self down to sleep after his meal, on this hill, was bound and killed 
oy the enraged peasants on the spot,' 

Here, then, appears a confirmation of the story of Corinceus 
and the giant, without the absurd addition of Geoffrey of Mon- 
mouth's ancient British romance about Corinceus carrying the 
giant to a cliff and throwing him into the sea ; but it is not at all 
improbable that Corinasus would be a chief actor in the slaughter 
of so mischievous a monster (as stated in the note) and this would 
involve very hkely a struggle and trial of strength betwi'en them, 
quite sufficient to ground the story of Geoffrey upon. Sydenham 
adds that tradition is frequently the best, and sometimes the only, 
authority that can be resorted to, as to the outline of long past 
events ; and when we find tradition confirming, and in its turn sup- 
ported by the general course of events, and consistent with existing 

• This has been pointed out by Fairholt, in his Qng ani Magog, 1859, |i. 14, 



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monuments, we cannot but regard it as entitled to much consider- 
ation, and worthy of an effort to separate the sterling material of 
truth from the dross of fiction, with which time, ignorance, and 
ingenuity may have combined to alloy it. Such is the case with 
the tradition in question, which is easily reconciled with the 
gigantic figure on this spot. In conclusion, after a full consider- 
ation of all these matters, I venture to submit very confidently that 
the Ceme figure is, in all probability, a memorial of the giant Goe- 
magot, said to have been overcome by Corinasus, as I have already 
suggested that the figures in the London Guildhall were intended 
to represent both the Giant and his Conqueror. 

H, F. Nappe R, Loxwood, Susses. 
3rd Jan., i88g. 

202. Pennant Stone. — Can any reader of N. S- Q. S. &■ D. 
give me the derivation or the meaning of the word " Pennant " as 
applied to ihat fine building stone, the sandstone of the neigh- 
bourhood of Bristol, that divides the upper from the lower coal 
measures proper ? It is a term commonly known in Geology, but 
one of which I have hitherto failed to find any explanation, 

H.H.W. 

203. DOLEMOORSIN CONGRESBURV. {I. iii. I + I.) — Dr. TyloF 
will find a full account of the letting of these lands, together 
with excellent diagrams of the tokens, &c., cat on the apples doing 
duty as " lots," in Hone's " Eiery-day Book," Vol. II-, (Tegg's 
Reprint, 1878), pp. +59-61. The writer, 'G.B.,' there states that 
the moors were enclosed in 181 1, and that the custom, described 
by Collinson, was then of course discontinued, logelktr wilk ike 
oceampanying drunken revels, 

s. 

204. The Game OF Lamploo. (I.iv. 186.) — A game identical 
with that described by S, was played at the King's School, Sher- 
borne, in my time, some 50 years ago. It was called ' Kingseal- 
ing,' and the pursuing boy was obliged by the rules to retain his 
hold of the boy seized, till he had uttered 

" One, two, three, four, Eve. six, seven, eighl, nine, ten. 
You are one of the KioEsealet's men." 

If the latter succeeded in breaking away before the utterance of 
this couplet was finished, the capture was incomplete. I always 
fancied the game might have some reference to a press gang. I 
remember nothing of the cries " Lamploo," " Brewerre," &c. 

H. 

205. Daubeny Monumbnt at Litton Cheney, Dorset. 
— On the north wall of the Chancel of this Church there is a 



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inonuTDent to the memory of George Daubeny, of Gorwell in this 
Parish, Esq., and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Thomas Coker, 
of Mapowder, Esq. He died 6 Sept.. 1611, ;et. 5+, 

The arms on the dexter side are— i. Gules, 4 lozenges in fess 
argent- Dauhcny. 2. Sable, a bend or between 6 plates. 
3. Argent, a chevron between 10 billets sable, 4, Barry of 6, or 
and vert, s- Party per fess argent ^md gules, 3 fleurs de iys or, 
6. Argent, a bend lozengy sable. Over an Esquire's helmet, and 
on a wreath of the colours, (wo wings erect sable. In No. i the 
"plates " should, no donbt, be "fountains," the azure lines having 
disappeared. William Daubeny married Alice, d, and coh. of 
John Stourton, and these would be her arms. No. 3 I incline to 
think must have been intended for " De Bosco " (" billets " 
alluding to "Wood "). Richard Stourton married Eleanor, d. and 
coh. of Richard De Bosco. V. Addenda to the Visitation of 
Dorset;(ed, Colby and Rylands) p. 17. The De Bosco arms on the 
Coker side are different, but it is quite possible that there may have 
been two coats. No. 4. Mojgne. William, brother of John 
Stourton, and father of the ist Lord Stourton, married Eliz., d, 
and coh, of Sir J. Moygne ; but Alice Stourton, wife of William 
Daubeny, would not be entitled to quarter the arms, 5. Pauncefoott. 
James Daubeny married Elizabeth, d. and h. of Robert 
Pauncefoote, The chief ought to be azure. 6. Glasknbuty. 
How does this come in ? 

On the sinister side. 1. Argent, on a bend gules, and within 
A bordure engrailed sable, 3 leopards' heads or, Coker, 1. Sable, 
billettee argent, a cross fleurie of the last. A't^rrii. 3. Ermine, a 
bend sable. Wallis. 4. Argent, on a bend sable, 3 calves (or 
rams) passant or. Veale. 5. Argent, on a chevron gules, between 
3 hunting horns stringed sable, as many cross crosslets fitchee of 
the field. Le Btelt. 6, Argent, a chevron between 3 roses or. 
Sullon. Over an Esquire's helmet, and on a wreath of the colours, 
a Saracen's head couped, turbaned argent and gules. In the 
Visitation of 1613, (Ed. Rylands,) the animals in No. 4 are called 
"rams." In No. 6 the field should be asture. In the visitation 8 
quarterings are given : 

No. 6. Argent, a chevron gules between 3 leaves vert. 

{De Bosco ?) 
No. 7. Gules, a fess between 6 cross crosslets fitchfee azure. 

{Whitfield). 
No. 8. Azure, a chevron between 3 roses or. {Sullon.) 
V. "Addenda," p. 17. 

In the Daubeny crest parts of the wings have been broken off ; 
on some of the shields the colours are very much gone, and in 
three instances the azure colour has disappeared with age, or has 
been tampered with. There seems to have been a desire on the part 
^.Of the designer to get iin equal number of quarterings on each 
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Esett one or two doubtful ones on the other side. But. as 

M gmta the Coker quarterings, it does not appear by what right three 
of tbem are claimed. Joan, d. and h. of Robert Bassett, would 
be entitled to bear " Le Brett," '■ De Bosco," and " Whitfield," 
qoanered with " Bassett," but her daughter Joan, who married 
Gerard Muskett, does not seem to have been an heiress, nor Anne 
Muskeit, who married Robert de la Veale. It must have been 
through the marriage of John Coker with Eleanor de la Veale that 
Ihe then quarterings Came to " Coker " But how could " de la 
Veale " have any right to them ? If they had, why were not 
"Muskett" and "Bassett" also quartered. 

Frederic T. Colby, Litton Cheney. 

ao6. CiST-VAEN ON DuNDRV HiLL. — Among the antiquities 
figured, but not described, by Phelps in his " History of Somenel- 
shirt," is a vignette at the end of Chapter II, (Vol. i, p. 90,) of a 
very curious megalithic monument, with the above title. So far as 
I have been able to find out, no such Cist-vacn now remains on 
Dundry Hill, or in the neighbourhood, and the oldest inhabitants 
of the village remember nothing of the kind. Can any readers of 
N. & Q. throw any light on the subject ? 

Alfred E, Hddd, Clifton. 

207. Jan Ridd. (I. i. i6,) — This name is variously spelt 
Redd, Ridd, or Rudd, and even by members of the same family. 
It is a common name among the yeomen of Exmoor. 

F.W.W. 

308. Dorset M.P.'s in the Long Parllamknt. — Ishallbe 
obliged by any information as to the following. Parentage and 
dates of decease especially wanted. 

Giles Grkne. — M.P. for Corfe Castle from 1640. till secluded 
in 16+8. Had sat for Weymouth, 1621-26. Corfe Castle, 1617-8. 
Apparently dead in 1655. 

Francis Chettel.— Corfe Castle. 1646, till secluded in 
1648. ? dead in 1659. 

Richard Rose. — Lyme Regis, 1640, till decease. Living in 
1648, but dead seemingly in 1651. 

George Skutt, merchant, — Poole, 1645, till 1648. Living 
in 1659. 

Samuel Turner, M.D., of London. — Shaftesbury, 1640, till 
disabled as a Royalist in 1 644. Sat in the Oxford Parliament. Is 
not included in Munk's " Roll of the College of Physicians." 

Col. George Starre. — Shaftesbury, 1646, till decease in 
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Matthew Allin, — Weymouth, 1646, till secluded in 164S. 
Aldennan of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. Hutchins {History 
0/ Dorset) gives his name as " Allet." Which is conect ? 

Also dales of decease of 



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Col. Thomas Ceely. — Bridport, 1645, till secluded in 164.8, 
Sir William Constamtimb. — Poole, 1640, till disabled in 
1645- 

Thomas Earle, — Wareham, 1640, till secluded in 1648, 
Eldest son of Sir Walter Earle, of Charborough. Died v.p. seem- 
ingly before 1659. 

W. D. Pink, Leigh, Lancashire. 

aog. Col. William Sydenham. M.P., Melcombe Regis. — 
This celebrated Parliamentary officer is said by Hutchins to have 
been son of Thomas Sydenham, of Winford Eagle, by his wife 
Johanna Jeffery, On the other hand, according to Burke, 
(" Exiinet Baratul<:ies") he was grandson of the last-named 
Thomas, and elder brother of the famous Dr. Thomas Sydenham. 
Which is correct ? 

W. D. Fink, 

aio. Epitaph on Robert Blake. — The recent erection of 
a memorial to one of England's noblest sons, in the Church of 
St. Margaret's, Westminster, has suggested the possible accept- 
ability of the accompanying "Lines on his death," transcribed 
from 

"The [ History and Life | of | Robert Blake, Esq., | of 
] Bridgwater — &c., &c,, &c. I 
written by a gentleman bred in his Family." (Lond. circ. 175°-) 

Here lies a Man, made Spain and Holland shake, 

Made France to tremble, and the Turks to quake. 

Thus he tamed Men, but if a Lady stood 

In's Sight, it rais'd a Palsy in his Blood. 

Cupid's Antagonist, who in his Life, 

Had Fortune as familiar as a Wife. 

A stiff, hard iron Soldier, for he. 

It seems, had more oT Man than Mercury. 

At sea he thunder'd, calm'd each raging Wave, 

And now he's dead sent thund'ring to his Grave. 
The gallant Admiral is recorded to have been a woman 
hater, and the last line evidently refers to the volleys fired at his 
iioiieTal. 

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211. Jonathan Lawrence, Rector of HA^EtnuRv Brvan 
AND Upwey, Dorset. — The deed of institution of Jonathan 
Lawrence, cierk, M.A., to the Rectory of Hazelbury Bryan, tst 
March, 1647, of which the following is a copy, is in the hands of his 
descendant, Mr. G. Mayo, of West House, Pydelt rent hide, by 
whose kind permission it is now inserted in the S'. & D. N. Sf Q. 

Jonathan Lawrence was son of William Lawrencn, of Winter- 
home Steepleton, Dorset, by Honora, daughter of . . . Pope, of 
Mansion, his second wife. He is described by Hutchins (3rd 
edit.. Vol. ii. p. 776.) as of West Lulworth, and he was buried at 
Upwey in 1664, to which Living he was also instituted, ind Oct., 
16+8, by Thomas Heath, LL.D., acting under the authority of 
Parliament, having been presented " per Illustrissimum in Christo 
Principem Dominum Nostrum Carolum Dei Gratii Angliae Scotiae 
ffranciae et Hibemiae Regem Fidei Defensorem verum et 
indubitatum dictae Rectoriae patronum." The original institution 
to Upwey is also in the hands of Mr. Mayo, and is endorsed 
" Exhibitum visitatione Reverendi in Christo Patris et Domini, 
Domini Gilbert Bristoll Episcopitenia apud Dorchester Secundo 
Septembris i56j. Edwardus Pownall Registrars us." It resembles 
the document given below, but con tains jio reference to theCovenant. 

" RoRERTtiS AVLETT Legum Dcor authoritate Procerum in 
suprema Curia Parliament! congtegatorum ad infrascripta agend' 
I'time authorizatus Dilbcto nobis in xp'o Jonathan Lawiance 
Clico in Artibus Magistro Salutem in Domino Ad Rectoriam 
Ecclesiffi parochialis de Haselbery Bryan in Com. Dorst per 
resignacoem Vltimi Rectoris et Incumbentis ibidem iam vacan' ad 
quam per honorandum virum Algemoun Comitem Northumbrix 
D'num Honor' de Cokermouth et Petworth Dominii Percie Lucie 
Poyings ffitz-Paine Bryan et Latimer Nobilissimi Ordinis Garterij 
Militem verum et indubitatum dictje Rectoris (ut asseritur) 
patronum prsesentatus exlstis te admittimus Teque Rectorem diets 
Rectorise (de agnoscendo Regiam supremam potestatem in Causis 
Ecclia'ciset temporalibus ac de renuntiando recusando et refutando 
omnem et omnimodam foraneam jurisdiceonem iuxta formam 
Statuti in ea parte edit' et provis' ac de ffidelitale Domino nro 
Regi eiusque hieredibus et successoribus legitimis per le fideliter 
eithibend' et prestanda ad sancta Dei Evangelia per te corporaliter 
tact' et deosculata primitus iuratum, necnon suscepto siue repetito 
prius per le Pacto solenni seu ffcedere Nationali iuxta Ordinera 
Procerum prredictorum) rite instituimus ac in et de eadem cum 
suis iuribus membris et pertinentijs Vniuersis investimus Curamet 
regimen parochianoram ibidem tibi commitlentes et committimus 
per pntcs saluo iure cuiuscunque In cuius rei testimonium sigilluin 
quo in hac parte vtimur piitibus apponi fecimus Datum primo die 
mensis Martij Anno Domini iiixta stilum Ecclesix Anglicanse 
MUmo Sexcesimo Quadragesimo Septimo. Robt: Aylett." 

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313. Early Church Builders, (Winscombe.) (I. iii. 1+3.) 
Mr. Buckle was shown that Godwin has mistaken his authority in 
making him say that Bp. Ralph built the Church of Winscombe. 
It is, I think, probable that he is also right in the suggestion that 
we should read ' Wyveliscombe ' for ' Wynescombe.' I cannot find 
any such close connection with Winscombe as would induce the 
Bishop to build a 'capella' there. It had been a Glastonbuiy 
manor until it was given over as the price of peace to Bp. Joceline, 
and Jocehne within a few yeare gave it to the Cathedral. 
Throughout the Wells Chapter records it is always treated simply 
astheirproperty, and they were benefactors to, if not the builders 
of the church, for in the year 13+j they paid "In litteris 
illuminandis super unam legendam pro Wynescombe, is. njd," 
For writing the legenda xJ., for binding iijd. 

Wyveliscombe, on the other hand, belonged to the See from 
at least the date of Domesday. It was a favourite residence of the 
Bishops. (Collinson 11. +8g.) We find from Bp. Drokensford's 
Register and the Wells Cathedral MSS., that the Bishop waa 
there in May and August 1316, and again in every year until 1 312 
inclnsive ; and Collinson says he died there. The Cathedral 
SS, also show that Bishop Ralph was there at least in 1347, 1349, 
''*35+i '361. 1362 and 1363. 

J. A. Bennett, South Cadbury Rectory. 

213. Sing all over, "One, &c." — I [have a friend here, 
^o years of age, who often tells me of "Old Times."— Among 
Other things, she has often repeated to me a song which she 
leamt, when a child, which seems to me to bear marks of a 
religious instruction reaching back very far, and handed down by 
repetition from father to son, from mother to daughter, from veir 
early times. She leamt it at Batcombe, where her father lived. 
It begins before every line with the words, " Sing all over " — one, 
' 'o, three, &c., and is as follows : — 

Sing all over — one — what was one ? 

God was one, the Righteous Man, 

To bring our souls to rest. Amen. 
Sing all over — two — what was two — 

Two was the JewTy. 

Three was the Trinity, 

Four was the Lady Bore. 

Five was the Man Alive. 

Six was the Crucifix, 

Seven was the Star of Heaven. 

Eight was the Crooked Straight. 

Nine was the Water Wine. 

Ten was the Golden Pen. 

Eleven was the Gate of Heaven. 

Tweir was the Holy Bell. 



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" Sing all over " is repeated before each number. 

Almost the whole seems plainly to describe events in our Lord 
Jesus Christ's life. His birth, the place of His birth, the sign of His 
birth, and some of His miracles. If some of your readers would 
give anj^ version of this song, which they may hear or know of in 
their neighbourhood, it may by some variety of expression help to 
tix the meaning of the last three numbers. " The Golden Pen " 
may, I suppose, mean the Holy Gospels written by the pen of the 
inspired Evangelists ; or it may mean the pen for the sheep 
enclosed in the fold of the Church. Orthe" Gate of Heaven "may 
mean the Church on earth, or the last entrance into rest. "Twell", 
so pronounced I suppose for Twelfth, to make it rhyme, may mean 
the Bell indicating the consecration of the Host, or the last 
summons to Judgment. 

1 should be very glad of any various fonna of this song, if 
there are any. 

J. B, Medley, LulUngton Rectory, Frome, 

[For various ' folk-readings ' of the above rhyme, Cf. " 7'Ae 
WaUm Anliquary," Vol. VII. pp. 21+-15, 239-+0, and 267. 

Somerset Editor.] 

314. Easter Sepulchre. (I. iii. 151.) — The tomb at 
Tarrant Hinton is interesting as being one of the last permanent 
"Sepulchres" erected in England. It is in the styie of the 
Renaissance. The letter " R " of the super- inscribed text is made 
to enclose the two following letters " A " and " T." This curious 
practice originated during the decline of the Roman Empire, {i: 
Leiand's llin. xi., 67,) The letters T.W. and T.T., at the upper 
corners, are the initials of the founder, who is said to have built 
in 1515, the year after he became Rector, the remarkable Chapel 
which opens into the Chancel. The doorway of the former 
Rectory, which is now the entrance to a court-yard, was sur- 
mounted with the inscription " DA GLORIAM DEO. THOMAS 
TROTTESWELL ALIAS [a shield] WEVER HUNC PORTI- 
CUM FECIT ANNO MDXXVIL" This no longer remains, bm 
in each spandrel of the arch is what appears to be a lowering 
stem of the lihum candidum, and on a scroll the following iambic, 
in old Eng. characters, may still be read, 

" Jesu Maria Virgo et Mater ej. est." 

[Miy/a 7 TO? 'IijtroS wapOivai iati Ka'i /iij-T'ip bi'toS.] 

Tboaias Wever, for by this name he was always known, held 
also the living of Pimpeme, to which he was presented in 1520 by 
Q. Eadaniie of Arragon, and there too he erected a Chapel and 
wtohisRectory. He deceased during "The Terror," 
~ s the martyrdom of More and Fisher, and was 
b caf^*' the "Sepulchre " at Tarrant Hinton. 
I ftaw^t. Sotcbester, is a much older example engraved 
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^ Church of Gussage All Saints is a well preserved " Sepulchre," of 
dtioraUii date ; which formerly stood in the north wall of the old 
Chancel. It resembles that at Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire, 
(engraved in the Gloss, of Anh.) To rest beneath the" Sepulchre " 
was a privilege coveted by the most illustrious in the land. Sir 
Nicholas Latimer, who was knighted in " the field by Tewkesbury," 
(Sheriff of Dorset 31 Hen. VI., and of Somerset 1 1 Ed. IV.,) by 
will ordered his body to be buried in the Church of St. Mary, 
Buckland Newton, " near the high altar where the sepulchre of our 
Lord used to be placed." (Hutchins' Hist. 0/ Dor. III., 713.) A 
description of the elaborate " Sepulchre," contributed in 1470 to 
the Redcliffe Church, Bristol, by " Maister Canynge." (the 
Canynge of Chatterton's poems), will be found in the history of 
that Church by J. Britton (1813— +<>). At Holcombe Bumell, 
Devon, is a nch stone "Sepulchre," with car\-ed figures, 
representing our Saviour's Crucifixion and the soldiers who 
guarded his tomb. Besides the splendid monument at Lincoln, 

I other fine examples remain at Patrington (in 4 stages), Bampton, 

' Oxfordshirp (in 2 stages), Heckington, Northwold. and 
Hawton. A copy of the last may be seen at the Crystal Palace. 
It is also engraved in Cutts' Church Did. (S.P.C.K.) The Easter 
Sepulchre, though occasionally some permanent structure in stone — 
a wall recess as at Gussage— a founder's tomb as at Tarrant 
Hinton — a Chapel as at Winchester — was in the great majority of 
Churches a temporary erection in wood, hung with the richest 
pails of gold and silver cloth. Within it, on Good Friday, were 
laid a veiled crucifix and the pix ; and a tall and thick wan-light 
called the "paschaJ," and other tapers, burned about it continually, 
and it was watched each night. On Easter morning the crucifix 
and pis were removed, with various circumstances symbolical of 
the Resurrection. At Devizes, in 1409, was paid "to four men 
for keeping of the Sepulchre two nights, is. zd." At Wimbome 
Minster, (1514 — 31,) was "paid for making of the paschall, the 
vaut taper, ij grete tapers before the Sepulker, and other lights 
for the quere, bs. $J." Later on another payment occurs, for 
" making jjlbs. of wax as a paschall taper, a vault taper, and 14 
tipers for the quire, and i Sepulchre tapers." The ancient 
" Sepulchre Service " of St. Osmund seems to have been followed 
more or less throughout England. It was objected to by Bps. 
Ridley and Hooper {Park. Sue. Voh.). and defended by Archbp. 
Parker as being " an open protestation of faith." A full account 
of it will be found in " Divine Worship in Eng. in the i ilk and 
Hih Cents., by J, D, Chambers, Esq., Recorder of Salisbury. 

I J. H. Ward. 

215. What are the distinctive marks of an Easter Sepulchre ? 
In the north wall of the Chancel of Dorchester St. Peter, close to 
the Table, is a recess with ogee, foliated, crocketted, and 



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an island which is in Ui-Cennselaig, and out on the sea it is. 
This island is now called Beggery Island, Wexford. Ibair had a 
great convict with St. Patrick, says the note to the Calendar, and 
bad said to him, "Thou shall not be in Ireland." The extract 
gives Ibair's answer. 
I Edmund McClurb, Northumberland Avenue, London. W.C. 

218. Iron Organs. — In Hutchins's Hislory of Dorstl, 3rd 
edition, Vol. iii,, p. 713, in the account of the Church of Buckland 
Newton, the following sentence occurs: "In 1550 here were a 
pair of iron organs, weighing about zoolb., which were probably 
then taken down and sold." I shall be glad to know what is here 
intended to be described ? 
I G. Mayo, Pydeltrenthide. 

319. CoMGRESBnRT. — Some derive this name from a fon^wj 
said to have been held there ; others from Congar, a recluse or 
ecclesiastic, said to have dwelt there. Others doubt the 
existence of either Congress or Congar, and derive both Congres- 
bury and Conger-eel from Konig, the origin of many names of 
places, such as Konigsberg, Coniston, &c., and this seems 
confirmed by the local pronunciation of the name, " Coomibury." 
Query, from Konissbury, Koonsbury, or Coonsbury? What 
authority is there for the existence of ' Congar ' the monk, or what- 
ever he was ? 

Theodore Compton. Winscombe. 

330. Druitt Family. (I. i. sg., iii. 1 10.) — Can F.W.W. give 

any further information about John Vowell ah Hooker's wife ? 

According to a reply in the WrsUm Antiquary for April, 1888, it 

seems doubtful whether her maiden name was Druell or Druell. 

I G. E. Druitt, 8, Strathraore Gardens, Kensington, W. 

' 221. Protestant Refugees at Glastonbury. (I. iii. 149.) 

It will be very interesting if some Glastonbury correspondent 
will search the Registers for any traces of Births, Marriages, and 
Deaths of the Protestant Refugees, or of subsequent inhabitants, 
whose names would afford primA facie evidence of a French origin. 
J. A. Bennett, South Cadbury Rectory. 

322. Fork-Tailed Kite. — A fine specimen of that now 
very rare bird, the Fork-tailed Kite {Falco JUilvus) was obtained a 
short time since in this neighbourhood. It was lying dead near 
the carcass of a poisoned fox, on which it had doubtless been 
making a meal with fatal results to itself. It was preserved, and 
is, I believe, now in the Dorchester Museum. 

Wm. W. Coker, Weymouth. 



152 Somerset S- Dorset Notes & Queries, 

323. Plojjghbots' Chaunts.— In the earlier years of this 
century, as the elders among us can well remember, it was the 
custom for boys with oxen at the plough, to sing or rather chaunt 
as they drove. The words, of course, varied with district, period, 
and power of the singer to improvise, but the tune remained. 

Have any of your readers preserved, or can they recall the 
music or the words of such Chaunts ? If so, it would be well to 
have them recorded, especially the music. 

F. H. Dickinson, Kingweston. 

334. Baddanbyrig. - Badbury. (I. i. ii, ii. 54, 35. 56, S7O 
Terhaps it may be useful to place on record in S. &■ D. N. &■ Q, 

that the locality of the battle of Mons Badonicus was discussed in 
N. & Q. 6th S. xii., +61, and 7lh S. iv., 108 and 372. From the 
evidence now before us the identification of Baddanbyrig with the 
Dorset Badbury would appear to be established. 

Henrv SvMorrDs. 

225. Humphrey Walrond, of Sea. — Is anything known 
of the history or antecedents of Humphrey Walrond, the reputed 
founder of Ilminster Grammar School ? Was there any Monastic 
School at Ilminster before ? There were said to be four Chantries 
there ; the School being one ; Ihe Chantry at the West end of the 
Church being another, and still remaining. Where were the other 
t«'0 ? — and what became of them ? 



Charlotte G. Soger, St. Savic 



I, Southwark. 



226, Bar-shot for Muskets. — When making the road to 
the Nothe Fort, Weymouth, a small earthwork was cut through 
revealing sundry pieces of money of lylh century date, which 
marked the period of the construction. I was fortunate in securing, 
for the modest sum of sixpence, a specimen of Bar-shot for use 
with the musket. The iron bar which connects the two leaden 
bullets is still continuous, though much rusted. The bullets are 
battered, and have apparently been fired ; they weigh, with the bar, 
just 30Z. Was this form of missile ever generally employed ? I 
Jon't remember seeing another specimen. 

T.B.G. 

227, Bread at Chkisteninos. (1. ii. 8S.) — In Hone's 
' Table Book,' (Tegg's Reprint, 1878), pa. 425, we read thus: — 

" It is customary in Northumberland for the midwife, &c., 
" to provide two slices, one of bread and the other of cheese, 
" which are presented to the first person they meet in the pro- 
" cession U Church at the Christening. The person who 
" receives this homely present must give the child in return 
'■"three" different things, wishing it at the same time health 
" and beauty. 



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'53 



"A gentleman happening once to fall in the way of such a 
" party, and to receive the above present, was at a loss how to 
" make the triple return, till he bethought himself of laying upon 
"the child, which was held out to him, a shilling, a half-penny, 
" and a pinch of snuff I When they meet more than one person 
'■ together, it is usual to single out the nearest to the woman that 
"carries the child." 

But what does it all mean ? 



328. Jack-Man.— What is the origin of the name " Jack- 
■' given to the wooden figure of a man in Wimbome Minster 
Tower, which strikes the bells every quarter hour ? 

G.E.D. 

339. The Devil's Stonb. at Staple Fitz-Painr. — At 
Staple Fitz-Paine, a few miles S.W. of Taunton, there is by the 
wayside a big "Sarsen" known as the Devil's stone, because, 
having come overnight with a lot of big stones on his back, where- 
with to pelt the builders of a Church which he heard was to be 
built, against his wish, in that then benighted place, he suddenly 
saw in the morning the beautiful tower of i\\e finished Church, and 
in his chagrin and amazement, he was so taken aback, that he 
dropt his budget of stones from his back ; and this big one in 
particular, from off his shoulder, remains lo this day as a strong 
(iho' dumb) witness of the fact. 

T. Rupert Jones, 10 Uverdale Road, Chelsea. 

. Quaker Burial Grounds. (I. iv. 190.) — In response 
a the request made by " Enquirer" in your last number, I send 
you list of all the Burial Grounds in the County of Dorset which 
formerly belonged, or do now belong, to the Society of Friends, 
viz., Bridi>OTt, Ceme, Corfe, Dorchester, Hawkchurch, Lyme 
Regis, Marnhull. Poole, Ryme Intrinsica, Shaftesbury, Sherborne, 
and Weymouth. 

" Enquirer " mentions " Nether Compton." I do not be' ieve 
the Society ever had a Burial Ground there, although some 
members lived in that village. There arc one or two Burial 
Grounds just outside the borders of Dorset, in which Friends 
living within the border were formerly interred. 

J. Farley Rutter, Mere. 

[P.H.L. mentions another at Ashcombe, near Ashmore and 

[IToIlard, Just within the borders of Wilts, which is still in use.] 

331. Etymology of the Place-name 'Somerset.' — In 
riia " British Towns and Districts ", the historian of the Conquest, 



Stmtrut S- Dorset Notts &■ Qutrics. 

wtites " Somerset, Sumersete, Sumerseta, Somerset- 
e fonns that the name takes in English or in Latin, 
iltlAit karf of the Sumersalan : Somerton is their town. I will 
i lo decide what is the origin of the first half of the 
« drrivation which makes Somerset the estiva regio is so 
ifliMing that one is half afraid that it cannot be right." 
- Hcnr>- Sandford's admirable book, "Thomas Poole 
Plri* FHentls," Vol. I., p. 6, 1 read "the very names of the 
^ Tiedxoy, Middtezoy, Westonzoyland — reveal the homes 
riTlfililil niirlj' iriili |- lij i!a& sea-mens" (the Some rsEtan) "with 
mlk0M tkw bune ofSomeraet ori^nated." I noted Dr. Freeman's 
>iigivdb wutT months ago ; and about as many weeks since, I was 
Itnck \>J Mrs. Sandford's sentence just quoted ; for, as a veteran 
Mviieni of place-names, I was, and am still, perplexed about the 
(xi^in of several local names in North Yorkshire, involving the 
ii'hiit'.'m'Seamer'or'Semer.' I should be very grateful to any reader 
mf the " N. & Q. S. &' D" who could supply me with adequate 
pfDof. tiisloricat or philological (or both), that sia-mere, learner, 
Mmt* is, ultimately at least, identifiable with Somer, Sumtr. The 
tylljible »>iy may, as Mrs. Sandfotd remarks, be sounded zee within 
a specified district ; but as there is no doubt that the fonns 
SkiMr^ia/as, Sumer-!a!as, Sumor-salas, Sumur satas, Somer-sate 
vvMn^ before, and during, the latter half of the ninth century, the 
^t is decisive as to the contemporaneous pronunciation of 
the Sntt etement of the name : and what is wanted is to show 
how fiti it is reasonable, or possible, to assume that the alleged 
«M-«wnr (A.S., sa-merr or sa-mirre, with the first e long) passed into, 
or was coincident in sound with, the Sumor or Sumer o\ iha Somer- 
satan of A.D. 945. For my own part, I am as yet incredulous as 
lo such a transition ; nor can I say that I am entirely satisfied as 
lo the existence of the compound stE-mere. It is possible of course ; 
but has it been ascertained P 

J. C. Atkinson, Danby, in Cleveland. 

332. A Plan of Dorset. — I have in my possession a " Plan 
Iff Ihe County of Dorset'' published in 1804, and from the informa- 
liiui it contains, it bears evident traces of having been drawn up 
when the chances of invasion from our neighbours across the 
Channel were undoubtedly great, and the fear of Napoleon was a 
very real thing. 

It professes to be a "General Abstract or Summary of the 
resources of the County collected in the year 1803 from the 
returns made under the Act for the defence and security of the 
Realm." 

The County is divided into ten divisions, and in each division 
is siwn the following information, viz. : — The numbers of Deputy 
Lieutenants, 'I'ithings, Men Capable of Service, Live Stock, Oxen, 
Cows. Sheep, &c., Riding Horses, Draftdo., Dead Stock, Waggons 



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155 



K:«nd Carts, Mills. Sacks of Flour in 2+ hours. Ovens, Loaves. 
There are also given eight signal posts: — 1, Ballard Down; 2, 
Swanage; 3. St. Aid he 1ms ; 4. Whitenose ; 5, Portland North; 
6. Portland Bill ; 7. Abbotsbucy Castle ; 8, Golden Cap (or Cup) : 
and the following Beacons :— Orchard Hill, Shepton Hill. Black- 
down. Mdbury Hill. Pilsdon Hill, Woolland, Lytchett Beacon, 
Woodburj' Hill. Piddletown Heath, and Milton Abbey. 

Amongst the curious items of information are the following : 
The number of Quakers in the county, 118 ; of Aliens, 5 1 ; those 
incapable of removing themselves from Age, Infancy, Infirmity or 
otherwise, 18,144; and lastly, the names of the Field Officers of 
the Volunti-er Force of the County : — Cavalry — Colonel Earl of 
Dorchester, Lieut. -Colonel Hon, Lionel Damer, Major James 
Frampton; unattached, Captain John Bragge. Infantry — ist 
Battalion, Colonel Earl of Digby. Major Erie Hawker ; md Batta- 
lion, Lieut. -Colonel John Jeffery, Major Young West ; 3rd Batta- 
lion, Lieut.-Colonef E. M. Pleydell, Major Wm. Bower; 
unattached, Captain John Penn. Captain Robert Gordon. 

It would be interesting to know whether this was privately 
published for the information of officials only, or whether it was 
circulated amongst the public generally. 



Feb. 6ih, 



Geo. E. Eliot, Weymouth. 



233. Ahdickand Bur,sTOVE Hondrhd. (I. iv. 160.)— Mr. 
Daubeny seems to assume that the second syllable of the first word 
had a short ' 1.' I cannot prove the contrary, but the evidence 
seems to me rather the other way, and that the sound was the 
same as in ' Wans-dyke," ' Grims-dyke," ' Dyke-reeve,' &c. As to 
the first syllable, there is 'Ablake' (between Long Sutton and 
Langport, a little to the north of the territory comprised in these 
Hundreds.) which is mentioned in the boundaries of Long Sutton, 
in CoUinson. 

The Hundred Rolls of the 2nd of Edward I. under Somerton, 
— ^where there are separate returns for the Hundredum " Forin- 
aecum." and the " Intrinsecum," which settles the question of the 
meaning of Forum, raised in I. iv. 163, viz., that it was the nuUt 
Hundred, as at Bath. Wells, Taunton, Milverton, &c.. — make a 
remarkable statement that Curry Rivel was granted to Richard 
Revel by Henry II.. with Langport, and that the Hundreds of 
Abedik and Bulstone belonged to the same manor, and were 
granted with it. 

In the "Nomina Villarum" of 16 Edw. II. they are placed 
together, and it would seem that the L'Ortys, the heirs of Revel, 
were Lords of both, which accounts for their being now treated 
as one Hundred. 

F. H. Dickinson, Kingweston. 



Somerset 6* Dorset Notes &r Queries. 



157 



Churchwardens and Overseers, to levythesesi 
upon the inhabitants, should ihey neglec 



1, assessed weekly 
_iay them, and in 
defect of such distress to commit the defaulters to the Common 
Gaol, there to remain without bail, until the sums due be paid. 
The money collected is to be delivered weekly by the Church- 
wardens and Overseers of the several parishes to the parish officers 
of Sherborne, 

The sums due from the parishes of the Out Hundreds are as 
follows :- 



Brodford ,. .. 10 

Thomeford . . . . 6 

I.illington . . 4 

Beere Hackett . . 4 

Over Compton . . S 

Nether Compton . . fl 

Holnest . . 4 

llurton . . 4 

Up Ceame . . . . 1 
The total to be received b 
to 8s. lod. 



Caundle Buyshoppe 

Caundle Purse 

Marsh 

O borne 

Lidlinch 

Haydon 

Wootton 

fToIke 



Sherborne weekly thus amounts 



f Ta bi continued.) 

236. Tell-Tale Snow. — When snow falls slowly and 
regularly in calm weather, it covers the grround uniformly to the 
some depth, and when it melts, all goes away together. 

It is otherwise when the snow has fallen in windy weather; 
the surfaces of the fields are then made smooth, except where 
trees or hedges cause drifts, and here, long after the thaw, we see 
the snow still remaining. 

Where there are irregularities of the surface of a field, these 
are filled up, and the snow is of unequal thickness, and at the end 
of the thaw some is left in the hollows of the ground, the ridges 
becoming bare first. 

On enclosed arable ground, I think it likely that the balks of 
the ancient plough divisions will appear, and on pasture land the 
furrows of the ancient ploughing; so also hedges long since 
grubbed up, together with their ditches; and likewise foundations 
of ancient buildings and remains of earthworks. 

After the early storms of last year, I noticed two distinct lines 
of ploughing, at right angles to each other, in front of my house, 
where I am pretty certain there has been pasture for a hundred- 
and-fifty years; and I pointed out to some friends two sets of 
ploughing at Hurcott, on a sloping pasture field, which I should 
have supposed could never have been ploughed otherwise than in 
linches, following the hill horizontally or nearly so, if I had not 
seen two separate and quite distinct sets of ploughing which were 




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independent of tbe hill, 
not easjr to do. 

Om low gToands. which have been pasture for ages, seem to 
hawe been ploogfaed in earijr times. These and the ancient Parks 
will probablr gire as np something of their history, if carefully 
looked at. aher snow. 

F. H. Dickinson, Kingweston, Somerton. 

337. Golden Watches. (I. iii. 137.) — ^The yellow flowers 
of the Homed Poppjr, {CkthJomium Majut.) which grows aband- 
anily on Preston B^ich, were in my young days known as Golden 
Watches. 

T.B.G. 

338. ■ Lent Crocking ' Extraordinary I (I. Hi. 98.) — In 
the early days of the century, my father attended a school kept at 
Ceme by an old fellow named, not inappropriately, " Needle.' 
He had sufficient acuteness to vary, to his own advantage, the 
custom of Lent Crocking, in this way : he permitted each boy to 
hurl against the school door a log of wood, no matter what the 
weight, and great were the efforts to break through, or at least 
cnck the venerable oak. well studded with iron. But nothing of 
the sort happened ; the only tangible result being the accumnla- 
lion of a handsome pile of fuel for future use of the wily 
pedagogue. 

