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Notes & Queries 



FOR 



SOMERSET AND DORSET 



EDITED BT 



FREDERIC WILLIAM H'EAJ'ER, M.A., 

(Editor ef the ** Visitations of the Counties of Somerset and 
Herefordf** ^^ Somerset Incumbents^** etc.) 



AND 



CHARLES HERBERT MATO, M.A., R.D., 

{Vicar of Long Burton with Holnest^ Canon Non-Res. of 
Sarum^ author of ** Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis^** etc.) 



** Attempt the end^ and nerer stmnd to doubt, 
Nothing 8 so hard, but search will find it out." 

HXEEIOL 



VOL. IV. 



SHERBORNE: 
PKIMTBD BY J. C. AND A. T. SAWTEt.I., 
1895. 



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Preface* 



TE time has again arrived for the Editors of Notts and 
Queries for Somerset and Dorset to address their Subscribers 
and Correspondents. It gives them unalloyed pleasure to 
have been privileged to complete their fourth volume. They 
venture to hope that this Magazine, which has now existed 
for eight years from its commencement in 1888, shews as yet 
no signs of decrepitude, but on the contrary may fairly claim 
the possession of increasing vitality, — and that it has won for 
itself an established position in the ranks of local periodic 
literature. They believe that they are not wrong in supposing 
that their Readers have formed this favourable opinion, to judge 
from the communications |hey frequently receive to that effect, 
and from the approbation of the Editor of the Antiquary^ nb 
mean authority.* 

The last two years have witnessed the removal of several 
subscribers through death or other causes, but this loss has* 
been met by a corresponding access of new supporters, so that 
the stability of the Magazine remains unaffected. 

The Editors beg to thank all those who have contributed 
in any way to the success of the work, and solicit their active 
co-operation in the future. 

* " Notes and Queries for Sonurset and Dorset, which is about the best of 
these publications." {Antiquary, August, 1893.) 

"A periodical which always bears evidence of careful editing." 

{Ibid, May..»894) 



V^ 



IV. 



The following is a list of those members whose decease 
they have had to deplore during the past hiennium^ 

1894. 

C, J. Simmons, Esq., 6th April, aged 76. 

G. Burt, Esq., 19th April, aged 77. 

Rt. Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, 9th June, 
aged 85. 

H. G. Moysey, Esq., 28th June, aged 80. 

Rev. Preb. Henry Roe, i6th September, aged 6i, 

Dr. T. W. Wake Smart, 5th November, aged 89. 

1895. 

E. Fisher Esq., 3131 July, aged 66. 

Winslow Jones, Esq., August. 

His Honor Judge Hooper, Qth December, aged 72, 

E. Bath, Esq., 30th December, aged 55. 



INDEX TO VOL. IV. 



N.B.^Small Capitals denote Articles, and Italic Letters the WriUrs of 
Articles, 



Page. 
A.B. .. .. .. i68 

Abarrow, Anthony . . . . 1 18 

Abbot's Leigh . . . . 6 

Abbott, Cath., Wm. 26, Dorcas. 

John 103, Chr. 108, 115, Joan, 

Robt. 146, Eliz., Richd. .. 307 
Abingdon als Knight, Faith, 

Lucy, Philip . . . . 361 

Abington, A. 20, Rev. Roger . . 260 
Absence of Soul from Body 70 
A'Court, John 355, Thos. . . ii6 
Acton, J, .. i34» 306 

Adams, Rich. 118, Maud. Robt., 

Wm. 146. Walt. 237, Rose, 

Thos... ., .. 264 

Administrations, Dorset 25, 

58. 103, 146, 213, 250. 306, 361 
Adren, Cicely, Thos.. Wm. . . 307 
Advertisements, Curious .. 168 
Advertisements, Metrical.. 130 
Ady, Richard . . . . 146 

AJJ 278 

Alam, Andrew 380, J. . . 382, 383 
Albin, Robt. .. ..112 

Aldenham. John . • • 93 

Alford. Wm. 26, Robt. 59, Thos. 

146, Rev. T. .. ..184 

Allambridge, Thos. . . 42 

Allen, O. 44, Eliz., John 61, 100, 

Edwd. 118, Joseph. B.C.L. 

202, Edith 235, 286, 287. 329. 

33»» 334. Mary 361. J. 381. 

Thos. 382, Wm. . , 301. 379, 380 
Alley. Hy. .. ..17 

Alner, Rich., Thos. . . 26 

Ames, Wm. . . . . 146 

Amizer .. ..126 

Amizer als Philips. Richd. . . 361 
Amor, John . . 33. 237 

Amy. Rev. Ed. 263, John ..355 
Anderson. Rev. W. F. . . 265 

Andrews. Thos. 31. 146, 384, 

John 190. 286, 287. 334, 336, 

Wm. .. .. ..331 

Antrim, Rev. J. .. ..261 



Page. 
Apsley, Wm. ..146 

Armorial Bearings, Chelvby 

Court .. -.45 

Arms. Grants of . . . . 149 

Amey, Roger • • 54 

Amket, John . . . . 382 

Arnold, John 18, Ralph 19, Wm. 

121. Rev. Robert .. 261 

Art Discoveries at Somerset 

Lake Village .. ..70 

Arthur, John .. ..150 

Arundel. Robt. . . . . 146 

Ash, Eleanor, Wm. . . 26 

Ashcombe, John .. ..91 

Ashe, Jas., M.P., John . . 78 

Ashley, Francis 15, Anth. . . 31 
Ashmore Church Goods . . 100 

Athelney Abbey, Cartulary 

OF .. .. ..130 

Atkins, Abraham . . . . 355 

Atwater, Sibyl .. ..146 

Atwell. Joan 235, 238. 287. 330. 

Richd. . . 283, 287, 330, 333 

Atwood, Kath. 147, John . . 236 
Auger. Edith, Robt. . . 6f 

Aurifaber. Wm. . . . . 63 

Austen. John 147, Richd. . . 382 
Avery, Jas. ..151 

AxBRiDGE Panel .. ..337 

Ayles, John .. ..333 

Aylesworth, John .. ..151 

Ayleway, Richd. . . . . I47 

Baber, Francis 119. Robt. 147, 

Edwd. 151. Sir J. .. 355 

Babington. Frances. Thos. . . 58 
Bacon, Geo. 355, Wm. i". 355 

Bacqueville. House of • . 53 

Badcock, Wm. . . • • *5*^ 

Bade, Thos. . . • • 3^4 

Baggott, Mary. Richd. . . 58 

Bagshaw, Rev. Thos. . . 56 

Bailey, Alice, Wm. 147. John . . 237 
Baily als Browmsey, Mary, John 306 
Baily als Denslowe, Edith, 

Edm.. Mary .. ..306 



S86 



Index, 



Baker, Baraaby 17, Hy., Wm. 26, 
Rev. John 100, 262, Eliz.,Hy., 
Joan, Mich., Stephen 147, 
Rev. J.. Rev. W. 184, John 
192, 240, 329, 355, Thos. 283. 
Mary, Rich. 306, Ann, Robt. 

Baker, Emest E. .. 

Baker, T.H. ., 122, 

Balam and Isham . . 

Balch, Geo. 115. Robt., M.A. .. 

Bale, Jas. 109, 1 16, 355, Thos. . . 

Bailer, Thos. 

Balston, Hy., Thos. 

Baltesborough, Robt. de 

Baltonsborough 

Bamfield, Thos. 113, Warwick 

Banfield, John, Richd. 

Bankes, Albert, . . 325, 

Banks, Rev. W. . . 

Barber, Agnes 141, 185, 188, G. 
191, Robt. 

Barbor op Barnstaple, 223. 
277. 



Page. 



Barfoot. Wm. 

Baijonee, John . . 286, 

Barker, Mary 

Barlant, John 

Bamacott, Richd. . . 

Barnard, Eliz., Thos. 168, Nath. 

112. Rev. O. 
Barnes, Dorothy, Richd. 361, 

Thos. 74, Wm. . . 
Barnbs, Rbv. Francis 
Barnes, W. Miles . . 22, 23, 69, 
Baron, Ann 181. Rev. W. 55, 
Barrett, J. 
Barry, Richd. 
Barter, John 
Bartlett als Williams. Dorothy, 

Hy 

BartUit, R.G. . . 273, 324. 
Bartlbtt, Rev. Wm. 
Bartlett, Rev. W. 44, 261, Sarah 

101. Robt. 105. Alex. 147, 

Ehz.. Geo. 121, Rev. Hy.. 

Rev. Thos. 315, Rev. R. L. 

366, J.. Wm. .. 
Barton. Cornelius, Edith 
Barwick, Rev. S. . . 
Baseley, Martha, Saml. 
Basil. John 
Basings.. 
Baskett, Bridget, Cath., Eliz., 

Hopton, John. Mary, Saline 

26, Thos. 21, 26, Rev. R. . . 
Bason, Eleanor, Hy. 
Bass. Wm. 



364 

13 
367 

85 
202 
236 

147 
26 

250 
46 

355 
306 
326 
261 

"51 

376 

59 

329 

'J7 
381 
«47 

225 

32 
277 
184 
184 
380 
281 

25 

364 
366 

74 



380 

'83 
103 

147 
151 



225 

307 
286 



Bassett. Wm. • . 114, 

Basterville, Hanibal 

Batchelor, Hy. 

Bates, E.H. . . 247. 343, 

Bath, John, Earl of 

Batson. Rev. Edm. 

Batten, Richd. 147, John 

Batwell, Cicely, Thos. 

Baunton, Agnes, Wm. 

Qaynard, John, Marg., Thos. .. 

Beachton, Rev. R. . . 

Beadon, Thos. 

Bealy, Rev. Thos. . . 

Beamont. Mary, Philip 

Beard, Thos. 

Beare, Andrew, Richd 

Beareham, Dorothy 

Beaton, Geo. .. 108, 

Beaumont. Wm. 147, Rev. 

Wm. . . 
Beaver, John 

Bedroan, Wm. . . 92, 

Beere, Marg. 60, 307, Wm. 60, 

John 91, Robt. .. 
Bees, Power op Scent in. .326, 
Beeson, Andrew 
Beethel, Mat. op Wimbornb 
Belben, John, Susan 
Bells, Inscriptions on 
Bene, Thos. 
Benen .. 

Benison, Rev. S. . . 
Bennett. Jas. 165, 166, John 147 

250, Richd, Wm. 147, Thos... 
Bentham, Rev. Saml. 
Bentill,J. .. .. 379, 

Berieu, Rev. Hy. . . 
Berkeley, Baron 356, Sir Chas. 

125, Edwd., Maurice 
Bernard, Mr. 167, Simon 187 

Rev.T. , .. 

Berry, Lewis 

Berton, Thos. . . 137, 

Bettescombe. John . . 
Bettie als Morford, Frances 
Bewnell, Jas. 
Biggs. Dorothy, Geo. 
Bikenill. John 
Billis.Wm. 
Bindon . . 

Bingham, Richd. . . 
Binney, Goody, Joan,Tho8. 168, 

Jbseph 
Bird, Geo., Judith 104, John . . 
Birstall, Wm.. D.D. 
Bishop. John 16, Rev. John 261, 

Wm. .. 



Page. 

118 

it8 

147 

355 

355 

313 

170 

60 
>o3 

60 
184 

265 
361 
147 
147 
H7 
115 

381 
94 

307 
366 

307 
373 
306 
278 
137 

Jil 

206 
264 
381 
316 

355 

225 

«47 

16 

147 
61 

147 
329 
296 
158 
21 

167 

147 
202 

17 



Index. 



3S7 



Page. 
Bishop's Cadndlb, Pbnancb 
AX .. .. .. 133 

Biss, Jas. .. ..151 

Bisson. Jodrell, Wm. 27, Rev. 
Wm. .. .. .. 314 

Bitherdon, Wm. .. ..117 

Bithwood, Anna . . . . 26 

Black Dog of Langport 273, 326 
Blackford o/s Stodden, Alice . . 147 
Blake ah Dawe» Alice . . 147 

Blake. Humphry. Thos. . . 147 

Blaney, Zacn. .. •• '47 

Blanchard, Nich. 384, Rev.Peter 
262, 311, Richd. 54, Thos., 
Wm. Ill .. ., Ill 

Blandford Charch Goods . . 296 
Blandford St. Mary .. 124 

Blandymore als Darner, John, 
Saml . . . . . . 364 

Blaxton, Rev. John ..315 

Blewett, Thos . . . . I47 

Bliber,Robt. .. ..112 

Blinman, John 109, Joan .. 147 

Blobel, Rev.W. .. ..310 

Blue, Edwd. .. .. '47 

Blunt, Nich. .. ..105 

Blynson, Hy. .. ,. iii 

Bocland, H. 137. John, Thos. 

137, 140, 142, i86, 188 
Bodnam, Rev. J. .. ..183 

Body als Marks. Joan. Thos. . . 307 
Body, Wm. . . • • "47 

Boghejohn .. ..192 

Bold, thos. . . • • 33 

Bole. Richd. . . 142. 188. 189 

Bolt, Rev. Thos. . . . . 262 

Bolter, John, Mary . . 306 

Bond, Dennis 151, Edm.. Mark 
147, Eliz., 61, 168. Eleanor. 361. 
Hy. 167, Wm. .. 20,361,384 
Bond to Churchwardens .. 121 
Bone, Thos. . . . • 250 

Bonnen, Geo. . , • • i47 

Bonner, Hy. . . 168, 355 

Books. Notbs on, 
Notes on Surnames . . 47 

Historical and Topographical 
Collections relating to Som- 
erset .. ••47 
Dorset Records . . 48. 233 
Phillimore's Pedigree Forms 89 
Early History of the Church 
of Wells . . . . 135 

Two Chartnlaries of Bath 
Priory .. .. I35 

Caesar in Surrey.. .. 136 

Qnakeriana, .. ..136 



Page 
The Evil Eye . . -233 

Diary of John Hervey. Earl 

of Bristol .. ..234 

Letter Books of the same . . 234 
Ickworth Registers . . 234 

Ancient and Holy Wells of 

Cornwall .. ..328 

Old Stoke Charity .. 328 

Books, Old, Preservation of i 24 
Borland, Rev. Hugh . - 262 

Bosin, Richd. .. ..188 

Boswell-StoM, W.G. . . 34 

Boucher.Anth. 381,382, J. 379,W. 380 
Bougent, John . . . . 240 

Boulbing, Wm. .. .,113 

Bound, Hy. .. .. uS 

BourdUlon, E. D. .. . . 222 

Bourges of Somerset . . 151 

Bourne. John no, Richd. .. 151 
Bourton, John .. 187.189 

Bowden. "Rev. John 261, Rev, 

R. 263. Steph.. Thos. . . 104 

Bowdich, Jas. , , • . 3^7 

Bower. A, Honor, John, Wm. 
364, Edm. 113, Eaith, Grace 
26, Thos. 
Bowerman. Andrew. 

151, Thos. .. 
Bowes. John 



Bownes, Francis 
Bowring. Thos. 
Boyer, Edm. 
Boys, John 
Boxwell, Joan 93, 



17 

[18, Jas. 
.. 108, 115 
..118 



.. 306 
286, 329 

.. 17 

.. 108 

John 141, 



Thos. .. 93, 95, 142, 186, 188, 191 
Bradford.Wm. 34, Rev. Wm. 100. 184 

Bragg, John 147, Rev. R. . . 261 

Bramble, Jas, R. . . . . 220 

Branscombe .. ..128 

Braunton. John .. .. H7 

Brawer. Rev. Andrew .. 313 

Brawley als Wedlack, John . . 147 

Bray, John . . . . i47 

Bra3me, John . . ..147 

Bremble, Dorothy . . . . I47 

Brent, John .. 110,355 

Brethers, Wm. .. .. i47 

Brett, John, Mary, Wm. . . 58 

Bretun, Arms of le .. 170, 216 

Brewer, Mich. . . . . i47 

Brewder, Walt. .. ..141 

Brewham .. ..125 

Brian. Thos. . . . . I47 

Briant. Nich. .. ..20 

Brickhill. Rev. J. .. ..184 

Bride, John .. ..191 

Bridge. Rev. Wm. . . . . 3^ 



388 



Index. 



Page. 
Bridges. Edwd. ii8, Hy. .. 355 

Bridgwater, Earl of . . 355 

Bridport, Family of .-57 

Briefs, Somerset and Dorset 365 
Brimsmeade, Roger . . 147 

Brinck worth, Anne .. 147 

Bristed, Nath., M.A. 203, Rev. 
John .. .. ..312 

Brito,Ph. .. .. 2ib 

Brittell, Jas.. Wm. . . . . i47 

Britton, John . . . . 42 

Broad, Isaac . • . . I47 

Brode. Wm. .. ..112 

Brodrib, Dorothy 147, John 281. 

380, Richd. 16, 236, Steph. 

381, 382, Thos.382, Wm. 379. 384 
Brook, John . , . . 384 
Brooke, Alice, Nich. 103, Isabel, 

Peter, Richd., Thos., Wm. . . 147 
Brookes, Richd. . . . . I47 

Broome, Mr. 167, Mrs. . . 168 

Broomhall, Rev. A. ..315 

Brown, John 19, Rev. E. . . 184 

Broume.D. .. ..182 

Browne, Danl., Jane, Tobias, 

Valentine 147. Geo. 355, John 

23, 105, 147, Sir John 24, Nich. 

16, Robt. 23. 147. Walt. . . 282 
Browmsey als Baily, Mary, 

John} . . . . . . 306 

Browning, John, .. 281, 381 

Brushfield, f. N., M. D. 309, 359 
Bruton .. .. i, 125 

Bruton, Thos. . . . . 192 

Bryant, John, Robt. . . 306 

Brympton Communion Flagon 45 
Bucke, Jeremiah . . . . 147 

Buckland, John 355. Richd. 152, 

Rev. R. . . .263 

Buckland Newton, Bond to 

Churchwardens .. ..121 

Buckle, Edmund . . 2, loi 

Buckler, Bridget, Wm. 61, Rev. 

Edw. 260, Eliz. 58, 61. Nich., 

B. A. 310, Thos. 58, Walt. . . 152 
Bucnoll, John . . . . i47 

Budd, Wm. . . . . I47 

Budden. John .. ..18 

Bugby, Isott, Wm. . . 27 

Bugden, Marg., Wm. . . 26 

Bulbeck of Kingston Seymour. . 152 
BuU, Rev. C. 226. Hy.. Wm. 

355, John, Richd. . . 384 

Bullock, Anne. Joseph 123, 

Edw. 147, Thos... ..308 

Bult, Nich. .. no, 118 

Bumsted, Francis . . • • 147 



Bunbury, Tohn 
Bunckcombe, John. 
Burgan, Eleanor 



147 
117 

103 



315, Walt. .. ..380 

Burland, John .. ..118 

Burlton. John 147, Roger . . 100 
Burt, John 19, Philip 32, Rev. T. 315 

BURTLE OR SpRAULESMBDE 

Priory .. .. 249 

Burton, Eleanor, Richd. 147, 

Thos. . . . . , , 190 

Bury, Richd. . . . . 103 

Busby, Rev. J. . . . . 184 

Bush, Jas. 147, John 281, Richd. 

235. 335. 336. Wm.. ..313 

Butcher als Masters, Edm. . . 147 
Butler, Robt. 118, Rev. Thos... 313 
Butt, Rev. John, M.A. 311, Wm. 190 
Butt als Wallis, Eliz., John . . 308 
Buxton, Joan 329, Robt. 287, 329 
Byflett, Robt. .. ..in 

Byrde of Bath . . . . 152 

Bysse, Thos. .. ..112 

B)rthesea, John . . ..114 

Cachman, J. ., . . 142 

Cadbury, Deeds relating to 164 
Cade, Richd. . , ..'47 

Cadell, Peter, Wm. . . 147 

Calcott, Rev. R. .. ..311 

Callow, Wm. . . • • '47 

Calloway, Richd. . . • • '47 

Calvert, Joan, John . . 103 

Cambridge, J. .. .. 382 

Camel, John 330, Sibyl . . 330, 331 
CampHn. Rev. Richd. .. 311 

Cann, Sir Robt. .. ..152 

Cannon, Robt. . . . . 355 

Canoway, Mary, Thos. . . 361 

Capell, Wm. .. ..112 

Cardmaker. John . . . . 283 

Careless, Thos. .. 286, 287 

Carent,Wm.. M.P.78, Wm.,Esq. 355 
Carew.J. .. ..355 

Carie, Hy. 17, John, Thos. .. 113 
Came, Berkley . . • • 355 

Carol and Chant Books. 

Combe Keynes .. 194, 254 

Carolls, Thos. .. ..282 

Carpenter, Andrew, Toby .. 147 
Carr, Edwd. .. ..152 

Carrant, Maurice .. 21, 114 

Carter, Hester . . ..'47 

Cartulary of Athblney 

Abbey ,♦ .. 130 



Index. 



389 



Carver, David 236, Nich., John 

236. Steph. .. 282, 

Carving on Mbrriott Church 

49. 
Carving at Tbornford, 

Ancient 
Casely, Edwd. 
Casse, Joan 
Castle, Ralph. Thos. 
Castleman, John .. 
Catford, Wm. 
Cattle. John 

Causeway on Sedgbmoor .. 
Cavillian, Eliz. 306. N. 
Celler, Thos. 

C.H, .. .. 272, 

Chaffey, Agnes, Guy 147. John 

Chafie, Rev. Thos. . . 
Chafin a/5 Stephens, Toan, Wm. 
Chafyn, Ann, John 26, B. 
Chaldecott, Francis 
Chambers, Rev. Robt. 263,Wm. 
Champion, Cath., Hugh 26, 

John . . 
Cnampneys, John . . 
Chancellor, Alex. . . 
Channye, Eliz., John 
Chanon, Joan, Thos. 
Chap Books, Sombrsbt 
Chappell, Alice, Steph. 147, 

Edw. 334, John 384, Richd. 

147, 382, 383. Robt. 80, Thos. 

118, 147. Wm. .. 
Chaplyn, Eliz., Isaac, Thos. . . 
Chapman Family . . 272, 

Chapman, John, Wm. 
Chard, John, Mary 
Charles II. at Coaxdbn 
Charlett, Wm. 
Chase, Robt. 167, Rev. G. 
Chattock, Ann. Richd., Wm. . . 
Cheddar. Altar of St. Nectan at 
Cheddar, Portuguese Coin 
Cheddar, Sunken Ship at .. 
Cheeke (or Chick), Hy. 1 11, 117, 
Chblborough (West) Church 
Chelvey. Armorial Bearings 

at .. 
Cheriton, North . , 
Cheryet. Richd. . . 
Cheston, Rev. S. . . 
Chetnole 

Chettle Church Goods 
Chewes, Jane 
Chewton Mbndip. Vicarial 

Endowment of.. 



Page. 

283 

126 

241 
«47 
«47 
147 
192 
III 
167 

80 
147 

19 
276 

355 
262 

361 
20 

168 

147 
355 
237 
364 
288 

13 



Page. 
Cheyney, Rev. Richard ., 314 

Chilcot, Christopher . . 354 

Chilcott, (Us Every. Mabella . . 61 
Childe, Alice 141, 142, 186, 188, 

191, John .. 17,91 

Childes, Rev. R. . . . . 184 

Chinnock, John, Wm. .. 103 

Chisman, Giles . . • • 44 

Chiverton, John . . • • 335 

C. H. M. 41, 123, 133, 276 

Christmas Carols (Dorset) 

72, 120, 178, 274, 373 
Christopher als George. Wm. . . 148 
Christopher, Edw. 141, Thos. 100 
Chronograms .. .. 368 

Chubb, Agnes 26, Harvey, Mat. 

58, John . . 26, 58 

Church Goods, Inventories 

OF .. .. 30,54.49,295 

Churchey, Geo. no, James, 

Thos. Ill, Richd. .. 355 

Churchill, Bridget, Mary. Sarah 

61, Jas., Sir John 355, Rev. J. 

225, Willm. . . 20 

Churchwardens' Accounts, 

Glastonbury 89, 137, 185, 

235. 281, 329, 379 



Churd, Rev. R. 
Chute, Robt. 
Chynalls, Mary, Thos. 
Clapton, Wm. 
Clare, Earl of 
Clare, Eliz. 361, John 
Clark. John 



183 
•• 355 
.. 148 
.. Ill 
.. 56 
148. 361 
330. 332. 336 



381 . „ ,_ 

308 Clarke. Benj., Lucy 104, E. 36, 

324 Edw. 148, 355, Geo., Nich. 

147 308, Jane, Robt. 364, John 

60 148, Mary 59, Rev. E., Rev. 

6 R. 262, Richd. 116, Steph. 

147 250, Rev. T. 225, Rev. Wm. 

263 261, Wm. 148. 308, 355, 379 

308 Clarke of Wells . . . . 152 

86 Clase, Mrs. . . . . 168 

28 Clatworthy . Eleanor, Ralph 361 , 

30 Rev. Leonard . . • • 3^3 

147 Claughton, Rev. Thomas . . 296 
131 Clavell als Jeanes. Frances, Hy. 26 

Clavell, Ann, Mary 361 , Edward 18 

45 Clavering, Rev. Thos. ..316 

126 Cleeve. Wm. .. ..308 

54 Cleeves, Swithin . . • • 25 

183 Cleggs. Edith . . . . 148 

43 Clement, Joan 148, Rev. John 

31 263, Rev. R. 80, Thos. 61, 

148 Rev. Thos. 
Clergy, Dorset . . 

241 Clerk, Wm. 



.. 316 

i83» 359 

63,64 



390 



Index. 



Page. 
Gierke. John 287, Richd. 148, 

Rev. K., Rev. Thos. 314, Wm. 237 
Clewes, Robt. . . . . 148 

Clififeton. John .. ..148 

Clifford. Rev. Wm. 263, Wm. 

382. 383 
Clifton of Barrington .. 153 

Clockmaker, Richd. 351, Walt. 33A 
Clotterbook. John . . • • 4^ 

Cloud. John . . . . 384 

Cloutere, Marjory . . . . 91 

Clouting, Wm. . . . , 379 

Clutterbuck, Saml. . . 148 

Clymes. £dm. .. ..148 

C.M.C. .. .. 57 

Coad. Mary . . . . 148 

Coate. Wm. .. ..148 

CoAXDBN Hall. Chas. II. at, 6 
Cocke, Francis .. ..148 

Cockeram. Bruin. Prisdlla 26. 

Robt... ., .. 18 

Cockram. Rev. B. . . . . 226 

Codner. Joseph . . . . 148 

Coffen. Nich. . . . . 60 

Cogan. Hannah 60. John. 

Patience 61, Marv 308, 

Philobert 13. 116, 118, Robt. 

10. 115, 308, Wm. 12, 60 

Coggen. EUz., Edw. . . 168 

CoGNiTOR ,. ' ..71 

Coke. Nich. . . 281. 282 

Coker. Eliz. 148, Martha 306. 

Robt. 18, 19. 61, 306, Roger 

61, Wm. .. ..17 

Colbome. Rebecca.. .. 61 

Col brook. Thos. 191. 192. 283. 284 
Colcell, RevJ. . . " ^H 

Colchester, thos. . . . . 148 

Cole als Pawlett, Alice. John . . 60 
Cole. Eliz.. Joan. John 361. 

Richd. 
Colman, Jos. 28. 30, 86. 



Coleman, Moses .. 
Coles, John 

Colford. Nich. 109. Wm. 
Collens, Wm. 
Colles. Rev. Robt. . . 
CoUett,E. 
Collett. Ells. 

Collie, Ann. Wm.. Dr. Wm. 
Collier, Frances, 362, Wm. 
Collins. John. Root. 148, Marg. 
306, Wm. . . 148. 306 

COLLINSON'S SOMSRSBT (ERRATA) 73 

Collyns. Grace. Wm. . . 26 

Colman. Rev. Thos. . . 296 



153, 36X 
181. 

219. 357 
.. 148 
.. 148 

•• 355 
.. 16 

:: 11 

148 

361 

20, 362 



Page. 
Combe, Eliz. 58. John 139. 148. 
Mary 25. Rev. Hy. 313. Rev. 
T. 184, Rev. Wm. 314. Robt. 

383. Walt. 185, Wm. 25. 95. 

109, 137. 139. 333 
Combs Kbynss Carol and 

Chant Books .. 194, 254 

Cpmbes, Giles 355. Walt. 103. 

Wm. .. .. ••44 

Communion Flagon, Brympton 45 
Compton, Mr. 167. Mrs. . . 168 

Compton, Theodore . . • • 273 

Comyns. Thos.. Tristram .. 148 
Conant. Saml. . . . . 160 

Conet^. John .. ..148 

Conier, John .148 

ConingsDy, Juliana, . . 8 

Conner Philip S. P. 73, 131, 181, 185 
Coode, Wm, . . . . 148 

Cook, Lucia, 142, Rich. 382. 

384, Robt. . . 383, 384 
Cook a/5 Stillman al5 Twitt, Joan 148 
Cooke. Abraham 335, Geo. 148, 

Rev. Nath. 264. Nich. . . 335 

Cooker, John . . . . 100 

Coop, Walt. .. ..55 

Cooper, Geo. 362, Joseph 148, 

Thos. . . 362, 383 

Coote, Richd. . . 285. 288 

Cooth, Eliz.. Nath. 1 04. Jonathan 355 
Cope. Wm. . , . . 109 

Copferler. Rev. L. . . . . 183 

Coppe.John ., ..192 

Come. Jerome . . . . 364 

Cornelius als Sanders, Rose, 

Wm. . . . . . . 103 

Cornish, Bisbop, Tomb op . . 270 
Com well of Dorset.. .. 153 

Corode, Thos. . , . . 238 

Corpe. Robt. .. .. 118 

Corry, Rev. Matthew . . 262 

CoRTON Chapel. PoRTisHAM.. 88 
Cory, Hy. 380. Wm. 191, 237 

Cosins, Rev. Edwd . . • • 3 < i 

Cosser, Wm. .. -.333 

Cost op Dbpbnding Country 

IN 1588 .. •.71 

Costrell, John . . 285. 286. 334 
Cotard, D. . . .237 

Coteler, Wm. .. .. iai 

Cotman, Mary, Robt. . . 304 

Cottell, Eliz. 12. John, Thos., 
Wm. .. .. .. 13 

Cottell, W.H. .. 12, 36 

Cottcrell, John 1 18. Mary, Thos. 26 
Cottington Family . . . . i 

Cottington. Maurice ..113 



Indix. 



39^ 



Page. 
Cotton, Tim. . . . . 148 

Coonselly John . . ..111 

Cooper. John . . . . 153 

Court, Edwd. 355. John 1 10. 181, 
Thos... .. ..148 

Courtney, John .. ..148 

Court Rolls, Sombrset .. 243 
Coventry, Eliz., John 148, Sir 
John .. .. .. 355 

Coward, Peter 113, Thos. 118, 

382, Wm. . , • • 355 

Cowbrygge, David.. ., 188 

Cox als Smith, Wini£rid . . 148 

Cox, Anne, Edith, Thos. 306, 
Dorothy 26, 60, Eliz., Susan 
26, 60, 362, Giles 148, James 
26, John 19, 26, 1 14, 148, 306, 
Laurence 384, Mary 26, 362, 
Peter 26, 306, Thos. 60, Wm. 316 
Coxley, Earthquake Shock at . . 46 
Crabb, Agnes . . . . 148 

Cranbome Church, Dedication 
of .. .. ..56 

Cranbome Church Goods . . 55 
Cranb Family .. 210, 272 

Crane, Geo., of Bridgwater 166 
Crane, John .. 116, 118 

Crarrant. Wm. (see Carent) . . 355 
Crawford Church Goods . . 296 
Crayford, Edith .. -.364 

Creech, Hy. . . . . 148 

Crespi, A.J.H, . , 169, 209 

Cress, Philip . . . . 282 

Creswick, John .. ••355 

Crewe, Arthur . . . . 148 

Critch, Edwd., Robt. ,. 308 

Crocker, Chr., Robt., Saml. . . 148 
Croft, Rev. John . . . . 316 

Crofte, Chas. .. ..118 

Croffge, Agnes . . . • 185 

Croke, John . . • • 15 

Cromp, Rev. Walt. . . 261 

Cromwell Family . . • • 357 

Cromwell, Ouver 276, 325, 357 
Crook's Peak .. ..76 

Croome. Cath., Thos. . . 60 

Cross, Rev. John ., .. 296 

Crosse, Robt. 153, Thos. 99, 
Rev. Thos. . . . . 264 

Crosspen, J. 383, Wm. 382, 384 

Crouch, Rev. Jas. . . 225, 226 

Crummey, Hannah. Wm. . , 362 
Cuckoo, The .. ..129 

Cudrington, John .. ..112 

Cuff, Andrew iii, John 281, 

Robt... •• .. no 

Culverwell, Andrew .. 148 



Page. 
Cuming, Wm.. M.D. . . 34 

Cunditt, Agnes, Richd. . . 26 

Cupper, John .. •• X53 

Curgenven, Thos., M.A. . . 202 

Curie, Hugh .. ..148 

Curme, Mary . . . . 26 

Curray, Rev. D. . . . . 262 

Curry (North) Hundred .. 352 
Curry, Wm. . . 109, 1 16 

Cursey, John . . 379. 380 

Curteis, A.M., M.A. .. 312 

Curtis, Eliz., Thos. 168, John.. 148 
Curtys, Anne, John . . 103 

Cutler als Towneinge, Jane . . 148 
Cutler, Hy., 312. John. M.A. .. 203 
A, 48. 53, 68, 74, 87. 89, 123, 

124, 136. 156. 219. 232. 233, 328 
Dabinett, Marg. . . 148 

Dacombe, Edw. 20. Rev. Robt. 

314, Rev. Thos. . . -54 

Dalabere, Mr. .. ..201 

Dale, E.R. , . . . 183 

Dale, John 332, Thos. . . 118 

Damer als Blandymore, John, 

Saml... .. .. 364 

Dampitt or Damport, John . . 153 
Dando als Herman, Joan . . 148 
Dando. Peter . . 148 

Daniil, W. E. 89, 131, 221, 235 

Darby, Anne 103, John 103, 126 
Daren family . . " ^| 

Dashwood. Edw. . . . . 16 

Davenant, Rev. Edw. .. 113 

Davies, Edw., Richd. iiS, 

John, Robt. 148, Tobias . . 34 
Davison, Hy. .. "8,355 

Davy, Geo. 148, Laurence 95, 

137, 139, Mary 25, Richd. 237. 380 
Daw als Blake, Alice . . 147 

Dawe, Edm. 148, Richd. 383, 

Wm. .. .. 107. 115 

Day. Ellen 144, Robt. . . 148 

Deacon, Edw, . . . . 223 

Deacon Family .. ..223 

Deane. Richd.. Wm. . . 60 

Deare, Alice, Edw. . . 308 

Deckham, John . . ..114 

Dedication of Somerset 

Churches .. 80, 328 

Deering, Nich. .. " ^^i 

Delavere, Reynard . . 148 

De Mandeville, Arms of 170, 216 
Dennett, Rev. John . . 262 

Dennis, Rev. K. .. 30. 184 

Denslowe, als Baily, Edith, Ed- 
mund, Mary .. .. 306 
Deor, Wm. •• •• 141 



392 



Index. 



Page. 
Derby, Chr., 19, Wm. . . 24 

Devall, Rev. H. . . • • 99 

Devenish, Rev. B. 225, Richd. 

148, Tristram .. ..42 

Deverell, Agnes 379, John 235, 

236, Wm. . . . . 336 

Devon (North) Superstition 

325. 3^8 
Dewdney. Andrew . . . , 355 

Dewhurst, Rev. T. . . . . 184 

D.HS. ., .124, 289, 378 

Dibdin, Richd. . . ..in 

Dicker, W. 33,65,81, 162, 243, 264, 368 
Didmill a/5 Stanier, Robt. . . 148 
Dinck, Joan, Margery . . 364 

Dingley, John 281, Richd. . . 148 
Dirdoe, Chr. . . . . ' 7 

Diskett. Edwd .. ..148 

Dix, Thos. . . . . 109 

D.K,T, .. .. 129, 131 

Dobbes, Walt. .. ..31 

Dober ah Noke, Frances, John 104 
Doble, Joan 148, Thos. . . 380 

Dodimeade, John .. .. 148 

Dodington, Chr., Wm. 291, 337 

Doe, Wm. . . . , 237 

Dojion, Rev. G. . . . . 184 

Dole, Richd. . . . . 148 

Doll, Harry, John . . . . 295 

Dolling, John 21, Thos. .. 148 

Domey, Mary . . . . 148 

Donken, Geo. . . . . 384 

Doole, Hy . . . . 56 

Dorset Administrations, 25, 

58, 103, 146, 213, 250, 306, 361 
Dorset Briefs .. .. 365 

Dorset Christmas Carols, 

72. 120, 178. 274, 373 
Dorset Chronogram .. 368 

Dorset Clergy . . 183. 359 

Dorset Clergy and the 

Protestation . . 223, 260, 313 
Dorset Contribution to 

Defence OP Country .. 71 
Dorset Knighthood Compo- 
sitions .. ..14 
Dorset, Knights of the 

Shire .. ••33 

Dorset, Monumental Inscrip- 
tions, RELATING TO, 1 23, 160. 

218,310,373 

Dorset Phrases .. 134, 170 
Dorset Proverbs . . ..122 

Dorset Subsidy Roll .. 354 

Dorsetshire Dairy Maid, 

The .. ..378 

Dorset, Visitation of . . 359 



Dorset, John, 95, 137, 138, 139. 

141, 144, Robt. 188, Thos. .. 185 
Douch, Richd. 177, Wm. 61, 

Rev. W. . , 262 

Dovertie, Rev. Jas. . . 225 

Dowding. Joseph, Marg., . , 364 
Down at Fool, John . . 169 

Downton ah Walljrs, Cath. . . 27 
Dowton„ Rev. Thos. . . 261 

Drake, Mary, Wm 308, Nic. 

250, Robt. .. •.139 

Drant, Rev. N. .. 313 

Draper, John 286. 331, 334, Rev. 

J. 183, Richd. 108. 115, Roger 

288, 329 
Draycott, Earthquake Shock at 46 
Drayton als Harris, Hy. . . 103 

Drayton, Rev. J. .. ..183 

Drew, John, Roger . . 104 

Druston, Edw. . . . . 355 

Ducke, Rev. R. .. ..183 

Dudfield, Saml. .. ..148 

Dngdale, Rev, P. . . . . 225 

Dugmore, Wm. . . 148 

Dunford, Rev. Thos. . . 264 

Dunkerton, J. .. ..381 

Dunn. Danl. 15, John 16, Ralph 148 
Dunning, Mary, 362, Wm. 105, 362 
Dunster, Giles, 80, Hy. 355, 

Matilda, 239, Thos. 140, 141, 

185, 187, 192. 239, 283, 332 
Dumford, John .. ••17 

Durnsford, Hy. . . . . 19 

Durston, John, 330, Thos. no, 117 
Dussell. Thos. .. ••44 

Dyer (Us Harris, Ann . . 148 

Dyer als Hewes, Thos. _ . . 148 
D3rer, Christian, 

i^ 

238 _. 

Dyke, Rev. J. 225, Rev. Richd. 

315, Thos. 
Dykemill, John 
Eame, John 
Earle or Erlb, Family of 



yrer ais newes, inos. 
|rer, Christian, Jane, Ralph 
148, Edwd. 1 13, J. 288, Lucy 
238. 287, 330, Robt. 



99 

67 
287 
148 
36 
EarU,], .. 194, 323 

Ears, Robt. ••154 

Earthquake Shocks.Sombrset 45 
Eastman, Rev. John . . 262 

Eastmond, John, Thos. . . 104 

Eaton a/5 Whetcomb, Anne . . 58 
Eaton, T.K. .. .. 168 

E.B. .. .. .. 328 

Ebbcr, Agnes, 382, 383, 384, John 379 
Ebenezer Cottages .. 183 

Edefield, Bishop's Caundle 324 
Edgar, John 103, 105, Mary .. 105 



Ind$x, 



393 



Page. 
Edgariegh. Herbert of, John . . 64 
Editor fir Dorstt 123, 132, 223, 

230. 368. 373. 378 
Editor for Somtrut 86, 158, 177, 258 
Editors, Thi .. 312,327,379 

Edmondsham Church Goods . . 33 
Edwards, Abraham, John, 

Richd. 362, Emanuel 148, 

Geo. 74, Rebecca, Wm. . . 306 
Effigy in Ilton Church .. 145 
Elgcrdon, Hy. .. ..16 

Elford, Rev. John 261, John .. 310 
Elkyn, Rev. T. .. ..183 

Ellbsdon .. ..180 

Ellesdon, Capt. W. .. 8 

Ellis, Basil 61, Chr. 17, John 19, 

148. 380, Nich. 113. Thos. 381, 382 
Ellyot, Thos. . . . . 54 

Elmes. Geo. . . • • 33 

Elton Family 122,179,220 

Elwortky, F.T. . . . . 50 

Emlyn, Emlbn, or Emyley 

Family . . 183, 278 

English, Danl.. John, Peter 166, 

Thos... .. ..no 

Enthrowde, Wm. . . , . 116 

E,R.D. . . . . 130 

Erie, Sir Walter . . . . 69 

Escott, John . . . . 355 

Estercombe. Richd. .. 154 

Estmond, Geo. . . . . 19 

Etterick, Anne, Wm. . . 26 

Evans, Hy. 362, Isabel 380, John 

148, Margery 362, 364, Stephen 

59. Thos. .. ..364 

Everard ah Newman, Thos. . . 27 
Everard, Rev. John . . 3^3 

Evered, Humphry, Joan 364, 

John III, 362, Thos. .. 362 

Everett, Ferinando, John . . 148 
Everidge, Thos. . . • • 32 

Every ah Chilcott, Mabella, 

Elk. .. .. .. 61 

Every. John . . 154, 355 

Evil Eye, The .. .. 7^ 

Ewens. Andrew in, Joan 148, 

John .. .. Ill, 154 

Eyre, Anne, Rev. Thos. ..218 

E3rres, Joan 362, John 306, 362, 

Richd. .. ..306 

Facie, John .. .. 148 

Fair, John . . 93, 95 

Faircfongh, Eliz.. Nath. . . 308 

Fairman. John, 250, Wm. 333, 334 
Fairs, Somerset .. ..21 

Fanning, D. . . . . 237 

Famham, Andrew. Robt. 60, 

Rev. Thos. . . . . 260 



Page. 
Fan*. John .. 114, 118 

Farthmg, Rev.R. 264, Robt. 109, 

W^m. .. .. ..Ill 

Farwell, Jas. in. Roger 381 

Thos... * .. .355 

Fatt, Richd. . . . . 384 

Fauntleroy, Dorothy, Jane, 362, 

Wm. . . . , 20, 362 

Fawkener, John . . . . 148 

Fawne, Thos. .. •• I75 

Fayle, Rev. W. . . . . 183 

Feanes, Chr. .. ..114 

Felde, Edith, 139, Hy. 142, 191 

Field Names, Winsford . . 81 
Field, Thos. . . • . 355 

Fill. Ann, Eliz., Phyllis. Robt. 306 
Fillioll, Rev. R., 226. Wm. , . 17 
Finch, John .. ..331 

Fisher, Mary 362, John 32, 362, 

Saml. 148, Thos. 177, 286. 329. 

Wm. .. ..334 

Fitch, Rev. Hy. . . . . 366 

Fitz, Florence 379, Joan, Wm. 

380, Thos. 287, 330, 331, 334 
Fitzharding, Viscount . . 356 

Fitzherbert, J. .. .. 355 

Fitzjames .. .. 237 

F. J. P. 126, 220, 221, 324. 354, 359 
Flay, Edw. 148, Rev. Walt. ,.. 314 
Fleming, John. . . 240. 329 

FUtcher, W.J, .. ..41 

Flewell, Christian, Eliz., Wm. 364 
Flower, John .. ..112 

Floyer, Anth. .. ..19 

F.M.P.., 127, 128,180 

Foot, Jas. .. ..118 

Ford ah Kneebone. Joan .. 148 
Ford, Anne, John 308, Rev. 

David. 260, Jas. 114. Robt. 148 

Thos. 207. wm. .. 112, 148 

Forrester, Rev. Abraham 260, 

311. Rev. Robt. .. ..311 

Forscue, Hy. .. ••237 

Forstinor. John .. ..185 

Forte, Jas. .. ..115 

Foster, Chr. .. ..118 

Fowler, Wm. . . . . 148 

Fox, Agnes 282, Edm. 236, John 

113, Thos. 148, Robt. 381, 

Wm... .. ..237 

Fox ah Romayne, Phyllis, Wm. 363 
Foxwell, John .. .. 33^ 

Foy, John .. .17 

Foyle, John .. 154 

Frampton, Rev. F. 226, Jas. 16, 

Mary, Thos. 58, Roger . . 90 

Francis, Richd. .. ..148 

Franck, Hester, Richd .. 103 



394 



Index, 



Page. 
Francklin. Richd. . . . . 148 

Fraunce, Wm. .. ..117 

Freak or Freke, John, Robt. 17, 

Sir Thos. . . 16, 20, 23 

Freeman, Peter . . , . 384 

French, Wm. . . . . 60 

Frencham, Rev. N. . . 263 

Frenchman, Anne, Nath. . . 306 
Friars of thb Holy Trinity 86 
Fricon, John .. ..91 

Friday, Rev. R. .. ..184 

Frightened Isaac .. 221 

Frost. Richd., Robt. . . 364 

Fry Family of Paulet, ,. 253 
Fry, John, the Regicide .. 207 
Fry or Frye, ^ne, Jane 362, 
Edw. 118, Geo. 18, 362, Hugh 
206, John 115. 206, Matt. M, 
Nich. 55, Rev. Philip 366, 
Rev. R. 183, Robt. 17, Thos. 
54, Walt. 54, 55. Wm. .. 54 

Fry, E. A, 14, 45, 106, 126, 207, 

243. 359 
Fry, Geo. S. 25. 58, 71. 103. 146, 

205, 213, 250. 253, 306, 324, 361 
Frye, Rev. Robt. 71, 32^ 

Fryer, Rev. Robt. .. ..316 

Fulbrook, Wm. de . . . . 250 

Fuller, Geo. 114, 118. Rev. L. 

310, Rev. Thos. .. ..263 

FuUiames, John .. .. 109 

Funeral Customs .. 106 

Furlor ah Hatherly. John, 

Mary .. ..307 

Fussell, Richd. . . • . 384 

F.W,W., 86, 122, 177, 218, 249, 

^ , , ^ 323, 324. 327. 365 

Fylcr, John .. 260. 311 

Fynes, Rev. Giles . . . . 262 

Gale. Rev. John . . . . 99 

Gall, John .. •• 154 

Galpin. John 104, Rev. J. . . 316 
Galton. Rev. E. 225. John 213, 

Rev. John .. .. 226 

Game, Hy.. Joan, Mary, Thos. 306 
Gane. Walt. . . 286, 287. 329 

Gannett, Rev, J. 225, Rev. R. . . 260 
Gapper, Abraham . . . . 355 

Gardener, Thos. ., ••^54 

Gardiner, Rev. G. 311. Richd. 213 
Gardner, Hy., Temperance . . 362 
Garland als Tovey, Wm. . . 213 
Garland, Eliz. 308, Hy., Mary 

59. Wm. . . 59, 308 

Garrard. John . . . . 296 

Garrett, Walt. ..213 

Gasslake, Alice 384. Thos. 38 1 . 383 



Page. 

355 

296 

99 
206 



Gatchell, Hy., Thos. 

Gatehouse, Rev. Thos. 

Gawdy, Hugh 

Gawler, R. 

Gawpin, Anth., John 

Gaye, Richd. 

Gaylard, John 213, John, M.A. 
203. 243. Rev. John 311, Rev. 
Joseph 

Gear, John, M.A .. 

Genge, Rev. V. . . 

George als Christopher, Wm. . . 

George Iirs visit to Sher- 
borne 

George, William 

Gerard, Geo, M.A 

German, Rev. W. 

Gey, John, Richd. 

Ghost Story, A Somerset 

Giar, Robt. 

Gibbens, John 

Gibbs, Edwd. 109, 117, Gregory 
i7» 355. Matt. 213, Rev. R. 
99, Willm. 

Gifford, Rev. E. ., 

Giles, Hy. 55, John, Marg. 

Gill, Eliz., John 362, Rev. G. 
183, Thos. 

Gillingham and its Fores|t 

Gillingham, M., Wm. 105, Rfev. 
R. .. 

Gilson of Leigh-on-Mendip . . 

Girdler. Wm. 

Glasse, John 

Glasspool. Wm., B.A. 

Glastonbury Abbey, Ward- 
ship under 

Glastonbury Churchwardens' 
Accounts 89, 137, 185, 235, 

281, 329. 379 



264 
202 
184 
148 

156 

323 
202 

183 

82 
60 

3' 



54 
263 
168 

333 

375 

260 
154 
154 
33 
312 

63 



141 



Glastonbury Tradition 
Glastonbury. Earthquake shock 

at .. 
Glisson, Rev. John 262, Wm. 
Gloucester, Earl of 
Glover, Robt. 
Gljmn, Thos. 
Goddard of Upton Noble 
Goddard, Rev. W. . . 
Godden, Thos. 

GODMINSTER 

Godolphin, Francis 
Godwm, Jas. 112, John 

Rev. Paul 124, 263, Thos, 154, 

Wm. .. 
Golsborough. Wm. 
Good Friday Superstition .. 



335- 



312 

45 

19 

56 

190 

III 

355 

314 

116 

I 

213 



155 

23 

327 



Indix, 



395 



Page. 
Goodall, David .. ..213 

Goodenough, John, M.A. . . 202 
Gooding, Thos. .. ..213 

Goodman, John .. 213 

Goodridge, John .. .. 213 

Goodson, Thos, ., ..113 

Goodwin, John . . 108, 355 

Goflf, Hy. 26, John . . .,116 

Going out Dooking .. 177 

Goldsmith, John, 141, 188, 235, 

281, 282. Wm. .. ..64 

Gollop, Geo. 129, Thos. 17, 129, 

Wm. 103, Rev. W. . . 263 

Gollopp als Mullett, Mary . . 213 
Golsney, Ann, John . . 27 

Gore, Sir Thos. • • 355 

Gorge, Edw. 356, Saml. .. 112 

Gosse, Wm. . . 105 

Gould. Agnes 60, Arthur 105, 

Bernard, 114, Jas. 19, 105, 

John, 167, Marg. 168. Richd. 

5b, Robt. 17, Saml. 36, Thos. 

356, Wm. .. 18,60,336 

Gouldesburgh, Hy. Robt. 60, 

Marg., Wm. .. ..364 

Goyen, Thos. . . . . 1 14 

Grace, Roger . . • . I5S 

Grandy, Barbara, Jas. . . 364 

Granger. Joan .. ..105 

Grant of Rectory . . 158 

Grants of Arms. . . 149, 226, 255 
Graves o/s Weller, M. .213 

Greda, Thos. de . . '. . 63 

Greedie, Jas. ., ..213 

Green. Robt. . . • • 31 

Greene, Rev. Chr. 314, Gabriel, 

Jas. 213, John .. 113, 213 

Greenwood, Wm. .. ..no 

Gregory, Robt., Wm. .. 213 

Gremter, Marion . . . . 188 

Grenaway, Rev. R. . . 184 

Grcnfeld, Rev. T. .. ..125 

Gresley. Rev. J. .. ..310 

Grey, A. 16, John 287, 330, 

ionathan, B.A.. 311, Nich.. 
>eter 213, 0. .. ..356 

Greynton, D., John 329, Thos. 

141, 185. 188, 190, 240 
Grice, G. .. 137, 139, 142, 188 
Griffin, Rev. Tho8. 263, Thos. 

Wm. .. ..213 

Griffiths, Rev. J. .. ..31 

Grigg, Richd. . . 332, 354 

Grime, John 143, Rev. J. .. 184 
Grimpton, llios. . . . . 380 

Grimstead, Humphry, Robt., " 
Wm. .. .. .. 113 



Page. 
Groomes, Judith .. .. 213 

Grouse, Rev P. . . . . 183 

Grove, Eleanor, Hugh 3o8,Geo.. 
M.A. 202. Jane, Robt. 59, 
Thos.. M.P. .. ..78 

Grubham. Andrew. Mary . . 364 
G,S.H. .. .. 218 

Gudge, Thos. . . . . 60 

Gullock, Thos. .. .. 2M 

Gullson, Theo. .. ..126 

Gully, Nich., Richd. ..213 

Gundry, Rev. H. . . . . 263 

Gunne, Robt. .. ..213 

Gunning. John .. •• ^55 

Gunter, Hy.,John, Thos. .. 364 
Guppy, Ezekiel . . . . 20 

GussAGB All Saints' Bells 87 
Gussage All Saints' Church Goods 32 
Gussage St. Michael Church 

Goods .. ••3* 

Guy, Alice, Leonard 104, Rev. J. 225 
H. .. 122, 125, 241 

Hack, John . . 238. 332 

Hacker, Thos. . . . . 20 

Hackney, Rev. C. .. .. 3*4 

Hale, John 381. Laurence . . 384 
Halford, John .. ..213 

Hall, Barth.. Thos. 19, Chr. 363, 

Rev. T. .. 184, 315 

Hallam. Nath. .. ..213 

Hallett, Andrew 213. Chr. 59, 
Dorothy, Wm. 306, Frances, 
Jas., Steph., Ursula 103, Rev. 



314* 



Thos. 
Halse. M. 

Halswell, Nich. . . 
Halswbll of Halswbll 
Haman, Tames 
Hambricfge, John . . 
Hame, Rev. J. 
Hamley, Humph. . . 
Hamlyn, John 
Hammbt and Duncombb 
Hampton, John 

Hancock, John, M. A. 201, Thos. 
Handleigh, Rev. R. 
Hanham, Robt. 138, Thos., M.P. 
Hannam, Jas. 18, Thos. 
Harbin, John 107, 115, 356, 

Robt. 155, Rev. S. 183, Z. . . 
Hardacre, Rev. S. 225, Rev. W. 
Harding, Ada 190, 236, 286, 329, 

Chr. 60, Kath. 336, Richd., 

Sarah 213, Roger 33, Thos. 

17. 31. 306. Wm. 91, 93, 94, 336 
Hardy, Eliz. 61, Grace, John 26. 

Rev. J. 184, Richd. .. 237 



316 

H3 

.. 155 

.. 123 

.. 213 

108, 116 

183. 184 

213 

235 

272 

213 
213 
261 

78 
306 

213 
315 



396 



Index. 



Page. 
Hardyberd, John . . . . 287 

Harford, Nath. .. ..213 

Harp, Geo. .. ..117 

Harper, Hugo, M.A. 203. Thos. 381 
Harrie, Saml. 60, Wm. . . 362 

Harrington, John 155, Mary .. 213 
Harris als Drayton, Hy. . . 103 

Harris als Dyer, Ann . . 148 

Harris als Morecombe, Honor, 

Morris .. 308 

Harris, Joan 384, John 33, Mary, 
Robt. 27. Priscilla 213. Wm. 

236. 237, 379. 382, 384 
Harrison. Geo., B. A. ..311 

Hart, John 59, 384, Robt. 59, 

Thos. 237, Tobias ..214 

Hartwell, Anne, John 25, Rev. 
Hy. .. .. .. 314 

Harvey. Dorothy, Matt. 103, 
Eliz. 61, 103, Edwd., Mary 
308, Hy. 356, John 31, 11 1, 
117, Nich. 112. Rev. R. 315, 
Richd. 362, Thos. 296, 362, 
Wm. .. .. 55, 61, 103 

Harwood, Barth. 33, Thos. 
Hascoll, Joan, Thos 



364 

316 

26 

r.i 

364 

384 

307 

73 

.. 73 

.. 155 

108, 115 

184 



Haslewood. Rev. J. . 

Hassard, Joseph. Kobt. 

Hasel, Rev. R. . . 

Hassell, Wm. 

Hasting, Eliz. John 

Hatch. J. 288, Wm. 

Hatherly als Furlor.John. Mary 

Havirjield, E, 

Haverfield Family 

Hawker Arms 

Hawker. Thos. . . 

Hawkms. Jas. 213, Rev. T 

Hawles. £dm 21. 306, Geo.. 
Ursula 25. Nich.. John . . 60 

Hawley, Lord F.. Robt. .. 356 

Haybands for Gaiters .. 127 

Hayes. Rev. W. 183, Sir Jas. . . 356 

Hayford or Hayward Bridge 205 

Hayne a/s Wills, Dorothy ..213 

Hayne. Rev. J. 226. Richd. 60, 
Thos... .. .. 333 

Hay ter. Eliz. .. ..308 

Hayward. Baith. 282, Cicely, 

Wm. 364, Edwd., Joan 61, Mrs. 168 
Hayward, Douglas L. .. 167 

Haywood. T. ., ..190 

Hazzard, Roger, Thos. . . 3^* 

Headmasters of Sherborne 

School .. 201,243,280 

HeartgUl.Wm. .. ., 35<> 

Hebberd, Ann. Nidi. ,. 105 



Hebbes. Rev. E. . . 

Hele. Jane 

Helmbridge 

Helmb in Wimborne Minster, 

173. 
Helyar, Hy. 108. 115. Richd. 

356. Robt. 213, Thos.. Wm. 
213, 
Hemerford, Rev. W. 
Hendleigh. Robt. . . 
Hendy, Marjory 282. Robt. . . 
Henley, Hy. 103, 116, 356, Robt. 

116. 155. Susan .. 
Henning. Edm.. Joan 25, John. 

Nich. 59, Richd. . . 
Henning, G. S. .. 124, 

Henslev. Michael . . 
Henvill. Bridget, Jas. 
Hereberd. John 
Herington, John . . 
Herle, Hy. 213, Josias 
Herman als Dando. Joan 
Heme, John 17. Wm. 
Hewes als Dyer. Thos. 
Hext als Hixt. John 
Hext. Mr. 167. Mrs. 
Heyron, John, of Langport 
Hey worth, R. 

H.F, .. .. 62. 

Miches, T. H, F. . . 
Hicks. Eliz., John 362, Nich. . . 
Hidon. Nich. 

Higdon. Peter 213. Richd. 
Higgs, Mr. 167, Mrs. 
Highmore. Rev. E., Rev. S. 225, 

Rev. N. 260, Rev. Robert . 
Hill. Eleanor. Robt. 26. John 

167. 286, 287, 329. Joseph, 

M.A. 203. Kath. 168, Roger. 

M.P., 79. Thos. 213. Wm. 

213, 287. 

Hillard. Mary 362. Thos. 115. 



118. 



Hillary, Eliz., John 307. Hy. 20. 

J- 379. 381. Rev. W. 
Hmton. Anth. 

Hinton Martell Church Goods. . 
Hippesley of Cameley 
Hipsley, John 112, Richd. 112. 
Hisher, Jas. 
Hix, Alice 

Hixon, Chr.. Geo. . . 
Hixt, John. Wm. .. 
Hobatch. Matt. 

Hobbs. Edm., Saml. 213, Thos. 
Hobman. John 
Hobson, Wm. 



Page. 
184 
105 
*55 

276 



184 

332 

IC3 

21 
216 

213 

26 

<>3 

296 

213 
148 

27 
148 

168 

275 

54 

232 

381 

213 

27 

168 



314 



356 
362 

184 
25 
3> 

356 
44 
213 
362 
213 
44 
III 

213 
213 



Indix. 



397 



Hodder. Anne, Eliz.. Maiy 308, 

Cecily 59, Geo. 61. 213, John 

18, Rebecca 26, Wm. 26, 61, 

Rev.W. 
Hodges. Anth. 125, 213. Edwd. 

107, Geo., Jas. 113, Hy. 108, 

1 15, Hugh 27, Philip, Sarah 

307, Thos., M.P... 
Hody. John 
Hoflfonf, Walt. 
Hogg. John 

Hoghefes, John . . 96, 

Holbrook, John 
Holder, John 
Hole, Geo., Wm. 112, John 213, 

Richd. 
Holford, Rev. Jas. . . 
Holies. Eleanor 

Holloway, Anne 2 13, Joan.Thos. 
Holman. Arth. 308, Hugh 288 

John 286, 308, 329, 333. Rev. 

Geo. 310. Thos. . . 
Holmer, John 

Holmes. Matt. 308, Osmund 382, 
Holway, Wm. 
HolweU.. 
Honvcod, Robt. 
Hooke, Rev. R. . . 
Hooker, Richd. 
Hooper, John 91, Rev. R. 263, 

Thos. 17, 21, 96. 139, 187, 
Hopkins, Hy. 213, John 
Hopton, Robt. 
Hore, John 
Horler. Walt. 
Horlock, Ibert. Samson 
Horn bio wton, Thos. 
Homer, Sir Geo. . , 
Horsey, Geo. 
Horsington 
Horsington, Wm. . . 
Horton Arms 
Horton Church Goods 
Horton, C. 356, John 
Horwell, Marjory . . 
Horwood, Humph. 
Hoskins, John 19, 214, Mary, 

Wm. 26, Peter , . 
Houncell. Rev. W. . . 
How Names Change 
Howard, Sir Thos. . . . . 

Howe, John 236, Robt. 
Howell, Jane, John 
Howlegg, John 

H.R. .. 223. 

Huddy, Humph., Wm. 1 16, John 
Hudson, Rev. Thos. 



Page. Page. 

Hughes, Walt. ..214 

Hugh of Wareham. . • • 53 

Hugo Filids Grip .. 53 

264 Huish. Wm. .. ..214 

Hull, John 190, 192, Robt. .. 192 

Humber, Wm. .. ..18 

Humby, Leonard .. .. 214 

78 Humphreys, A. 19, Wm. .. 214 

356 Hungerford, Sir Edwd. .. 356 

103 Hunt, Eliz. 168. Jas. 167. John 

332 loi, 107, 214. 356, Robt., MP., 

137 78, Robt. 356, Wm. .. 107 

384 Hurd, Richd. 214, Wm. 116, 118, 125 

281 Hurdaire, Dorothy, Wm. .. 362 

Hurden.Hy. ., .. 214 

34 Hurding, Edm. .. .. 214 

313 Hurle, John, Mary.. .. 364 
213 Hurman, Laurence 384, Marg. 26 

59 Hume, John . . . . 191 

Hurt.Benj. .. .. 214 

Husell. Wm. .. ..in 

59 Hussey, Geo. 356, Giles 17, 

30 Jas. 18, Mary 59, Wm. ,, 19 

384 Hutchins, John 236. Walt. 61, 

308 Wm. .. .. 236,281.282 

130 Hutchings, Richd. . . . 384 

190 Huyshe, F.J. .. ..42 

225 Hyde. Anne, Robt. 59, Rev. H. 310 
54 Hyett, Jas. .. ..214 

Ilchestbr . . . . 69 

iqo Ilchester, M.P.'s for .. 78 

380 Ilton Church, Effigy in . . 145 

113 Inkar, Thos. .. 329 
90 Inventories of Dorset 

213 Church Goods, 30, 54, 99, 295 
362 Ireland. Ann, Edward . . 364 
250 Irish, Matt. .. ..214 
356 Ironside, Rev. Gilbert, Rev. 

15 Ralph .. 264,316 

126 ISHAM AND BaLAM . . 85 

215 IsLB Abbots. Mound at ..131 

226 Isle Brewers, Balam and 

54 IsHAM of .. ••85 

114 Ivatt arms .. .. 226 
380 Ivemay, Richd. . . . . 99 

214 Ivethora. Richd. ., ..141 
IvY, Rev. Hugh .. .. 277 

17 IwERNB Minster Bells .. 134 

183 Izod. Francis .. ..214 

253 Jacklet. John .. .. 2ii 

158 Jack O'Lanthorn.. .. 70 

214 ackson. Wm. .. .. 112 

214 Jacob, John 311, Rev. E. 260. 

331 Rev. T. 225, Wm. ,.214 

376 Tago. John .. ..214 

356 James, Francis 1 12, Joan 60, 235. 

314 281, John 250, Rev. Thos. ,. 312 



398 



Ind$x. 



Page. 

{ansen. Thos. . . - • 3^ 

arrett. Augastine . . ..214 

ay, John . . . . 19 

J.B, .. .. ..375 

J,C, ,. .. 69, 276 

Jeanes ah Clavell, Frances, Hy. 26 
Jeanes, Hy. 214, John io«, 116, 
Wm. .. .. ..100 

eflfrey, John .. ..214 

effreys, Thos. .. ..381 

' enicoe, Wm. 286. 329. 332, 333 
' enkins, Anne 214. Harry .. loi 
' enman, Thos. .. ..114 

' en nens, John 214, Ralph .. 226 
[ening, Thos. .. ..35^ 

EWHiNGR Family ., ..326 

ennings, Giles 107, 115, Mar- 

maduke .. 108. 115 

kmney, Francis . . "59 

erman, Rev. W. . . . . 183 

erwood, Thos. .. ..114 

wn, Eleanor. Thos. . . 362 

eMop, Constant. Eliz. 364, John 
•' rg, Thos. .. 227. 375 

i$wm,A. J. 36. 149.226. 255 

7 //. W. " 106. 295 

A /r. *. .. W. 1^ 

Johns, Robt. .. ..114 

jwi«»,Rdm..Hy. 214. John 214. 
i«o. %Bi, 383. 3840 Mary 61. 

Unht JI6, Wm. 61.334. Sir 

Wm » • • • 35" 

hfiM Prtmliy of DInder 182. 278 
Mti^, Uihn •• ..214 

,:Hvfi, Willi- .. •• 333 

Mqfmm. thf»i » . •• "4 

Mv^H fMhM.Mttfg., Susan. Thos. 362 

H|,l,^f tth Wrtff«»n, Joan. Wm. 103 
MhhH. AIM, Wm. 

M - It^v. ImIih 

<\.^l i.lMM.MwfK.Jo^Thos. 



lL<rt 

i^ Mhmm, |hIih, Wm. 

, VM. !♦♦.», -^1 My, l*ury 



104 
214 

313 
191 
214 

327 

96 

27 

2x4 

177 



' '\inl< . *M. |mIu« 



113 

.. 45 



Pafe. 
Kenderick. John .. .,214 

Kenn, Chr. 227, Edm. .,114 

Kennard ah Whitledge, Eliz. . . 214 
Kennell, Edwd.. Wm. 25, John, 

Robt . . . , . , 307 

Kennet, Edwd. , , . . 100 

Kenny of Weston . . . . 227 

Kenway. Mary, Matt. . . 25 

Kerley a/s Stickland, Martha ..214 
Kerley. John 17, Walt. 296, Wm. 100 
Kerraskm als Richards, John . . 214 
Kerswell, Wm. . ..118 

Kewer, Robt. .. .. 214 

Keymer, Wm. ., ..116 

Keynell, John . . . . 214 

Keynes, Edwd. 113, Eliz., John. 

Mary, Sibyl . . . . 362 

Kidger. Mary, Robt. . . 307 

Kidley ah Pointer, John . . 214 

King. Eliz., John, Owen 362. 

Humph. 384, Joseph 214. 

Nich. 192, Robt. 227, Rev. 

Thos. 315, Wm. .. .. 95 

King, Richard, M.P. 41, 123 

Kingsbury, Thos . . , . 237 

Kingston, Thos. . . . . no 

Kinman. Joan i02,Thos.i92, 331, 334 
Kirton, Dorothy 214, Edw. 113, 214 
Kitson, Sir Thos. . . . . 68 

KiTUM's Well . , 167, 194 

Knapton, Rev. T. .. ..315 

Kneebone ah Foord, Joan. . . 148 
Knewestubbe, Rev. N. 183, 184 

Knight ah Abingdon, Faith, 

Lucy, Philip . . . . 361 

Knight, Sh- John 356, Richd., 

Walter .. ..364 

Knighthood Compositions, 

Dorset .. .,14 

Knighthood Compositions, 

.Somerset .. 106, 181 

Knights of the Shire, Elec- 
tion OF . , . . 23 
KnoUes. Roger .. ..214 
Knollys ah Thomhull. Eliz.; 

Richd. .. ..59 

Knowles, Matt., Thos. .. 214 

Knowlton Church Goods . . 100 
Knoyle, Thos. . . . . 356 

Kyrton, Danl., Edwd.. M.P. .. 78 
Lacy, Robt., 214, Thos. 100, 

Wm. .. .. 117.356 

Ladde. Wm. .. ,.186 

Ladmore, Geo. . . . . 61 

La Fausille. Major-Genl. 181, 219 
Lake. Alice. Edw.. Hy. 60, Rev. 

W. H. .. .. 312 



Indix. 



399 



Page. 
Lalley. John 235. Wm. 286, 288. 

333. 336 
Lamb, John . . 380. 382. 383, 384 
Lambe, Rev. Hy. .. ..361 

Lambert, Nich. 99. Rev. J. 225, 

Thos. .. .32 

Lambome, Josias .. ..214 

Lancaster, Edwd., John in, 

Wm. .. .. 227.336 

Lane als Mathew. Ralph . . 214 
Lane, Alice 25. 308, John, Susan, 

Thos 25. Kath. 214, Robt. .. 308 
Laneman, Wm. . . • • 333 

Lang, Wm. .. .. 214 

Langbridge, Edwd. .. 214 

Langdon, F. E, W, ,, 79, 277 

Langdon, Joseph . . . . 356 

Langford, Alex., Frances 25, 

Ellis 105, John . . 105, 296 

Langford a/5 Moore, Edm., Mary 307 
Langbam Manor .. ••73 

Langhomt, W. BaiUy . . 222 

Langport, Black Dog op 273, 326 
Langrig, Joan .. ..93 

Langton Church Goods . . 54 

Lan^^well, Robt. .. ..214 

Lanmg, Joseph, Mary . . 307 

Lanning, John . . . . IQ 

Lansdowne, Richd. .. 356 

Larcomb. John 214, Marg. . . 281 
Larder. Marg. 214, Rev. J. 261, 

Wm. .. .. ..19 

Large, John .. ..214 

Latham, John . . . . 214 

Laud, Archbishop, Visitation 

OP ., .. .. 180 

Lavender, Robt. . • 90, 93, 95 

Laver, John .. 107,115, 166 

Lavor, Crispin, Robt. . , 363 

Lawlie, Francis 17, Wm. .. 282 
Lawrence. Edwd., Oliver 18, . 

Eliz., R. 121, Geo. 19, 60, 

John, Roger 364, Rev.J. 316, 

Richd. 60, ill. Sh- Edwd.. 

Thos... .. ..214 

Laycon. Rev. Wm. . . 264 

Leach, John, Mary . . 362 

Leaman, John .. ..112 

Xeane, Simon .. .. 214 

Leaves, John . . . . 61 

Lb Bretun, Arms op 170. 216 
Leeker, Frances .. ..214 

Leicester, John .. 185, 188 

Leigh .. .. .. 43 

Leigh. John . . • • 94 

Leir, Richd. ..214 

Leman, Peter .. .. 214 



Page. 
Leversedge, Edm. . . . . 356 

Levet, Rev. W. .. ..183 

Lewen, Eliz., Robt.. .. 27 

Lewes, Bamaby. 11 1, Rev. R... 314 
Lewin, Frances, Joseph 27 

Lewis. Chas., John 307, Rev. F. 

226, Rev. R. . . . . 184 

Ley. John .. ..214 

Light, Hy. 356, Thos. 107, 116 

LiLLiNGTON. Skeletons at . . 222 
Limbur}', Richd. 191, 286, 329. 330 
Linslie, Rev. J. .. .. 225 

Lobin, Wm. .. .. 239 

Local Stay-at-Hombs 127, 169,208 
Lock, B. Fosutt . . . . 343 

Lock, Geo., James . . . . 363 

Locker. John .. ..21 

Lockett, Mary. Thos. 363, Rev. 

Saml. 264, Rev. Steph. . . 26 
Lockycr, J. 27, 141, 142, 191, 

192, Robt. .. 237 331 

Loder, Mary, Robt. . . 25 

Lodwin, Nich. .» ..381 

London, John .. ., 237 

Long, Dorothy, Hugh 214, 

Francis 59, Geo. 356, John 

108, Mary. Simon 306, Rich. 

383, 384, Thos. 59, 214, Wm. 113 
Long Crichel Church Goods. . 55 
Longden, H. Isham .. 85,272 

Longford, Wm. . . • • '77 

Longman, Alice, Robt. . . 363 

Long Parliament, Somerset 

M.P.'siN .. ..78 

Long Sutton, Incumbents op 

124, 216 
Lope, John . . . . 30 

Loope. Thos. . . ..21 

Loscombe, John .. .. 356 

Loudon, Wm. . . 332, 336 

Lovell. Richd. .. ..214 

Low Ham Church Sbats .. 167 
Lucar, Emanuel .. .. 227 

Lucas. E. .. ..117 

Luccombe, John .. ••94 

Luckham, John .. ..121 

Lucy, K. . , . . 356 

Lu(Uow, Ann, Edm. .. 214 

Ludwcll, Thos. . . . • 384 

Luff, Hannah, Mary 61 

Lugg. Wm. .. ..214 

Luke. Rev. Hy. . . , . 366 

Lukins, Thos. .. ..214 

Lutterell, Francis . . . . 356 

Luxell, Joan . . • • 25 

Lyddon Family op Winspord 

65, 162 



400 



Index, 



Page. 

Lyddon, Thos. . . • • 34 

Lyde, Tohn .. ,, 214 

Lyford, Rev. Wm. . . 260, 262 

Lydgenham, Thos. , . . . 356 

Lyle, Wm. . . . . 30 

Lyon, Ralph, D.D. . . 203 

Lypeake, Richd, .. .,214 
Macmillan, W. 271, 273, 277, 278, 327 

Maidman, Richd. .. .. 21J. 

Malet, Sir John, Mich. . , 356 

Malherbe Family .. 324 

Malherbe, Robt. . . . . 63 

Mallack, John . . ..356 

Mallery, Robt. .. ..214 

Mallett, Arth. . . . . 109 

Malson, John . . . . 214 

M ALTRAVERS V.De TURBERVILLB 342 

Malvern, Philip 142, 190, 192, 

235. 282, 332. 336 
Malyart, Thos. . . . . 228 

Mandeville, Arms of db 170, 216 
Manfield, Rev. J. 184, Roger ..214 
Maniford, Hy. 19, Joan 27, 61, 

Saml... .. ..27 

Manshipp, Jas. .. ..214 

Mareys. Jas. .. .. 214 

Mark, Joan, John 239, 283, 332, 

Robt... .. .. 214 

Marks aXs Body, Joan, Thos. . . 307 
Marks, Thos. ..214 

Marler, Matilda .. ..214 

Marrying thb land .. 62 

Marley, Rev. R., .. .. 184 

Marryott ah Allen, Eliz. . . 61 

Marsh, Rev. J. ..316 

Marshall. Eliz. 239, Lucy 191, 

John 331, 334, Mr. 167, Mrs. 

168, Richd. 228, 382. Wm. 191, 192 
Martel, Geofifrey . . • • 53 

Marten, Eliz. 214, Rev. W. . . 184 
Martyn. Marg. 214, Rev. J. .. 310 
Mar well, Rev. R. .. ..3^5 

Mase, Robt. • • 99 

Maskall. Rev. J. .. ..184 

Mason, Emanuel 125, Jas., Wm. 214 
Masters aX% Butcher, Edm. . . 147 
Masters ah Tydall, Eliz. . . 214 

Masters, Edwd.. Peter 214, Geo. 

20, Joan . . . . 168 

Mathew a/5 Lane, Ralph .. 214 
Mathew. Philip no, 117, Rev. 

W. .. .. .. 183 

Mathews, B. 214, Thos. .. 215 

Mathiloe, Robt. . . . . 3^ 

Matson, Benbow .. ..215 

Mattocks, Richd. .. .35^ 

Maudley of Nunney .. 2 28 



Page. 
Maudley of Wells . . . . 228 

Maundfield, Rev, W. ..184 

May, Chr., 114, Wm. ., 329 

May.S. P. .. ..182 

Maycock, Wm. 215, Rev. Wm. 315 
Mayn, Robt. .. ..91 

May nard a/i Nash, Eliz., .. 215 
Mavnard, T. 185, 188, 215, Nich. 

380, Richd. 141, 142, 185 

Maynestone, Eliz. .. ..215 

Mayo, C. H, 36, 217, 241, 266, 369 
Mayo, John .. ..215 

Mc Dowall, S. S. . . . . 81 

Mead, Peter . . 379, 380 

Meader a/5 Shedd, Robt. .. 215 

Mealder, John .. •.215 

Meatyard, Deborah, Hester, 

Margery, Robt. 308, Jane, 

Thos... .. .. 307 

Meddon. Hy. .. 137, 138, 140 

Medlycott, Jane, Thos, . . 164 

Meech, Faith, Wm. . . .. 361 

Meggs, Hy. . . . . 20 

Meidyn, Rev. J. . . . . 184 

Melledge. B., Matt. 27, Rev. 

Mat. .. .. ..313 

Mellier, Robt. .. ,. 356 

Memphey, Marian, Thos. . . 308 
Mercator, Walt. . . 63, 64 

Mercer, Rev. F. 262, Wm. ., 215 
Merefield Arms . . . . 230 

Merefield, Hy. 384, John 108, 

116, Robt. .. -.356 

Merrett, Mary, Richd. .. 215 

Merrick, Andrew 230, Frances 215 
Merrifield Family .. 81 

Merriott Church, Carving on 

49. 126 
Merriott, John .. ..116 

Meryke, Rev. J. . . • • 33 

Messager, John 91, 93, Richd. . . 94 
Metford, Saml. . . 215 

Metrical School Grace 221, 

273. 323. 367 
Mew, Bishop . . • • 355 

Mews, Rev. Thos. .. ..261 

Meysey, Family of .-57 

Michell, John 16, Rev. B. 265, 

Rev. J. .. .. 311 

Milbome, Christian . . 336 

Milborne Port, M.P.s for . . 78 
Mildmay, Humph. . . ..356 

Millard, John .. ..215 

Miller, Edwd. 25, 215, John 215, 

Leonard . . 19, 25 ■ 

Mills. Eliz.. Wm. 215, John 215, 

363. Lancelot 363, Rev. W. . . 264 



Indix. 



401 



Page. 
Milward. SamL .. ..112 

Minehead. M.P.s for . . 78 

Minifie, Rev. Jas. . . . . 366 

Minson, John, Robt. . . 25 

Minteme, John 17, 42, Rev. Hy. 

263, 264, Rev. J. . . . . 54 

Mitchell, Hv. 215, Humph.. 

Wm. 25, Thos. .. 25, 333 

MoATLEss Houses .. 326 

Mock Dial .. ..271 

Modiford, John . . 235, 237. 240 
Mogg 0/5 Keene, John, Wm. . . 27 
Mogg, John III, Kichd. .. 21^ 

Mohiin, Max. . . 10 

Moighen. John 191* 238. 330» 331.334 
Mollan. John .. .. loi 

Mompesson, Geo.,Marg.3o8,Hy. 356 
Monday, A.]. .. .. 210 

Monke, Chr., Faith .. 105 

Montague, John . . , , 384 

Monumental Inscriptions,i23, 

160,218, 310. 373 
Moor Crichel Church Goods . , 55 
Moore als Langford, £dm., 

Mary.. .. ..307 

Moore, Ambrose 60, Andrew 356, 

Edwd. 113, Joan, Roger 59, 

X04, John 104, 112, 192, Mary 

307, Rev. J. K. 312, Saml.215, 

Richd. 17, 307, Thos. 215,356, 

Wm. .. ..20, 215, 310 

Mooren, John .. 95. i37. 13S. '3<) 
MoRDBN Common . . . . 68 

Morecomb, Rev. J . . . . 184 

Morecombed/s Harris. Honor, M. 308 
Moreton, Hy. 105, Sir Geo. 23, 105 
Morford ah Bettie, Frances . . 147 
Morgan, Mary,Walt. 105, Richd. 

"4. 356. Robt. 18, 215, Thos. 

230, Willm. . . . , 307 

Morrice, Marg., S. . . . • 105 

Morris, Chr. 99, John 33, 

Philip, B. A. . . . . 310 

Morthfeld, or Morfile, John 141, 

187, 189, 283, Wm. 240, 287, 288 
Mortimer, Chr., Joan, Marg., 

Morgan .. .. 363 

Morton, Sir Geo., Hy., John 27, 

Thos... .. ..21 

Moule, H. /. 69, 71, 208, 231, 275, 326 
Mound at Isle Abbots .. 131 
Mowlon, Geo. . . , . 100 

Mowrie, Mr. 167, Mrs. . . 168 

Mo3m, John . . . . 142 

Muddesley, John .. .. 288 

Mudford, Ellen, John . . 25 

Mudge, Martin. W. ., 363 



Page. 
Mullens, Dorothy, Richd. 105, 

Edm. 379. 383, 384, Edw. ,. 382 
Mullett a/5 GoUop, Mary .. 213 
Mullett, Rev. John.. .. 261 

Muncka/5 Muncton, Chr., Matt., 

Ursula .. ..363 

Munck, John, Wm. 306. Robt. 306 
Muncton als Munck, Chr.. Matt., 

Ursula .. ..363 

Munden, John 27, Rev. Jas. 260, 316 
Mundy, Steph. . . • • 54 

MunsoU, Peter . . . . 296 

Murie, Wm. . . 90, 93, 95 

Murymouth, Richd. 93. 95 

Musgrave. Richd. . . . . 356 

Mnston, Alban, Eliz. 26, Oliver, 

Patience .. ..308 

Muttleberry, Thos. 108. 115 

Myddleton .. ..201 

Myles. John .. 215 

Names Change, How .. 253 

Naper, John, Will of . . 245 

Napper, John, Thos. 107, 115, 

Robt... .. 16,230 

Nash a/5 Maynard, Eliz. . . 215 

Nash. Thos., ., ..26 

Nayhoe. Thomasine ..215 

Neale, Anne, Saml. 61, Wm. . . 215 
Neast, Edwd. .. ..215 

Neighbours, Isaac . . .. 215 

Nevell, Hy. .. .. iii 

Newberry> Joan, Wm. . . 308 

Newburrow, Roger, ii3i 35^ 

Newe, John . . . . 190 

Newman als Everard, Thos. . . 27 
Newman, Anne, Thos. 104, 

Francis 164. 165, Humphx^ 

118, Morgan 30, Richd. 18, 

Richd., M.A., 202, Robt. 113, 356 
Newman arms . . . . 230 

Newport, John .. .. 215 

Newton, John 108, 115, Rev. 

John 33, Wm. .. •• ^'5 

Newton-Robinson, Chas. , . 20 

Nicholls, F., Jas. 215, Mary, 

John 27, 104. Richd. 104, 384, 

Thos. 356, Wm. . . . . 235 

Noath or North, Nath. . . 215 

Noble, Honor 308, Rev. W. . . 183 
Noke als Dober, Frances, John 104 
Norman, Edwd., Robt. 215, 

John 381. Wm. .. ..33 

Norman, Hy. of Bridgwater 134 
Norrington, Rev. S . . . . 26^ 

NorriSf Hugh . . 6, 276 

Norris.John .. 109, 215 

Northemman, Thos. . . 235 



402 



Indix. 



Page. 
Northover, Alice, John 363, Geo. 

356. Jas. .. 116, 118 

Northover of Aller Court . . 255 
Norton, Sir Geo. . . ..356 

Noteley, Wm. .. .. I37 

NUNNBY CaSTLB .. .. I3I 

Nutcombe, Nich. .. 109, 117 

Noyse. Edith, John . . 307 

Oakes, Tho8. .. ..94 

Gates, Rev. Wm. .. ..313 

Odams, Wm. . . 287, 329 

Gdber, Jane, John . . , , 61 

Odell, Rev. — 225, Rev. Nich. 314 
Odington, John .. .. 287 

Odye, Richd., Walt. .. 60 

Okeden, Wm. . . . . 19 

Gld Books, Prbsbrvation of 124 
Olderfield, Rev. J. . . . . 183 

Oldfield. Miss M. 36, Rev. 

Dennis .. •• 55 

Oldis, Richd. . . . . 27 

Gliver, Anne, Richd. 104, Eliz., 

Thomasine 307, Jane, Thos. 

25, Rev. John loi, Mary 61, 

Matilda .. ..185 

Orange, Wm. . . . . 356 

Orchard, John, Walt. 215, Rev. 

W. .. .. .. 316 

Grescuilz family . . • • '93 

Grganmaker, Geo. 281, Robt. .. 380 
Osborne, Rev. Matt. 316, 

Robt... .. ..215 

Osment, Magdalen, Richd. . . 363 
Ostler, tohn . . . . 95 

Paal, Thos. .. .. 2K 

Pacy, Thos. .. ..356 

Page, Eliz., Wm. .. ..168 

Paget, Thos., M.A. ., 203 

Pagrave,John .. ..255 

Pall. John .. .. 100 

Palm Sunday, Trbadxng in 

THB Whbat . . 89 

Palmer. John 191. 283, Rev. J. 

262, P. 356. Thos. . . 283 

Pante, C. . . . . 91 

Pard, Robt. .. .,215 

Pargiter, Robt.. B.A. ., 312 

Parish Rbgistbr SoasTY .. 379 
Parker, Frances, Jas. 215, John 

281, 286, Mr. 125, Thos, 215. 331 
Parkins, John . . • . 16 

Parliambntary Survby .. 125 
Panniter. Hy. 215, Joan, Robt. 363 
Parratt. Jas. ., ..215 

Parris als Turner, Julian . . 21 j 
Parris, Bridget 215, John 116. 118 
Parsevale. Alice 237. Thos, . . 35^ 



Page. 
Parsons, Agnes 286, 287, 329. 
Andrew 116, 118, 215, 356, 
Anth.,Eliz. 363, Joan 27. John 
27, 116, Marg. 25, Nich. 25. 
287, 329, Thos., Wm. ,. 215 

Partridge, John 109, 116, Richd. 

215, Waft. .. ..103 

Parvys, Thos. • . . , 201 

Pascoe, Alice . . . . 91 

Pasturel, John . . . . 64 

Paul, Bernard, John .. 215 

Paulet, Anth., 6aron J., Francis. 

M., 356, Thos. . . . . 18 

Pavy, Hy. .. ..215 

Pawle, Matt. . . . . 20 

Pawlett als Cole, Alice, John . . 60 
Payne, Alex. 177, Eliz. io5.Geo. 
74. Grace, Nich. 363, John 16, 
59, 105, Richd. 215, Robt.239, 
Rev, T. ..226 

Psacockt Edw. . . . . 131 

Peale, Rev. Edwd... .. 263 

Pearce als Penventon, John . . 215 
Pearse, Eliz. 307, Jas., Joan 215, 

Robt. 3 J, 307, Walt. ..117 

Peart, Giles .. •• ^'5 

Peccock, John . . . . iiS 

Pederam, J. . . 334, 335 

Penahcb at Bishop's Caundlb 133 
Penancb in Churches 168,231, 367 
Penhale a/5 Tom, John . . 215 

Penkenell. Grace .. ..215 

Penney, Rev. J. . . , . 260 

Penrose, Chas.. M.A. . . 203 

Penruddocke, Chas. . . . . 167 

Pentridge Church Goods . . 296 
Penventon als Pearce, John . . 215 
Penwarden, Chr. .. ..215 

Peny, Geo. 19, Thos., B.A. . . 310 
Pepur, Tohn, Nich... .. 141 

Pepwell. Thos. . . . . 215 

Percival, Tas. .. ..118 

Percy, John ., •.ass 

Perkins, Nich. .. ,. 215 

Perns, John .. ..3^4 

Perrott, Joan 105, John 59, 215 
Perry, Geo., Richd. . . 215 

Perry, Thos., F.C.S. ., 326 

Pester, Jane ,, ..215 

Peterson, Rev. R. . . . . 184 

Petham, Mr. . . • . 23 

Pew, John .. . 215 

Pe3mtos, John , . . . 94 

Phelips, Col. E. . . . . 7 

Phblps, John, M.P. ..131 

Philips als Amizer, Richd. . . 361 
Philips, Edwd., Sir Edwd. . . 356 



Index. 



403 



Pago. 
Phillips, Alice, Geo. 307, Rev. 
R. 32. Thos. .. ..21 

Phippiiig» Eliz., Nich. . . 25 

Piddle, Nich. ,.. ••44 

Piggott, Thos. .. ••35b 

Pike, Alice . . . . 380 

Pillion, Edwd., John . . 308 

Pimperne Church Goods . • loi 
Pinckard, John . . . . 215 

Pine, Andrew, Hugh .. 1x0 

Pinfold dls Romaine, Joan, Nich. 307 
Pink, W. D, 78, 79, 128, 129, 182 
Pinke, Danl. .. .. 215 

Pinney, John 105, Wm. 105, 215 
Pinte, John 286, 329, 331. 333 

Pitcher, Thos. .. ..107 

Pitcombe .. ..125 

Pith iNSTSR, Longevity at . . 222 
Pitt, Geoc, Richd. 215, John 101, 
Nich , Wm. 296, Rev. C. 225, 
Rev. J. 263. 315, Rev. Wm. . . 256 
Pittman. Wm. . . . . 356 

Pitts, John 356, Wm. . . 215 

Plemke, John . . , . 306 

Plowman, Rev. Wm. ,. 311 

Plumley, Wm. .. •• 356 

Plummer ah Rossom, Wm. . . 215 
Plummer, Wm. . . . . 2ao 

Plunkenett, Hv., John .. 00 

Pointer o/s Kidley, John .. 214 

Pollard, Geo. 256, L. .. 215 

Pomerys, John , . . . 96 

Pomeroy, Robt. . . . . 363 

Pond, Richd. . . • • 25 

Ponter, Richd. 215, Wm. .. 238 
Pook, Dorothy, Geo. . . 362 

Poole, Rev. H. J. ,, i, 132, 241, 280 
PooU, R. B. . , .39 

Poole, Walt. 190, 192, Rev.Wm. 225 
Poore, John . , . . 20 

Pope, Eliz.. Robt. 307, Thos. . . 215 
Pops, F.J. .. i74»245 

Popham, Alex, rii, Edwd., 
Rich. 215, Sir Francis 356, 
Thos,.. .. ..19 

Porker, John, 215, 286 . . 329 

Porlock.. ,. ..97 

Porter, John 215, Richd. 306. 
Thos. . . . . 187, 189 

PoRTisBAM , Gorton Chapel . , 88 
Portland,Marrying the Land 62 
PoRTMAN Family . . . . 316 

Portman, Sir Wm. . . . . 356 

Portuguese Coin at Cheddar 28 
Potter, Rev. R. ,. ..314 

Ponlett, Geo. .. ..117 

Pomiceford, Thos... ..215 



Page. 
Pounsbtt Family 160, 198, 276, 323 
Powell, Chas. .. ..21 

Powell. Danl. 115, 181, Geo. 356, 
John, 256, Marg., R. 105. 
Saml. 118. 181. Thos. ..215 

Powlestand. Wm. . . . . 250 

Powlett, John. 19, Thos. . . 1 10 
Poynton F.J. .. 221. 31O 

Prater. Geo. 356. Richd. ..114 

Pratt. John .. ..250 

Preservation of Old Books 124 
Preston, John . . . . 108 

Prewet, Wm. . . . . 250 

Price, Walt. . . 140, 250 

Priddis, John .. ..250 

Priddy. Earthquake Shock at. . 46 
Pride. Anne. John . . ..27 

Prigg, John .. ..250 

Prince. Richd. . . • • 99 

PrinneArms .. .. 256 

Prior, John .. •• "7 

Prodigies. Somerset and 

Dorset . . 247. 297. 343 

Prolonging her time . . 39 

Prouse, Chas.. John, 356, Geo., 117 
Proverbs, Somerset and Dor- 
set .. .. ..122 

Prowse, Cicely, John, 250, Jas. 

1 18, Rev. Anth.,314, Roger 109, 1 1 7 
Prusshe, Robt. , , . . 284 

Polman. Marg. . . . . 250 

Purse, Anth. . . . . 250 

Purse Caundle Manor House 289 
Puxton, Relic found at ..312 
Pyle, John . . . . 250 

Pym. John ., 182, 278 

Pyne, John .. ..19 

I^ntz, Giles 118, Philip . . 117 

Pysinge.John .. ..27 

Py thin, John , , . , 250 

Quicke. Humphry . . .. no 

Radd, Nich. . . . . 250 

Radford. Arthur . . 21 

Radyshe. Rev. John . . 100 

Rafie. John . . . . 250 

Raleigh MS. .. .. 359 

Ralfe. Mary. Saml. . . 27 

Rand. Rev. Robt. . . ••32 

Randall, Rev. Alex. . . 262 

Rawe, Robt. ., •• i7 

Rawlins. Richd.. Robt^ Wm... 251 
Rawlinson. Thos. . , . . 296 

Rawson. Rev. Jas. . . 225. 226 

Ravmond. Geo. 19, John 59. 

Peter 357. Thos. . . 107, 1x5 

Raynesbury. John • . 236. 332 

Reade. Wm. .. ..256 



404 



Index. 



Page. 

104 
183 
125 

361 
263 
176 
372 
369 

256 

380 
276 

117 
214 



Reakes, Agnes, Richd. 

Redbcrd, Rev. J. . . 

Redlynch 

Reech, Rev. Percivtd 

Reed, Benj. 251, Joan 

Reeves, Agnes 281, Jane» Wm. 

168, Rev. G. 
Relic found at Puxton 
Rene, Robt. 
Reymes, Bullen, Mary, Robt., 

Wm. .. 
Rbymes, Col. Bullbn. M.P.. 
266, 299, 
Reynald, Richd. . . 
Reynalds of Langport 
Reynolds, Isabel 
R.G.B. 
Rich, Lady Anne, Lord Robt. 