T.B.G. 

439. SomersetM.P.'s.— "The Right Worshipful" DoMiNicr 
CRt&TER, gent., was M.P. for Minehead from 1571, until his 
decease about the year 1576. Who was he ? Whence the prefii 
" Right Worshipful " ? 

Richard Chapman was M.P. for Bath, in 1553. 

William Chapman, gent., was M.P. for Bath, in 1616. 

Is anrthing known of their parentage ? I believe that the 
last named was son of Walter Chapman, alderman of Bath. 

W. D. Pink. 

240. Chaff upon the Doorstep. {I. iii. 139.)— To strew 

slraw not cAtf/" (but doubtless the idea is the same) at a man's 
door, under the circumstances stated, is quite a common practice, 
in no way " superstitious." but intended as a broad hint that the 
neighbours think the gentleman is not unacquainted with the 
art of thrashing, 

J. A, Bennett, South Cadbury Rectory. 



Somerset S- Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 159 

f I. Remarkable Frost in Somerset. — In that channing 
repertory of old world infomiation, " TAe Mirror" I find the 
following ; " I myself was witness to a freezing shower in Somer- 
setshire, about eighteen years since, and the effects of it were 
very surprising. Birds were found frozen to the ground, and the 
danger attending walking and travelling was considerable, not to 
mention the consternation of tradespeople, when they attempted 
to close their shops at night, the windows that were exposed to 
the shower being thickly coated with ice, so as to render it almost 
impracticable to shut them. The walls of the houses fronting to 
windward presented to the spectator an appearance of being 
glazed, and the eaves were loaded with pendant icicles, etc. A 
fall of snow succeeded the day after, which reduced the scene to 
the more ordinary appearance of winter. Soon after more snow 
fell, together with a vast fall of rain, which inundated the county 
for several miles, and many distressing accidents occurred ana 
several lives were lost."—" H., Royal Observatory, Greenwich." 
Comingfrom such aquarterlhisaccount is strangely vague. The 
date of this number of " The Mirror' is February, 1817. Eighteen 
years before would bring the date of this frost to 1809. Is there 
any record of this t or is it the same frost as occurred in London 

■ 01 1814. .=> 

■ Charlotte G. Boger, St. Saviour's, Souihwark. 

242. Noon's Barrow,— On the top of Blackdown, just 
South of West Buckland, near the County boundary, the old Ord- 
nance map marks " Noon's Barrow." 

The Chronicle says that in 710 Ini and his kinsman Nun 
fought against Cerent King of the Welsh, and Florence says that 
they defeated him. 

Ethelwerd puts Nunna first, and speaks of them both as Kings. 

Nothing more is said of Nun, and we may suppose him to be 
buried there. It would seem that his tomb has been carted away 
as manure, for it cannot now be found. Can any old person of 

^the neighbourhood tell when it was removed, and point out the 
«xact site ? 
F. H. Dickinson, Kingweston. 

243. St. Margaret's Chapel, Tatwoeth. (I. iv. 168.) — 
There appears to be no mention of ' St. Margaret's,' or any other 
Chapel or Chantry, at Tatworth, in the " Rtporton the Manuscripts 
of WtUs Catheiral," (Hist. MSS. Com., 1885), in " Bishop John de 
Drohnsford's Register" {^o-oA.'^zz. Soc. 1887), in the "Survey 
and Rental af Chantries, ^c, in the County of Somerset," (Somt. 
Rec. Soc, 188S), or in the list of " Somerset Incumbents" from the 

" 13th to the 18th Century, recently published by the Rev. F. W. 
" Weaver. 



i6o Somerset S- Dorset Notes & Queries. 

Pulman, in his •' Book of the Axe" (4th Ed., p. 175), says that 
the building referred to by Mr. Langdon is situated in South 
Chard, and not in Tatworth, but that he can tell us nothing of its 
history. 

As regards the place-name " Tatworth," Tal is probably one 
of the forms under which the word " Too/" appears all over Eng- 
land ; ex. gr., Tarfcaster, Taiflow, Ted'<i/on\\, 7ir/bury, the Tool at 
Tewkesbury, ToolhiW near Romsey, To/hill, Jw/hill. Tu/bury, &c., 
&c., of which many other modifications might easily be adduced; 
and the prefix is held to have originally applied to a hitl or 
eminence dedicated to the worship of the Celtic Deity ' Taith ' or 
'Taithe,' (the 'Teulates' of Lucan), which seems to have been 
identical with the God Mercury. 

The learned Canon Lisle Bowles, in his " Hermes Brilannicus," 
published in r8i8, has offered some valuable remarks on this sub- 
ject, which would occupy too much space for recapitulation here. 
The place is spelt " TflZ/nvorth," in the " Wells Cathedral USS." 
above alluded to, and it is incidentally mentioned as " 7"<Jiiworth " 
in the " Somerset Chantries." 

The suffix ■' worth " is held by Canon Isaac Taylor, to come 
from A.S. " weorthig = a place warded or protected, — an enclosed 
homestead," 

The whole place-name would thus signify, the enclosed " Toot," 
or (once) sacred hill, or mound, dedicated to the worship of the 
Celtic God " Taithe." 

(Cf. also, Pulman's "Local NBmendatun." Lond. 1857; 
pa. no). 

2. 

244. FoLK-LoRE. — Weather Proverbs, — I send some 
weather proverbs, which in my earlier years, (half-a-century since), 
were very common amongst west country folk. I offer them for 
two reasons, first, to put them in the way of being preserved, and 
secondly, in the hope of inducing others to follow my example. I 
may add that I have lived long enough to verify most, if not all of 

I. 
" Dree whit' vraus'es {frosts) vollerin', avore C'ursmas, 'U 
bring rSin." 

II. 
"Ev a Chich'ard {church-yard) da look lik' a pastur' vSSl 'poa 
C'ursmas d&y, '11 look lik" a plow'd vSei avoa Medzumma dfty.' 
(This is a variation of the North Country saying, " A 
green Yule makes a fat Kirk-yard I " and calls attenlion to the 
fatal effects of a trying spring on the constitutions of the sick 
and aged, who have survived a mild winter ; a fact well sub- 
stantiated by the Registrar-General.) 



Somerstt &• Dorstt Notes &• Qmries. 



"En's {even as) the dftys da langthen, the coold da strangthen." 

IV. 

" A Janiaiy spring edd'n good vur n6o-thing." 

(Because crops then become too forward, " winter proud" 

as it is called, and are liable to be damaged by later cold 

weather.) 

V. 
" Veb'uraiy veil-ditch." 
VI. 
" Za much groun' as ez cov6'd wi' znn {shini) 'pon 
Uinelmas dily, 'II be covd'd wi" znaw avore Laady-diy," 

(An observation which most weather wise-acres in the 
West can substantiate in a ron of years.) 

VII. 

"Ev Mftfich da come in lik'a lion {boisltrously), '11 goo out lik' 
It lamb." {genially). (And vic6 versa). 



" MMch win's an' Ap'ul zhowa's, Ml bring voath MAy vlowa's." 
IX. 
" Zoo many vogs en Mfifich, zoo many vrausts {var. " vloods "' 
B Mfty." 

X. 
" Mftftch '11 starm an' Ap'u! try, 
But May '11 lull ev you'll lev' er die." 
(Alluding to the prejudicial effects on a weakly constitu- 
tion of the cold Easterly winds that often characterize the 
poet's month ; as well as its rapidly changing temperature.) 

XI. 
" A Mfty chit's noo good." 
(' Chit,' meaning either a child or a bud. This proverb 
is often also applied to a kitten, which, if bom in May, is 
popularly supposed to be given to eating (lies and other 
insects, and be always thin and miserable- looking in conse- 
quence ; never catching any mice.) 
XII. 
" A zwfiAnn o" beys {bets) en Mfty, 
'Z wu'th a 166ftd o' hfty ; 
A zwft&rm o' beys en June, 
'Z wTi'th a zelva' spoon ; 



Somerut S- Dorset Softs S- Qturia. 

A zwUrni o' beys en July, 
Med z& well let 'em vly." 
(Mr. "Edd'nwu'thavly." 

XIII. 
" Mft/s ha'f zumma 'n ha'f wenta'." 

XIV. 

" A zunny Mfty 'n a dreppin' Jnne, 

'II pfit ail things en good tune." 

(A comforting thought Tor a late spring.) 

XV. 

" Urds {red clouds) en tha marnin'. 
All tha dfty starmin' ; 
Urds en tha night, 
'Z tha shephe'd's delight." 
(var. "All the dfty bright.") 
XVI. 
" When tha win' es en tha aist, 
'Tes neitha good vur man nor baist." 

XVII. 

" Mack'el sky en' maa's {mart's) tftils, 

Da maake zailas {sailors) Iowa zfiils." 

XVIII. 

" Mack'el sky, 

WSn't be vaour 'n twenty houas dn'." 

XIX. 

When in spring, snow lies Tor some time on the hill-sides 
and under hedges, the popular saying is, that 
" 'Tes awfiitin' vur m60a." 
XX, 
When the new moon is cupped {i.e. has her homs turned) 
directly upwards, it is popularly deemed to forebode a wet month. 
H. NoKRis, South Petherton. 

345. PisciNiC Situated in Corners. — 1 have been asked 
by the President of the Aberdeen Ecciesiological Society, to 
insert the following in "iV. <5* Q., S. &• D." 

In the Chancel, and in the S. transept, in the Church of 
Stoke-under- Ham, there are targe piscina; placed anplewise. 

(1) Is there any other example of this? (1} What reason 
cu be assigned for the arrangement ? 

Philip Peach, Pawlet Vicarage, Bridgwater. 




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NOTES ON BOOKS. 

346. Henry VIII. and thh English Monasteries, 
An attempt to illustrate the History of their suppression. By 
Francis Aidan Gasquet, Monk of the order of St. Benedict, 
sometime Prior of St. Gregory's Monastery, Downside, Bath. 
Vol. I. 3rd Edition, London, Hodges, 1888. 

Regard it from whatsoever stand-point we may, it seems 
to us that this is a book which is destined to occupy a permanent 
place in the Englishman's library. 

Its title suffices to explain that its subject deals with one of 
the most important and eventful crises in English History. 

The inevitable struggle for which the collapse of the feudal 
system had prepared this country, and indeed to which in a 
measure it had led up, was seen to be impending in the early part 
of the sixteenth century, and well and ably has Father Gasquet 
narrated the preliminary skirmishes that took place ere the 
decisive battle was fought and lost, — and won t 

Of course our sympathies will vary with the circumstances 
that regulate the point of view from which this history is surveyed. 
As protestants, we have been educated to believe that there was 
such incongruity between the power of the temporal Sovereign, 
and that of the then spiritual Sovereign (the Pope) in England, 
that the one or the other must, of necessity, eventually give way ; 
and we are accustomed to believe that the result was as it should 
be. As Englishmen, also, we feel that it could not be right that 
one-third of the soil of England, carrying with it a correspond- 
ing amount of power and influence, should be in the hands of 
men practically irresponsible to its ruler. 

Father Gasquet, though naturally biassed by somewhat 
different sentiments, yet sets forth his opinions in reasoning so 
temperate, and so logical, that it is impossible to find fault with 
many of his deductions. 

After commenting on the prejudicial effect of the "Black 
Death," in the 1 4th century, on the welfare of the people generally, 
especially also on that of the clergy, both secular and monastic, 
and which extended even to King Henry's time, he proceeds to 
narrate the suppression of the Alien Priories, noticing, by the way, 
those of Montacute and Bermondsey, the latter of which held 
considerable possessions in the county of Somerset. Of course 
this measure was deemed necessary in order to consolidate the 
power of the English sovereign, by undermining that foreign 
influence over his subjects, which was inevitable so long as 
continental monasteries enjoyed large ecclesiastical revenues 
from this country. 

The chapter on Wolsey is especially interesting and instruct- 
ive. His cunning and duplicity in dealing with the papal 
interests in England are here chronicled with an unsparing. 




aogiml documents and 

Cmyct has sbown ns. ia atl its 

aaa. and the dnboHcal cnielties, 

Cnnwdl, SDd theu roynnidons, 

evils, which 

hoases, and 



1 oa^ of the extinc- 
t, wUdt. appafrntlj, wete dealt with 
■d manj of them sitnated in 
... * atie to cope with the power 

: ati the Bamtrre of this pan of the persecution, 
B mattfTolog^f of the Carth Vg a ns . thongh not told 
igt at dnnabc seBsatknalism, is enongh to rouse 
^ kofmrrhooeatBun. 
KOHV 'M' «ik>^ nagiDed, dw nme of Cnimwell does not 
~k ihMtt pooceeifiBgs. at lean in the opinion of minds 
2 ik tito 19th centvrT : aod after reading this first 
■ft of ft wrf iastractivie work, we fed that we are the 
HMhi B» appieciate, at tbeii trae vahie, the motives which 
I^VMkvlUM* naoMS hare come down to ns in history, 
- " '" ^aces so ambigflotts, that we can scarcely 

1 «itb the allogeihei good, or the a!to- 
tfatnefote. coonsel all who feel interested 
e of these events, to read for themselves 
k to the bteratare of the day. 
e to add. that the handsome volume before 
a all concerned in its prodaction. The 
fc. ifce type and paper are both of the beat, 
^ittlkail the publisher as a Somersetshire roan, 
__ _ s^hl ^Meofter bringing out many such a work as 
■~:^ KwstHtt pleasure of recommending to the notice 

s wto HIS Friekds. — By Mrs. Henry 

I cnaillan. iSSS. 

i'etsowal Recollections," and shallow 

iv refreshing to meet with a genuine 

■ ■■r4, such as we recognize in Mrs, 

rSomas Poole : a work wherein both 

^ , and in which neither 

Kuijury to the whole. 

t pfesent romance -reading genera- 

b^^^lMr have heard, have ever cared 



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165 



much about either Tom Poole or his friends, and yet the life- 
history of any single member of the whole set would furnish 
romance enouyh for the hero of any modem novel, — Mr. Rider 
Haggard's absorbing atrocities, perhaps, only excepted. 

The business-like, practical tanner of Netherstowey, who could 
gather aroand him, as frienils, such men as Coleridge, Southey, 
De Quincey, Wordsworth, Sir Humphrey Davy, the two Wedg- 
woods, Charles Lamb, and Theiwall, must indeed have been 
possessed ofrare qualities himself, andMrs. Sandford has the happy 
power (we will not degrade that quality by misnaming it the 
knack), of letting us see these friends, not as literary dummies, or 
marionettes, but as actualities, who lived and moved, and thought, 
and influenced each other, and their respective circles, for good 
and not for evil ; — men who, though not innocent of those 
audacious theories which astonished our forefathers in the later 
years of the 1 8th century, and which shook civilised Europe to 
it:) moral foundations, were yet men capable of forming grand 
conceptions ; — men of large hearts and sterling principles. 
Extracts from their mutual letters are well selected, and serve 
admirably to show what manner of persons they were, and it 
may be a useful reflection in these days when people seem almost 
paralysed at the prospect of increasing territorial and commercial 
trouble, to learn that this little coterie, even while basking amid 
the peaceful scenery around them, ever recognised the true 
dignity of personal labour ; that they neither thought less of 
themselves nor of each other, for being connected in any way with 
honest trade. Tom Poole, indeed, was ever proud of terming him- 
self a "tradesman," rightly deeming that, whatsoever his position, 
" The rank is but the guinea's stamp 
The man'' Che gowd tot a'that i " 

Hence it came about, that, whilst his courteous nature 
always prompted him to show due reverence and respect towards 
those who stood on a higher social level than his own, his native 
dignity never permitted him to descend from his proper platform, 
which was that of a highminded and an honourable gentleman. 

Mrs, Sandford's book may possibly not present itself to the 
hypercritical as absolutely without fault, but it is a very good book, 
and a very delightful book, in which every chapter is full of 
interest ; and no thoughtful person can rise from its perusal 
without feeling that he or she has gained something by having 
made even such an indirect acquaintance with "Thomas Poole 
and his friends." 

248, Wedmore Parish Registers, Makriages, 1561-1839. 
Long4to., Wells, Jackson, 1888. 

Neither the Antiquary, the Genealogist, nor the Historian. 
is likely to find fault with so useful a work as that of printing and 
publishing Parish Registers. It is only the ultra-utilitarian, 




mA-^iAtmOx a work sbodd 
aoop calnble ofasemtions xad 
-tm IM i w «mI terae English, wnh 
''MtaMaCawH^'* aie alreadv so bmUiar. 
tui ()% Iks* '■d abMlalelj clear, and tfae 
iplBi^ins in all ways the intca- 



y the past, fir the fi 
J an AppendU, this book 
OMiitrjr parsons, who fed 

if not altogether strange to 

sown, but it is a fact, that 

--L-iAccniacyofSouth Pelhcrton, 

;:sd his 'learned leisure' in 

, -wK there, from 1574. to 1811, 

i-indsoiQe folio volumes, he 

■u Nfhalf of the parish. 

. 4, the first instalment of bis 

ti ■ yood speed ' even until the 

htm. 

•v — Edited by Frederick Wm. 
1^ o<" the Counties of Somerset 
NMOcrsetshire Wills." Oblong 
,.v punted for the Editor, by 

has given the men of 

luhl of help for those wbf 

cir native county. 



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The work is compiled from what are tenned " Tht Hugo MSS. 
No. 30,279 and 30,280," in the British Museum, having been be- 

qaeathed to itslibrary by that gentleman, amongst Dthermanuscripts, 
at his decease in 1877. The originals are believed, as the preface 
tells us, to have been copied from the Bishops' Registers at 
Wells, by Edmund Archer, S.T.P., who was sometime Archdeacon 
of Taunton, and afterwards of Wells, until his death in 1 739. 

Of Mr. Hugo we may say that he was the Rector of West 
Hackney, Middlesex, and an ardent Antiquary. Bom in Taunton, 
he always evinced a deep affection for his native county, and was 
especiaJly interested in the history of its Ecclesiastical develop- 
ment: witness the many important communications chronicled 
under his name, in the Index of the Somerset Archaeological and 
Natural History Society. 

The MSS. referred to are written in Latin, and embrace the 
' Presentations ' of most of the Incumbents in the important 
Diocese of Bath and Wells, from the early part of the 1 3th century 
to the year 1738, together with the names of the Patrons, and 
references to the Registers from which they are extracted. These 
the Rev. Editor has taken in hand and reproduced in Enghsh, 
under the different Archdeaconries ; the names of the respective 
parishes being given in alphabetical order. 

A knowledge of the name of the patron of a living at a par- 
ticular date, will, of course, often prove of great assistance in 
hunting up material for local historj-, and Mr. Weaver seems to 
have performed his part well and conscientiously, especially when 
we consider the amount of mechanical labour involved in prepar- 
ing an index occupying more than fifty 410 pages. The fulness of 
what we have makes us hunger for what we have not. and it must 
be regarded as a misfortune that means could not have been taken 
to extend the list to the present time ; such a proceeding, how- 
ever, would have entailed an expense that, as one can well under- 
stand, few men single-handed would be willing to incur. 

The Rev. Editor's antecedent genealogical studies have, to a 
great extent, fitted him for work of this kind, and we are bound 
to say that this ' List ' does in no wise detract from the high 
character Mr. Weaver has already earned for himself as a student 
of ■ Bye-gones,' in the West of England. It is to be hoped that 
he will not be allowed to find himself a loser by the production of 
a book so useful to his fellow countrymen. 

350. An Account of the Chdrch and Parish of St. 
Giles, Without Cripplegate, London. — Compiled by John 
James Baddeley, Churchwarden, Royal 8vo. pp. 220. 1888. 

This is a book not specially appertaining dirtctiy to either 
Somerset or Dorset, but any account of the last resting place of 
Milton, of Fox the martyrologist, of good old John Speed, and 
Mattin Frobisher, of the chnrch where Oliver " Crumwell " led 



Somersit (S* Dorstt Notes (5* Qtu 



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1 68 

Elizabeth Bourcher to the altar, is and must be of interest to all 
Englishmen. It is the work of an influential but very modest 
parishioner of St. Giles's, anxious to do his best to preserve the 
records of his ' Commune,' and it affords evidence of considerable 
research in which the writer certainly has not spared himself. 

It is a trite saying that the best public work is done by other- 
wise busy men, and Mr. fiaddeley's book is an exemplif cation of 
its truthfulness. Copiously illustrated, it is almost an ' £dilian de 
luxe,' and whether regarded as a drawing-room ornament, or as a 
standard occupant of the bookshelf, it is certain to suit its abode. 
Its contents afford us, amid a mass of carefully selected and well- 
arranged matter, some glimpses of that vigorous parish life, which 
is always go interesting to the antiquary and the historian. Its 
publication, moreover, has the ulterior object of aiding the funds 
of some local charities, and we can honestly recommend its con- 
tents to the careful consideration of our own friends and sup- 
porters, as well as to that of the general public. 

251. The Importance op Preserving the Belongings 
OF OUR Parish and Other Chlrches. — By J. Brooking Rowe, 
Lay Representative for the Deanery of Plympton ; pp. 10 ; price 
4d. Plymouth: E. Chappie. 1888. 

The Editors of "A". &• Q. S. &• D." earnestly call attention 
to this valuable pamphlet, which is a reprint (by request), of a 
paper read at the Exeter Diocesan Conference, in October, 1888, 
by one who has evidently well thought out his subject. 

Short though it be, it deals well nigh exhaustively with the 
matter in hand, and it deserves the most careful consideration of 
every Rural Dean, Clergyman, and Churchwarden, in the United 
Kingdom. 

All who are interested in the preservation of Church 
belongings should procure from Messrs. Brown & Co., Salisbury, a 
copy, price 6d., of "Suggestions to Rural Deans in registering 
Particulars of the Churches and Church Furniture within their 
Rural Deaneries, together with a Specimen Return from the Parish 
01 Long Burton, by C. H, Mayo," issued in December, 1886, at 
the desire of the Bishop of Salisbury. The Scheme thereio 
developed is now in working order in the Diocese. 

aei. The Tombstonb Library. — Mr. H. Gray, of +7, 
Leicester Square, is issuing the first Vol. of The Tombslone Library, 
a coUecUon of Monumental Inscriptions, Epitaphs, &c., which will 
be iUostated with Views, Portraits, Coats of Arms, and with 
j l^t^ al Genealogical Notes and Extracts from Registers. The 
e will be 7s- ^^- ^ volume, and we understand that Somerset 
t will not be unrepresented in the contents. If this 
* ire is little doubt it will be of great 



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Somerset S- Dorset Noies &• Queries, i6g 

_ 253. Dorset or Dorsetshire. — Some doubts arose at an 
eariy meeting of the County Council of Dorset as to what would be 
the most appropriate legend for the common seal,— whether it should 
be the " County Council of Dorset," or the " County Council of 
Dorsetshire." In deciding this question the main point to be 
considered is What is the meaning of the word Dorset ? The 
names of Counties are for the most part divisible into three 
classes. In one class they are derived from the County Town or 
some other anciently prominent town in the county, such as 
Gloucesler-shire, Oxford-shire, Cambridge-shire, or Wilton-shire. 
The termination Scir or Scyr meaning in Anglo-Saxon a county 
or province. 

In the second class, which is a small one, the word "land," 
the district, takes the place of "shire," as Northumberland, the 
land of the Kingdom of Northumbria. north of the Humber, and 
Westmoreland, the land of the western moors. There are also 
Cumberland and Rutland. 

The counties comprised in the third class take their names 
from the inhabitants, as Norfolk (North folk), Suffolk (South 
folk). Esses, Middlesex and Susse.t, being the land of the East, 
Middle and South Sajtons, respectively. The twin counties of 
Dorset and Somerset, which, until the 8th year of Queen 
Elizabeth, were under the same shire-reve or sheriff, belong to 
this class. The terminal saet in Anglo-Saxon appended to words 
denotes dwellers, inhabitants, — incolse, coloni. Dom-sjetas, 
therefore, means the inhabitants of Dorn, and Dom or Dor has 
the same signification here as it has in "Dom-caester" or 
Dorchester, the castrum or town of Dom or Dor. With Somerset 
the case is analogous. The Sumersastan are the inhabitants of 
the district. What may be the meaning or derivation of the first 
syllable of either of these names offers a field for conjecture, but 
it is immaterial to the present enquiry. It is sufficient to know 
that " Dorset " means the district or people of Dor, just as 
Norfolk means the " folk" or people of the north part of East 
Anglia. The Anglo-Saxon language in its purity gradually died 
out in England, becoming largely modified by an admixture of 
French, which was the language of the upper class as well as of the 
Law Courts for some centuries after the Norman Conquest. Thus, 
the meaning of the word "sietan" passed out of mind, and the word 
"county" was added in explanation. But where the original 
name continued to be intelligible, and "folk" was still a word 
in common use, there was no occasion to speak of Norfolk- 
shire or Suffolkshire. Much the same reasoning applies to the 
districts called after their Saxon inhabitants, as Essex, Middlesex, 
and Sussex. Cornwall, in Domesday Comvalgie, may be placed 
under this class. The Cassiterides, or Tin Islands of the Phce- 
nicians and Greeks, which included Cornwall, are said to have 
been the seat of the Comavii, and Wealh meant a stranger, or 



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I. All sing — 
" Orange or lira-on, the belis are so chimmin, 

1 owe you five farthings, and when shall I pay you ? 

When I gel rich like a little tommy tit. 

Here comes a candle to light you to bed. 

Here comes a chopper to chop off your head." 
Two children then make an arch with their hands, and the others 
hold on to one another's frocks or coats, and pass under, singing 
all the time, and the two children catch the last one with their 
arms all round him. Then they split up into two sides, and the 
foremost one of each party has the end of a stick, while his 
followers hold on to one another behind, each clasping his hands 
round the waist of the one in front, (a sort of ' French and 
English '), and the side that pulls over the other wins, and clapt. 

I. All say — 
" London Bridge is falling down, 

Down, down, down, 
My fair lady. Bricks and mortar '1! build it up, 

Up, up, up. 
Bricks and mortar '11 soon fall down, 

Down, down, dowiii 
Iron bars '11 build it up, 

Up, up, up. 
Iron bars '11 soon fall down, 

Down, down, down. 
My fair lady. Penny horse '11 build it up. 

Up, up, up. 
Penny horse '11 soon fall down, 

Down, down, down, 
My fair lady. What have this poor prisoner done. 

Done, done, done, done, done, done. 
My fair lady ? Stoled my locks and broke my keys. 

Keys, keys, keys, keys, keys, keys. 
My fair lady. Half a sovereign he must pay. 

Pay, pay, pay, pay. pay, pay, 
Half a sovereign he must pay, my fair lady." 

One of them, caught inside, says; — 
" Half a sovereign 1 'd'n got. 

Got, got, got. 
My fair lady. Off to prison he must go. 

Go, go, go. 
My fair lady. Off to prison he must go." 

The one caught inside ; — " War's my ship ? " (sheep). 
The rest: — " I zeed 'em out een the vild." 
The one caught inside : — 



Somtrset S- Dorset Notes &• Queries. 173 

" I don't know where they be to, then. 
What 'v'e got behind 'e ? 
How many bwys {ar ' gurls ') is behind 'e ? 
Vive ar zix zacks o' barley me-al." 
Then ihey all say " Mah ! " and run offl 

3. Wolf in the Church-yard. — The children go out to school, 
and think they see a ghost in the Church-yard. Mother says, 
" "Tis only your father's shirt and stockings ; go on to school 
again," The mother then goes with them, and the wolf catches 
some of them, and hides them behind him. Then they go to 
school again, and come back again and say, ' Oh Mother, there's 
a ghost in the church-yard ; ' and then she goes with them, and 
the wo!f catches some more of them, and hides them behind him, 
as before. Then they say, " Where's my sheep .'' " He answers, 
mentioning any place, as. " on the hill. 

The game then finishes in the same way as the last. 

4. Old Woman. — All : " What's the time, 0!e Dumman, to- 
day ? " 

Old Woman : " One o 

This is repeated until 
, exclaim, "What d'e want six for.-"' 

O.W.: "To light the fire." 

All : " What do 'e want to light the fire 

O.W. : " To roast my chicken." (pi.) 

All : " Where b'e going to get them ? " 

O.W. : " Out of your yard, if I can get them ! " 

(Tries to catch the " chicken" girls). 

Then this is all repealed till some more are caught. In the 
last round, after the O.W. has said, " To roast my chicken," the 
, game ends thus : — 

All : " Where's my chicken ? " 

O.W. mentions some place or other. " I don't know wher 



'clock" is reached, when all 



e for ? " 



they be to, then." 
barley meal." 
All; 



' What 've got behind 'e ? " " Seven sacks of 

Your boots is dirty." 
Your stockings is dirty." 
Your feet is dirty." 
The blood '11 come through." 
The blood '11 come through." 
ike them off." 



It thei 



" Rub it up in a thousand more blankets." 



174 Sonurstl &• Dorset Notes S- Queries. 

The same children told me this counting out rhyme for p!aj-ing 
the common game of " Tig " :— 

" Mary at her garden gate, 
Eating cherries off her plate ; 
Two, four, six, eight. 
Mammy, daddy, dish clout, 
OUT spelts out goes he (or ' she ')." 

Children running races are started as follows : — 
" One, to make ready. 
Two, to prepare ; 
Three, to be off. and 
Four to be there I " 

F.M.P. 

25G. Children's Games in Glastonhury. — Perhaps some 
readers of " N. &" Q. S. & D." may be able to give information ■ 
about children's games in their respective localities. Such in- 
formation would not be without its ethnological interest, at | 
evidenced by the fact that in Glastonbur)', where foreign silk- 
weavers settled for some time in the sixteenth century, several of 
the names of popular street games are perfectly meaningless 
nnless they can be traced to a French origin. Familiar daily 
sounds are " Jolly Guire," and " Bucky Bean." The former is a 
sort of play-battle, and would be well described by the French 
words "Jolie Guerfc." The latter is a chasing game, in which 
the pursuer cries "Bucky Bean" over the boy caught, and the 
words may mean "all right! I've caught you now!", a phrase 
not inaptly implied by the French words, " Beaucoup bien" Any 
light on the subject would be interesting to the writer. 

Although the silk weavers are said to have left this neighbour- 
hood in the beginning of Queen Mary's reign, several of their 
surnames linger on to this day, and the last silk factor)- only 
ceased working about fifty or sixty years ago. 

C.B., GIastDDbui7, 

257. The Flace-Name Somerset. "Somerset' and i 

'Seambr,' (I. v. zji.) — In response to the interesting "Note" I 
by Dr. Atkinson, the Philologist o{ Cleveland, I beg to say that I 

fully share his incredulity about the possibility of a transition j 
between Sta-mere and Sumrr. It is an old notion that the Somer- 
set zoy represents Sej. but this is, I believe, a mistake. It ia the 

colloquial form of " Sowey." i.e. Sow Island. | 

I have often thought about the etymology of Somerset, and I 

have never found anything better than that which Mr. Freeman ' 

has put upon record, viz., " rrpi'c astira'' \ 

But Mr. Atkinson combines this enquiry with a new and I 

interesting query, when be raises the question of the meaning of I 



Somtnet &■ Dorset Notts &• Queries. 175 

anier" in Yorkshire. He speaks of several local names in 

North Yorkshire involving this element. I wish he had given us 

some specimens : I know but of two, one near Yarm. and 

the other near Scarborough, viz., Seamer Junction. I believe 

that Mr. Atkinson is quite right in his scepticism about the 

existence of such a compound as sm-mere. I do not apprehend 

that it is a compound, or ever was. 1 apprehend tliat the mert in 

such instances is an accretion, like the lake at the end of the name 

Windtrm/re Lakr. It is a later appendage. Perhaps in the cases of 

■Seamer' in Yorkshire, something has disappeared which once 

I stood before the name which now remains. Thus in Whittlesey 

[ Mere (Huntingdon), I apprehend that " Mere" has been added 

[ since the significance of — sey was practically lost. 

I There is a very curious instance in Flintshire of the accretion 

I of ' Mere.' The name Hanmer {once Han-Mere) having suffered 

I correption in its last element, and the public no longer seeing in 

I that name a designation for the water, but only a general name 

jioT the locality, proceeded to call the lake Hanmir Merc. 

J. Earle, is Norham Road, Oxford. 

358. It has always been my impression that the name, 

' Somerset," is derived from a tribe called ' Someri,' and from 

the same source as a place near Billingshurst in Sussex, on the 

I Roman road from Chichester called Stane Street. This village 

[ has been said to be named from a Saxon tribe called ' Billingas' 

L settled there, which seems quite probable. About a mile north 

I from this village is a farm, adjoining the toad, called ' Somers ' 

I alias ' Summers,' where a large mansion has been lately erected. 

I In some history of Sussex, I have read that a tribe called 'Someri' 

were settled here, from whom this name is probably derived. 

I From the numerous Somerbys, Somershams, Somertons, &c., 

1 in several counties, this tribe would appear to have been both 

T numerous and scattered. 

H.F.N. 

259. pEOTESTAXT RiLFCfiEES. (I.v. III.) — With reference 
to the suggested examination of the Registers fur traces of French 
Refugees at Glastonbury, it would seem desirable that a similar 
investigation should be carried out at Taunton. One Philipp 
Lissantwas "Constable of the Borough ofTaunton" in 1611, and 
it would be interesting to ascertain whether any traces can be 
found of others of the family, or of anything like a settlement of 
French Refugees at Taunton, about that time. 

E. D. BoURDiLl.ON, Poundisford. 

360. Olo Covers of Parish Account Book.s, &c. — My 
tmination of early Registers has shown me that we have a large 
I quartiiiy of valuable relics of the past, daily wearing away, and 



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SonuTSet &• Dorset Notes S- Queries. 



practically altogether unnoticed, in the sheets of old Church- 
Service books, now in use as bindings or covers for early Parish 
account books. These may not, as a rule, be of any very great 
value, but lome may be, and at any rale it would, I think, be desir- 
able to rescue them from their present unworthy useing, and pre- 
serve them. A sheet of plain parchment would perfectly well 
supply theirplaces, and the MSS. themselves might be deposited 
in the Museums at Dorchester and Taimtnn, with a note upon 
each, identifying it with the Parish whence it came. Here they 
would be safe from wear and tear, and available for the use of 
students. 

Should this suggestion meet the eye of any of your readers 
who are interested in these subjects, perhaps they will communis 
cate to the Editors of " ^. <$• Q. -V. &■ D.," any instances where 
they know of bindings of this nature still in existence. 

J. A. Bennett, South Cadbury Rectory. 

261. White Sports tN Flowering Plants, — Can any one 
tell me what it is that causes white " sports " in flowering plants ? 
Of course. I know the common answer, " difference of soil." 
'Bntwhal dijftrrnce of soil? I am led to ask about this matter 
from having observed one of these white " sports " of noteworthy 
extent, this year and last. Between the second and third mile- 
stones out of Dorchester, on the Bridport Road, there is a hedge- 
bank full of " Robin Hood," the common Campion. Of course, 
this is. as a rule, of a lovely rose colour. But in that bank nearly 
all of it blooms pure white, so that at first sight it looks like the 
normally white Campion, The only peculiarity in the bank, to my 
eye, is that it is a perfect maze of rabbit holes. 

H. J. MouLE, Dorchester. 

a6a. Shig-Shag. (I. iii. 138, iv. 184-5.) — Shig and shay 
are used in the sense of roughness. Shigged, shiggered, jiggered, 
are equivalent to shagged or ragged, {Ttw, by the late Rev. W. 
Barnes, p. 171). In Lincolnshire and elsewhere shag, shack, and 
shackback, are used to characterise a person of disreputable 
antecedents. Shakebag is the name of a ruffian in one of Scott's 
novels. Cowper tells us, {Task. Bk. v.,) that moralists have no 
power of themselves to humanise what is brute, or "smooth the 
shag of savage nature." The Cavaliers probably applied the 
phrase " a shigshag " to the Regicides and those who sympathised 
with them, much as we should now use the term. " a rough." 

Zbta. 

263. Thomas Keate, OF Che-silborne. — The following ta I 
a copy of an Inquisition, taken in 1 639. after the death of Thomai 1 
Keate, of Chesilbome, which furnishes an important addition to 



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Somerset S- Dorset Notes S- Queries. 177 

e pedijtree of the family of Keate, or Kejt, given in Hutchins's 
History of Dorset, Vol. iv., p. 3+<), and, therefore, may interest 
some of your readers. 

Inquisition taken at Blandford Forum, 16th September, 14 
Car. I,, before Robert Powell. Esq., Escheator. after the death of 
Thomas Keaie, gentleman, deceased, on the oalhs of William 
Clarke and others, who say 

That the said Thomas Keate was, at the time of his decease, 
seized in fee of a messuage or farm, 100 acres of arable, + acres 
of meadow, and 70 acres of pasture, with their appurtenances, in 
Long Cheselborne, in the County of Dorset, which lately were the 
lands of George Delaline, Kt. ;— That he died the 9th Feby. lasi. 
at Long Chesilbome ; — ^That Antony Passion, aged 40 years, son 
of Elizabeth Passion, his sister, Mary Buckler, widow, aged 60 
years, another sister, and Morgan Yeatman, aged 40 years, son of 
Edithe Yeatman, deceased, another sister, were his cousins andnext 
heirs ; — and that the said premises were held of Thomas, Lord 
Arundel, as of his Manor of Chesilbome, by fealty and suit of 
Court, and were worth, by the year, £^ 13s. 4d, 

J.B. 

I 264. Roman Graves. — In the Journal of the British 
■ Arch KO logical Association, Vol. 15, p. 183, 1 read " Mr. E. Vallfi 
laid before the meeting a portion of a human skull and some 
pottery found at Wyke Regis." After a description of the inter- 
ment he adds, •' I heard from good authority that there are, some 
5 or 6 miles to the north on the downs, many acres of Roman 

m If any of the readers of S. &• D. N. &• Q. know of the 
■odstence of these, I should be glad of information, as I am com- 
Ipiling a list of Roman remains foimd in Dorset. 

J. J. Foster. 

265. Thk Danes in Dorset. — Beyond the scanty references 
lis the Saxon Chronicle, the evidence of the Danes in Dorset 
T»eems very meagre ; but the lale Rev, W. Kendall, when writing 
vto me some time ago, mentioned that he was told by an old man 
I. living at Wool Bridge, "that he had heard 'em tell of the ravages 
ind violence of the red-haired men in former times." Can any 
Kxcaders supplement this tradition ? 

J. J. Foster. 

66. Cphl War Hoard, — On the 6th February last, whilst 
tcarrj-ing out some building alterations in a by-way, in South 
I Pethertor, anciently called " Silver Street," {via Silvia ?) but in 
Fmorc recent times known by the un-euphonious title of "Prig 
*'I.aDe," (from the name of a former inhabitant,) the workmen 
l:came upon a small cluster of silver coins in the bed of the road. 



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UL'Vleep, and within three feet of the present 
i of eight shillings and nine sixpences of 
, seven shillings of James I., and ten shillings of 
s I., and was evidently a Civil-War hoard, in all probability 
komd br some soldier engaged in the military operations so 
(If* is ibe district at that period. 

Tbe coins were much worn, and of little extrinsic value, but it is 
•Oticeable iliat they were accompanied by an iron ring rather more 
dua an inch-and-a-half in circumference, as ifsuch had been used 
lO pass over, and so enclose the mouth of a bag or stocking, 
coniaintng the money. This is not a solitary instance of such a 
ring having iiecn found, under like circumstances, in the same 
neighbourhood. 

H. NORRIS. 

367. "Toot," ra Place Names. (I. v. 243.) — Accepting 
the identity of the 'Tat' in 'Tatworth' with the common piace- 
name ' Toot,' may I suggest that its meaning is simply a /00k out 
fl'ice, and that we need not go further afield for a connection, 
than the modern hotel or race course lotit ? 

This word ' Tout,' Skeat's Etym. Diet, derives from the A.S. 
Mian, to project, stick out ; and he gives as examples 'Intodun H' 
=projected out, from Alfred's tr. of Gregory's ' Past, Care ' : and 
tolehylU = specula, from Prompt-Parv., where there is, on pa. 
+97, a full note upon the meaning of the word. 

Skeat also adds the Icelandic, Danish, Swedish, and Dutch 
alliances of the word, Iota, luUt, tudt, lull, lull, luyt, lott, all with 
the idea of prominence about them. 

J.A.B. 

368. Piscina in Corners. (I. v. 145.) — The inquiry- as 
to the existence of piscina placed anglewise, [in the case of 
Stoke-under- Ham Church, it is a double piscina if my memory 
serves me well] suggests another query. 

_ My impression is, that this double form is peculiar to the E.E. 
period, with perhaps a little over-lapping into the transitional 
Decorated. As far as my own observations go, this is anile without 
exception throughout the greater part of England. Perhaps some 
of your readers will correct or corroborate me upon this point. 
But, at any rate, I think that this is the general rule, and I would 
ask if any one will furnish, that which I have never yet been able to 
obtain, some explanation of it. 

J.A.B. 
(Is not Tintinhull anglewise .'') 

269. Thr Cerne Giant. {I. v. joi.)— It is quiie possible 
that some Ancient British tribes may have had a legendarv belief 
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e coming of their own ancestors to these shores, and this belief 
would be a sufficient foundation for the legendary tales vhich 
subsequently arose, and became dignified with the titles of History 
and Chronicle. Bui it is genenilly understood that the hision- of 
Brutus and his colleagues was a Monkish fable, invented probably 
to afford some mental relief from the duil monotony of Monastic 
seclusion. These legends no doubt served their purpose, became 
reduced to writing, and were afterwards received as ancient 
literature. Mr. Napper seems to entertain a certain latent bias 
towards the truth of the History of Brutus ; be this as it may, I 
must protest strongly against his suggestion that the siory of 
Cfrne Ginnl brars any resemblance whatsoever to the legend of 
Corinwus and his gigantic foe ; it is utterly dissimilar to the 
Statement of Geoffrey of Monmouth, which we are bound lo take 
for what it is worth. The story as told by Hutchins is, I believe, 
of entirely local origin, invented to give some son of popular 
explanation of the Herculean figure that adorns the adjacent hill- 
side ; anil it may be of early date. We may rest assured that the 
story of the Cerne Giant has not yet been satisfactorily disclosed. 
The ingenious and clever essay of the late Mr. John Sydenham, 
failed, I know, to realise the expectations which for a while it 
inspired. The author's remarks on the bearing of tradition on 
history are perfectly just ; but here I beg to observe that Tnidilion 
and Legend are not primarily convertible terms; Tradition 
always has some scrap, more or less, of Historical fact to stand on, 
whilst Legend has nothing of the kind ; it is unreal, imaginary ; 
no doubt legend may and does become traditional, but its change 
of name leaves its nature unchanged, and may produce very serious 
error unless proper caution be observed. In Mr. Wnrne's 
Ancitnl Dorset* there is the reprint of a Paper which I wrote for the 
meeting of the British Arc hao logical Association at Weymouth, in 
1871. and was kindly read there by my late friend. Sir W. C. 
Medlycott. Bart., the President. [See also/oumu/o/Zf. y*. Wj-w.] 
In that Paper I advocated the Saxon origin of the Giant, 
but I candidly admit that 1 am not wedded to that theory, 
although 1 stiil think favourably of it. But looking again 
at his Giaritship from another point of view, and seeing his 
relationship to sundry antique gems and works of Art, which show 
the rites and ceremonies attending one of the most ancient 
idolatries of the Heathen world. I am somewhat doubtful on the 
question of his antiquity, which may, under the latter view, ascend 
to the Romano -British Period. But whether Ancient British, 
Roman, or Saxon, it is equally didicult to explain how it was that 
the early Saxon converts, fruit, it is said, ol St. Augustine's 
Mission, allowed this symbol of Paganism to remain unmolested 
in such a conspicuous situation, and that a stately Benedictine 

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Abbey should rise in near proximity to it, whilst the Brethren 
apparently regarded it with the same indulgent feelings ! We 
might have thought these questions the more difficult to answer if 
we had not known that ancient beliers lingered long in the minds 
of the people, as well as tne practice of their fonner idolatries, as 
we know from the Laws of Cnut enacted against them. 
The last question raised is, to give some explanation of the 
preservation of this remarkable figure during a decade of cen- 
turies, even until now, and by what motive its preservers were 
actuated. Its preservation was due, no doubt, to a periodical use 
of the pickaxe and shovel, for the purpose of giving freshness to 
the chalk outlines, so that the figure might be distinctly seen from 
a distance. The motive for this labour must be found only in 
that sentiment of veneration for antiquity which is inherent in the 
mental constitution of people in general. No doubt its power was 
felt by our forefathers, as it is at the present day by ourselves, in 
our desire to secure the preservation of our ancient Monuments. 

I have written these remarks under the full persuasion that 
Certie Gi'anl is a true Archaic work ; I have never known ihe fact 
either doubted or denied. But in this enlightened age it may be 
denied. Therefore, I beg to suggest the desirability of looking 
after our proofs : to examine all the earliest Charters and Iiocu- 
ments relating to Ceme Abbey, wherein may be found some 
evidence of the highest possible interest to this enquiry. 

T. W. W. Smart, Cranboroe. 

370. Francis Arundell. (I. iv. 166.) — I find from 
" Somerset Incumbtnis" page 404. that Francis Arundell was in- 
stituted to West Monkton. Oct. zy, 1580, Tho. Powlet de ! 
Cosington being the Patron. In 1586, June iz, Philip Bisse was 
instituted to the Benefice, Francis Arnndell having been deprived. 
The Patron in 15^6 was Queen Elizabeth, " ratione minoris 
xtatis duarum filiarum ct hsredum aut eanim alterius Tho. Poulet 
in Custodia sua existentium." 

I also find on page 76 that John Durston, who had been pre- 
sented to Cossington by Tho. Poulet and his wife Amicia. in JS74f I 
was also deprived in 1586. and that the Queen appoinied his suc- 
cessor. I wish to learn for what reason these two men, both 
liolding preferment under Thomas Poulet of Cossington, wi 
deprived in the same year. The year 15B6 was the year in which 
.'^irAmias Poulet displeased the Queen in reference to Mary, Queen 
of Scots. Is there any connection between these incidents ? 

James Coleuan, Cheddar Vicarage, 

271. Cist-Vaen om Dundry Hill. (I. v. io6.1 — ^This I 
structure existed some forty years ago, I have examined it, and J 
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It was a small cabin, not apparently pre-historic, being fonned of 
ashlar slabs, and seemed rather to have been used as a place for 
tools in more recent times. 

H. M. ScARTH, Wrington Rectory. 

373. CoTHAY Barton. Kittisford. — Can anyone give me 
some information about Cothay Barton, in the parish of Kitlisford, 
near Wellington ? With what religious order was it connected? 
What is the date of the prtsent remaining portion of the old 
building, and of the Chapel ? Into whose hands did it pass at the 
Reformation ? 

F. E. W. Langdon, Morebath Vicarage, Tiverton. 

273. Somerset M.P.'s. — Robert Crosse, M.P. for Mine- 
head, 1586; for West Loo and Yannouth, 1593; and for SaJtash 
in 1601. To the last named Parliament he was returned as "Sir 
Robert Crosse, Knight," and he Is also thus described in his will, 
proved in 161 1. He was, I believe, the son of William Crosse, of 
Cherlenge (Chatlinch), Somerset, and received a grant of Arms 
in 1601. Is anything further known of him ? Upon what 
occasion did he receive the honour of Knighthood ? 

W. D. PisK. 

274. Dorset M.P.'s.— Francis Chetteu,, Esq., M.P. for 
Corfe Castle in the Long Parliament. He was elected on the 
16th April. 16+6, in the place of the Royalist. John Burlace, but 
was secluded by Colonel Pride in Dec, 164.8. He was probably 
dead before 1659. as he is not included by Prj'nne in his lists of 
the excluded members then surviving. 

Thomas Chard. M.P. for Bridport, ISSS- 

II William Chard. M.P. for the same, isig- 
I Christopher Elbsdon, gent., M.P. for Lyme Regis, 1597-98. 
I George Elesdon. gent., M.P. for Lyme Regis, 1572-83, 
William Elesdon, gent., M.P. for Lyme Regis, 1571. 
The last two were possibly brothers. William was three times 
Mayor of Lyme Regis. What is known of the persons above 
named ? 
W. D. Pink, Leigh. Lancashire, 
375. M.VNOR OF Buckland Newton. Newman of Fife- 
head SIagdalen. — Henry, Earl of Northatnpton. and Thomas, 
Earl of Suffolk, Lords of the Manor of Buckland. by Lease dated 
1st Feby., 6 James L, (confirmed by Fine levied in due course of 
law,) granted to Thomas Newman, llie eider, of Fifehead 
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Buckland, with the appurtenances, one close called The Moore, 
3 a., two closes called The Willowbeares, 3 a., one close called 
Courtc Croftes, 1 a., one parcel of heathie and fursey ground 
called Fursey crofies, 15 a„ one paicel of heath and barren ground 
called Brode downe, 71 a., all situate in Buckland. for a term of 
98 years, if Thomas NeoTnan, the y, Robert Newman and 
Mary Newman, (children of the lessee,) or any of them, should so 
long live, under the oid accustomed rent of 16/8. 

Thos. Newman, the elder, by deed dated, sth June, s Car, i. 
(1630), assigned all the premises, except Fursey Crofte and 
Brode downe, and all the cottages at a certain place called Rotten 
Rcwe or New Streete, in Buckland, for the remainder of the terra 
and lives, {all of whom were then living), to Richard Carter, of 
firockhampton, in Buckland, who sold them shortly after to 
Matthew Derby, of Dorchester, Gent. 

According to Hutchins. the Manor of Buckland came into the 
possession of the Napper family, and from them tu the Sturts, to 
whom it still belongs. Perhaps some one, connected with the 
locality, may know something of the situation of the Manor House, 
although, as it was destroyed so far back as the reign of James I., 
it is not very probable that any means of identification remains. 

It should be remembered, too. that as Buckland, previous to 
the Dissolution of Monasteries, was the property of the Abbey of 
Glastonbury, the Manor House was not the mansion of a resident 
Lord, but most likely only a Grange, or superior Farm House, 
and, therefore, not so worthy of preservation. 

The Newmans, of Fifeliead Magdalen, were Lesses of that 
Manor under the Abbot of St. Augustine's, Bristol, and a long 
■ pedigree of the Family is given in Hutchins, (Vol. iv., p. 57,) 
but the names of Thomas Newman and his children do not 
appear in it, — at any rate no Thomas Newman to whom the 
description in the Lease is applicable. There was a family of the 
same name who were the Owners of the Manor of North 
Cadbury, and said to be allied to the Dorset family, but it remains 
for some competent correspondent to prove the connection. 

The deed from which the above abstract is taken is in the 
Dorset County Museum and Library. 

J.B. 

276. FoLK-LoRE — Weather Proverbs. — (L v. 2+4.) — A 
i:ommon saying, here, is "The rooks are playing 'breakneck,* 
it will bo stormy ! " Tliis refers to ihe sudden dashing down of 
took*, almost as if they had been shoL 

J. Cross, Bailie House, Slurminstcr Marshall. 

tJJ. SoUKRSET Churches.— Is anything really known as 
m thp oriiiinutor of the Somerset "Perpendicular"? It looks 
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again, is a curious thing. "We do see " imported, lots of 
Somerset stone, but little of Somerset style. True, Cerne Abbas 
tower has the characteristic bracketted pinnacles, and Sherborne 
Abbey, Dorchester St. Peter, and one or two other churches in 
Dorset, show the panelled arches, which I suppose to be a leaf 
from the Somerset book. But such exceptions only prove the 
rule, which I observe Mr. Rogers notes in his " Memorials of the 
West." 

H. J, MoULE, Dorchester. 

B 278. Bread at Christenings.— (I. ii, 88, v. 227.) I 
!^ave little doubt that this custom refers to the visit of the Ihrte 

wise men of the East to the infant Christ, and their Ihree gifts 

thus commemorated. 

The bread and cheese are offered in token of respect to the 

Kings of the East. From very early times in the East, it has been 

■ eostomary to offer bread on the visit of a King. 

■ H. A. Helyar, British Embassy, St. Petersburg. 

379. Admeasurement of Land in Somerset. — Can 
any one tell the reason why computed acres in Somerset are 
always wrong ? 

I have before me an account which depends on acreage. 
One field called 6 acres, is nearly 5;— g acres, 7J;— 20 acres, 17^; 
10 acres, nearly 7 ; — 18 acres, just over 15 ; — 12 acres, nearly g. 
They differ somewhat, but not much, and agree on the whole 
with what I believe to be common about here. And it looks as if 
our measurement of land had been changed since the inclosures. 
K F. H. Dickinson, Kingweston. 

280. St. Catharine's Church, Swell. — This small, but 
very interesting church, is, we are told, about to undergo restor- 
ation, and the Rector, the Rev. A. E. Hill, has taken the best 
precautionary means in his power, to avert such a calamity as 
rtsloration becoming desecration. He begins his task by taking the 
advice of the committee of the Society for the Protection of 
Ancient Buildings ; and wisely has he so acted, seeing that the 
little church contains within its walls almost every architectural 
element from Norman to Jacobean, including many bits of beauti- 
ful stained glass of 15th century date. — In fact, as Mr. Thackeray 
Turner, the Secretary to the above Society, writes, '■ One may say 
britfly that the interior has just those qualities which are conspicuously 
absent in a ' restored church.' " 

It is earnestly to be hoped that the Antiquaries of Somerset 
will support the Rector's efforts at conservatism in carrying out 
irk that lies before him. 

Somerset Editor, 



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County of Donet, about which Mr. Geo. E. Eliot makes enquiml 
was drawn by my grandrather, Edward Boswell. author of TXrl 
Civil Division of the County of Dorsil, &e. He had the Plattfl 
lithographed for private circulation. See the obituary notice givesi 
of him in TAe GmtUmajis Magasine for 18+3, Part I , p. 96. 

W, G, Boswell-Stome, Walditch, BndpoTt.1 

28a. Welsh Border Race Typks. — Dr. John Bcddoe, 
F.R.S., of Bristol, in his invaluable opus magnum, the " Rages of 
Britain," points out that in the hilly districts of Wales the prevalent 
type is dark, especially in the colour of the eye. This is, of 
course, well known to all visitors to the non-Norman and non- 
Saxon parts of Wales. But, apart from the dark features and 
black, or nearly black, eyes, the general outlines of the face differ 
greatly from those of Dorset, In September, 1 8B7, I found myself 
near the Golden Valley for a few weeks, and I had many oppor- 
tunities of seeing the people of that remote and little frequented 
district. The Satness and breadth of the face often struck me 
greatly, and so did the peculiar Welsh accent, although few of the 
peasantry could speak Welsh, or, indeed, had ever got into Wales. 
In Dorset similar flatness of features is rare, except in occasional 
specimens, or survival of that curious Mongoloid type still more 
common in Wales. We do not consider our Dorset labourers 
sharp and intelligent, though the more one knows of them the 
more one respects them, and the oftener does their natural 
shrewdness show itself; but the peasantry of the Golden Vallej 
are distinctly dirtier, stupider, more apathetic, and less prepossesi-, 
ing, although they have far lovelier natural scenery and richersoil,. 
There are besides many peculiarities in the dialect as well as in' 
the words used, that are quite unfamiliar to us in Dorset, 

A. J. H. Crespi. 

283, Quaker Burial Grounds. (I. iv. 190, v. 130,) — 
While not disputing the existence of the burial ground for Friends, 
mentioned by P.H.L., as being at Ashcombe. near Ashmore, may 
I not suggest that he is perhaps confounding it with that at Ash- 
grove, which is nearer Ashmore, and also just within the borders 
of Wiltshire ? 1 

I am particularly interested in this one, inasmuch as it wau 
given by my direct ancestor, WilUam Fry, who owned Ashgrove. 
to the Quakers in 1700. I am in a position to give more informa- 
tion concerning it to any desirous of knowing its history, but, 
being in Wiltshire, an account of it is scarcely allowable in this 
periodical. It has not been used for over no years. 

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284. HughSpbke, — Politician. — A half-ezpressed promise 
was given in a former article (I, iv. 1 77), that, hereafter, something 
would be said of Hugh Speke's political career ; a subject, which, 
considering his standing as a Somerset man, and his influence 
over public events in lh« latter part of the 17th century, may not 
be wholly devoid of interest in this journal. 

A very rare and curious little book, in the possession of the 
present Head of the Speke family, has been courteously placed at 
the writer's disposal in furtherance of this undertaking. It may, 
not inappropriately, be called Hugh Speke's "Apologia pro vi/d 
sua," but its printed title is " THE | SECRET HISTORY | OF 
THE I Happy Revolution | In 1688. | Humbly DEDICATED | 
To His most Gracious Majesty i S^XXXQ ^eorgc | By the Prin- 
cipal TRANSACTOR in it. | LONDON : Printed for the Author, 
by S. KEIMER, at | the Printing-Press in Pate r-Noster- Row, 
'7'S- I" 

There is abundant evidence that this book was written by 
Hugh Speke himself, who by that time must have been well-nigh 
sixty years of age, seeing that he was a barrister in chambers in 
1683.— It is to be presumed, then, that he knew what he was 
writing, (the heat of seventeenth century politics having had time, 
in a great measure, to subside,) and that, moreover, there must 
have been many people living who could have contradicted htm, 
had his story, extraordinary as it Is, been altogether a fiction of the 
brain. 

Hugh Speke describes himself as "the second son of George 
Speke of While- Lackingion in the County of Somerset, Esquire, a 
Gentleman of a very ancient Family and plentiful Estate, and as 
Eminent for his Services and Sufferings for the Royal Cause in the 
Civil Wars, as any Gentleman in England." 

That this assertion is hardly exaggerated will perhaps be 
believed, when it is stated that the old 'Squire " had raised several 
Hundreds of Horse and Foot at his own Charge to serve in the 
Royal Army during the Civil Wars ; "* that in 1644, on learning 
that Prince Rupert, "when hewasat the Siege o\ Bridgwater, was 
in the greatest Difficulties for want of Money, he sent him a 
Thousand Broad Pieces, of which he was so far from soUiciting 
the Reimbursement, that he had not seen or heard from him 
since that Time " ; and that, moreover, later on, when that town 
was taken by Fairfax after the Battle of Langport, being within 
the garrison at the time, he had yielded himself up as one of the 
hostages demanded by the victors, pending a settlement of the 



menl of foot, and i^ raising a Troupe nf horse against Parliament. Then Master 
Speike hath done mote than Ihc whole County will doc besides, tho'his majesty 
bimaelf should come and tptake there, anotber ipeaeh ai Digby's making, as he 
did last yeaie." 



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condition! of surrender. Thereafter he was imprisoned by 
Cromvrell for several years, and, having actually been sentenced 
lo death, was finally admitted to " Composition, ' at a sum amount- 
ing to nearly ten thousand pounds ! 

From 1679 to t58i he represented his own county in Parlia- 
ment in conjunction with his nephew, Sir Wm. Porlman, Bart. 
His eldest son at the same time was M.P. for the Borough of 
llchester. In the last-named year both father and son retired from 
public life, utterly disgusted with the corruption and immorality 
(to say nothing worse), of the Government of the day. Hence- 
forth, for the next seven years at least, they appear to have lived 
at home, in as strict retirement as could fall to the lot of country 
gentlemen of the period, taking little or no manifest interest in 
the course of public events. 

The circumstances detailed in our fonner article, combined 
with those here mentioned, doubtless created considerable apathy, 
not to say even disaffection, on their part, towards the interests of 
the reigning family ; and in ail probabihty, such change of senti- 
ment was, to a great extent, fostered by the fact that Mrs. Speke 
was a sister of Sir Robert Pye (an officer of distinction in Fairfax's 
army,) — a determined Lady politician, and, according to Sishop 
Mews, "the most dangerous woman in the west."* 

Thus it came to pass thatwhen Monmouth made his celebrated 
" Progress " in 1680, all the hospitality that could be shewn him 
by this Somersetshire Mjecenas was freely accorded. This par- 
ticipation in the marked ovation that awaited Monmouth on his 
contumacious return from exile, of course widened any breach that 
might have opened between Mr. Speke and the supporters of 
Government. 

Hugh Speke, living in the highly charged political atmosphere 
of London, and being a man of excitable temperament, sharing 
moreover his father's altered sentiments, may well be supposed to 
have been a still more vindictive opponent of the Court party. 
Besides, John Trenchard, "the movement man of the West," 
afterwards M.P. for Dorsetshire in the " Convention " parliament, 
was married to his sister; all which concurred to make the 
Government suspicious of the family at White Lackington, and 
watchful over their actions. t 

In i583,aswehaveseen, Hugh Speke, having overtly declared 
himself an enemy of the King's Party, was in prison. Thus there 
were cogent, if not sufficient, reasons why Mr. Speke, Senr., and 
his belongings, should lend all their influence to the furtherance 
of any measures that would afford a chance of overthrowing the 
Government which held the Country in bondage ; and these 
measures all centred in the movements and plans of the Duke of 

•Roberts' " Life of Hmmoullt," Vol. I., p. ilj. 

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Monmouth. Hence also we can see, vhat does not appear to have 
been hittierto clearly explained, how it came about, that the ultra 
staunch Loyalist o{ 1645 should have become so manifestly the 
Rebel of 1685. 

These preliminary remarks concerning the father, have been 
made in the hope that they may be regarded as helpful in our 
attempts to estimate the political character of the son, and it is to 
the latter subject that attention is now directed. 

Macaulay* describes him as " a young man of good family, 
but of a singularly base and depraved nature," whose "love of 
mischief and of dark and crooked ways amounted almost to mad- 
ness ;" but Charles Knight, t probably with greater tnith, calls him 
simply " a restless and dangerous man." Whatsoever his charac- 
ter, his first appearance before the public seems to have been that 
narrated in I. iv. 177. 

His imprisonment throughout the year 1685 obviously pre- 
vented his being personally concerned in the Monmouth Rebellion, 
and he thus fortunately escaped the further attentions of Jeffreys, 
but the spirit of mischief kept him from quietude even in the 
King's Bench. Being possessed of means, he was at first "allowed 
the liberty of the Rules," but afterwards he was placed under 
lock and key. Here, however, his enemies learned that — 
" stone walla do not a prison make, 
Nor iron bars a cage," 

for he stiil found means to maintain, and put to use, a secret 
printing press, as well as to make it worth the while of others to 
carry out his restless schemes. 

In the room underneath him was confined a man of veiy 
different mould, — a prisoner of greater probity and courage than 
circumspection, — one Samuel Johnson, aClergyman who had for- 
merly been chaplain to the hapless Lord William Russell, and 
who was suffering for having been convicted of the authorship of 
a political pamphlet, entitled "Julian the Apostate," which was 
justly regarded as an offensive libel on the Duke of York, by this 
time King James II. 

Between Speke and this gentleman an intimacy sprang up, 
which was utilized by the former in inducing Johnson to " pen 
several pieces, which were of great use to the Protestant cause," 
and which were published by means of the secret press before 
alluded to. Speke's increasing influence at length enabled him 
to persuade Johnson to write his famous anonymous Manifesto to 
the standing army, which, contrary to law, but in order to awe the 
citizens of London, James had contrived to concentrate in a single 
camp on Hounslow Heath. 



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i88 Scmtrsti S- Dtrset Notts &• Qutries. 

The title of that manifesto was, "An humble and hearty 
aJdress to all the Protestants in King James's Anny," and it con- 
sisted of an inflated remonstrance on the enonnity of protestant 
soldiers supporting by their swords " the Popish Kingdom of 
Darkness and Desolation." This audacious document is so 
interesting and so curious, and moreover so seldom, j/u/ a//, to be 
found in our history books, that it is hoped a verbatim copy will 
not be considered tiresome by the reader. 

" Advice to the Army. 
" Gentlemen, 

" Nest to the Duty which we owe to God, which ought to bo 
" the principal Care of Men of your Profession, especially because 
" you carry your Lives in your Hands, and often look Death in the 
" Face, The second Thing that deserves your Consideration is the 
'■ Service of your Native Country, wherein you drew your first 
■■ Breath, and breathed a free English Air; Now, I would desirs 
" you to consider how well you comply with these two main Potnti, 
" by engaging in this present Service. 

" Is it in the name of God and for his Service, that you have 
" joyn'd yourselves with Papists, who will indeed fight for the Mass- 
" Book but bum the Bible, and who seek to Extirpate the 
" Prolfslani Religion with your Swords, because they cannot do it 
" with their own ? And will you be aiding and assisting to set up 
"Mass-Houses, to erect the Popish Kingdom of Darkness and 
" Desolation amongst us, and to train up all our Children in 
" Popery ? How can you do these things, and yet call yourselves 
" Protestants ? And then what service can be done your Country, 
" by being under the Command of French and Irish Papists, and by 
"bringing the Nation under a Foreign Yoak.^ Will you help them 
" to make a forcible Entry into the Houses of your Countrymen 
"under the name of Quartering, directly contrary to Magna 
" Charia. and the Pelilion of Right ? Will you too be aiding and 
" assisting to all the Murders and Outrages which they shall com- 
"mit by their void Commissions, which were declared illegal, 
" and aufliciently blasted by both Houses of Parliament, (if there 
"had been any need of it) for it was very well known before, 
■■that a Papist cannot have a Commission, but by the Law is 
" utterly disabled and disarmed ? Will you exchange your Birth- 
" right of English Laws and Liberty, for Martial and Club Law, 
"and help to destroy one another, only to be eaten last your- 
" selves ? If I know you well, as ye are Englishmen, you hate and 
" scorn these Things, and therefore be not unequally Yoak'd with 
" Idolatrous and Bloody Papists : be valiant for the Truth, and 
" shew yourselves Men. 

" The same Considerations are likewise humbly offer'd to 
" all the English Seamen who have been the Bulwark of this 
" Nation against Popery and Slavery ever since 1588." 



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By the means, which, as we have seen, Speke had at his com- 
mand, he contrived to get forty thousand copies of the above 
struck off at once, of which one half were distributed amongst the 
troops at Hounslow, and the remainder dispersed through the 
Kingdom, — it is alleged in a single night. 

This daring act created the greatest excitement, not only in 

the army, and amongst the Members of the Government, but 

throughout the Kingdom, and the authorship of the document 

having been traced to Johnson, whose loyalty to his colleague, 

u (for he kept silence as to Spekc's collusion in the affair,) cannot 

I be too much admired, he was tried and condemned "to be whip'd 

r from Newgate to Tyburn, a Sentence, which, without any Regard 

' to his Gown and Character, was executed in the most cruel 

manner." 

It is satisfactory to know that William III. afterwards made 
this unhappy clergyman all the compensation that lay in his 
power.* 

In 1686, as has been seen (I. iv. 177.), Hugh Speke was re- 
leased from his imprisonment. In the meantime, the Duke of 
Monmouth's short Rebellion had run its course, and ended in a 
tragical manner for all concerned. The part taken in these 
matters by the Speke family, together with their trials and suffer- 
ings, constitutes a well-read page in local histoiy; and when this 
storm had blown over, and it was known that William of Orange 
had designs upon the Throne, the subject of our remarks returned 
to London in order to watch the progress of events, and to find 
out if there was any room for him to introduce his finger, once 
more, into the political pie. He was known to be a member of 
an influential family residing in a part of England where the 
Protestant feeling had, from the first, been very strong; where 
there was a recognisable elementof Low-country artizans in its pop- 
ulation, introduced by the persecuted Flemish weavers and cloth- 
workers in the previous century ; and where the inhabitants were 
justly open to the suspicion of a leaning towards the pretensions 
of the famous Dutch Stadtbolder to the Crown of England. 
Accordingly, ignoring, after the manner of princes, all previous 
unkindnesses on his part, James, in person, made overtures to 
Speke, soliciting his assistance at this critical period of his reign ; 
offering to repay the ^£'5,000, alluded to in our former article, as 
the price of his subject's liberty, and promising also a further 
honorarium of 5,000 guineas, "if he would give him an assurance 
of his, and his family's services in this extremity " : adding, more- 
over, that Hugh Speke's personal knowledge of the West of 
. England would be especially valuable in carrying out the Royal 
designs, seeing that it was confidently expected, for reasons 

f Mr. Samiul Jithmaa," preliied 10 the folio edition of 



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Somtrut S- Drnet Notts &• Outfits, 



already mentioned, that Wiliiam would, ere long, land in that part 
of the British Dominions. The King also expressed his opinion 
that the misfortunes Mr. Speke himself and his family had suffered, 
"Ihro' Misinformation, in his Reign, would render his Person 
entirely agreeable and unsuspected at the Prince of Orange's Court ; 
wherefore his Majesty earnestly desired him to go to meet the 
Prince as soon as he should Land, and give him intelligence of 
his Strength and Designs " ; in fact to play the part of spaniel 
towards himself, and thai of spy towards his Son-in-Law, 

Speke craved a day's delay, in order, as he said, to think well 
over the matter ere he could consent to enter on so perilous an 
undertaking, but, in reality, to consider the best means whereby 
he should be able to hoodwink James, whilst actually doing all in 
his power to support William and the Protestant cause. 

The next evening, as agreed on, he waited on his Majesty, in 
order to communicate his resolution, which was to refuse the 
offered money, and at the same time to have nothing to do in the 
matter, " unless he were allowed to take his own Measures and 
Methods in it " : demanding also " three blank Passes, one of them 
aignedby his(lhe King's) own Hand, and the other two by the Earl of 
Feverskam, General of His Army, without which he might be stop'd 
on the Road going down into the Wesl" ; thus assuring himself of 
a free hand in coming and going between the parties. James 
was so misled by Speke's apparent sincerity, that, when giving 
these required passes, he made a pretty little speech, to the effect 
that "he looked upon his generous Refusal of his being reim- 
bursed the said five thousand Pounds, or to be secured of the 
five thousand Guineas more intended to have been given him by 
His Majesty, as Marks of the Sincerity of his Intentions to serve 
him " ; and the Prince of Orange having, shortly after, landed in 
Torbay, Speke was commanded to proceed at once to Exeter, in 
order to perform his perfidious part of spy. When he had got as 
far as Honiton, he fell in with one Colonel Talmash, an old 
acquaintance, and one of the Prince's most highly trusted followers, 
to whom he at once confessed his duplicity and made known all 
his plans. From this oEHcer he obtained letters of introduction 
to William, who, by this time, had marched with his Army as far 
as Exeter. Here he not only treated the Prince as confidentially 
as he had treated Talmash, hut he actually showed him all the 
private letters he was sending, as agreed on, to the King, in some 
of which he reasserted what he had previously told James in 
London, viz., " that several of his greatest Officers wanted nothing 
but an Opportunity of being near the Prince's Army, to declare 
themselves in His Favour and come over to him." 

This was said in order to frighten the King, and Speke throws 
out a hint that these communications had a good deal to do with 
his (James's) sudden Hight from his army at Salisbury, on the 
13rd of Nov., 1688, immediately following which event, his chief 



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supporters, Prince George of Denmark, the Duke of Ormond. and 
a number of other personages of note, did actually desert his 
cause, and proceed to cast in their lot with William, who was 
then at Sherborne Castle, the Earl of Bristol's seat in Dorsetshire.* 
Somerset Editor. 
{To bt Conlinuttl). 

285. DiSCOVERV OP THE SiTE OF THE BBAUCHAMP ChAFEL, 

AT Stoke-sub-Hamden, — On the iind of March, 1889, as some 
men were laying a drain in the precincts of "The Castle" at 
Stoke -sub- Ham den, they unearthed a number of encaustic tiles, 
bits of architectural moulding, parts of figures, &c., lying about 
two feet beneath the surface. These were evidently relics of the 
Beauchamp Chantry Chapel, described by Leland, and alluded to 
by CoUinson. (Vol. III., pp. 316-317.) Tliis discovery happily 
sets at rest all controversy as to the precise locality of the chapel. 
As the information thus acquired is of importance, and will doubt- 
less form the subject of a paper to be read at the July meeting of 
the Somerset Arch Ecological Society at Minehead, it will not be 
noticed at length in our " i". & D. N. & Q.," but some reference 

I to the tiles raay not be without its interest. 

[ These are of early date, the Chantry having been founded in 

1304. They present various devices, some heraldic, others floral, 
&c., but, unfortunately, are for the most part much broken. The 
following, however, can be recognised without difficulty. 

I. The three Royal Leopards of England, on a heater 
shaped shield. 

II. Four fusils in fess, each charged with an escallop shell, 
on a similar shield. {^Cheney.) 

III. A chevron between ten crosslets, sis above and four 
beneath. {Berkeiey.) 

IV. On a small piece of heraldic tile, the foot of an eagle. 
(? the device of John di Beauchamp : " Noir ung Egle d'argent, 
beke et les pees d'or." Glover's Roll.) 

V. A Knight in full armour on horseback, with a flat-topped 
cylindrical helmet, having a plain horizontal breathing hole in front. 

VI. Several others with floral or foliated designs, and birds, 
elegantly and boldly depicted. 

It is a coincidence worthy of remark, that about the year 
1865, t a number of tiles were discovered, during the restoration 
of Poyntington Church, bearing designs precisely similar to those 
above numbered I., II., and V. 

'For a minute account ol the proceedings of the King and his foUoweis 

daring these few eveatful daya at Salisbury, Cf. a valuable and most interesting 

article, entitled "Mr. Frascii Gwun't Journal," by C. T. Gatly, F.S.A., in 

Tht Ferlnifhtiy Sevliur for September, 18S6. 

i tlfide "SomersetArcbEOlogicalSodely's Journal." Vol. ivi., part ii., pp. 71-72. 



192 Somaset S- Dorut Nctts &• Qturits, 

In addition to these, however, the Pomlinglon find 
contained a shield " all verry," as described by Leland at 
Stoke, {Roberl de Beauchamp), and another " fretty," { William de 
lieauchamp, of Eton), and yet a third containing a fess between 
croBslets, a veiy ancient bearing of the same family. 

Perhaps some reader may be able and willing to explain the 
precise relationship between the Beauchamp of Poyntington. and 
those of Slolte ; whilst a discussion on these matters, at Minehead. 
might tend to clear up much that is misty, and more that is 
erroneous, in the hitherto received history of the Manor of 
Stoke-sub-Hamden. 



286. Transcripts of Dorset Parish Registers. — Can 
any of the readers of " S. &• D. JV. & Q." slate, or suggest, 
where these Transcripts are to be found ? By a constitution of 
the Archbishop, Bishops, and Clergy of the province of Canterbury 
in 1557. confirmed by the Canon 70 of i6oj, the Churchwardens 
of every parish were required to transmit annually to the Registrar 
of each Diocese a copy of the Registers of their Parish, and, 
although this duty was grievously neglected from time to lime in 
many instances, there are still a considerable number of these 
documents priceless to the genealogist, where the Parish Registers 
have been lost, in existence. Thus, in the Registry of the 
Diocese of Salisbury, the Transcripts relating to some of the 
Paiishes in Wiltshire commence before the end of the i6lh 
Century, whilst for Dorsetshire I have failed to discover any prior 
to 1731. There are no earlier ones in the possession of the late 
Deputy Registrar of the Dorset Division of the late Diocese of 
Bristol, at Blandford. nor are there any Dorset Transcripts either 
in the Diocesan Registry at Bristol or at Salisbury, except of those 
parishes, thirty-seven in number, which were in the peculiar 
jurisdiction of the Dean of Sarum, and which are in the Registry 
at Salisbury. Ii seems almost impossible to conceive that 
documents of this description, extending over a period of upwards 
of a century, and deposited with a public officer, should no longer 
be in existence. 

John Lambert, Clapham Common, S.W. 

P.S. — ^The parishes within the Dean's Jurisdiction were: — 
Alton Pancraa, Beaminster, Beer Hackct, Bere Regis, Bloxworth, 
Caundle Marsh, Castleton, Chardstock, Charminster. CHfton 
Maybank, Foike, Fordington. Haydon, Halstock, Hermitage, 
Holnest, Lillington, Lyme Regis, Long Burton, Mapperton, 
Netherbury, Nether Compton, North Wootlon, Obome, Over 
Compton, Preston, R>Tne Intrinsica, Sherborne, Stockwood. 
Stratton, Thomford, Tumerspuddle, Wambrook, Winterbome 
Anderson, Winterbome Kingston, Winterbome Thompson, Yet- 



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287. Local Place Names in Sblworthy Parish, — Some 
knowledge of a locality being helpful in reading Place-names, it 
is hoped that a short prefaratory description of the above parish 
may not be thought superfiuous. 

Situate amid the " Alps of Somerset," {Callinson), in the 
far-famed Hundred of Carhampton, Selworthy lies in the N.W. 
comer of the County, neariy midway betwixt Minehead and 
Porlock. It comprises between 1,000 and 3,000 acres of land, of 
which a considerable portion on the summit and side of the ridge, 
called the North Hill, is open moor, woodland, and cliff. The 
rest of the parish forms a wide vallev running nearly N. and S., a 
fertile tract in which lie a number of farm houses. It is divided 
into four tithings, named hereafter, and to its South lies the 
parish of Luccombe : to the Eastward, the adjacent parishes are 
Wooiton Courtena)-, Minehead, a detached bit of Timbers com be, 
and Porlock. 