59, Edwd. 
Richards, al$ Kerraskin, John. . 
Richards, David, 381, 383, Eliz., 

168, Mary 105, 168, John 105, 

2JI, Wm. 
Richardson, Cath., John 104, 

Ferdinando 
Richman, Wm. 
Richmond, Duchess op 
RiDD, Jan 

Ridgway, Rev. N. . . 263, 

Ridout, Thos. 17, Rev. Thos. . . 
Ring, Joseph, Robt. 105, Wm. 
380. 
Ritherdon, Wm. . . 
River Names, Somerset 
Rivers, Rev. Thos. . . 
Rives, John 
Rivet, Eliz., Francis 
Roach, John 
Robbins, Rev. N. , . 
Roberts, Reginald 384, Rev. Wm. 
Robins, David 384, J. 379, Robt. 

142. Walt. 
Robinson, Rev. J. . . 
Rock, Rev. Richd. . . 
Rodford, Kath. 
Rogers, Andrew, Eliz., Rogersa 

59, Francis. Hy., Hugh. Jane, 

Wilmot, 251, Jas. 165, Rev. 

John 316, Richd. .. 21 

Roles, Wm. .. ..251 

Roll, Sir Francis .. • • 357 

Rolt, Thos. .. .357 

Romaine als Pinfold, Joan , Nich. 307 
Roman. Geo. 17, Nich. 20. Rev. 

Mat. ., .. ..262 

Romayne «/5 Fox, Phillis, Wm. 363 
Romney. John ., .. 250 



167 

256 
112 
217 
127 
264 
261 

381 
"7 
327 
314 
18 
218 

251 
226 
261 

25" 
183 
313 
251 



Rood, Bernard, 382, 383. 384. 

Nich. . . 380, 382, 383, 384 
Rooke, John 310, Rev. Wm... 126 
Roper, Thos . . . . 251 

Rose, James, 116, Richd. .. 19 
Rose or Rosse. Wm. no, 117 

Rose. Richard .. ..127 

Rose, W.F, .. 76, 205, 221 

Rosewarne, Richd. . . . . 251 

Rosewell, J. 357, Richd. 251 

Rosse, John . . • • 55 

Rossom als Plummer, Wm. . . 215 
Rowcliflf, Thos. . . . . 251 

Rowe, John, Joseph 251, Rev. J. 184 
Rowley, Eliz. . . . . 251 

Rowman, John .. ..117 

Roynon, Geo. 118, Peter . . 112 
Ruddocke, John .. ..251 

Rugg, John .. ..251 

RuU, Wm. ..330 

Rundecocke, Wm. . . 91. 93 

Rnshe, John, Walt. . . . 113 

Russell, Rev. Chas. 366, Hy. 61, 

Robt. 32, Rev. Ridid. . . 315 

Ryall, T. . . . . 284 

Rymelntrinseca .. 43*44 

Rythe.Rev. J. ..183 

2. 130, 135, 234. 253, 273, 280. 

312,326 
Sacheverell,Chr. 25, Rev. J. 226, 315 
" " " 384 

355 
119 

360 
97 

% 

327 
256 

60 

114 
"7 



Sadley, Hy. 

St. Albans, J. 

St. Algar 

St. Barbe, Hy. 

St. Candida, Shrine op 

St. Dubritius 

St. Leger, Richd. . . 

St. Nectan in Somerset 

Salisbury Spire .. 

Salmon Arms 

Salter, Jerome, Nich. 59. John. 

Thos. 307, Simon 
Sambome, Ann, Cornelius 251, 

M. 357, Thos. . . 
Samford, Martin . . 
Sampson Geo. 306. John ^6. 25 1 . 

Thos. 25i,Walt. 141, 185,188, 

i90i 329» Wm. . . 
Sampson, Thos. 
Sam ways, Dion., Emma. Grace, 

Mary, Robt. 59, Geoff., John 

58, Hy. 20, Marg. 60, 251, 

Nich. 58, 59, Rev. H. 184. 
Rev. J. 
Sander, Rev. Richd. 54, 100 

Sanders als Cornelias. Rose, 

Wm. .. .. .. 103 



286 
326 



316 



Index. 



40s 



Page. 
Sanders, Rev. Hy. 263^Thos. 251 
Sandford, Abraham, Arabella 

307, Martin, Susan . . 25 1 

Sandford Orcas .. •• »93 

Sandham, Alice. Wm. . . 25 

Sands, Emanuel .. 108,116 

Sanford, Geo., Grace . . 105 

Sanger, Thos. ..251 

Sangwen. Richd. . . . . 251 

Sankey, Rev. W. . . . . 184 

Sare, Dinah, Emanuel . . 104 

Sarb Family .. 182, 278 

Saunders. Rev. W. 184, Thos. 

251, 357 
Saundry , Lewis . . . . 25 1 

Savage, Geo. 20, Richd. 16, 

Thos. 100, Wm. .. 19, 2SI 

Sawel, Anne . . ..251 

Sawle, Rev. T. ,. ..184 

Sayings, Old .. .. 378 

Say well. Rev. G. .. •• 3'4 

Scalon, John 91. 95i 186, Richd. 91,95 
Scott, Edm. .. ..32 

Screene, Robt. .. ..251 

Scutt, Ann 104. John 104, 256 

Seaborne, Launcelot, Marg. . . 25 
Sealy, Wm. no, 117 

Seaman, Chas. E. 64, 134, 265 

Search. Wm. .. ..251 

Searle, Geo., M.P. . ..78 

Sears Family .. 182, 278 

Sbavington St. Michael 

Church Inventory 79 

Seaward, Humph. .. ..251 

Secret Passages in Old 

Buildings .. 222, 275 

Sedgbmoor. Causeway on . . 80 
Seely, Alice . . 379 

Selby, Alice 27, John 27, loi, W. 308 
Selez, Isabel .. .. 190 

Selleck, Hy. 1 10, Nich. i i7,Wm. 256 
Seller, Rev. R. .. ..31 

Selwood, Abbot 329. John . . 251 
Semclere, Wm. .. .. >77 

Semer, Rev. E. . . . . 184 

Serjaunt, Thos. . . • • ^44 

Serrell, Eliz., Joan . . 25 

Sevier, John . . . . 55 

Seward, Thos., M.A. . . 201 

Seymour, Joan, Wm. 363, John 251 
Shaftesbury Bezant, The . . 34 
Shanke of Taunton .. 256 

Shapwick Church Goods . . 100 
Sharpe, Rev. Wm. . . . . 312 

Shedd als Meader, Robt. . . 215 
Sheldon als Young, Eli2.,Kath., 

Thos.. .. .. 363 

Sheldon, Richd. .. •• 17 



Page. 
Sheppard, Angel 61, J. 380, 381, 
302, 383. 384. Jos. 251. Mary, 
Richd. 104, Thos. 61, 380 

Shepton Mallett, Earthquake 

Shock at . . • • 45 

Sherborne, George Ill's visit 
TO .. .. ..156 

Sherborne School .. 204 

Sherborne School, Head- 
masters Qv . . 201, 243, 280 
Sherborne School, Ushers OF 310 
Sherley, Rev. Wm.. .. 314 

Sherman, Hugh 332, J. 381,382, 383 
Sherper, John .. 95f 190 

Sherren, Rev. J. .. .. 314 

Sherring, Dorothy, Robt. 59, 

Rev. Thos. . . 261 

Sherwood, G. F. Tudor .. 164 

$hinner als Tabb, N. . . 252 

Shipp, Matt. . . 105 

Shireborn, R. .. ••93 

Shirley, Richd. .. ..251 

Shirwold, Wm. . . • . 237 

Shoot. W. . . . . 380 

Short, Marg., Robt. .. 363 

Shrine OF St. Candida .. 360 

Shupper, R. . . . . 237 

Shute, Thos. .. -.357 

Shutt, Richd. .. .251 

Sidlen. Eliz. . . . . 104 

Silk, Rev. T. ., ..184 

Simkins, Richd. . . . . 60 

Simmons. Rev. E... .. 314 

Simms, Wm. .. ••357 

Sindercombe, Edw. . 251 

Singer, Elias, Wm. .. 251 

Singing Game . . 64, 265 

Skinner, Cecily, Philip, 251, 

Rev. G. 264, Robt. . . 94 

Slade, Rev. J. 264, Richd. Thos. 251 
Slarke, J. •• *5' 

Slater, Rev. T. . . . . 184 

Slige. John .. .. fi2 

Slocombe, David .. •• 357 

Smart, Simon . . . . 30 

Smeaths, John .. ..251 

Smedmore, Bernard 105, 251, 
Hy,Wm. .. .61 

Smert, John .. 187, 189 

Smith als Cox, W. . . . . 148 

Smith, David 380, 383. Geo., 
Giles, Jos., Nich., Robt.. Val- 
entine 251, Hy. 384. Jane 59, 
Mary, Sir Wm. 27. Richd. 
251, Saml. 59, 60, Sir Hugh 
357, Rev. T. 184, Thos. 27, 
251, Wm. .. 96, n6. 284 

Smith of Canonslbigh .. 182 



4o6 



Index. 



Page. 
Smokb Holb Tenure .. 69 

Smorthett, John .. ..251 

Smyth Arms . . . . 257 

Snigge, Geo. .. ..257 

Snooke, John 251, Marg., Mich. 104 
Snowden, Thos. .. ..251 

Somers, Agnes 60, Alex. 19, 
Lucy 382, 383, Nich. 25, Richd. 
379, Sir Geo. 257. Thos. . . 384 
Somerset Briefs.. .. 365 

Somerset Chap Books .. 13 

Somerset Chronograms .. 368 
Somerset Churches, Dedica- 
tion OF .. 80. 328 
Somerset Court Rolls .. 243 
Somerset.Earthquakb Shocks 
in .. .. ., 45 

Somerset Fairs .. ,.21 

Somerset Gentry •. 355 

Somerset Ghost Story, A .. 82 
Somerset Knighthood Com- 
positions .. 106, 181 
Somerset Lake Village .. 70 
Somerset M.P.s in the Long 
Parliament .. ..78 

Somerset Proverbs .. 122 

Somerset River-names ••327 
Somerset Worthies 291, 337 

Somerset, Duke of . . • • 357 

Somerset, Edm. 379, 380. 382, 

Hy. 251, Thos. .• ..333 

Sooper, Wm. .. ..190 

Soper als Thurstone, Dorothy. . 251 
Sore, Geo. . . . • 257 

Souch, Rev. Francis 313, Rev. 
Hy. .. .. .• 2<>i 

South, Robt. .. ..33 

Spaldine. Augustine .. 112 

Spaner,Wm. .. •• "4 

Speare, Joan, Thos. .. 3^3 

Speke. Geo. 115, "8. 357. Wm. 357 
Spenser, Wm. .. '"^ 

Splller,John 
Spracklyn. Edith . . 
Sprake, Giles. John .. 59 

Spratt.Rev.T. .. -263 

Spurrier. Peter .. •• 251 

Spyne. Richd. ..■ _.'' ^^S 
Sqiibb, Eleanor, John. Marg. 

sT-B. .. 70. 71. '70. 36s. 367 



100 

257 
26 



StagK. Wm. 
Staffing Arms 
Stalling, Joho 



257 
.. 251 



Page. 
Standerwick, J. W. .. ..367 

Standfast, Richd. .. .. 251 

Stanier a/5 Didmill, Robt. ' . . 148 
Stanley, John, Marjory 144. 

Rev. W. . . 183, 184 

Stansby. Dorothy, Philip . . 25 
Staplehome, £. . . . . 105 

Stapleton. Joan 168, Robt. . . 167 
Stawell, Lord R., 167, Steph. .. 250 
Staynings.Chas. no, 251, Edwd. 

Thos. 257, Roger 379, Wm. . . 357 
Stebbs, Wm. , . 381 , 382, 383, 384 
Stedman, Geo. . . . . 357 

Steere, John .. .. 251 

Stener,R. ,. ..54 

Stephens als Chafin. Joan, Wm. 361 
Stephens, Geo., Hy., Philip, 

Roger .. ..251 

Stevens, Hy. no, John 334, 

Nich. 380, Thos... ..251 

Stewkley. Thos. . . • • 257 

Stickland a/s Kerley. Martha ..214 
Stickland, John 251, 307, Rev. 

T. 261, Robt. .. ..17 

Stickler. Rev. T. . . . . 226 

Stickley. Rev. W. . . ..261 

Still, John 1 10, 207 

Stillman als Cooke, als Twitt, 

Toan .. ..148 

Stocke, Agnes. Richd. ** ^5^ 

Stockwood, Matt. 140, 185, 187, 189 
Stodden als Blackford. Alice . . 147 
Stoke, John, 286, 329, Thos. 143. 

287. 329. 333 
Stoke St. Gregory Manors.. 131 
Stokes, Sarah .. ..61 

Stokey,John .. ..384 

Stone, Eleanor 251, Eliz., Hy. 

27, Grace 25, Rev. J. 183. 

Thos. 257, Rev. Wm. 314, 

Wm. .. .. 59.251,373 

Story, David .. ••251 

Stount, J. .. 380,382, 383 

Stourpame Church Goods . . 99 
Stourton Caundle, Recum- 
bent Figure at ., 132 
Stourton, Lord Edwd. 375, 

Wm. .. .. .. 380 

Stowell, John 240, 286, 329, 331, 

334, Ralph .. ..357 

Strachey MSS. .. ..131 

Strachey, Wm. .. ..257 

Straight, Rev. J. .. ..225 

Strangewavs or Strangwayes, 

Geo., Nich. 60, John 59, Sir 

John 23, Thos. .. 21, 59 

Strangwayes of Mblbdry ..128 



Index, 



407 



Page. 
Streete, Eliz. 308, John 104, 308, 

Tbos... .. ..104 

Strickland, Ann, John .. 61 

Strode, Geo. 18, Sir R. 23. 

Marg. 25. Rev. Hugh . . 260 

Strong, John 1 11, Rev. W. . . 313 
Strood, John ..251 

Stroud. Edwd. 357, John 112, 

Thos. 112, 251, 357, Wm. 108. 357 
Stuckey, Wm. .. ..251 

Studleigh, John 60, Rev. P. . . 264 
Studley. Giles . . . . 16 

Sturminstbr Marshall and 

Pont AuDBMBR . . .. 321 

Styby, Rev. W. .. ..184 

Styes, Wedding ring for ;.. 327 
Subsidy Roll, Dorset '. . 354 
Sugar, Alice 286, 287, 329, Hugh 

285. Saml., Sol., Robt. ., 59 
Sully, Abbot 63, Jas. ..251 

Summers, Sir Geo. 180, 273 

Sunken Ship at Cheddar .. 30 
Superstition in North Devon 

325, 368 
Suter, Leonard .. ..251 

Sutton, D. .. ..251 

Swanton, Edith 164, Wm. .. X19 
Swayne, Alice 18, Bridget 59, 

John 59, 296, Rev. R. 262, 

Richd. 17, Wm. 258, Rev. W. 313 
Sweet, John, Wm. 25. Rev. R. 263 
Sweetman, John . . . . 109 

Swell, John 143, 238. 331, 334 

Swetnam, Laurence . . 27 

Swettney, H. . . • • 54 

Sydenham, Hy., Sir J., Roger 

357, John 109, Wm. .. 20 

S3rmonds, Rev. J- . . . . 261 

Symons, Edwd., Thos. 307, 

Humph., John .. ..252 

Syms of Chard .. ..258 

Tabb als Shinner, N. . . 252 

Talbot, Geo. 379. J- H^* 384. 

Rev. John 261, Wm. .. 19 

Tanner, Hy. 93, 95» Rev. T. 183, 

Wm. .. .. ..250 

Tanton, Wm. . . . . 42 

Tarrant Gunville Church Goods 54 
Tarrant Hinton Church Goods 99 
Tarrant Keynston Church Goods 32 
Tarrant Launceston Church 

Goods .. ••55 

Tarrant Monkton Church Goods 99 
Tarrant Rushton Church .. 69 
Tarrant Rushton Church Goods 30 
Tasker, Jane 168, Steph. . . 167 

Taunton Bridewell .. 309 



Page. 
Taanton, M.P.s for 78, 79 

Taunton, Rev. John ..124 

Tavemers, John . . 94» 95 

Tayler, Hy., Mary 363, Rev. P. 

314, Richd. .. ..99 

Taylor, Hy. 91, John 285, 286, 

287, 329, 357. Robt. 100, Wm. 

252, 286. 287, 288, 329 
Taylour, Rev. F. 315, 3 16, Rev. R. 262 
r. B.G, .. 127, 277 

Templecombe .. .,126 

Temple, Eleanor . . . . 252 

Templeman, Anth. 252, Hannah 

27. John .. 27, 36 

Tenicombe, Wm. ., ..252 

Terrier of Yetminster .. 42 
Thatcher Family 182, 278 

T.H.B. .. .. 218 

Thickey, Thos. . , . . 306 

Thistlewait, Rev. C. . . 183 

Thomas, Alice, Steph. 252, Hy. 

59, Jas., B.A. 311, Robt. 380, 

381,382, Siby C. .. 380 

Thompson, Archer .. ••45 

Thompson, J. . , 379, 380 

Thorleton a/5 Thometon, Judith, 

Steph. .. •• 25 

Thome, Hy. 307, Joan 252, John, 

Temperance 27, Rev. J. 226, 

Richd. 99, 307, Thos. 17, 34 

Thomehill, Wm. .. ..27 

Thomehull, Geo. 17, 60, 363, 

Marg. 363, Ralph . , 252 

Thometon als Thorleton. Judith 

Steph. .. ..25 

Thornford, Carving at ..241 
Thornford, Custom at ..122 
Thomhull als Knollys, Eliz. . . 59 
Thorpe, Rev. W. . . . . 184 

Thovier, John . . • • 93 

Thresher, John 286, Wm. 2j8, 

286, 329 
Thurloxton, Rectors of ., 366 
Thurston, John 286, 329, Wm. 252 
Thurstone als Soper, Dorothy. . 251 
Tibbott, Robt. . . . . 252 

Tidbold. Rev. J. ., ..265 

Tighter, Richd . . . . 283 

Tilley, Robt. 362, Wm. , . 104 

Tint, Halswell, Hugh . . 357 

Todd, Wm. .. ..252 

Toleman, John, Thos. .. 252 

ToUerfield. Giles, Grace . . 25 

Toller- Whelms .. ••174 

Tom als Penhale, John .. 215 

Tombe, Rev. J. .. 124 

Toms, John 252, 307, Thomasine 307 



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Index. 



Page. 
Tonge, Chas. . . . . 252 

Toogood. Eleanor . . . . 252 

Toome, Geo. . . . . 60 

Toomer, Joan, Richd. 105, Rev. 

Richd. 313. 3'4. Rev. Wm. .. 314 
Toope, EHz , Joan, Richd. 61, 

John .. ., 60, 252 

Torr, Thos. . . . . 33 

Totehull, John . . . . 239 

Tot ton, Alice . . . . 95 

Tounson, Rev. W... ..315 

Tovey als Garland, Wm. . . 213 

Tovey, Chas. . , . . 252 

To wills, Wm. .. ..Ill 

Towneinge als Cutler, Jane . . 148 
Towneinge, Richd. . , . . 252 

Townesend, Hy. ., .. 252 

Tradesman's Token .. 168 

Treading in thb wheat on 

Palm Sunday .. ..89 

Tree, Anne. Wm. . . . . 308 

Tregood, John . . 286, 329 

Trehane, John . . . . 252 

Trenchard, Jane, Joseph, Judith, 

Wm. 565, John 18, 365, Sir 

Geo. 68, Sir Thos. . . 24 

Trenchard, John, of Evershot 

326, 365 
Trevelyan, Geo., Marg. .. 25 

TrevUian, E.C. .. ..131 

Trevilian, Ralph 108, 117, 

Richd. 108, Sir Geo. . . 357 

Trew. Collett, Hy. 104, Roger 252 
Trewin, John . . . . 252 

Trewolla, Philip . . 252 

Treybarfoot. Nich... 288, 333 

TriRgs, Lewis .. .. 252 

Trill, Alice . . . . 104 

Trinder, Geo. . . • • ^5^ 

Trinez, Wm. . . • • 3^4 

Tripp, Hy. 252, Wm. .. 91 

Troke, Edwd. . . . . 104 

Trottell, Robt. .. ..33 

Trowte, Edwd., Geo. .. 252 

True, Rev. W. .. ..184 

Truebody, John .. 252 

Tuchin. Hy., Kath. . . 308 

Tucker, Geo., Hy., Julian 252. 

Jas. 166, Joan 27, John 116, 

118, 335, Rev. John 263, 

Richd. 141, Wm. 19, 27 

TurbervUle, Alice de 342, Walt. 

de342, John .. 18, 118 

Turner ali Parris, Julian . . 215 

Turner. Anne 307, John 44, 99. 

308, Mary 308, Sarah, Thos. 

105, Wm. .. .-384 



Page. 
Twinhoe, Geo. .. ..21 

Twissel, Richd. . , . . 252 

Twitt als Cooke als Stillman, 

Joan ., .. ..148 

Tydall ah Masters, Eliz. . . 214 

Tyke, Wm. . . 240, 329 

Tyler, Anne, Joan 252, John, 

Kath... .. ..308 

Tyneham, Churchwardens of . . 320 
Tyneham Notes .. 316, 346 

Tynte, Col. John . . . . 45 

Tyrell, Edwd. 109, 117, H. 137, 140 
Tyson, Edwd. .. ..114 

Underwood, Edw^., Joseph . . 61 
Upright, Richd. . . • • 55 

Ushers of Sherborne School 310 
Utton, Rev. M. .. .184 

Vailes .. .. 181, 220 

Vale, John 384. Marg. 281, 

Richd* 236. Thos. 237, 250, 

Willm. 235, 281, 282. 336 

Valence, Rev. W. .. ..184 

Van den Bcrgh, T. J, B, . . 316 

Van Wilder, Philip . . 258 

Vaughan, Francis 357, Rev. 

Fred . . . . . . 314 

Vaunham, John, Nich. Wm. .. 112 
Venn, John . , . . 252 

Verman, Edwd. . . . . 252 

Verney Arms . . . . 258 

Vigures, Edwd. . . . . 252 

Vile, Robt. . . 252 

Virwood, John .. ..281 

Visitation of Dorset .. 359 

Vivian, Marg 363, Thos. 363, 380 
Voscombe, Abraham .. 252 

Vowell, Isabel 137, 138, 140, 

142, 188, 191 
Wade, Rev. John 264, Matt. 307, 

Robt. 381, 382, Thos. 384, Wm. 281 
Wadham, Wm. .. 101,252 

Wake. Rev. W. .. ..226 

Wakeley, Geo., Mary 60, John, 

Matt... ..27 

Walber, Alex. .. ..116 

Walcott, Hy. .. 109, 117 

Waldron, Hy. 357, Richd. .. 112 
Walker, John 252, John, B.A. 

311, Rev. W. .. " ^H 

Wall, Thos. .. 252. 258 

Wallace, Wm. . . . . 252 

Wallis als Butt, Eliz., John . . 308 
Wallis, Cath., Owen 27, Dorothy, 

Hy. 168, Thos. 167, Rev. T. 

183, 184 
Walrond, Edm.108, i i6.Humph. 

108, Wm, .. 108, 115 



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409 



Page. 
Walsh, Dorothy, Edwd. 27, 

Edm., Susan •• .. 104 

Walshman, T. . • . . 283 

Walter, Ann, Christian, Peter 
123, Edwd. 27, Rev. Ben 260, 
Susan .. .. 105 

Walters, Andrew no, Isabel, 
John .. .. .. 191 

Waltham, Martin 60, Rev. M. 260 
Walton, Andrew 116, Rey. J. 
316, Rev. T. 225, Roger 54, 
Wm. .. .. 252, 334 

Warbrook, J. .. .. 3« 

Ward. Rev. F. .. •• 3^5 

Wardeford, John ,, .. 239 

Wardship under Glastonbury 
Abbby .. ..63 

Wareham. Edwd. 19. 60, John 16. 60 
Warman, Richd. . • . . 252 

Wame, Gr^ory ,, ,, 252 

Warner. Wm. ,. .. 380 

Warr, Edwd 118. Hy.. Thos. 

357, Richd. 109, Roger ., xix 

Warren. Alex., Beth. 307. David 

125. Edm. 258, John, Olive, 

Thos. 252, Miles. Robt. . , 27 

Warren als Jubber, Joan, Wm. 103 

Wasborow, Thos. . . . . 252 

Wason, Marg. 96. 137. Thos. 285, 288 
Wastell, T. . . 192, 334 

Wastfeild, Anth. .. •. X12 

Wathen. Rowland . . . . ' 252 

Watkins, Anne. John 27, Rev. 

Hy. 260, 264, Richd. 384, Wm. i2X 
Watkins Arms .. .. 2C8 

Watson. Rev. T .. ..184 

Watts. Ann, Wm. 307, Chr., 
Marg. 252. Edwd. Phil, no, 
116, Hugh .. ..357 

Way, Grace, John 363, Rev. Hy. 263 
W.C. .. .. .. 275 

Weale. Rev. S. . . . . 314 

Weare. Wm. . . . . 60 

Weaver, F. W. 2, 22, 80, 97, 162, 

193. 198, 278 
Webb 0/5 West. Edith .. 252 

Webb, Frances. Noah 307. Geo., 
Richd. 252. James 357, John 
55, 252, Robt.. Wm. 258, 
Steph. 55. Thos. 142, 186, i88, 191 
Wbbbbr, John, Poet and 
Marbler .. ..28 

W.E.D, ., 64, 119, 180 

Wedlack ah Brawley. John . . 147 
Weldish, Mary. Wm. ..363 

Weller n/s Graves, Margery «. 213 
Wellington, John .. ..91 



Page. 
Wells, Bishop Cornish's 

TOMB AT .. .. 278 

Wells Palace .. .. 280 

Wells, Earthquake Shock at . . 45 
Wells, Hy. 18, John 100, 314, 

Toby.. .. .. 252 

Welshman. Hugh . . 382, 384 

Welsted, Rev. R. ., ..225 

Wendon, Thos. . . • • 357 

Wenmouth, Anne . . . . 252 

Were, Chr. 55, Wm. , . 100 

Wescott, Richd.. Walt. .. 252 

West als Webb. Edith . . 252 

West. John 252, 334, Robt. . . 252 
Westbury, J. . . 185. 187, 190 

Westcombe, J., Richd. . . 357 

Westcott, F. Brooke, M. A. . . 203 
Westlake John. Marg. ,. 168 

Weston. Thos. 20, Wm. .^ 32 

Wether. John ., ..381 

Wethy, John ., ..252 

Weunaker, Richd. . . , , 379 

Weymouth Piers and Harbour 230 
Wheddon, Giles . . . . 252 

Wheeler als Wilkes, Thos. . . 252 
Wheeler, Eliz., Mary. Wm. .. 61 
WhelHeke, Richd. . . . . 252 

Whellier, Chr.. Ellz. .. 25 

Whetcomb a/5 Eaton, Anne . , 58 
Whetcombe. Robt. . • 17 

Whetham Arms . . . , 258 

Whiflan. Alice, Peter . . 363 

Whitaker, Lawrence, M. p.. . 128 
Whitaker, Wm. . . 19, 56 

Whitbv, Wm. .. ..108 

Whitcher. Edwd. . . . . 252 

White. Ed.. Paul 252, 1., Richd. 

61, Martin 17, Rev. J. 44, 226, 

Thos. 258, Wm. 17, 252, Rev. 

Wm. .. .. ..314 

Whitehead. Hy. 383, Thos 235, 236 
Whitewell, Wm. ,. .-333 

Whithorn, Thos. .. .-259 

Whiting, Thos. . . . . 252 

Whitledge als Kennard, Eliz. . . 214 
Whitney. Ed. . , . . 252 

Whitroe. Rev. T. . . . . 225 

Whitteme. Martha .. 252 

Whittington, Wm... .. 357 

Whittle, Ann. Eliz., Joseph, 

Martha. Mary, Thos. . . 309 

Wickham, Thos. .. ..252 

Wigmore. John . . • • *5 

Wigsby. John .. ..138 

Wike. Eliz. .. ..252 

Wilcox. Joseph 195, Walt. 140, 

141, Rev. W. .. ..184 



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Index. 



Page. 

288 
203 



252 
252 
262 
307 



Wild, John 252. Walt. 
Wilding, Benjamin, M.A. 
WUdman, W. B. 20X, 204, 280, 310 
Wilkes (Us Wheeler, Thbs. 
Wilkins, Ann. Giles, Hy. 
Willan, Rev. Chr. . . 
Willett, Mary, Richd. 
Williams als Bartlett, Dorothy. 

Hy. .. .. .. 364 

WilUams, David 126, 312, Geo. 

19, John 19, 20, 27, 54, 288, 

Mary 27, Rev. Ed. 314, Rev. 

R. 315, Thos. .. no. 253 

Willis, Brownb, Antiquary 124,219 
WiUis. John 26, 33, Robt. .. 281 
Willoughby. Rev. T. 261, Wm. 20 
Wills als Ha3me, Dorothv . . 213 
Wilts, Thos. . . 287, 330, 333 

Wimbome Church Goods 99, 295 
WiMBORNB Minster Altar 

Rbcbss .. •• 41 

WiMBORNB Minstbr Hblmb 1 73, 276 

WiNSFORD DOCUMBNTS .. 33 

WiNSFORD FiBLD NaMBS .. Si 

WiNSFORD, Vicars of .• 264 

Winter, Hy. .. ..357 

Wintbrbornb St. Martin, 

Grant of Rbctory .. 158 

Wise, John . . , . 236 

Witchcraft in Somerset 76, 157 
With AM Friary . . 2, 50, 10 1 

Witney. John .. .331 

Witting, Walt. .. ..190 

W.M, B. .. 121, 173 

WodefordorWodeward. Richd. 

137. ^8. i39» 140, 142, 185, 

186, 188, 191 
Wolneton ..201 

Wood, Rev. G, 262, 316, Rev. J. 

262, Wm.. M.A. . . . . 202 



Woodford, Ann, Walt. 
Woodhouse, Rev. W. 
Woods, Edm., Marg. 
Woodyates Church Goods 
Wooke^, Earthquake shock at 
Woolfries. Hy. 18. 364, Jo^, 

John 61, Susan .. 
Wordsworth Chr, . . 194, 254. 316, 
WoRLB Notes . . 76, 205, 
Womell, Mr. 
Worth, Richd. 
Worthey, Hy. 
Wrenn, Thos. 
Write. Wm. 

Wroth, Sir John, Sh: Thos. . . 
Wybom, Thos. 

WyER, DOSITHBUS 

Wyke .. 

Wykes, Wm. .. 116. 

Wyndham, Christabel. Edmund 

6, Francis 6, 117, 253, 357, 

Geo. 117, 253, Sir Edmond, 

Thos., Sir Wm. .. 
Wyndham, Lady .. 
Wynnell, Rev. L. . . 
Wyse, John le, Petronilla 
X, .. .. 131, 

Yard, Rev. Saml. 366, Rev. 

Thos... 
Yawe, David 
Yetman, Agnes 
Yetminster 

Yetminster Terrier 
Yetminster, Vicar of 
Young als Sheldon, Eliz., Kath.. 

Thos.., 
Young, E. M., M.A. 203, 

Frances, Steph. 26, Rev. jf. 

225. Marg.. Thos. 60. Rev. 

Wm. 261. 314, Wm. 114, 259, 



Page. 
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381 

295 

46 

364 
346 
277 
310 
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16 
309 
357 

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324 
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179 

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NOTES & QUERIES 



FOR. 



SOMERSET & DORSET. 



A.D. 




A.D. 




1250 


Godmanneston 


1597 


Godmiston 


1316 


Godmaston 


1608 


Godmiston 


1327 


Godmanston 


1609 


Godmanston 


1584 


Godmanston 


1724 


Goodmaston 


1585 


Godmeston 


1836 


Godminster or Godmanston 



z. Godminster. — ^The frontispiece, which is from a 
photograph kindly taken bj the Rev. H. J. Poole, Rector of 
Stowell, represents the dove-cot of the old manor house of 
Godminster, within the parish of Pitcombe, about a mile and 
a half from Bruton. 

We give the modem spelling of the name ; but its earlier 
variations leave little room for doubt that Godmansion was the 
original form. 

The following list shows the forms which the name assumed 
at certain different dates. They are all of them taken from 
original sources. 

-> Godmanm 

b Godmastc 

1 Godmansi 

\, Godmansi 

5 Godmestc 

I can find no earlier authority than Phelps (1836), who 
gives GodminsUr or Godmanston as the name of the manor. 

It has been suggested by the Right Rev. Bishop Hobhouse 
that the first syllable of the name, together with the field-names, 
Godcombe and Holy Fathers, which exist in the immediate 
vicinity, points to the probability that in very early times there 
was an association of missionary priests, who had their dwelling 
here ; such a " college," for instance, as Bishop Aldhelm was in 
the habit of establishing for the conversion of the heathen of 
Wessex. 

Godminster is best known as formerly the residence of the 
Cottington family, descended from Philip Cottington of Leigh on 
Mendip, who died in 1585, having made a fortune in the cloth 
trade. His eldest son was named John, and lived at Frome ; his 
second son, Philip, married Jane Byfleet, and settled at God- 
minster. They had four sons and one daughter. 

Vol. IV. Part xxv. March, 1894. ^ 



2 Soffurset &» Dorset Notes 6» Queries. 

The youngest of these four, Francis Cottington, was raised to 
the Peerage by the title of Lord Cottington, but on his dying 
without issue in 1652, the title became extinct. 

It is of this nobleman that Pepys in his Diary tells an 
amusing tale*: we give it in Pepys's own words: 

" Sir J. Minnes told me a story of Lord Cottington, who» 
wanting a son» intended to make his nephew his heir, a country 
boy ; but did alter his mind upon the boy's being persuaded by 
another young heir, in roguery, to crow like a cock at my 
Lord*s table, much company being there, and the boy having 
a great trick at doing that perfectly. My Lord bade them 
take away that fool from the table, and so gave over the 
thoughts of making him his heir, from this piece of folly." 

Lord Cottington's nephew, Francis, the son of Maurice 
Cottington and Joan Jenes, was knighted, and became 
possessed of the estate of Fonthill, Wilts. His son and 
grandson, both named Francis, lived and died there ; but his 
great grandson (also Francis) sold the estate to Beckford. 

Godminster remained in the Cottington family till about 
1749, at which time the heirs of John Cottington sold it to the 
Hon. Charles Berkeley. John Cottington died in 17241 leaving 
no children ; his will is given in Somerset Wills (4th Series, xo8) ; 
he left £% to the poor of Pitcombe. 

A pedigree of the family was some years ago kindly sent to 
me by the late Mr. Frederick Brown ; it has been of great 
assistance to me in writing this short account of the family. 

F. W. Weavbr. 

2. WiTHAM Friary. (I. v. 193.) — On the occasion of 
the visit of the Somerset Archaeological Society to Witham last 
summer, I stated my agreement with the view previously put 
forward by Mr. W. Hunt (Proc. S.A.S. xxiv. i. 19) that the existing 
building had been a parish church before the coming of the 
monks. Mr. £1 worthy disputed the point, and he has now (Proc. 
S.A.S. xxxix. ii. 1-20) published his reasons. His contention 
is that there was a religious establishment at Witham anterior to 
the Charterhouse ; that there was not a parish church, nor a 
sufficient population to require one ; and that if the present 
building is older than S. Hugh's time (which he appears to doubt), 
it must have been the chapel of the earlier convent. 

For his previous " religious establishment " Mr. Elworthy 
cites "many authorities" (p. 12), but the only one which he 
quotes is from Leland^s Collectanea^ and this he quotes inaccurately 
(p. ii); by placing the brackets in the wrong place he ascribes 
to Leland words which he never wrote. The history of this 
passage has, however, some interest : 

• 3rd Edition f 1848) voL iv., p. 284. The reference to this stoiy waskindly 
supplied to me by tne Rev. D. E. Norton, Vicar of Pitcombe, in whose parish 
Godminster is situated. 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes &» Queries. 3 

1. CamdetCs Britannia (2nd ed. 1722, p. 87). — "Withani, 
where King Henry 5 built a Nunnery.*' An obvious blunder. 

2. Leland's Collectanea (eds, 1715,1 770, 1 774, Vol, I. p. 84). — 
Leland wrote " Witham in comit. Somerset. Henricus 2" fundator 



qoan 
domus." Then follows a gloss. : — " flenr. 5 fundator per Camd. 
Primum coenobium monialium, quod postea fuit primum monas* 
terium Carthusianorum in Anglia.'' The latter sentence is due 
probably partly to Camden's blunder, partly to the record of a 
nunnery in early times at Witham in Berkshire. If it was written 
by the man who copied Camden's blunder, it is clear that he knew 
nothing of the history of our Witham ; if by a later annotator, 
who perhaps added the quare over Henry Hi's, name, it must be 
set down as an anonjrmous statement requiring confirmation 
before it can be accepted. An examination of the MS. might be 
needed if further evidence of the Nunnery can be adduced ; but 
at the present stage it is sufficient to say that the annotations are 
due "partim Burtono [who obtained the MS. in 161 2] partim 
aliis"(Liv). 

3. Dugdale has *' W. issaid in Leland's Collectanea to have 
been first a Nunnery ; but it is more certain, &c." 

4. Tanner uses almost identical words. 

5. GougJCs Camden contains a similar phrase ; exhibiting 
both Camden's original blunder and the form it subsequently took. 

6. Hoards Witham ^ Gfc,^ varies the quotation by translating 
monialium by Monks I 

It is noteworthy that not one of these writers asserts his 
belief in the Coenobium^ so the " many authorities " must be looked 
for elsewhere. As I have been unable to find them, I shall now 
proceed to explain the basis upon which the rival theory rests. 

The Magna Vita 5. Hugonis was written by a contemporary 
of S. Hugh, who was probably his most intimate personal friend ; 
for he claims to have been with him day and night for the last 
three years of Hugh's life, with the exception of one single night. 
This biographer, Adam, asserts that he obtained the facts about 
Hugh's connection with Witham both from Hugh himself and 
also from others who were personally concerned in the events ; 
and he expressly mentions Bovo as one of his authorities, who, 
though not at witham at the time of Hugh's arrival, was subse- 
quently Prior of that house. And his editor, Mr. Dimock {Rolls 
Series) shews that Adam must be regarded as a most truthful and 
accurate writer. 

Adam, however, has nothing to say about any previous 
Comohium at "Witham, but a great deal about the lay inhabitants 
who lived in that " wilderness." It appears that the difficulties 
of the monks on their original settlement were caused mainly by 
the inhospitable reception they received from the natives. The 
King probably thought he had done all that was required of him 



4 Somersit 6» Dorset Notes S» Queries, 

in granting to the Charterhouse a tract of land, mainly forest, but 
containing some cleared and cultivated land ; a grant which, of 
course, carried with it all the inhabitants who held by base tenure. 
But these inhabitants were quick to discover that the new arrivals 
desired to remove them from their homes, and fearing they 
would be deprived of their land, they did all they could to thwart 
the designs of the foreigners. 

On Hugh's arrival he found the brethren in wretched huts 
" hand procul a regia tunc villa vocabulo Witham." Nothing was 
settled about the site of the monastic buildings, either the aomus 
superior or the domus inferior \ and *' villam supradictam, eorum 
jam ditioni cessuram, habitatores pristini incolebant.'* His first 
step was to get rid of these indigence and so to create the eremus 
required by the habits of the order : " universos convocari fecit 

prsediorum vel rerum quarumlibet possessores, quibus, 

ex parte regis, optio in commune data est, ut e duobus quod 
maluisset unusquisque eligeret ; agros scilicet et habitandi loca, 
conditione pari ut apud Witham fuerant sortiti, in regiis ubi 
elegissent maneriis reciperent, aut, pristinae servitutis jugo 
absoluti, quas vellent regiones incolandas adirent. Tunc aliis 
terras, aliis petentibus libertatem, Hugo juris benigni emulator 
tenacissimus regi ait : — ^Jam, domine, hoc etiam provideri necesse 

est " Accordingly, the whole of the natives were removed 

upon these terms, and it most fortunately happens that one 
property, Knap in North Curry, upon which a plantation of these 
people was made, afterwards passed to the Dean and Chapter of 
Wells ; so that the particulars of this settlement are preserved in 
the Chapter records among the title deeds to the estate. In the 
printed Calendar {Wells MSS. p. 162) 24 names of these settlers 
are given, and Canon Church, who has been good enough to 
consult the original forme, tells me that three more are mentioned 
there. If we allow an average of five to each family, we thus find 
about 13s persons moved from Witham to Knap alone. What 
other plantations were made is unknown ; but, without insisting 
too much upon the " ubi elegissent " in the above extract, it is 
certainly reasonable to suppose that lands may have been found 
elsewhere for some of the Withamites ; and, if we are to trust 
Adam's account, it is clear that there were other persons who 
preferred liberty to land, whose numbers must be taken account 
of in calculating the population of the pre-monastic Witham. It 
seems fair to reckon them in round numbers at about 200. 
Domesday enumerates 28 houses in Witham, so that we may 
fairly expect to find 40 or more a century later. 

Mr. Elworthy states that " at that date parish churches were 
few and far between " ; on what ground I do not know. It is 
difficult to make a calculation on this subject, but my impression 
is that at least half the churches of Somerset could be shewn on 
purely architectural evidence to have been in existence at this 



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time ; though, of course, this evidence cannot shew that they were 
then strictly parish churches. Like Binder, some may have been 
chapels which afterwards developed into parish churches. And 
in this case it appears that the people were provided for by a 
parochial chapel served from Bruton Priory (S.A.S. xxxix. ii. 22). 
As the chapel was endowed with glebe and tithes, it is diflScult to 
distinguish it from a parish church except in two points: (1) it 
was dependent upon Bruton Priory, (2) there was no resident 
parish priest. But Bruton (and probably other Augustinian 
houses) seems to have been a sort of clergy-house from which 
many parishes were worked. Bruton itself, though an ecclesia^ 
was made over to the Priory, and served in just the same way as 
the neighbouring chapels of Pitcombe, Brewham, Wyke, and 
Redlynch, which continued to be mere chapels until the 
Dissolution. 

The King's treatment of this Witham chapel should not be 
overlooked. He was not by any means disposed to be over- 
generous in his arrangements for the new Charterhouse ; Hugh 
had to fight him on every point. But in exchange for this chapel 
he gave to Bruton Prioiy the rectory of South Petherton. If it 
were the fact that Withain was indeed at this time a wilderness, 
the glebe and tithes would have been of merely nominal value, 
and Bruton Priory would have gained enormously by the 
exchange. The natural inference is that there was a good deal 
of cultivated land in Witham. 

The absence of font and cemetery in 1459 is really no 
argument at all that there were none in 1 176. For nearly three 
centuries neither had been required, and why should they have 
been scrupulously preserved ? The monks would not be par- 
ticularly anxious to retain any memorial of the people whom they 
had dispossessed of their homes. The font would naturally dis- 
appear at once, and even the cemetery, devoted to other uses, 
would soon be forgotten . Probably few people, except antiquaries, 
are now aware that the Cathedral Green at Wells was little more 
than three hundred years ago a burial-ground, and I was lately 
told that the old churchyard of Bradon is now a farmyard. 

There is no need to repeat here the architectural evidence 
that Witham Friary Church is older than S. Hugh's date (S.A.S. 
xxiv. i. 19-32). But it may be worth while to point out how 
probable it is on purely d. priori grounds that Hugh would have 
utilized the old parochial chapel. When he had created his 
** wilderness,*' he found himself in possession of a deserted village 
with water handy and cultivated land round ; and of a considerable 
extent of forest and other waste. He probably chose some 
secluded spot in the forest for his domus superior; but the site of 
the old village must almost certainly have been the most con- 
venient place for the abode of the conversi, the men by whose 
manual labour the community was to be sustained. No doobt 



1 



6 Somerset 6* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

Hugh began with the more important buildings, the church, 
refectory, and cells of the upper house ; meanwhile the monks 
may have remained in the wretched enclosure in which Hugh 
found them, but the domus convevsorum might have been put at 
once upon a practical footing by running up the necessary huts 
round the old chapel ; and it was the more necessary that some 
arrangements should be made for them without loss of time, as they 
were bound to enter at once upon the land and carry on its culti- 
vation if the community were not to starve. If, as is natural, these 
huts were grouped round the chapel in accordance with the con- 
ventual plan ; when Hugh was able to turn his attention to the 
domus conversorum, he would have had merely to take down each 
hut separately and rebuild it in stone ; and as there was already a 
stone church standing, there are many reasons which may have 
influenced him in retaining and improving rather than rebuilding 
it, such as economy of time and money, and perhaps affection for 
the building in which they had, it may be, worshipped all together 
during the first year or two. The phrase quoted above : " villam, 
eorum jam ditioni cessuram, habitatores pristini incolebant,*' 
seems also to suggest that one of the houses of the brethren was 
established upon the actual site of the viiia. 

£dm. Buckle. 

3. King Charles H. at Coaxden Hall. (I. iii. 109, 
I. v. 197, HI. xxiv. 321.) Part H. — We now come to that 
part of our story which related to the King's movements in 
Somerset and Dorset, in the month of September, 1651. 

The circumstances attending Charles's flight after his defeat 
at Worcester on the 3rd, until he reached Mr. Norton's house at 
Abbot's Leigh, near Bristol, are so fully set forth in the Boscobel 
Tracts that recapitulation here would be a needless task. The 
independent investigator may however be referred to the 
exhaustive analysis with which, in his Diary, Mr. Hughes intro- 
duces his compilation. Mr. Udal's paper (I. v. 197) has already 
recounted some of the King's adventures, but these notes, it is 
thought, would not be fully intelligible here without adverting to 
them again. 

Having safely arrived at Abbot's Leigh on Sept. 13th, it was 
soon found that Mr. Norton's house was no secure asylum for the 
royal fugitive, especially as the inhabitants of Bristol seem at that 
time to have mainly favoured the Commonwealth party. Accord- 
ingly, it was resolved that the King, donning the same groom's 
attire that had already served his turn so well, should at once (in 
attendance on Mr. Lane as before) proceed to Trent House, near 
Yeovil, the residence of Colonel Francis Wyndham, a tried 
Royalist, and brother to Sir Edmund Wyndham, the ** knight- 
marshall," whose wife Christabella had been wet-nurse to Charles 
in his infancy. This being settled, the Royal party left Abbot's 



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Leigh on the 1 6th of September at an early hour, and reached 
Castle Gary the same night ; here they slept at the house of one 
Mr. Kirton. Next morning (the 17th) they started for Trent, 
where they arrived in the evening, and where Charles, with his 
friend Lord Wilmot, remained in hiding for many days. 

From this date it will be necessary to become a little more 
particular in acquainting ourselves with the course of events; 
readers, however, may be referred for minutiae to the following 
narratives in the Boscobel Tracts : 

a. ** An account of his Majesty's escape from Worcester : 

dictated to Mr. Pepys by the King himself." 
Newmarket, Sunday, Octdbtr 3rd, and Tuesday, October 5th, 1680. 

b. *' Letter of Mr. William Ellesdon to the Earl of Clarendon." 

From the Oxford Folio Edition of the Clarendon State Papers, 
1773. 

c. ** Claustrum Regale Reseratum : or King Charles IL's 

Concealment at Trent." 

This tract was published by Mrs. Anne Wyndham in 1681, but, 

according to Mr. Udal, the Rev. J. Ward, of Gussage St. Michael, 

speaks of an earlier edition, viz., one in 1667. Mrs. W)mdham, in 

her Dedication (of the 168 1 edition) to the Queen, says, *'This 

little book having obtained liberty, after a lon^ imprisonment, to walk 

abroad, prostrates itself at your Majesty's Icet for patronage and 

protection **; so that we may well believe it to have been written 

within a reasonable time of the events recorded. 

(N.B. — In any quotations hereafter given from the above 

tracts, reference wUl be made to " B.T.'* a, b, or c respectively, and 

the page, if added, will be that in Mr. Hughes's edition of 1830, 

in which the several narratives are reprinted.) 

The King, after recording his arrival at Col. Frank Wyndham's 
house, makes no allusion to having left it until the date of his 
eventful visit to Charmouth, which, as every one knows, resulted 
in a fiasco ; after which he gives a vivid description of some 
perilous adventures at Bridport whilst making his circuitous 
journey back to Trent.* The whole time occupied in this attempt 
to escape was one clear day, or to be quite precise, three davs 
and two nights, viz., from the morning of September 22nd to tne 
evening of September 24th, which were spent thus : one day in 
going to Charmouth, where the King and Lord Wilmot sat up all 
night at " a blind inn," vainly awaiting Col. Wyndham-s summons 
to embark on board the ship which had been hired by Capt. 
Ellesdon to take them to the Continent ; the next day in riding 
to Bridport and Broadwinsor, at which latter place they passed a 
second night without sleep, at the Castle Inn ; and the day 
following in journeying to Trent, which they reached in the 
evening. This was on the 24th of September, and after that date 
the ICing lay at Col. Wyndham's in safe hiding until the 6th of 
October, when, under the escort of Col. Edward Phelips, of 

• B.T. a. pa. 135 and seq. 



8 Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

Montacute, he departed for Salisbury and Brighton, whence (or 
rather from the neighbourhood of Shoreham) he set sail on the 
15th, just forty-three days after the fatal fight at Worcester.* 

The above is amply confirmed by Mrs. Wyndham in the 
Clausirum Regale, and in that narrative she speaks of some 
untoward matters which had alarmed her when on a reconnoitering 
visit to Sherborne towards the end of September, the scare 
arising out of which induced her husband to place the King for a 
time in stricter concealment than he had previously undergone ; 
to this she distinctly adds that '' this fear being over^ the King 
rested all the time of his stay at Trent^ without so much as the appre- 
hension of a disturbance,'* ^ and closes her Tract with a sentence 
containing these words, ** Here {i.e, at Trent) he rested nineteen 
days, to give his faithful servants time to work his deliverance, 
and the Almighty crowned their endeavours with success." f 

Capt. William Ellesdon, of Lyme Regis, who undertook the 
negotiations with Stephen Limbry, the master of the little trading 
vessel which was hired to take Charles across the Channel, 
corroborates Mrs. Wyndham's story, but adds that on his way 
from Trent to Charmouth the King, as agreed on previously, called 
at the residence of Ellesdon's father, situated about a mile and 
a-half from both Lyme and Charmouth ; ** amongst the hills," 
as Mrs. Wyndham tells us. 

His Majesty was accompanied thither by Mrs. Juliana 
Coningsby, ** a niece of the Lady Wyndham's (? of Pillesdon) — to 
whom he played the part of serving man, and who rode on a 
pillion behind him — Lord Wilmot, Col. Wyndham, and his 
man Peters. This visit seems to have been arranged in order 
that the party might not reach their destination before nightfall, 
and thus escape undue observation. Mrs. Wyndham's exact words 
are, '* This royal company from thence came to the inn at Char- 
mouth a little after night.*' § 

If we accept these three accounts as reliable, it is impossible 
to see how Charles could by any accident have visited Coaxden 
at this time. 

Although the country was "up," and full of soldiers; 
although a reward of ;^ 1000 was set upon the King's head ; and 
although it was generally suspected that he was seeking to escape 
by the south coast, yet it cannot truly be said that he was actually 
•* closely pursued on all sides " after having been obliged by a 
disaffected populace to make a hasty retreat from Lyme,l| notwith- 

•B.T. "i>fary."pa, 72. 

t B.T. c. 332. 

X B.T. c, 335— «.*., fi*om Septr. 17th to Octr. 6th. The King having been 
all the while under Col. Wjmdham's protection, his lady apparently does not 
deduct the time expended on the Cbannouth expedition. 

6 B.T. c, 320. 

II Wilson. Lift of Defoe, 



Sonursit &» Dorset Notes S» Queries. g 

standing the dangerous circumstances attending his departure 
from Charmouth, so graphically told by himself* and Mrs. 
Wyndham.f Doubtless he was in great danger, and surrounded 
by his enemies, but he was not alone, nor, except for an hour or 
two after quitting Charmouth, personally pursued ; and he after- 
wards certainly found refuge at Trent and not at Coaxden ; so that 
if we are to believe Capt. Ellesdon, Mrs. Wyndham, and the King 
himself, this part of the Wilson tradition falls to the ground.J 
And yet that there once existed a valuable chain and pendant with 
its own peculiar history is a circumstance so well authenticated 
as to leave no reasonable doubt of the fact, and there is, moreover, 
good ground for believing that the trinket was somehow connected 
with the events heretofore related. 

That Charles did make presents of the kind is in evidence 
from the statements of both Capt. Ellesdon and Mrs. Wyndham ; 
the former writing thus : 

<* His majesty, having shewed his approbation of what I bad done, was 
graciously pleased, as a testimony of his royal favour (which I have 
ever esteemed as a jewel of greatest worth) to bestow upon me a piece 
of gold, telling me that at present he had nothing to bestow upon me bat 
I hat small piece ; but that, if ever it should please God to restore him to 
his kingdoms, he would readily grant me wnatsoever favour I might hi 
reason petition him for."} 
Mrs. Wyndham, after affirming the fact of this gift, adds, 

** Many like pieces his majesty vouchsafid the Colonel (Wjrndham) and 
his lady, to be Kept as records of his majesty's favour, and of their own 
fidelity to his most sacred person in the day of his greatest trial. All 
which ihey most thankfully treasured up as the chiefe.^t jewelh of their 
family." || 

♦ B.T. a. 154. 

t B.T. c, 324, et seq. quoted by Robetts : History of Lyme and Charmouth 
(Lond. 8vo, 1834) and Pulman : Book of the Axe (4th Edn. Lond : Imp. 8vo. 1875.! 

X By admeasurement with compasses on the ordnance map, it will be fonna 
that, as the crow flies, Coaxden is approximately distant from Charmouth 5^ milei ; 
fiom Pillesdon House 6 miles ; and from Trent 21 miles ; whilst Charmouth is 
over 22 miles from Trent. Hence the King could never have been nearer to 
Coaxden than he was on the afternoon of Septr. 22n(l, when he made his 
preconcerted halt at Mr. Ellesdon's, Senr., on his road to Charmouth ; and once 
th re, we are especially told that he was accompanied by friends who never left 
him, and that, moreover, he was not recognised by his enemies. 

6 B.T. 6. 285. 

IJB.T. f. 320. In early days after the restoration, a Royal Procbmation 
permitted— nay, distinctly encouraged— the currency of foreign gold and silver coin 
in this realm, the late troubles having produced a great scarcity of English money. 
The most valuable gold piece named in the proclamation was the French or Spanish 
quadruple pistole, worth £^ 4s. od., whilst the least valuable was the double 
ducat, worth £0 i8s. od. (Ruding : Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain, 6^. 
Vol. II. p. 3, ed. 1840.) In 1664 Charl' s II. coined £$* £^f a»d £1 gold 
pieces, the latter being called '* guineas," because the gold from which th^ were 
made was brought over by traders from Guinea, on the west const of Africa. 
«<Thos. Humphreys : Coin CoUsctor's Manual. Lond. : 8vo, 1853. Vol. 11. 477.) 

It is quite possible that some of these larger coins may have been selected to 
do duty as medal-pendants, their weight and value prcduoing the idea that they 
would be much used as a currency medium. 



lo Somerset 6» Dorset Notes &» Qmries. 

Having got thus far in collecting information, let ns see if its 
different portions can in any way be made to fit together so as ta 
enable us to build a theory thereon. 

On the one hand, we have the Coaxden tradition, with the 
material, though secondary evidence of the two silver cups to 
back it up. 

On the other, we possess the clear and, so far as we cai> 
judge, genuine and independent narratives of three persons 
actually concerned with the King's movements during the whole 
time he was in the West ; the evidence derived from these latter 
being decidedly subversive of the idea that he had ever been at 
Coaxden. 

The question is, can these conflicting statements be recon- 
ciled ? Mr, Udal settles this to his own satisfaction by putting 
the tradition out of court altogether. He simply ignores it. Mr. 
Hine (a full believer in the story) surmises that the reason of 
Charles's silence on the subject may have been due to forgetful- 
ness when he dictated his narrative to Mr. Pepys after a lapse of 
nearly thirty years ; or — that knowing Mr. Logan to be a Crom- 
wellian and his wife w^rifZ/y a Royalist, he abstained from referring 
to the event, for fear of making difficulties between man and wife; 
or — that his majesty might, in deference to a lady who had the 
bravery and presence of mind to extemporise such an exceptional 
mode of concealment, have been chivalrous enough to withhold 
any mention of the circumstance.* I trust it may not be deemed 
discourteous if one endeavours to answer this kind of argument 
by asking the following questions : 

I St, Can it be iiragined that Charles could have forgotten the 
most perilous, as well as the most romantic, incident in his 
chequered career — had it ever occurred ? 

2nd. Judging from what has been recorded of his character,, 
are we to assume that the other considerations would have had 
much, if any, weight with such a man ? 

My own impression (whilst withholding my adhesion to the 
Coaxden tradition as it has been handed down to «s), is that the 
story has a basis of fact, but that it has suffered from errors and 
accretions to which all old traditions are liable, how sound soever 
may be the foundation on which they were originally based. 

Mr. Wilson's narrative certainly wants the support of minute 
accuracy. He gives Mr. Cogan's name as " Richard." An 
inspection of the Chardstock registers, already quoted, shows 
that the proprietor of Coaxden in 1655 was ''Robert Cogan the 
elder," who was buried on October 3rd in that year. He also states 
that the hoop episode occurred after his unsuccessful attempt to 
escape by sea from Lyme ; whereas, we know, from the joint 
testimony of the King and Mrs. Wyndham and Captain Ellesdon, 

• King Charles II. and the Cogans, S'C, pp. 7-8. 



Sowurut &» Dorstt Notts &» Queries. 1 1 

that the rojal party immediately fled in a direction diametrically 
opposite to Coaxden, viz., to Bridpoit, and that they passed the 
ensiling night in Broadwinsor, reaching Trent (many miles 
farther east) on the following day. 

It may here be nsefhl to consider that portion of the 
Clamsfntm RegaU which follows what has been already quoted. 

After Mrs. Wyndham*s account of the flight from Charmonth, 
the remarks : 

" God preserved bis maiesty by diverting him to Broadwinsor, whilst 
Massy and hi< hot-mettled company ootran their prey as far as Dorchester. 
And« indeed, the report of the King's being at Charmonth was grown so 
common that the soldiers (}j\nz in th'>se parts) searched the houses of 
seireral gentlemen who were acconnted rovabsts, thinking to surprise him. 
Amongst which: Pilisdon (the house of Sir Hugh Wjrndham) was twice 
rifled. Th y took the old baronet, his ladv. daughters, and whole family, 
and set a guard upon them in the hall, wiiilst they examined ever y comer, 
not sparing either trunk or box. Then, taking a particular view of their 
prisoners, they seize a lovely young lady, saymg she was the King 
disguised in woman's apparreL At length, being convinced of their gros 
and rude mistake, they desisted from offenng any further violence to that 
family. And here it is much to be observed, that tks sam$ day tk$ King 
went from Charmoutk, Capt. EUesdon came to Pilisdon, and enquired of 
Sir Hugh and his lady for the King and Colonel, confidently affirming 
that they must ne«ls oe there."* 

Now, if Coaxden was one of " the houses of gentlemen who 
were accounted Royalists," visited by Col. Massey's troops, the 
King most certainly could not have been there, for we have the 
most reliable record of his movements from the time he left the 
inn at Charmouth until he reached the continent in safety. 

Reading between the lines of Mrs. Wjmdham's account, we 
may gather that a report had been spread immediately after the 
King*s discomfiture on the 22nd of September, to the efiect that 
he had repaired in hot haste to Pillesdon, the seat of Sir Hugh 
Wyndbam, which is situated about six miles N.E. of Charmouth, 
and that this report was set going in order to deceive friend and 
foe alike as to his real whereabouts and destination. How other- 
wise can we account for the confident belief of Capt. Ellesdon 
that Charles and his loyal friend Colonel Wjmdham were concealed 
in the house ? Such assuredly must have been the conviction of 
his enemies, who behaved so badly to the venerable Baronet. 

Here too it happened that they treated the young lady so 
cruelly, believing that she was the King in disguise ; a mistake 
which she may possibly have encouraged in order to give his 
majesty more time to escape. The reader will notice that the 
" lovely young lady ** is not spoken of as a member of the family, 
but in a manner that would incline one rather to infer that she 
was a visitor. Is it not possible that she may have been a Miss, 
or a Mrs. Cogan, or a lady hereafter to become Mrs. Cogan, 
staying with Lady Wyndham, only six miles from Coaxden, and 

• B. T , f. 327.8. " 



J 2 Somerset <5- Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

have taken this means of rendering one whom she regarded as 
her lawful sovereign a signal service, by detaining his pursuers 
awhile, when every minute was of more than vital importance to 
the royal fugitive ? 

If she did act thus, and did really carry herself as though she 
may have been the King in disguise, she might, by a not very 
forced equivoque, be said to have concealed his majesty under her 
hoop or farthingale ; a service which, taken in connection with 
the cruel ordeal she must have undergone before the soldiers 
were convinced of their mistake, may very possibly have been 
subsequently rewarded by a gift from Charles of medal and chain, 
when he was dealing out similar mementoes to his (and ? her) 
friends the Wyndhams.* 

If we regard this theory as one not over-stepping the bounds 
of possibility, we shall be able to see how easy it may be for a 
stratum of truth to underlie the incidents related in the Coaxden 
story : whilst those who assert, and those who deny, the validity 
of the family tradition, may alike be a little wrong or a little 
right — perchance both — in drawing their respective conclusions. 

Hugh Norris, South Petherton. 

Errata in Part I. 



In the pedigree on pa. 312 of the 5". & D, N, & Q. for 
December, 1893, John Conway, son of John Conway and Elizth. 
Brown, should be John Cogan Conway; and on pa. ^i^, Mr. 
Henry Tatham should be Mrs, Henry Tatham. 

4. The incident of King Charles hiding himself under 
Mrs. Cogan's hoop and so escaping his pursuers, is very similar 
to one I have more than once read in some history — I think of the 
1715 or 1745 Rebellion — only that the gentleman so hidden was 
an officer in the Pretender's Army, and, being a single man, he 
subsequently married the lady. While writing on the Cogan 
family, I shall be glad to know whether there are any descendants 
of William Cogan, merchant, of Chard, and Elizabeth Cottell, 
married at Tallat on, Devon, 1 8th August, 1613. His name does 

♦ Curiously enough, both Mr. Udal (I. v. 197) and Mr. Pulman {Book of the 
AxCt 4th ed. pa. 212) seem to have crossed this scent, but apparenily witnout 
thinking it worth following up. This is the more singular in Mr. Pulman't 
ease, since in page 556 of the same work he tells us (without, however, giving his 
authority) that the ramilies of Wyndham and Cogan were connected by marriage. 
It has been suggested to the writer by one who has a personal interest in Uie 
matter, that possibly the chain may not have formed part r f the original gift, 
but have been supplied by either tne lady in question or some later possessor of 
the locket or meaal, in order to preserve it from being lost. (Alas ! how fiitilelv !) 
This seems not unlikely, seeing that Mrs. Wyndham nowhere speaks of chains 
attached to the King*s gifts of gold piece^^ as mementoes to ids friends ; she 
simply states that in the case of Capt. Ellesdon's coin, "his majesty in his 
solitary hours ha4 made a hole in it to put a ribbon in." (B.T. c. 320.) 



Somerset & Dorset Notes cS* Queries. 15 

not appear in the pedigree of Cogan of Chard, Visitation of Somerset, 
1623. Marj Cottell was the daughter of William Cottell, of 
Larkbere, Tallaton, Devon, Gentleman, second son of Thomas 
Cottell, Esq., of North Tawton, Devon (his Manor House, built 
about 1540, still stands), who was second son of John Cottell, of 
Yeolmbridge, Devon, Gentleman, fourth in descent from a John 
Cottell, Mayor of Launceston in 1395, and who built the Mansion 
of Yeolmbridge (still standing), and resided there in 1400. 

There is an Administration to the estate of Phillobert Cogan 
of Chard, at Somerset House, under date September, 1695. He 
probably was a grandson of Phillobert Cogan of that place, aged 
60 in 1623, and who signed the Cogan pedigree. 
W. H. Cottell, 

Yeolmbridge, Wood Vale, Forest Hill, S.E. 
5. Somerset Chap Books. — I have just been fortunate 
enough to secure for my Somerset collection copies of two of the 
very few and rare Chap books which relate to the County of 
Somerset. As far as I can judge, they were issued from the press 
about the beginning of the eighteenth century, circa 1700-40, but 
it is impossible to fix a year, as they bear neither imprint nor 
date. 

The title of the first is, as usual, very full, and is as 
follows : — 

"The History of that Holy disciple Joseph of Ariipathea : wherein is 
contained the true account of his birth, and Parents, his Country, his Education, 
his Piety ; and how he begged of Pontius Pilate the Body of Our blessed Saviour 
Jesus Christ, after his Cruanxion, which he buried in a new Sepulchre of his own. 
Also the occasion of his coming to England, wbete he first preached the Gospel 
at Glastonbury in Somersetshire ; and where is still growing (hat noted White- 
thorn, which Duds every Christmas Day in the Morning, blossoms at Noon and 
fades at night, on the Place where he pitched his staff m the ground. With a 
full relation of his Death and Burial. Licensed and Entered according to Order. * ' 
4^ — 4 leaves, no date, or imprint. 

I believe that this little work is founded upon the two very 
scarce tracts following, the one printed by Caxton's successor, 
Wynkyn de Worde, and the other in the year 1520. 

*< The Lyfe of Joseph of Armathy. Hereafter foloweth a treatyse taken 
out of a boke whicbe somtyme Theodosius the Emperour founde hi Jherusalem 
in the pretorye of Pylate of Joseph of Armathy. [Beneath is a cut of the cruci- 
fixion, repeated on the last leaf, and at the end occurs :] Thus endeth the Lyfe 
of Joseph of Armathy— Emprynted at London in Fletc strete at the sygne of the 
Sonne by me Wynkyn de Worde." 
4*^ — 6 leaves in prose. 

and 

"Here begynnetb the lyfe of Tose{>h of Armathia [This Is over a woodcut 
filling the rest of the page] Amen. Imprinted at London in Flete strete at the 
sjrgne of the. George by lUchard Pynson printer unto the kinges noble grace 
anno dommi M.C.C.C.C.C.X.X." 

4^ — Black letter. Ten leaves with the printer's device on the 
last page. A poem in the octave stanza. There is a copy of 
this in the British Museum. 



14 Sonursit &» Dorset Notis & Qturus* 

Of this last tract Hazlitt writes : — "This is not exactly what 
the title would induce one to suppose : a good deal of the tract 
is devoted to a description of Joseph's travels in Somersetshire, 
about Glastonbury, &c. It is, in fact, a memoir of this personage, 
calculated for the meridian of England." 

The other Chap book I purchased is : — 

*< The proud Sqmre reform'd being a great example to rich and poor. 
An account of one Richard Howard living near the town of Cbard in Somerset- 
shire. How he was in his grove, when he saw at a distance a poor labouring 
man by the side of a brooks eating bread and drinking water to satisfy his hunger 
and thirst, and then returned thanks to God for it. Here is likewise an account 
of the poor man's death, and the strange manner of the Esq. reformation ; when 
retumine homewards, how he heard a noise, and there appeared an angel, 
appeared and told him, the richest man in that Parish should die that night ; and 
how the leaves dropped off the Trees, and the Grass withered. Several persons 
in the said parish can testify the tr^ith hereof. Licensed and entered according 
to order." 

48 — four leaves. 

It is written in barbarous verse, and is ornamented with three 
rough woodcuts, one of an angel holding a crown in his right 
hand and a palm branch in his left, another of three hooded 
nuns representing faith, hope, and charity, and carrying a Bible, 
a cross, and a rosary respectively, while the last is a jewelled 
crown. 

The late Mr. J. O. Halliwell, in his " Catalogue of Chap 
books, garlands and popular histories," London, 1849, gives the 
title of another book which at present I have not met with : — 

« God's just judgment against jealous persons, the case of Mr. William 
Watts, a gentleman of very good estate in the Parish of Milverton near Taunton 
ill Somersetshire." 

8vo. — no date. He says : " In this narrative, the devil is 
represented as appearing to Mr. Watts in the shape of a nobleman, 
and persuading him to murder his wife, whose conduct had alarmed 
his jealousy. The devil's speech is given entire, and was no 
doubt considered authentic by the people amongst whom tracts 
of this kind were circulated." 

Notices of other Chap books and scarce tracts would, I 
believe, be acceptable to all the readers of this Magazine ; they 
certainly would be to one of them. 

Ernest £. Bakxr. 

6. Kkighthood Compositions for Dorset. — As was 
not unfrequently the case. King Charles I. in the early part of his 
reign found himself in money difficulties, and one of the "lawful 
but extraordinary" ways to which he had recourse in order to 
raise supplies, was that of enforcing the payment of compositions 
from all persons who, having ;^40 per annumin freehold lands, did 
not attend at the King's coronation to receive the degree of 
knighthood. 

It was the revival of an unrepealed law, made in the reign 
of Edward II., and though both Edward VI. and Elizabeth had 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes <S* Queries. 15 

made use of it, it was loudly denounced bj the people in 
Charles I.*s time. 

Commissioners were appointed for each county with full 
powers to enforce the payment of these Compositions, and 
instructions issued for their guidance in collecting them. 

The returns of the Commissioners for the County of Dorset 
are to be found in the Public Record Office, London, among the 
Exchequer Special Commissions, No. 5251, 5252, 5253, 5254. 

No. 5251 contains merely the 14 Instructions for the 
guidance of the Commissioners (one more being added in 
No. 5254) to which is attached the Commission directed to 
Francis Ashley, mil.. Serjeant-at-law, Thomas Freke, mil., John 
Croke, mil., George Horsey, mil., and John Stroode, mil., and it 
is dated Westminster, 1 2 Feb., 6 Charles I. 

iMSTAUCnONS TO BB OBSBRySD IN THX EZXCUTION OF TRX COlllUSSION 

ToucHiNO Knighthood. 

1 . First upon the receipt of this our Commission yon aie to meet together 
and fix time and places for your forther meetings. 

2. To do your best endeavours to inform yonrselves of the persons who 
by the law and tenor of this Commission ought to make agreement for their fines. 

3. To this end yon shaU send for the undersherifis, ezcheator and feodary 
of the County and others fittest to give you true information, and you shall charge 
them to attend you and give their services. 

f . Besides their mformation yon shall view the Subsidy Rolls and Book 
of Freenolders, Muster rolls and Book for the collection for the poor in the several 
parishes in the County. 

5. In making your composition with any you shall not accept of any sum 
nnder ;^io, and shall raise it according to the abilities of the parties compound- 
ing, and in general the rule to be that he who is set at £$ or under in land may 
be continued at the rate of /lo. But when the rate in the Subsidy book is above 
£$ in lands the proportion to be at 3} at the least, and where the rate in the 
Subsidy book is ;^4 in goods, then the proportion to be a third part less than 
those who are set at lands. 

6. In making out the composition you shall have respect to the issues 
already returned upon the party compoundmg, and for your information therein 
the sheriff shall attend you witn schedule of tnose issues, and you shall let them 
know whom it concemeth, that there is great reason thus to enlarge the rates, 
for much money is due already and the rates required by the abler men fitdleth 
out to be much easier than those of mean quality. 

7. With those who are in the Commission of the Peace you shall make 
no composition under £2$, 

8. You are to take note that all Baronets who were not Knighted at 
our Coronation, all knights who have received that order since that time, all who 
have lands or rents of ^40 yearly value though held in socage or of us by^ mean 
tenure, all who have but an estate of freehold for life only, are liable to this fine, 
we reserving to ourself the composition of all the nobility who are liable. 

9. Any that refuse to come before you, you are to certify their names and 
places of habitation. 

10. If any allege they have compounded or make other excuses they shall 
be discharged, but you are to certify their names and addresses for further con- 
sideration of their cases. 

11. When any do compound with jrou, you shall fix a day for their pay- 
ment and make a certificate under the hands 01 two of you for their discharge. 

12. The money being received the collector to send same to our Receipt 



1 6 Somerset S* Dorset Notes S» Queries, 

within ten days for the Counties near and within thirty days for the Conntier 
further off and to be paid to Edward Came, one of the Tellers. 

13. Yon are to inform the Lords of the Coansell from time to time of 
your proceedings. 

14. You are to inform those who appear before you that it is out of our grace 
and favor that we have renewed this Commission for the sake of our subjects 
whom it concerns. 

15. And whereas divers persons have by these pleas put themselves unto 
the grace of the Court of the Exchequer for their composition for not taking upon 
them the order of knighthood and some others have put in dilatory pleas wmch 
have been overruled by the said courts, in these cases you are to lett those parties 
know if any such be in your County that in favor of them and for avoyding thehr 
travel and expense, they may repair to you to make their fines and thatyou shall 
have power tnereby to rate their said fines as full)r as the said Court of ifxchequer 
and that the fines by you being rated and |>aid shall be to them a sufficient 
discharge and to that end you shdl hereby receive a list of the names of all such 
persons within the said Counties as have put in their pleas of what sort or kind 
soever. 

No. 5252 is " A Schedule indented, containing the names of 
all such persons in the Countie of Dorset as have made 
composition with us His Majesties Commission by virtue of a 
Commission dated 7 Feb., in the 6th year of the raigne of our 
sovereign Lord King Charles, for their fynes to be paid to his 
majestie for the discharge from the order of Knighthood, to* 
geather with the several somes of mony taxed and assessed by 
the said commissioners for only such fyne ; all which monys are 
now in the hands of Sir Thomas Freke, by him to bee receaved 
being his highness collector appointed in that behalf." vizt. 

Dorchester Division. 

Angell Grey of Kingston, Esq. 

ohn Wareham of Mayden Newton, gent. 
! Hdward Dashwood of Dorchester, M'chant 

ohn Payne of Evershot, gent. 

lobert Napper of Puncknoll, gent. 

ohn Michell of Kingston, gent. 

lichard Savage of Piddlehinlon, gent. 
~aqies Frampton of Buckland, gent. 

ohn Parkins of Dorchester, gent. 

ohn Bushopp of Chillcome, gent. 

Bridport Division. 

Richard Brodrip of Mapton, Esq. 
John Bettescombe of ■, gent. 

Giles Studley of Broadwinsor, gent. 
Thomas Wrenn of Cheddington, gent. 
William Collens of Neatherburie, gent. 
Henry Egerdon of Egerdon, gent. 

iohn Dunn (?) of West Milton, gent, 
[icholai Browne of Nettlecombe, gent. 



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£ 8. d. 

John Heme of Neatherbnrj, gent. 10 o o 

reter Hoskins of Langdon, gent. 30 o o 

Thomas Gollop of Strode, gent. 15 00 

Gregory Gibbs of Soath Pcrrot, gent. 10 00 

Robert Rawe of Bettiscombe, gent. 1000 

Shirbornk Diyisign. 
Martin White of Fittleford, Esq. 20 o o 

George ThomehoU of Thomehall» Esq., for fine and 

issues 
Richard Sheldon of Manston, gent. 
Bamaby Baker of BnclLhorne Weston, gent. 
Thomas Keat of Chesilbome, gent. 
John Childe of Helton, gent. 
Richard Moores of Caondell, gent. 

iohn Foy of Melbury, gent, 
/illiam Bishopp of Catistock, gent. 
George Roman of Firehed, gent. 
Francis Lawlie of Weeke, gent. 
William FilloU of Mamhull, gent. 
Thomas Thome of Candle Marsh, gent. 
Robert Whetcombe of Shirbome, gent. 
Christopher Ellis of Thorneford, gent. 
Thomas Rydout of Maraholl, gent. 
Robert Stickland of Alton, gent. 
John Freake of Hilton, gent. 
William Coker of Mapowder, Esq. 
Robert Freake of Farringdon, gent. 
John Freake of Ceame, Esq. 
John Minterae, Esq. 

Shaston DnrisioN. 

CWles Hussey of Ensam, Esq. 
Ilenry Carie of Hame, gent. 
Robert Fry of lewerne Minster, gent. 
Richard Swaine of Gnnfield, gent. 
William Stagg of Ashton, gent. 
John Duraford of Twiford, gent. 
Robert Gould of Cdmpton Abbas, gent. 
Richard Squibb of lewerae Minster, gent. 
Thomas Harding of Shapwick, gent. 
John Kerley of Gussage, gent. 
Christopher Dirdoe of Gillingham, gent. 
Thomas Hoop(er) of Boveridge, gent. 
Thomas Bower of lewerne Minster, gent. 
Henry Alley of Gissage, gent. 
Edmund Boyer of Spetesbury, gent. 
William White of Cranborne, gent. 



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Blandford Division. 

Henry Wells of Godlingston, gent. 
James Husi ey of St. Mary Blandford, gent. 
John Hodder of Stower Payne, gent. 
William Goulde of West Holme, gent. 
Oliver Lawrence of Affpiddle, gent. 

John Trenchard, of Warmwell, gent. 
Robert Cockeram of Wareham, gent. 
Henry Wollfreys of Marsh, gent. 
John Rives of Randleston, gent. 
William Humber of Whitchurche, gent. 
James Hanam of Stickland, Esq. 
c 
Suma totalis § viijlv.li. viijs. iiijd. (;^855 8 4) 855 8 4 

Note. — A third skin on this file relates to Shropshire and is 
misplaced here. 

No. 5253 contains the same fourteen Instructions and a 
Commission dated 29 June, 7 Charles I., same as preceding one. 

Blandford Division. 

£ s. d. 
John Turberville of Woolbridge, Esq. 28 o o 

George Strode of Wimbome, Esq. 100 o 

Edward Lawrence of Creech Grange, Esq. 10 o o 

Edward Clavell of Winfrith 613 4 

Robert Coker of Ashe, gent. 1200 

Ellice Swayne of Pimpeme, gent. 1000 

Shaftesbury Division. 
John Budden of Fayrewood, gent. 

BuRPORD* (sic) Division. 
Thomas Paulctt of Briddy, Esq. 
Robert Morgan of Broad Winsor, gent. 

Sherborne Division. 

John Arnold of Alton, gent. 
Richard Newman of Fifett Magdalen, gent. 
Dorchester Division. 
Maximilian Mohun of Fleet, gent. 10 



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No S1S4 contains 15 Instructions and a Commission, 
tAffftther with a warrant dated 27 March, 1632, issued against 
GeSme Fry of Mapton and John Jaye of same place, to appear 
Z^^^ in their pleas. 



iftd gcft in their pleas 



* Bridport. 



Sotmrut S* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 19 

The pleas of the following gentry are on this file : 

Ralph Arnold of Armeswell, gent. 

Adlington Humphrey of Wimbome Minster, gent. 

John Bnrte of ^forth Wootton, gent. 

John Brown of Frampton, Esq. 

John Cox of Stonre Provost. 

Robert Coker of Dorchester, goldsmith. 

Henry Dnmsford of Sherborne, yeoman. 

Christopher Dirbie of Churchill, gent. 

John Ellis of Haselburjr Bryan, gent. 

Anthoriy Floyer of Whitecburcb, gent. 

James Gould of Dorchester. 

William Larder of Chelborough, gent. 

Thomas Popham, Esq. 

William Glisson of Mamhull. gent. 

John Hoskins, son of Peter Hoskins of Langdon in Hundred 

of Beaminster, gent. 
Thomas Hall of Wimborne Minster, gent. 
William Hussey of Motcombe in Gillingham, Esq. 
John Jesop of East Chickerell. 
John Jay, gent., late of Maplerton, and now West 

Hemp worth same county. 
John Lanning of Farringdon, yeoman. 
George Lawrence of Winterbome Stepleton. 
Henry Maniford of Long Burton, gent. 
Leonard Miller of Ivechester. 
John Pyne of Wotton Glanville, gent. 
John Powlett of Wetherbury, gent. 
Kichard Rose of Lyme Regis, gent. 
Alexander Somer of Frome St. Quintin, gent. 
William Tucker of Beaminster, gent. 

William Talbot of (sic). 

George Willyams of Wotton Glanville, gent. 

John Willyams of Plumber, gent. 

£dward Wareham. 

George Ra3rmonde, gent. 

George Estmonde, gent. 

Bartholomew Hall of Middle Temple, on behalf of William 

Constantine of Middle Temple. 
George Peny of Weston, Esq. 
William Savage of Dorchester, gent. 
William Whitaker of Shaston, Esq, 
William Okeden of Morecritell. 



On the warrant is a note as follows : 



I have been at the house of George Fry of Maptonto snew 

this warrant unto him to warn him to appear before his jnaje»uc» 

Comners. at Sherborne, but he was not to be foHPr." ^»«.taViU 

The mark of Thomas Celler, constable. 



20 Somerset S» Dorset Notes 6- Queries. 

NoTB. — Some of the pleas give extracts from Indentures or 
Wills to show that the persons putting in their pleas were not 
possessed of £^o in land at time of Coronation, or that thej were 
under age. They are well worth closer examination for 
genealogical purposes. 

The foregoing Special Commissions were returned into the 
Court of Exchequer, and amongst the "Miscellaneous Books** 
is one entitled—*' Book of Compositions for not taking the 
Order of Knighthood at the Coronation of King Charles I. 
1630 — 1632. — Auditors of the Receipt." 

Swing the sums total for the whole of England arranged under 
ounties, with the name of the Collector, with generally, though 
not always, the place of abode of the persons fined, and the sums 
total received. As regards Dorset, the contents of the Special 
Commissions Nos. 5252 and 5253 are recapitulated, but there is, 
besides, another return which does not appear among the Special 
Commissions, unless it has got attached to some other county by 
error. It is as follows : 

Page 47. DORSET. 

Sir Thomas Freake, Knt., 'Collector. 

DORCHBSTBR DIVISION. 





£ s., d. 


Henry Meggs, gent. 


12 10 


William Churchill, gent. 


20 


Nicholas Briant, gent. 


10 


Henry Samwaies, gent. 


10 


William Sidneham (sic), gent. 


12 10 


John Williams 


12 10 


Bridport Division. 




Ezekiel Guppye 


10 


Henry Hillarye 


10 


Mathew Pawle 


10 


Shbrborne Division. 




Bampfilde Chafyne, ar. 


15 


Andreas Abbington, gen. 


12 10 


Thomas Hacker 


10 


George Masters 


10 


William Fanteleroye, gen. 


10 


Nicholas Roman 


10 


John Poore 
William Moores 


12 10 


12 10 


William Willoughby, ar. 


12 10 


William Collier, ar. 


25 


Thomas Weston, ar. 


12 10 


Blandford Division. 




William Bond, gent. 


20 


Edward Dackombe, gen. 


10 


George Savage, gen. 


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Thomas Strangewajrs, gent. 


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Richard Bingham, ar. 


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Richard Rogers, gent 


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John Locker 
Maurice Carrant, gen. 


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Edmund Hawlice, gen. 


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Thomas Loope, gen. 


12 10 





Thomas Phillippes, gent. 


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Thomas Baskett, gent 


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George Twinhoe, gen. 


12 10 





Thomas Morton, gen. 


10 





Thomas Hooper of Edmondsham, gen. 


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Unde Sol. ;^3oo 14 Oct., 1630. 

£iyz 8 Nov., 1630. ^7> <> <> 

In the Exchequer "Book of Compositions" the return 
corresponding to the Special Commission No. 5252 is made thus : 
'• Unde Solut. 500 o o 12 May, 1631. 
355 13 4 21 May, 1631. 

and that corresponding to No. 5253 is made thus : 
" Solde 9 Not., 1631. £h6 34" 



With regard to the apparently contumacious George Fry 
above-mentioned, I should like to mention that there are two 
Maptons (or Mappertons or Maplertons, for the spelling varies). 
There is the hamlet near Beaminster, and the farm or hamlet in 
Aimer parish, and it is lust possible that the constable went to 
the wrong place, viz. : the one near Beaminster, which would be 
nearer to Sherborne, where the Commissioners were sitting. 
George Fry was an inhabitant of the Maperton in Aimer parish. 

E. A. Fry. 172, Edmund Street, Birmingham. 

7. Somerset Fairs. (III. xxiv. 328.) — In regard to 
Fairs at Yeovil mentioned at the above reference, June 28th 
would correspond with old St. Botolph's Day. There is a fair in 
Yeovil on the last Friday in June. November 17th would 
correspond to old St. Leonard's Day. There is a fair in Yeovil 
on the third Friday in November. 



32 Soffterset^ S» Dorset Notes &» Queries. 

In process of time it became more convenient to hold the 
fairs or feasts on a fixed day of the week than on the Saint's Day, 
which is only a fixed day in the year ; and the fixed day of the 
week chosen was such as was nearest to the fixed day of the year, 
t^., the Saint's Day. The fair or feast day would thus be, 
although not on, yet governed by, the Saint's Day. This was and 
is the case here : Coker feast is on the next Monday following 
the loth of October, i>., old Michaelmas Day. 

Charles Powbll, East Coker Vicarage. 

8. In the Pipe Rolls, 4 John. Somerset and Dorset, is a pass- 
age relating to a fair at Wells. " Hug' de Welles deb' iij palefr* 
p' h'nda carta' R' de lib'tatib' h'nda i' vill' de Welles c'feriis 
> m'catis." " Hugh de Wells owes three palfreys for the grant 
of a charter from the King for having liberties in the town of 
Wells with fairs and markets." Hugh de Wells was Archdeacon 
of Wells, as appears from a passage in the rolls of two years later 
6 John, " Et Hug' de Welles Archid' Wellensi viij li' bl' in Ceddre 
ad custodiam domor* Regis de Gillingham > Axebrigge de dim* 
anno." " And to Hugh de Welles, Archdeacon of Wells, eight 
pounds blank in Cheddar for the custody of the King's houses in 
Gillingham and Axbridge for the half-year." 

In the Roll for 8 John there is reference to what, from the 
description, appears to have been a fair at Nordcuri (North 
Curry). " Will' de Wroteham debet i palefr' p' h'ndo q^da' m'cato 
q**lib' die m'curii i' Septim* ap' Nordcuri ad op' eccl'ie Well'nsis." 
** William de Wroteham owes one palfrey for having a certain 
market on any Wednesday in September at Nordcuri in aid of 
the Church at Wells." 

W. Miles Barnes. 

g. It will be remembered that on April 11, 1533, *^^ ^^^ 
were granted to the Abbey of Bruton, to be held, one on the eve, 
day and morrow of St. George's Day (April 23), and the other on 
the eve, day and morrow of the Feast of the Nativity of St. Mary 
(Sept. 8). 

I turn to V^hii^kti^z Almanack for 1894, and find that April 23 
and Sept. 17 are given there as the two dates of Bruton Fairs 
(see p. 389). Both these days were kept as feasts within living 
memory, but both have now decayed. On April 23 was formerly 
held a fair for the sale of Devonshire and other cattle. 
September 17 is still called Bruton " Veast," but its glories have 
died away, and if marked at all,it is only (as is the case in most of 
our villages) used as the occasion for an extra " drop of drink " ; 
a survived, too, of ancient ways. 

F. W. Weaver. 



SomifSit & Dorset Notes (S* Quiriis. 23 

10. Elbction of Knights of thb Shirk for Dorset 
IN 1625; from a MS. in the Cambridge University Library 
(Dd. II. 73), Collectanea Whiteway. — "Knights of the shire for 
Dorsett were chosen upon the 30th of January, 1625, at Dorchester, 
and whereas the gentlemen at Blandeford sessions had promised 
to agree among themselves who should stand, Sr. John Stangwaies 
went out of towne whout taking his leave, and so that busyness 
was not ended ; in the meantime he and some others, intended to 
set up Sr. George Moreton, Elnight Baronett, but discovered not 
their purpose save to a few only ; they made many voices to be 
bestowed as Sr. John Strangewaies should direct them when they 
came to Dorchester. The day being come and no man standing 
fc r the place, the towne and country agreed in Sr. Thomas Freake, 
y hom they nominated first in respect of his age and grauity, and 
for the second man the towne cried a Browne, meaning Mr. John 
Brown, of Dorchester, Esq., and many of the country did the 
same. But those that had been before dealt withall underhand 
cried a Moreton (who lined in Oxfordshire wholly, and was scarce 
known in these county, though his father had beene a man of 
great note), and the cry was so confused that they could not 
distinguish nor tell who had most voices, till thevcame to polling 
the freeholders. They went therefore into the Shire hall, and the 
High Shreive, Francis Chaldecot, Esqr., took voices one end for 
Baronet Moreton, and the under shereif, William Golsborough, at 
the other end for Mr. Browne, who all this while disclaymed the 
place and got out of the company, mooued thereunto by the old 
kn. his father, who was loath to displease the gentelmen. When 
they saw that Mr. Browne had more and more voices came in, 
they added this clause unto the oath (that you were present at 
the reading of the writ), and required it of all that were for 
Mr. Browne, but omitted it to many that came for Baronet Moreton. 
Yet for all this, being not able to square Mr. Browne's voices, 
they clapt up their papers (having all the law in their owne hands 
and not suffering any of the contrary side to meddle in it), and 
went downe to the taveme called the George to end the busynes 
there. And wherear Sr. Richard Strode, Mr. Petham, Mr. Robert 
Browne, and other gentelmen that were well wishers to Mr. Browne 
pressed into the chamber and required to see the papers, and the 

names, the other left till the shreiue migt tume them out 

volens nolens. Then they began to seek out new voices, and 
took a great nomber in that chamber for Baronet Moreton, and if 
any man offred himselfe for Mr. Browne he was not admitted. At 
last having gotten one voice more than (?) Mr. Browne had, 
though with much adoe, they passed the indentures and returned 
the Baronet for Knight. 

But Mr. Robert Browne, to revenge the wrong done unto his 
cousin, prefered a bill in the Parliament against the shreiue for a 
wrongfull and undue retume, and when the Comit. war appointed 



24 Somersit S» Dors$t Notes S» Queries, 

heare the canse he himself did opeu it. The Parliament would 
have sent for the shreiue, but Sr. Tho. Freake and Sr. John 
Strangewaies desered that he might be excused in respect of his 

age, and upon their credit and reputation that the electn. 

was very fairly caried. Wh. proued otherwise in many circumstances, 

though they insested upon the clause inserted in the oath, 

of being present at the reading of the writ, concerning wch. they 
enquired of the undersheref whom they then examined, who 
caused it to be inserted. He said the Towne Clarke of Dorchester, 
Mr. William Derby, caused it to be put in. Mr. Derby being 
demanded concerning it said that he was the onely man that 
opposed it. Then the undersheref put it of, and said it was the 
County Clarke, Mr. Andrew Kellway. Mr. Kellway being 
examined about it said that Sr. John Strangewaies bad him to do 
It, and Sr. John Strangewaies being questioned about it said that 
indeed he and the rest of the justices bad him put it in, and that 
he did think it was good in law. But the parliament determined 
otherwise, reuished their election, comanded the Baronet to 
depart out of the house, and sent downe a new writ to choose 
another. 

Mr. John Browne, hauing notice of it, now resolued that 
seing the country had cast their plane (?) upon him, he would 
accept of it, and to that purpose laboured wch. Sr. George and 
Sr. Thomas Trenchard who promised him all their assistance. 
Old Sr. John Browne also was very willing, besides many other 
gentelmen, but Baronet Moreton, that he might in some sort 
repaire his credit, and Sr. Thomas Freake and Sr. John 
Stangewaies to make good the former election, endeauoured by 
all means possible to mak voices to have the Baronet chosen ; 
and when the choise came, the cry was doubtfull, so they must goe 
to polling againe. Kellway, county dark, took voices for ye 
Baronet, and the undersherif for Mr. Browne. In wch. taking of 
voices, the shreiue and his friends in his owne hands, and would 
not suffer Mr. William Derby or any of Mr. Browne his wellwishers 
to take a counter note of the voices, but tore the pap out of 
Mr. Derby's hands. 

Now the County Clark, who took for Baronet Moreton, had 
made an end taking of voices, and wanted work an houre and 
more before the undershreiue that took for Mr. Browne, and then 
they both took voices for Mr. Browne to the nomber of more than 
150. Yet hauing all these names in loose sheets of paper, in 
remoouing from the fields into the Shirehall, the busynes was so 
caried that Mr, Browne was found to haue but 498 voices and the 
Baronet 511, whereupon they caried him downe to ye George 
upon their shoulders in triumph." 

W. Miles Barnbs. 



Somerset tS* Dorut Notes &• Queries. 



35 



Folio. Name of DecMMd. Pariah. 



87 Hartwell, John 
95 Hanles, George 



Manston 
Shaston 



Poxwell 
Wareham 



II. Dorset administrations. — Coniinued. — (II. ix. 10, 
X. 49, xi. 78, xii. 1 1 3, xiii. 1 50, xiv. 1 78, xv. 2 1 7, xvi. 242, III. xvii. 8, 
xviii. 57, xix. 94, xx. 151. xxi. 183. xxii. 233, xxiii. 279,xxiv. 323). 

Grantoe k B«latioiiabip Data of 

to Deoeaaed. Adminiatratloii. 

646. 