The church stands at the foot of Selworthy Coombe, some 
■ 300 feet above the valley, looking into the heart of the Dunkeiy 
I tange. A few houses cling to the hill-side about the church, but 
the population for the most part resides in the valley. 

The principal hamlet is Allerford, about a mile West of the 
church. The hamlet of Bossington lies between Allerford and 
the Sea. 

A small stream flows through the valloy. forming fishponds 
at Hoinicote, and emptying itself into the Horner water, on the 
Northern confines of the parish. The Homer water flows down 
the Homer valley from the Dunkery range, and forms the 
Western boundary of the parish for some distance. 

A small chapel, a fine specimen of late Perpendicular work, 
is still standing in the hamlet of Lynch, on the Northern boundary 
of the parish, and after having been for a longtime used as a bam, 
it has lately been restored and re-opened for Divine Service. 
Another chapel also exists in the hamlet of Tivington, to the 
South ; it is utilized as a school, and for occasional services. 

The mansion of Hoinicote is a modem structure, having 
been twice destroyed by fire since 1778, but the 15th century 
gateway of the Old Manor house of the Steynings still remains. 

In the Exon Domesday, the Saxon owner of Selworthy 
appears as Queen Editha, the Tenant m capitt being Ralph de 
Limesey. 

The few remarks made by Mr. Dickinson regarding the 
Hundred of Carhampton. in Art: I. ii. 58., offer an idea of the 
composite character of the early settlement of the district. 

Old English Names, like Greek and Hebrew Names, always 
had meanings. In writing down some of the older place names 
found in Selworthy, a few suggestions as to their possible 
derivations have with great diffidence been added. O.E. = 01d 
English. O.N. = Old Norse. B. = British or Brit-welsh, etc. 



Somirsit S- Dorut Notts tS* Qtierits. 



TiTHINGS. 

Bossington. 
Bossinga-lun, 0,E. 
personal name Boss; 
lun, a sellleroent : the 
settlemenl of llie 



foUoK 



-sofB 



Allerford. 

The ford of AJdheri : 
(he Dame of Ihe 
Sleward of Qaeea 
Edith who heM the 



II the (i 



t of 



ihe Conquest, 
Blackford. 
O.E. personal name, 
Blaca : the ford held 
by Blaca, 

Tiviiigton. 
Tiiingas-tun : leltle- 
ment of the foUowers 
of Ty, or Tiw. 

Hamlets & Farms, 

Lower Lynch. 

Higher Lynch. 

East Lynch. 
O.N. hi inc. an enclo- 
sure : sites probably 
of Norse setueineats. 

Hooper's. 

Farthing's. 
O.E. fcording, a 4th 
part : cf. Winfarthing, 
m Norfolk, "share 
won in battle." 

Selworthy Farm, 
O.E. worth, an 
estate, and Scl or 
Stsla, personal name. 

Troytes, 
Perhaps from common 
Celtic root, ire, a 
dwelling ; cf. Treves, 
Trieste, Tioy (Here, 
ford shire), etc. 

Double Tenement. 

O.E. ' sel, or O.N. 
hccda, a hero : both 

Brandy Street. 

Roman Road : Brandi, 
O.N. perMHul name. 



Vickery's. 
Cockerhill. 
Home's. 
Baker's. 
Staddon's. 
Barley Ground, 
Higher Lynch. 
Gribble's. 

On top of cliff: B. 
Min,lhcbrowofahill. 
Houses. 
Holnicote, 
Form and Mansion, 
(pronounced Himne, 
cot). O.E. Hiln. a 
personal name and 
cot ' Him was ihe 
name of the Alderman 
of the SumorsEBtas 
kUled at ..Ellandun. 

Allerford House. 
Selworthy Cottage. 

Hills. 
Bossington Beacon. 

(Sooft-) 
Selworthy Beacon. 

(ioi4fl.) 
Bury Castle. 

Roman Camp. 

Valleys. 
The parish consists 
mainly of a wide valley , 
which starling under 
Grabhursl Hill, its 
S.E. boundary, trends 
to the left under 
Venn i ford Steep, and 
runs down to the sea. 

The following 
Coombes in the 
North Hill ridge, 
belong to Selworthy 
parish, (running S. 
and W. into the valley, 
beginning from I be N. ] 

Church Coombe. 

Lynch Coombe. 

Allerford Coombe, 

Holnicote Coombe. 

SelworthyCoomlje. 

(runninj; N. down lo 
the sea) 



HutlestoneCoom be.{ 
East Coombe. 
Henner Coombe. 
Grixy Coombe. 
Strea»s. 
Allerford Water. 
Homer Water. 

Sanscrit Root "bar" 
lo bedew .' River 
names arc always tlte 
oldest. 

Selworthy Water 
Fords, 

Venniford. 

Blackford. 
The ford of Blaca. 

Stratford. 
The ford where the 
Roman Road passed. 

Brandy Street. 

Allerford. 

Green Bridge. 

Roads AND Lanes. 

Eight Acre Lane. 

Tivington Lane. 

Long Lane. 

Luce om be Lane. 

Dean's Lane. 
(pronounced Dane*). 
Leading down from 
cKBs , marking perhaps 



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Clayhill Lane. 

Selworthy Lane. 

Cross Lane. 

Watery Lane. 

HighwaytoPorlot 

Highway to Boss- 
ington, 

At Cross Roads. 

Tivington Cross, 

Venniford Cross. 

Dean's Cross. 
Pronounced Danes — 
(fields near it called 
' Danes.") 

Long Lane Cross. 



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MlLLS- 

Lynch Mills. 

IMIe's Mill. 
Mentiuned in Domes- 
day: " pilt," a build- 
ine suirounded by a 
I dUcb. 

Commons & Moors. 

North Hill. 
Tivington Common, 
Heddon Common. 

I Woods. 

|Tivinglon Planta- 

H anger Wood. 

O.E. hanger, a wood. 

Venn Plantation. 

Whiteman's Moor. 

Road Wood. 

Brake ley Wood. 

Great Wood. 

Cockershills. 

Selworthy Planta- 
I tion. 
I Holnicote Planta- 

North Hill Planta- 
tion. 

Allerford Plantation. 

Buckley. 

Stratford Wood. 

The Paddock. 

Ebbs Hill Wood. 
O.E. Ebba, personal 
name, or perhaps from 
'Abbot.' 

. SoueOldek Field 
L Nauks. 

I &eat How. 

O.N. haughr, a burial 
place, field oo Lynch : 
a Norse selllement. 
Ham Meadow. 
O.E. ham; the Home 
Meadow. 



Blake ley. 
The field of Blaca : 
cf. Blackford. 

Exeland. 
O.E. .iEc.anoak. 

Bare croft. 

Parsons. 

Parsley. 
In these three names 
trace perhaps O.E. 
pera: cf. B. ber. a 
pear; «.;., Parra- 
combe, the pear- valley. 

Rydery. 
O.E. lud, or O.N. 
raudr, red : whence 
common local name 
Ridd. 

Dove Cot. 
Site of ancient dove- 
cot, still standing. 

Venn. 
B. wen or gwen, fair. 

Vemage. 
B. vern. or gwem. an 
alder tree. 

Witch. 

O.E. wicca: trace 
perhaps aom e supersti - 
tion connected with 

Hanger. 

vide supra. 
Needle, 

O.E. noedl. a nettle : 

or more likely E. 

snidan,and lege, "the 

piece cut off." 
Long Hale and 
Broad Hale. 

O.N. boela a hero: 



Rylands. 

O.E. ri^ the rough 

piece. 
Marsh ay. 

O.E. mere, and hay 

the wet enclosed spot. 
Pritty. 

B. prilh, earth. 

B. cwrt, a residence. 



Lamb- Park. 
Boobies. 

B. booth, a but. 
Oxenledge. 
Bloomham. 
Hamstile. 

O.E. ham, home ; 

and steel a station : 

the Home Piece. 
Wrex-Park. 

Perhaps from O.E. 

Wracca, a personal 

Dippit. 
E- pyt, a pit or well. 

Minner's. 1 

Stooper's. 1 
Refer probably to old 
mining operations. 

Burrow Landshare. 
O.E. Burra, common 
family name, lacn, 
land let out. sceam, a 
division : portion of 
land let out to Buna. 

Cockershill. 
O.E. name Cuccwin : 
as in Cockeiinglon, 
Lincolnshire ; Cock- 
ington, Devonshire ; 

Horridge. 
O.E. Eor, gray, or 
from O.N. haughr. 

Rexham. 
O.E. Wracca, personal 

Kenibeere. 

B. ken, a headland : 

and beere, a fence. 
Hangermead. 
Holbridge. 

O.E. hoi, alow place. 
Geeson's. 

Perhaps from O.E. 

garsen, grassy. 
No Man's Land. 
Rudia and Higher 
Walls. 

(Higher Welsh ?) on 

"Mene:" seem to be 

British nam». 



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2S8. — EsuDATios OF Chalk. — Long have I lived ; long 
enough to find out my ignorance — a discovery not made in a day. 
This exordium is meant as an excuse for aquery which will, 1 fear, 
raise a laugh. It is about such a very common-place matter. 
Why does chalk exude in a thaw ? On such occasions, parts of 
the roads round Dorchester look as if miik or whitewash had been 
spilt on them in spots and patches. Now, after seeing this more 
or less, off and on, for fifty or sixty winters, I seem further than 
ever from really understanding it. My chief difficulty is that I 
cannot see why some other subsoils do not equally assert them- 
selves — clay for instance. But I never noticed such to be the case. 
H. J. MOULE, Dorchester. 

289. — Golden Watches. (I. iii. 137, v. 237.) — ^The 
botanical name for the Homed Poppy is, of course, Glaucium 
LuUum. T.B.G. , 



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2go. Jackman. (I. V. 128.)— The word Jack, from tli«. 
Hebrew Jacobus, (a supplanter,) was used in the sense of a sub- 
stitute or servant. The Jack o' Lent, " a toy made in the shape 
of a cock \vith a large and heavy stand of lead," was used in 
cock-throwing as a substitute for the living bird. The mechanical 
figure. Jack o' the clock, (Piench /ayuemar/), took the place of the 
Jack, Knave, or Servant, who had formerly struck the hours. 
[S/iakspere, Rich. II., v. s ; Rich III., i. 3 ; iv. i.) A coat of 
mail, from being sometimes suspended on a post, and used in 
tilting as a substitute for its wearer, came itself to be called a Jack : 
whence Jacket. The figure at Wimbome is that of a soldier, who, 
from wearing a short "mail jack," was in olden times called a 
Jackman. 

Zbta. 

291. Copse or Cop. Thole. Chesil. Lerrbtt. (L iii. 
136. iv. 187.) — I thank Souersetiensis for hia reply. "Cops''' 
is used to designate the connecting crook of a harrow, and its' 
derivation is given by Barnes = fetter. 

Of " Tholi," I could make out nothing, so am thankful for 
A.S. "««/'■ = to bear. 

Chesil has a choice of two etymologies, of which I prefer the 
older British (Gaelic) "f7J</" = bank (see Ghssary of Gtulic, ^c, 
wardihy Edw. Lluyd, M.A.) The term ckesilvras applied here to 
any shingle beach; the Preston beach is so referred to, repeatedly 
in the Weymouth records. The word most probably indicated 
the " mound," rather than the material of which it was composed. 

" Lttrttt" has the look of a French word, and I prefer 
deriving it from " leum" —a. decoy, or some allied Norma- French 
root. The "decoy" at the head of the Fleet backwater is of verjrJ 



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ancient date, and some such boat as the modern lerrett might 
well have been used in connection with it in Anglo-Nonnan 
times. 

" Qiioni" seems to have a clear connection with the monks 
of Abbot sbury. It is reaily the Latin "rt«/«*"=a pole for pro- 
pelling boats. 

Hill is probably a variant of HUhe, which Skeat derives 
from A.S. hy(t=a haven or shelter. 

The word " IhoU " is used as a simile of anything gradually 
wasting away. "The d'pine away like a thole" 1 have heard 
said of a man in consumption. 

T.B.G. 



292. S. Andrew's Church, Backwell. — High upon the 
Western face of the fine tower of S. Andrew's Church, Backwell, 
is an inscription in boldly cut raised letters, (the capitals Lom- 
bardic, the others ordinary black letters,) which does not seem to 
have been satisfactorily interpreted. It has been thought to run 
" J.H.C. sped J. Coly." Having had the advantage of examining a 
careful rubbing obtained by the Rector, not without risk to life 
and limb, I am convinced that the supposed vowel in the con- 
cluding word is not a letter at all, but a lozenge-shaped stop, 
identical with others which separate former words in the legend, 
which may therefore be read " J.H.C. sped J.C," and the remainder 
form the numerals lij. or 51, possibly the conclusion of the date 
1+52, which corresponds with the style of the architecture of the 
tower. I shall be glad to be fortified in this opinion, by any 
instance, if one can be found, of a date in which the earlier por- 
tion, (that of the century,) is covered by a mark of contraction, 
while the reminder is set out at length. 

George S, Master, Bourton Grange, Flax Bourton, Bristol. 

393. Humphrey Walrond, and Ilminstek Grauuar 
School. (I. v. 12$-) — Humphrey Walrond of Sea was of the 
family of the Walronds of Dulford House, Honiton, a branch of 
the Walronds of Bradfield, Devon. He was a lawyer, and is said 
10 have been a Master in Chanceri', and to have married the 
Daughter of John Brokehampton of Sea, thereby probably 
acquiring the Manor of Hilcombe, in Ilminster, in which the 
Hamlet of Sea is situated. 

A part of the old Manor house is still standing, and used as 
the residence of the miller at Sea Mills. 

Humphrey Walrond was not, however, really the Founder of 
the Ilminster Grammar School, in the common acceptation of 
of that term. 

There was no Monastic Establishment at Ilminster. 

The Manor belonged to the Abbey of Muchelney. 



igS Somerset &• Dorset Notes S- Queries. 

There were four Chantries connected with the Church, the 
possessions of which, on the dissolution of Chantries, (ist Edward 
6th) passed to the Crown, and were purchased by Giles Kaylwaye, 
of Slroud, Dorset, Esq., and Wm. Leonard, of Taunton, Merchant, 
The following is the real origin of the liminster School: — 
By an Indenture dated i+th March, 3rd Edward 6th, made 
between Henry Kalwaye of Hommington, Wilts, Esq , of the one 
part, and John Preston, of Ilniystre, Towker, John Whythorne, 
Weywf, Henry Grenefield, Tavemer, John Roseter, Weyw«, 

Joiin Cheke, Bowcher, John Hyll, the elder, John Hyll, the your, 
ohn Wylroott, Miller, and Wm. Godwyne, Bowcher, the said 
Kaylewaye covenanted with the said Preston and the others before 
named, that one Giles Kaylewaye, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, Esq.. 
and one Wm. Leonarde, of Taunton, Merchant, should, on that 
side of the Feast of Pen tec oste next ensuing, make to the said 
Preston and others such Estate and Interest as the said G. Kalewaye 
had, or should have, in two Chantry-Houses with orchards and 
gardens thereunto belonging, situate in the Parish Church Yard 
uf Ilmyster, aforesaid, and in one Tenement called Modys' Place 
with Lands belonging thereto, and in other Lands called Rypp's 
Mill, both in Ilmyster, as by Counsel learned in the Law should be 
devised. For which Estate, &c., the said Preston and others 
agreed to paythesaidH. Kaylewaye, G. Kaylewaye, andW. Leonard, 
by certain instalments therein specified, £1^5; the last instal- 
ment of ;^ioo to be paid by z8th April then next. 

By a Deed, dated 16 May, 3rd Edward the 6th. in which the 
above Agreement is not noticed, the above mentioned Premises 
were, by a somewhat different description, assigned by Giles 
Kaylewaye, of Stroud, Dorset, Esq., and Wm. Leonard, to 
Humphrey Walrond, and Wm. Leonard, in consideration or;£ii6. 

And, by another deed, dated 18 May, 3rd Edward 6lh, (which, 
and the preceding deed are inrolled in Chancery) Humphrey 
Walrond therein described as of Sea, in the Parish of Ilmyster, 
Somerset, Gentleman, and Henry Greynfielde, of the same place. 
Yeoman, assigned to John Balch, Gent., John Sydenham, Gent., 
and various other persons, 1 8 in number altogether, and inclnding 
all the persons named as Purchasers in the agreement, all their 
Houses and Buildings, and three Courtilages called "The Chauntry 
Houses," with their appurtenances situate in liminster aforesaid, 
and also the Tenements and Lands called Mody's and Rippe's 
Tenements, for the term of certain years yet enduring. 

A Declaration of the Trusts founding the School followed, 
and {in/er alia) the Schoolmaster was to be appointed a Tenement 
called the "The Crosse House," in which to reside. Power was 
given to Walrond and Greynfielde to act as Tmstees with the others, 
making 20 in the whole. 

The accounts of the Charity have been regularly kepi from 
the commencement. The first account commences thus, 



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"The account of Lands purchased for the School in Ilmyster." 

In this account, £1 ijs. 8d. are stated to be due to Humphrey 
Walrond, " for the devysing of the Assurance," showing clearly 
that it was not a Benefaction of his. 

The .account for the Year following contains a Gift of 6s. 8d. 
from Mr- Walrond. 

Humphrey Walrond died in August, 1580, and was buried in 
the South Transept of Ilminster Church, where there is a handsome 
marble monument to his memory. 

It is stated in CoUinson's History of Somerset, that there were 
four Chantries in Ilminster, the Revenues of which were consider- 
able. There is still a house called "The Chantry," on the West 
side of the Churchyard. Nothingmore is known as to the Chantry 
properties. 

The Chantry-house on the site of which the School-house 
was built in 1585-6, was assigned for the Residue of a term of 
goo years. Mody's Tenement was held for the residue of a term 
of 180 years from 1530. and Rippe's Tenement for the Residue of 
a Term of zoo years from iJiS, and when these two latter Terms 
expired, the properties fell into the hands of the Lord of the 
Manor. The Tmstees, however, managed their revenues carefully, 
and by means of their savings purchased other estates from time 
to lime. Amongst other properties, in 1606 they purchased the 
Manor of Sandwich or Swanwich, Dorset, of Henry Walrond, for 
1,000 Marks — ^666 13s. 4d. 

I append a Copy of the inscription on Humphrey Walrond's 
tomb in Ilminster Church. 

HlC JACET HVMFKEDUS WaLROND SDR PDLVERIS UMBRA, 

Marckscens ^vo, sed pietate Virens. 

CLERICVS ad RoBAS, COIVDICIS ORDINE FvNCTVS, 
MVNERE VIR DIGNVS, MvNERA DIGNA VjRO. 

AVG. XVII, MDLXXX. 
I should be glad to know the exact meaning of the third line. 
John Baker, Ilminster. 

294. Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe. — When in London, a 
short time since, my eye caught sight of the following inscription in 
the Chancel of St. James's. Piccadilly. The mention of '■ Sedge- 
moor Marsh " seemed curious to me, and I obtained a copy, in the 
hope that vou may be able to find a corner for it in the " Somtnel 
and Dontt Notts and Queries" and that I may be able thereby 
possibly to learn some further particulars of that officer. 

I. W. Harduan, LL.D., Cadbury House, Congresbury. 

HlC JACET THEOFHILUS 

Oglethorpe, Eques Auratus ; 
Ah Atavo Vicecomits EeoRim, 



Somerset &■ Doral Notes S- Qutrits. 
Sub Normano Victor b 

DUCENS OrIGINEM 
CCJUS ARMIS AD PONTEM 

BOTHWKLLIENSEII SUCCDllL'IT ScOTUS I 

Nec non Sedgmoriensi palude 

FL-SI ReRELLES. 

Qui per varios casus, et 

Rekum D I scrim in a, 

Magnanimam erga Frincipbm 

BT PaTRIAM FIDEU 

SeD NEC TEMBRE SUSTINUIT. 

OllllT LONDINI 

Anno: 1701. 
Abtatis 50. 

HujUS CLAUD IT LATUS 

LuDovicus Oglethorpe, 
Jam Paternae virtutis ql'AM 

FORTUNAE HaKRES. QuI 
PRAELIO ShELLENDERGENSI 

(victohiae hochstktensis praeludio) 

Tempestivum Suis Luelinantibus 

kerens aux ilium 

vulnbra honestissima accepit 

Et praeclara spe Ludolis 

PRUSTRATA. ObiiT 
ViCEKsiMO Secunuo Aktatis 
Anno Hagae Domini 170+. 
Charissimo Utriusq Cineri 

MARMOR hoc AMAN'TISSIUA 

CONJUX ET Mater posuit 

Domina Eleanor-a. 

Oglethorpe. 

[In " The Htrokk Life, &c., of James. Duke of Monmouth:' I 
(London, Sm. Svo. 16S3,) pp. 81-82, Major Oglethorp is i 
mentioned as commanding a detachment of Horse and Dragoons, 
under Monmouth, at the Battle of Bothwell Bridge. Both 
Macaulay, in his " History ." and Roberts, in his "Life of 
Monmouth" speak of hia services on the Field of Sedgemoor, 
against his former Commander. Possibly some reader who has 
access to Foster's i'orkshire Genealogies may be able to give an 
account of the family. The learned Editor of Camden's 
"Britannia" (Edn. 1721, Col. 871,) mentions Dr. Owen 
Oglethorp, Bishop of Carlisle, who crowned Queen Elizabeth, 
as being a Yorkshireman, and from the above monumental 
inscription it appears that Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe was 
" YorKshire loo." 

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895. Court Roll of Shaftesbury Abbey. — On the 93rd 

page of the 3rd volume of Hutchins's History of Dorset, (3rd 
Edition,) a few lines are devoted lo a roll of ihe "' Curia Le^is 
Feodorum BaronisE," and the " Curire Feodorum Baronife " of 
the Abbey of Shaftesbury. This roll, which is now preserved 
among the municipal records of the Town, has lately come under 
my observation, and it appears to merit a place in the pages of 
5. &- D. N. &• Q. 

The roll consists of four membranes, and contains the en- 
rollment of the proceedings of i; courts, held at intervals of three 
weeks, commencing 7th October, 31 Hen. VI, ( 1+53,) and ending 
i8lh September follovring, thus extending over one entire year. 
It is interesting as affording particulars relating to the Tenants of 
the Abbey, who lived on its estates outside the limits of the Town 
of Shaftesbury, and who are grouped under various Bailiwicks, 
such as the Bailiwicks of Bradford and Tisbury, in Wilts, and of 
Hanieigh and Kingston, (Purbeck) in Dorset. The record of the 
first of these courts entered upon the roll, which now follows, 
will speak for itself. It contains the annual lines paid by the free 
suitors of the Abbey, together with the levying of Distresses, 
and the issue of Attachments, against the persons or goods of 
defaulters in pleas of debt and trespass. This roll is numbered 
B. 6. in my Report and Calendar of the Shastonian Records. In 
the copy which follows the contracted words in certain cases, where 
it has been thought necessary, have been written at full length. 
Editor for DoiiSET. 
SHASTONIA. 
Curia Legalis ffeodorum Baronie tenia ibidem Decimo 
Septimo Die Octobris Anno sx.tij° regni Regis Henrici Sexti Et 
Anno Diie Edithe Bonham Abb'isse Duodecimo tempore Will'i 
, Carent Senescalli. 

Balliua de Bradeford. — Fines pro secta, ijs. — 
I Ad istam venit Henricus Longge Et dat Dfie de fine ijs. pro secta 
la usque ad festum s'ci Mich'is Arch'i proxime futurum relax' pro 
rris et tenementis suis nuper Johannis Bourton in Wroxhale. 

Balliua de Tyssebdry. — Fines liberorum sec- 
Ktokuu, xxxiiijs. — Ad istam venerunt Tenentes (xijd.) Reginald! 
mWest Militis pro terris et tenementis suis in Haselden. Tenent' 
T(lijd.) eiusdem Reginald! pro terr' et tent' suis in Wyke. Tenent' 
mdjd.) eiusdem Reginald! pro terr' et tent' suis in Westhacche. 
tTenent' (xijd.) terr' et tent' nuper Johannis Aysshefold pro terr" 
Pet tent' suis in Aysshefold. Tenent' (xijd.) terr' et tent' nuper 

iohannis Mawdite de Som'ford pro terr' et tent' suis in ffeme- 
ull, Johannes Juggehiii (xviijd.) pro terr" et tent' nuper 
Johannis Colyngbome, Rob'tus Northefolk (xijd.) pro terr' et 
tent" suis in Toterdhull. Johannes Jugge (vjd.) pro terr' et tent' 
' I in ffountell. Rob'tus Maiow (xijd.) pro terr" et tent' suis 



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tent' nnper Will'i Turney pre 
dominju' de Iwecn', Rad'hus 
suis infia dominiu' de Iwei 
Tenent" (ijs.) teir' et tent' : 
pro terr' et tent' suis 



Duper Johannis Belyngdon in Donynglon. Thomas Jolivet (vjd.) 
pro terr' el tent' suis in Lodewell. Idem Thomas (vjd.) pro terr" 
et tenl' suis in Donyngton. Wall'us Brinther (xijd.) pro terr" et 
tent' suis in Donnhed. Tenent' (icijd.) terr' et tent' nuper Elia 
ffrye pro ten' et tent' suis in Teffonnt. Tenent' (xviijd.) terr' et 
tent' nuper Henrici Stanleigh pro terr' et tent' suis in Lynley. 
Tenent' (ijs.) terr' et tent' nuper eiusdem Henrici pro terr" et 
tent' suisinGuvssych. Johannes Lambard (xijd.) pro terr* et tent* 
suis in Donyngton. Will's Vpton (xijd.) pro terr' et tent' nuper 
Thome Jerard in Donmgton p'dict'. Tenent' (xijd.) terr' et 
tent' nuper Walt'i Hanleigh et Agnetis Leigh in Apshull. 
Johannes Whitewode (ijs.) pro terr' et tent' suis nnper AJicie 
Gildon in Hanleigh. Wall'us Halfeknight (xijd.) pro terr* et 
tent* suis in Iwerne. Thomas Tame (xijd.) pro terr' et tent' 
snis nuper Rog'i Conke in Estmelbury. Tenent' (ijs.) terr' et 

■" " D terr' et tent' suis voc' Pegges infra 

i Botreaux (ijs.) pro terr' et tent' 
i' p'dict' solvend' per Johannem Prest, 
luper Rob'i Moure in Cheselbom' 
Tenent' (vjd.) lert' et tent' nuper 
Ric'i Cresbien in Stour Westouer. Willi'us Clavile (ijs.) pro terr" 
« lent' suis infra dominiu' de Kynggeston. Tenent' (xijd.) terr" et 
tent' nnper Rob'ti Horder in Melbury et Compton. Johannes Leigh 
(xijd.) pro terr' et tent' suis nuper Johannis Scammell in Donnhed. 
Rob'tus Thurbom (xijd.) pro terr' et tent' suis in Lodewell. 

Balliua de Bradeford. DisTRicTioNES.— Precep- 
tam est bedello curie ffeodorum baronie quod distringat tenentes 
tetr* et tent' nuper Johannis Edynydon in Holte et Duddeley : 
Tenent' terr" et tent' nuper Ric'i Pountes in Wroxhele : tenent' 
terr* et tent" nuper Johannis Marice in Budbury; Willm Besiles 
et Rob'tum Ayssheley Tenent' terr' et tent' noper WtH'i 
StOUTton in Kulmyngton ; Tenent' terr" et teni' nuper Will'i 
Wronghton in Ludyngton tam ad oslend' recognoscend* quain 
ad faciendum domine homagium and lidelitatem. 

BAIXlt'A DE HaNLBIGH. DiSTRICTlONES. — Et dlS- 

ttingat Tenent' terr' et tent' nuper Will'i Alfeild alias diet' Will'i 
Clanle pro terr' et tent' suis in Pymp'ne ad osiendum, &c. Et 
distringat Joh'am Parkers ad respondendum doniine de pluribua 
defattis communis secte sue, &c. 

Ballica dk Tysseeurv. DisTRicTioNEs. — Et dis- 
tringat Tenent' terr' et tent' nuper Will'i Hanleigh pro terr' et 
lent' was in Briddeserth ; Tenent' terr" et tenl' nuper Johannis 
Scpie Militis pro lerr' et tent' suis in Weslhacche ; Tenent' ten' 
"cV wnl' nup*r Walt'i Hanleigh et Agnetis Leigh in Apshull ; 
tenent' ten' et tent' nuper Johannis Chikelade et quondam 
«i\Vi Mouniagu nuper Comilis Sarum : Tenent' terr* et tent' 
nnet lotannis Mawdite tam ad ostend' recognoscend' quam ad 

niu" AfMTiinp Vinmnffiiim and " ■ ■" 



n domine homagium and fidelilalem. 



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Balliua de Kvnggeston, Hanlbigr, Tyssebury. 

DisTRicno. — Et distringat tenent' terr' et tent' nuper 
Johannis Alyn de Canndell ad respondendum domine dc pluribus 
defaltis co'is secte sue. 

Communis Secta. — Ad hunc diem Johannes Mercer 
facit sectam suam commtinem and habet diem ad secUim suam hie 
jterum de nouo faciendum ab hac die in tres septiraanas. 

Distr'. M'ie. xijd. — Adhuc bedellus in m'ia [;>., 
misericordia] quia non habet Thomam Sawcer (iiijd.) de Henton 
ad respondendum Johanni Andrew in pladto debiti. Idem bedellus 
in m'ia quia non habet Rob'tura Shevenhin (iiijd.) de Henton ad 
r" Thome Petour in pl'ito deb'i, Et distrt ip'os, &c. Idem bedellus 
in m'ia quia non habet Johannem Chyles (iiijd.) de Tyssebury ad 
r" Agneti nxori et execulrici teslamenli naper Vincent' Sm)th in 
pl'ito deb'i. Et distr' ip'm melius erga p'x', &c. 

Attachiamentum. — Adhuc preceptum attachiare 
Johannem Goddard de Hanleigh ad r' Thome Baker and Emmote 
ux' eius executrici testamenti nuper Johannis Randalf in pl'ito 
deb'i. 

LoQUELA. — Adhuc loquela inter Rob'tum Munketon 
querentem et Will'm Martyn defendentem remanent' usque pV 
p'c pt' vnde lex in d'nis cur'. 

Atiachiamenta. — Ad hanc curiam preceptum est 
attachiare Rob'tum Shepehurd post con ad r' Wilj'o Hygon in 
pl'ito transgressionis in ij querel'. 

Et attachiare Wili'm Hygon post con ad r* Rob'to She[pehurd] 
in pl'ito deb'i. 

Leuar' fac, — Ad istam p'c' est bedello quod leuare 
fac' xjs. vjd. cum dampn' viijd. de bonis et catallis Johannis 
Laueranns ad opus Johannis Kiiyght, q' idem Johannes Knyght 
recuperauit versus p'fat' Johannem Laueranns vt p' in Curia 
feodorum baronie tenia xsvjto die Septembr* Anno supra.icript'. 

ATTACH! amenta. — Johannes Payn quod versus 
Thomam Benet in pl'ito transgressionis qui attach' est nondum 
attach' .... Ideo att' ip'm erga p'x'. Walt'us Style q' versus 
Johannem Holcombe in pl'ito tns qui nondum attach' est ; ideo . . 
erga p'x'. 

Summa perquisitorum huius Curie, xijd. 
De finibus liberonim sectorum xxxvjs. 
(To be conlinuid.) 

agfi. Selwortht Place -Names. (I, vi. 287.) If those on 
the spot would furnish lists Hke this, of the names to be found in 
parish terriers and other local records, a most valuable addition 
would be made to recorded facts, and probably something satis- 
factory might at length be deduced as to the real meanings and 
origins of place names. At present this question can hardly be 
said to have advanced beyond mere guess or speculation. 




ttfi^ Ahims, snd ibeaxj F»gBih tJomtmftBk 

ft a* bae ai tie XRN cnUny. It «3i«J>'. «An and Wr. mtbeOX, 

~ s vtbe Booths of the peo|)l *" 
U (nro in Domesd^) b 
i .AOt-. Aimftei in Harapsfain i 




SU.wu>JHTaas &JI»ndk in Domesday, ani in the ^neace of 
e of a pttMo called Sel or S<£la owning it is 
, k is £n more likeiy co be the Sealk-^tmthi at 

i Bmtt»U and Bunmcota in D. shovinj^ how 
don is to be trusted, than modem 




t vas HfTwt/a in D. 
r pianatioB and VunnroRD maj be another Wna«, 
C Ac Jwtwm nentioDed in D. as belonging to the sane 
TO<kBCaiDa£. 

Pnxc Thne b DO mention of this in D. in Carhampton 
IUHB^lMif b BRSt smcly be the Celtic Pi7J or Pa-lJ=poo\i tbe 
tiiiini iliiM ilHib tbeic is no indication <>r building in this word. 
Is liioc a adt-poad at Exile's mill, or is it near the sea ? 

Hkdoox. a common Da3at= High-down. 

Whiteman's MooR=Witman's. Compaie Wistman'sWood 
on Daftmcor. 

H.ui MiAtww. Br no means the home meadow. There were 
two hams in O^ one has t«come the modem homt, but the other 
remains in ih« »wt common West Country name for a flat alluvia] 
piece ofland nsuallr by a rit>-erside.and generally meadow, or grassed 
down during late years, and then called Ham-meadow. I am the 
unfortnnate owner of one Ham, and two Ham-meaJotvs. The word 



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s in Northampton, Southampton, Hampshire, and in the 
South Hams of Devon. The p in these names comes from the 
same place as the p in Sampford. 

WITCH is the M.E. name for the Sim, (see Promfi. Piirv. &c.) 
now surviving in Witch Elm, Witch Halse, &c. (see Britten, Plant 

Hale probably hallow. ■ Are these fields very concave in 
shape ? Possibly, if the description does not apply, the name ma/ 
be from helan to cover — i.e. to plough down — hence Long Hale 
may be long-furrow, but long-hollmo is more likely. 
Hamstile. See Ham-meadow. 

Wrex-Park. Is the P.N. Wracca known .-' if not, this is of 
course Rush-padJick. 
■ Rexham must be near water and low lying. YxK&'Ai^ rushy-ham. 
I F. T. Elworthy, Foxdown, Wellington. 

297. Mr. Hancock, p. iq+, derives the name of ' Holnicote' 
from Hiin who was slain in the battle which united England 
Dnder Ecgbert. I am afraid this will not do. It is very seldom 
that names gain letters ; they much more frequently lose them. 
The m in Campidoglio for Capiloliiim, and the r in Marseilles 
for Massilia, are peculiar. I am more disposed to think that 
Holnicote may be derived from 'Holn' or 'Holm' signifying 
Holly. And yet it is very remarkable that the Old Ordnance map 
pnts Huntsgate a mile and a half S.K. of Holnicote, and Htmsham 
a mile and a half further East, both in Wootton Courtney, so that 
this parish may well have been part of the possessions of the same 
person from whom Huntspill and Hunstile are named. 

Stratford is not in my Ordnance map, Brandy Street is. I 
should like to know where the Roman road was which is not 
nnreasonably connected with these names. It may be well to put 
in a caution that ' Street ' may be confounded with ' Stert " ' Start* 
or ' Steort.' which seems to have signified a point or promontoiy. 
The more ancient roads seem to have been on hills ; that on 
Grabhurst is now Parish boundary for two thirds of its length. 
When the Romans settled these Western coasts, I suppose they 
must have made a road from Minehead towards Porlock. The 
road at Venniford is Parish boundary for a mile. Did this road 
anciently go across Holnicote to Porlock, or did it turn up towards 
Brandy Street or Bossinglon ? The submarine forest marked in 
the map along Porlock Bay makes it possible that, in Roman 
limes, there was land — possibly much land — where there is now 
sea ; and Bossington may have been much more important than 
Porlock. There are right angles in the road towards Bossington 
at Brandy Street, such as make me think of Roman mensuration, 
and I should like to enquire whether other lines of road or hedges 
remain which correspond with the squarex made by the roads ? 

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298. ExMOOR Forest. — When looking at the maps con- 
cerning I. vi. 187, I observed Huntsgateand Spangate in Wootton 
Courtenay, and was led to querj* whether they were gates to 
Kxmoor Forest ? I consequently referred to the boundaries as 
Riven in CoUinson III., 57. The Eastern boundaries, from 
Blackbarrow to the place marked as Litton-foot in Greenwood's 
map, seem to agree well with the boundaries given bot)i in that 
map and the old Ordnance map. 1 cannot at present make out 
the North to my satisfaction. It may be well to mention that they 
concern only that part of the forest that is in Somerset, that, as 
nsual, they go round as the sun does, and begin at some place 
called Cornesyete, not very far from the corner of Devon near 
Oare, and end at Litton-foot. 

The two gates in Wootton Courtenay are over six miles from 
the nearest part of the forest, with the whole length of Dnnkeiy 
between. It seems not unlikely then that Dunkety, with much 
land around it, and especially to the south, was in the forest — or 
at least claimed by the Crown — before the perambulation of 
March iind, ibth Edw. I,, which I suppose was 1197-8. and if so, 
one sees the great importance of these forest nghts, and of. 
resisting the encroachments of the Crown. 

F. H. DicKiHsoN, Kingwt 

299. Combe Keynes and Wool Parish Register. — ^Tl 
following letter, which has recently appeared in a local newspaper, 
describes the happy restoration to the charge of its rightfol 
custodian, of the Parish Register of Combe Keynes and Wool, 
from whose care it had been removed for upwards of 50 years. 
In Hntchins's Hisior)' of Dorset, vol. i., p. 361, (3rd Edition") it is 
sUted that " The registers of Combe Keynes and Wool began 
about 1591; the most ancient was ver)" fairly written, and well 
kept till the Restoration, but, to the disgrace of the parish 
authorities, it has lately been lost. The oldest register now in the 
possession of the parish commences in 177+-" In a note it is 
added, " It was missed in the Summer of 1 S3S, when the church 
was under repair. It was the practice, at that time, to keep the J 
registers in the iron chest, in the chance!, but during the repairffl 
of the church, the chest was removed either to the Curate's houaa^J 
or the Churchwarden's. It cannot now be ascertained how t 
book was lost." 

It now appears that this Register Book, which extends fronfj 
1583 to t8i I, found its way into the hands of Mr, John Waldraggj 
Carter, a solicitor long resident in Wool, and for many years < 
Churchwarden of the parish. How it came to light, is described 1 
below. Together with this book was another Registi 
Wool Marriage Register from 9th June, 1772, to iist Jany, 1808*'] 
which has also been restored to the Vicar of the parish. 