Anne, relict 25 July, 1646 

Anthony Hinton, cousin ; 12 Aug., 1646 
Ursula, relict, not ad- 
ministering 
Joan, relict 
William, brother 
Maiy, wife of William 
Combe, sister 
Bradford Alice, relict 

Abbis 
Milbome St. Frances, relict 

Andrew 
Bridport Mary, relict 

CranDome John Barter, son 
Sherborne Leonard, father; — 

relict, not administering 
Symondsbuiy Robert and John Minson, 22 Jan., 1645 

next of kin 
Sherborne Humfrey and William 15 Apl., 1646 

Mitchell, nephews 
HalstodL Ellen, relict 

Lymington, Mary, relict 
"CO. Dorset" 

Gillingham Susan, wife of Thomas 
Lane, and Elizabeth, 
wife of Christopher 
Whellier, nieces (bro- 
ther's side) 
William Sandham and 18 Apl., 1646 
Alice his wife, daughter 
of deceased 
Margaret, relict 5 June, 1646 



106 Heninge, Edmund 

118 KenneU, Edward 

117 Kenway, Matthew Wotton 

Fitzpaine 
43 Lane, John 

ii8Langford, Alex- 
ander 
8 Loder. Robert 
77 Luxell, Joan 
73 Miller, Edward 

7 Minson, John 

39 Mitchell, Thomas 

59 Mudford, John 
57 Parsons, ^cholas 

30 Pond, Richard 



59 Sacheverell,Christo- Owre 
pher 



4 Sep., 1646 

19 Oct., 1646 

5 Oct., 1646 

25 Apl., 1646 
12 Oct., 1646 

29 Jan., 1645 

20 June, 1646 
15 Juoe, 1646 



28 May, 1646 
I May, 1646 

7 Mar., 1645 



72 Seaborne, Launce- Beamister 

lot 
119 Serrell, Elizabeth 



125 Somers, Nicholas 
91 Stansby, Philip 
9 Stone, Grace 



119 Strode, 
Dame 
77 Sweet, William Chidiock 
9 Thorleton al's Dorveston 
Thometon, Stephen 
107 Tollerfeild, Giles Bradford 
91 Wigmore, John Woodland 



Hawkechurch Joane Serrell and Eliz- 17 Oct., 1646 
abeth, wife of Nicholas 
Phipping, daughters 
Lyme Mary Davye, next of kin 10 Oct., 1646 

and creditor 
"Lyn Regis," Dorothy, relict 18 July, 1646 

CO. Dorset 

Thomas Oliver and Jane 31 Jan., 1645 
his wife, daughter of 
deceased 
Margaret, wife of George 1 1 Oct., 1646 

Trevelyan,ann.,daughter 
John, brother 12 June, 1646 

Judith, relict 26 Jan., 1645 



Winford 
Egle 



Margaret, Beamister 



Grace, relict 29 Sep., 1646 

Swithin Cleevei, cler., 28 July, 1646 

principal creditor ; , 

relict, not administeriog 



26 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 



Folio. Ktme of Deoeued. 
150 WiUis, John 

119 Yetman, Agnes 

135 Young, Stephen 



ParUh. 
Wymborae 

Minster 
Mamhull 

Tairant 
Latmston 



OnntM ft RelatioDihlp Data of 

to Deceased. Adminiitratleii. 

Anne, wife of Willing Etter- 9 Dec, 1646 

ick, niece (brother's side) 
Richard Cunditt and 26 Oct., 1646 

Agnes his wife, daughter 
Frances, relict 17 Oct., 1646 



26 Abbott, 'WHliam 

123 Alford, William 

66 Alner, Richard 

82 Ash, William 



Lyme Regis 
Lyme Regis 
"Dinhsh" 

(? Dmtish) 

Sturminster 

MarshaU 



100 Baker, William Beamister 
8 Balston, Henry Breadport 
175 Baskett, Thomas Dewlish 



35 Bithwood, Anna Sherborne 
52 Bower, Edith Cranbome 



164 Bugden, William 
37 Champion, Hugh 
135 Chubb, John 
15 1 Clavell al's Jeanes 
148 Cockeram, Priscilla 

1 1 CoUyns, Grace 
70 Cotterell, Thomas 



Cranbome 
Beamister 
Chardstock 
see Jeanes 
Sandwich 

Purbeck 
Chardstock 
Wimbome 

Minster 



[647. 

Catherine, relict 
WOliam, son 
Thomas, brother 

Eleanor, relict (grant of 
July. 1646, to William, 
son, renounced) 

Henry, brother 

Thomas, brother 

Bri^t, sister, durine min- 
ority of "Saline, '"Mary, 
Elizabeth, John, Cath- 
erine and Hopton 
Baskett, children of 
deceased, relict, re- 
nouncing 

John Chaifjm, husband of 
Ann, niece 

Henry Goffe, guardian of 
Grrace Bower, a minor, 
cousin and next of kin 

Margaret, relict 

Catherine, relict 

Agnes, relict 

Bruin, husband 



t64 Cox, James 

14^ Cox, John 

lt\ t^ltttte, Mary 

*:♦ K>f^imt\i al'i Ncw- 

t* t^^KiJe^ John 
tt M ^«»*tvU Robert 
\H Uv^vUl JamtB 

\k H.sMw. \V«UUm 



Wymbome 

Minster 
East Orchard 

Holnest 
see Newman 

Stalbridge 
Charmouth 
Tarrant 

Gunfeild 
Stalbridge 
Whitchurch 
Stoke Abbot 
Shaiton 



I Feb., 1646 
30 Aug., 1647 
13 May, 1647 

12 June, 1647 



12 Tune, 1647 
A Jan., 1646 
18 Dec., 1647 



I Feb., 1646 
22 Apl., 1647 



17 Nov., 1647 

9 Mar., 1646 

27 Sep., 1647 

6 Oct., 1647 



William, son 16 Jan., 1646 

Thomas Nash, brother of 24 Sfay, 1647 
Mary, relict of deceased, 
she not having admin- 
istered (foimer grant 
Oct., 1638) 
Peter, son 21 Nov., 1647 

Marv, Elizabeth, Susan 11 Oct., 1647 

ana Dorothy Cox, sisters 
Edith Spracklyn, daughter 21 Sep., 1647 






Grace, daughter 
Joseph, son 
Bridgett, relict 

Eleanor, relict 
Rebecca, relict 
Mary, relict 

Alban Muston and Eliza- 
beth his wife, sister 
Henry Jeans, husband 



17 Mar., 1646 
6 Mar., 1646 

8 Aug., 1647 

15 June, 1647 

9 Apl., 1647 
23 Jan., 1646 
27 Nov., 1647 

29 Oct., 1647 



Som$rut S» Dorui Notes S» Qumes. 



VUio. Naaw of DtotMed. Pvialu 
IJO Keene al's Mogg, Winford 

William 
158 Lewen, Elixabeth 



IS3 Lewin, Joseph 
79 Lockyer, Junes 



Wymbome 

Minster 
Wjmbome 

Minster 
Dndsbury 

West Parley 



Grantee ft Relatioiuhlp 
to Deceased. 
John Keene al*s Mogg, 

uncle 
Robert, husband 

Frances, rdict 



149 Maniford, Samuel 

175 Menedge,Matthias Helton 

110 Mogg al's Keene see Keene 



Isott, wife of William 
Bugby, sister 
Long Burton Joan, relict 

Bersheba, relict 



37 

Date of 
linistxiatlOB* 
7 Aug.,1647 

9 Nov., 1647 

5 Aug.,1647 

7 June, 1647 

30 Oct., 1647 
24 Dec, 1647 



158 Morton, Henry Clenston 



163 Mnnden, John Maperton 



172 Newman al*s Erer- Gillingham 

ard, Thomas 
36 Nicbolls, John 
II Parsons, John 



148 Pride, John 
133 Pysinge, John 



Tumeworth 
Wambrook 
"CO. Som- 
erset" 
"Newent" 
Lillington 
died at Pett, 
CO. Sussex 



50 Ralfe, Samuel 
163 Sdby, Alice 



Stockland 
Melcombe 
Regis 
100 Smith, Thomas, Okeford 

bachelor Shillinge 

150 Stone, Henry «« Mintron " 

71 Templeman, John Lyme Regis 
121 Thorne, John, clerk Wareham 
65 Thomehm, William Holnest 



A^nUiam Smith, bart., and 16 Nor., 1647 

Mary his wife, aunt 

(momer's side), during 

absence of John Morton, 

brother, beyond the sea. 

George luforton, bart., 

father consenting 
William Tucker and Joane 22 Nov., 1647 

his wife, sister 
Mary Dirdo, next of kin 17 Dec., 1647 

Mary, relict 20 Mar., 1646 

Joane, relict 16 Jan., 1646 



Anne, relict 22 Oct, 1647 

Hugh Hodges, Laurence 28 Sep., 1647 

Swetnam and Richard 

Higdon, creditors, , 

relict, not administering 
Mary, relict 10 Apl., 1647 

John, uncle 27 Nor., 1647 



61 Wakeley, Matthew Chidiock 
79 Wallys, Owen Fordington 



II Walsh, Dorothy, 
spinster 
163 Walter, Edward 



Jodrell, wife of William 19 June, 1647 

Biston, derk, sister 
Elisabeth, relict 28 Oct., 1647 

Hannah, daughter 25 May, 1647 

Temperance, rdict 7 Aug.,1647 

John Golsney and Anne 25 May, 1647 

died at West his wife, sisterof deceased 

Chester 

John, brother 3 May, 1647 

Catherine Downton al's 2 June, 1647 

Wallys, widow, relict 

Edward, brother 



Milbome 

St. Andrew 
Sherborne 



35 Warren, Miles Loders 



23 Jan., 1646 
8 Nov., 1647 
6 Mar., 1646 



66 Watkins, John 
100 Williams, John 



Richard Oldis and William 
Heame, creditors 

Robert, son, and Mary, 
wife of Robert Harrys, 
daughter 

Anne, relict 

John, son ; Mary, relict, 14 June, 1647 
not having fully admin- 
istered (former grant 
March, 1626) 

{To be coniinued,) Geo. S. Fry. 



Shaston 
Wootton 
Glanville 



22 May, 1647 



a8 Somersit <5» Dorsit Notes S* Queries. 

xa. Portuguese Coin Found at Cheddar.^ — ^A coin of 
copper, measuring an inch and four-twelfths in diameter, in very 
good preservation, was unearthed not long ago on the site of an 
old house in this parish. On the obverse is the Roman X, 
encircled by a wreath of leaves, between which and the outer 
rim are the words in caps. VTILITATI PVBLICiE, and the 
figures 17. . ; but, as the unit and ten figures are obliterated, the 
exact date cannot be determined. On the reverse, within a 
central ring, are the letters J V, surmounted by the Crown of 
Portugal. These letters refer to Joan the Fifth, who reigned, 
fourth sovereign of the House of Braganza, from 1706 to 1750. 
The legend is DG REX PORT ET ALG. These last letters 
are an abbreviation for ** Algarve,'' the least and most southern 
of the six provinces of Portugal. 

I should be glad to know if this coin is rare, and whether 
the Kings of Portugal still take the title of Kings of Portugal and 
Algarve. The coin is deposited in Mr. Gough's Museum. 

James Coleman. 

13. John Webber, Poet and Marbler. — ^The death of 
Mr. John Webber, poet and ** marbler," which happened on the 
5th November last, should not pass without a short obituary 
notice. Born January 26, 1 805, he lived, nearly all his long life of 
89 years, in his native place of Corfe Castle. For some time he 
became a schoolmaster, but his youth and later age were spent as 
a worker in stone. He attained the dignity of "Warden " of the 
Ancient Chartered Company of Marblers of the Isle of Purbeck, 
and was, I believe, the keeper of their records. 

The education which John Webber managed to give himself, 
with some natural artistic perceptions and power of hand, made 
him the genuine descendant of those Purbeck marblers of 
centuries ago, whose beautiful Gothic tombs are found in many 
old English churches. He could both creditably design and 
execute a carved tomb, and there are good specimens of his 
workmanship in the churchyards round about Corfe. 

His character was gentle, but independent, and he possessed 
true poetic feeling, with some skill in writing verse. From time 
to time he used to contribute short poems to various Dorset 
newspapers. The following is a pretty example, dated in 1864, 
entitled:— 

A SIMILE. 

A withered leaf came whirling by, 

Impelled by tempest rude ; 
It souglit the earth, but could not find 
A resting-place, for still the wind 

The hapless leaf pursued. 

And as I watched the restless leaf^ 

Thus driven to and fro, 
A thought came next, a fleeting thought. 
That all would seek in vain, who sought 

A rest to find below. 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 29 

I did not come to know John Webber till abont his eightieth 
rear, when, after completing the last handicraft work of which 
his failing strength was capable, in connection with the building 
of Lord Eldon's new church at Encombe, he retired to an ancient, 
sunny stone cottage at the southern end of Corfe Castle's elder 
street. There he contrived to live with his wife and a daughter, 
upon a small weekly pittance, received from a benefit society, to 
which he had long subscribed ; but which failed in the end to 
afford him more than about one-third of the expected old age 
pay. Friends helped him, however, and his daughter worked 
hard for him, so that he was saved from actual want. For some 
years before his death John Webber had become quite blind, but 
up to the very last he would still amuse himself by composing 
short poems, commit them to memory, and, like a more illus- 
trious predecessor, dictate them to his faithful daughter. One 
of them was called forth by the enclosure of the ruins of Corfe 
Castle, when, to provide for their reparation, a fee was first 
charged to sightseers. It is called 

THE OWL'S SOLILOQUY. 

" New lords, new laws.** The happy days are past 

When freedom reigned, and plenty strewea my floor ; 
My habitation I most quit at last, 
Or pay a fee on entering the door. 

Long have I occupiedfmy ivy cot, 

\^ich Cromwell left mv predecessors free ; 
And visitors attracted to the spot, 

Brought food sufficient for tnemselves and me. 

Fragments of meat and crumbs of biscuit nice, 
When parties dined, were left for me to share ; 

Now I must roam afar to seek for mice. 
Compelled to live on mean and scanty fare. 

No more the charm of merry youths to hear, 

Playing at lemp-frog on the daisied green ; 
Or hide-and-seek among the ruins near 

While I sat listening, by all tmseen. 

Methinks I see them up the hillside creep, 

To shun the toll-gate, by another way, 
Where they might througn the broken rampart peep 

At the loved spot on which they used to play. 

If I had means to pay, I could not bear 

Before my window iron bars to see ; 
To the Metropolis I must repair, 

Where parks are opened to the public free. 

O, Liberty ! thou still art dear to me ; 

Although I wander homeless in old age : 
With meaner food I shall more happy be 

Than living, sumptuous, in an uron cage. 

J.W.. 1884. 

Charles Newton-Robinson, 19th December, 1893. 



30 Somerset 6- Dorset Notes 6» Queries, 

14. Sunken Ship at Cheddar. (III. xxiv. 357.) — ^A 
parishioner of mine who occupied a farm at Brinscombe for many 
years, and whose memory goes back from seventy to eighty 
years, distinctly recollects seeing the masts supposed to belong 
to a sunken vessel. These were in a ditch at the foot of the hill. 
The local tradition was that there were three masts, but he 
remembers only two. One of these was appropriated by an old 
man named James Pople, who sawed it off and used it for a gate- 
post. What became of the other is not known, but my informant, 
a younger member of the family at the farm, does not think that 
it can now be in existence, for she writes: "I remember 
looking for it when we lived at Brinscombe, and being much 
disappointed at finding no trace of it/' She adds : *< Probably 
during a very dry summer the top of it might still be visible. 
My parishioner does not remember hearing that anyone had ever 
seen the hull of the ship. 

Jambs Coleman. 

15. Inventqries of Church Goods, Dorset, 1552. 
{Continued from III. xxiv. 319). — 

The pishe of | flfyrst, one chalis Sylur, ij payre of vestmtes j 
Tarrant rusheton. ) of clothe of bodken, thother whyt Damaske, 
copes, j clothe bodken, thother whyt Satten, j Surplice, iij 
'able clothe, ij belles in the Tower, ij candelstickes of bras. 

To thuse of ] Appoynted by the saide comyssion's, j chalies, j 
the Churche. I cope whyt satten, wth all the Table clothes and 
surplyces. The resydewe of all the p'miss' comytted to the 
custody of thes men whose names be under wrytten. 

Sr. Robt. Denys pson \ John Lope. 
Symont Smart. | Wm. Lyle. 

Morgan Newman. ) John Holmer. \ 

[The original altar slab is preserved in the vestry. During the 
progress of the restoration of this Church (1878- 1887), two pots 
of earthenware were found in cavities on each side of the 
Chancel arch. This is, I believe, the onlv instance in which 
acoustic vases have been discovered in the upper walls of an 
English Church. 

" These vessels (^X6«a) were found greatly to strengthen the 
speaker's voice, especially when the dialogue was intoned ; and 
here we have probably the philosophy of the origin and practice 
of intoning our church services." ♦ 

In the Churchwarden's accounts of Wimbome Minster, I find 
the following entry: "1541. payd for 2 potts of cley for 
wyndfylling of the chjrrch 8d."] 

•See Vitruvius, lib. V. c. 5. Lardner's Acoustics. Notes and Queriesy ist 
series, Vol. X. p. 386, sqq. Chambers' Journal, No. 251. Norfolk Archaeology , 
Vol. VII. 



I 




SEPULCHRAL SLAB 
Cufisage St Michael, DORSET. 



Sowurut 6» Dorut NoUs 6- Queries, 31 

The pishe of 1 fijrst. Too chalices sylner, one crosse copp, ij 
Gnssage Sc. > crewetes of leade» ij copes, j blewe satten of 
Micluielis. ) brydges, thother crane culler, ij pa3Te of vestmtes 
ij pajre of vestmtes, ii surplices, iij bann's, j grene sylke, thother 
too Ijn clothe stajned, j stremer of grene sylke, j corporas of black 
Telnet, ij fnint clothes, whyt and redd sylke, ij Table clothes, j 
payre of brasen candlestickes, iiij belles in the Tower. 

To those ) Appoynted by the saide comyssion's, the worst 
of the Church. ) chsdis, j vestmt of saye, wth all the Table clothes 
& Surplices. The resydewe of all the p'miss* comytted to the 
custody of thes men whose names be under wrytteh. 

Sr. John Grjrffythe, pson. ) John Harvye. ) 
Walter Dobbes. ] Anthony Ashelye. ) 

[The Chancel was rebuilt in 1857 under the direction of 
G. £. Street, R.A., and a Reredos, from a design by the same 
architect, erected in 1 870. The Tower arch resembles the so-called 
Saxon arches at Knolton, Dorset, and at Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts. 
Near the N. doorway is a coffin-shaped slab (? i ith century), and 
on it, in relief, a cross of very unusual form. About 20 yards 
from the Churchyard is the base of a cross (26 x 26 X 14 inches), 
the portion left of the shaft is 1 1 inches sq. Two of the bells were 
cast in 1 603, by John Wallis of Salisbury, and two by his successor, 
Thomas Purdue, in 1663. Since 1869 coins, ranging from 
Vespasian to Constantius II., have been found in the village, but 
none near the Church.] 

The pishe of ) %rst, j chalis Syluer, ij vestmtes j whyt satten 
Chettell. j brydges. thother blacke satten brydges, j albe, ij 
copes, j blewe satten brydges thother whyt, iij Table clothes, j 
crosse of bras, ij candelstickes of bras, j payre of sencers of bras, 
iij belles in the Tower, ij Surplices, ij corporas clothes. 

To thuse of ) Appoynted by the said comyssion's, j chalis, j cope 
the Church ) of satten brydges, wth all the Table clothes & 
surplices. The resydewe of all the p'miss* comyttyd to the 
custody of thes men whose names be under wrytten. 

Sr Robt Seller curat, j ^^^^ q^^^^ 
Thomas Androwes. > t^. ^ r^„uK-.«- 
Thomas Hardinge. ) J^*^° Gybbens. 

['' The Parish Register of Chettle is as old, I believe, as any 
Register can be, having its beginning in 1538.'* Xev. W. Ckafin, 
(b. 1733, d. 1818).] 

The pishe of ) ffyrst, j chalis of Sylur pcell gylt, ij copes, j of 
Hynton Martell. ) grene satten embrodred, 1 branched damaske 
enbrodred [sic], j vestmt grene of satten of brydges, j vestmt of 
grene damaske, ij old vestmtes j blewe sylke, j of bodken, iij 
candelstickes latten, ij cruetes of tyn, iij Table clothes, i box for 
yole, j bason & ewer of pewter, j tryndell of Iron, yj Towelles, 



33 Somerset <5» Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 

iiij bann's payntyd of lynnyn cloth, j corporas cases, j of blacke 
veluet, j of clothe of gould, ij albes, iij surplices, ij rochetes, j 
Ijrttel bell, iiij belles in the Tower. 

To thnse of the ) Appoynted by the saide comyssion's, j chalis, j 
Churche. | cope of branched damaske, wth all the Surplices 
& Towelles. The resydewe of all the p'miss' comyttyd to the 
custody of thes md whose names be under wrytten. 

Sr. Roger Phiilipes. curaf ) wmm^baiT*^"*' ) 
Willm Weston. ! yi^J^^cw, ! 

Thomas Everydge. j 1^° "ru'rhell?" ' ) 
["Doomsday (1085) speaks incidentally of the existing 
Incumbent of Hinton (now embracing Hinton Martel and Little 
Hinton) ; and of the feoffment of another priest (living in Tarente), 
in some 173 acres of land at Hinton." R. W. Eyton.] 

The pishe of ) ffyrst, j chalis Sylur pcell gylt, j corporas clothe 
Alhallon Gussage. ( wth j case of veluet, j crosse copp & gylt, j 
basen & ewer of latten, iij candelstickes of bras, j pyx of bras, j 
holy water pott, j payre of sencers of bras, iij Table clothes of 
lynnyn, iij copes of whyt satten, j of blewe sylke, the iij of blewe 
sylke, iij vestmtes, j of blewe Damaske, j of Satten of brydges, j 
of whjrt sylke, j surples, ij cruetes & j oyle box of pewter, iij 
Towelles of lynnyn, iiij belles in the Tower. 

To thuse of the ) Appoynted by the said comyssion's, j chalis, j 
Churche. ) cope of blewe sylke, wth all the Table clothes 
& Surplices. The resydewe of all the p'miss* comyttyde to the 
custody of thes me whose names be under wrytten. 

''• MnV^;er'- IPhyllypbnrt. 

[Hallo'n=hallowen, the old gen. pi. of hallow, a saint. A 
season of fine weather in November was called ' all-hallow'n 
summer.' The treble bell was cast by Wallis in 1620. The other 
three, of which the epigraphs are given by Hutchins, are amongst 
the most ancient in the county. Pennies of Hen. III. (longcross 
—London), Ed. I. (Waterford), and (?) Ed. III. (EDWARDUS 
REX ANGLI— CIVITAS LONDON), were recently found in or 
near the Churchyard : and a halfpenny of Ed. I. (EDW. R. ANGL. 
DNS. HYB.— VILLA BRISTOLVIE) at Amen Corner, where a 
chapel is said to have stood. A Chantry certificate of property 
at Southampton, belonging to this church, is in the Record Office.] 

The pishe of \ ffyrst, j chalis sylur wth the pattent pcell gylt, ij 
Tarrant > payre of candelstickes bras, j cope chamlet sylke, j 
Caynston. ) payre of vestmtes of the same, j cope blacke saye, 
j payre of vestmtes of the same, j payre of vestmtes of Tawny 
satten, j payre of vestmtes of Domex, j payre of vestmtes of whyt, 
vj Table clothes, ij corporas cases wth ther clothes, ij surplices, 
iij belles in the To were. 



Scmersit &» Dansi Notss 6* Qmries. 33 

To those of the ) Appoynted by the said comjssion's, j chalis, j 
Chmche. ) cope of blacke saye, wth all the Table clothes 
& Surplices. The resydewe of all the p'miss' comyttyd to the 
custody of thes md whose names be under wrytten. 

Sr. John Meryke, pson. \ Robt. trottell. 
Thomas bold. > Roger Hardinge. 

George Elmes. ) Robt. Soothe. 

The pishe of ) fl^rrst one chalice sylnr j cope of grene sylke, j 
Edmnndeshill. ) cope grene brydges satten» j payre of vestmtes 
of Tawny velaet, 1 payre of vestmtes of grene sylke, j payre 
vestmtes of grene threde chekerede, ij Table clothes, iij other 
clothes, j vant cloth lynnyn, iiij candelstickes bras & ij of Icade, 
iij belles in the Tower. 

To those of the | Appoynted by the sayd comyssion's j chalice 

Chorche. ( Sylnr, j cope of grene satten of brydges, wth 

all the Table clothes & sorpHces. The resydewe of all the 

p'miss' to the custody of thes men whose names be under wrytten. 

{T9 bi coniimuid.) 

16. WiNSPORD DocuMBNTs (III. xxiv. 333). — In addition 
to a very large number of documents of various kinds in the 
Church chest, were found old Church accounts from 1550 to 
1575, Church and Parish accounts from 1594 to 1599, Overseers' 
accounts from 1650 to 1655, and Overseers' and Churchwardens' 
accounts from 17 14 to the present time. The following are 
examples : 

Anno dom 1596 The xxiiij*** of October 

Thomas Torr 1 

John Glasse / Teithingmen have ended their yere 

And Brought in their Accompt 
And thire is Appoyntted for this yere followinge to be 

Teithingmen 
Bartholomewe harwood And Robert pearse to serve for halse 

Bargayne 
And Their is in the hands of Bartholomewe harwood One 

Teithinge muskett performed 
Item One curatt pformed Lackinge a pike 
Item Their is in the hands of Robert pearse One corstlett 

pformed 
Item One muskett w**» his flax Twichboxe moll and rest 
Item Their is in the hands of William norman The Bodye of 

one costlett Lackinge A Gourgett to the same 

c 



34 Somerset S* Dorset Notes <S» Queries. 

Item their is in the hands of Willm norman one sheef of 

Arrowes 
Item their is in the hands of Willm Bradford farmer, One payer 
of Almett Ryvets 
X Their is due to the prvshe from John glasse 
X Item their is due from Thomas torr 

to the pry she . . . . iiij«- ij^- 

Tho : Wyborn's Release to Thomas Thorne. 
Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Wy borne of 
the pish of Winsford in the County of Somersett Husbandman 
have Remised Released And for Ever quitted claim And by 
these presents do remise Release And for Ever quitt claim to 
Thomas Thorne of the same pish And County aforesaid 
Blacksmith his Executors And Administrators of all and all 
manner of Action and Actions cause and causes of Actions Suits 
Bills bonds writings obligatory debts, dues duties Accounts Sum 
and Sums of Money Leases Mortgages Judgements by confession 
or otherwise obtained Executions Extents quarrells controversies 
trespasses Damages And demands whatsoever which in Law or 
equity or otherwise howsoever I the said Thomas Wy borne 
Against the said Thomas Thome Ever had And which I my 
Heires Executors And Administrators shall or may have claim 
challenge or demand for or by reason of any matter cause or 
thing whatsoever from the begining of the world to the day of the 
date of these presents In witness whereof I have hereunto sett 
my hand and seale the third day of May In the Yere of our Lord 
God One thousand Six hundred Ninety And nine 
This being written on paper having ^ 
thereon two sixpeny stamps was f 
sealed signed And delivered in the I 
presents of vs Viz ) the marke 

Tobias Davies of 

Richard Hole Thomas y Wyborne (Seal) 

thomas Lyddon 

W. Dicker, Winsford. 

17. The Shaftesbury Bezant. (II. xvi. 183, III. xxiv. 
297). — ^The subjoined letter forms part of a quantity of MSS. 
once belonging to William Cuming, M.D., of Dorchester ; an 
account of whom is given in the 2nd and 3rd editions of Hutchins's 
History of Dorset^ vol. II. The letter does not contain the name 
and address of the writer's correspondent : 

•*Shaston" 
•* Hond. Sir. 

I had the Pleasure of Receiving your Letter with those 
inclos*d, & think myself and the rest of the Company under the 
Greatest Obligations for the Trouble you have taken on our 



Somerset <S* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 35 

Behalf, as now we are in hopes to reimburse ourselves in the 
Money we are Out of in this town, & hope farther to Save 
the Expence of a Journey 10 Obtain the Mayor's leave as you are 
So kind to Say you will get it Excus'd. The Bizant Week 
Afforded us but two houses, viz : Monday ♦ (the Bizant Day) We 
gave out Romeo & the Mock Doctor f & Play'd to ;^7 : & some 
few Shillings, we Gave out Richard J for Tuesday, but as there 
was two Balls that Evening, we Cou*d not raise a House. 
Wednesday we Play'd (By Desire) the Miser § & High Life || to 
£6 I OS. & threw that night for Benefits (which are Double) the 
Chance was Mr. Spencers & Miss Gaudrys. Inclos*d Is a Bill of 
the Play &c. we Did Intend Giving out for Thursday, But as all 
the Ladies about the Country were Present the Evening before 
& their being fatigued with the two Balls Did not See any 
Prospect of Making a fourth House. The following Is a liitle 
Account of the Bizant. on Monday (the Bizant Day) about 2 
o'clock the town Constables attended by some Javelin Men went 
to the Mayors house to Escort the Bizant to the George where it 
was Shewn to Every Person that Chose to See it. it Consists of 
a Form of Eight Square Standing on a Small Post, and Consists 
of Great Variety of Silver & Gold Medals Stone Buckles & 
Gamett Necklaces, and up the Sides a Number of Diamond 
Rings, there are four Large fronts in the Middle of Which is four 
Pictures in Miniature, Viz Queen Elizabeth, King Charles ist, a 
Familly Picture of Mr. Merrifields. & one of a Young Gentleman 
of the Town. Besides these 'tis Decorated with Purple Ribbands, 
& at the Top a Small Tuft of Peacocks Feathers, About 5 o'Clock 
The Constables went to bring up the Lord & Lady of Bizant. in 
the mean time the Gent: of the Corporation waited on the Ladies 
and brought them to the Ball Room and upon the Arrival of the 
Ld. & Ladv they Set out to Enmore Green (the Place where the 
Head of Water is that Serves the town) in the Following Order. 
A Party of Javelins. Then the town Musick, next the Town 
Constables & Sergeants one of them carrying the Bizant 
Imediately Before the Ld. & Lady, when they Came into the 
Square before the George there was a Dance by the Ld. & Lady 
According to Custom, & then at Particular Places all the way to 
the Green they Stopt & Danced, they were followed by Seventeen 
Couple of the Principal Ladies and Gent : when they Came to the 
Green there was a Table set out with a Raw Calves Head, Six 
Small Loaves & 2 Bottles of Wine for the Ladies. Then the 
Ceremony of Giving the Gloves &c. was Performed, & the Ladies 
having Staid a few Minutes all Came back in the Same Order as 
they went to the Ball & thus Ended the Bizant. 

•May 17, 1762. 

tH. Fielding's version (published in 1732) of Le Medicin MalgrS Lui, 

i Richard III. 

I Probably H. Fielding's adaptation (published in 1733) of L* Avon. 

i High Life below Stairs, by the Rev. James Townley, 1759. 



36 Soiiurset 6- Dorset Notes 6- Queries. 

We shar'd at the two Plays 12s. Each viz 8s. to Romeo & 4 to 
the Miser. Our Company will Consist of the Same as at the three 
Crowns, only with the addition of Mr. Kearney. Mr. Spencer & 
Miss Gaudry leave us at the End of this Town. Mr. Wood 
Purposes that one of us Shall be sent forwd In Order to Get all in 
Readiness against the Company Comes, & Desires me to Give 
his Duty to you & Returns you his Sincere Thanks for the Trouble 
you have taken. My Best Respects waits on Miss Polly,* 
Mr. Gould,t Mr. Templeman J &c. & in Particular to Mr. Meech 
for his Trouble. 

I am with the Greatest Respect 

Hond. Sr. Yr. Obliged Humble Servant. 
E. Clarke. 
P : S: Mr. Gaudry begs his Duty 
to you with his Respects to all the Above 
his Good Friends. May 24th, 1762. 

The Respects of the Company in General are Desired to you. 
N.B.— the Benefits End on Monday Se'night." 

W. G. Boswell-Stone. 

18. Lady Wyndham, (III. xxiv. 355). — Without the 
slightest question of the accuracy of the statement of this lady's 
restoration to life in the manner stated, it is nevertheless curious 
that a precisely similar incident is recorded as having happened 
to a Lady Mount Edgcumbe, except that I believe the account, 
which can be found in most of the Histories of Devon and 
Cornwall, states that the sexton tried to pull off the rings and 
thus roused the lady, who rose in her coffin and so frightened 
the man that he fled in terror, dropping his lanthom ; the Lady 
is said to have subsequently borne an heir to her lord and to have 
lived for several years after. The incident occurred, I believe, 
writing from memory, at Maker, near Plymouth, or Cothele. 

W. H. CoTTELL, Wood Vale, Forest Hill, S.E. 

zg, I have often heard, when a boy, from my mother and her 
mother, the incident related under the above number, and even 
more circumstantially, but it was one of the Mount Edgcumbe 
family. My grandmothers lived near Mount Edgcumbe and were 
connected with the family by marriage. I have some idea of 
there being a contemporary MS. account of the event. What 
evidence is there in support of the Wyndham case ? 

Arthur J. J ewers. Wells, Somerset. 

ao. Family of Earle, Erle or Earl. (III. xxi. 195). 
— In a previous number of S. S» D, N, S* Q. sl question was 
asked by the Rev. C. S. Earle. Rector of Little Langford, Wilts, 

• ? Miss Mary Oldfield, a friend of Dr. Cuming, 
t PSamnel Gould, a bookseUer of Dorchester. 
X ? John Templeman, an attorney of Dorchester. 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 37 

relative to the connection with each other of the various families 
of Earle. By the kind permission of Mr, W. E. S. Erle-Drax, of 
Holnest Park, Dorset, I am able to furnish a reply, derived from 
a i\IS. volume in his possession, entitled "An abstract of ye 
Name Title & Family of ye Earies, 1688." This is a Folio, 
comprising some 34 leaves, written on the nc/o only, and in a 
clerkly hand, together with a pedigree on vellum with the Earle 
Arms in colours, viz. gules, three escallops within a bordure 
engrailed argent. Crest. An Escallop argent. Motto, Tacitumia 
Pisce.* 

The author of this MS. is unknown, but it appears from an 
unsigned letter purporting to be written by him, and inserted in 
the volume, that he had employed his vacant hours in its 
compilation, and had sent copies to Sir Richard Earle [of 
Craglethorp, Bart.] and Sir Thomas Earle [of Bradenbrook» 
Knt.] and now presented a third " To Colonel Erie In Leicester 
ffeilds, London," [t.e. Thomas Erie of Charborough"] to whom 
this letter is addressed. He says: "To take away all thoughts 
that you may entertain of what should be the designe of it, you 
neither doe nor shall know the Author of it." He adds : " If you 
have anything of this Nature that is more correct, I should be 
very Ambitious of seeing it, and if you would but favour me with 
a coppy or sight of it, send it to one Mr. Campions a Herauld 
Painter in three King Court in fFleet street." 

The following is an abstract of the pedigree therein given.f 

1. Hekry de Erle, Lord of Newton, Somerset, occurs 

35 Hen. III., 1251. (Liber Heredum en le Tower.) 

2. John de Erle, Knt., son and heir, Lord of North 

Pedderton. Somerset, died ana 28 Edw. I., 1300. 
(Kerb/s Quest.) 

3. Henry de Erle, Knt., son and heir. Lord of N. 

Pedderton. died 35 Edw. I., 1307. (Le Kallender de 
com' Som', Devon, Dorset and Cornwall in le Tower). 

4. John de Erle, son and heir, Lord of N. Pedderton, 

Sheriff of Dorset 8 Edw. IL, died seized of Somerton 
Erie, Somerset, 17 Edw. IL, i3H- (Fuller's Worthyes, 
fol. 285.) 

5. John de Erle, son and heir, aged 26 at his father's 

death, died seized of N. Pedderton and Somerton, area 
1 1 Edw. III., 1337, leaving two sons, infants, viz., John, 
his heir, and Richard, an ancestor of the Lincolnshire 



•Fol. 23. **I once saw in Oxford an old piece of Stone, being a kind of 
Reddish Marble and brought from Rome, an EscoUop shell cnrionsly engravcD 
▼pon it and sen'all other fancies aromid it and vnder one Engraven in an old 
Roman Caracter, Tacitumia Pisce, which I thinke ought to be every Wise man's 
Motto." Should not this be ** Tadtumior Pisce " ? 

t ColKnson, H. 199, gives a fuller, and what appears to be a more accurmte, 
accomit of the line of descent of the Erlcighs of Somerton Erldgh. 



38 Somerset S* Dorset Notes 6- Queries, 

family. (Kalender de Com* Som* et Devon en le 
Tower.) 

6. John de Erlb, Knt., son and heir, aged 4 years at his 

father's death, and 20 at his mother's, Knighted 45 
Edw. III., Sheriflf of Devon 3 Hen. IV. — died area 

11 Hen. IV., 1410. (Fuller's Worthies, fol. 269. 
Escheators Bundles en le Excheqr.) 

7. John de Erlb, son and heir, married the daughter and 

heir of John Pavely, 1 3 Hen. VI., and had issue an only 
daughter Margaret. He died 20 Hen. VI., 1442. 
(Fuller's Worthies, fol. 267). 

8. Margaret, daughter and heiress, " had three Husbands 

and left Issue onley one daughter Margarstt, 

12 Edw. IV., 1472." (Kalender del Escheators). 

9. Margaret, sole heiress of Margaret (8), married to 

John Erie of Ashburton, Devon, who died seized of 
Ashburton and Culhampton, De\on, 2 Rd. III., 1484, 
bearing issue by the said Margaret John and Robert, 
the latter ancestor of the Bradenbrooke family in Wilts. 
(Le Kalender de Com' Dorsett et Wilts in Scacario). 

10. John Erle, son and heir of John and Margaret, was 

seized of Culhampton, Devon, and Charborough, 
Dorset, 23 Hen. VII., 1508, and left issue John and 
Daniel. — the latter the '* Ancestor of those at 
Winchester, Southton, of Normanton in Com' Notting- 
ham, et LofFborough in Com' Leicester." 

11. John Erle of Culhampton, died seized of Culhampton 

and Charborough, 36 Hen. VIII., 1545. 
It is unnecessary to carry this line further, as the continuation 
may be seen in Vist/. of Dorset^ 1623, and in Hutchins's Dorset. 

On reverting to generation 10, it appears that the second 
son, Daniel Erle, of Southampton, had issue Daniel and 
John — the latter being the ancestor of " those about Winchester," 
— while the former, also of Southampton, was father of Daniel 
Erle, Barrister-at-law, secretary to ** my Lord Whitlock," when 
commissioner of the Great Seal in 1654. He had Normanton in 
right of his wife, and purchased Loflfeborough, and left issue 

Daniel, the possessor in 1688, John, and Erle. 

To turn to generation 9. Robert Erle, gen., seized of 
Compton, Somerset, being part of his mother's patrimony, and of 
lands in Crudwell, Wilts, died circa 8 Hen. VIH., 1517, leaving 
issue seven sons ; 

r. Robert, seized of lands in Compton Dando. ** but being 
Cheated in a Purchase hee made, broke his heart and 
died without Issue." 

2. Richard. "There be some of this Man's posterity 

now [1688] liveing about Bradford in Com' Wilts." 

3. John, seized of West Crudwell, Wilts, 5,p, 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes &» Queries. 39 

4. Thomas, *' died without Issue for what I can find." 

5. William, had issue William, who died seized of lands 

in Escott, Wilte. 

6. Gtles, seized of lands at Escott, had issue three sons, 

(a) Gyles, who " studdied the Law, and haveing gott a 
great Estate by it did Repurchase Braudenbrook in 
Com' Wilts into the family again and liveing vnmarried 
hee died without Issue and gave his Estate, (except 
what he bequeathed to Charitable vses) to his Nephew 
Sr. Thomas Earle, his Brother William's Sonn, which 
was the onely Branch of this family then surviveing : hee 
died Anno 1676." {d) Thouas, od. s.p. {c) William, 
who died seized of lands at Escott, 1668, and had issue 
three daughters and one son, Thomas Earlb, Knt., 
Sheriff of Bristol, 1670, Sheriff of Wilts, 16^9, Mayor of 
Bristol, 1682, an M.P. for that city« and had issue Gyles, 
who died at Victoria in Spain, 1677, Joseph, Thomas, 
William, Robert, and Gyles, and seven daughters. 

7. Nicholas, died seized of lands in Escott, and had issue 

Thomas, the father of another Thomas, who dying s.p. 

" upon a disgust left his Estate to his wifes Relacons.*' 

From the 5th generation of the Sotnersii Erles sprang the 

Stragglethorpe (Craglethorpe) family in Lincolnshire. The line 

of descent is given as follows : — 

i. Richard de Erle. *' Studdied the Law and was an 

Vtter Barrister, Anno 7, Hen. V. He died circa 

S Hen. VI, 1427." 

ii. Richard Erle lived in Co. Huntingdon, and dying circa 

9 Edw. IV., 1469, left issue Richard, who died x./., and 

iii. Austin Earlb, a Lawyer and Steward to the Priory of 

Holt, Co. Line. Died circa 7 Hen. VIII., 1516. 
iv. Richard Erle, " bred up under his Father and succeeded 
him in the Stewardship of the Priory. Hee gott a very 
great Estate both reall and personall vpon the dissolucon 
of the Monasteries." He died circa 22 Eliz., 1580. 
V. Austin Earle purchased Stragglethorpe, and dying 
5 James I., 1606, left it to his only son Kichard, created 
Baronet in 1629. [See Burke's Extinct Baroruiciee\ 

C. H. Mayo. 

ax. Prolonging her time. — (III. xxiv. 349). — Years ago 
I had charge of two small parishes near Yeovil, and in visiting a 
woman who was in extremity of sickness, I noticed that her 
attendants appeared to be simply letting her die from sheer 
exhaustion, when I felt persuaded that by rousing her and giving 
her proper nourishment, her life might be prolonged, even if she 
did not ultimately recover. On suggesting this I was met l?y 
the exclamation: — "Oh, don't ee raft her, sir, don't ee raft 



4° Scmmei <§• Dorset Notes S- Queries. 

her — ^Twould be wicked to raft a dyine woman » n« 
I found it to be a common superstition tLrit^^ald bl . T"^' 
thing to '•raft;^-which. I suppose. »eans to rous^ujla peS 
who IS apparently smking. I take the origin of the ^^^L/IS ."r" 
in the laziness and inhumanity of the old « GamoT^who "• u^'! 
the patients to die without troubUng them ev^^wh^n »S ^'^^^ 
a prospect of prolonging life, or of recovery IkTn In H"^- "^^ 
origin, is. I fancy, the practice of draS'awly the m'nA"' '^ 
" let 'em die easy," which in cases of extreme «Ln»t- ^ '*''' *° 
almost instant death, an act which has^oSTbe^tSm;^^^^^^^ 
never accomplished m my presence. -"cmpiea out 

Since writing the above, I have received fmm *«« ^i^ r • 
Mrs. Blandford. formerly of the Manor HoueWestoi i™"*^' 
fylde. to whom I had written on the subieS a fetter ^°,".-^^P- 
experience almost the counterpart of mine She says 2*^ ^ 

better thu. relate it. It occoired whe^ ^tusbaS^Tlr^^ 1 °»»ot do 
Dor.et. One of the cottagers (an old serWt 0^^^ ^Z^ Mappowder, 
« very respectable man. a member of the "ho? &c.) ^ « °'';,f^^ ^^f ?/ 
fcver-our own doctor attending her. As he was 7^1-7^ ?J2 '" ''T'""'' 
anxious to do all we could for tSe poorlromLT we were cofitt^f. '^* "V "^ 
the cottage. On a Sunday, coming out of cSVdi T^onfri r""}: "* ""* ""' °f 
that she was worse, so weit to sef fofmy^ Fi„d^r^„'^ ^°' T' »°d ^eaid 
went up to her bedroom, where she 3liina , ^ "n°°* do'^tairs, I 
unconsa^ous. Her husband wasVtanSmgTv h?r|de?„'''c!;^°,''' .speechless and 
other side, and an old friend (acting ntSfe) sittTne wVtrh!^?f ^It*^^ " !'^*' *« 
nursed my dear husband through tfie wme Idnd ffT^!!, ^ 5"" *?'.*■"*,- ' ^'^ 
had being doing for her. They said^notWna ^if ' ??''u*^'^ ^''"' ^^^ 
dying." I asked if she coul/ swJlow I^^.n^^It^^v *^,<'°«, she Ws 
something into her mouth (br^dy^d mU^the dfftor'^J'':;'/''; *>»»!1»^P« 
it was . They seemed to think it was XadfiS for ^^.^ "'''^ered, and there 
was wicked to 'raft • a dying womm" "' *° *"««"' "' »°^ ^^ "«« 

»« ♦K^K*' ^u^V^l *°^',°" *° *«" •'O*' having spoken very nlainlv 
i?»lln^f^°*^'K'*'^ ^* last gained his permission to Se the 
attempt, how she succeeded in givinir the nouri^hm^nf ♦« lu 
apparently unconscious woman. th*^n sf nit r old SS J^^^^^^^^ 
on her work, how the woman recovered, and is nUvTtn\lVJ7 
(IS .vears after), and she concludes: ''°' *"*'"' ="^« ^° this day 

whlcilLt'.S^d^.e'l^Ll;^^^'''-**-^-'-*-'' Dorset, but «>tt^ 

Have any other readers of S. Sf D. AT. & O had »»« 

"I^T^r't^itSZTr""' "' "" "' «»« "«^«'"e 

R. B. POOLB. 

printed*Jt'S'/tn?"/? 't^' ..?«'%^'f^''0' ->/ 5-<,«.r,,/ »5,,^, 
S" Wed"gs.°''°'"""- "' ''* ■^'^'"'' ^-WW 

The Editors.] 



Somerui S* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 41 

22. Richard King, M.P. for Melcombe Regis. (III. 
XX. 149, xxiii, 276, 277, xxiv. 329.) — In the recently-issued first 
number oi Dorset Records is an abstractor the /«^«m//<?/w/ morteni 
of Robert Se3nner of Hanford, Dorset, Knt., who died 7 July, 1 624, 
It contains the following reference to Richard King, which is 
valuable as giving the date and place of his marriage with Edith 
Seymcr : 

*' The said RcA>ert Stynur was likewise seised of the Manor of Beere alias 
Beere Marsh, and all the messuages, houses, lands, etc., hereto belonging, and so 
seised he by his deed dated 21st NoTember, 21 James I. [1633I in consideration 
of a marriage to be had between Richard Kinge, of the Inner Temple, London, 
gent., and Edith Seymn, Daughter of the said Robert Seymer, and for a certain 
sum of money to him in hand paid by the said Richard, sold to the said Richard 
the said Manor of Beere and sul the messuages, houses, lands, mills, etc, to the 
same belonging lying within the fields, parishes, towns, vills, precincts or hamlets 
of Beere alias Beere Marsh, Okeford Snillinge, Fitzpayne Okeford, Hamoone, 
Child Okeford, Sturmister and Newton Castle : to hold for 200 years, he paying 
for the same one grain of pepper, upon this condition, nevertheless, that if the 
sai 1 Robert Seynur pay to the said Richard Kinge the sum of ;£'262 los. at 
Midsummer and the like sum nt Michaelmas then next following, that then the 
sai J demise shall be of no effect. 

Afterwards, to wit, on the 25th day of December, 21 James I. [1623], the 
said marriage was solemnized at Hampford. The said R^ert Seymer paid one 
sum of ;£'262 los. on the 24th day of June next after the date of the indenture last 
mentioned, but the other sum has not been paid.*' (P. 14.) 