Editor for Dorsbi 



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" zq and 30, John Street, Bedford Row, London, W.C., 19th 
July, i88g. MacAithurs and Dolling Smith, solicitors. The Rev. 
Arthur R, Hartley, vicar. Wool, Wareham. Dear Sir, — We 
have now the pleasure of sending to you by parcel post "A 
Register of all Christnnings, Marriages, and Burialls, within the 
pariah of Combe Keynes and Wool, within the county of Dorset," 
the " Christianings " being from 1585 to 15th September, 181 1; 
marriages from 8th September. 1583, to ind August, 181 1: 
burialls from March 1586, to 8th November, 1810." This register 
our senior partner, Mr. J. MacArthur, discovered this month in 
the store closet of the late Mrs. E. H. Carter, at Wool, on the 
occasion of her death and the clearing out the house, which had 
been in the occupation of Mr. John Waldron Carter, until the 
time of his death in 1874., and of his widow, Mrs. E. H. Carter, 
until her death on 4th July inst., and then reverted to the lord of 
the manor. It would appear probable that at the time of the res- 
toration of the church at Wool in 1838 this register (with other 
parochial books and papers) was removed for safety to the house 
of Mr- Carter, who was then, and had been for many years, one of 
the churchwardens, and by Mr. Carter stored away in the inner- 
most recess of his store closet. During the last 50 years an 
accumulation of old law papers (Mr. Carter being a solicitor) and 
discarded furniture, boxes, &c., had been huddled into the same 
repository, and, had it not been necessary lo thoroughly clear out 
the premises in order to give possession to the landlord, the 
register might have remained undiscovered for another half-century. 
Not having time to go through all the papers at Wool during his 
stay there, our Mr. MacArthur brought with him two sacks of 
documents to look through more at leisure, and has been rewarded 
by the discovery of this book, the loss of which is mentioned in 
Hutchins' " History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset," 
3rd edition, vol i., page 361. Mr. Charles Henry Warne and Mr. 
J, R, MacArthur, the executors of the will of the late Mr. E. H. 
Carter, consider it a privilege to be permitted to restore this most 
interesting document to the proper custody of the vicar and 
churchwardens of Wool, and we, as their solicitors, are pleased to 
be in any way instrumental in carrying out their desire. We may 
say that this register has been inspected by General Walter Henry 
Smith (the father of our Mr. H. Dolling Smith), and he, who takes 
a great interest in genealogical researches, considers this register 
a very valuable and interesting document, and that the restoration 
■hould be made known through " Notes and Queries " or other 
archxological periodicals to the compilers of the county history, in 
order that the slur which they put upon "the parish authorities" 
may be at once removed. We send you a duplicate of this letter, 
at the foot of which it will be only necessary for you to write 
" received the above" and sign and return it to us. — We remain, 
yours faithfully, MacAkthcrs and DoLLiNG Smith." 



3o8 Somerset S- Dorset Notes S- Queries. 

300. " Wayzgoose," i.e., Fkn-GOOse. — Some interest, an^ 
at this season of the year, much enquiry is made as to the real 
meaning of this word. The following notes may suggest to some 
expert the expediency of deciding the question. 

Bailey {who, of course, is copied by Ash), gives 
iVqyse, — a bundle of straw. 
Ways-gnose, — a stubble goose, an entertainment given 
journeymen at the beginning of winter. 

I can find no authority for the connection of watte 
straw or stubble, except that furnished by " C.D.H." in the Di 
and £.riUr GautI', Aug. 6, i88q. 

" A uiazt, or wTeatli of straw, Fascis Stramineus." Litlltlinft' 
Dkt.. 1703. 

The same correspondent quotes from "Harrison Weir": 
" Michaelmas geese, or often way^-geese, from their having been 
taken from the pastures and turned on the arable lands from 
■which the corn has been carried, which is called ' wayz land,' 
from being laid up in divisions by furrows, &c," 

The first clause of this statement is no doubt correct : but 
what authority is there for the latter, — that arable land is ever called 
" wayz land " from being laid up in divisions by furrows ? Tl 
is pure speculation, laid down with the usual tx cutkidra certain^, 
common in such cases. 

The following facts can be verified by reference : 
Wase, cotnum. 11/15. Wase, tanum, 162/30. 
cenum, 1. hili uorago, utl lutum sub aquis ftlidum, 1. 
Wase, wf/fffin. 103/+5. Wrighl's Ang. Sax. Vocab. 
Wose, slype of the erthe. Giuten, bitumen. Promp, Parv.. 

note, p. 531. Whence modern aou. 
A Wase (wayse A.); Alga. Calh. Ang. 
" Alga, herba marinus, t.e. illud quod mare projcit, Wrekke 

frote of the sea. Uhia, wreke. Ulva est herba palustris." 

Ortus Vocab. quoted bv Way, P. Parv., p. 533, 

We have here O.E. wase, meaning mud, and M.E., wase, 
meaning a mud or marsh plant. We have also M.E.itow, meaning 
mud ; but the learned say this is from Ang. Sax. wOs. Vet the 
same authorities give us who from hwa and vioe from w&. Prompt. 
Parv., p. 531. Swat, History "/ Eng. Sounds, p. 336. 

In any case the coincidence is remarkable between Ang. Sax. 
wase, which as shown above meant fen, and Mid. Eng. wose, which 
alsomeantfen ormud. The confusion of waKwith the plant grow- 
ing in it, by the author of the Calh. Aug., is no greater than the 
modem fen, Mid Eng.yi-n«f {see Promp. Parv. p. 154) with Ang. Sax. 
/(En or fenn, which is shown in Wright to be the svnonym iotwase, 
i.e. ccenum. If, then, the word ways, which Mr. Harrison Weir says 
is applied to Michaelmas geese, means mud or fen, he is probabi)' 
conect in saying that they are so called from being taken from the 
pastures (or fens ?) If also the com stubbles are called wajm- 



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lands, that may be from the geese put on them, but there is 
nothing whatever to connect wayi vi'ith divisions or furrows. 

Supposing the facts here given, to be applicable to the case, 
it follows that wayz-goose is by no means a corn fed ot fattened 
bird, but one taken from the fen or marsh, and hence we should 
expect the feast or printers' outing, bo called, to be held at the 
season when the geese are young, and when they are only just 
taken off the common, i.e. about harvest time. These outings as 
a fact are now held in the summer, and not as Bailey says, " at 
the beginning of winter." He. however, may have been perfectly 
right as to the season in his day, and absolutely wrong in his 
suggestion that wayz-goose was a stubble goose, unless in the sense 
of being taken off the fens. 

F. T. Elworthy. 

301. White Sports in Floweking Plants. (I. vi. z6i.) — 
Petaloid albinism is due to a pathological cause rather than 
varietal, and is not therefore necessarily persistent. It is caused 
throug!) an extremely depauperated supply of colouring matter in 
the cellular tissue of the petals, undiscernable except by the 
closest observation, and through the intercellular spaces being 
filled with air so as to obstruct the free access of the colounng 
matter. It has been found that the petals will assume their 
normal colour when the obstruction has been removed by the air- 
pump. The structure of the petals as well as of the sepals is 
analogous to that of the leaves, that ofthe sepals, however, ifl inter- 
mediate, morphologically and anatomically, and almost invariably 
contains chlorophyll which gives them their green colour ; whereas 
the petals have no chlorophyll, at least, in their adult state. 
Unlike leaves which have several cellular layers one upon the 
other, petals have only one or two layers between the epidermis 
and cuticle, which may be easily seen in delicate plants imderthe 
microscope, such as Conve/vulus and A nagalh's. Petals pass through 
a refining process while enveloped in the folds of the calyx, and 
there acquire their colours and odours, the green colouring of 
the chlorophyll undergoes chemical changes, which are perhaps 

fartiallydue to these organs coming in contact with the pollen, 
n some instances the petals have scarcely any protective envelope, 
at in the case with most of the Umbellifers. They are usually 
white. The etiolation of leaves arises from a very different cause 
upon which I may have the opportunity of treating some future day. 
J, C. Mansbl-Plkvdell, Whatcombe. 

302. Coal Harhour or Cold Harhour. — The Rev. H. 
M. Scarth, in his addenda to Paper on Roman Somerset, Vol. 
xxiv. p. 74. of the Somersetshire Archaeological Society's 
proceedings, gives the name " Cold Harbour," in the list of 
names which indicate Roman occupation, and are found along 
lines of Roman road, or contiguous to Roman settlements. 



310 Somerset £• Dorset Notes S- Queriu. 

In Toone's Etymological Dictionary, speaking of Coal 
Harbour, or Cold Harbour, which was a large tenement lituated 
in Allhallows the less, London. 1+85, inUr alia "it appears 10 
have been a place of sanctuary." 

In Cffisar's Gallic War. (Book I., A. S. Walpole, M.A. p. xxvii) 
there is as follows ; , 

" In camp, the eagle was placed beside the General's quarteis 
in a little chapel, which had the privileges of sanctuary," 

If that Standard was inscribed " Hoc signo Victor ens. X,," 
it is evident why the spot where it had been placed should become 
a place of sanctuary. 

The suggestion is, that the word stood thu3. Col., as an 
abbreviated form of the Latin Color, signifying colour or beauty, — 
hence value, estimation, worth, in reference to the standard. Thai, 
so written, it was mistaken for the Saxon Col, which in Lye's 
Saxon Dictionary is given as meaning " a coal," also " cool," thus 
possibly explaining the double corruption. 

J. Houghton Spencer, Taunton. 

303. "Peter's Finger" Inn, Lytchbtt Minstrr- {Li. 
8.) — A correspondent at the above reference enquired after a 
letter on the meaning of " Peter^s Finger" which had appeared 
some time previously in the Salisbury and Winchistir Joumal. 
This I am able to supply by means of a cutting from the DomI 
County Chronicle a{ titA Feb., 1882. 

" Peter's Fingfr. a name given to a small tract of land about 
a mile from Salisbury on the road to Alderbury. The same name 
occurs on the Ordnance map near Launceston. There is an ion 
at Lytchett, near Poole, with this as a sign and a figure of St. 
Peter holding up his hand, from which blood is dripping. In 
none of these instances can the name be associated with a church 
ot chapel, so that the idea that it is a corruption of Petri figura 
(=figure of St. I'etcr) in memory of some such church dedicated 
to him, is not tenable It is most probably a corruption of 
" St. Peter ad Vincula," the name of a festival held, on August 1. 
by the Church of Rome to this day, in memory of that Apostle's 
imprisonment and miraculous deliverance. It corresponds with our 
Lammas Dav. In olden times it was one of the days from which 
certain prsedial services were due to the Lord of a Manor. Thus, in 
the Shaftesburj- Cartulary we have repeated entries of tenants being , 
bound to work from the nativity of St. John the Baptist (June 14) to 
the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula {August 1 ) : and for a given time ' 
also from St. Peter ad Vincula till the feast of St Michael (Sept. 
19), evidently for the purpose of enabling the lord to gather in his 
harvest of hay and of corn. The lands on which such labour had to 
be given, in the latter case, came to be called '• Lammas " lands, or 
in olden days " Peter ad Vincula " lands ; the latter name being in 
course of time corrupted into ' Peter's Finger,' — Peter's Fingsr." 



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I am informed that the term " Peter's Finger" is applied at 
Stunoinster Marshall, in this County, to the Beiemnites extracted 
from the chalk. 



304. NoTTOMY = Skeleton. — Throughout the Western 
Counties the usual tenn for a Skeleton \s Nollomy or Nolamy, 
Nor is the word confined to the South and West, for we find it in 
several Yorkshire Glossaries. 

Our Somerset authority, Jennings, says it is "corrupted from 
anatomy'' and no one up to this time seems to hive questioned 
this dictum ; it appears, however, to be doubtful if he is correct, 
and whether the word is a corruption at all,^ — at least since it 
became English. 

There is abundant evidence that in English, French, and 
Spanish, anatomy has long included ji^Won as one of its meanings: 
moreover the very common confusion of the article a or an with 
the initial syllable of words in an or n (as in nadre, nevimpere 
umpire &c.) had, even by Shakespere's day, worn down ana/omy to 
atomy. He uses atomy for skeleton, starveling, four times in his 
plays: but Holinshed (quoted by Mr. Addy, Sheffield Glossar>0 
who wrote long before Shakespere, says "the heade. armcs and 
legges whereof were like a nolamie." Here we have our modem 
dialectal word more than three centuries ago; and how much 
earlier it was used in literature re shall not know until the New 
Eng. Dictionary reaches letter N. Holinshed did not coin the 
word, nor is it likely that he wrote other than the then colloquial 
form. Whence then did it come f 

We have many Italian words like ' liiggledy-plggledy,* 
* chibbole,' &c,, and it is now submitted that nolomy is another, in 
the sense of skeleton. 

Barretti gives "A'o/ow/a, s.f. anatomy," — but says nothingofits 
use to signify skeleton. In a book of the last century, published 
at Naples, occurs this passage, ' ora mi ricordo felicemente, che 
quando io leggeva, e leggeva semprc (che non I'avessi mai fatto ; 
perche san-i grasso, e tondo, non giduna notomiaambulanic, qual 
mi sono I) ritrovai, &c., Cicalata ml fascim—N . VaUlta — Napdi, 
1787. p. 7. 

Here nolomta ambulante unquestionably means ' walking 
skeleton' and the ancestors of the 'manchylde'ofwhom Holinshed 
writes, verj- possibly brought the word from Italy or learnt it from 
Italian sailors. We know that forks came from Italy long after 
Shakespere, and why not this expressive word ? 

F. T. Elwortht. 

305. Dorset Sessions, 1614 — 1638. (I. v. 135.) — In the 
Sessions held at Sherborne in the month of April, ai Jac. L, 
1613, an order was made " for the better releiving imploying and 



311 Sonurset &■ Dorset Notes S- Qutria. 

ordering of the poore of the Towne of Sherborne, being veiy 
many in number " to the following effect. 

1. " Thai the Constables and overseers of the poor for the 
time being, together with Lawrence Swetnam, John ffosier, Robeit 
Wlietcomb, and William ffisher as assistants," should compel all 
such as are able to work to be employed in labour for and towards 
their maintenance. 

1. " That such of the said poor people (soe to be set on 
worke) as shall be found to be unrulye, disorderlye, or shall will- 
fullye or carelesslye spoile there worke, and such as shall be found 
idle wandringe, spoilinge of hedges, or stealinge of come, or 
leasinge at unfittinge and undue times in the time of harvest," 
shall be committed by the Constables, &c., to the house of cor- 
rection, there to be set to work, 

J. "That the poore people of the said Towne shalbe 
restrained from leasinge in the time of harvest in any feild untill 
the come be carried out of the said feilde.".... "It is also 
ordered that noe man having come growing in or about the said 
Towne should put in any swine or other cattle into his said ground 
by the space of one whole weeke after the riddinge or carriage o( 
his said come," under a penalty of 5s. 

At another Sessions held at Sherborne at this dale, or very 
near it, an order was made, on account of the " many disorders 
daily committed by idle and leaude persons w'hin the Town of 
Sherborne," that the Constables should commit such offenders 
the house of correction, until the opportunity occurs of carr^-ii ^, 
them before a Justice of the Peace. "And further this Con rtS' 
doth alsoe order for the better setlinge of such idle persons on 
worke as are committed to the M"" of the said house of Correction 
towards their reieife and sustenaunce that all the Ale house 
Keepers licensed wthin the Towne of Sherborne w^h doe brewe 
there Beere in there oune houses shall from henceforth grinde all 
there maulte in the said house of Correction, and that the Mr of 
the said house of Correction shall not take or suffer to be taken 
aboue a pennye for a bushell of any bushell of maulte that shall 
be so ground in the said house." 

This House of Correction figures occasionally in the Shet^ 
home Parish Register. On 15th March, 1610-1, Peter Tucker "de 
Ergastulo," was buried, and again 17th Sept.. 1613. Nicholaf 
Dollen " de Ergastulo;" and a little later, 7th April, 1617, 
" Thomas Tapline, a prisoner of Bridewell," 1 






306. Somerset M.Ps. — Hungerford op Fari.higr. In 
what County is Farleigh Castle located ? Burke {Exlinel Iktragi^ 
says Herks ; Le Neve, (Co/. 0/ A'«f^A«) gives Wilts; while Sie 
Parhamentari- Returns place it in Somerset. The Hungerfordi of ~ 
Farleigh derived from the elder of the two sons of Sir EdoionA 



Somtrut £■ Dorset Notes &• Queries. 313 

youngest son of Walter ist Baron Hungerford, who died in 1449, 
and became extinct I believe on the death of Sir Edward 
Hungerford. K.B., who died in 1711, after wasting his entire 
estate. Can some correspondent furnish a pedigrre of this family, 
or say wliere same is to be found ? At least one of its members 
sat in Parliament for a Somerset Constituency. 

W. D. PiKK. 

[Farleigh Castle is in Somerset ; separated only, however, 
from Wilts, by a small stream at its foot. 

Collinson, (Vol. III. pp. 352-359). gives some important 
genealogical notes on the Hungerford family. 

SoMBRsKT Editor.] 

Sir Chakles Cartarst, Knight. M.P.. for Milborne Port, 
in 1690/95; f6gs/98; 1693/1700. So styled in the return to 
each of the three Parhaments. Should not "Knight" read 
" Baronet " .■' I am unable lo find a Knight of this name, in Le 
Neve's Catalogue. Sir Charles Cartaret, the second (or as some- 
times styled the third,) Baronet of St. Owen in the island of 
Jersey. — the representative of the senior line of the Cartaret 
family. — succeeded his father, Sir Philip, in 1693. He died j./, 
in 1715. when the Baronetcy failed, and his estates passed to his 
cousin. Lord Cartaret. If the Bart, were the M.P.. he must have 
received Knighthood in his father's lifetime, but of this there 
seems no trace. Can any one help me in this matter ? 

W. D. Pink, Lagh, Lancashire. 

307. Exudation of Chalk. (I. vi. i88.) — ^The exudation 
of chalk referred to in Part vi., p. 196, of " S. & D.N.&- Q." 
arises from tht: capability of chalk to take up water to the extent 
of one-third of its bulk, and where it is the surface-rock, as is the 
case around Dorchester, the heaviest showers are absorbed as 
soon as they have fallen. By the law of expansion and contraction 
by heat and cold, water, unlike other fluids which diminish in bulk 
til! they freeze, goes on shrinking until it has attained the temper- 
ature of about 40°, and then, instead of continuing to contract, 
it slowly expands until it reaches freezing point. This expansion 
is productive of important consequences in nature, especially with 
regard to aquatic life ; for if the water continued to diminish in 
volume, and tlierefore to increase in density, till it reached freezing 
point, lakes and other large bodies of water, instead of being 
superficially frozen in winter, would become solid blocks of ice, 
and enshroud every lish and aquatic animal 1 but by expansion the 
water is rendered lighter, and thus a stratum of ice-cold water at 
a temperature of 32" will be formed, lying upon a mass of water 
beneath it at a icmperatnre of 40'', which is congenial to lish and 
aquatic life generally. The chalk near the surface, being charged 
with water, becoming disintegrated by the expansion of the water 



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during a frost, will upheave the overlying metal of the road, and 
during the succeeding thaw wiJl ooze up to the surface wherever 
the metal is thinly spread, causing the " milk or white-wash spots 
and patches " referred to by your observant correspondent. These 
spots cannot occur when sands and sandstones form the surface, as 
the rain escapes unimpeded to the reservoirs below, through the 
porous silicious mass, neither can the spots occur where clays form 
the surface, for the rain being unable to penetrate the impeiineable 
mass, escapes only by drainage or evaporation. This rain- 
absorbing property of chalk may account for the presence of some 
marsh-loving plants which are found in our chalk up-land woods 
and downs, such as Cardaminc praitnsu, Sagtna nodosa, Galium 
paluslre, G *m 4 »mr*m sncma, Valtriana officinalis, Scrophulatia nodosa. 
&c., the two last being probably varieties of V. sambucifolia, and 
Scrophularia agualica, through an altered condition of life. 

J. C. Mansel-Plevdell, Whatcombe. 

308. Bullet (?) Marks on Church Walls. — On the East 
wall of the Chancel of the Church of Norton-sub-Hambden, are 
to be seen from fifty to sixty indentations, such as might be caused 
by bullets fired from a strong gun ; some are quite half an inch 
deep in the solid Ham stone, and I have little doubt from the 
appearance of the marks that this is the way in which they were 
made. The sill of the East window is about ten feet from the 
ground. Some of the dents are not more than three feet above the 
ground, and a few are within three feet of the window. They 
occur in a space altogether about ten feet long by live wide, and 
most thickly in the middle pan of this space. I should be glad 
to learn if similar marks are to be found on the walls of other 
Churches. 1 remember seeing, some few years ago. similar dents 
on the South wall of St. Joseph's Chapel in Glastonbury, but I did 
not examine minutely, as to their probable number. 

Can any one suggest a reason for such appearances, since, if 
produced by bullets, these would not be likely to have been fired 
without some serious purpose .' 

Charlhs Tkask, Norton -sub- Hamden. 

309. Chafe— Chaffyn. — Thomas Chafe, M.P. for Totnes, 
1660, and for Bridport in 1685-87, Is this name correctly given ? 
His return for Bridport was petitioned against. In the Petition 
the name is rendered, according to one authority. " Chaite." 
according to another, " Chaffin." Thomas Chaffin. of Chettle, 
represented Poole from 1679-S7, and Dorchester and Hindonfrom 
ibSi) till his death in 1691, while his son, Thomas, sal for Shaftes- 
bury and Dorset from i6(igtil! 1710. Contemporary was Thomas 
Chufev, of Sherborne, who married the daughter of Sir Thomas 
Malet, Justice of K.B., and died in 1661, leaving a son, Thomas, 
who died in 1701, aged 59, "Thomas Chafe, M.P." must have 



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been one or the other of these, 

me as to which .' Where is 
Chettle ? 



Can some correspondent enlighten 
1 pedigree to be seen of Chaffyn of 



W. D. Pink, Leigh, Lancashire. 

fl have little doabt that the Thomas Chafe, enquired after by 
our correspondent, was the son of Thomas Chafe, of Sherborne, 
and Katherine (Malet) his wife. Thomas, the son, baptized at 
Poj'ntington, 30th Oct., 16+1, married 13th April, i55i, at Folke, 
Susanna, daughter and heiress of Edward Moleyns, Esq.. of West 
Hall in that parish. He was buried at Folke, z5th Nov., I7<>1- 
The name is always written Chaft in the Police Register. The 
family of Moleyns had possessed an estate at East Eype, near 
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310. John Strode, of Knighton or Rvme, Gent. — The 
following is an extract from thfc Parish Register of Bcerhackett : 

"Jany jd, 1659. Tuesday about g of the clock at night 
departed this life Mrs. Constance Guppy, widdowe, aged 80 years. 
She was the daughter of Thomas Kingsmill, of Kingsmill, in the 
countye of Southampton, Esq., sister to Sir John Kingsmill of 
Waliington, in the county of Barkshire, Knight, relict of Richard 
Guppy of Sandridgchill Park in the county of Wiltshire, Gent., 
and mother to Constance the wife of John Strode of Knighton or 
Ryme, Gent. 

Jany q. The said Constance was buried in the Chancel of 
the Parish Church of Yetminster." 

Who was this John Strode ? He does not appear in any of 
the Strode Pedigrees in Vol. 30. Som. Arch, Soc. Proc. A 
respectable family of Guppy, originally Guphay, has flourished 
for many centuries in the County of Dorset. Was Richard Guppy 
a member of it ? 

J.B. 

311, Encaustic Tiles. — At the meeting of the S. A. & N. 
H. Soc, at Minehead, I ventured to suggest that the presence of 
heraldic tiles in a church or other building may not always imply 
any direct connection with the owner of the arms represented 
upon the tiles. The frequent repetition of the same coats, in 
different parts of the county, appears to point rather to the 
distribution of tiles of stock patterns from a central manufactory. 
The importance of determining this question will be obvious to all 
archfeologists ; but without the means of closely comparing a 
large number of actual tiles, or facsimiles of such tiles, from 
different sources, it is imposible to do more than hazard a con- 
jecture upon the subject. By a little co-operation such a 



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collection of facsimile copies might easily be made. My proposal 
is, that any persons interested in this enquiry, should make 
careful tracings (drawings not traced from the tiles would be of 
comparatively little value), from such ancient encaustic tiles as are 
to be found in their own neighbourhoods, and forward the*e 
tracings to the Taunlon Museum, the authorities of which would 
doubtless be glad to accept and preserve them. I add a few notes 
on some points which, I think, should be observed in malung 
such copies. 

1 , It is essential that the outline of the tile should be shown, 
as well as nil the drawings upon it (not merely the bearings upon 
the shield). 

1. A large collection of the purely decorative tiles will be 
required, as well as of those having heraldic designs. It will be 
especially desirable to have copies of all decorative tiles which 
are found in close connection with heraldic tiles, and the nature 
of this connection should be accurately described. If it should 
appear that these tiles have been supplied out of stock, while 
slight differences in the heraldic tiles indicate that they have been 
struck from different dies, this will be strong, and may be concln- 
sive, evidence that the heraldic tiles were designed for the positions 
in which they are found. 

3. Tracings of fragments of tiles may often be of great value. 

4. In most cases it will be unnecessary (and perhaps undesir- 
able) to colour the tracings, although the colours should be stated 
in writing upon the tracingi. But there may be instances where 
colouring would be advantageous. 

5. Whenever it is practicable to obtain such information, the 
thickness of the tile and the depth of the inlay should be accurately 
given. 

6. The name of the building in which the tiles are found 
should appear upon every sheet of tracings. 

7. .^ny information as lo the identification of the shields, and 
the connection of their owners with the building in which they 
are found, will add considerably to the usefulness of the tracings. 
especially if references be given to the authorities for such 
information. 

If it is possible to form such a collection as I have indicated, it 
will be useful for many other purposes besides that which I have 
M present in view. It will be a valuable contribution towards the 
history of design, a great help in fixing the date of particular tiles, 
and « permanent record of objects of antiquity which are very 
tUblv to disappear whenever an ancient pavement is in any way 
iutvrfctvd witn. 

1 hope lo be able shortly to send in copies of the andent 
Uka KPtnaining in Welts, and I trust that others will aid by mal ' 
^nciuy* «i opponunities arise. 

Edmund Bcckle, 23, Bedford Row, W.C. 



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312. Hugh Speke, — Politician. (Concluded /'n'" 

I. vi. 18+.)— Immediately after James's ^asco at Salisbury, ^eke 
set out for London, where, it seems, he contrived still to enjoy the 
confidence of the King, Before leaving Exeter, however, — by his 
own account, indeed before quitting London for that place, — he 
had projected and matured the most audacious design that had 
ever commended itself to a subject. This was nothing more nor 
less than the printing and distribution, by surreptilioua means, of 
a Proclamation in the name of the Prince of Orange, purporting 
to have been issued soon after his arrival at Sherborne Castle. 

This famous document, dated Nov. aSth, 1688, is known by 
the title of " Tie Third Declaration" and at the time of its publi- 
cation it produced an immense effect on the public, who were 
completely doped by its contents. 

Discerning readers, however, it is said, had little difficulty in 
pronouncing it a forgery* ; and the Prince of course knew it to be 
such, when a copy was presented to him, by Speke in person, at 
Sherborne Castle. The writer of the " Secret History" gives the 
following account of the scene that ensued; "The Prince 
seem'd somewhat surpriz'd at first, and openly declar'd he knew 
nothing of it; but when he had read and consider'd it, his High- 
ness, and all that were about him, seem'd not at all displeas'd 
with the Thing. And they were all sensible, in a very liiile Time, 
that it did his Highness's Interest a great deal of Service." 

The purport of this ' Declaration ' was ostensibly to make 
more widely known the object of the Prince's invasion of England, 
viz., that of giving the world undoubted proofs of his fervent zeal 
in the Protestant cause. To which end, after alluding to the fact 
that many officers and soldiers had renounced the " illegal Service 
they were engaged in," and had " come over to (him) and given 
(him) full Assurance from the Rest of the Army, that they would 
certainly follow their example, as soon as with (his) Army (he) 
should approach near enough to receive them, without hazard of 
being prevented or betray'd," it proceeds to state, that William 
had come to the resolution " with all possible Diligence to 
advance forward, (in order) that a free Parliament may be forth- 
with cali'd, and such Preliminaries adjusted with the lOng, and 
all Things first setled upon such a Foot according to Law, as may 
give (him) and the whole Nation, just Reason to believe the King 
is disposed to make such necessary Condescenlions on his Part, 
as will give intire Satisfaction and Security to all. and make both 
King and People once more happy." 

The Declaration further proclaims a fixed determination, on 
the Prince's part, to offer no violence to any man saving in self- 
defence, btit to protect all who obey the law ("even any Papist"); 
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be treated — not as Soldiers and Gentlemen, but as Robber^l 
Free-booiers, and Banditi ; (and) shall be incapable of Quarter;.f 
and intirely deliver'd up to the Discretion of our Soldiers," 

The latter part of this precious document refers in vengeful | 
terms to the " great Numbers of armed Papists (who) have of late ■ 
resorted to London and Walminsler, and Parts adjacent," as a 
standing menace to the inhabitants thereof; and winds up with a 
requisition to " all the Lords Lieutenants, Justices of the Peace, 
Mayors, Sheriffs, and other Officers, Civil and Military, of all 
Counties, Cities, and Towns in England," to forthwith " 
and Secure, as by Law they may, and ought, all Papists whatsoereTtlJ 
:is Persons at all Times, but now especially, most dangerous to ll: 
Peace and Safety of the Government ; " expressing also a deiei . 
mined resolve to " require at their hands the Life of every singlftl 
Protestant that shall perish, and every House that shall be bura" 
and destroy'd by Treachery, and in defiance of the Laws. 

Given under our Hand and Sea/ at our Head Quarten m 
Sherborne Casile, November Ihe iSth. 1688. 

Wiliiam Henry, Prince of Orange,-^ 
By his Highness:' s Speaal Commiirid. 

C. Huygtns." 
Finding, as he states, that this forged document was well 
received bv the parties most interested in its success, Spcke 
ventured to sound owoM^r Protestant alarm (also cleverly dispersed 
so as to be delivered in all parts of the Kingdom in one day), ot, 
an intended (we may add a pMctiAcA) " Conspiracy of the Irifk 
and other Papists against the Protestants." 

This letter was so artfully worded, and so skilfully distribute 
that most of the recipients imagined the danger to lie at thd 
own door. The consequences were, as the " Secret History " l_. 
us, momentous. The whole body of Protestants in Englai 
everywhere stood on their guard, and in many places the Fapid 
were disarmed. In Scotland, where the array was almost exch 
sively commanded by Roman Catholics, the results were inde< 
disastrous. The inhabitants of Edinburgh were seized with coi 
stemation, and the City drums beat to arms, on a me 
Sunday evening. The defenceless women and children v 
to places of presumed security in the suburbs and elsewhei 
whilst the bulk of the adult male population passed the nig^ 
under arms. 

On the following day (Monday), the students in the Universil 
(which had been founded a century before by James L,) marclu 
down the High Street in a body, with a design to dismantle l' 
,\bbey at the foot of the Canongale, which had been 
renovated and decorated at great cost, by the Cathohcs. ". 
youths were fired on, and some of them killed, by the tma\ 
-Stationed at Holy Rood House, but the sur^'ivors having bo 
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other Heralds belonging to the Office of the King at Anns, suc- 
ceeded in dispossessing the Palace Garrison, and then carried out 
their design of destruction, so far as the symbols of Romish 
worship were concerned, by burning them at the High Cross, 

These, and kindred proceedings elsewhere throughout the 
Kingdom, created such an impression on the minds of men in 
general that they were speedily followed by the ■' Convention of 
Estates," which settled the succession to the throne of Great 
Britain in the person of King William HI.* 

The subsequent conviction, on the part of the public, that 
the alarm had been a needless one, was, of coarse, accompanied 
by endeavours to discover its author. These endeavours for a 
time proved futile ; but at length a Jacobite, named Dyer, a former 
acquaintance of Speke's, seems to have hit upon the right person, 
since he published a somewhat libellous pamphlet denouncing his 
quondam friend as the contriver of the " noise of the Irish 
Massacre," and of the means whereby King James's army "' came 
to be so circumvented in the West, as to lose the Field almost 
without Bloodshed " ; and, in fact, as the author of all the duplicitj 
of which he (Speke) afterwards confesses himself to have been 
guilty. 

Still, notwithstanding what had occurred, Speke, by his own 
account, had the address to preserve the good opinion and the 
confidence of the King, who himself had absconded on the i ith 
of December, — the night before the "Irish Night." Being 
intercepted in his flight, he was constrained to return to Whitehall, 
contrary to his own wishes, and much to the chagrin of the Prince 
of Orange. Immediately after, however, he again left London 
and proceeded to Rochester, whence he sent an express to Speke 
in order to " know his Sentiments, and Whether he thought it 
fittest for him to remain in England, or to follow his Queen into 
Franci, and assuring him that he would rely entirely on his 
Opinion and Judgment therein." The adviser, true to his character 
of double-dealer, demanded a day to consider what course would 
be the best for the King lo take ; and this delay, which was con- 
ceded by James, was utilized by Speke to shew his Royal client's 
letter, and to make known all his plans, to the Prince of Orange, 
who, by this time, hadassomedthe"?/f of the 'Man in Possession' 
at Whitehall. 

Then these two confederates agreed that Jamesahould be urged 
to " pursue his former Resolution of withdrawing into France"; 
which he accordingly did forthwith, " wilhout leaving any legal 
Power behind him" In the letter to the King, containing the above 

•Speke, in hi* ■' hierel Bittury," confines his mnirka on the effect of ill* j 
above ktler, chieily to aa account of ilie scenca in Edinbureh ; bai Maoulay, in \ 
hii ■' mtlon/," (Vol- U.. cb. . , A.D. 1088.) ifivM t vCnd dcicription at Uw 
" Irish Night," in London, at the close of which he characierislically fires ■ 
vicious parting ^hut >t the sabject of this paper. 



230 Somerset S- Dorset Notes S' Queries. 

advice, Speke tells us that he "laid before his Majesty with a 
respectful Freedom, the Steps into which his Majesty had been 
misled, by a set of profiiRate Men, who had precipitated him into 
those ill Measures he had pursued," &c., &c. At this junclute, 
there being no head to the Government, a Convention of the 
Estates of the Realm va.s called to consider the critical condition 
of the Kingdom, and they at once voted the throne vacant by the 
abdication of James, and tlie elevation of William and Mary to 
the same, as a natural consequence. 

Most men would, we imagine, have felt satisfied with this 
success, but our Author tells us that, after the change of Monarchs, 
he still kept up a correspondence with the ex-King, by William'i 
direction and with his knowledge. For so doing he received 
sundry moneys to reimburse his needful outlay, and " his brother- 
in-law had the Honour to be advanced lo one of the most 
Honourable and Profitable Employments in the Kingdom, and 
liv'd and dy'd in that Office,"* but he himself was never repaid, as 
he ejtp"Cled, the losses by fine and otherwise, to which he had 
been subjected in the former reign. 

In the meaniime, to his great sorrow and disappointment. 
King William died. 

The ' Secret History,' as it proceeds, permits us to see. very 
clearly, that the Author, amidst all his vagaries, never forgets to 
fix his eye on the main chance, or so to lay his plans that his 
patrons should have every opportunity of remembering his 
pecuniary sacrifices, whether these were incurred by the fines 
inflicted, or by his own expenditure whilst maturing and carrying 
out his various schemes. 

A record of the failure of these plans, and also of his subse- 
quent applications to the Government of Queen Anne, together 
with a recapitulation of his services and his sufferings, eked out 
by sundry reflections on the ingratitude of princes and other men 
of exalted position, brings Speke's memoir well-nigh to a conclu- 
sion ; but he takes occasion, initr alia, to tell us that, after dancing 
attendance at the Court of the Queen, during the whole of her 
reign, with a bill ofj^j.oooand accrued interest, amounting in 
the aggregate to ;^i*.8oo, he was only awarded a sum of j^ioo. to 
remunerate him for his /rviiblt, but " which did not defray a fifth 
Part " of the same. 

The whole pamphlet, (which, as we have read, was dedicated 
to King George I.), seems to have been written in the forlorn hope 
that that monarch miglit see fit to liquidate what he probably 
conceived to be a very doubtful debt, incurred by his predecessors 
a duly which his Majesty was little likely to recognise, not with- 

•This evidently refers to Sir John Trenchard, Kt., who was first 
Sergeant, then Chief Justice of Chcsler, and finally principal Secretary of Stalejl 
He mairicd Philippa, the sister of liugli Speke. nod died in 1695. iHu tcUniT 
■■ Eul. Darut," Vol. I., p. 181, Ed. l36l.) 



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standing the honied words in which Speke 

notice the consideration of the matters contained in his book, 
"not mthout an humble Confidence that as his Majesty is a 
" Prince, who is as great a Judge as any in Europe of Men and 
" Things, his Royal Wisdom, Justice and Compassion, will readiljr 
" incline his Majesty to do in such a Case, what is reasonably to 
" be hoped for, by a Dutiful, Faithful, and Zealous Subject, from 
" so Great and so Good a Prince." 



The foregoing extracts from Hugh Speke 's narrative, 
enlighten us, to some exicnt, as to the character of the author. 
Although we are unable to subscribe to Macaulay's outspoken 
opinion, we must at any rate agree with Charles Knight as to his 
being " a restless and a dangerous man," and one, by his own 
confession, capable of deeply compromising his friends, as well as 
himself. Undoubtedly a man of ability, his vanilyandself-conceit 
are apparent in every page of his history, notwithstanding the 
very small foundation they had to rest upon, save and except his 
capacity for double-dealing, which was assuredly pre-eminent. 

It would be interesting to learn what his contemporaries 
thought about him ; but in this respect the writer's opportunities 
are limited. Bishop Burnet states that the contriver of the " Irish 
Night" was never known; and Oldmixon tells us thai Hugh 
Speke could no more have written the Third Declaration, than he 
could have penned Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding. 

There seems no good reason, however, for not believing that, 
in the main, his own story of his life is a true one, although many 
of the circumstances narrated are manifestly somewhat warmly 
coloured, for the purpose of favourably disposing King George I. 
towards granting him some compensation for his losses and his 
troubles. 

Macaulay takes leave of the whole subject in these words ; — 
" His assertion (that he was the author of the letters which had 
" spread dismay throughout the country) is not intrinsically 
"improbable: but it rests on no evidence except his own word. 
"He was a man quite capable of committing such a villany, and 
I •* quite capable also of falsely boasting that he had committed it." 