It is hoped that a valuable undertaking like that of 
Dorset Records will receive the support it so well deserves. 

C.H.M. 



23. WiMBORNE Minster Altar Recess in Transept. 
(III. xxiii. 273, xxiv. 338.) — With all due submission to Mr. 
Edmund Buckle, I fear I cannot fall in with his suggestion as to 
the destruction of this altar when the 14th century alterations 
were made, for the following reasons : — 

I St. The uppermost and last executed picture in the tympanum 
of the recess is evidently of a more recent date than the 
above-named period. 

2nd The care with which the thin ashlar pier was formed 
between the recess and the enlarged opening between the 
north chancel aisle and the transept, and the careful, 
though to us unsightly, manner in which the radius of the 
arch over the recess was altered to meet the new abutment, 
all these show conclusively that the recess and the pictures 
(which we must not call frescos, strictly speaking, as Mr. 
Edmund Buclcle rightly reminds us) were at dl events 
retained, which would hardly have been the case had the 
altar been removed. 

Walter J. Fletcher. 



42 Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries, 

24. We know that this Nonnan (original) Transept was. 
enlarged byDeanBrembre in A.D. 1350, who established a chantry 
there. There is no sign of any other altar in the enlarged transept, 
neither were any remains of such found during the recent work 
when the piaster was off the walls. Did not Dean Brembre adopt 
the existing and slightly-altered Nonnan altar for his own 
chantry chapel ? 

Mr. Edmund Buckle has, I think, mistaken what was said 
about the Piscina being found walled-in to the recess ; although 
built-in it was always seen, being outside. 

My own idea is that it was the Piscina of Dean Brembre,. 
placed and used on the north side of the old Norman altar. 

Why should the altar have been removed in pro-Reformation 
times ? 

The walling-up of recess (but not of Piscina) was much 
posterior to 1350. 

Perhaps Mr. Edmund Buckle is right technically about 
frescos, but what are frescos but paintings on plaster ? 

F. J. HUYSHB. 

25. Terrier of Yetminster Vicarage. — ^An old terrier 
of the Vicarage of Yetminster has been placed in the hands of 
the Editors by Mr. John Batten, for insertion in S. S'D.N.S* Q. 
From the reference in it to ''the tenth Aiticel," it appears 
probable that the document is part of a reply to articles of 
enquiry at a Visitation of the Dean of Sarum. under whose 
peculiar jurisdiction Yetminster was comprised. The terrier 
is not dated, and there are no records at Yetminster to show when 
Tristram Deauenish and William Tanton filled the office of 
churchwarden. The burial register gives, however, the date of 
interment of William Taunton, senr., on 27 Sept., 1687, and Mr. 
Wm. Taunton, junr., son of Mr. Wm. Taunton, 16 Feb., 1691-2. 
Of the names which occur at the end of the terrier, the register 
records the burial of Mr. John Minterne, jun., of Yetminster^ 
19 Jan., 1698-9, of John Minterne, senr., of Batcomb, Esq., 
8 June, 1699, and of John Minterne, Esq. (buried at Batcomb) 
12 June, 1705. One or other of these three names may be that 
of the attestor. Some memoranda on the fly-leaves of the 
register are signed by Thomas Allambridge, Dec. 3, 1691, — 
Dec. 17, 1694. 

From these entries it may be concluded that the terrier is. 
about two centuries old. It runs as follows: — 

" Tristram Deauenish 

„-.„. ^ Churchwardens* 

William Tanton 

A terrier of the Glibe, Tythes, and Sperituall duties 
belonging to the Vicer of Yetminster, Leigh, & Chetnole, with[in;> 
the County of Dorset. 



Sovursti S» Demi Notis 6* Qmriis. 45 

belo ^^^^^^ to the tenth Articel we psent that there is 
offi ^^^^ ^^ ^® ^^ Vicer a dwelling house and other booses of 
half^ ^^^^ repaired and a garden a Corte one Acre of land and 
aiie or there about adiojming to the same & likewise these 
Apportions of Tythcs folloing, vies. aU the Create and Leser 
v^»jes of the manner of Caswell and every Communicant for his 
°r ner recenng the communion two pence. 

It. for every Marrage tenn pence, for Churching every 
^voman after Child hearth five pence and the Vicar is to have for 
every buriaJl in the Chancell Teen Shillings. 

It the Vicer is to have at Easter for edgs [Peggs] one penie 
and for the garden and frutes there of one penie. 

It. for offering of woman after Child hearth from Ryme 
Intrencica and Franckcum are & have ben paid to the Vicer of 
Yeatminester. 

It. for Appells peares & plomes the vicer hath the tenth of 
them when they are gathered. 

It. for fleax & hempe the Vicer hath the tenth. 
Ic for Catell that are grased and fated for the butcher the 
tenth of the orbedge of them is due to the Vicer. As for 
young Cattell that are breed Ither for the plow or the payle, there 
is nothing due to the Vicer. 

It. the Vicer is not to be alowed any thing for the keping 
of oxen or horses for the plow for that the Church is satiesfied in 
in theare labor. 

It. for the milke of every Cow two pence, and for the milke 
of every heffer three halfe pence, and for a wenter milch Cow a 
penie which is due to be paide at Lammas. 

It. the tenth Calfe and the tenth Pigge is due to the Vicer. 
It. for Sheepe the tenth of the wooll. 
It. for Lames the tenth lame is due to be taken at St. Mark's, 
day ; if but 7, 8, or 9 odd lames or calues, then ther is due a 
teith calfe or lame but the Vicer is to alow for every Calfo aboue 
seven and vnder tenn a halfe penie to the pshinor, and for every 
Calfe doe com severally vnder seven the pshinor is to pay to the 
Vicar a halfe penie, and the Vicar is to have the left shoulder for 
every Calfe that is killed and spent in euery pshinors house. 

It. every Inhabitand or Indweller that shall rent any ground 
within the psh of Yetminesler. Leigh, or Chetnole, that shall keep 
any Cowes or hefers for the paylle must pay the tenth according^ 
to the custome afore said. 

It. if any Inhabitant or Indweller shall rent any meadow 
grownd or any grownd for the tellage, they are to set out the 
tenth of there hay and the tenth of there grayne, come, pease, 
hemp, and flax to the P*son and Vicer without paying to the 
Vicer any other. 

It. there is not anything due to the Vicar for after sheares^ 
except it be sold or conuerted to the fating of Catell for which he 
is to haue for every Acere by Costome four pence. 



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26. Squibb Familt. — ^I shall be miich obliged for any notes 
this family, especiallj the early portion of the pedigree. In 

iiitchias' Hist9fy 0f Dfiei^ Vol. i. 198, there is a long bat 
.'leagre pedigree, and on p. 201 some farther references ; also in 
The Gerualogixi^ First Series, VoL tL p. 95, will be found a 
short pedigree, but beyond these I know of scarcely anything. 

£. A. Fbt, 172, Edmond St., Birmingham. 

27. CoMMUNiOH Flagon, Bbtmpton, Somuiskt. (III. 
xxiv. 336). — ^The flagon *' recently discoTered in the parish chest 
of Brympton" was in use np to the end of 1877. How it was 
subseqaently lost and found I do not know. 

Archkb Thompson, sometime Rector of Brympton. 

aS. Armorial Bkarings at Chrly it. (III. zxiii. 295).— The 
arms impaled with the arms of Tynte, on the porch at CbelYey 
Court, are those of Trenchard of Cutteridge, Wilts (Per pale ar. and 
az., on the first three palets sa.). 

Colonel John Tynte, of Chelvey, married ( as his third wife) 
Frances, daughter of John Trenchard, Esq., of Cutteridge, and 
probably he erected the porch. John Tynte died in 1669, aged 51, 
and was succeeded by his only son (by his second marriage, with 
Jane Halswell, heiress of Halswell, who died in 1650), HaJswell 
Tynte, who was created a Baronet, 7 Tune, 1673. Sir Halswell, 
on the death of his maternal grandfather, the Kev. Hugh Hals- 
well, D.D. (in 1673), and inheriting the Halswell estate, appears 
to have dismantled Chelvey Court and taken up his abode at 
Halswell. Chelvey was then let to a tenant of the name of 
Cottle, in whose descendants it has remained until the present day, 
a period of over 300 years. 

St. David Kembts-Tyntb, Sherwood, Bridgwater. 

ag. Earthquakb Shocks in Somrrsbt. — ^A well-marked 
shock of earthquake was felt on the northern side of the Mendip 
Valley on Saturday night, Dec. 30, 1 893. The circumstances seem 
rather peculiar from the fact that the shock — or shocks, for it is 
stated there were three — were within a comparatively limited area, 
and included the towns of Wells, Shepton Mallet, Glastonbury, and 
the villages immediately adjoining these towns. The first shock was 
felt about 1 1.30 p.m., accompanied by a rumbling noise, and lasted 
for about three seconds. People were awakened out of their sleep 
by the rocking of their beds and the clattering of crockery and 
falling articles, and some rushed into the streets in their fright. At 
12.28 a second and much more severe shock was felt, but it was of 
shorter duration. Both shocks were felt in all of the towns named 
and in the surrounding villages. A third shock about four o'clock 
is stated to have been felt by some persons. 

In Wells some of the people in St. Thomas Street ran out of 
their houses, and the residents in Vicars* Close were greatly 
alarmed. In some instances crockery ware was thrown from the 



.46 Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

dressers and smashed, and at the residence of Mr. J. N, Knight, of 
Milton, the shock was so great that he thought his greenhouse 
boiler had burst, and he got up and examined the premises. In 
Shepton Mallet the shock was felt all up one side of Cowl-street 
and High-street, and at the district hospital the beds rocked like 
hammocks. The shocks were severely felt at Glastonbury and 
the village of Draycott ; whilst at Coxley, people ran out of their 
houses, others were shaken in their beds, the furniture removed 
from its place, and in one instance a pillar clock was thrown down 
and smashed. A second but milder shock occurred at 1 2.15. The 
direction appeared to be from south to north. In all the places 
the effects seem to have been the same, but what was the cause, 
seeing the limited area ? Landslips produce tremors in non- 
volcanic areas resembling earthquakes, and the falling-in of roofs 
of subterranean cavities has also been suggested as a cause, but 
is only likely to affect a small area. 

Between 11 and 12 p.m. on Saturday, two distinct shocks of 
earthquake were felt in Baltonsborough. The oscillation came 
northward and travelled one mile southwards. The shocks were 
preceded by a dull rumbling noise. No damage was done, but 
fears were entertained for the chimneys, especially on the hill. 

The experiences in the undermentioned villages were as 
follow : — 

Priddy. — An earthquake of considerable violence was experi- 
enced in Priddy and the immediate neighbourhood about 1 1.20 on 
Saturday night, and another, less violent, about an hour later. 
The cause of the earthquake would appear to have been a violent 
subterranean explosion, as the shaking of the earth was accom- 
panied with a dull sound, as of a huge dynamite explosion. The 
shakings, apparently about six or seven, were quite distinct, 
lasting about six seconds, and were of such violence as to shake 
the doors and windows, and in the smelting house of the lead 
works, shook the dust from the rafters. The second shock lasted 
only about half the time, and was not nearly so severe. In one 
house in the parish, through the bolted windows, the ivy was 
distinctly heard beating against the wall, and rustling as though 
rubbed violently by a passing animal ; this description, that of a 
passing animal, is given by others. Another describes it as a 
huge avalanche of snow slipping from the roof. As far as one 
could judge, the shock seemed to be travelling in a northerly 
direction. 

WooKBY. — A severe shock of earthquake was felt here on 
Saturday night, accompanied by a loud rumbling sound. It seemed 
as if the earth was assuming an undulating motion, such as is 
observed on the waves of the sea. As nearly as possible it was 
about 1 1.20 p.m. The animals round were exceedingly restless 
just then, and the dogs continued to bark for some time afterwards, 
and were very much disturbed. A second shock was felt at 1 2.30 



Sonurset &> Dorset Notes S» Queries, 47 

<that is on the Sunday morning). This was quite different, and 
seemed more of a tremor than the other, causing things to rattle, 
pictures to sway, and windows to shake. A third shock was noticed 
by some about four o'clock, but it was very slight. 

WooKEY Hole. — ^The shocks of earthquake were very severe 
under the hills. The first \ras preceded by what seemed a terrific 
explosion ; persons were thrown from the chairs and from bed. 
The first shock occurred on the 30th at 11.20 p.m. ; the second 
shock at 12.28 was not accompanied with so much noise, but was 
much more violent, for the houses and everything on the shelves 
vibrated about two seconds. 

The above is taken from the Western Gazeiie of 5th Januar}', 

' "^"^ NOTICES OP BOOKS. 

30. Notes on the Surnames of Francus, Franceis, 
French, &c., in Scotland, with an Account of the 
Frenches of Thornydykes. By A. D. Weld French. 8vo, 
pp. 109. Boston, Mass., 1893. 

A short time ago (III. xx. 174) we noticed a similar book by 
the same author : in the present case he prints the results of his 
researches among Scottish records. 

Not only is this little book of great interest to all who bear 
the surname of French or one of its many variations, but it is 
enriched with many valuable charters, some of them not having 
been printed before ; several of these relate to the famous Abbey 
of Melrose, and to the less well-known priory of Coldingham in 
Berwickshire, "whose records commence at an earlier period 
than those of any other monastery in Scotland." 

Part II. (about half the book) contains an account of the 
Frenches of Thornydykes, a castle situated on the northern side 
of the road leading from Greenlaw to Lauder ; beginning with 
Robert French, the first Laird, who died circa 1400, and ending 
with Adam French, the tenth Laird, who was born in 1599, but 
parted with his estates in 1633. If these two books about the 
French family are reprinted, it would be well to provide them with 
an Index ; a very necessary adjunct to every genealogical work. 

2. 

31 . Historical and Topographical Collections relating 
to the early history of parts of South Somerset, viz., Barwick, 
Chilton Cantelo, Sutton Bingham, East Coker, Brympton, 
Houndston, Preston, Limington, with notices of West Coker 
and Hardington Mandeville. By John Batten, F.S.A. Whitby 
& Son, Yeovil. Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Paternoster Row, 
London, 1894. Demy 8vo, 4 leaves, and pp. 200. 

Mr. Batten has produced a charming 8vo volume, of some 
200 pages, on the early history of certain parishes in the southern 
part of the county of Somerset, the places treated of being those 
already enumerated in the title-page. 



^^8 Somerset S» Dorset Notes cS- Queries. 

The history is pleasantly written, with no trace of dryness, and 
will be read with profit and interest by all who are acquainted 
with the locality, or who are favourers of the local historian. 

Mr. Batten, in his preface and elsewhere, assumes an 
apologetic tone in regard to the book on which he has bestowed 
so much love and care. We are sure it is not at all necessary 
that he should so speak of his labours— on the contrary, he has 
conferred an obligation on all who are connected by origin or 
association with a county which, like Somerset, so loudly cries 
for a new history to be taken in hand. 

The work is illustrated with 1 1 good engravings of churches 
and manor houses, and as every book of the kind should be, is 
well supplied with indexes of local and personal names. 

Only 200 copies have been printed, and are on sale by 
Messrs. Whitby & Sons, Yeovil, at 6/6 each, or 6/1 oj, post free. 

A. 

32. Dorset Records; being Indexes, Calendars and 
Abstracts of Records relating to the County of Dorset, also 
Transcripts of Parish Registers. Edited by Edward Alexander 
Fry and George S. Fry. Published quarterly — annual subscrip- 
tion IDS, 6d. Agent: Charles J. Clark, 4, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 
London, W.C. 

Dorset is to be congratulated on the appearance of the first 
number of a publication devoted to the Records of the County^ 
under the able editorship of Mr. E. A. Fry, Hon. Secretary, and 
Mr. G. S. Fry, Hon. Gen. Editor, of the British Record Society, 
gentlemen who both spring from a Dorset ancestry. A Calendar 
of Wills, proved at Blandford 1687- 1792, a Copy of the Long 
Burton Register 1589-18 12, and Abstracts of Inquisitiones post 
mortem, in the reign of Charles L, are taken in hand in the first 
number. 

To quote the Preface — ''The Editors hope to be able to 
print a series of Calendars to serve as keys to the vast accumula- 
tion of documents relating to the county preserved at the PubHc 
Record OflSce, Somerset House, and elsewhere." 

•• With regard to Parish Registers, it is intended that these 
shall be a special feature of the ' series,' and it is believed that 
this is the first attempt at an organised system of printing these 
valuable records of the past. The Editors will be glad to receive 
from the clergy and others any transcripts of Dorset Registers 
which they may possess, with a view to their being included in 
this * series.' " 

It is hardly necessary to say that we wish all success to this 
undertaking, and strongly recommend it to the attention of our 
readers. Subscriptions, los. 6d., should be sent to Mr. G. S. Fry, 
Inglewood, Upper Walthamstow Road, Walthamstow. 

A. 




CARVING ON MERRIOTT CHURCH. 



Somerset <S* Dorut NoUs S» Queries. 49 

33. Carving on Msrriott Church.— The carious piece 
of rude carving which has been reproduced from a photograph 
now occupies a position in the South wall of Merriott Church* 
jo3t above the small chancel door. It is of Ham Hill stone and 
measures 17 inches bj 12 inches* the carving being about i inch 
in relief. 

I have been unable to discover its historj* as no one seems 
to remember an3rthing about it before the restoration of the 
Church 1861-2. The Churchwarden of those days says, he 
believes it was found in or near a window, when the old Chancel 
was taken down ; but* from the interest I hear it awakened when 
it was first put up in its present position* I gather it must have 
been previously quite unknown* perhaps built with its face to the 
wall. 

It had become a good deal covered with silver lichen, which 
so confused the detail in a former photograph that nothing 
could be made of it. Even now, after cleaning ofi a good deal* 
the result is hardly ^s clear as one could wish. 

But what is the meaning of it* if it has any ? Three years ago 
the Somerset Archaeological Society was in the neighbourhood 
and paid us a visit, and various opinions were expressed upon this 
stone. Mr. Buckle thought it represented a pair of pigeons billing 
and cooing, the male with a fine spread square tail and the female 
with no tail at all. Above the one was something very like 
a pig, above the other an object he would not venture to diagnose ; 
small roses and flowers filled in the vacant spaces. 

Some gentlemen maintained that it was idle to attempt to 
fix any meaning or intention at all. It was simply the evidence 
of some old stone cutter having been amusing himself much in 
the way in which some people scribble aimlessly on scraps of 
paper. 

Mr. Elworthy thought it was a relic of heathenism* that the 
figures represented heathen divinities, and that it had been put up* 
like a horse shoe* to frighten away evil spirits, and belonged 
to a class of charms not uncommon in some countries. My own 
theory is that it has a definite Christian meaning. From Dr. Smith's 
Dictionary of Christian Antiquities^ article ** Cock," we learn that 
fighting cocks were an emblem of the conflict between the flesh and 
the Spirit, and I believe we have here an attempt to illustrate it.* 
To the left we have the cock bird* indicated as the flesh by the 
swinish symbol above it ; to the right the gentle hen is gradually 
subduing and getting him under* and is indicated as the Spirit by 
what a little imagination will allow us to suppose is a dove 

* •* See Aringhi. Vol ii, pp. 328-9, for a complete list of animal symbols. 
Fighting cocks seem to symbolize the combat with secular or sensual 
temptations. The practice of training them for combat has probably always 
ezbted in the E^t and certainly was in favour at Athens, cf. Arist : 
Aves^ 758* 5i/>c vXr^iCTpov^ £1 fiaxBi^ 

Part xxn. June, 1894. ^ 



50 Sonnrut &» Dorset Notes S' Queries. 

hovering over it. In the right hand corner we have, perhaps, the 
lily of purity. The body of the Church is early perpendicular, 
but there are one or two stray bits of queer old carving about, 
coming down from earlier tinies, as for instance a very rudely cut 
crucifix which Mr. Buckle, on the occasion above referred to, 
pronounced to be of very early work, probably Norman ; so that 
a wide margin is left for assigning a date to the stone. 

S. E. Pbrcival. 

34. WiTHAM Friary (I. v. 193, IV. xxv. 2.) — I should have 
been quite content to allow Mr. Buckle the last word upon this 
subject, had he not contrived to raise such a fog around it as to 
obscure the real point at issue, which really has become one of 
mere words. 

I am charged with citing ''many authorities" for the 
statement in my paper on Witham, that there was a ** religious 
establishment '* anterior to the Charterhouse, but that only one 
is quoted, and that inaccurately. The inaccuracy consists in the 
heinous offence of placing within brackets, that part of the 
quotation which the guare shows not to belong to the author 
quoted. In a note to p. 26, of Bishop Hobhouse's lecture, I 
pointed out the meaning of Henricus 2s, and indicated how 
Camden's error of Hen. 3, may have arisen, — the young Prince 
Henry having been duly crowned. 

As to the ** many authorities," I referred to three, and Mr. 
Buckle kindly supplies four others, with all of which I was perfectly 
familiar. It is true that these are all founded upon Leland, but 
it is reasonable to suppose that six scholars of repute had not 
blindly adopted his statement without taking some means to 
verify its accuracy. It will be seen later that I did not rely upon 
these, but upon the Bruton Cartulary cited by Bishop Hobhouse, 
which is conclusive as to a " religious establishment" : whether 
or not a " coenobium " were a part of it, only incidentally affects 
the question. 

In the very first sentence of the article above quoted, Mr. 
Buckle says, •* I stated my agreement with the view prexdously 
put forward by Mr. W. Hunt." Now I listened attentively to all 
Mr. Buckle said on the spot, in response to the Secretary's 
request to " say a few words respecting the Architectural features ", 
and moreover I have the full report of what Mr. Buckle did 
say about the history, but not a word appears about Mr. Hunt, 
and I confess I was unaware of Mr. Hunt's article, until I received 
back the report sent for correction, with every word of Mr. 
Buckle's own utterances erased, and the short paragraph 
substituted in his own handwriting, which is now printed verbatim 
at the top of p. 34 of Vol. xzxix of the Som. A. and N. H. 
Society's Proceedings. 

Besides the seven authorities furnished by Mr. Buckle (to 



Sonurset S» Dorset Notes S* Queries. 51 

only two of which he gives a reference) Bishop Hobhouse state$ 
definitely (p. 22), "Before the foundation the Prior of Bniton 
had a Chapel there, pertaining to his Church of Bruton, endowe d 
with lands in that manor (of Witham). The chaplain received 
all the tithes in the manor." Again ^n p. 2S, he says, '* It is 
quite plain that there was no parish church there, and no need 
of any. The Chaplain was endowed." 

Mr. Hunt says, "But there was a village here, and no 
doubt a Parish Church, before the foundation of the monastery." 
This sentence is taken from Dimock's note to Magna Vi/a, p. 
zxiii, only that the word "Parish" is interpolated. Mr. Hunt 
uses the words " Parish Church " repeatedly although Mr. Dimock 
speaks of it as " very improbable," and upon this looseness of 
statement Mr. Buckle seems to have pinned his faith and taken 
his stand, without however noticing that Mr. Hunt adopted the 
same view as I myself did in reading Mr. Dimock's preface to 
Magna Vila S. Hugonis ; for he (Mr. Hunt) says (p. 21, vol. Proc- 
zziv) *' our author seems clearly to intimate that Hugh built both 
the Churches." Consequently there is reason to doubt if the 
present building or any of it was standing before Hugh's time. 

The whole question sums itself up into — what is a parish 
church ? On p. 4 {S. & D. N. S» Q. vol. iv, Partxxv) I am quoted 
as to the scarcity of parish churches, " on what ground I do not 
know," says Mr. Buckle, but he goes on to say " my impression 
is that at least half the churches of Somerset could be shown on 
purely architectural evidence to have been in existence at this 
time, though, of course, this evidence cannot show that ther 
were then strictly parish churches." Precisely, — and I thank 
Mr. Buckle for saving me any further trouble ; but he immediately . 
goes on to talk of parochial chapels, and about that of Bruton 
Priory, saying '*it is difficult to distinguish it from a parish 
church except in two points." These two points however show 
distinctly that it was not parochial, whether called church or 
chapel. 

We have seen that Witham was a Manor for which Bruton 
supplied a chaplain who received the tithes. From this, one 
would contend that Bruton was the mother church, at the time 
of the foundation of Witham, and that such few people as were 
then living in the eremus of Witham were, for baptismal and 
burial purposes, under the jurisdiction of Bruton. 

I have already shown now Witham did not become a parish 
as now understood until (459, and repeat, as Bishop Hobhouse 
says, " it is plain that there was no parish church, and no need of 
any." 

In what he says about the removal of the people from the 
eremus, Mr. Buckle proves too much. He takes it for granted 
that there were 200, and makes his calculation of 5 souls for 
each of 40 houses ; or of 5 for each of the 27 recorded names of 



52 Somerset 6* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 

the persons planted at Knap in North Curry. He makes oat 
that 135 souls were removed there alone. Now apart from the 
fact that 5 persons per house is even in these days, too high an 
estimate, it is simply incredible that so large a mass of people 
could have been quietly transported without making a great stir. 
In those days 200 souls in one spot meant a considerable 
population, and I contend that there is no evidence of any such 
wholesale deportation from a place described as eremus. Will 
Mr. Buckle kindly say where in Domesday 28 houses are 
enumerated in Witham ? I can only find that whole Manor of 
Witham, including the Manor of Wlftuna, was reckoned at 2 
hides, />., paying 1 3/- per an. 

I submit that the 27 names, recorded in the Wells documents 
as being at the then date. A, D, 1306, upon the Knap property, 
could not be the same as those removed in 1180, though 
Mr. Buckle implies that they were, — ^moreover the 126 years' 
interval is sufficient to account for a very large increase of people, 
not one of whom could have been amongst the original 
immigrants. Besides, any or all of these persons may have been 
descended from dwellers at Knap before the arrival of the Witham 
folk. Such evidence as there is, candidly considered, points to 
the removal of a few squatters on the Manor, so that what was 
called an eremus might be so in reality. The reason why so good 
an exchange was provided for Bruton is explained on p. 69 of 
Magna Viia^ — Hugh had then the ear of the King, and insisted 
on full compensation. 

Fresh evidence has come to light in the shape of the Will 
of John Fox, Sen., 1503, as to the distinctness of the two 
churches at Witham, for which I am indebted to my friend the 
Rev. F. W. Weaver, as follows : — 

Lego corpus meum sep. in Introitu claustri domus B. M. 
de Wytham in Selwode ordinis Cart. 

Lego principali domui Cart, in ffraunc 6/8. 

Lego domui de Wytham 40/- cum una cratera argentea. 

Lego ecclesie de Frary 1 3/4. 

Lego ecclesie de Est Harptre 1 3/4. 

Lego serventibus domus predict, de Whitham 14/- 
iest, Dno. Philippo curato meo 
Dompno Matheo Dogode, &c. 

Further evidence of this is furnished by a map dated 1660 
in the posession of Mr. Meyler of Taunton, which shows the 
sites of both churches. 

The ** Vie de S. Hugues'' par un religieux de la Grande 
Chartreuse, 1890, gives much information from ** Annaies 
CariusiancB per Dom, de Courtaulx ad annos 1 170-1 178. 

The first Prior of Witham was Father Norbert accompanied 
by Freres Aynard and Gerard. Norbert returned to complain of 
Henry's neglect, and of the want of all means of living at Witham. 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes 6- Queries. 53 

How does this accord with a then existing population of 200 ? 

It does not appear whether Aynard or Gerard succeeded 
Norbert, but death soon released him, and then in consequence 
of the Count de Maurienne's remonstrance, Henry sent Reginald, 
newly consecrated Bp. of Bath, to the G. Chartreuse to demand 
that Hugh might be sent. 

I repeat that there is no evidence that Witham had a parish 
church in 11 80, though there was a chapel which Leland and his 
cop3rist8 say belonged to a ccenobium^ while there is distinct and 
positive evidence that it did become a parish church in 1459. 

F. T. Elwortht. 

35. Uxor Hugonis Filii Grip. — "Ego Haduidis filia 
Nicolai de Baschel-villa, uxor Hugonis de Varham filii gripponis, 
do laude, consilio, et consensu Sponsi mei Manerium Waldunse 
ecclesiae sanctae Mariae Villarensis monasterii pro Salute Animse 
meae et Sponsi mei, Amicorumque meorum, Annuente Magno 
Rege Guillelmo, Coram baronibus suis, videlicet Odone Bajocensi 
cpiscopo et Comite Rogerio de Montegomerio, Waltero GifiEardo, 
Guillelmo de Varenna et Gaufrido Martello fratre Supradicti 
Hugonis, et Gisleberto Chasvello et Roberto de Novilla aliisque 
quampluribus.*' 

The above charter, found among the grants to the Norman 
Abbey of Montivillier, and printed in Gallia Christiana^ Vol. xi., 
identifies the tenant-in-chief styled in Domesdav ** Uxor Hugonis 
filii grip." Her husband, otherwise known as llugh of Wareham, 
was sheriff of Dorset before Domesday, and his widow then held 
large estates in that county. She has been the subject of 
genealogical enquiry, Mr. Eyton and Mr. Bond having both held 
that she was subsequently married to " Alfred de Lincoln," and 
thus brought to the Lincoln family their Dorsetshire estates ; but 
her parentage seems to have been hitherto unknown. The 
charter also shews that she held land in her own right, and not 
merely as widow. The proof that Geoffrey Martel and Hugh 
" filius Gripponis " were brothers is most interesting, because 
the houses of Martel and Bacqueville (Baschelvilla) were of 
common origin. Wall, writing of the Battle of Hastings, says, 
•' De Basquervile i fu Martels." 

This important charter, communicated by Mr. J. Horace 
Round, and the comments thereon, are taken, by permission, 
from the prospectus of the Anglo-Norman Record Society, now 
being formed under the presidency of the Duke of Norfolk, K.G., 
for the purpose of printing the early charters and chartularies of 
Norman and English Abbeys, from the MSS. still subsisting in 
England and France. We wish the undertaking every success, 
and take this opportunity of informing our readers that subscrip- 
tions (two guineas annually) may be forwarded to Mr. W. A. 
Lindsay, Cariton Club, Pall Mall, London, S.W. 

A. 



54 Som4rs4f S» Dcrsst Not$s 6* Qmrus, 

36. Ikyentoriks of Church Goods, 1552. (III. xzi?. 
519, IV. XXV. IS')— 

The pishe of | ffyrst, ij chalis Sjrinr, j pax Sylar» j crosse bras, iiij 
Horton. ) candelstickes bras, j cope redd sjlke, thre pajre 
of vestmtes j redd sjlke, ij whyt sjlke, iij table clothes, ij corporas, 
j holy water pot bras, j ewer of bras, j surplice, j strem' of canvas 
payntyde, ij bann's of redd sylke, j fmnt clothe of blewe sylke, j 
lyche bell, n\ belles in the Tower. 
To thnse ot the | Appojmtede by the sayde comyssion's The 

Churche. ) worst chalis, j vestmt of redd sylke, wth all 
the Table clothes & surplices. The resydewe of all the premisses 
comyttyde to the custody of thes men whose names be under 
wrytten. 



Sr. Richarde Sander, curat. 1 ©^ ^. ar«u^« 

Thomas Ellyot. fer V hUn^^ 

Richarde Hooker. Kl^ r.hSi'' 

Roger Arneye ) Willm. Gybbes 



[An Anglo-Saxon charter to the mona^^tery of Horton from 
" King Eadward and £adg3rth the Lady," of the year 1061, is 
contained in the Reg : Scirebum (fol. 29), in the possession 
(1865) of Sir Thomas Phillips, Bart. 

B. Thorpe.] 

The pishe of | ffyrst, j chalis Syluer pcell gylt, iij copes, j 
Tarrant Gonfyld. } grene sylke, j crymsen veluet, thother turkey 
worke, fower payre of vestmtes, j chesebell, j corporas, j crose of 
latten, j payre of sencers latten, j pax of Latten, j hundrethe of 
Leade, ij surplices, ij Table clothes, iij belles in the Tower. 
To thuse of the ) Appoyntyde by the sayde comyssion's j chalis, 
Churche. j j cope of turkey worke. wth all the surplices & 
Table clothes : The resydewe of all the p'miss' corny ttyd to the 
custody of thes me' whose names be under wrytten. 

Sr. Thomas Dackombe, pson. \rj.. ^«„ «•. ^ 

Stephen Mundye. ^ It^' ?/ 

Harry Swettney. ^ ^- f^^^^, 

Walter flfrye. ) Ric. Cheryet. 

The pishe of) ffyrst ij chalices Sylur pcell gylt, j pax of Sylur, iij 
Langton. ) copes, j of blacke veluet, j whyt sylke, j grene sylke, 
viij table clothes, ij corporas cases of sylke, ij clothes to the same of 
Lynnyn, ij candelstickes bras, i crosse of copp, iij vestmtes, j of 
bfcwe satten, thother ij of grene sylke, iij belles in the Tower. 
To thuse of the \ Appoynted by the said comyssion's The worst 
Churche. j chalice, j cope of whyt sylke wth all the Table 
clothes & surplices. The resydewe of all the p'misses comyttyde 
to the custody of thes men whose names be under wrytten. 

Sr. John Mynteme. pson. ) M^.u^we Vrv ) 
John Williams. wfii!L v J ^* 

Ric. Heyworthe. j ^^"°^- ^^- ' 



Softisrsei S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 55 

[In Doomsday mention is made of a resident priest at 
Langton (Bleneford), probably indicative of a contemporary 
parish Chnrch. R. W. Eyton.J 

The pishe of ) ffyrst j chalis sylur pcell gylt, ii payre of 
More Crychell, ) vestmtes j of sylke, thother brodred wth guide, 
j vestmt grene, j of sylke, ij copes, j sylke, j olde, j sepulcre clothe 
wth branches, ij corporas wth ther cases, ij pyllowes, ij cruetes of 
tyn, iij Table clothes, j clothe of cheker worke or threde, iij clothes 
paynted, j surplice, j holy water pot bras, ij candelstickes of bras 
U strem's vj bamn's, iij belles in the Tower. 
Tothuse of the J Appoynted by the said comyssion's j chalis, j cope 
Churche. ) grene sylke, wth all the Table clothes & surplices. 
The resydewe of all the p'miss' comyttyd to the custody of thes m6 
whose names be under wrytten. 



Sr. Robt. CoUes, pson. ) John Sevyer. ) 
John Rosse. | Xpofer Were. ) 



The pishe of ) ffyrst, j chalis Syluf pcell gylt, j pyx of Sylur, 
Longe Crichell. j j pyx of copp, j payre vestmtes grene sylke, 
wth decon & subdecon for the same, ij copes of grene sylke, j cope 
of red saye.j sepulcre cloth of grene sylke, j payre vestmtes of whyt 
fustion, ij olde payre of grene saye, ij Table clothes blewe sylke, 
j stole veluet, j lent clothe, iiij lynnyn Table clothes, iiij Towelles, 
iij shetes, j surplice, ij rotchettes, j corporas case. 
To thuse of the 1 Appoyntyd by the said comyssion's j chalis, 
Churche. I j cope of grene sylke, wth all the Table clothes 
& surplices. The resydewe of all the p*miss* comyttid to the 
custody of the me whase names be under wrtten. 

^'■l£"'i '"°"' '"''°' 1 W.ter Coop. 1 

The pishe of \ ffyrst, ij chalyces of Syluer, thone pcell gvlt, 
Tarrant > j crosse of copp, one pyx of latten. Too canclel- 
Launston. ) stickes of bras, too corporas clothes, iij Table 
clothes, iij Towelles, iiij payre vestmtes wherof thre sylke, ij copes, 
j surplice, j pece of leade waynge LXXIIJ li, ij belles in the 
Tower. 

To thuse of the ) Appoynted by the said comyssion's the worst 
Churche. } chalis, j cope grene sylke, wth all the Table 
clothes & surplices. The resydewe of all the p'miss' comyttyd to 
the custody of thes me whose names be under wrytten. 

Sr. Denys Oldfyld, curat. \ p;^i,^^^ TTt^.;.vl.♦ \ 
Wm.Harvye. R chard Upright. , 

Nicholas frv \ ^^^" Brampton. 

JohnWebbe. ) Stephen Webbe. ) 

The pishe of ) ffyrst, iij chalices of sylur, vij payre of vestmtes j 
Cranebo'me. | of blewe veluet wth thole sute for deacon & sub- 
decon to the same, the resydewe of dyu*s cullers sylke, ij copes, 
j blewe veluet thother red sylke, ij surplices, ij Table clothes, 



56 Somersei S* Dorset Notes 6- Queries. 

j corporas blewe veluet wth a cloth, ij payrc of sencers, ij frantes 
for the Table, iiij belles in the Tower. 

To thuse of the ) Appoyntyd by the said comyssioners, j chalis 
Churche. j of sylar» j cope of redd sylke, wth all the Table 

clothes & surplices. The resydewe of all the p'miss' comyttyde 
to the custody of thes men whose names be under wr3rtten. 
Sr. Thomas bagsha. vicar. | ^.^^^^^ (j^^,^ . 

tt^'lToole": Iwillm-Whyttaker.} 

[On the 25th of October, 1230, died at Penros in Brittany, 
Gilbert 7th Earl of Clare, sth Earl of Hertford, and 6th 
Earl of Gloucester. Gilbert de Clare and his father Richard 
Earl of Hertford (d. 12 18) were among the 25 barons who 
wrested Magna Carta from King John. In 1226 he succeeded 
to the vast Gloucester estate, which included the manor andchace 
of Cranborne. , The body of the deceased Earl "was carried 
from Plymouth through Devonshire, Somerset and Dorset, to 
Cranborne " (usque Craneburn) . As the procession passed along, 
liberal doles were given to the poor, and cloths of silk to the 
religious houses. The funeral took place at Tewkesbury, in the 
presence of several Abbots and a great concourse of people 
(aliis viris religiosis innumeris diversorum ordinum, populisque 
innumeris utriusque sexus). 

Richard the 7th Earl of Goucester (b. 1222, d. 1262) 
and Simon de Montfort were the leaders of the National 
party in "the revolution of 1258." To Earl Richard's 
son, the 'Red Earl,' (b. 1243, d- »*9S>) Hen. HI. 
delivered up his sword after his defeat at Lewes. (Gilebertus 
comes Gloverniae regem cepit, quem quasi nobiliorem et 
ceteris potentiorem tunc rex habuit, eique in signum gladium 
suum reddidit). The year after (1265), Earl Gilbert won the 
victory of Evesham. By his 2nd wife Joan, daughter of Ed. I, 
he left a son Gilbert, the 9th Earl, who fell at Bannockbum, and 
three daughters. The youngest, Elizabeth, on whom devolved 
the honour of Clare (Suffolk) and the manor and chace of 
Cranborne, founded (1347) Clare College, Cambridge. Her son 
William, 3rd Earl of Ulster, left an only child Elizabeth de Burgh, 
who married Lionel Plantaganet, created in 1362 "Duke of Clare 
or Clarence." The county of Clare is said to have derived its 
name from Thomas de Clare, brother of Gilbert, the '* Red Earl." 

In 1252 the Church of Cranborne was dedicated by the 
eminent Prelate, William of York, to whom the government of the 
kingdom had been committed during the King's absence. 
" Ecclesia de Craneburna dedicata est in honore Sancti Marci et 
Sancti Bartholomaei xiii. Kal. Octobris." 

Annals of Waverlep and Tewkesbury, The Bishop of Oxford's 
Consi. Hist, of Eng., Mr. Prothero's Life of De Montfort, &c. 
{To be continued,) 



Sowurui S» Dorut Notts 6* Queries. 57 

37. Thb Famiubs of Bridport and Mbtst at Wells. — 
A good deal of interest has been excited by late excavations 
of foundations of two chapels on the burial ground, south of the 
Cathedral Church at Wells, quite detached from the great 
church,— one, a smaller chapel of which there is mention in the 
chapter records of the 13th century under the name of the 
"Lady Chapel near the cloister," capella heaice Marie juxia 
claustrumy 

The other, a large chapel, built over, and much beyond the 
lines of the smaller chapel, between 1470- 149 1, by Bishop 
Stillington, Bp. of Bath and Wells 1466-1491. Accounts of these 
excavations have been published locally, and full description will 
be given at the next meeting of the Somerset Archaeological 
Society. In the meantime it may be of interest to readers of 
S, & D. N. S' Q. to see the earliest charters in which this Lady 
Chapel is definitely and topographically described, because they 
connect the two counties and dioceses together, and contain 
names and places belonging both to Somerset and Dorset in the 
middle of the 13th century. Some of your readers may be able 
to give information as to the families there named, and to account 
for their special connection with Wells at this time. There are 
4 documents preserved in the Wells Chapter archives relating to 
the transaction of which this chapel was the scene, of the dates 
of 1250, 1251, and 1268. 

1. Car/a Galfridi de Bridepori de 100 solidis annue pensionts pre 
duohus vicatiis. Register, Hi. f, 291 in dors. 

Godfrey of Bridport pledges himself and his heirs to 
pay to the Lady Agatha de Meysy twenty pounds annually 
during her life time, and at her death 100 shillings of annusd 
pension to support two priests, vicars choral, who shall 
celebrate for her soul and her family " in the Lady Chapel 
which is set on the south side of the great Church of 
Wells" — ** in capella beate marie qua sit a est ex parte australi 
majoris ecclesie Wellensis " — in return for the gift to him of the 
manor of Kerchel (Critchill) by the Lady Agatha de Meysy. 

It is dated 1250. 

Carta 8$. R. Hi. /, 292. 

2. Another draft of the convention made between the two 
parties. Lady Agatha de Meysy and Godfrey de Bridport, 
recites the same terms, with provision for distraint in case 
of default of payment at the appointed times by Godfrey dc 
Bridport or his heirs and assigns. This deed is dated " in 
Octahus Sancti Martini,^* 1251. 

There are some witnesses common to both these deeds, 
e. g., Philip de B3rtton and Richard de London, and among 
those in the later document are Henry, Treasurer of Wells 
— Peter, the prior of the Hospital at Wells — Adam de 



58 Somerset <~ Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 

Kerchell ; and in the former Henry de Bratton, John de 
Alra, Hugh de Cranemere, Richard Norreis. 

Years passed on, and Lady Agatha de Meysy died, 

3. Then in 1168 Godfrey of Bridport acknowledges to the Dean 
and Chapter his obligation to fulfil his bond in payment of 
masses for the soul of Lady Agatha. But instead of twc 
priests, now y^«r priests are to celebrate two annalia yearly 
for her family, and also for himself and his wife Margery, and 
their families, in the Chapel of St. Mary on the south side of 
the major Ecclesia, •* in capella heala Maria qua sita est exparie 
amtralimajorisecclesie Wellensis'* This bond forms the subject 
of Charter No. 95. It is also en registered in Register I.f. 85. 

4. The annual appointment of the priests from among the 
Vicars is to rest with the donor, and his heirs ; they are to be 
admitted by the Dean and Chapter. The original charter 
and the copy in the Register are dated at Wells, * Wednesday 
after Palm Sunday. A.D. 1268.' 

Among the witnesses occur again the names of Philip 
of Bytton, Richard of London "tunc seneschallo dicti 
decani/* of two burgesses of Wells, and of William de 
la Knole and Godfrey de Lucy. 

In the margin of the Register is written in a later hand 
" Brideport nunc Chideok** 

It may help to some explanation of the connection of 
these families with Wells to mention that Egidius (Giles) de 
Bridport was dean of Wells 1253-1257, and afterwards 
bishop of Salisbury 1257-1262. 

C. M. C. 

38, Dorset administrations. — Continued. — (II. ix. 10, 
X.49, xi. 78. xii. 113, xiii. 150, xiv. 178, xv. 2i7,xvi. 242, III. xvii. 8, 
xviii. 57, xix. 94, xx. 151, xxi. 183, xxii. 233, xxiii. 279, xxiv. 323, 



IV. XXV. II.) 



1648. 



Grantee h Relmtionihip Date of 

Polio. Name of Deceased. Pariah. to Deoeaaed. AdministratioB. 

117 Babiagton Frances, Gillingham Thomas, brother (will 75 20 Oct., 1648 

spinster Fairfax) 

45 Baggott, Richard Bridport Mary, relict 29 Apl., 1648 

115 Bie;t, William Shaston John, son, with consent of 9 Oct., 1648 

Mary, relict 
131 Buckler, Elizabeth Woolcombe Thomas, brother 14 Nov., 1648 

41 Chubb, Mathew Portland John Harvey, brother 22 A} 1., 1648 

Q2 Combe, John Milton Abbey Elizabeth, relict 10 Aug., 1648 

21 Eaton al's Whet- Waymouth Geoffrey Samwayes, father 26 Feb., 1647 
comb, Anne, and guardian of John 

wi.low. and Nicholas Samwayes, 

children of daughter of 
deceased 
9 Frampton, Mary Wymborne Thomas, son 2 Jan., 1647 



AT,-.:*! ^ t afTi«, 



^^fMf i)b»j 



xC^aoKSs UpvzT 




JSHoCvxT. 



Wj-b<xmt 
' Misstcr 

SfmoodsbvT 
at Reaiim^ 

W&itchvcii 
BramstoQ 



19 Salter, Jerose Wbhdivdi 

73 SiMwijf I, Ditam- Whitcombe 



117 H 

kBLEsxahek 

II Moor Roeer 

85 Pnroct, JcoH 
ii4RaTmaBd. Jo4a 

S9 Rogers Aj^.imw^ 



itrr. ^vis; Ti-n ai ri cf 

WOxMB Md Marr ~Gv> 

Uai. tvotkcT atDi ssttr 

oi <xceascii z vita cob* 

9cc£ of Grace, Marr. asc 

EMaeSara 

isbtcT^s sade< 
Marr Clukc, ModMT >$ J-^ - i^T 

RoSfft, SOB I Mar. ic^S 

Jk c «i$& cf Robot 14 Mar^ 1^ 

GnTve, sBstcr 
Jaae, vcie cf R. bet 14 Mar^ 1647 

Giwc ssstcr 
A-£?. reikt t Jaae. 1648 

Wil.iaa Bvdbote. loas^iojmhr, tt^i 

Bum. <!nir; ■OBoritr of 

Manr Hvssqr* utcf 

• si5t«'> sacei 
Joace, re!kt 51 Mar , 

Sterbea Eraas, pr»ci7al 23 Oct^ 



1047 

it4S 

:c^s 



131 Ssutli, Saand 



39 Sprake, Giles 
3S Stooe, Wmiam 

1 14 Strani^waycs, 

Tbofnas 

146 Soger, Salamoo 



'Hank* 



WWtdinrdi 

Sherborne 

MostoD 

Sherbofne 



Francxss brot' er 14 Talv, 

Joame. rebct S Jaa., 



Fkmecxs Jeancy', creditor 4 Jahr, 
Jokn. soo 1 l.Vt.» 



Ladr Anne, wife of Rob- iMar.itu? 

crt. Lord Rich, aaothcr 

of EHxabeth and Rogcna 

Roj^crs next of kirn, <l«r* 

ing their ■uDocitT. 
Kic^Ias, sct; iftsrtfcer 16 Ft b., 

grant JuVt- J^*9*^' 
John, brother, an J Robe t 5 Jnne, 

Sherriag and D^rothj 

his wife, sister 
John PAvne, nephew 13 Xor.. 1^4$ 

(sister's side , of go.xis 

not admin- St ere^i by Jane, 

relict ': regions grant 

Oct. 1633. farther grant 

Not. K4 »• 
John, bfoihcr 15 ^^ * 

Wiliiani, son 20 Mar., 

John, son 7 Ort.. 



rtnr 

IV4S 



IC4S 



16 Swa3me, Joha 
73 Thomas, Henry 



Uplrme 
•'Aiminstcr* 
"CO. Dorset' 
57 Thomholl al's WoUand 
KnoUys, Elizabeth 



Samuel, brother, during 7 Dec^ l^4S 

minority of Robert, son 
Bridget, relict 5 Feb., ^^4• 

Richard Alford, principal 
' creditor 16 Ju-ie, l^4'^ 

Richard Kno'lys, brother 6 May, I^4S 



6o 



Somerset 6* Dorset Notes & Queries. 



Folio. Nam* of Deceased. Pariah. 

66 ThomhuU, George Thornhull 
1 8 Wakcley, Greorgc Lyme Regis 
57 Waltham, Martin Lidlinche 
45 Wareham, Edward PuncknoU 
21 Whetcombe al's see Eaton 
Eaton 

1 10 Young, Margaret 



Funtmill 
Magna 



Grantee ft BeUtionahlp 
to Deceased. 
Greorge, father 
Mary, relict 
Robert Giar, kinsman 
John, son 



Thomas, son 



Date of 

AdmiBiatraHeB. 

i6May, 1648 

5 Feb., 1647 

5 May, 1648 

21 ApL, 1648 



7 Sep., 1648 



121 Batwell, Thomas 
24 Baynard, Thomas 



19 Beere, William 
129 Chard, John 
121 Co£fen, Nicholas 



Burton 
BeUchallweU 



Minster 



25 Oct, 1649 
probate 24 Mar., 164I 
Margaret 



100 Cogan, William Lyme Regis 
26 Cole al*s Pawlett. Liilington 

Alice 
73 Cox, Thomas 



1649. 

Cidly, relict 
John, brother 
granted to 
Baynard al's Samwayes 
revoked) 

BeereHackett Margaret, relict 15 Mar., 1648 

Bridport Mary, relict 29 Oct., 1649 

Wymbome George Toome, senior, 20 Oct., 1649 

principal creditor, 

relict not administering 
Hannah, relict 6 Aug., 1649 

John Cole, arm., husband 24 Mar., 1648 



Stower 
vost 



91 Croome, Thomas 
120 Deane, William 



170 Famham, Robert 
106 French, William 

38 Gould, William 



Bridport 
Canford 

Magna 
Burstock 
Haistock 



Pro- Mary Fry, Elizabeth. 10 June, 1649 
Susanna and Dorothy 
Cox, sisters 
Catherine relict 3 Aug., 1649 

Richard, son 10 Oct., 1649 



Andrew, brother 6 Dec., 1649 

Ambrose Moore, principal 10 Sep., 1649 

creditor 

West Stower Agnes, relict 19 Apl., 1649 

48 Gouldesburgh,Rob- Milton Abbas Henry, son 21 May, 1649 

ert 

Thomas, son 10 Mar., 1648 



19 Gudge, Thomas 

80 Harrey, Samuel 

107 Hawles, Nicholas 
38 James, Joan 

106 Lake, Edward 
106 Lake, Henr^ 
36 Lawrence, George 



Stoake 

Abbott 
Lime 

Shaston 
Sturminster 

Marshall 
Burton 
Burton 
Stepilton 



6 Odye, Walter 
26 Pawlett al*s Cole 
67 Plukenett, John 

4 Salter, Simon 
146 Smyth, Samuel 



Waymouth 
see Cole 
Bridport 
Rile 
Huishe 



Richard Simkins, principal 25 July, 1649 

creditor 
John, son 24 Sep., 1649 

Christopher Harding, sen- 23 Apl., 1649 

ior, principal creditor 
Alice, mother 20 Sep., 1649 

Alice, mother 20 Sep., 1649 

Richard, son, relict, 30 Afn., 1649 

not administering 
Richard, father 26 Jan., 1648 



Henry, brother 16 June, 1649 

John Studleigh, creditor i Jan., 1648 
William Weare, nephew 28 Nov., 1649 
(sister's side), (grant of 
Nov. 1648. revoked) 
18 Somers, Agnes, Mayden Brad- Richard Heyne, next of 5 Mar., 1648 

spinster ford kin 

15 Strangwayes, Nich- Abbottsbury George, son 24 Feb., 1648 

olas 



Sonurut 6* Dorstt Notts <S* Qmtries. 



6x 



43 Toope. John 



'Bvsluw' 



170 Uadenvoody JoKph Dorchester 



83 Wheder, WflKam 



toDMMMd. UnH^tlnttim 

James Bewnell and Thomas 14 May, 1649 
Clement, ancles, doring 
minoritj of Ridiard, 
Elizabeth and 
diildrenof de 
George Ladmore, nephew si Dec., 1649 
(sister's ade), Edward 
Underwood not haling 
folly administered. (Pre- 
▼ions grant Oct. 1641.) 
Corfe Mnllen Henry Russel, gnardiaa of 13 July, 1649 
Eliabeth and Maiy, min- 
ors, diildren of deceased 
Waymoath Isotte, relict I Tone, 1649 

Kingston Joan, rdict 4 Jnne, 1649 

1650. 
Evershott Elizabeth Manyott al's is Feb., 1649 
Allen, sister 
163 Bnckler. Elizabeth Litton Chey- Mary Oliver al's Chorchill, 13 Nov., 1650 



66 White, Richard 
73 Woolfreys, John 

29 Allen, John 



182 Bndder, William Bridport 
162 Chilcott al's Evciy, Briddy 
MabeUa 
3 Coker, Roger Ashe 



163 0>gan, John 
8$ Dowch, 'Wniliam, Stalbridge 

der. 

149 EUys, Basil Thomford 

z62 Every al's Chilcott see Every 

181 Hardy, Elizabeth Wolcombe 

4 Harvey, William Langton 

44 Hajrwar d, Ed ward Beamister 

41 Hodder, William Whitchnrch 
121 Jones, Mary 



3 Leaves, John 
41 Lnffe, Mary 

147 Neale, Samuel 



Bridgett and Sarah 

Chnchill, next of Idn 
Brigitt, relict 31 Dec, 1950 

Elizabeth Bond al's Every, 6 Nov., 1650 

danghter 
John Odber and Jane his 19 Jan., 1649 

wife, sister of deceased, 

of goods not administered 

by Robert Coker 
Lyme Regis Patience, relict 23 Nov., 1650 



Rebecca Colbome, 

danghter 
Sarah Stokes, sister 



7 May, 1650 
29 Oct., 1650 



Wimbome 

Minster 
Sherborne 



Edith, wife of Robert 11 Dec., 1650 

Anger, danghter 
Elizabeth J r^ct 21 Tan., 1649 

Joane, rehct 3 Mar., 1649 

(veorge, son 22 Mar., 1649 

William, brother i Ang. , 1650 



Walter Hutchms, nephew 16 Jan., 1649 
and next of kin 
Long Burton Joan Manifbrd, grand- 31 Mar., 1649 
mother, during minority 
of Hannah, sister of de- 
ceased 
Frampton Anne, relict 6 Sep., 1650 

Cottrell 
"CO. Dorset." 
106 Sheppard, Thomas Gillingham Angell, relict 20 June, 1650 

2 Smedmore, William East Stoake Henry, brother, during 17 Jan., 1649 

minority of Tohn, son 
52 Strickland, John Alton St. Ann, relict (further grant 15 Apl., 1650 

Pancras March, 1669) 

43 Underwood, Joseph Dorchester Robert Corey, principal 14 Mar., 1649 

creditor, Edward Under- 
wood, kinsman, not 
administering 
{To be :cntinued,) Geo. S. Fry. 



62 Somerset &» Dorset Notes S^ Queries, 

39. Marrying the Land. — The following occurs in a 
book published in 1861 ('* Angels , Cherubim and Gods,** Wertheim, 
Mackintosh and Hunt : London.) 

•• The custom of marrying the land is to the present time 
observed in the Isle of Portland, Dorsetshire. The inhabitants, 
who say they are Phoenicians, have never, until lately, allowed 
any English, or "foreigners/* as they term us, to hold land in 
their territory, but have kept themselves a distinct people. About 
20 or 30 years ago, the English government, wishing to erect a 
prison there, ofifered so large a sum of money for a building site, 
that some of the inhabitants were tempted to do away with the 
old rule, while others so contended for its continuance, that it 
was three years before they would agree to sell the property. 
And though, since then, other purchases have been aflfected, they 
are of rare occurrence, and the old inhabitants have as little 
intercourse as possible with the " new comers." Before this 
time they had two modes of conveying land among themselves, 
one of which was called ** marrying the land," and was thus de- 
scribed a few years ago to a friend of the writer, when in the 
island, by a native quarryman. 

'*The contracting parties meet at the church, and the rite is 
performed by the clerg)mcian at the altar, where one party taking 
the hand of the other (the quarryman here exemplifying his 
statement by taking the hand of our informant within his 
own), says, * I, Uncle Tom, (they never use the sirname), 
give to thee. Cousin Tim,' such a land of so many inches. The 
clergyman lays his hand on theirs, and the contract is concluded. 

*• The " inches " refer to the space between certain notches on 
a pole called the rood or reed pole, on which every man who 
has land has a notch cut at a longer or shorter distance, accord- 
ing to the quantity he possesses. The pole or stick (which our 
friend saw) is kept either at the church or the public-house, and 
is annually examined, to make such additions or alterations as 
may be needed. 

•* This mode of holding land, which the inhabitants, who have 
no title deeds, affirm to have been from time immemorial, is 
evidently of eastern origin and early date, as in Ezek. xxxvii. 1 6, 
we find sticks were to be cut and kept as tokens that Judah and 
Israel were again to possess Iheir own land** 

There is added in a footnote : — 

** Some doubts having arisen as to the truth of the above 
statement, the author has made fresh inquiry on the subject, and 
is informed that the clergyman has nothing to do with the 
ceremony, but that both parties affix their names to a document 
on the communion-table. Probably the custom is becoming 
obsolete, and the form therefore slightly varies from that formerly 



Somerset 6* Dorset Notes & Queries. 63 

observed ; but the custom itself is remarkable, and the variation 
as to form does not invalidate its application with reference to 
the passage of Scripture in question." 

The " passage of Scripture in question " is Isaiah, Ixii, 4, 
containing the words ^* thj land shall be married." 

Lytchett Minster. H. F. 

40. Wardship ukdbr Glastonbury Abbey. — ^The follow- 
ing deed, which was placed in my hands by a friend, amongst a 
bundle of old evidences regarding Glastonbury property, illustrates 
the law of Wardship and marriage of heirs during nonage, and the 
Widow's Third. But*'its markworthy feature,*' says Bp. Hobhouse, 
'* is the licensing of a serf, na/ivus, that is of the lowest class, bom in 
bondage and attached to the soil, to marry a free tenant, and 
saving the estate from possible consequences. It shows how the 
gulf betwixt free and bond had begun to be narrowed, and was 
getting narrower.*' It may be presumed that no stigma would 
attach to Petronilla through such alliance. John Hereberd occurs 
as tenant of a half virgate of land in Glastonbury in Abbot 
Michael's time, some 20 years before. {Som. Rec, Soc., Vol. V. 
p. 121, where 1. 19 Assumpcionem is an error for Annunciaiionem. 

The Pasturel family held one of the hereditary Cook's places 
in the Abbey. William Aurifaber appears (V. p. 176) as a 
juror on the duties of Robert Malherbe. 

Thomas de Grecia appears as a witness (V. p. 194) in 12 17. 
One of the family was a tenant in Glastonbur}' as early as 1 189. 

A William Clerk held a half virgate of land at one of the 
Deverels (V. p. 144); and one Walter Mercator was a juror at 
Shapwick in Abbot Sully's time, 1 1 89 (Liber Henr. de Soliaco 
P- 53)- 

The seal represents on one side a kneeling Abbot, staff in 
hand, before the Virgin, who stands with the Child in her arms 
as in the Glaston scutcheon; on the reverse, a vested priest 
holding a book in his left hand. 

The deed is endorsed "J^bannes Gargonye modo tenet." 

Univenis presenter literas inspecturi^ Robertas dei gracia Abbas Glaston 
Salutexn in domino NoTcritis qnod nos dedimns et concessimos Petronille 
quondam axon Johannis le Wyse castodiam et maritagiom Edithe filie et heredls 
predicti Johannis cum tota terra tenemento et prato que prefatos Johannes 
nabait in Edgarleghe et West Pennard die qao obiit. usque ad leeitimam 
etatem predicti [sic] heredis Ita quod ipsa interim faciat omnia senddainde debita 
et consueta. £t quod cum predictus heres adlegitimam etatem pervenerit habeat 
et recipiat terram tenementum et pratnm predicta sine aliqua contradictioDe vci 
impedimento predicte Petronille. Salva tamen predicte Petronille dote sua ppit 
eam inde raaonabiliter contingit. Et si contingat predictam Petronlllam 
Maritari Jobanni Herbtrti de Edgarl nativo nottro quod bene concedimus quod 
fiat nichilominus habeat et teneat ipsa terram tenementum predicta usque ad 
legitimam etatem predicte heredis sicut predictum est. In cujusrd testimonium 



64 Somerset £• Dorset Notes S* Queries. 

inresentibus sigfllum nostrum fedmas apponi. Hiis tesdbus Johanne Pasturel 
Willelmo Aunfabro Thoma de Grecia Walter Mercatore Willelmo Clerico 
et aUis. Datum Glastonie undedmo die Mail. Anno grade Millio ducentesimo 
sezagesimo septimo. 

Grant of Abbot Robert de Pederton (i 261- 1274) toPetronilla 
widow of John le Wyse of Wardship and right of Marriage over 
Edith, John's daughter and heir with a tenement and meadow in 
Edgarlegh and West Pennard until Edith come of age : Provided 
that Petronilla perform all due services, and yield possession to 
Edith on her coming of age: Reserving to Petronilla her 
reasonable dowry. ** And if Petronilla marry our neif, John, son 
of Herbert of Edgarlegh, which we readily grant she may do, 
then nevertheless to have and hold the said land and tenement 
until the said heir be of full age as is said above." Sealed in 
presence of John Pasturel, William Goldsmith, Thomas de Grecia, 
Walter Mercator, William Clerk and others. Done at Glastonbury 
nth May, 1267. W.E.D. 

41. Singing Game. — Several singing games have been 
enshrined in the pages of 5*. S* D, N.S* Q. Here is another, 
which I witnessed last summer. It was played at that time by 
girls alone, but seems to demand the presence of the * uninterest- 
ing sex.' 

A girl assumes a lacrymose attitude in the middle of a ring 
of playmates, when they proceed to sing : 

Poor Sally is aweeping, 

Aweeping, aweeping, 
Poor Sally is aweeping 

On a bright summer day. 

Pray tell me what you're weeping for. 

Weeping for, weeping for, 
Pray tell me what you're weeping for 

On a bright summer day. 

{Sally loq.) I'm weeping for a sweetheart, 

A sweetheart, a sweetheart, 
I'm weeping for a sweetheart 
On a bright summer day. 

{Omnes.) Pray stand up, and choose one. 

Choose one, choose one, 
Pray stand up, and choose one, 
On a bright summer day. 

Sally does as she is told. Another girl takes Sally's place 
and the game goes on as before. 
Stalbridge Rectory. Charles £. Seaman. 



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43. Ltddok Familt of WnrsFORD. — ^The death of Mr. 
l^^lliam Ljddon of Edbrobke, Winsford, on April 5th last, in 
his 79th year, brings to a close on the male side an old family 
which had been resident in the parish for many generations, as 
the owners and occupiers of a farm called Edbrooke. When 
they first became resident in the parish is not known, bnt the 
first mention of them in the parish is in the old Church accounts 
for 1 56 1. The family is, however, much older than that. In 
*^ Exchequer Lay Subnditsr i Edward III, 1327, {Sam. Jiec. Soc. 
Ill, 177), among the names of those paying the subsidy or tax 
in the parish of Brompton Regis, were :— • 

" Johane de Lyddone . . . . . . ijs. 

Adam de Lyddone . . . . . . yjd." 

This shows that John de Lyddon was a person of consider- 
able substance in Brompton Regis, which is about five miles 
from Winsford. John de Lyddon made a gift of land to the Priory 
of Barlinch in the same parish, as recorded in Dugdale's 
" Monasiicon:' 

The name of Lyddon was widely spread in West Somerset 
circa 1500, various branches of the family settling in different 
parishes. In " Wells WilU!' 1528-1536, we find the WiU of 
Thomas Lyddon of Brampton Raff (Brompton Ralph), proved 
29 December, 1533. Summa inventarii ;^23 os. iid. This sum 
(to be multiplied by at least 12 to realise its present 
value) shows that the said Thomas Lyddon was a sub- 
stantial yeoman. In 1534, Johanna Comer of Monksilver 
leaves the five children of John Lyddon xxs. In 1532, John 
Lyddon attests a Stoke Courcy Will, and Richard Lyddon attests 
a Stogumber Will ( Wills Wills). In the old Church accounts of 
Morebath (Som. Rec. Soc, IV.) William Leddon was one of the 
Wardens of that parish in 1535, and again in 1540 and 1547. 
In the disturbance in that parish in 1536, with reference to the 
clerk's salary, William Leddon would not pay his stitch of corn 
according to the award of 1531. 

One branch of the family settled in Winsford, for in the 
Church accounts for 1561, among the entries •* detts owed to the 
p'ishe," is the name of ** nicolis liddon iijs. iiijd." He does 
not appear to have held any ofl5ce in the parish. In those days 
the wardens were assisted by a sort of parish council known in 
the old accounts as the ** eight men " who were chosen annually, 
four from the North side of the parish, and four from the South 
side. 

Among the papers found in the Church chest were the 
accounts of the Overseers of the poor for the years 1 650-1-2-3 
and 4, each year's accounts including a rate made for the relief 
of the poor. William Liddon was churchwarden in 1648 and 
again in 1650. In the rate made in 1651 to collect the sum of 
£13 14s. 6d. from 75 ratepayers, he is one of the principal 

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payers, his rate being 6s. 6d. ; in the following year it is increased 
to 7S. od. In the Benevolence granted to King Charles 11. in 
1 662 from the Hondred of Williton and Freemannours {Plroc 
Som. Arch. Soc.^ vol. xxzv.), there were five contributors from 
Winsford Tything, one of \hexa being Willm. Ljddon ^>o.o2.oo. 
The Register of Barials for the 3rear i68i contains the name of 
William Liddon, 28 March. This was doubtless, the same man. 
There are no accounts preserved between the years 1654 ^^^ i7'4* 
I have not been able to ascertain when and how the family 
became possessed of Edbrooke. The above mentioned William 
Lyddon was certainly not the owner. The late Mr. William 
Lyddon used to sav that his father was the thirteenth Robert 
Lyddon of Edbrooke, but the Registers do not show so many. 
It is true the Registers only date back to 1660, and the earlier 
ones are very imperfect. In the rates for 1651 and the following 
vears, there isafarm called '* Brooke Sandford Tenemente " 6s. od., 
but no name of the occupier or owner. This I find by an old 
mortgage deed was the former name of Edbrooke; why the 
name was changed I know not, but the deed referred to relates 
to " Edbrooke formerly called Brooke Sandford." The marriage 
Register for 1670, April 20, contains the entry of the marriage 
of Kobert Lyddon and Joanna Squirrel ; and the baptisms of 
several of their children are recorded. According to old parish 
indentures he was Overseer of the poor in 1674 and in 1697, and 
Churchwarden in 1683. John Lyddon was Churchwarden in 
1677 and Thomas Lyddon Overseer in 1704. John and Thomas 
Lyddon were probably brothers, and I should think sons of the 
above mentioned William Lyddon who died in 1681. The 
Register of Baptisms contains these entries : — 
1677, 18 November. Nicholas son of Robert Lyddon and 

Joanna his wife, baptised. 
1684-5, Robert, son of Thomas and Joan Lyddon, baptised ist 

February. 

1 586, , son of John Lyddon. 

The Burial Register contains the entry 1694, 24 May. 

John Lyddon buried. He was no doubt the father of Nicholas 
.yddon of Lower Wick. 

During the eighteenth century, the Lyddon family thus 
owned various farms in the parish, and so were frequently 
serving the offices of Churchwarden and Overseer of the poor 
in respect of their different holdings. The rate made in 17 14 
for the relief of the poor, for the South side of the parish, which 
included all lands South of the Exe, contains the following : — 
Robert Lyddon, Edbrooke . . . • . , ..66 



Mousehanger 
„ „ Staddon (North side) 

Thomas Lyddon, Bnlworthy 
„ „ Higher Widt 

„ „ Withycombe 

Nicholas Lyddon, Lower Wide 



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4 o 
3 o 
8 o 
8 o 

5 o 



Somerut £• Dorsst Notes S» Qmries. 67 

Bythe jear 1745 they appear to have acquired more land In 
the parish, and next to Mr. Thomas Dyke, the Lord of the Manor, 
were the chief proprietors. 

The rate for 1745 shows : — 
Robert Lyddoo, Aih ., .. .. .. 10 o 

Robert LyddoQfjQiir.fEdbrooke .. .. .. 60 

„ „ WeftBradley .. .. ..80 

f, »i Bridgetown .. .. ., 40 

tf M Norway ., ,, .so 

„ „ Monsehangcr .. ., ..16 

Tliomjis Lyddon, Bnlworthy . . . . . . 30 

HigberWick .. .. ..80 

», •, Tbomes .. .. 16 

„ „ Normans .. .. .,16 

,f .. Amallt .. .. ..18 

„ „ SuUys .. .. ..18 

„ „ Withycombe .. ..80 

JohnLyddon, Tbe Mill .. .. .. s 6 

„ f> Na{>lock Ground ., o 10 

„ „ East Town Place .. .. ..50 

Nicholas Lyddon, Lower Wick . . . . 50 

„ n Hollam .. .. ..56 

„ >» Higher SUddon .. .. .,40 

„ ,t Lower Staddon .. ., .. 40 

a total of £4. 3s. 8d., more than half of the rate of £j i8s. lod. 
Robert Lyddon of Ash was no doubt the son of Thomas Lyddon 
mentioned above. The burial Register for 1756 contains the 
entry : May 28 Mr. Robert Lyddon, Senr., buried. 

In the rate for 1776 we find Robert Lyddon paying for 
Edbrook, Norway, Mousehanger, Ash, and Townsend, and 
Nicholas Lyddon for Lower Wick, and Middle Staddon. 

In the rate for 1801, Robert Lyddon is rated for Edbrooke 
and Townsend, and Elizabeth Lyddon for Lower and Nether 
Staddon Farm and Northern Mill. Robert Lyddon of Edbrooke 
also owned West How Farm in Exton, which adjourns Edbrooke, 
but on the other side of the Exe, and also Daw's Farm in 
Kingshrompton, but owing to family quarrels and law proceedings, 
much of the property was sold, and the rest heavily mortgaged, 
and a few months ago the whole was sold. The late Mr. William 
Lyddon succeeded to Edbrooke in 1856, on the death of his 
father Robert Lyddon, who had eight sons, but strange to say 
not one of them leaves a son. It is remarkable that notwithstand- 
ing that the family have been so long resident as substantial 
yeomen and of great influence in the parish, there is no monument 
or headstone erected to any member of the family, either in the 
Church or Churchyard. 

Thus is brought to an end the family of Lyddon of Edbrooke, 
Winsford, after having been resident in the parish for at least 
333 years. 

The only surviving nephew of the late William Lyddon,— 
Mr. John Lyddon Pring— tells me that when he was a boy he 



68 Sofnersef S* Dorset NoUs £• Queries. 

used to live a good deal at Edbrooke, and during an illness there 
was attended by Dr. Liddon of Taunton, the father of Dr. E. 
Liddon and the late Canon Liddon. His grandmother told him 
that Dr. Liddon was a distant cousin. If that was the case, he 
must have been descended from a Lyddon of Winsford. 
Can any reader tell me if this is correct. ? 

W. Dicker, Schoolmaster, Winsford. 

43. MoRDBN Common, Dorskt. — On the verso of page 25 
of the MS. account of the Family of Erie, described in S. S» D, 
N. S» Q,, IV. XXV. 20, the following memorandum of litigation 
regarding Morden Common has been written, and it is here 
given as a small contribution to local topography. 

A 

•'29th Septr., 1 75 1 . Walter Vaughan Esqr of Fallersden in ye 
Com. of Wilts, soon after made Sir Walter, Married Dorothy ye 
Widw of Thos Erie Esqr about ye year i597» soon after which 
Sr Geo. Trenchard laid Claim to part of ye Common of Morden, 
Abutting against North-Ljrtchet, and there were several 
proceedings in Chancery, which ended at Last by agreement 
between them, in a Tryal at common Law, and a Verdict was 
obtained in the forty fourth Year of Queen Elizabeth, in favour 
of the Bounds claim'd by Sr Walter Vaughan, which were from 
Park-Comer to Ashen Thorn, thence to a Bound stone at Berry- 
moor Head, thence to a Bound stone called the Stone in Berry, 
thence to the East corner of a Ground calFd Outhooks : Soon 
after which Sr Thos Kitson, the then Lord of the Manour of 
South Ljrtchet, at the instigation of Sr Geo. Trenchard, set up a 
Claim to part of Morden Common, called Canford Drift, upon 
that part of the Common known by the name of the Down ; and 
one John Greale a Tenant of the said Sr Thos Kitson, did by 
Agreement with Sr Walter Vaughan, give Cause of Action, by 
carrying away a load of Furzes, cut there by the Tenants of 
Morden, which proceeded to a Tryal at Winchester, in the first 
Year of King James the first, when Geale was nonsuited, and paid 
Cost and five Pounds seven Shillings Damages ; after which the 
Tenants of Morden had quiet Possession of their Bounds as settled 
by their first Verdict against North Lytchet, and from Outhooks- 
comer along the hedge to the Southwest Corner of Bulberry, 
thence to Skutshem-Comer, and thence along the Hedge to 
Sherford-Bridge, their Bounds settled by their second Verdict, 
against South Lytchet, as now enjoy'd for upwards of thirty 
Years, in which space several Fines and Recoverys had pass'd for 
settling the Manours of Morden on divers occasions. After 
the Death of Sr Geo. Trenchard, .which happen'd about thirty 
five years after these Tryals, Thos. Trenchard his Son, reviv'd 



Somerset 6* Domi Notes <S* Queries. 69 

a Claim to part of the Bounds formerly in dispute, and there 
were several proceedings in Chancery about it, but upon a Cross 
intermarriage between the two Familys, to avoid all future dispute, 
there was an agreement in wrighting made, whereby the aforesaid 
Thos. Trenchard acknowledge the Bounds as settled by the two 
Verdicts at Law ; and that the said Sr Walter Erie was Lord of 
the Manour and Soil of all the Lands within the said Bounds ; 
which are accordingly enjo/d by the Tenants of Morden to this 
day." 

44. Ilchbstsr. — Here is an item relating to Ilchester from 
the Pipe Roll of John 6. " Ho'i'es de luelcestr V comp* de qH' xx 
m' > j, palefr* p^ h'nd' lib'tatibus suis > villft suft ad feod' firm' scd' 
tenore cart* sue." " The men of Ilchester render account of 
eighty marks and one palfrey for having their liberties and their 
town at fee firm according to the tenor of their charter." The 
original charter confirming the liberties of the men of Ilchester 
still exists. Chartse hP 5 Johannis pars unica, M.3. 

Ilchester was an important town in medieval times, the 
Calendar Rot. Pat. Edw. iij de anno 40*^ describes a letter patent 
relating to the town thus '* quod curia comitatus pro comitatu 
Somers' sessiones assise et gaolae deliberacones teneantur apud 
Ivelcestre et non alibi in comitatu praedicto." 

W. MiLBS Barnbs. 

45. Smokb Holb (Smokb Hold ?) Tbnxtrb. — ^A cottage in 
Sturminster Marshall, held by Israel Gallop, was burnt down 
about 1850. 

When it was being rebuilt, Gallop lived inside the walls day 
and night till the chimney was sufficiently formed to allow of a 
fire being lighted. He feared lest his elder brother, or indeed 
anyone else, might be before him, and by lighting a fire first, get 
a title to the place. J. C. 

46. Tarrant Rushton Church. — ^At p. 30, S. S»D.N. S* 
Q.^ IV. XXV. 15, there are a few words about two of the many 
noteworthy features of this church, the altar-slab and the two 
earthen vessels built into the eastern face of the wall above the 
chancel arch. I venture to add to that short memorandum 
another to the effect that in one respect that altar slab is believed 
to be unique in England, namely, in the retention of its relics. 
These, it is considered certain, are beneath two little rectangular 
plaques of stone, leaded into the slab. I understood the Rector 
to say, as the result of careful enquiry, that no other mediaeval 
altar slab in England has relic receptacles un-opened. Again, as 
to those two jars, may I ask if it is certain that they were ** acoustic 
vases ? " To me they look too small for any ijxf^ to be produced 
by them. 

H. J. MouLB, Dorchester. 



TO Scmtnti S» Domt NoUs S» Queries. 

47. Abskncx of Soul from Body. (in. zzii. 266» xxiii. 
308). — ^7oiir correspondent will find this old mjth alluded to with 
several examples in Baring-Gould's Myths of the Middle Ages under 
the heads of ''The Piper of Hamelin" and "Bishop Hatto."* 
espedallj the latter. In the stories quoted by Baring-Gould the 
tool assumes the form of a mouse, but he alludes to the story of 
King Gnnthram and Hugh Miller^s as variations of the same mjth. 

S.R.B. 

48. Thb Art Discovsriss at thb Sombrsst Lakx 
ViLLAOB. — Mr. Arthur J. Evans, of the Ashmolean Museum, 
Oxford, writes in TTu Times :— 'The late Celtic relics brought to 
light bj the very interesting excavations of Mr. Bulleid on the site 
of the fen-settlement, near Glastonbury* bring some fresh contribu- 
tions to our knowledge of the Greek and Italian elements in ancient 
British art. No imported objects seem to have been found, if we 
except two fibulae of Italic form, dating from the first half of the 
first century B.C. A bronze mirror-handle, though of Celtic 
fabric, shows how the more luxurious arts of the classical world 
were already influencing even the extreme west of our island in 
pra&-Roman times. In style it much resembles some bronzes of 
the third and second century B.C. from the Gaulish cemeteries of 
Champagne. But the pottery found is in some respects even 
more interesting. It throws a fresh light on a very remarkable 
class of late Celtic ware of which too little has been hitherto 
known, though kindred examples were found by General Pitt- 
Rivers in his excavations of the British encampment on Mount 
Cabum, in Sussex, and in the British Oppidum at Hunsbury, near 
Northampton. The general type of late Celtic pottery to which 
it belongs, I have endeavoured to illustrate in my account of the 
cemetery at Aylesford in Kent, and have traced it to its prototypes 
in a class of bronze vessels characteristic of a well-defined 
archaeological province that lies about the head of the Adriatic, 
inhabited in ancient times by Illyrian tribes, the names of whose 
principal representative— the Veneti — still survives in that of 
Venice. The spiral-form ornament on some of the Glastonbury 
vessels now supplies a new link of connection with the same region^ 
and shows how deep an impress was left on the Gaulish tribes by 
contact with the more civilised races of this vast Adriatic province. 
Here it is impossible to do more than allude to this far-reaching 
chain of cause and effect, the links of which, as I hope to be 
able eventually to show in the most conclusive manner, form a 
direct connection between the highest development of ancient 
British or late Celtic art as seen in the earliest illuminations and 
goldsmiths' work of Christian Ireland on the one hand, and, on 
the other, with the most ancient ornamental system of the 
Hellenic world — the art of Myk^nae. In any case the Adriatic 
connection of prae-Roman Britain may be now regarded as made 



Somrsit <S* Dorut Notis S» Qmries. 71 

oat. And so what Professor Boyd Dawkins has happily called 
car little * Western Venice ' of the Glastonbnrj fens — in which, 
from the crucibles and vitreous paste discovered, it would appear 
that the art of glass-working was itself not unknown — may claim 
some direct heritage from a still older Venetian culture.'* 

49. CoGNiTOR. (III. xxiii. 285, Note.) — "Cognitor, oris, 
m. 3., one that takes cognisance, proctor, attorney, lawyer, one 
that overlooks the sale of confiscated goods." Niblock*s Lat. 
Diet., 1836. 

'' Cognitor, a person appointed by a plaintiff or defendant to 
represent him in a suit and act for him, an agent, an attorney ; 
cognitor est, qui litem alterius suscipit coram eo, cui datus est, 
Fest. s. V. Cf. Gai. Insi., 4. 83.*' Smith's Lat. Did. S. R. B. 

50. Contributions to Cost of Defending thb Country 
IN 1588. — Have any readers of ^. &• D. N. &» Q. remarked, and 
if so can they explain, the exceptionally high assessment of 
Dorset men for Armada expenses ? 

In the list of names of those who contributed I observe only 
two counties which exceed Dorset in the number of men assessed 
at the highest rate, viz., ;^ 1 00 each. Kent, with 98 names all 
told, has 14 hundred-pounders ; Sussex, with about 118, has 15 ; 
Dorset, with 47, has 7. All the counties adjoining Dorset are 
" nowhere " in comparison. Several counties elsewhere have no 
one with more than £1$ against his name. 

I am quoting from Wm. Noble's edition, A. R. Smith, 1886. 
In the interesting introduction the author says (p. xxxii.) that 
Matthew Chubb, of Dorchester, whose name has ;^5o against it, 
prayed to be excused, as neither the Lord Lieut, nor the Deputy 
Lieut, had certified his " sufficiencie " to be able to lend money. 
The result is not recorded, but the fact is interesting, as Master 
Chubb was a well known man at Dorchester in his day, and his 
memory flourishes there still. Chubb's Almshouse and a stately 
tomb in Dorchester All Saints' keep him in mind. 

H. J. MouLB, Dorchester. 

51. RoBBRT Frtb, Rector of Over Compton. — In Night- 
ingale's •* Church Plate of the County 0/ Dorset^* reference is made 
(at page 189) to "Sir Robert Frye, parson" in 1552 of Over 
Compton, with the note that his name " as Rector does not 
appear in Hutchins." Can anyone give particulars of this 
Kobert Frye ? I have not yet been able to find any reference to 
him in the wills of the period. Is it possible that he is the 
Rector referred to by Hutchins (Vol. iv., p. 173, 3rd Ed.) as 
Robert Trie, instituted in 1535 ? 

Geo. S. Fry, Inglewood, Upper Walthamstow Road, 

Walthamstow. 



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52. Dorset Christmas Carols (III. xviii. 67, xix. 118, 
XX. 141, xxi. 204, xxii. 255, xxiii. 282.) — The following is another 
of the Carols traditionally in use at Long Burton. 

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To tell the news the heavenly host 

Appeared in the air, 
And humble shepherds in the field 

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Which was their faithful guide, 
And when it pointed forth a way 

Then God they glorified. 

53. Langham Manor. — Savage, in bis History of 
Carhampton (p. 261, et seg.), says that this manor (within the 
parish of Luxborough) " belonged to the family of Darch, one of 
whom is buried in Luxborough Church, from whom it passed to 
a Mr. Inman, who sold it to the late Sir John Lethbridge, bart. 

I beg to ask, — At what period did the Darches hold this 
manor? 

PeiLiP S. P. Conner, 313, South 22nd Street, 

Philadelphia, U.S.A. 

54* Havbrfibld Family. — On the back of a small oil 
painting of a Divine, the following words are written: "John 
Haverfield married Anne Drew 1703.** 

Can any of your readers inform me from what part of 
England this John Haverfield was derived prior to his settlement 
at Kew ? Any clue to his ancestry would be most acceptable. 
It is believed that the family long since held lands in Yorkshire, 
and a connection is known to exist with the North Country 
family of Tunstall. 

E. Haverfield. 

55. Collinson's Somerset— Errata, Vol. III., 
154. — "The arms of Trenchard, Per paU argent and azure in L 
first three pellets^ — for pellets read palets, which should also be 
described as sahU. 



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56. Yetminster, and William Bartlett, Vicar.— The 
following is a copy of the reply made by the Ecclesiastical 
authorities of Yetminster to the articles of enquiry on the occasion 
of the Visitation of Richard Baylie, Dean of Sarum. Yetminster 
was one of the 38 parishes in Dorset, which were under the 
Peculiar Jurisdiction of the Dean, and where he exercised the 
functions of Ordinary. The document is interesting, as contain- 
ing a reference to the " Organs" which had disappeared from the 
Church before the Visitation in question, and also as bearing the 
signature of William Bartlett, the Vicar whose sufferings and 
imprisonment are recorded in Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy. 
The original in the Diocesan Registry at Salisbury. 

"The presentmentofthe Vicar, Churchwarden and Sidemen 
of Yetminster in the triennial Visitation of the Right Wor" and 
Reverend Deane of Sarum, the 15th day of September, 1635. 

Imprimis to the six* Article concerning the Church Goods 
and the Ornaments thereof, we do present that the organs of our 
Church of Yetminster are decayed and sold from the Church, and 
we desiar to have them restored again. 

Item to the Article concerning Terriers, we present as in the 
Schedule given in herewith in parchment is mentioned ; 
concerning the rest of the sayd Articles we have nothing to 
present. 

It'm to the 9th Article concerning Ministers, we present 
that our Vicar is resident with us upon his benefice of Yetminster, 
having an other parsonage called by the name of Knowle in the 
Isle of Purbecke : as for the rest of the sayd Articles we have 
nothing to present. 

It*m to the Articles concerning Mariage, Phisitians, eccle- 
siastical Officers and Schoolmasters, we have nothing to present. 

Item to the Articles concerning Parishioners we have nothing 
to present. 

William Bartlett. Vicar. 
George Edwoardes, Churchwarden. 
Thomas Barnes ) c:^^-.^^ >• 
George G P Payne | S»demen. 

Hutchins, in his History of Dorset^ ist Edition, under the list 
of Vicars of Yetminster, names " William Bartlett, A.B., on the 
resiff. of Rugge, inst. 17 Mar., 1607. He had a dispensation to 
hold the rectory of Knoll, co. . . .being then B.A., 12 Nov., 1627. 
(Rymer, Fctd,^ vol. xviii. 106). He was deprived of his rectory 
by the ordinance against pluralities, and of his vicarage by the 
Committee of the county, was plundered and imprisoned at 
Westminster, 1646, and sequestered from a temporal estate 
(Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, pt. II, 198.)" William Bartlett 
was presented to the Vicarage of Yetminster by Alexander 
Bartlett. The account given by Hutchins does not state the 
County in which Knoll was situated, but it appears from the reply 



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to the Visitation Articles given above, that the place indicated 
was Church Knoll or Knowle in the Isle of Porbeck. On referring- 
to this |>arish it is found that Hntchins does not mention anr 
Rector of the name, bat instead inserts '* William Burkett, 1628, 
in the list of Rectors. This error, for sach it evidently is, which 
has been repeated in the subsequent editions of the County 
History, can now be rectified. 

One point appears still to need clearing up. Hutchins 
states that William Burkett {t\e. Bartlett) was succeeded at KnolU 
24 Feb., 1635, by Valentine Ming, M.A., giving as his authority 
Rjrmer, Fad, xix, 779. Bartlett himself says, in the letter dated 
October 18, 1646, and given by Walker, "This then is my Case; 
I am deprived by our Committee of all my Means, both Parsonage 
and Vicaridge; notwithstanding I Elected my Patronage accordmg 
to the Ordination o( Pariiameni. My Body is committed to Prison, 
where I have remained these Two and Twenty Weeks, and 
cannot be ransomed without the loss of my Soul, in Swearing 
against my Conscience ; which I will never do." On this Walker 
remarks in the margin •• From this Clause ViV plain, ht had he/ort 
lost a vicaridge on iht Ordinance against Pluralites ; and on this 
Authority alone Ihatfe above set it down^ Walker of course has 
made a mistake in mentioning a Vicarage in the marginal note, 
which arose from the fact that he supposed that Yetminster was 
a Rectory, but putting this aside, how are we to reconcile the loss 
of Knowle, circa 1646, with the date of the appointment of 
Valentine Ming in 1635 ? William Bartlett, in his letter, appears 
to be referring to an event which had recently taken place, when 
he speaks of having elected his Parsonage. 

As the note of his dispensation in Rymer's Fcedera^voX. xviu, 
p. 1006 (not p. 1 06 as stated by Hutchins) contains some 
particulars relating to Bartlett and Yetminster, it may not ^^^^ 
of place to give it as it stands "Willielmus Bartlett, Clericus.A^- 
necnon Capellanus prenobilis Femine Domine Elixabetne 
Comitisse Dotarie Devon', ut una cum Vicaria perpetua -^^^r^Jl^ 
Parochialis de Yetminster in Comitatu Dorset* & ^®^!* -am 
Jurisdictionis Decanatus Sarum (quam jam obtinet) ^?P. " -^ 
Ecclesie Parochialis de Knoll alias Church Knawle P^^*^^**' 
Bristol (modo non distat a Vicaria predicta ultra viginti <*^^^^ 
milliaria vel eo circiter) recipere possit, & quoad vixerit ^ * 

Dat* duodecimo die Mensis Novembris Anno Domini 1017 
Translationis anno 17." . --g^ 

The Letters patent given by Rymer, vol. ^* .^e alias 
appointing Valentine Myng to the Rectory of .^. ^^ ^e 
Churchknell, speak of that benefice as "jam ^^^!l^simonie 
jure vacantem, ad nostram presentationem per pra vita 
sive per Lapsum temporis hac vice spectantem.* . 



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57. WoRLE Notes (III. xxii. 266, xxiv. 320). — 

VIII. Jack o' Lanthorn.— Many old people relate that 
in their young days they have seen this phenomenon, and one 
old man tells me he has been beguiled by one into the river down 
at Kenn. 

Another, an aged woman— now dead — used to relate how 
she was led by one down from Milton Splots to a field below 
what is now called the Lower Road. She had no notion where 
she was, or whither she was being led, until she had the presence 
of mind to turn her apron. This done, she at once discovered 
her whereabouts. It is necessary, I find, in such cases to turn 
something, — it matters not what. 

I suppose that this idea is analogous to the belief in the 
efficacy of turning one's chair at cards for change of luck. 

IX. " See me and see me not." — ^This is the name given 
to Crook's Peak, an outlying spur of the Mendips, by mariners 
passing up and down the Bristol Channel. The name evidently 
points to the use made of it as a land-mark in navigation, and I 
should not think it worth mention had I not found the phrase in 
*• Image of both Churches," by Bp. John Bale, edit. 1849, p. 526 
(quoted in " Myrc's Instructions," p. 70, E.E.T.S.) •• They will 
pay no more money for the housel-sippings, bottom blessings, nor 
for seys/ me and seyst me not above the head and under of their 
chalices." 

Although, of course, the primary reference is to S. John xvi. 
16, the phrase would seem from this passage to have been used 
with reference to the ceremonies at the Celebration of the Mass, 
and possibly after the Reformation it was employed in an 
irreverent manner and crept into common use. 

X. Witchcraft. The Evii. Eye. — 

** Beshrew your eyes. 

They have o*er-looked me." 

Merch. of Ven. A. 3., Sc. 2. 

In spite of the schoolmaster, we are still as firm believers in 
witchcraft and the evil eye as were the shepherd swains of 
Theocritus or Virgil, and many who, if directly questioned on 
the subject, would indignantly deny the impeachment, are none 
the less devout believers in such occult powers. I do not think 
that any appeal to their reason affects their belief in the least 
degree. There seems to be no point of contact between the two, 
they move, as it were, iix different planes. 

The form which the belief here commonly assumes is the 
fear of being " over-looked," and it is well therefore in no way 
to offend a neighbour who is credited with the possession of this 
power. It would almost seem as though there were a merciful 
interposition of Providence in behalf of the old and ugly, the 
weak and those least able to help themselves. There are, I think, 
always to be found, in every village, some possessed of it, and to 



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them all kinds of misfortiine or ill-luck are ascribed ; especially 
are thej blamed 

" When geese or pollen are seduced, 
Or sows of sucking-pigs are choused." 

I well remember how, during the summer of 1875, Worle 
was in a commotion owing to the unexpected deaths, one after 
another, of a healthy " varth o' paigs." At length the owner 
could stand it no longer, and the "wise man" from " Taant'n '' 
was summoned to point out the witch. When his hand had been 
well crossed with gold (a very necessary preliminary to obtaining 
oracular response) he laid it to four village wives — all of whom he 
declared he would bring to the house of the aggrieved party to 
beg for mercy and forgiveness. 

The woman, whose pigs had died, actually told me how she 
had (in obedience, I believe, to the " wise man's " behests) 
stuck the heart of one of the defunct pigs full of pins, thrown it 
on the fire, and sat with her husband waiting for poor old 
Mrs. to come and ask why they were hurting her. 

She told me, with triumph, how she had outwitted another 
of the suspected parties who had asked her for the loan of a 
shilling. " Do you think I gave it her ? Not I! " It would 
seem that the possession of any object, especially, I think, of 
money or pins, belonging to the person whom it is desired to 
injure, would give the witch terrible power over them. 

It was, perhaps, unfortunate that the poor old woman who 
bore the worst repute in all such matters should have come to an 
untimely end — through falling into the fire on her hearth ; the 
inference being only too obvious as to the peremptory nature of 
her summons hence. 

It must be added that, on the morning of this sad event, the 
harriers on the adjacent hill lost their hare among some stone 
walls, where it was next day picked up dead. The man who found 
it, took it to his master's house, but on his bringing it into the 
kitchen, the maids immediately rushed out in terror and wouldn't 

" bide " in the house with it, declaring it was old Mrs. . It 

is a common belief that witches have the power of transforming 
themselves into hares, though in this case it is hard to see what 
advantage would have accrued through so doing, but I suppose 
there was a vague sort of idea that the witch and her double had 
passed away at the same moment. 

I saw some vears ago, and regret I did not make a note of 
it at the time, that a farmer on Mendip (I think at Shipham) 
who had lost several calves, called his men together, took the 
body of the calf that had last died and burned it in the cow-shed, 
with the object of averting further mischief. 

Such things are seldom spoken of, the man would be 
ashamed to confess his belief, but I ask, was not this a relic of 
sacrifice, sacrifice to some malevolent power ? W. F. R06B. 



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58. Somerset M.Ps in the Long Parliament.— At 
the risk of repeating in part queries that have appeared in 
5. S^D.N. S» Q.f I venture to again submit a few of mj wants 
to which no replies have as yet been given. 