After such a summing-up, one might almost venture to con- 
ratulate Speke's ghost, on the fact that his Judge in 1683, was a 
yfeffreys, and not a Macaulay. 

As regards the party at White Lackington, it may not be 
infair to assume that the near relationship of so busy-brained, 
nd so mischievous- minded a man as Hugh Speke, was not free 
rom a certain sinister influence, more especially when one con- 
idcrs the large heart and guileless nature of the head of the 
(mily. Failure on the part of the two Charleses to recognise the 
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the positive persecution to which he was subjected in James' 
reign, together with his ardent devotion to the Protestant caus^, 
must have always offered ready weapons in any political con- 
troversy that Hugh Sjieke might have seen fit to engage in; 
whilst the latter would assuredly have been supported by bis 
brother-in-law, John Trenchard, and by his mother, — Pj-e's 
sister, — whose proclivities all lay in the direction of a change of 
dynasty. If this be admitted, and if Hugh Speke's narrative be 
believed, it will not be diJficult to understand some bits of 17U1 
century history, — perhaps one might with greater propriety say 
'local history," — that have hitherto seemed perplexing and 
ambiguous. 

What eventually became of Hugh Speke, or when he died, 
does not appear. Advancing years do not seem to have tamed 
his spirit, or to have calmed his restless nature, for within the 
cover of the tract so often quoted, there is attached a printed copy 
of a somrwhat scurrilous letter written by him to " Richard Lee, 
Esg., pf Winslade, oni 0/ his Majtsty's Justicis of tlu Pejct /or He 
Ceu»/y of Devon, on Saturday, Octob: 26, 1700," abusing him in 
round terms for having issued a " warrant," instead of an ordinary 
summons, against himself, and one Edward Keene, (his niece's 
servant) for taking active part in a brawl at Topsham, — the event 
of which, if any of our Devonshire readers could kindly give it us, 
would be a welcome contribution to a future Number of 
"N. & Q.S. &• D." 

Somerset Editor^ 

313. Monolith on Batcomre Hill. — On the summit of 
Batcombc Hill, in Dorset, and within the limits of the parish of 
Batcombe, about 300 yards from the point where the rough track- 
way from Upcerne to Hilfield crosses the road which runs in a 
general westerly direction from High Sloy to Holy Well, is an 
upright stone or pillar, rising 46ins. in height above the level of 
the Down. This pillar, which is a monolith of hard oolitic stone,* 
with fragments of fossils appearing on its surface, springs from a 
rectangular base, chamfered al the four angles, measuring about 
yins. by Sins., the East and West sides being slightly longer than 
the North and South. The chamfer at the angles measures one 
inch. Above this base runs a semicircular moulding, though only 
traces of it can be discerned. From the moulding rises the main 
portion of the pillar, 34ins. in circumference at its lower part, jjins. 
in the middle, and zBins. at the top of tlie shaft. The shali, as it 
rises from the base, is not quite circular, but becomes more and 
more so, as it extends upwards. Round the top of the shaft runs 
another semicircular moulding, resembling that at the base, and 



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this is surmounted by a rude globose capital, now much broken, 
and upwards of 3iin3. in circumference. The height of the 
monolith from the ground is made up in the following manner : — 
Base, 6ins. : base moulding, i inch; shaft, ^oins. ; moulding 
below the capitiil, r inch ; and the capital itself, so far as it now 
remains, about Bins,, making the entire height 4.6ins., as already 
stated. These measurements were taken on i6lh August, 1889. 
The only markings now visible on the pillar are the letter T. cut 
by some mischievous person on its northern side, and the dis- 
figuring symbol of the Ordnance Surveyors, on the south side of 
the base. 

What can be the purpose for which this stone has been placed 
in its present position ? It is tempting to regard it simply as a 
boundary stone, though at the present time it does not serve thai 
object, as it is some little way removed from the limits of the 
adjacent parishes, though, at the intersection of the roads above 
mentioned, the four parishes of Hilfield, Batcombe. Sydling, and 
Upcerne meet at one point. If it was originally intended to mark 
the point of intersection, it is difficult to account for the bounds 
having moved away from so conspicuous an object. 

An old inhabitant of Long Burton. Thomas Coombs, who is 
acquainted with the stone, tells me that he has always understood 
that it was placed to mark the spot where a criminal was hung in 
chains for highway robbery and murder committed at this spot, 
and it is curious to note that not far to the south an object 
resembling a gallows is marked on Isaac Taylor's map. Coombs 
also informs me of a circumstance which is said to have happened 
many years ago in connection with this stone. A man of Cerne 
went across the hills to Batcombe to steal a sheep, and having 
secured his prize, tied its legs together and slung it over his 
shoulders and proceeded homewards. On reaching this stone he 
is supposed to have leant against it. resting the sheep on the top, 
and his burden, slipping off behind, threw its whole weight on tho 
cord which bound the legs together, and thus caught the man 
under the chin and strangled him. At any rate, the next morning 
the man was found dead in this position, while the sheep was still 
living 1 It may. however, be obser\*ed that this is a stock tale, 
frequently localized elsewhere. Not many years ago this road vz'i 
a mere trackway along the ridge of the hill, a wild unfrequented 
place, much affected by the smuggling fraiemily, the furze whicli 
grew around forming a good covert for the concealment of the 
brandy kegs. 

I may add that this stone is marked on Isaac Taylor's map of 

"Dorsetshire," Jany ist, 1765, but with no name attached ; and 

[ also on the Ordrnmce Map of August ist, 1811. In the lattermap 

1 the words " Cross-in-hand " are engraved close by, but what this 

T name precisely means, or whether it refers to the stone, as is 

implied in the following extract from Hutchins, or to the adjacent 



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cross-roads, there is nothing to determine. The same nanm. 
appears attached to intersecting roads on the main road froi 
Hereford to Monmouth, a few miles south of the former place, 
and it may be of common occurrence. 

It will now be well to mention what is stated reitarding this 
monolith in Hulchins's Dorset, Vol. iv,, p. 500, (3rd Edit.) 

"About five or six yards [? more] from the northern border 
of the parish [of Sydlinfr], upon Batcombe Common, is an 
upright Pillar called the Cross and Hand [not Cross-in-hand]. 
It consists of a single stone of very close texture, diiferent from 
any found in the neighbourhood ; the present height above the 
ground is nearly six feet, [now 3ft. loins.,] the girth towards the 
lower part about three feet, towards the upper about two feet six 
inches. This stone has been rudely carved into the form of t 
pillar : the lower part, which may be called the base, is an oblong 
square with the angles pared away ; the longest sides facing to the 
east and west. The shaft is nearly of the same girth as the base, 
but rounded. The west, or flattened side of the capital, has a 
rudely carved sinister hand ; the opposite side had probably a 
dexter hand : [why ?] but the latter has evidently been splintered 
off either by accident or design. [No sign of any Aatnt is now 
visible.] The capital appears to have been surmounted by a bowl, 
the hollow fragment of which, about three inches in height, will 
at present contain upwards of a quart of water. [No trace of this 
bowl remains.] The stone was esteemed ancient in the lime of 
the grandfathers of the oldest persons with whom Mr. Moor [Uio 
Rev, James Knight Moor, Curate of Sydling, who assisted Mr. 
Gough in regard to the md Edition of Hutchins, and died 17th 
June, 1810,] had spoken about it; whocould discover no tradition 
concerning it, except that it was a relic of Popish times, and that 
the hollow was intended for travellers to deposit their mite for the 
relief of those who might be passing by in distress. It has always 
been considered as the boundary of the parishes of Sydling and 
Batcombe, and in the perambulations of this parish, {which have 
long been laid aside) it was usual at this place to distribute hatf- 
pence among the children who attended the procession. There 
were persons living in Sydling in i8ii who remembered, when 
boys, to have scrambled for half-pence distributed by the late Sir 
William Smith, and to have climbed the pillar to take those that 
were placed in the hollow. Mr. Moor conjectured il either [o 
have been erected as a boundary or meer-slone, or, like some 
crosses upon the Continent and in Wales, &c., to mark the spot 
where some murder had been committed. The spot where lhi» 
pillar stands is, even in the present day, one of the wildest and 
most unfrequented in the neighbourhood." 

Can anyone throw any further light upon the origin of thi( 
weather-beaten monolith ? 

C.H.M. 



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314. Witchcraft. SHEKnoRNE. A.D. 1660. — At the 
Dorset Summer Assizes held at Dorchester, loth September. 1660, 
there was an order b)' the Court about the above subject, which 
was as follows : — 

" It is ordered by this Court that Sr John ffltajames, Knight, 
" Robert Coker Esqf^, Thomas Moore Esqfe, Waller ffoy Esqre, 
"and Winston Churchill Esq""*, ihve of ye Justices of j-c peace of 
" this County or any two of tliem doe take care, That the busines 
" concerninge the witchcraft & consultation with the devil! & 
'■ evili spiritts in Sherborne in this County bee with all speede 
" examined, (and any) concerned in ye said busines bee by 
"them or any two of them bound to the good behaviour And to 
" appeare att the next Assizes & Gen'all Goale deliviy to bee 
" holden for thii County to answere ye same And that they allsoe 
" binde over As aforesaid such p'sons of those as by them are to 
" be nowe examined as 'hey shall thinke fitt And allsoe such 
" p'sons to prsecute ag"' them as Ihey shall allsoe thinke (fit) and 
"certifie their said Examinations & Infonnations att the Assizes," 

No names are appended to this order, but. by examining the 
Other orders made during this circuit, we know that Sir Robert 
Forster and Sir Thomas Tyrrell, Judges of the King's Bench, 
were the two Judges of Assize then going the Western Circuit, 
which was held later in consequence of the Restoration and its 
train of festivities. 

Can any of your readers enlighten us as to what this case of 
Witchcraft was ? Whether there was a trial .' and if so, what was 
the result ? 

W.W.R. 

315. Warne's Collection of Dorset Coins, — On the 
a+th and z5th of May, 1889, a portion of the valuable collection 
of coins made by the distinguished antiquary, the late Mr. Charles 
Wame, K.S.A,, was disposed of by public auction by Messrs. 
Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, at 13, Wellington Street. Strand, 
London. On this occasion 177 lots were put up for sale, and 
realized good prices. — an Aureus of Allectus, an " unpublisfud 
varitty of Cohen, No. 4, very fine and of excessive rarity," fetching 
£li, and an Aureus of Carausius " very fine and extremely rare," 
£s°- Of the coins of these Emperors in Britain an unusually 
complete scries had been collected by Mr. Warne. which was now 
dispersed. What will, however, be of the greatest interest to the 
readers of S. &• D. N. &• Q. is the following list of the Saxon, 
Danish, and Norman Coins, issued from Dorset Mints, which were 
offered for sale on this occasion, together with the prices obtained, 
which, by the kind permission of Mr. Ch.is. Holland Wame. I am 
enabled to lay before the re.iders of this Magazine. These 

• Dorset coins were disposed of at the second day's sale, in 15 lots, 
~" d are all figured in Mr. Warne's ■' Saxon, Danish, and Norman 



^ «6 SotHtrset &■ Dorset Notes S- Qiteries. ^H 


^^H Mints or Dorset," and in " Ancient Dorset." I have not thought ^H 


^^H it necessary to give below the inscriptions on these coins, as those ^ 


^^H who are interested in Dorset Numismatics will readily be able to 


^^^1 iLlenltfy them upon reference to the plates in the works just men- 


^^^B tioned. The list is given below. It may also be added that Lot 


^^^H 156 was the medal struck to commemorate the release of Colonel 


^^^B Giles Strangways from the Tower, in 1648, jfw anJ wry ran. 


^^H which realized £i. (Hutchins says Dr. Mead's copy was sold for 


^^^1 £1 16s.; In Lot 257, in addition to two medals relating to James 


^^H II., was comprised another, struck to commemorate the refusal of 


^^H the Grand Jury to find a true bill against Anthony, first Earl of 


^^^1 Shaftesbury, 1681 ; fine and rure. The three together produced 


^^^B £\ 3s. These two Dorset Medals are figured in Hutchins's Plates ^^ 


^^H of Tradesmen's Tokens. See the Inlrvduction to his MistOiyv^H 


^^^B p. Ixxii., 3rd Edition. -^^| 




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3t6. Somerset Timber. A.D. 1656. — At the Somersc't 
Assizes held at CharJ on the aSlh July, 1656, before Lord Chief 
Baron Steele, an order was made by the Court relating to the 
above matter. It says : " fforasmuch as many usefull lawes have 
" been and are in force for the presen,-ation of lymber, notwith- 
" standinge which many prsons mindinge their private lucre doe 
"w'l'in the county destroy and grubbtheirwoods without leavingc 
" standoUs accordinge to Lawe and olhermse offend in destroyinge 
" the same, web beinge taken notice of and p'senteil by the Grand 
" Inquest for this County alt this Assizes This Cort doth referr 
"& recomend a business of soe publique concernment to the 
"Justices of the peace att their next pubijqne Q' Sessions to 
" consider & by such waies as they shall find Just to encourage 
"some ffitt prsons to inquire out & prosecute accordinge lo 
" Lawe li Justice such as doe or shall offend in the ptmisses." 

Admiral Blake captured the Spanish Treasure Fleet off Cadi/, 
9th September, 1656. Can this order refer to the wholesale and 
careless felling of timber for ship building? Is there any record 
upon the subject relating to this or any previous period, and to 
the particular localities referred to ? W.W.R. 

317. Curious Inxident IN THE Cmi. War. — The recent 
viaitofthe Somerset Archaeological, &c., Society to the neighbour- 
hood of Watchet, may lend an interest to the following extract 
from the work mentioned in I. v, zio. 

"The King's party in Walis, had sent a Ship from thence to 
Watchtt ; what its Loading was is not mentioned, but the Tide 
being at Ebb, and the passage for Horse made thereby com- 
modious, Captain Papkam's Troop, then on the Coast, rode into 
the Sea, and attacked the Men a board with a brisk Fire from their 
Carbines, which soon did such Execution among the W<kh 
Gentry, that they did their utmost to weigh and be gone, but 
Papham's Troopers plyed them so thick with their Carbine Shot, 
that, to save their Lives, they Surrendered the Ship and themselves. 
The greatest Rarity of all which is, that a Ship in the Sea was 
taken by a Troop of Horse ; for the Troopers rode into the WatiT, 
their Horses Breast deep, to come near enough to fire effectually 
at the Enemy.'' Someksetiensis. 

318. Branscombr. — The curve of the shore, where the 
Chesil Beach joins the Isle of Portland, is currently called Brandy 
Cove. 1 have been assured that this is a corruption of Branscombe 
Cove, and that it signifies the Cove of the Valley of Burning. 
The explanation of this is that a light was kept burning there at 
night in old times — a primitive lighthouse. Now, in Mr. Rogers' 
delightful .WcMono/'j of the Wcsl an inland village of the samt 
name is interpreted lo mean Raven's Dell. Which is right ? 

H. J. MouLE, Dorchester. 



223 Somerset &• Dorset Notes &• Qturits. 

319. SouERTON Erlf.igh. — G^J^^^LLK Eastrurt. — I shaD 1 
lie obliged for further information concerning an exchange of 
I.-mds effected by William Howe and his wife. Mabel, of SomertoD 
Erieigh, in the year 1709. 

in the House of Commons' Journals of 10, tj, i+. 15 Feb., 
11. 14 March, and 11, zi April, of that year, a bill is staled toj 
have been brought in and passed to " sell manor of Gunvilla.l 
Eascbury als Tarrant Gunville, and to settle other lands of eqoalfl 
value for the uses said Manor stood limited, in lieu thereof." fl 

Who was William Howe, and when did he die ; what was hltj 
wife's maiden name, and has an] one a copy of said bill ? 

E, A. Fry, King's Norton. 

[A copy of the Act above referred to. transcribed from the.l 
origrinal roil, may probably be obtained on application i 
House of Lords. The fee is reduced in favour of a li 
enquirer. — Ed. Dor.set.] 

320. SfLi'iiATE OF Baryt.i, — Can any of your readers in fom 
me if this valuable mineral is found in Dorset or Somerset ? 

E. R. Dale, F.S.S 

321. Verses Inscribed in Books. — I have recently mel 
with the following imperfect lines inscribed in a volume in thej 
possession of one of the peasantry. 

hand and pen 

God give her grace therein 10 look 
And when the bell for her do toll. 
Lord Jesus Christ, receive her soul. Amen. 
Can any of your readers supply the omitted portions .-' 

J. Cross. J 

[These lines appear to be a medley of two distinct sets e 
verses. One may be seen written by a former parish clerk at th^ 
8ih page of the Glanvilles Wootton Register Book. 
■' Thomas Lane his hand and peen, 
God safe him from y= lion's Denn, 
And when the bell for him doth tool, 
Lord Jesus Christ, receive his sole ; Amen. 
RL'member well and bear in mind, 
A faithful friend is hard to find. 1707." 

The other set of verses is well-known. I take the foUowi 
example from a copy of " A Dissertation on Reading [he Classi( 

1713." 



Smursti (5- Dorut Notes S- Queries. 



k 



339 



"Thomas Compton his Book, 

God give him Grace therein to look, 

Not to look but to understand. 

That Learning is better than House or Land, 

For when Land is gone and Money is spent, 

Learning is most exceUent," 
"Thomas Compton his Book, 1748." 

Edit. Dorset.] 

332. \R\iA OF THE DiocBsE OF Sarum. — Is the Coat of 
Arms of the Diocese of Sarum strictly fixed in al! its details ? 
What is the origin of Diocesan Coats of Arms ? 

C. 

323. Abbot Gilbert, OF Bruton. — In Gasquel's "Henry 
VIII. and the English Mothisuries," Vol, IL, p. 328, we find Dr. 
William Gilbert, — Abbot of Bruton (and Vicar of South Petherton), 
Suffragan to Bishop John Clerk, of Bath and Wells, — styled 
" Bishop of Mayo in Ireland." 

In Collinson. Vol. L. p. 114, he is designated " Episcoptis 
Maj<irens:s, (or Bishop of Megara,)" 

Cassan, in his " Lives of the Bishops of Bath and Welis," Pt. 
L, pa. 4+6, refers to him as " Willelmum Abbatem de Bruton 
Ma^'orensem Episcopum." 

I should like to know whether he really took his title from 
Mayo in Ireland, or from Megara, which town is, 1 believe, in 
Greece, and gives its name to a station on the railway between 
Athens and the sea coast. His arms, together with the Abbot's 
cap and pastoral staff, appear on one of three shields on the south 
aide of the Vicarage House at South Petherton ; the two other 
shields bearing the two distinct cognizances of the noble house of 
Mohun, which were adopted by the Abbey of Bruton. 

These shields were transferred to their present site on the 
demolition of the old Rectory barn some 50 years ago, which barn 
was doubtless built during Abbot Gilbert's tenure of office. 

2. 

324. A Plan of Dorset. (I. v. 131. vi, i8i.) — Mr, W. G. 
Boswell-Stone's explanation that the "Plan of the County of 
Dorset," described by Mr. G. E. Eliot, was not an official publica- 
tion, acounls for the discrepancy between it and certain facts 
within my knowledge. 

I know for certain that there was in the " war-time " a tele- 
graph station at Wyke Regis, another on Blandford Race-down, 
and a third on High Stoy. Neither of these occurs on the Plan. 
How is this, I wonder ? I have asked for information as to the 
actual sites of telegraph stations in the County of Dorset, but 
, have not as yet been favoured with replies. 

T,B.G. 



3er on the ^^ 



iced^l 



xj/> Samirsit S- Dorset Noi£s S' QuerUs. 

sag. A»a«XT Tbkrace CcLnvATrojj. — In a paper 
•bow* »it^irt. read, not long since, at a meeting of the Cymmm- 
■loriba SooetT. hy Mr. t^wrcnce Gomme, that accomplished folk- 
loR staileBt slated thai he " thought it might be shown with some 
liegiee of pteci$ioa that the sjstem of cultivation, adopted hy the 
^iU-Baes of Britain, was primarily that which is known as 
■• Teitacc Cultivation." The result of his investigations into this 
BuCBer led hitn lo the conclusion that, in some forms of this terrace 
oalnvaiiaa. we have the remains of Iberic or non-Aryaa races of 
BritaifL 

In this opinion he was supported by no less an authoiil 
than Mr. Seebohm. and his very valuable paper is here notice _ 
Qot simpiv for its own sate, but in order to direct the attention of 
ubstrvers in Somerset and Dorset, to (he fact that evidence of the 
fonner existence of many such terraces is not wanting in their 
own counties ; and, moreover, to snggest that possibly some 
acceptable data may be obtained for Mr. Gomme by a collation of 
the circomstances under which they are to be found amongst 
It is nndcrstood that the above-named gentleman is engaged 
prepadng a special work on this subject. 

2. 
3a6. DoKSET Topography, 1579. — Gough, in his " Brii 
Topt^aphy" Vol, i, page 310, states, " in the British Museum 
a short anonymous description of some places in Dorset, 1571 
fmjuemly quoted by Mr. Hutchin^s." Can any reader give me 
clwe to the title and description of tlie work, and whether it is 
aaauscript ? The particulars given by Cough are so bald ar_ 
\«pte thai 1 have failed to find it in the British Museum Libratr.l 
W. Miles Barnes, Monklon Rectory. Dorchester.' 

3HJ. "Co TO Pot." — The following extract is from " 
Mk^0ttl htrltigrHetr I'mpar/i'ally eommunkatins martiall ctffait\. 
rktSmfimtf En^Md" Saturday, Aug. g, 1645. "There M 
jliU MM* uid more robberies about London, the two Esse^ 
iA««H««R haa^. thats good newes; he in Hartfordshire is to^ 
.B*»ti* pot Otgallowes also; this is the way to make the county 1 
:)tM())l» »» aJl sood. when they may enjoy their estates and trade. ' 
lMto«p*i«e>he origin of the slang expression, "Go topoti'* 
W. Miles Barnks, Monklon Rectory, Dorchester. 
jIAl Tut «RU "Serv,vnt" in Old Docuuknts.— la 1 
IJiiged* «Ht WUh «tf the 16th and 17th centuries, it is not unusual J 
. .._ I .-,. . -^.n — .M/appliedtopersonsevidently holdingagood ' 
• iTsst-nnce. " H. H.. gent", servant to Sir R. V^ 
^ ^ousin and servant." Can any readersof the I 
:uform rae what particular office was filled by 

u. B. Paul, Langport. 



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Somerset S" Dorset Notes &• Queries. 251 

339. Epitaph on as Infant. — In Beckingion Clmrchyard 
there is the following epitaph : 

A. S. B., 

Died 14th January, 184.0. 
Aged to days- 
The cup of life, jiist to her lip, she prest ; 
Found its taste bitter; and denied the rest. 
Averse, then turning from the light of day, 
She softly sigh'd her little life away. 
The version I have generally heard, and which seems to me 
I the better version, is : 

fc^^ Just to her lips the cup of life she pressed, 

^^^^ Found the taste bitter and refused the rest. 

^^^1 Then gently turning from the face of day, 

H She sweetly smiled her little soul away. 

It has been suggested to me that Southey is the author of 
this epitaph. Can any of your readers tell me who is the author, 
or any other instances of its being used ? 

J. B. Medley. Lullington Rectory. 

330. Memorial Tablets to Intruded Ministers.— In 

the Church at Norton -sub- Ham den there stiil exists a small brass 
plate on the N. side of the Communion Table, bearing the follow- 
ing inscripiicm : 
I Heke lyes the Body op Beniamin 

^_ Collins M" of Arts Borne at 

^^^K Ne^'bery the z6th of Iancary 

^^^B A° t6ij WHO WAS Minister of 

^^H Gods Word at Norton under 

^^H Hamddfn 14 veares and 

^^^1 Dyed the i6'ih of Aprill 



Mr. Collins was appointed to this living o 
y the Parliamentary Commissioners, According li 



displaced incumbent. Dr. Samuel Seward, who held the Rectory 
of Norton conjointly with the Vicarage of Yeovil, had suffered 
much persecution on account of his loyalty to the King, and his 
attachment to the Church. The same authority adds that " the 
crue! usage he met with, in a little time broke his spirits and his 
health, and put an end to his life."* 

We learn from a note at pa, 153 of Weaver's " Somersei 
Jnctmbtnts" that, according to Calamy, Benjamin Collins was a 
schismatic preacher who had crept into {irrrpsU) the above benefice, 

•■' Sufferings, &C.," Fol. Ed. 1714, pa, 369, 



332 



Somtrsit <S* Dorset Notes S* Que 



but who, after the resloration, was y»rM!f('M ejected, because he 
refused to conform to the Church as then by law established. 
This appears to have been a mistake, since, unless he had 
remained in charge until his death, (which took place moreover 
before the "Black Bartholomew,") he would scarcely have been 
buried in the Chancel of the Church. His successor. John 
Allanibridge, was instituted on the gth of June of the same year, 
on the presentation of the Lady Anna Beauchamp. 

In Pendomer Church, a few miles distant, also at the N. side 
of the Communion Table, on a tablet of white marble let into the 
wall, we find a similar memorial : 

Here - Lveth - The - Bo 

DY - OF - Thouas - Long* 

Clarke -of - Pendomer 

Who - DiEu - the - jsth - Dav 

OF - Ianvaky - Ano - 1658. 

MORS - MIHI - LVCRVM. 




His death occurring before the restoration, and whilst in Uic 
enjo}-menl of his living, of course accounts for the absence of his 
name in Calamy, and there is the usual hiatus in Mr. Weaver's 
" Simtnti Inaimien/s." for some years prior to the year 1660. 

[ should be glad to know if similar examples of exisliog 
memorials to " intruded ministers " are at all common in this 
county. 

Somerset Editor, 

331. Grant of Arus to John Skutt. — The following is 
a Grant of Arms 10 John Skutt, of Siawnton, co, Somerset, dated 
nth November, 15+6, j8th Henry VHI, from Christopher Barker.f 
Garter principal king of Arms, and now in my possession. The 
MS. is engrossed on vellum, measuring igj inches by iij. It has 
an illuminated border, with the Tudor rose within the Garter, 
crowned; also fleurs-de-lys and floriated scrolls of colours and 
gold in the style of the medieval illuminations, but showing a 
visible decadence in the art. The arms and crest are given in 
ktm siie and proper tinctures at the side. Within the medieval 
-^— »-l T at the commencement is a full length portrait of Barker 

Hi i> infeiTCil ibnt his name was l^ng, and that 'Clarke' here meant 
Jtmrn' b«<*uae ia the East wall, behiaU the Cotnmunion Table, there exists a 
t«\ auda t>bkt to & wiUow named Longe, probably his mother, bearing tha J 
ilaM t«tS> 

K^(<H»(^l*' BaricCT was successively Calais aa'l Rouge DraEO" Puisniv« 

. rjL^TTl^ — " '^ auti Gorier king of Aims. He was knighied I 

UH«t VUL. *mX i&staUtU Knij^ht cf the Unlb it the coron;ilion of Edward V 



1 



Somtrut 6* Dorut Notts &> Qutrits. 333 

as king of anns, wearing a crown, also a tabard bearing the anns 
of France and England quarterly. In his right hand he holds a 
staff pointing to the coat of amis, and with his left hand, raised, 

Eoints to the grant. A similar figure of Barker is engraved in 
lallaway's "Enquiry into the Origin and Progress of Heraldry." 
It appears from Anstis' " Colt, of Heraldry " that grants of arms were 
made about this lime — for a consideration — by an order of Charles 
Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, Earl Marshall, "to temporall men, 
which be of good and honest reputacion, able to roayntayne the 
state of gentleman." Grants to Bishops and Abbots were at a 
higher rate, but to "every temporall man having one hundreth 
markes by the yeare in land or fees, £b 13s. 4d. ; others being 
of substance under the same valour in land or goods, £i> ; of them 
that be worth in land and goods a thousand marks, ^s-" 

Not much seems to be known of the family of Sku:t. The 
following inscription is found at Stanton Drew. " Here lyeth the 
body of Anthony Skutt, Esq'- ob. y'*" January 1587." Martha, 
daughter and coheir of Anthony Skutt, of Stanton Drew, married 
Sit John Cooper, of Rockborne, Hants. He died in t6io. 
Through this marriage their grandson, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 
first Earl of Shaftesbury and his descendants, quarter the Skutt 
arms. There was a family of Skutt settled at Warminster, Wilts. 
Joane, a daughter of Edward Skutt, of this place, married about 
1620, a son of the noted Henty Hastings, of Woodlands, co. 
Dorset. There seems also to have been a colony of this family 
at Poole, CO. Dorset. No less than sixteen Mayors of this name 
filled the office between i6zi and 174.3. 

The document is signed by Barker as "C.B. als gartier " 
The labels remain, but his two seals have disappeared. It is 
copied verbatim, in the quaint phraseology of the day. 

I. E. Nightingale. Wilton, Salisbury. 

"To all true christen people these present letters hereing or 
Seinge Xpofer Barker esquier als Garter principall king of armes 
of Englesshemen Sendethe due and humble recommendacion 
and gretenge. Equite willethe and reason ordeinethe that men 
vertuous and of commendable disposicion and lyvenge, be by 
theire merytes and good renoume rewarded and had in perpetuall 
memory, for theire good name and to be in all places of honner 
and woursshipp amonges other noble parsons accepted and reputed, 
by shewinge of certain ensignes and tokens of vertiie honner and 
gentelnes To theniente that by theire Insauraple other shiilde the 
more perseuerauntly Jnforce them selfes to vse theire tyme in 
honnorable wourkes and vertuous dedes : whereby they might 
allso purchase and gett the renoume of auncient nobles in theire 
ligne and posteriiee. | And therefore J the foresayde Garter 
principall king of armes as aboue saide which not alonely by the 
comen vulgar fame, but allso by myn owen knowledge and by the 




power and auctorit 

annexed and altribot 

deuised ordeined aa 

the annes and cresl 

ringe viz. golde iij hyndes 

I a chefe gonis | a castell betwene 

: I a crane rysing asure { beki 

aboute his neckc | and holdini 

golde slyppted wt the leves vert | S< 

goals I Mantell gouls lyned argent 

plainly appereihe depicted in th 

to hmde the sa^de armes and crest va 

atui bis posteritee, w' theirc due difiereni 

I a> his honner for euermore | Jn wiue 

-Wwr principal! king of arms as abouesajK 

rsr-cots »' tnjTi owen hande and theretm 

- a-B office and allso the Seale of myn aimi 

t ■J''* iAj of Nouember Jn the yete of i 

wn; ;<" the Reign of our Souuerain LoK 

~t K^nceofGod Kingof Englandefihiant 

.'k itK fttthe and in earthe of the churct 

bed I the xxrviij"" yere." 



,""SK!ti. — This MS., now preservied i 
.-.ITT. is a very neat quarto of 15 
;■. of various dales. The body < 
. .val saint, which was afierwan! 
J^me. The other portions wet 
- '^me of Ethetwaid appears as a 
'n>rked into the initial words < 



of the book. 



Somerset S- Dorset Notes S- Queries. 



235 



Then comes the main part of the book, which consists of 
99 leaves or from eighteen to twenty lines in a page. It is a very 
neat square ecclesiastical hand of the inth Century, with some 
later corrections to be found occasionally. This is the Li'der 
Elktlwaidi Episcopi. and contains a Passio, or account of the 
Passion and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ taken from the 
four Gospels. Each Passio has a beautifully illuminated frontis- 
piece of the Evangelist, with the Evangelic symbol underneath. 
At the end there is a prayer, the initial letter of each line forming 
the word Ethelwald. 

This is followed by fourteen morning hvmns and prayers. 
The fourth, which is on f. +3 a and b. is entitled HANC 
LURICAM LODING CANTABIT TER IN OMNE DIE. 
This is in large uncial letters, and the hymn appears to be the 
lorica of Ladkenus or Lathacan Scoligena. There is an inter- 
linear and contemporary Anglo-Saxon gloss of all the hard Latin 
words, and at the end there is a later Anglo-Saxon gloss of the 
whole. The hymn begins with the words SUFFRAGARE 
TRINITATI. It is followed immediately by the TE DEUM. 

3. At the end of the book there are twenty-eight leaves, 
written in an ecclesiastical hand of the XVth Century. It is a 
Sequentarius {sine nolo) secundum usum Ecclmae Cernensis. This 
differs in many points from the Sequences of the Church of Salis- 
bury, and should be carefully analysed as a step in the history of 
Dorsetshire Church services. 

T.S.H. 

[The thanks of the readers of S. & D. N. Gf Q. are due to 
our correspondent for the valuable sketch he has furnished of this 
most interesting MS. Some account of its earlier pages is to be 
found in Hutchins, vol. iv., p. 10, (3rd Edition,) where a brief 
indication is given of the nature of their contents, and this re- 
appears in Dugdale's Monasticon, ii., 614. The present com- 
munication has whetted the appetite. Will T.S.H. kindly supply 
t further details on a future occasion ? 
\ Editor for Dorset.] 



333. Dorset Arch^ological Monographs. — Is there no 

Archieologist. possessing leisure and horse or cycle power, who 
would undertake a booklet on Dorset Fonts, Mediaeval Bells, 
Stoups, and Crosses? Hutchins leaves much to be desired 
respeciing all these. There are not a few pre-KeformatJon Bells 
unnoticed in the last edition, and I do not see there a word about 
the remnant of Batcombe Cross or its legend. 

H. J. MoLLK, Dorchester. 



3]6 Somerut &■ Dcrstt Nottt S- Qmriis. 

334- Local Stay-at-Ho«ks, — 1 would suggest that it i . 
be worth while to collect facts about a class of people dai 
decreasing with the increase of facilities for travelling. I mei 
persons who have been for much, most, or all of their lives, qui, 
sialionaiy. I myself have met with one or two notable instanct 
of this, to me, inexplicable peculiarity ; and other correspondeol 
of S. 6f D. N. & Q. must have known more. I venture to thid 
that a collection of short — very short — narratives of oar stay-a| 
home acquaintances, specially of Somerset and Dorset, would 1 
interesting, and might throw light on what seems to me a p 
phenomenon. 

H. J. MotTLB, DOTch^i 

335. Lost Parlsh Records. — Is it possible that thj 
following quotation may suggest a clue for the recoverr of a lo^ 
register 01 churchwarden's book, here and there, up and down tlM 
coMBuy ? Hiirting, \Extincl Bnlish Animals, p. 115, &c.,) has 3 
■MetMliKg chapter, bringing down the survival of wolves ! 
KMhilil to the 14th century, and, he thinks, even to late in thi 
tsHk He cites Blaine as saying that, in certain Yorkshire placet 
ftgunvt payments of rewards for wolf-killing exist. One plao 
M^MWbr in the parish of Wtllerby. Here, however, no riic^J 
^^l^litoks teiuoin, " and it is thought probable by some of the 
Jll^BM* ■ • - that Churchwardens in past days, having left theJr 
taHiari f*"^ ^ other parishes, lock the pamh bookx wi'lk Ihem." 
H. J. MoDLE, Dorchesle 

^( Jtfiatwxows Custom at Blandford. — I lately 
.amMiBms^ -thkie, 1 believe, on the authority of Bishop Bv 
^_ jKn: «** ■» custom in the papal times, to ring bells « 
_ ^s^r^W ivr all Christian souls," at Blandford Forum, i 
-j^ m j-r- letups some reader of •' S. &• D.N. & Q." woul 
y.^ ^ «JWt&«i any relic, traditionary or otherwise, of t' 
- « 4iU in existence. 



Shbpton Mallet. — Mr. G. Milnetj 
, of Hardwick House, Suffolk, has I: 
' • ^digree of a branch of the family t 
^- its connection with the Cullumt g 
: nted on a sheet, and presented to il 
f S. S-D.X. &■ Q. Since it w 
jrs have been ascertained. Oft 
.'i- and Rebecca Crispe, Rebeccas 
.i. He died in 1643. Thomas wa 
.->}7. William = Elizabeth Cholmelfl 



I 



Somtrset S- Dortet Notes S- Qutrus. 237 

Elizabeth =^ T. Herlackenden, 9th Sept., r65i. and was buried ist 
July, 1681, and her husband was buned »ist July, it)89. Mafy= 
R, Hoiwonhy, 16th Feb., 1651-3, and married, secondly, her first 
cousin EsscY Strode, son of William Strode, of Harrington. Philip 
was merchant, of London; will pr. joth March, 1660-r. Oi. t.p. 
Judith, daughter of Sir Nich. Strode, was bapt. ziit Nov., 166], 
and buried loth Dec, 1663. His son. Sir George, married, ist. 
Margaret Davis, who was buried 15th Oct., 1686, t.p. Ditching- 
ham should be Etchingham, Sussex. Sir Nich. Strode, by his 
second wife, had one son, Savile Strode, of Smyrna. Admon. 
aSth Jany, 1691-1, Francis, brother of William Wyndham, 
married Mary. dr. of Edward Strode, of Downside, and their 
mother was Jane, dr. of William Strode, of Harrington. Below 
are given abstracts of Wills which support the pedigree. 

jEFFEkvE Uppton. of Wonntnster, co. Somerset, Esq. (P.C.C, 
15 Rowe.) Will dated 14th Jan., 1581, proved 4th May, 1583, by 
Ed«-d- Orwell, proctor for Geo. Upton, the son. To the Cathedral 
Church of St. Andrew. Wells, las. To the Church of St. Cuth- 
bert's. Wells. los. Poor of Wells. 40s.. and to the poor of the 
Almshouses there, los. To my wife, Mary Uppton, all my lands 
in Otrey St. Mary, Devon, and Gyllingham, Dorset, for life, with 
an annuity of £io. and also the lease of my house in which I 
dwell, with the use of my plate, &c. To my brother, Richard 
Uppton, my b.;st sealing ring. To my four daughters, Thomazjne 
Hevs, Elizabeth Strowde, Mary Pike, and Suzann Uppton, £to 
eac)i. To my son-in-law, Isaak Uppton, the lease of my house in 
the Close of Wells, sometime a Canon's house, also my lease of 
the Woods of East Horrington, which I hold from Sir John Thin. 
To my son, George Upplon, the lease of my grounds and woods 
called Chellwood. To my godson, Jcffer)'e Gorye. the younger, 
zos. To my servant, Alice Strowde. £i 13s. 4d., at day of 
marriage. Mr. Dr. Bisse to preach my funeral sermon, to whom 
zos. Residue to my son George Upplon, sole exor. Wit. Isaak 
Uppton. Robt. Casbeard. 

In the margin of the Register are the arms of Upton, viz.. 
Sable, on a cross moline argent a eftsctnt of Ikr t si for difference. 

[A short abstract of this Will is given in Rev, F. Brown's 
First Series of Somerset Wills, page 7.] 

Jkfferv Strode, of Shepton Malleti, co. Somerset, gent. 
(P.C.C. 8 Clarke.) Will dated 4th Dec. 22 Jac I., proved 31st 
Jany. 1614-5. To the poor of Shepton Mallet, 40s,, and to the 
Church of Shepton Mallet. 20s. To my wife, Sarah, ^^50, and 
three stiver bowls, two of which were given at the christening of 
her sons. Edward and Josias, and the other given by her father. 
To my son, William Strode, my sealing ring of gold. My lease 
of a tenement, &c., in Huishe to my brothers, George Strode, 
[afterwards Sir George, and brother-in-law of Sir ThoB. Cullum, 



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To 



chant, £s°°> he also to be one of my Trustees or Overseers. 
the Church of St. James, ClerkenweJI, j^ioo, if they set up or 
piatit the whole ring of bells in the steeple they intend to erect, 
and not oiherwise. To mv kinsman, Robert Tilly, ^10. All my 
freehold lands in Sussex to my son. Sir Nicholas Strode, 
Barrister-al-Law, and his heirs male. He to be sole exor. Will 
confirmed 5th Feb., i66i-i, after striking out legacies formerly 
intended to be given to Margaret, Elizabeth, and Anne, three 
daughters of mv son, William Strode, deceased. Wit. Edwd, 
Shehon. John t)avis. Robert Tilly. 

John Strode, of St. Margaret's, Westminster, co. Midd., 
Esq. (P.C.C. 81 Lloyd.) Will dated 15th March, 1686. proved 
i8lh June, (686, by Mary Strode, the relict. I give ail my estate, 
real and personal, to my wife, and I make her sole ex"- Wit. 
Ka. Strode. Walter Braems. John Norwood. 

[The testator was Col. John Strode, Govr- of Dover Castle. 
He was nephew of the first Sir Thomas Cullum's wife. He 
married Mary, daughter of John Saviie, Esq., of Methley, Yorks. 
Their only surviving child, bavilia, married her cousin, Thos, 
Cullum. of Ealing. The witness, Katherine Strode, was own 
sister of Mary Saviie, and wife of Sir Nicholas Strode, own 
brother to the above John.] 

Thomas Cdllum. of Ealing als Zealing, co. Midd,, Esq. 
{P.C.C. 27 Tenison.) Will dated 10 Nov., 1717, proved 3rd Feb., 
1717-8, by Savilla Cullum. To my wife, SaviUa Cullum, household 
stuff, plate, coach, horses, &c. To my daughter, Anna Cullum, 
the furniture of my best chamber, as the same was given to her 
mother Curtis, my former wife. My 8 messuages in Bow Lane 
and Turn bare Lane in the parishes of St. Thomas Apostle and St. 
Mary Aldermary, and lands, &c., to my friend and kinsman. Sir 
Dudley Cullum, Bart., and my brother-in-law, Abraham Foster, 
of Eltham, co. Kent. Esq., in trust, which messuages are charged 
with j^iooo as a portion for my said daughter Anna Cullum. I 
confirm the settlement made on my marriage with my now wife, 
Savilla. My daughters, Savilla and Katherine, to have portions 
of ^1000 each. It is pretended that I am indebted to my brother 
Jasper, but it is false, and is, in fact, the other way. Residue to 
my wife Savilla, sole exi*' Wit. Hugh Watson. Thos. Parker. 
Wm. Staples. 
L (To be continued.) 



338. The Biwds of Dorsetshire, a Contribution to the 
Natural History of the County, by J. C. Mansel-Pleydeil, B.A., 
F.L.S.. F.G.S.. &c. Published for the Author by R. H. Porter, 
6, Tenterden Street, London, W., and M. & E. Case, Dorchester. 
ri888.] Pp, xvi., 179. With Illustrations, and a View of the 
Swannery at Abbotsbury. 



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340. The Daubenev Tomb in South Petherton 
Church. — When Symonds, the Cavalier Diarist, was quanered 
with his troop, " The King's Guards," at South Petherton, in the 
autumn of 16+4, he noticed among other things, 

" Upon a flat stone in the South cross yle (of the church),* 
the picture of a woman and this inscription in brasse, two shields, 
both gone. 




In the middle of the same South yle stands a large altar tombe, 
two foote high, four shields carved round about the sides; the 
top is fairly inlayed with brasse, the picture of an armed Knight, 
under his head the creast following and a woman. f Arched over 
thear heads. Four shields, the two first gone ; on the West end 
over ihear heads : 

DAUBSNEriJ impaling, Quarterly, I nnd 4, Azure, three dnquefolls 

between six cross-crosslels argenl ; J I and 3 Azure, tltree bais gemd 

or, a chief of Ihe laal.|{ 

QuBjterly, 1 sad 4, Azure, three cinquefoils between six cross-crosslell 

argent ; 2 and 3, Azure, 3 barsgemelor, a chief of the last. 

They call him Earle of Bridgwater. The inscription which 
was circumscribed (i>. on the edge of the ledger) is gone. 
(Here a sketch of the crest is given.) 
It consists of a Holly branch leaved and fructed. 
These verses under their feete. 

► ' sis testis Xpe q'd not! jacet hie lapis iste 

Corpus 111 ometur set spiritus ot memoretur ; 
Quisquis eris qui transicris sta pcrlege plora. 
Sum q'd eris fueramq' q'd es, pro me prccor ora.' "1 
The above tomb and brasses are still in iiiil, and pretty much 
as Symonds left them. The first of the two shields having how- 
ever disappeared, together with the brass canopy "arched over 

•The Chapel of our Lady in the South Transept. 

t Viilt lUustralion on opposite page. 

iOalei, four fusils conjoined in fess, argmt. (RalTAlbiiu, 3d Ric. I., bore "An 
quatre fucces en fusee.") J Darcy. | ^IeiI:dl]. 

5" Diary | «/ tht | Martkn of He Rtyal Amy | rfMrinj lAe gnat Citil War, 
fc.," pa. loi. [Camden Society, 1659,} 



Soiiicrut &• Dorset Notes &• Qutrtei, 343 

Shire for Somerset in 14^41 3nd again in 1428, he seems to have 
occupied the position of a representative country gentleman of 
high degree, in the feudal age. Claiming a common origin with 
the Dukes of Normandy, and the Kings of England of that line, 
with the Dukes of Norfolk and Rutland, and many other dis- 
tinguished families, he was both descendant and ancestor of some 
of the noblest blood in England, his grandson being the 
illustrious Lord Daubeney (also a South Petherton man) of whom 
we read so much m Lord Bacon's " Life n/ King Henry the 
Sevnlh." He died at Barrington, co. Somerset, and. by his own 
desire, was buried, as we have seen, in the Lady Chape! at South 
Petherton. 

In the following section Sir Giles Daubeney's Will is given 
verbatim. 

For the drawing of his tomb, which forms the frontispiece to 
onr first volume, we are indebted to the pencil of Mr. Roland W. 
Paul, the author of " Incised and Sepukkral Slabs of N.W. 
Somerset"; and for the accompanying figures we have to thank 
Mr. Hamilton Rogers, who lias most kindly permitted the use of 
blocks illustrating his charming " Memorials of the Wesl." 
_ Somerset Editok. 

341. ^SiK Giles Daubrney'.s Will, 1445. ^Stafford, fe. 

134 4.) — Teslm Egidii Daubeney Militis. — In nomine dni Amen, 

lercia die marcij Anno dm Miflimo cccc*"" xliiijto Ego Egidius 

Daubeney miles Condo teslm meum in hunc modum It lego aiam 

meamdeoetbeatemarieetomibzsanctisetcorpusmeumadsepelienii 

in ecciia sancti pet' .^//lapud Southpeterton ante altare sanctemarie 

It y ordeyne a Cope of blew ffeiewet wt chesibell and ij. Tyneclis 

wl the Aubes yerto It y wol ther be a blak sywete of vestementea 

yeffyn and all lo serue at the amer of our lady It my beat 

masseboke w' a chalys a paxbred of syluer and ouer gilt Also Ij 

cruwettes of Syluer a corperas* It to the said Anter y wol )'eue 

my autercloth of Red tarteron w' the curtejTis It y ordayne to ye 

church of Baryngton my vestementes of blak ffelewel w' an 

autercloth of blak and grene It y wol yt in as short lyme as goodly 

maybe do said for my sowleaM' masses iT y wol therbedct)*dde 

X TOJ^K. at myn enterement among pore men It vij gownes to vij 

pore men It vij beddes to vij bedred men and euery bed a marleras 

f Epeyre of blankettes a peyre of shites a couerlet It y wol that the 

f prisoner's of yeuelchestre haue a noble lo parte among them lt_v 

I wol the ffreres of yeuelchestre have a qart ivhete a q^rt matt it 

[the ffreres of brigg-water 1 qart whete i qart malt It to the 

Pwakyng of an hous for iiij pore men y wol ther be setle x maic 

^S y wo! ther be departed to iiij pore clerkes viij mnrP for to helpe 

Tthem to scolay Ityyeueto the Nunncs of Brodholme sxs. to 



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an hangyng chaundeler of laton My standard to tru3se yn thos 
that y haue ordeyned to him And my Wille is that yis standard 
wt these yinges abone writen therin be putte in sum sure Abbay 
in heping and the keye in his moders warde the other in his 
godfadres Sir William more and so to abide in saffe garde to he be 
of age of xvj yere And yf god do his Wille of him or he be of 
that age yanne y wol these goodes aforesaid go to my next childe 
yf god sende me ony And yf none be y wol myn Executoura 
selle all this to him ordeyned And do for my sowle It y wol 
that Jahn my doughter haue all my stuffe beyng at Cotom in y' 
kepingof Jhanet Boteler, the whichejs writen in a endenture w* 
al that is in my ffermers endentur It y wol Thomas my Brother 
haue a bedde of red grene and white wt courteyns costours A 
matras a paier of blankctles a paier of shites a coiielet a gowne 
of myn furred wt an hode a doublet a playn pese keuered a Saler of 
syluer a Maser a poudrebox It to John Roller y ordayne a 
bedde of red and grene a gowne a hode a doublet of defens It 
to Thomas Datibeney y ordayne a gowne a hode a doublet 
of defens a salade an horse ll to Gilles Parker a gowne 
a doublet of defens a salade an horse a sadell and all 
my longe bowes a bedde It to Hugh parker y ordeync 
my geobbes my galon hotels all my voyde pipes a pleyn pese of 
Syluer kouered It I ordayne to Wiilnm Clerk a doublet of defens 
a salade a sbef of Arwes It to Water Champeneys a wodeknyff 
hameysed A shef of Arwes an Arblast of stile It to WilUm 
Semer a potte a panne my WajTi yokes and Ropes It to Sir 
Robt Clake my blak masseboke my little sawter^^kouered wl red 
lether ij Chaundelers of laton for_ the Chapell It to John Peny 
a Rynge of gold^wt a Turkays It to Willam Molyns a poudrebox 
of maser gilt It to John Welwelon a gret cofre that shites lye 
ynne a paier of polel hotels a flat pese kouered It to John 
Downam my litel cart and iiij hemes yerto It to Stephen a 
doublet of defens a salade a sheffe arwes a wode knyf It to 
Richard ffouler an Arblast at Kampston and al my brewyng 
vessell It to Sir Willam More a paier of bedys of Coralls wt a 
Rj-nge It to euery yoman in houshold nought rewarded vjs. viijd. 
And to euery grome iijs. iiijd. It my Wille is yt my wyf be my 
Chef Execntrice Sir Roger Houswyf Syr William More* John 
Wjiecombe John Roller John Peny thes to be myn Executours And 
to euery of hym [jj'c] c.s. that taketh ministracion It I wol that 
al my purchaset londes that is to sey in Sowpeterton Compton and 
Barj-ngton go to the yssue of me one Alice my wiff geten And if 
none y wol hit go to my dowter Johnne Markam and to the yssue 
of her body begete And for fawte of issue of Johane to WilUm 
my sone and hayer and to his hayres Al be hit so that the said 
syr Giles Daiibeney Knyght maked this said testament wrote hit 



name of Cold Harbour in England, and about a dozen bearing 
the cognate name Caidkol, Cold-cot, a collage, den — rough-and- 
ready stations for the reception of travellers on their long and 
perilous Journeys. There is no reason to suppose that these cold 
stalions extended back to time anterior to the Roman period, 
but that they existed after that period. This supposition is 
Strengthened by a Cold Harbour and a Col/ordon the Anglo-Saxon 
OfTa's Dyke. The Cold Harbour on the Wareham and Bere Regis 
main-road shows no connection with a Roman settlement or road. 
Cold Harbour at Northlield, in Kent, is where Cssar bivouaced 
in his invasion of Britain, and at Col Arbhar he encamped the 
night previous to his last battle, when he attacked Carwallen'a 
capital between the rivers of Darwent and Cray. Harput Lane, 
near Bingham's Melcombe, is on the military road, the hen-path 
which passed under the fortress of Bulbarrow, as it debouched 
into the Vale of Blackmore. The Cel of Colchester is derived 
from the river Coint which Bows by the city. A Roman legion was 
stationed there for the protection of the colony, cohnia. 

J. C, M ANSEL- Pleydell, Whatcombc, 

343, Monolith on Batcombe Hnx. (I, vii. 313,)— As a 
reply to C.H.M., I venture to quote myself, writing in the Folk 
Lore Journal, No. for Jan. to March, 1889, p. zs-> ^^ follows: — 

" On Batcombe Down. Dorset, is a stone about three feel 
high, evidently part of a cross, and called Cross Hand Stone. 
Why shouid a cross be set up, away there on the down ? Well, 
this • be tiale twold o't.' Back in the middle ages, one dark, wild 
winter night, Batcombe priest was sent for, to take the viaticum 
to a dying man, two or three miles off. Taking pyx and service- 
book, he sallied out with a brave heart on his dark, lonely way 
over Batcombe Down, and safely reached the sick man's house. 
But on getting in, and producing what was needed for his 
ministration — ^Where was the pyx } It was lost. He had dropped 
it on the way. and its fall on the turf of Batcombe Down — in the 
howling wind too ! — had not been heard. Back he toiled, into the 
darkness and the storm, on his almost hopeless quest. Hopeless '( 
The easiest search ever made. Up on Batcombe Down there was 
a pillar of fire, reaching from heaven to earth, and steadily 
shining in the storm. What could this be ? He straggled on 
faster and faster, with strange, half-formed hopes. He came 
near to the spot over which stood the calm beam in the gale. 
He saw numbers of cattle of various kinds, gathered in a circle — 
kneeling — kneeling round the pyx." 

"Well, this seems to me to be the medisval legend, render- 
ing a reason for Batcombe Cross being set up there, away on the 
down, where, though time-worn, it yet remains. But {mc judice) 
in the last century a rider was added, as follows ":— 



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i^S S omtrsfi S- Dorul Notts £• Qutri*i. 

"^Tte pdnt vas much astounded at what he saw, ret not so 
■■eb so bac thai he obsen-ed among ttie live-stock a black horse, 
fclMllng. indeed, like the rest, but only on one knee. The prieit 
mad Q» ifais tokewann beast, ' Why dont you kneel on both knees, 
OtetlteDnt? 'Wouldn't kneel ai all if I could help it.' 'Who, 
dtaBb am «oa ? ' ' The devil.' ' Why do yon take the form of a 
ftaOK?* *^ thst men may steal me, and get hung, and I get 
Wttof Aeoi. Got three or four already.' " 

"* I M» indebted to the Rev. C. R.Baskett* for this legend. 
^feato»aelhne of a pinnacle belonging, indeed, to Batcombe 
O^Rb lover, bat which can by no means be made to stand in 
^gfc« Aereoa ' since conjuror Minteme's horse kicked it oS.' 
tt^ wim MMBpts to erect the pinnacle have been made of late 

H. J. MoLXS, Dorchester. 

JM> U'y t><>t tliis monolith mark the point aronnd which 
Arv^^HCoc meeting of the Hundred of Siane assembled? In 
ite iaf^»tir Gi^i^i " Dsnita mention is made of the Hnndred of 
^■i^iad of the adjoining Hundred of Morberga, which appears 
^ hwt demed its n:uni- from the hill where its Court was opened, 
ia« oBed Uodbury. (Hutchins. iv. i. n.) Stone is also the 
■■■ of ame the Somerset Hundreds, and it is noticeable that 
L foemeTiy called Modiford. is one of the parishes iviihin 
&. l*ossibty a mote stone was situated there. Of the 1 
) on Mottestone Down, I. of Wight, Mr. Edmund Peel J 
ibttSTOte, 

"TBrted by Time, the solitary stone 
On ifae green hill of Mole, each storm withstood 
Grows dun, with hairy lichen overgrown." 

J. H. Wari>.1 

345. Chafe— CHAFr\-N. (I. vii. 309.)— Chafe and Chafejrl 

■re, I believe, synonymous, but distinct from ChafTyn. Thomas! 

Chafe (as staled by the Editoi at p. 2 1 5) married the daughter ar ■* " 

iidress of Edward Holeyns, of Westhall, in the parish of Foli , 

itti bj which marriage he became possessed of the Manors 

nf WeaJull. East Eype, and Binden. in the Parish of Pulhain.1 

ThrMaaM'Jf Haydon was in his possession, (tna 1661, wheth—" 

1 nriil af t^ wife or not I cannot ascertain— probably not. 

^ WW "MI ^'ni Ford was presented to the living of HaydonJ 

*~ li - "HiidSts and himself jointly. He died without male 1 

- ^ vv p«lial! »»il E^t Ej-pc, which were in the possession of 1 

- ti.--iErt;. ttlls nle llisl '''* inTonaanl was Mrs. Cocker: 
-.'.f sear Balcombe Hill and whose memary wu stc.. 
., 4cn AatI MS.of beis,iec()rdmgTale3aboiilCoiijnp 



Somerset (§• Dorset Notes cS* Queries. 349 

Henry Moleyns in 37 Elizabeth, were sold by his coheiresses or 
iheir representatives. The Manor of Bimien appears to have 
been retained, as the heiresses of Thomas ' Chafey ' held it as 
late as 1810. The Chaffyns (Chafins) held land in Folke at a 
very early date. 34 Eliz. Thomas Chafin possessed " the Bishop 
of Sarum's moiety " of the vill. In the following year he also 
appears as owner of Cheltle. In 1661 the name of Thomas 
Chafin is on a subsidy roll. On the nth November, 1583, Walter 
Chubb was instituted to the living of Folke, on the presentation 
of Thomas Chafyn, and on the 28th Sept., 1717, William Cutler 
was admitted to the same living on the presentation of George 
Chafin. The last of the name was the Rev. William Chafin, 
author of Anecdotes and Hhtory of Cranboine Chase. He was a 
keen and good sportsman. His hounds killed the last mart en -cat, 
known to have been seen in this county (Zoologist, 3rd Ser., vol. 
iii., p. 171). He died in 1818. 

It is somewhat remarkable that the two families Chafe and 
Chaffyn held Manors in the Parish of Folke, synchronously, the 
former the Manor of West Hall, the latter that of " the Bishop of 
Sarum's moiety." 

The Pedigree of the ChaSiyns (Chafins) is given in the third 
volume of Hutchins' Hisloty ff Dorset. 3rd Ed., Vol. iii., p. 565. 

The Arms of Chafe: — Az., three Fusils in fess, and a canton A. 

Those of Chaffyn {Chafin) :— G., a Talbot passant, O., a 
chief Erm, J. C, Mansel-Pleydell, Whatcombe. 

346. As some little confusion seems to exist in regard to the 
two distinct families of Chafe and Chafin, both of which were 
seated in the Parish of Folke in the 17th Century, the following 
notes from the Register of that Parish, which comprise all the 
entries relating to these families, may not be unacceptable. The 
Chafins held one undivided moiety of the Manor of Follte, from 
the reign of Elizabeth until the present century, the other 
undivided moiety being the estate of the Dean and Chapter of 
Sarum, and the lay owner usually leased the moiety which belonged 
to the Church authorities, — while the Chafes became owners of 
West Hall, in the same parish, by the marriage of Thomas Chafe, 
in 1 66i, with the heiress of Moleyns. The arms of Chafe, quar- 
tering Moleyns, are still to be seen at West Hall, and on a 
monument in Folke Church, his right to add that the Parish 
Register contains some entries of the name of Chaffey, Chaffy, 
or Chafie, a common name in this locality, possessing, however, 
no traceable connection with the Chafes of West Hall, and cer- 
tainly none with the Chafins. 

Bapiisms. 
i5i8. April 16. Bampfeild, son of Bampfeild Chafin, Esquire. 
i6zo. Aug. I. John, son of ditto. 
1624. Mch. 18. George, son of ditto (being Easter Day). 



Somersel &■ Dorset Notes &• Queries. 251 

The ages in brackets are taken from the monuments in Foike 
Church. 

One would like to know what became of Moleyns Chafe, the 
only son of Thomas Chafe, born in 1668. He probably died 
younj, but no entrj- of his burial appears in the Folke Register. 
I have a memorandum that he was admitted to Queen's College, 
Oxford, iind May, 1685. On a future occasion I may add a few 
other notes on this family from the Sherborne Register. 

Editor for Dorset. 



347. Mr. H. Symonds kindly refers to Hutchins's Dorset. 
iii-. S^Si for the Chafin Pedigree, and iv., 181, for Chafe. As to 
the former, see also Visitation of Wiltshire. 1677, printed by Sir 
T. Phillipps (Middle Hill. 185+. fol.) Visitatio Comitatus Wiltoniae, 
1613. printed by Sir T. Phillipps. Burke's Commoners, iii., 670. 
Visitation of Wiltshire, ed. by G. W. Marshall, ^x. (Marshall's 
Gtniahgist's Guide.) 

348. "Go TO Pot." (I. vii. 317.)— 'To the pot' is an 
expression which occurs in Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Act I. 
Scene 4.. where Caius Marcius, deserted by his followers, is 
represented as entering the city of Corioli a!one, and the gates 
closing in upon him. 

Manias. So now the gates are open : 

Now prove good seconds 

Marcius enters the gates. 
First Soldier. Fool-hardiness ; not 1. 
Second Soidier. Nor I. 

Marciui ts shut in. 
First Soldier. See, they have shut him in. 
AU. To THE POT, I warrant him. 

Re-tnter TiTUS Lartius. 
Lartius. What is become of Marcius ? 
AU. Slain, sir. doubtless. 

First Soldier. Following the fliers at the very heels, 

With them he enters ; who upon the sudden, 
Clapp'd to their gates : he is himself alone, 
To answer all the city. 
The expression ' To the pal' refers only to death by violence, 
Pwith no restriction as to the means employed. In the case 
I referred to by your correspondent the Gatlmvs sent the two Essex 
malefactors to the pot, whereas the sword seems to be implied by 
Shakespeare to have been the instrument by which Marcius met 
his suppos:;d fate by the Volsci. 

On the other hand the expression ' To pot,' as now used 
colloquially, refers to the moral or social ruin of any one through 
the loss of character, of social position, or of money. 




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IB najr bare onginoted from an analogy betncen the 
iBlBaL cut up into pieces for the boiling-pot. and 2 
od in mind, body, or estate — gone to pieces — as is the 

J. C. Maxsel-Plkydei-l. Whatcombe. 



31^ I believe this slang phrase has lU origin in the fact 
dK ««■> or useless metal is consigned to the melting pot; the 
aiqgadaBbeing. of course, that the person addressed is altogether 
ijUhh I' a&d should accordingly go to the * pot.' I am not 
■HM Ibat the phrase has any special reference to the gallons. 

AsothtT interpretation is that * pot ' means ' cinerary- um,' 
«49» iHpBcs a wish for the death of the individual, but this 
CUfAiaMMi seems far fetched and unlikely. 

Henry Symosjds. 

3JO. ' To th' pot ' is often found in our early dramatists, and 
B ^e mding of the Grst folio, in the controverted passage of 
Sh^brs;«Te's Coriolanus, I. 4. In George Whetstone's poem. 
*A KeskCmbtance of the woorthie and well implored Life of 
S« Skb. Bacoo. l.ord Keeper," 4to. (1579 ?). reprinted by Sir A. 
SmvcIU occurs the following line. 

" When death doth come all pleasures goe to pot." 
Tbe word pot {=puitiis ?) was generally used in a figurati\'e 
Sf^Mi Kinctimes literally. In Br. i^mitb's Lat. Diet., one of the 
aMKDJn^ assigned to ^c/'t" (nhcnce Italian /oeioj. is a dungeon 
lot s)at«s> In Psalm LV. 23., the Vulgate has pultus. the Italian 
Vcmon /*««*. In Rev. IX. 1. the Vulgaie has putrvs ahui. 

J. H. Ward. 

351. In quer}- No. 317, the word " pot " is evidently a con- 
jjjfljoijof "/iV^ff'.'the Frvnch for gallows. "Goto pot" would 
therefore be another form for ■' go and be hanged." 

LiNLEY Elathwavt, Bathcastoii. 

«a Strode OF SuEiTON Mallet. C(Jn/i«u^rf(I, rii. 337.) — 

Vc.BK Hyde, of Sunilrish, co. Kent, Esq. (P.C.C. 247 

AM«K.i WiU dated 8ih July. 17J3. proved ist Sept., 1729, by 

^ ftt^ the relict. Further admon.. 19th May, 1771, to 

iZ. -ttiiflowieW, son and sole ex'or of Mar^' Hyde, the relict 

TlT 'k*^ the said John Hyde, of goods unadmJ by her. To 

■W^*V jjCtoWinpO" and Sundrish. £$. To my youngeK 

^•*-r~j. Mi^ iBT shaie or third part of the Manor of Otford, 

■^*f*'"~3|3 »» *he same, lying in the parish of Sevenoalu, 

^"^^aTSs^fw^ M*^*"^^* *"'' tenements in Sundri^ 

"*" \^ (O the aforesaid Savell Hyde and my four daughters, 

" *^ UMlitt Savilla Hyde, Frances, wife of Richard 



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Tidmarsh. and Margartt Hyde, equally. To my son, John Hyde, 
my pyramid diamond ring and my large gold seal ring. To my 
son, Strode Hyde, ;^io for mourning, and no more, as I have 
lately given him a considerable portion. To all my other children 
^10 each for mourning. My two brothers, Wm. Hyde and Edward 
Hyde, to be trustees or overseers of my will, and to each, _£io for 
mourning. To my wife, Mary, £$0. Sole ex'ix. To my eldest 
son, John, all my pictures at Bore Place, and in my house at 
Sundrich. and all my Library of Books, Residue to my aforesaid 
son, Savcll Hyde, and my said four daughters. I desire to be 
buried in my Chancel, under my pew, in Sundrish Church, and a 
monument to be set up, over my burial place, for which ;£io. 
Wit. Mary Hyde, spr.. Thos. Waller, Wm. Bowra, George Tomlyn. 
Savile Cdllum. of Eling, Co. Midd., widow, (P.C.C. ji 
Auber.) Will dated 6th Oct., 1716, proved 4th Feb., lyiq-jo, by 
Richard Merry. To be buried in Eling Church near my husband, 
and my son and mother. My husband by will, (loth Nov., 1717,) 
divided lands, &c., to Sir Dudley Cuilom and Abraham Foster, in 
trust to make portions of ;^2ooo each for SaviUa and Catherine 
Cullum, hiii daughter by me. Anna Culkim, daughter of my 
husband, by his first wife. My daughter Savila is lately deceased, 
under age and unmarried. My niece, Mrs. Sarah Merry, wife of 
Richard Merry, of St. Michael, London, Merchant. He to be 
Ex'or. To the abovesaid Anna Cullum, to my sister-in-law Mrs, 
Hayes, and to my cousin Mrs. Horwood, wife of Mr. Horwood of 
the Heralds' Oiiice, London, 10 guineas each for mourning. To 
W"- Melmoth, of Liucolns Inn, Esq., 10 guineas. Rings of 2 is. 
each to my niece, Mrs. Merry, my niece, Mrs. Mary Scawen, my 
cousin Tryon, and her son, and his wife, the Lady Mary, my 
cousin Mary i^avili, Mr. Williams, Mrs. Aspinwall, my cousin 
Ingleby of Henwell, co. Mjdd., my cousin Hyde of Sundridge in 
Kent, and to Mrs. Eliz. Coke, the late Vice Chamberlain's 
sister, and to Mrs. Dorothy Sharp, of Stepney. To Mr. John 
Cullum, son of Sir Jasper Cullum, Bart., a gold ring with the 
Cullum arms engraved on it. Poor of Ealing, 5 guineas. Witn, 
John ffriend, John Appleyard, John King. 

Letter from Savilia Strode, (Mrs. Cullum,) to her Kinsman, 
Sir Dudley Cullum, 3^ Bart. 

feb. ye 8th, 1717. 
Sr- 

I should have ansered yo» sooner, but that I have ben much 
indisposed by y" addishon of fresh adlections aprehending I should 
have lost my eldist Girle before this time, she being dangerously 
ill fourtenn day of a feavour ; but I thank God is now past danger 
from that, if she falls not in to a consumtion of which my Dear 
Mr. Cullum dyde, she may doe very well, I am sorrie to hear 
you are troubled with so painfull a Distemper the Gravill which 



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Ray designates the Greater- Spot led Woodptuker, the 
Wilwall, and the Lesser- Spotted Woodpecker, the f/ickwall. 
Professor Newton, aided bv three philological friends. Professor 
Skeat, Mr. Bradshaw, and Mr. Aldis Wright, in the fourth edition 
of Yarrell's British Birds, vol. II. p. 461, says " WnrdjKaie or 
Woodwall may be traced from Wiiwell as proved in Hollyband's 
' Dictionarie ' cognate with the Low-Dutch Wiedrwae/, and the Old- 
German Willevaal. It is certain, whatever the second syllable 
may mean, the first is only WtJod, in old Anglo-Saxon Widu" 
The interpretation of the second can only be conjectured. Among 
others which suggest themselves is the Wall in Gadwall, which 
may refer to its noisy note for which its specific name Streperas, 
noisy.isgiven.andia equally applicable to the Woodpecker. Again, 
the sufhx Wail may possibly be cognate with the modem German 
WelU, a name to which the undulating flight of the Woodpecker 
has some resemblance. The Hick in Hickwail, already referred 
to as Ray's name for the Lesser- Spotted Woodpecker, has also a 
German aspect, Hecke being a hedge. 

It may be taken for granted the bird referred to in the 
Overseers' Accounts is the Green Woodpecker. It does seem 
unintelligible why a price should be placed on the head of 80 
harmless a bird. It is true, birds equally harmless lose their lives 
through the slayer's ignorance of their habits. I have seen 
Cuckoos nailed upon a Gamekeeper's gallows, under the impres- 
sion that they " Sock little birds' eggs to make their voice clear." 
On the other hand, " The Woodpecker tapping the hollow beech 
tree," confers a benefit on the Woodman, by thus indicating 
the faulty trees of the forest, and therefore ought to be 
preserved. 

The inhabitants of Sturminster Marshall appear to have held 
the Woodpecker in equal horror, as the inhabitants of the 
neighbouring village held the famous Crab, or Shapwick Monster. 

J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, Whalcombe. 



354. Earles-M.^n. — The Register of the Parish of Morden, 
which adjoins Charborough, where the family of Erie formerly 
resided, contains the following entry of burial : — " 161 1. William 
Lamberte, Earles man, buried xiii Januarj-." Can any of your 
readers explain the meaning of the descriptive term, EarUs-man ? 
William Lambert was parly to a Recovery of Lands at Langton, 
purchased by Walter Erie in 1608. and was a man of substance, 
as he left legacies to the poor of the two parishes. He may have 
been agent or steward to the Erie family, and hence the descrip- 
tion, which is said to be sometimes used in Dorsetshire in desig- 
nating a person employed by another. 

John Lambert, Clapham Common. 



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Soaunti &• Dorut Notes S- Qturi43, 




355. Admikai. Sik George Someks. — Can an/ of _ 
readers furnish details of the pedigree of this officer, the da- 
coverer of the Somers Islands, ij'teniards called Bermudas ? 

The histories of Dorset say very little about him and noihiag 
about his family history. A ' Martha Somers,' said to be a 
descendant of the Admiral's, married a ' Thomas Penny,' July 
13rd, 1764, but I have no information as to where this wedding 
took place, nor any of the connecting HnVs, I shooid feel much 
obliged for any particulars. 

GENEALOGIsr. 

[1 am able to supply GBNEALoersTwith the following abstract 
of the Poit Motttm Inquisition of Sir George Somers, which I 
copied at the Public Record Office a few years since. 

The Inquisition was taken at Dorchester, 26th July, g Jac. I., 
before George Estmont, gent., Escheator ; and it appears that he 
was seised before his death, in demesne and in fee. of the Manor 
of Upwey atiat Waybay House, with its members and appurten- 
ances, in Co. Dorset, held of the King in capite, and worth in all 
ptotits, beyond reprises, ^\i. Also of a capital messuage or 
mansion house and farm of the Manor of Berne, co. Dorset, with 
orchards, gardens, a grist mill called Tuckmill, and closes or 

fiatccis of land, called respeclivcly Brode-meuad, Lower Water- 
etls, Higher Waterletts Wood, Waterietts Wood. Berne Orchard, 
Lower and Higher Longyeard, Shurcombe Meade, Shurcombe, 
Home Byltom, New Mead, Little and Middle Home Byttom, 
Higher and Lower Twynewood, Brene Wood (j), and Longhonei 
( j), held of the King in chief by Knight's service, and worth 
jt6 I js. 4d. Also of a messuage, mansion house, and tenement, 
called the Manor of Orchard, in the parish of WTjitchurche 
[Can on i CO rum J, Dorset, with numerous parcels of land, of which 
Great and Little Bynhills, Gasemore, EastGeld, Muddiford, 
Seymonds Lease, Bappowle Lees, Bappowle Lees Meadow, 
Shadesbush Meade, Litle Bappowles. Fy\'e Ashmead, and High- 
field, are particularly named, together wilh common of pasture in 
Shaiedowne atiat Sharmendowne, and Morcomb Lake aliai 
Haddon Hill. Also of a capital messuage or tenement in Marsh- 
wood, Dorset, called Harpers, with closes named Brodelay, 
Hfltpcrs Meade, Harpers Moore, Gybland, Hynnens, &c., held of 
jwhn Pawlett. Esq., in free socage, of the Manor of Marshwood, 
paying a rent of 6d. for all services, and worth 15s. Alsoof thttt; 
WVasuages in Lyme Regis, held by Sir George and Johanna, hk' 
wifp. of the Mayor and Burgesses, paying a rent of is. for all 
*«ivlcv», and worth 10s. Sir George died the gth of Novt. last, 
Nicholas Somers, gent., his cousin and heir, aged 16 or more. 
Idt^tv Johanna his wife still living at Whitchurch. 

"i\w Inquisition contains the following extract from Sir 



1 



<)W)I' 



will ■.' 



I, the said Geo. Somers, do g^ve and bequeth to< ■ 



iijitthow Somen and his heirs all that capital messuage or fa 



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called Waybay House in the parish of Upwaye, and all lands, &c., 
called Orchard, in the parish of Whitchurch, a raessuage or tene- 
ment called Harper's tenement, in the parish of iMarshwood, and 
the ground ot common at the hill, purchased of Richard Mallack, 
gent., adjoining other lands called Berne in the parish of Whit- 
church, and all other lands not bequeath, to Mat. Somers and his 
heirs for ever.'' 

This Inquisition is headed " Libaf fuit in Cur' xxiiy die Novr 

Anno R., Jacobi, AngUe, &c., decimo, p. manus Ric'i Warman." 

Editor for Dorset.] 

356, The Plack-Name Somerset. — " Somerset " and 
"Seamer." (I. v, 131, vi. 257.) — I should like to express my 
sense of obligation to Professor Earle for his notice of my query 
at the place last noted. His confirmation of my doubts seems to 
me very valuable, and I am glad to be able to comply witJi what 
appears to be his wish, namely, that I should advert more at length 
to the North Riding place-name ' Seamer,' In the first place, 
there is the remnant of what, when I first knew the place, forty- 
five years ago, was the considerable sheet of water called Seamer- 
mere, though even then very much reduced from its original 
dimensions. Next, there is the township called Seamer, about a 
miie and quarter from Stokesley on the Yarm side. And lastly 
thereis Semerwater, Semmerwater, Sommerwater.orSummerwater, 
about three to four miles from Bainb^idge in the Wensleydale 
district. This last is a large sheet of water — about a mile and 
quarter long by something less than a mile broad, and l^-ing at the 
great elevation of more than 1000 feet above the sea. The 
Seamer near Stokesley is eight or nine miles from the sea, and 
about 130 feet above its level, and with a range of high hills 
between it and the sea. Seamer near Scarborough is but a short 
distance from the sea, and at a not very considerable elevation 
above it ; and it is quite more than possible that, at a remote 
period, there may have been occasional communication between 
it and the sea. Anyone passing into Scarborough by rail can see 
quite enough to convince him that much of the land now lying 
between the mere and the sea itself, results simply from the gradual 
growth of soil depending on the equally gradual growth and decay 
of water herbage. It is, in short, peaty soil, and of very con- 
siderable thickness. 

But with regard to the other two places named, there can be 
no question touching the fact that they and their names are alike, 
and utterly, independent of the sea and its name or verbal repre- 
sentative. And this fact is quite sufficient to suggest to us the 
absolute necessity of looking for some other origin for the element 
a. sea, see, which is the former constituent in the name in question, 
than that which is simply the equivalent of Latin mart, French mir, 
Icelandic marr, and the many other cognate words the signification 



Souurstt &• Ooritt Noles S* QueH^s, 

of which is " the sea." But this necessity becomes all the more 
cogent, not to say imperative, when we take into consideration 
Professor Earle's suggestion founded on the name Whittlesey-mere, 
If that name stood by itself, and were un-illustrated by the 
accretiona! Hanmer-mere quoted in immediate consecutiveness, it 
would still be highly suggestive ; but, as it by no means stands bj 
itself, but is one of a sufficiently numerous groap, its inferential 
character becomes noteworthy in a much increased proportion 
I do not profess to give an exhaustive list of the accretions of 
merr upon sm, or indeed quite to exhaust the list I already have. 
I will therefore mention only some half-dozen or less, seeing that 
the case is strictly such that the maicim " ex uno disce omnes " 
may safely be applied. Thus, Horsey-mere, in the Broads district 
" within a mile of the sea, and one hundred and thirty acres tn 
extent," may be noted ; Hornsea-mere, in East Yorkshire ; 
Skipsea-mere in the same district ; Withemsea also has had its 
mere (Poulson's "//o/{/?r)n-«," II., 408); and there is reason for 

tuming that the same holds good with respect to the lost town 
Redmare, inasmuch as '" de la See," " de See," or " at Sea " isihe 
appellation of a family, apparently of some local consequence, who 
were called " de la see de Redmar," where it is idle to suppose 
that stt was anything save the mare, mere, or inland shett of water. 
From these instances, which, as already intimated, might be 
:dmost indefinitely increased by anyone with sufficient local . 
knowledge or sufficient leisure-time to enable him to carry out tbft 
enquiry with adequate diligence and exactitude, it is qnlia 
apparent that the combination of men with lea is one of fiequi 
occurrence. It is evidently not a compound, but the men it 
.iccretion. a "later appendage," as Professor Earle expresses itJI 
The process is evident enough, and were it othenvise, still t* 
instance, quoted by Mr. Earle, of "Hanmer-mere," precise 
paralleled as it is by " Seamer-mere." would afford ample expUn 
tion as well as illustration. Not only the meaning of the termina]| 
'Mement in Seamer had been forgotten, but the very fact that i 
was a terminal element at all, had been lost sight of. 

This is indeed, in reality only saying in other words 1 
Professor Earle advances, when he says that the linal 'mere'i| 
Whittlesey-mere " has been added since the signiRcation of 9 
has been practically lost." Thai is true in the case of each oft 
names quoted. There had been a time at which, and a people 
by whom, an open sheet of water, and fresh water in contradis- 
tinction to salt, had been described by the vocable which appears 
in these names under the forms «, Sfa, sey, just as the Genoan «t ^ 
at this day bears t he same meaning* The " significance ' 

" In Earle's Land Charters is h note, at p. 4tio, wliicb I had not seen xa. 
this was wrillcn, such as from Usdefioifenaloicsceras tobc singularly illtu 

of mv more geneml aisetlion in Ihc lext. He says, in reference to a t 

dateii in 814. " The inland basin of waler Is al this stage of English S.^ u ^ 
'a Germim to be See." 



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element came to be lost " — possibly because in our seagirt isle we 
wanted the word sea lo signify exclusively the equivalent of Latin 
manr — and so mire, or some form of the word, was tacked on to 
convey to the minds of those who knew not sea in the required 
sense, the sense of an open sheet of fresh water. Then succeeds 
for the second time a like process, but with a difference — mere has, 
in the one case, ceased to be recognised in the shortened or 
slurred final tner, and is therefore subjoined for the second time ; 
in the other case, it has ceased to be descriptive, just as jm or ley 
had been before it, consistently with the manner of the speech of 
the nomenclators, and /ait or water, had in its turn been subjoined. 
It may be observed too that a.ere, which in the Holdemess 
district appears, and very early, under the forms marr, marre, mare, 
and under the form mire in Gormire in Feliskirk parish, preserves 
the form wf/if in Norfolk ; as also that in 1717, Gormire, in an 
olBcial writing, is described as the " water-pool, meer, or lake 
commonly called Gormyer." 

Another remark may also be ventured here, and that in con- 
nection with the water called Seaton Marre or Seaton Mere, in 
reality a portion of the Horasea-mere sheet. The Seaton which 
gives the name is on the west side of the mere in question, the 
sea is on its east. Mr. Foulson's idea is that it obtained its name 
from the sea, some two to three miles away, and with this mere, 
the quondam sea, intervening. It would seem much more 
reasonable as well as probable ihat the name was due to this still 
most extensive sheet of water, in which case we have the said 
sheet of water, then called se, sa, or sta, giving its name to the Ion 
or lun built on what was at that lime no doubt its western shore ; 
and next, the village giving its name, when the old signification 
sf sta or sey had been lost, to the portion of the sheet now called 
Seaton-mere. Nor do I think that this is an isolated case, or a 
whit less reasonable than the explanation given of the element sea 
in the accretjonary Seamer, when that name is applied as in the 
instances Semerwater. and Seamer near Stokeslev. Thus again, 
there is a Seaton in the parish of Hinderwell, at which, and not at 
Hinderwell, the church stood in Domesday times, and the site of 
which and the ancient manor is fully a mile distant from the sea, 
and with a rising bank between the said sea and itself. More- 
over, there are local names, such as Well-bank and Clough-sluice, 
_ in the immediate vicinity which more than suggest the sufficient 
fr presence of water, and possibly of an accumulation of water in the 
J* old, old days. 

On the whole, while these repeated instances of the accre- 
tionary form Seamer, Semer. Seymer, &c , suggest the fonner being 
of a word now long since lost from the language, in its own peculiar 
sense, the philological evidence produced by Professor Earle makes 
the derivation of Seamer or Semer a matter of ascertained reality. 
J. C. Atkinson. Danby. in Cleveland. 



26o Somerset &• Dorut Notts S- Queries. 

357. Closworth Rectory, — Between the two windows q 
the ground and chamber floors on the south and entrance front^ 
this Rectory is the inscription inserted below. Carolus Holn^ 
is given as the Rector in Mr. Weavers book, 1603. Can any l 
your readers expand the sentence, and furnish any authorities foj 
the formula ? 











HANG: HOLWEY 
RECTOR 1606. 











E.C.B.1 



358. Somerset Timber. A.D. 1656. (I. vii. 316.)— A 
Correspondent, J.B.P., writes that the order made by the Conn, 
at the Chard Assizes, was evidently founded on the statute 3J 
Hen. VIII., c. 17, for the Preservation of Woods, which is printed 
in Pickering's Edition of the Statutes at large, but is not noticed 
by Blackstone, or by Reeves in his History of the English Law. 
That it was known to Fuller, the author of the Worlhus, appears 
from the two extracts given below, taken from Richardson's 
Dictionary, but it must have become practically obsolete so early 
as the Commonwealth, from the dislike of individuals to inter- 
ference with their property ; though the order of the Judges in 
1656 seems to express the public regret at seeing timber trees 
disappear. The law itself is founded on common sense ; for oak 
coppice, which is generally cut something under once in 14. yean, 
produces no acorns, and standard trees can never grow from the 
Stumps of coppice. The Act above referred lo was repealed, with 
many others, by 7 and 8 Geo. IV., c, 17. The following are the 
quotations from Richardson's Dklionary of the EnglUh Languagi, 
vol. ii., s.v. Stand. 

•'The Commissioners of this County did not overweary 
themselves in working when they returned these persons, 
presenting no underwood, yea, no slandeU, but only timber oaks, 
men of great wealth and worship in this Shire. Fuller's Worlkies. 
Northumberland." 

" Care was taken in the reign of King Henry the Eighth 
(when woods were in a far better condhion than now-a-days), for 1 
the preserving of the standiU of beech. lb. ib. Bitckinghamshire," j 



359. Tbe Black Steward of Cerne Abbey. — It it 1 

observed in a recent review of Mr. Gasquel's Work, " Hinry VIII. 
and the Englitk Monasttrux" that the harsh injunctions, laid on 
the Monasteries after the visitations made by the Royal Com- 
missioners, were planned by Cromwell purposely to induce l" 
heads to sue to him for a relaxation of their severity, then 



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acknowledging the King's authority over them. That they were 
severe is very dear, as amongst other things the Monks were for- 
bidden on any pretence whatever to go beyond the precincts of 
their Monastery, — " which I assure you," wrote one of the visitors 
to Cromwell, " grieveth the heads not a little as ye shall perceive 
by the instant suits they shall make to the King's grace and to 
you." The following letter (from the Donuslic Slale Papert, 
vol. ix.. No. lib), shows that the Abbey of Cerne was not exempted 
from this harsh treatment, but whether the Abbot was successful 
in obtaining any redress does not appear ; probably the fee had 
some effect. Then comes the question ; \Vhat is the meaning of 
the ' Black Steward,' ? Every Religious House, we know, had its 
' Lay Steward' — generally one learned in the law ; and no doubt 
Richard Phelypps who penned the letter (a collateral ancestor of 
the Corfe Mullen and Montacute family,) held that oflice at Cerne. 
Indeed he was compensated for the loss of it, as, after the dis- 
solution, he had a pension of £^ a year out of the 
the Abbey. But who the ' Black Steward ' wa 
be explained. The Abbot was Thomas Corton, against whom 
articles were exhibited before the Council the same year for 
divers immoral acts, which were however denied, — and also for 
letting the Church and Land go to ruin. (See vol. viii.. No. 14.8.) 
"Cerne, ind September 1535. Richard Phelypps to Cromwell. 
Where your Officials lately at the Monastery of Cerne gave 
orders, among other injunctions, that neither the Abbot nor the 
Monks should pass the limits of the Monaster}', and its profits 
depend upon com and cattle, from which great detriment will 
ensue without proper supervision, and such as the black Steward 
was wont to have. May it please you to give the Abbot his liberty, 
and to ride abroad about the affairs of his monastery, as you have 
allowed the Abbot of Sherburn. The Abbot sends j-ou his Fee of 
5 marks sterling." 
I J.B. 

360. Shipwreck at Dcnstkr in 1380. — In this year, a 
Catalan merchant ship, bound from Genoa to Sluys, the port of 
Bruges, then one of the chief enlrtp6/s of the north of Europe for 
foreign goods, was driven by a storm " into Dunster," where she 
was made a prize. But upon the remonstrance of the Genoese, 
King Richard the Second sent a letter to Joan Mohon, Lady of 
Dunster {'■ Rex, Johanme Moun, Dominse de Dunstar,") in which 
he ordered her to deliver to Louis Gentil and Cosmo Doria, the 
merchandise detained by her and her agents, (Rymer's "FaJera," 

[ Tonson's edn. vii.. p. 133 ;) which was soon restored. 

I " From this accident," Lindsay says, " an insight is obtained 

into the nature of the cargoes shipped at that period from Italy to 
Flanders. The merchants, in claiming the restoration of her 
cargo, enumerate its contents, namely, sulphar, wood [woad,] 





Scmerut <$• Donet Notts S- Queries. 

uid cured with lemon juice, raisins, writing-paper^ 
sugar, prunes, cinnamon, pepper, and a few other" 
•f minor importance ; thereby showing that this ship wa* 
^itfltmi wilh the produce of india as well as of the Mediter- 
iMMih. For all of these England might have become the depAt, 
(MllkveBMrchants could not, as yet, discern the advantaj^s of a 
te* tBitwcourse with foreign nations." {"Hislory of Mirehani 
•Sttftng and AncUnI Comnurxi," 187+, i., pp. 416-7.) 

The most valuable part of the cargo was, probably, the woad 
(,** 'TO bal» woad " : misprinted " wood " in Lindsay), which — 
•■*li«o, then, not having been brought to Europe — was largely 
■■plofed by dyers, as affording a permanent blue colour, and 
•rriog to fi« many others, A single pipe of woad is mentioned 
in ihe will of a Bristol merchant, dated 1493, as then being 
"worth £% sterling." 

Dunster Haven has been long silted up, but of its existence 
in the middle ages, Mr. Maxwell-Lyte has produced indubitable 
documentary evidence. {" Dunsler and Us Lords," i88i, p. 17.) 
Lady de Mohun was the last of this name who owned Dunster 
Castle. She died in 1404. and was buried in the undercroft of 
Canterbury Cathedral. Last year, when the guide to that cathedral 
was showing a group of visitors Lady Mohun's mutilated eSigy, 
he informed them that she was " The heiress of Dunster " t 

William Gborge, Clifton. 



361. John Strode, of Knighton oR RvliE. Grnt. {I. vu.1 
j(O-) — Some little hght is thrown upon the John Strode enquired^ 
after by J.B,. by the following entries In the Register of Ryme ' 
Intrinseca. Dorset. It there appears that on joih Oct., 1649, Mr. 
John Strode, of this parish, married Mris. Constance Guppye. of 
Haltstocke. The marriage register does not commence before 
lijt. but on i+lh Novr., 1635, is an entry of the marriage of 
Hutfh, son of Nicholas Hardye. of Grimsto'n, with Grace, dr. of 
William Stroud. Then, on i6th Dec, 1645, were married Thomas 
Hayward and Basill Masters, servants to William Stroode, " of 
this pariah"; — and on iist Aug.. 1647. Robert Brinley manied 
l£tia.tb«th, dr. of Mr. John St rood, deceased, also " of this parish." 
'l"he Mr, John Strode now enquired after, may have been son of 
oilher William or John. No other Strode marriage occurs during 
this c«atury, 

'I'uniing to the Baptisms, the first entry is of Samuell, son of 
George Stroode of " Linington" {i.r., Lillington), 13th March, 

tH^"*> '^"'^ '''^ ""'^'''^'^ ^°'^' J^'"'' '^' J^"" '^5''''< ^"^ Moses, 
.Won, aud lames, children of George and Dorothy Sirood (or 
SuouJ\ of Ryme, were baptised respectively on sth Jan.. 1657-8, 
i4th Sept.. 1660, and 3rd Jan., 1661-3. 

The patlicsl Burial is that of " George Strode, gent.," buried ■ 
« Ow Chuich, 16th Oct., 1669. 



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ries than those given above, which 
on the present occasion. 

Editor fok Dorset. 
P.S. — There are the Will of Hugh Strode, of Bere Hacket, 
1661, and the Administration of George Strode, of Rj-me, 1 669-70, 
among the Dean of Sarum's Wills at Somerset House. The 
former, I presume, was the Rector of that name, instituted 1637, 
upon whose death John Duncombe was instituted, 15th Jan., 1662 
{Hulcluns). Can any one tell me the date of Hugh Strode's death, 
and whether he lived to be reinstated in his living, from which he 
appears to have been excluded during the Commonwealth ? 

36a. King Arthur's Burial Place. — A strange story 
came to my ears last August, and as my informant was a man to 
whose word no exception can be taken, there seems little doubt of 
its authenticity. An Antiquary — for the present, I will call him 

A was rambhng near Cameiford in Cornwall, and falling into 

conversation with an old man learnt, very much to his surprise, that 
he was close to the grave of King Arthur. The old fellow, 
annoyed at the statement that the King (if he ever existed] was 
interred at Glastonbury, challenged our Antiquary to examine a 
kind of recess in the bank of the little River Camel. Divesting 

himself of boots and socks, A waded to the spot indicated, and 

there, sure enough, 7Uiis a hollow about seven feet in length. 
Within was a slab — how placed I cannot say — and on it this 
inscription : — " Hie jacet Arturus Rex." The Cornishman could 
affordno information, and A departed in astateof some bewilder- 
ment. Has any reader of " S. Sf D. N. &• Q." heard of this 
wonderful stone ? If such be the case, it is hoped that he will 
communicate with me without dcia}'. If none can explain its 
presence in so extraordinary a position, I shall make an effort to 
obtain my informant's permission to correspond with The Anti- 
quary on the subject. 

John Ll. Warden Page, Wiliiton, 

363. Arms of Peter D'Evrrcy. — Can any one tell me 
what were the Arms of Peter D'Evercy, or Deverci, Miles, who 
owned Brympton D'Evercy. near Yeovil, in the 13th Century, and 
who sat for the County of Somerset, 8th Edward H. (131+), and 
for Southampton, nth Edward \l. (1318),' 

Thomas Sampson, 80, Islcdon Road, HoUoway, N. 

364. I:jscribbd Stone ox Winsford Hill. — On Winsford 
Hill, an outlying spur of Exmoor, close to the old track which 
leaves the high road from Dulverton to Lynton, and on the eastern 
■ide of the cross roads, is an inscribed stone of hard slate. It is 
locally known as the " Longstone." The height is 3 feet 7 inches ; 



Somersei iS- Dorset Notes S' Queries. 365 

368. PisciN* IN Corners. (I. v. 345, vi. 268.) — At Bourton- 
on-the-Hill, in Gloucestershire, is a piscina in the east spiay of 
the window south of the altar, — of Decorated date. 

R. W. Paul. London. 

369. Remarkable Frost in Somerset. (I. v. i+i.) — The 
destructive " freezing shower," mentioned by Mrs. C. G. Boger, 
occurred on January 19th, 1809. From the joth 10 the ijrd, 
there was a great fall of snow. Being followed by an unusually 
rapid thaw, accompanied by "a vast fall of rain,'' the greatest 
flood ever remembered took place in the valleys of the Froom and 
the Avon. At Bath, houses were washed away, and many persons 
lost their lives. The lower parts ofBristo' were inundated. (7X* 
^fM/o/ ^/i>7i?r, January 18th, 1809.) 

Wm. George, CJifton. 

370. Succession of Nonxonfokmist Ministers in 
Dorset.— A subject which has lightly been passed over — currenle 
talamo- — in the History of Dorset, viz., the succession of Ministers 
in the older Nonconformist places of worship in the connty, 
deserves working up in the pages of S. & D. N. & Q. 

Will any of your readers, who are versed in these matters, 
supply such lists, illustrated with dates of appointments, birth, 
death, and other particulars briefly told, which will furnish the 
help needed by the enquirer who may wish to pursue more deeply 
the biographies of the gentlemen in question P 

As a contribution to this result, I append a list of the Pastors 
of the Weymouth Gloucester St, Chapel, taken from the published 
report of a speech delivered there in October last, which may 
form a beginning to which further information may be added. 

Revs. J. Fenner, teoS"'?'*; C.Edwards, 1713; T. Reader, 
17+1 ; J. Wilkins, '75+. (with the Rev. J. Lamb as co-pastor for 
the last ten years) ; Dr, Cracknel!, 1801 ; J. B. Innes, 182+; H. 
J. Criimp, 1827; J. C. Bodwell, M.A.. 1838: J. T. Smith, 1845; 
K. S. Ashton, i860; E. Bollon, ; John Wood, ; Frank 

Smith, 1886 ; and J. Gibson, 1889. 



371. Memorial to an Ejected Minister. — Dositheus 
Wter, Cloford. — In the churchyard of Cloford, Somerset, is a 
flat stone with this inscription :— 

" Hie jacent corpora Dosithei Wyeri in sacris Ministri et 
Sicillse nxoris ejus: ille quinto obiit die Aprilis anno Domini 
nostrze [j/i] 1685 : ilia nono die Februarii i6Hq. Resurgamus." 

Dositheus Wier matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, as 
of the CO. of Gloucester, plebeii filius, aged 17, on 17 April 1618, 
and took his B. A. in 1621, 



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_ _ The following entry of a Baptism may also be of interest ; it 
ii from the above-named work, vol. i.. 30+: — "1701. May 18, 
Steven EUat of Orchat Windam in Taunton parish in Sumerset, 
beinfte aged 11 yeares and brought np in Quakerism, was baptized 
by Mr. Clayton in Northen Church y« day aforesaid." (Northen = 
Northenden.) 

J. CoLEUAN, Cheddar. 

376. Dorset M.P.'s. — Sik Robert Napier. Knight, M.P. 
FOR CoRFE Castlb, IN i(>z6.— Who was he.' Not of the Napiers 
of Middle Marsh Hall, as might naturally have been supposed. 
Sir Robert Napier, the eminent lawyer and founder of that line, 
had died in 1615, leaving a son who bore the name of Nathaniel. 
Probably, therefore, the M.P. was of the Napiers of Luton Hoo, 
Bedfordshire, who were distantly related to those of Middle 
Marsh. Sir Robert Napier, alias Sandy, who purchased the 
estate of Luton Hoo, was knighted by James L on the iist July, 
161 1, but had been advancedtoaBaronetcyon the ijth November 
of the same year. His eldest son. Sir Robert, afterwards second 
Baronet, had also received Knighthood on the 30th April. 1613, 
and clearly was the "Sir Robert Napier, junior. Knight." 
returned for Weymouth in 1618. Was he or his father the M.P. 
in ibzb ? The description of the latter as " Knight " only would 
seem to indicate the son. but from the omission of the ■'junior" 
I strongly suspect it was the father. 

W. D. Pink. 

[The presence of the Bedfordshire Napiers in Dorset is 
indicated by the following quotation from the Register of Coombe 
Kaynes and Wool, in Hutchins's Dorse/, 3rd Edit. vol. i. p. 363. 

" liobert, son and heir of Rob. Napier of Luton Hoo. co. 
Bedford. Kt. and bart,, bom at Woolbridge, baptised at .Wool, 
Sir Nath. Napier of Crichil, Kt. John Turberville of Woolbridgt, 
Esq. and Lady Hatton, godfathers and godmother. 1615." 

Sir Robert Napier, here mentioned, had married Frances, dr. 
of Sir William Tliomhurst, Knt.. of Agincourt, Kent, whose 
relict. Anne (Howard), had becomethe wife of John Turberville of 
Woolbridge. The local connection is thus accounted for, but it 
still needs explanation why Sir Robert is styled Baronet in the 
lifetime of his father. Editor for Dorsbt.] 



377. Somerset M.P.'s. (I, v. 139.)— "The Right Worship- 
ful" DoMiNicK Chester, M.P. for Minehead from 1571 tmtil his 
decease, was the youngest son of William Chester, Mayor of 
Bristol in 1551-3. and M.P. for that city in 1555. Dominick 
Chester, who was Sheriff of Bristol in 1567-8, and the "Worship- 
ful " Master of the Society of Merchant Venturers in 1 569, died 
in 1575- As he does not appear to have ever been Mayor of 




Somtrset &• Dorstt Notes &■ Qiitries. 269 

" Mellerec, Melleree, dausty pwoll ! 

How many zacks 'si thee astwale ? 

Dree o' whit", an' dree o' black ; 

Ihou sh'l be hang&i by the neck." 
This suggestion of aaimnary condign punishment was doubt- 
less an outcome of the fact, that, in the west country at least, 
from lime immemorial until wilhin the writer's own experience, it 
was the universal custom for the labouring man's wages, (in some 
places only a shilling a day,) to be largely paid in com, too often 
'seconds' little better than 'tail '-corn, which was as regularly 
carried to one of the grist mills to be found in well-nigh every 
village, where the cost of grinding was defrayed by a dip, larger 

I or smaller, of the miller's toll-dish. 
. (" Well colde he sleale corn, and lolle thrice." Chaucer, ' J^olagat.'j 
L 381. Weather Proverb. (I. v. 144.. vi. 176.)— 
I Of all months that are in the year 

Curse a fair Februcer. 
G.W.F., Stafford, Dorchester. 

38a. Dorset Topography, 1579. {I. vii. 326.) — The MS. 
enquired after by Mr. Barnes appears to be the Cottonian MS. 
Julius, F. vi., and is so referred to in the 3rd Edition of Hulchins's 
Dorset, Vol. iii., p. 667, under Stourton Candel. Some account 
of this MS., by Mr. Barnes, will appear in the next Part of 
.S-. &D.N.& Q. 

Editor for Dorset. 

383. Family OF Fry, ofPawlet. — InapaperonCanyngton 
Priory, contributed by the late Rev, Thomas Hugo to the Somerset 
Archffioiogica! Society (" Transaclions," Vol. li., pt. ii., pa. 85), 
mention is made of lands in " Powlet " which, in 1535, were in 
the tenure of Roger aud Thomas Frye. Can any one give infor- 
mation about this family of Fry of Pawlet, or Powlet, from whom 
the Frys of Tarrant Gunville and Ewern Minster (Dorset), and 
those of Exeter are said to have descended ? {Hulehins, Ed. 1870, 

^Vo^ iii., pa. 537, and '" Visitation of Dn'on, 1364.") 
i Geo. S. Fry, Cadmon, Albert Road, Walthamstow. 

384. Ancient Terrai:e Cultivation. (I. vii. 325,)— The 
idea put forth by Mr. Gomme and Mr. Seebobm, that 
" landchtts " are of Iberic origin, is extremely interesting, as 
is everything connected with that mysterious race. In my 
ignorance of the facta and arguments brought forward by those 
two gentlemen, I would ask: — r. How do they account for the 



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. Batch. Wind's Batch.— In Upwey there is a hill 
•ailed Wind's Batch — the hill above the spring — and a field called 
Balch, lower down the stream, behind Westbrook House. Are we 
to connect that name with the Welsh " Bach" which, I believe, 
means a spring } And are the names as old as the time of the 
Britons ? 

E.A.S. 

389. Henry Vlll. and the English Monasteries. By 
F. A. Gasquet. Vol.11. (Hodges. London. 1S89.) 

In Part V. a short sketch was given of the first portion of this 
highly important work, and want of space alone has compelled us 
to defer until the present time any notice of this, the concluding 
volume. The Rev. author, in givingus the history of the carrying 
out of the King's decree to ihe bitter end, pursues the same fair 
course that characterised the earlier portion of his labours. He 
gives us chapter and verse for almost every assertion, and we 
cannot help noticing the discrepancies between the narrative before 
us, and that given in Fuller's Church History. It is impossible to 
conceive the Monasteries, ill-conducted as some of them doubt- 
less were, to have been half as bad as they are described by the 
old chronicler of Sarum ; but the ruthless work had to be done, 
and reasons for cruel treatment had to be afforded. 

Possibly in Henry's time folks were not mealy-mouthed when 
seeking to gain his favour, and the game of Politics was a rough 
ffame, in which the loser went to the wall in a way thai now-a- 
days seems absolutely brutal. It was no doubt a political necessity 
that the Monasteries should not be permitted to enjoy, in any 
degree, feudal powers and feudal immunities which were denied to 
the lay landowners, but nothing can or could excuse the merciless 
manner in which the dissolution was carried out. 

Notices of events attending the suppression of such estab- 
lishments as those of Glaston and Shaston, of Sherborne and 
Muchelney and Montacute, of Cleve and Ceme, will naturally be 
regarded with especial interest by the readers of our Notes and 
Queries, and the whole work cannot be too strongly recommended 
for perusal. 

One piece of history is quite new to us, and it affords an 
illustration of the unscnipulous mode in which Justice (?) asserted 
herself under Tudor rule. Our author states that when the aged 
and revered Abbot Whiting, who had been previously summoned 
to London by his persecutors, was relegated to his own Abbey of 
Glastonbury for final trial, this " remembrance," still existing, was 
written by Cromwell's own hand, 

" Item. The Abbot of Glaston to be Iri4d at Glutoii, 
and 1J30 tzMUled there." 

This short sentence speaks more than volumes to the contrary, as 
to the spirit in which the ' dissolution ' was conceived and carried 



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The book before us is in al! respects a worthy compamOD ( 
its predecessor, and we Teel convinced that no one who has allowed 
space for Father Gasquet's great work upon his shelves, will ever 
see cause to regret his having done so. 

390. The Church Plate of the County of Dorset. 
With extracts from the Returns of Cliurch Goods by the Dorset 
Commissioners of Edward VI. 1551. ByJ.E. Nightingale, F.S.A. 
Salisbury: Printed by Bennett Brothers, Journal Office, 1889. 
Pp. [4I116. Royal 8vo. cloth. 6s. With 16 Illustrations. 

Mr, Nightingale, whose ripe knowledge of this department 
of Archaeology, (as is well known to the readers of .S". S' D. 
N, &* C) has for some time past been brought to bear upon the 
Church Plate of Dorset, has recently produced a charming vollilDe> 
treating of this subject, clearly written and beautifully illustrated, 
and is highly to be congratulated upon the successful issue of his 
arduous undertaking. To form the basis of his work Mr. 
Nightingale has had placed in his hands a collection of ' Returns* 
from the various parishes of the County, procured by the direction 
of the Bishop of Salisbury, under the supervision of Mr. J. S. 
Udal, Rev. J. Stroud, Mr. H. J. Mode, Mr. W. .-V. Bankes, Mr. 
Montague Guest, and Rev. C. H. Mayo, but the great labour <rf" 
analysis, arrangement, comment, and verification has fallen upon 
his shoulders, and he has ably discharged the task, 

The volume, in addition to the Preface of 1 8 pages, contaiits 
an orderly acciJiint of ihe Plate found in every Parish in ihe 
County, arranged under Deaneries, and this is followed by two 
appendices, the first dealing briefly with a few parishes formerly 
under the Dean of Sanim's peculiar jurisdiction, and the other 
giving valuable information relating to the Sacred Vessels at the 
lime of the Commissioners of 1551, extracted from the Roll in the 
Public Record pifice. The most interesting examples of Plate are 
illustrated by wood engravings. As a result of these investigations it 
appears that pieces of Medieval Plate exist in three Dorset parisheSi 
whilein 71 parishesElizabethan Chalices are found to be still extant. 

It will not be right in the present notice to pick the plumi 
out of the cake. The absurdly low price of 6s. that Mr. 
Nightingale has affixed to this valuable and handsome volume, 
which would be cheap at a guinea, places it within the reach of a 
large circle of readers, and we cannot do better than commend it 
most heartily to their early perusal, as it is evident that the edition, 
which is limited in extent, will be rapidly exhausted. 

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I l> Joseph Balston, married a Miss Johnson, o 



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3tes & Queries 



ERSET AND DORSET, 



EDITED BY 

HUGH NORRIS, 



trion. Local Stcrttary for Somerut to the Soculy of 
Antiqtiarits of London.) 
AMD 

^4RLES HERBERT MAYO, M.A., 

of Long Burton with Holnesl, Rural Dean, author of 
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CONTENTS. 



>.SIaff 

M of Salisbury ■ 

jpd at Taimlua. 16J4 

Names 

pdredi i 

lAceonntiinPillon i 

r" Inn, Lytcbell - i 

bWdb 

mi ■ 

to of 1703 - 



bib - 

Awt Rhymei' 
in Dorset 



Ion 



Who was Axylus ? - ■ ■ a i 

Jolin Gallop or Gollop - - it 

Defeat or the Spanish Annoda - 11 

Drain Family - • • - ij 
Old Nonconformist Com mtmionplale ij 

Manifold ■ - - - ■ 24 

A piece of Delft Ware ■ - 24 

Heraldic Glass in E. Coker- - 34 

Slurtninaler Marshall - ■ - 14 

Teswlated PxTcment at Ilcheslcr 16 

" Gloton Messe " - - - 36 

Natural History Anecdote - - z6 

Templecombe ■ ■ ■ ■ 16 

Jan Rjdd IC 

" In the year of out Lord " - *? 
Family of Musgrai'e - - -27 

Manor of Halswell - - . 17 

Pompailes ----- 17 

Bumngton Bone Caves - ■ 17 
TheChurch'sAidinthelooyeais'WataS 
ShTOve-Tide Cu5t< 



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Vot. I. JUNE, 1888 Part II. 

I; Notes & Queries 
' FOR 

OMERSET AND DORSET, 



EDITED BV 

HUGH NORRIS, 

PttktrtcH, Local Stcretary Jcr Somersit to th* Socitly oj 
Antiguarm of London.) 

AND 

CHARLES HERBERT MArO, M.A., 

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I. Annada Expemes, rjS9 

, Defeat of Spanish Armad: 

. Armada Relic - 

;. M.P.'s in Long Parliamenl 

,. Baddanbyiig. Badbiuy 
;, Ditto ■ ■ ■ 
,. Ditto - 

Ditto - 

I. Boundaries of Somerset. Art. 

|. Corfe Castle 

1. Ancient Burial HI Bradle 

;. RcBuJation of Ale Houses, 

1. Early Church Builders 

I. Helix Pomatia in Dorset 

|. Ditto - 

;. Ditto - 

). Battle orBnutanbuth . 

!. John Piy, the Regicide 

t. Bishop Hooper - 

(. Abbol Whiting's BinhjJi 

). ServingloQ Family 



No. 



til 
^ 76. 

tZ 

♦ «'- 

A 86. 
A. 87. 
i 38, 

♦ 90- 



Collell & Evecetl Families - 

Leiler from H. Morton, [640 

License to Eat Hesh in Lent 

Somerset Missionaries, 1650 

The Purbecit Society's Papets 

Si. Erasmus 

Portland Reeve- Staves 
Ditto - 

Colouring of Eggs 

Gabriel Gould - 

Camps and Hundreds- 
Ditto - 

Gloton Mcsse 

Family of Hafdon 
Ditto 

Blandford fire, 1731 

Who was Aiylus .' 

Bread at Christenings - 

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Wot. I. SEPTEMBER, 1888. Part III. 



I 



Notes & Queries 



MERSET AND DORSET. 



{South Ptthtrton, Local Secretary for Somerui to the Society of 

rAntigmries of London.) 
CHARLES HERBERT MATO, M.A., 
{Vicar of Long Burton with Holneil, Rural Dean, author of 
Bibliotheea Dorsettensis.) 



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CONTENTS. 




No. 


PAOH 


No. 


PAOK. 






^ 116. Church Plate - 


88 


Newton - 


63 


A ij;. Domestic Animals - 
T 1 iS-g. Servington Family - 
T 1,0. Bathanceasler - 


89 




6; 


89-90 


93. Knowlton Church - - 


08 


90 


94. Fiie at Yeovil, 1640 • 


69 




90-1 


95- John Fry, the Regicide . 


7J 


A 133. Wadham Family ■ 


9' 


96-100. Shrovetide Customs ■ 


74-5 


i 134. Dorset Folk Lore - 

T "35-6. DotscI Words 

■»■ I1-. Golden Watches - 


91 


loi. Chafy Family . . 


r6 


9' 


101. Ichlhyosautus, Tmtiohul! ■ 


;6 


91 


101-5. Aimorial Bearings. 

106. Custumarius Abb. dc Milton 


r7-8 


■*■ .3«- Shig-Shag Day 


9* 


78 


A 139. Chaff on Doorstep - 


91 


107. Lady Orford'a Gardens - 


78 


A 140. Witchcraft 

T 141. DolemooTB, Congresbury 

y 142. Camps and Hundreds 


9* 


lOS. Another Stray Cannoa Ball 


78 


9* 


109. Chas. U & Coandon Hall - 


80 


93 


110. Dmitl Family - 


80 


V Hi- Early Church Builders 


93 


in. Cokrrof Ashe- 


So 


i 144. Dorset Poems - 


93 


Il3-d. Land's Visitation at TauntoiiSi-2 


A. 145- Somerset Chantries - 
T 14(1. Latin Epitaph, Cheddar 
Y 147. St. Erasmus - 


94 


1 15-6. Old Road to Abbotsbury 


S2-3 


94 


117. Somerset Hist. Indeies - 


83 


94 


1 18. Acre. Hogshead 


83 




94 


119-11. Names of Cups - 
III. King's School, Sherborne 


84 


i ICO. Chain-Shot, Corfc Castle 
Y 15'- Easier Sepulchre ■ 
~ 151. Semaphores ■ 


P 


8S 


113.4. Ubley . - . 
US- Peverells of Dorscl - 


H 


?6 


86 


96 



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DECEMBER, 

i Notes & Queries 
FOR 
OMERSET AND DORSET, 



EDITED BV 

HUGH NORRIS. 

Ptthcrton, Local Secretary fcr Somerset to tlie Society of 
Antiqturia of London.) 
AND 

CHARLES HERBERT MATO, M.A., 



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153. Honour of GlouceBter - 

154-5. Purbecli Society's Papers 9 

150. Lords' GallowE 

157-8. Wadbam Family - • ic 

IJ9. Peverells of Dorset - 

too. Abdick and BoLitone, and 

Whitley Hundreds 
161. Town of Wellington 
161. Slm>''CaslleofLondon" 1638 

163. ■' Foruni " as a Place-name 

164. Cclcl Famay - 
ibj. A Chard Epitaph - 

■66. Alumni ofCaiusCoII., Cantab 

167. The Daubeney Badge 

168. SI. Margaret's Chapel 

169. Ishams o( Somerset 

170. Wm. Rosewell, Sol. General 

171. Old Carved Oak in Somerset 
17*. Horsington Cross ■ 

173. Dorchester Farthing, i66g 



. Armorial Bearings - - u 
. Hooper and Masters Families 1 1 
. Keynshani and Chew Magna 

Hundreds - ■ - n 
. Hugh Speke - - - 11 
. Dorset County Arms - li 
. Street names, Shepton Maltet la 
. Knowlton - ■ ■ 13 
. Bedman = Sexton - - li 
. John Mayo of Caltislock u 

, Armada Expenses ■ ■ H 

-5. " Shig-Shag" Day ■ li 
i. Dorset Words - . u 
. Copse, Thole, Chesil, Lenett u 
1. Laud's Visitation - - ri 



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DECEMBER, i88g. Part VIIl. 

Notes & Queries 

FOR 

)MERSET AND DORSET 

EDITED BY 

HUGH NORRIS, 

; Ptlherlon, Local Secniary fir Somerset to ike Society of 
Antiquaries of London, etc.,) 

CHARLES HERBERT MJIXJ. M.A., 

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40. Daubmey Tomb ■ 


J41 


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Chalbury Register, Dorset 


164 


341. Sir Giles Daubetiey's Will 


24i 


(■7 


S. Andrew's, BacfcweU ■ 


264 


34a. Coal or Cold Harbour - 


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Piscina; in Comers - 


26S 


J43. Monolith ouBaleombe Hill 


147 


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Remarkable Frost . 


165 


344. Dilto 


148 




Dorset Nooconformisl 




34S. Chafe-Chaflyn - - 


1.0 




Minister* - 


abs 


346. Ditto - - 

347. D'tio 


149 


37' 

37* 


Dorilheus Wycr, Cloford 

Dorset Civil War Tract - 


S 


348. "Golo Pot" 


»S" 




373 






349. Ditto 


15! 




Rock .... 


3b6 


50. Diiio . - 


*S2 


374 


Rekigous and Chantry 




51. Ditto - - 


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Priests- - - - 


366 


5». Strode of Sheplon Mallet 
53. The Woodwslf . . 


251 


«• 


37S 


Somerset Chuteh Eriefe . 


il>6 


^5+ 


* 


37'' 


Dorset M.P/s - • 


267 


54. Eattes-Mao - 


'S 


377 


Somerset M.P.'s - 


267 


55. Sir George Somera- 


irk 


Penny Familv 


xm 


356. Place-Name ' Somerset ' 


^57 


3:9 


Andcnl ■Marks/Somerset 


268 


57. Closwotth Rectory 

58. Somerset Timber - - 




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380 


Folk-Lore ■ 


ibS 


i6o 




381 


Weather Proverb ■ 


269 


59. BlaekStewaiti.Ceme Abbey 


2(0 


3«J 


Dorset Topography 


S69 


JdO. Shipwreck, Dnnster, ijSo 


z6i 


383 


Fry Family, Pawlell 


a09 


61. JohnSlrode, of Knighton 




384 


Ancient Terrace Coltivation 


269 


orRyme - 


163 


^ 


3^5 


Origin of Parish Bounds - 


270 


6a. Artiur's Burial Place . 
63. Anns of Peter D'Everq- 


263 


•*• 


3^' 


Bincombe and Cains Coll. 


270 


26, 


387 


Verses Inscribed in Rooks 


270 


64. Inscribed Stoae.Win^fotd Hill 263 


3S8 


Batch. Wind's Batch - 


27' 


65. John Fitjjames, died i()69 


!64 


389-90. Notes on Books- 


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