Thomas Hodges, M.P. for Ilchester, 1646. He was of 
Wedmore, Somerset. Will proved July 3, 1649. 

William Carbnt, M.P. for Milbome Port, 1645, till 
secluded in 1648. Will proved July 18, 1666. 

Thomas Hanham, M.P. for Minehead, 1642, till disabled in 
1644. He was of Caundle, Dorset, and compounded for hit 
estate in Dec. 1645, for £96$^ being then 70 years old. 

I am desirous of learning the parentage and other genea- 
logical particulars of the foregoing three M.P.'s, also somewhat 
fuller information than alreadv ascertained of the following : 

Edward Kyrton, M.P. for Milbome Port, 1640, till 
disabled in 1642. He was, I think, a son of Daniel Kjrrton of 
Castle Gary, Somerset, who died area 1594, ^^^ ^^ created 
M.A. of Oxford, 16 Jan., 1642-3. He compounded for ;^262 
and £$0 Si year to the Minister of Castle Cary. He was an 
'old Parliamentary hand,' having sat in Parliament from (621, 
and was a most active member down to the period of his 
disablement for Royalism. 

Thomas Grove, M.P. for Milbome Port, 1645, till secluded 
in 1648. He was son of Robert Grove of Fern House, Wilts, by 
his 2nd wife Honor South, and was probably the "Thomas 
Grove of Berks, pleb.," who matriculated from Magdalen Hall, 
22 Nov., 16x6, aged 15. He married twice, and survived the 
Restoration. When did he die ? 

George Searle, M.P. for Taunton, 1640-53. He was a 
barrister of Lincoln's Inn, and seems to have been the " George 
Serle of Hants, gent.,^' who matriculated from Christ Church, 19 
April, 1 61 6, aged 18, as son and heir of William Serle of St. 
Crucis, Isle of White, gent. On July 4, 1646, he was ordered to 
receive ;^25oo " for and towards his losses out of the delinquents 
estates," and in 1649 was chosen Mayor of Taunton. He was 
alive in 1652, but probably pre-deceased the Restoration. 

Robert Hunt, M.P. for Ilchester, 1640, till disabled 1644. 
He was of Specklington, Somerset, and died Feb. 20, 1679-80, 
aged 71. What was his parentege ? 

James Ashe, M.P. for Bath, 1643 ^o 1653, and also 
Recorder. He was son of John Ashe of Freshford, Somerset, 
(M.P. for Westbury in the same Parliament), and was one of the 
Somerset Committee of Sequestration. From his first election 
in 1645, all through the Commonwealth period, he was a very 
active and energetic Parliamentarian. His Will was proved 
Feb. 14, 1672-3. Although a member of a well-known family, 
I have hitherto been able to find but few personal particulars 
concerning him, and shall be obliged by fuller information. 



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His father died in 1659. He himself appears at some part of 
his career to have resided at Fifield in Wilts, which county he 
represented in 1654-56. 

W. D. Pink, Leigh, Lancaster. 

59. RoGBR Hill, M.P. for Taunton, 1640, — ^Was 
** Roger Hill of Taunton, gent.," who represented Taunton in the 
Short Parliament of April-May, 1640, identical with " Roger HiU 
of the Middle Temple, esq." who sat for Bridport in the Long 
Parliament, 1640-53? Or were they, as seems not improbable, 
uncle and nephew ? The identity of the latter with the well 
known Cromwellian Baron of the Exchequer is undoubted. In 
the Pedigree of Hill of Poundsford in the Visitation of Somerset, 
1623 (Harl. Soc. Vol.) both Rogers are named, the nephew being 
then 17 years old. Both also were living in 1644, when in a 
certain Ordinance of Parliament appointing a County Committee 
for Somerset, we have included in the list ''Roger Hill of 
Poundsford, esq.," and "Roger Hill of Taunton, gent." 
Poundsford is, I believe, near to Taunton, so that the description 
" of Taunton" might apply to either gentleman in 1640. 

W. D. Pink, Leigh, Lancashire. 

60. Sbavington St. Michael Church Inventory. — ^The 
following copy of a document in the Chest in the Vestry of 
Seavington St. Michael Church, may be of interest to the readers 
of S. &D.N.& Q. 

F. £. W. Langdon. 

An Inventarie of the Vestments, Bookes, and other goodes 
belonging to the Church of Seavington St. Michaell, taken by 
the Minister, Churchwarden, and Sideman, the xxviith day of 

Anno Domini, 1635. 

Vestments : 

One newe Carpett of brodecloth with silke fringe for the 
Communion Table : and also a fayre l3mnen cloth of hoUand for 
the same: One newe Pulpett cloth with fringe: One Cushion 
for the said Pulpett: One Surplesse for the Minister: One Napkin 
of Diaper to keep the Communion Cup in. 
Bookes : 

One great Bible of the last Translacon : two Communion 
prayer bookes: the booke of Bysshopp Jewell's Workes: One 
booke of Homilies : the booke of Cannons : a register booke 
of Statutes made in the third yeare of King James with an Act 
in it to be read every ffyfthe of November : a prayer booke to 
be used in the time of warre : a prayer booke to be used in the 
time of any contagious Sicknesse : one other book of Instructions 
from the King to all the Bysshoppes of the Kingdom : A booke 
for preachers that are strangers to write their names in : another 



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prayer booke to be read on the ffyfthe day of November: A 
Table for Marriages. 
Goodes : 
One Chalice of Silver with Cover to it : one bread plate of 
Silver: one fflagon of pewter: a Communion Table bowrde: 
two Chests : An Hour Glass : a Bicare. 

R. Clement, Rector, M.A. 
Giles Dunster, Churchwarden. 
Robert Chapel, Sideman. 

6i. Dedications of Sombrsbt Churches (III. zvii. 5, 
xviii. 51, xix. 92, xx. 139, xxii. 243). — I can now add three more 
Churches to the previous lists : — 
Parish, Ancient Dedication. Dioc. Kalendar ( 1 894) 

Durston. St. Nicholas. \ q. y , ^ .. ^ p^.^*:«* 

{Somerset Wilis, ist S.. p.6.) ] ^^' >^^ *^^ ^^P^^^' 
Laverton. B.M.V. St. Bartholomew. 

Nunney. All Saints. St. Peter. 

I think that the last error arose from the curious kej^ and 
knotted cord on the tower, which is probably a badge of the 
Delamare family, being mistaken for St. Peter's key. (See 
Collinson, II. 219). 

F. W. Weaver. 

62. An Ancient Causeway on Sedgemoor. — One day last 
week, Mr. J. G. Bulleid, of the Glastonbury Antiquarian Society, 
was invited by the Hon. H. B. T. Strangways, of Shapwick, to 
view that portion of Sedgemoor known as Greylake's Fosse, where 
Mr. Strangways is about to sell some of his land to be mown. 
Complaint had been made of a new mowing machine having been 
smashed by some stout oak pegs or posts which were found to 
exist in the ground. Mr. Strangways had one of these dug out, 
and found it was six feet long. Subsequently a double line of 
these posts was discovered, and Mr. Strangways was of opinion 
that they marked a part of the cavalry lines of the army engaged 
in the battle of Sedgemoor, and such he had been informed was 
the old tradition. A line of these posts runs across the narrowest 
part of the moor from the high land below Moorlinch to the high 
land a little to the east of what is known as Blindman's-gate. 
Mr. Strangways has since received a communication from Mr. 
Wright, Hon. Sec. of the Glastonbury Antiquarian Society, 
thanking him for some of these posts presented to the museum, 
and stating that the committee consider ** they must have been 
part of a causeway stretching for a considerable distance across 
the moor of the same character as that known as the Abbot's way, 
and as such are of great interest." Bristol Times and Mirror, 
April 2$, 1894. 



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63. Mbrrivisld Faiolt. — I shall be much obliged for 
any information respecting the Merrifield family, or families, which 
from the 15th to the 18th centuries lived in Somerset and in 
Dorset. 

At thepresent time I am more particularly interested in a, 
I believe, Thomas Merrifield, who, if my information is correct, 
was bom in Dorset, and, about 1732, married Betty, daughter of 
a Mr. R. Dore, maltster, of Lymington. Either he or she is said 
to have had a sister who married a Mr. Greening. The said 
Thomas Merrifield is reported to have settled, as an Attorney, in 
Christchurch, Hants, and a Thomas Merrifield, bom nth April, 
1733, was their only child. 

S. S. McDowALL. 



64, WiNSFORD FiBLD NaICSS, SoMBRSBT.— 



Style piece 
Stately 

Lantem Mead 
Winnow seed piece 
Willey piece 
Hatchet piece 
Higher Gratton 
Kitchen meadow 
Chargerage meadow 
Kettle mead 
Crock mead 
Great Broomball 
Throat mead 
Penny meadow 
Knappy piece 
Folly 

N, & S. Horse Ball 
Lousy piece 
Hither Claims 
Kettle meadow 
Great Blindpiece 
Lower Merchants lea 
Barley Eddish 
Larks Lears 
Higher Summerway 
Hawk 
Nursery 

Bushel Bridge Cleeve 
Way Close 



Rowpool 

Higher Blade 

Hanger 

Cullis 

Cullis mead 

LiUle Cullis 

Blind Cleeve 

Road Castle 

Brennons 

Brannan 

Lady ford meadow 

Broom close 

Hymen's piece 

Higher Culverwell 

Ison Common 

Ison Eddish 

Higher and lower Colton 

Peter's comer 

East long nose 

West long nose 

Poor nose 

Water leat 

Long and little rap 

Whitstone 

Castle close 

Bullery meadow 

Shooters pool ham 

Squeaking piece 

Brewhouse piece 



W. Dicker. 



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65. A SoMERSBT Ghost Story. — This narrative is taken 
taken from *' Strange things among us,"by H. Spicer, London, 
1864, pp. 133-9. 

- Is anything farther known respecting this story, and can the 
locality still be recognised ? 

•' For several years past, singular rumours have got abroad, 

from time to time, relative to an old family seat near F , 

Somersetshire, which, however, despite its reputation, has never, 
up to the present moment, been without occupants. The circum- 
stance most frequently associated with the rumours aforesaid, 
was that, on almost every night, at twelve o'clock, something 
that was invisible entered a certain corridor at one end, and 
passed out at the other. It mattered not to the mysterious 
intruder who might be witnesses of the midnight progress. 
Almost as regularly as night succeeded day, the strange sound 
recurred, and was precisely that which would have been occasioned 
by a lady, wearing the high-heeled shoes of a former period, and 
a full silk dress, sweeping through the corridor. Nothing was 
ever seen, — and the impression produced by hearing the 
approach, the passing, and withdrawal of the visitor with perfect 
distinctness, while the companion-sense was shut, was described 
as most extraordinary. 

•* It was but a day or two since, that the brother of the writer 
chanced to meet at dinner one of the more recent ear-witnesses 
of this certainly most remarkable phenomenon, and, with the 
sanction of the latter, the adventure shall be given nearly in his 
own words. 

*' I was visiting, about two years ago, at a friend's house, a 

^ miles from F , when my attention was attracted, one 

.' at dinner, to a conversation that was going on, having 

iCrence to the haunted character of B House, near 

- — . The subject seemed to interest the speakers so much, 

ill 3gged to be informed of the details, and learned that a 

jdrticular corridor of the mansion in question was, every night, 

r: twelve o'clock, the bcere of an occurrence that had hitherto 

Itemed all explanation. One of the party had himself been a 

^i«itor at B House, and, being sceptical and devoid of 

fear, requested permission to keep vigil in the haunted gallery. 
He .1 so, witnessed the phenomenon, and 'nothing on earth,' 
he frankly owned, * would induce me to repeat the experiment.' 
He then recounted to me certain circumstances, which agreed so 
nearly with what I myself subsequently witnessed, that it will be 
better to narrate them from the direct evidence of my own 
astonished senses. 

" My curiosity being greatly increased by the manifest 
belief accorded by those present to this gentleman's story, I 
obtained an introduction to the family of B— — House, and 
received from them a ready permission to pass a night, or more. 



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if necessary, in the haunted corridor. I was at full liberty, 
moreover, to select any companion I chose for the adventure, and 
I accordingly invited an old friend, Mr. W. K — , who 
happened to be shooting in the neighbourhood, to acconipany 
me. 

''K — , like myself, was disposed to incredulity in such 
matters; he had never seen anything of the sort before, and was 
positively assured either that nothing unusual would occur on the 
night when two such sentries were on duty, or that we should 
have no great difficulty in tracing the phenomenon to a fleshly 
source. 

•* The family at B happened at this period to be from 

home, but authority having been given us to make any arrange- 
ments we pleased, K — and I proceeded to the mansion, 
intending, at all events, to devote two nights to the experiment. 
It will be seen that fhis part of the plan was not strictly carried 
out! 

" We dined early, at five o'clock, and in order to make cer- 
tain of the clearness of our heads, drank nothing but a little 
table beer. We had then six hours before us ; but, resolved to 
lose no chance, we took up our position at once in the haunted 
corridor. It was of considerable length, with a door at each 
extremity, and one or two at the side. My friend K — is a 
good picquet player, and as our watch was to be a prolonged one, 
and it was extremely desirable to keep ourselves well on the alert, 
it was agreed to take some cards with us. 

" Combining business with pleasure, we placed our card- 
table so as to completely barricade the passage ; our two chairs 
exactly filling up the space that remained, so that it would be 
impossible for any mortal creature to press through without 
disturbing us. In addition to this we placed two lighted candles 
on the ground near the wall, at two or three feet from the table, 
on the side from which the mysterious footsteps always came. 
Finally, we placed two revolvers and two life-preservers on the 
table. 

''These precautions taken, we commenced our game ; and 
played with varying success till about eleven o'clock ; at that time, 
growing a little tired of picquet, we changed the game to 6cart6, 
and played until the house clock sounded midnight. Mechani- 
cally we dropped our cards, and looked along the dim corridor. 
No sounds, however, followed, and after pausing a minute or two, 
we resumed the game, which chanced to be near its conclusion. 

" * I say, it's nonsense sitting up,' yawned K — , ' this 
thing never comes, you know, after twelve. What do you say ? 
After this game?' 

" I looked at my watch, which I had taken the precaution to 
set by the church clock, as we entered the village. By this it 
appeared that the house clock was fast. It wanted yet three 



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minutes of the hour. Pointing out the mistake to K— , I 
proposed that we should, by all means, wait another ten minutes. 

" The words were not fairly out of my mouth, when the door 
at the end seemed to open and reclose. This time the cards 
literally dropped from our hands, for, though nothing could be 
seen, the conviction was growing on both our minds, that some- 
thing had entered. We were soon more fully convinced of it. 
The silence was broken by a tapping sound, such as would be 
caused by a light person, wearing high-heeled shoes, quietly 
coming towards us up the gallery, each step, as it approached, 
sounding more distinct than the last ; exactly, in fact, as would 
be the case under ordinary circumstances. It was a firm and 
regular tread — light, yet determined — and it was accompanied by 
a sound between a sweep, a rustle, and a whistle, not comparable 
to anything but the brushing of a stiff silken dress against the 
walls I 

"How K — and I looked as the sounds advanced as it 
were to storm us, I will not pretend to say. I confess I was, for 
the moment, petrified with amazement, and neither of us, I 
believe, moved hand or foot. On — on — on came the tap and 
rustle; they reached the lighted candles on the floor, passed 
them, not even disturbing the flame, then the tapping ceased, 
but the invisible silken robe seemed to brush the wall on both 
sides, on a level with our heads, then the tapping re-commenced 
on the other side of the table, and so, receding, made its exit at 
the other door ! ! 

'• As for making any use of our revolvers or life-preservers, 
the idea never once occuned to either of us. There was not even 
a shadow at which to strike ; it was sound alone. 

*' I feel that any attempt to explain this strange phenomenon 
at once to my own satisfaction and that of others, would be 
perfectly futile; I must of necessity content myself with simply 
narrating the fact as it occurred, and as it had been, and probably 
may yet be, witnessed by many others, as little predisposed as 
my friend K — and I to be made the dupe of any human 
artifice. 

'* I may mention that, on one occasion, it chanced that a 
nurse in the family had to pass through the corridor about the 
hour of twelve, carrying, or rather leading, a little girl who was 
deaf and dumb. As the sounds passed, the child appeared to 
shrink back in the utmost alarm, struggling and moaning to get 
away, nor could she ever be induced to enter the corridor again, 
without evincing the same violent terror." ♦ 



*" The mansion in which this extraordinary scene was, and perhaps still is, 
nightly enacted, remains in the occuDatioti of the same family, but will, in a few 
months, bs wholly or partially demolished, in order to effect certain modem 
improvements." 



SomiTset <S* Dorut Notes <S« Qmries. 85 

66.— BaLAIC and ISHAlf OF ISL£ BrBWERS. CO. SOHBRSBT. 

(I. iv. 169, V. 200, II. xvi. 268y III. xx. 133, xxii, 240) 
— The following are two Balam wills now at Somerset House. 
(1) William Balam. P.C.C, 11 Blamyr. 

2nd Oct., 1502. I, Wm. Balam of Ilbruers, co Somerset. 
To be buried in the churche of Ilbruers ther before the crosse* 
To the cathedral church of Wellis, xij*» To the said church of 
Ilbruers xl«- the which resteth in the hands of Thomas Proward, 
also a cowe. To the church of S. John's of Briggewater xxxix*- 
iiij*- To Isabel! my dau. vj"* xiij** iiij*- To Edith my dau. xl*- 
To John my son xl»- To the high awter of Ilbruers iij*- iiij^ 
To the brotherhod of Ilmester [Ilminster] a cowe. Also I wolle 
that William my sone shall have all such promises as I promised 
hym at the day of his marriage. The residue to my wife Jone, 
sole exec. Alexander my son supervisor. Witnesses, sir Wm. 
Martyn clerke, Wm. Balam my son, Thos. Meston, Richard 
Heliar. 

Prob. 15 Nov., 1502, on behalf of the widow. 

(2) Alexander Balam. P.C.C, 17 Pynnyng. 

13 June, 1544. A.B.of Barton-mills, CO. Suffolk, gent. To be 
buried in Barton Church by the Image of o' Ladye of Pytty. 
Exors. to provide one toombe to be made of marble stone and to 
be set over my body with the Picture of my remembrance with 
mention of the place where I was borne and where I last dwelled 
before I came to Barton. My brothers and sisters children. My 
nephew John Balam's children. Edmund Talbot's daughter. 
Thos. Caffyn. Ede ffumys my nece. To Wisbech church 20^ 
to Dodington lo"* To Margery Balam 10 marks to her marriage. 
John Balam my nephew and Agnes his wife. Alexander Balam 
my godson. And my great silver pott w* the coover I gy\t to 
Willm Isham my nephew, and to EdmundeTalbott my gilte salte. 
To Robert Balam lands in York, in Lemerington, co. Camb. to 
Elizabeth his wife. My brother John, Robert Balam and John 
Balam my nephews. Thomas Ruddston gent., John Balam my 
brother, and Edmunde Talbott to be exors. To Agnes B. for 
her paines about me in my sickness all such money as my 
woolman shall owe. Witnesses, Sir Leonard Richardson person 

of Barton, Sir Thomas preste to the testatour, John Balam 

the younger and Agnes his wief. Prob. at London 10 Nov. 1544. 
Commission granted to John Balam, exor. 

According to the Visitation (1623) Roger Isham, of Ilbruers, 
married a daughter of Balam. One is inclined to think that his 
wife may have been Isabel, daughter of William Balam, and sister 
of Alexander. The will of William Isham, proved 1572, has 
been given before. (III. xx. 133). 

H. Isham Longden, m.a., Shangton Rectory, Leicester. 



86 Somsrset S^ Dorset Notes S* Queries^ 

67. St. Nbctan in Somerset. — ^The fact has recently 
been brought to light that an altar, dedicated to St. Nectan, 
existed in Cheddar Church at the end of the 15th century. The 
evidence is contained in the Will of one Thomas More,* dated 
April loth, 1493. in which he desires that his body shall be buried 
in the church of S. Andrew, of Cheddar, '* ante aliare Scti Nectanu^^ 
This is exceedingly interesting, because as far as I am aware, 
there is no similar instance in this county ; and also because it 
points to the probability of a church existing at Cheddar " in 
Welsh times before the English came,'* as Professor Freeman 
puts it in " Old English History** St. Nectan is so distinctly a 
Cornish Saint that it is difficult to understand his being found at 
the foot of the Mendip hills. Mr. Baring Gould kindly furnishes 
me with this note: — " For St. Nectan see Borlase's The Age of the 
Saints in Cornwall^ i^QSt P* 148. Very little indeed is known 
about him. The dedication {i,e. in Cheddar Church) is almost 
certainly very early and British, not after the Saxon invasion, and 
would probably imply some independent chapel near the place, 
founded by Nectan, and removed to the Cheddar Church." 

The Banwell Charter shows that there was a " Mynster " at 
Cheddar in A.D., 1068, and the dedication of an altar to St. 
Nectan, now brought to light, seems to indicate that a still earlier 
church stood on the spot occupied to-day by the parish church. 

The following extract from Parker's Calendar of the Anglican 
Church gives some account of this saint of the fifth century : — 
** S. Nectan, C, a holy man very much esteemed by Githa, 
wife of Earl Godwin. She founded a monastery to his memory 
at Hartland, Devon, which for a long time possessed his relics. 
He probably resided at St. Nighton, Cornwall, the church being 
dedicated in his name, from which the name of the village is 
obviously derived. The other churches named in his honour are 
Hartland and Welcombe, Devon. Day of Commemoration, 
January 22nd." 

For further references to St. Hectan see ** Life 0/ Rev, S. 
Hawker** by Mr. Baring Gould, and Mr. Hawker's •* Cornish 
Ballads** and with regard to Celtic Saints in Somerset see 
** Somerset ArchaoL Soc, Prod* Vol. xxii. Part II, p. 69. 

James Colbuan. 
*The will is at Somerset House [2 Vox]. 

Editor for Somerset. 

68. The Friars of the Order of the Holy Trinity. — 
Among the MSS. belonging to the Corporation of Bridgwater, 
reported on in the appendix to the 3rd Report of the Historical 
MSS. Commission, pp. 310-320, is a vety interesting document, 
described as follows : — 

" Brief, on a small parchment, of Friar Richard, Minister of the 
House of Motyndone, in the Diocese of Conterbury, and Provincial 
of the Order of the Holy Trinity in England, for the ransom of 



Somirset.&» Dorset Notes S' Queries, 87 

captives in the Holy Land, incarcerated by the Pagans for the Faith 
of Jesus Christ, date 1494. By virtue of powers granted to him, all 
the brethren and sbters of the Order may yearly choose their 
Confessor to absolve them, in all cases but those reserved for the 
Apostolic See, and once in their lives from all sins whatsoever, even ill 
cases reserved for the Apostolic See, ecclesiastical sepulture not being 
denied to such, even in time of Interdict : such privileges having 
been confirmed by Alexander VI, the present Pope. Bv this document 
he receives John Davy and Elinor his wife into the fratemitv. On 
the back of it are written three forms of Absolution from sm." 

The Editor, Mr. H. T. Riley, remarks that '* The Order of 
Trinitarian Friars was a modified form of the Order of Trinitarian 
Monks, founded by John de Matha and Felix de Valois about 
A.D. 1 198. Their especial mission was the redemption of 
captives in the hands of the Pagans in Palestine." 

There were twelve houses of these Friars (who are also 
called Maturins) in England. 

There is still extant a bond, dated 34 Hen. VI., to John 
Davy, •* of Bruggewater, Marchaunt," presumably the father of 

John Davy, who was received into brotherhood by the Friars of the 
loly Trinity. The will of John Davy, senior, was proved in 1461 
and is at Somerset House [23 Stokton]. F.W.W. 

69. GussAGB All Saints Bblls, Dorset. — ^The tower of 
this Church contains a Ring of four bells, bearing the following 
inscriptions : 

1. FEARE GOD. I.W. 1621. 

Note, C sharp. Diameter, 2 ft. 4 ins. ; Height, 2 ft. i in. 

2. +9antfa Tinna fbta l^o AuMa* 

Note, B. Diameter, 2 ft. 5^ ins. ; Height, 2 ft. i in. 

3. +$aitt %t ^titt fbxei *pr0 B0frt0* 

Note, C. Diameter. 2 ft. 9 ins. ; Height, 2 ft. 3 ins. 

4. +Jn Set S^tit l^ta )9to Wiohitk J^irgo WBtwdeu 

Cracked. Note uncertain. Diameter, 3 ft. i in ; Height, 
2 ft. 6 in. 

The three larger bells are amongst the oldest in the County, 
and are believed to date from the end of the 1 3th or the beginning 
of the 14th Century. The tenor bell unfortunately is cracked, and 
must be recast, and all the bells are deeply pitted, and require for 
their preservation to be "quartered," U. shifted one quarter 
round, so that the clappers may strike on a different spot, and 
re-hung. 

We understand that the Vicar, Rev. W. H. Stent, is raising 
funds for this work of preservation and renewal, hoping at the 
same time to add another bell to the existing ring of four, and 
that he will welcome the pecuniary support of all lovers of bells 
in the County and neighbourhood, toward raising the needed sum 
of ;^i6o. 

A. 



88 Scmsrsa £• Lhnti Naks £• Qiurus. 

7a CoRTOV Chapxl, Po&tisham, Dorset. — The 
accompanying illustration repfesents an ancient and interesting 
bmlding which now belongs to a farm in the occupation of Mr. 
W. Mayo of Friar Waddon, an adjacent hamlet, and was 
photographed by me in Angnst last. Gorton is one of the four 
divisions of the Parish of Portisham. It was anciently a manor 
and hamlet, and is now a farm abont two miles from the village 
of Portisham. 

The name is spelt Croston, Corston, and Corfton. In 
Domesday •* Roger Corcelle holds Corfetone of the King. Two 
thanes held it in parage in King Edward's time, and it was taxed 
for five hides. There is land to fonr ploughs. There are two 
ploughs in the demesne, and twelve bordars, and fifteen acres of 
meadow. Pasture one league long, and half a league broad. It 
was worth 9/. now 7/. Vitalis holds it of Roger.*' 

Our illustration represents the Chapel which has long been 
used as a bam. It is fortunately still entire, but the original 
building has been added to at either end. The south doorway, 
as seen in the picture, is probably the best architectural feature 
in the building. There is a north door which has been built up, 
and which may be seen on the outside. Against the east wall on 
the chancel step is a fine specimen of a stone altar, raised on two 
stone supports, and evidently im st/u. The slab is of Purbeck 
marble, and although much decayed and injured still bears traces 
of two or three of the five crosses on its surface. There is also 
a piscina. The south doorway is probably not less than 700 years 
old, and the altar may be of that age, as the form of it and its 
build are similar to specimens which are known to date from even 
earlier times. 

For some time past the building has been preserved from 
further desecration, and the late Mr. Mayo expressed a hope to 
the writer, in August, 1892, that the added parts might be 
removed, and the building restored to its original form. 

The Chapel has frequently been visited by members of 
Arch«ological Societies, and only last year, the day after I took 
the photograph, a paper was read on the spot before the Dorset 
Field Club, by Rev. W. Miles Barnes, rector of Winterbome 
Monkton. 

There is a long instrument relating to the Chapel in Bishop 
Mortival's Register. In 1381 it is called a Rectory (eccUsia), 
and is said not to be rated (propter paMptrtateni). The Chantry of 
Gorton was valued at 4/. lor., out of which were paid rents reso- 
lute of I OS., John Willoughby, incumbent. 

Willoughby, who occurs 1534, had a pension of 5/. iix. 
iubtisting. 3 Edw. VI., it was, with lands and tithes belonging to 
it, granted to John Doddington and William Ward. 9 £liz. 
Owen Hebbes, at his death, held this free Chapel, and two 
messuages and 90 acres of land in West Chickerel, and 7 acres 




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and commoii pasture in West Fleet. In the Sanun Registers we 
have a list of several Rectors of the Chapel of Corston, from 1 344 
to i393> but as there was also a place of this name in the parish 
of Heimerton, co. Wilts, which was also in the diocese of Samm, 
and which also belonged to the Conrtenajs, thej cannot be 
distingoished. 

For some of the historical references in this note, I am 
indebted to the last edition of Hotchins's Darut, 

E. CoLLETT, London. 

71. Treadiko in the Wheat on Palm Sunday. — An 
informant tells me that her mother, who was bom in 1806. was 
taken, when a child' of about ten years of age, by an old gentle- 
man into the fields on Palm Sunday, to be instructed in a custom 
which had formerly prevailed, but which had by that time 
fallen into desuetude. The custom was for the village maidens, 
dressed in white, to walk through the fields on that day, for the 
purpose of ''Treading in the Wheat." My informant's mother 
was living in her early days at Cheselbome in Dorset, and it was 
there that the circumstance took place. A. 

NOTICE OF BOOK. 

7a. Phillimore's Pedigree Forms.'— Price, in envelope, 
post free ; one set, Two Shillings. London : of the Author, 124, 
Chancery Lane, or from Chas. J. Clark, 4, Lincoln's Inn 
Fields, W.C. 

These are useful forms for registering the results of genealo- 
gical enquiries. They comprise Tablets, or spaces for recording 
the lines of ancestors on the father's and mother's sides : Tablets 
for Sieze Quartiers, and blank shields for their arms. The whole 
is accompanied by sheets of paper, specially ruled for entering 
genealogies, together with instructions how to proceed. 

Mr. Phillimore's arrangements are luminously clear, and with 
his help any tiro will be able to find his way with ease throughout 
the ramifications of a genealogical tree. 

If the head of a family will procure a copy of these Forms, and 
fill them up to the best of his ability, he will produce a result, of 
Utility both to himself and his descendants. A. 

73. Churchwardens' Accounts, St. John's Glaston- 
bury. — ^The interesting set of computi of St. John's, Glastonbury, 
remaining in the possession of the Churchwardens, begins with 
the year 1 377. 

The following Account of the year 1366-7 has been lent 
me by a friend who holds in his hands a number of deeds, &c.. 
relating to property in the town ; and by his permission I print it 
as one of the series which it is hoped may appear in these page 
in their entirety. No audit day is mentioned ; evidently by 
inadvertence. In later accounts Christmas or St Lucy's Day, 
Dec. 1 3, is given. The documents still in the hands of the Chnrch- 



go Somerut S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

wardens are 34 in number, many of them nearly complete. Mr. 
Riley, in the First Report of the Royal Commission on Historical 
MSS., speaks of seeing only ''five or six fragments of Church- 
wardens' Accounts, each parchment being torn in halves down 
the middle." This is a very inadequate account of the existing 
rolls, as the following pages will show. I have to thank the 
present Churchwardens for their permission to transcribe and 
print the documents. Warner printed considerable extracts but 
not accurately. The Church of St. John, of Northbin, so called 
as occupying an enclosure north of the High Street, had been made 
over to the Abbey as early as the days of Henry of Blois (Abbot 
1 1 26- 1 171), and about the year 1200 the Rectory was resigned by 
one Ralph that it might be finally appropriated. The incumbent 
is thenceforward styled " Capellanus." Beyond a rent of 2/- 
paid to the Abbot's bailiff, nothing in these accounts concerns 
the Abbey till the mention of Prior Wason. In the earlier 
documents the Church referred to, with its aisles of St. Mary and 
St. Nicholas, is the Norman structure with a central tower, traces 
of which arrangement are observable in the smaller eastern bays 
of the present arcade. The building of the new Church about 
1420, its furniture of Trendall, Easter Sepulchre and Font Taper, 
of Roodloft, Organs, Bells and Seats, the cult of St. Georgei the 
Christmas and Robin Hood plays, the guild of St. Mary, the 
Hogling silver, the raising of funds by Crooks and by Church 
Ales, the chapel of St. Benignus (first in 1428), the George Inn, 
all find their illustration in the various rolls. For greater ease to 
the reader abbreviations have been expanded throughout. 

W. E. Daniel. 
1366-7. 

Glaston. Compotus Robert! atte Lavendrie (a) et WlUdini Murye {b) custodum 
bonoram ecclesie ibidem anno domini m ccc Ixyjto usque idem festum 
proxime sequens anno domini m ccc Ixvij mo per miwn annum. 

Arreragia. Idem respondebant {c) de yiii li. zij s. iij d. de arreragiis computi anni 
precedentis. 

Somma viiil. zij«. iijd. 
Redditus. Idem respondebant de cxij s. ix d. de redoitibas todos anni ad iiij 
or terminos. 

Somma czixs. izd. 
Incrementwn redditus. £t de ziid. de incremento redditus Johannis Hore 



(a) Called R. de Lavandria in Som. Rec. Soc., Vol. V. p. 290, in time of 
Abbot Roger Ford. Besides other occupations which gave rise to his name, it 
is there added *' bahieat monachos.*' The surname now appears as Lavender and 
Landor. His wagon was employed on the New Building. 

(b) In 1377 W.M. left a legacy of 2/- ad fabricam ecdesie. 

(c) The abbreviation r* is thus written at foil in the Account of 1489. 



S^miTSft S» Dorsft Notss S» Queries. 91 

•aper j cttaffo m MxMiwir Henrico Tailkmr pacante ad in nhiBios 
fnmiin hoc anno primo anno seqnente reddente xrid. et sic 

Snmma zij d. 

Kecepte Neoeasarie. IdanresponddMnt dezis.recepdsdecol]ecUofke(i)tocms 
paroclne ad festnm paadie et de zijd. recepds ex legato Ade 
Lynd rapcre WcDie [et de j mappa et j manntergio receptis ex legato 
Wmdau Randeoocke ifss$d vkL ad fm.] 
Snmma xijs. 

P g qaai ta. Idem reyoodebantde vis, riijd. dejohanne Childepro nnaaboppn 
de novo edmratn [»c] reddendo viiis. Et sic est incrementnm 
l ed di tus vid. et deTis.Tiijd. de Johanne Wel3fngton pro j shoppa 
oocidentali de novo rdifirata reddendo vit| s. Et sk est incrementnm 
redditns vid. Etdevis.viijd.de Tofaanne Asshcombe pro j dioppa 
qnam Robertns ICajn pnns tenmt habenda reddendo vjs. de 
antiono redditn. Et de nj s. iij d. de Ricardo Scalon pro j cntagio 
quod Johannes Scalon prins tenebat habendo [et de x s. irsud}, 
Snmma xxiij s. iiij d. 
Snmma totalis recepte («) com aireragiis xvi li. xyj d. 

Expense Defectns. In defectn redditns Cristtne Pante tenentis j Toftnm 
combnstnm inis. quod vacat. In defectn redditns Johanne Messager 
vqs. jd. per annnmqnod relntat solvere. In defectn redditns 
Johanms Asshcomb Wiudmi Trip et Margerie Clontere t men tinm 
m shoppas xv s. qne vacant per annum. In defectn redditns TVillelmi 
Hxtdyng jn d. quod nesdtur nbi deberet levare. In defectn redditns 
Johannis Kemp tenentis j cnrtillaginm viij d. quod vacuum per annum. 
In defectus redditns Johannis Fricon tenentis j cutagium cum 
curtiUagio xiid. quod remanet in manibiu prioris (/). In defectn 
redditns Roberti BCayne tenentis j cotagium vj s. per annum quod 
vacuum {g). In defectn redditns Johannis Hopere tenentis j plaoam 
vd. pa- annum que vacue [sic]. In defectn redditus Alide Pasco 
tenentis j cutagium iij s. quod traditur Johanni Berer tenendum per 
certum redditum xii d. ad terminum vite sue et oneratur de iiij s. 
Snmma xxxviijs. nd. 

Expense. In j quarterio ij bnsheUis calcis emptis x d. In dimidio quarterii 
Zabnlone empto iid. In stipendio j tegulatoris emendantis 
oooperturam hfle (A) Sancti Nicholai ad thascam (t) xx d. 

Nccessaria Ecdede. In xl libris cere emptis pro xv cereis renovandis per ing 
vices ad festa omnium sanctorum Natalis Domini Pasche et Nativitatis 
Ixnti Johanms xxvs. oredum litn^ viid. ob. In etsdem cereis 
renovandis ad festa preoicta xxd. In vestimentis mapps manutergiis 
lavatis per iiij vices iiij d. In fectnra unius superpeuidi per manus 



(i) In 1403 said to be pro cereo ^K;halL Cf. in Bath Ace. [Som. Arch. 
1877, p. 52) ad cereum fontis ad festnm Pasdie. 

{e) The Receipts at Bath St Bfichael's about this thne averaged £$- 

(/) This seems to show that the dtizens experienced a difficulty in getting 
their rights from the Abbey Officers. 

ig) Perhaps the many vacancies nuy be attributable to the Black Death of 
1349- 

(A) HOtfsAisle in the Parish Church. 

(i) Ad tkm. By piece work. This is the word wrongly explained as 
tholoninm in Bath Ace. p. 56. 



92 Somerset & Dorset Notes & Queries. 

\ 

capellani parochialis ij s. In solndonibas factis Willelmo Bedman {j) 
pro cereis accendenois per annum iiijd. In ezpenais factis cizca 
Ucturam compotomm vij d. ob. 

Somma zzadj s. vij d. ob. 

Stipendinm famulonun. In stipendiis {k) dnonim mstodnm per annum vi s. viij d. 
In stipendio clerici (/) ziid. In pergameno empto ijd. 
Summa vijs. xd. 

Liberatum. Liberatmn preposito domini de annuo redditn ij s. 

Summa ij s. 

Novum Edifidnm. In fundamento murorum ii shopparum rudendo (m) que quidem 
shoppe continent in longitudine zxxv pedes et latitudinem xvi 
pedum ad thascam zvi d. In stipendio ij latumorum fadentium 
muros lapideos dictarum shopparum de longitudine xzxv pedum et 
latitudine xvi pedum qui quidem muri continent in altitudine a limdo 
VI pedes (n) crassitudinis ii pedum et fadentium ad thascam zzij s. x d. 
cum stipendio unius servientis ij s. x d. 

In petris emptis apud Overlegh (o) cum cariagio pro muzis 
predictis et zaoulona carianda in grosso xs. iiijd. In meremio 
empto pro Carpentaria dictarum shopparum xxiiijs. viijd. preter 
[blank] fraxinos prostratas ad idem in cimiterio beati Johannis. 
in canagio dicti meremii cum pane cervisia et companagio emptis 
vi s. vi d. In tota Carpentaria dictarum duarum shoppanmi de novo 
factarum et levatarum in omnibus Ivij s. i d. ob. In viij sardnis 
de plastrosoal {p) empto ii s. In stipendio unius operarii fadentis 
muros de plastro dictarum shopparum in grosso cum virga de feno ad 
idem empta in grosso xiii s. iiij d. ex conventione. In Ivii hordes de 
durbordes Wall {q} emptis pro ostiis fenestris et aiera (r) dictarum ij 
shopparum xi s. x d. precium cuiuslibet iid. ob. minus m toto obolo. 
In xlxii [sic] spikes cccc bordnail ij paribus vertivellanmi cum 
gumphis {s) pro ostiis xiiij paribus vertivellarum cum gumphis pro 
fenestris preter vetus ferruro emptis viiis. viijd. In ix kipp {t\ 
lath emptis iiij s. vid. predum kipp vid. In iii millibus latthnaii 

( >)=Sexton, S. S* D. N. S* Q. vol. I. p. 122, 135-6. His first duty Was th« 
care or the Bederoll of benefactors to be prayed for. 

(A) A rare instance of a yearly salary to the Wardens. At Bath the Wardens 
of St. Michael's received a gratmty *<curialitas'* from time to time, pp. 11 and 17, 
and in 1463 at Glastonbury 5s. "was given to each "pro eorum ddigenda" in 
addition to the salary. 

(/) The parish was bound to provide a derk {Som, Rec. Soc. vol. IV., p. xix). 
He was usually in minor orders, out was ofien married. He is sometimes cidlea 
Aque Bajulus. 

(m) Ridare Martin's Rec. /ii/.s=dearing. Cf. Bath Ace,, rudyng p. 3 and 26, 

(») On this 6 ft. wall probably rose the studs 2nd bemefylling; vid. Bath Ace. 
p. 45» 47. 

(0) Between Glastonbuiy and Street. 

{p) This word requires explanation. 

(^)Perhaps=i:Walschborde. Bath Ace. p. 8 ; Yatton p. lOO. Som. Rec. Soe. 
vol. 4. 

(r) Probably=:area, floor. 

(s) 7o;i^of, bolt, nail. In glossary of 14th cent. (Wright, i>. 733) ••gum/us, 
a dorbande." Perhaps here:=splayed iron work in connexion with ^ges often 
called " Twysts." 

(/) Probably an osier basket. 



Somnsii 6* Dcrsti Notis £• Qu$ru$. 93 

emptii vi s. cum zIt bcirdnail too ovesyngbordes (»). Ib st^itiMfio j 
tegulatoris tegaUntis dicUs ^ shcppas de novo cvm fopfidictueiiipte 
et calce zabnloiia emptis de tegnlatore in growo td fhitfiiB tblu ez 
conTcncione. In iij palysbordes et j pip pro oresjrn^ebordes habtndo 
xrd. In ij senrnris com daribos wrn% empds pro ij Ofdb nj d. In 
▼adiis Robert] atte Lsrendrie ocopnntis pa* dnrenns vices mo 
diversis emptionibns et cariagib fiictis circa dictmn edifidnm m. r^d. 

Somma zU. viijs. ob. 
Snmma (v) totalis expense et liberadonis ziiijIL Tiij s. viij d. Et sk 
debent costodes zzzij s viij d. E qnibos aHocatv de redditn Jc^amMt 
Messager et Willelmi Hardyn^ pro tribos tenninis visas compoti de 
anno domini mo. cccm. bdiuto. vis. ob. qnadr. Et sic debeat 
custodes Tjen s. Tij d. qoadr. Postea ooeratnr dezs.de fine Tluxiie 
Bozwell et Johanne uzoris cjns pro qnadam shoppa qaam Johanna 
Langrig' ttnuit habenda wd termnuim vite vtrinsqne eonnn. Et sic 
deboit cnstodes de daro zzzvj s. Tijd. qnadr. P6stea onerantv de 
zizs. iiijd. ob. qnadr. de redditn temini NataHs Domini de anno 
domini milleshno cccmo. Iziiq to prins non onerato. Et sic debent 
cnstodes Itj s. E qmbns allocatur de redditn R. Shireborn' pro nno 
anno et Johannis Tbovier pro doobns annis vis. vid. Item de 
amerdamento snper cnstodes assiso {w) iijs. Et sic debent de daro 
zlvis. vid. 
Item remanent (jr) in manibns Henrid Tannere et Johannis F«rh* 

irnper cnstodam zIt s. xi d. 

Item remanet j mappa j mannterginm parmm ez legato Willelmi 
Ronndecocke. 
[Written separatdj and npside down] casnla dahnatfca slmaHca. 

1377.8 

Glastonia. Compotns Ricardi Mor3rmonth et Johannis Aldenham cnstodnm 
bonorumecdesie Sancti Johannis ibidon a festo NataUs Domini anno 
ejusdem Domini miUesimo cccmo Izzvijmo nsqne idem festnm 
prozime seqnens viz. per annum integrum. 
Arreragia. Idem r^pondebant de iiijli. ziiij s. rid. ob. qn. dearreragiis 
oompotorom annorum precedentinm. 

Et snmma iiii IL ziiij s. vi d. ob. q. 
Redditns assisus. Idem respondebant de czvs. iiid. de redditibns assisnsper 
annnm. 

Et Snmma czr s. iii d, 
Legatnm. Idem respondebant de ijs. de legato WiUeimi Mnrye (y) ad 
labricam ecdesie predicte. 

Et Snmma ij s. 



(«) Timber for the eaves, for which Halliwdl gives owis as a Devonshire 
form. 

(v) A change of hand at this point shows that the remainder was written at 
the And it, the various sums of money being probibly i-roduced on the table. 
The calculation is as follows : £it is. 4d.— ^14 8d. 8<l.=/i 12s. 8d.->6s. ofd. 
+ 108. od.+i95. 4}d. — 9s. 6d.=;f2 6s. 6d. 

(or) VtrYiSips custodiam assise, Cf. Bath Ace. p. 51. De vjd. solutis fro 
menyng ad ballivum dvitatis in ij law days. Some duty of attendance at court 
had been forgotten. 

{x) Money left in charge of the late Wardens for some purpose voted by the 
parish, but not yet accomplished. 

{y) Warden in 1366. 



94 Softierut &» Dorut Notis 6« Querus. 

Vendido instauri. Idem respondebant de ij s. de lactagio unius vacce (x) per 
axmam £t de ijs. vd. de j pepla (a) serica de legato Johiniie 
TaTemen vendita. 

£t Snmma iitj s. ▼ d. 
Recepta necessaria. Idem respondebant de xs. jd. ob. qu. de conccckme 
todus parochie ad Trendell candel (b) contra festnm Pasche hoc amM>. 

£t Snmma xs. i d. ob. qn. 
Snmma totalis recepte cum arreragiis adli. yj s. iiij d. ob. 



Resolndo Redditns. In redditu resoluto preposito domini Abbatis pro 
tenemento quondam Robert! Skimnere ij s per annum. 
EtSumma ijs. 

Defectus Redditns. In defectn redditns unins cotagii cum curtillagio quondam 
Johannis Kempe per annum vu) d. quod vacat. In defectn redditns 
unius placee quondam Johannis Luccomb per annum vi s. que vacat. 
In defectn redditns unius cotagii quondam Johannis Leigh de redditu 
termini Natalis Domini iz d. quod vacat. In defectn redditns ejusdem 
cotagii de redditu terminorum Pasche sancti Johannis et Sancti 
Michaelis xviijd. videlicet pro quolibet teimino vid. quod idem 
cotagium traditum fuit Johanni Aldenham {c) per redditum duodedm 
denariorum per annum incipiendo reddere ad testum Pasche hoc anno 
primo. In defectn redditns unius cotagii quondam Jolyfs per annum 
ijs. quod vacat. In defectn redditns unius cotagii quondam Ricardi 
le Messager per annum xiii d. (d) quod vacat. In defectn redditns 
Willelmi Hardyng per annum xij d. qui nescitur a quo debent levare. 
In defectn redditus unius cotagii cum curtillagio quondam Johannis 
Ffiron U) per annum xij d. quod in manibus prioris et non potest 
invenin districtio. In defectn redditus Jonanne Peyntos' per 
annum xij d. quod vacat. In defectn redditus Thome Oakes tenentis 
unum curtillagium in Shytelane per annum iiij d. quod vacat. In 
defectn redditus annuatim omisso de quo custodes non habent 
evidenciam nee sciunt ubi ilium levare ij s. viij d. In defectn ejusdem 
redditus per ii annos elapsos (/) non tunc computati vs. iiijd. pro 
utroque anno ij s. viij d. 

Et Snmma xxiijs. iij d. 

Expense necessarie. In solncione facta Welliis per manus Nicholai capellani 
parochialis pro uno psalterio ecclede Sancti Johannis Glastoniensis 
ibidem posito {g) ad vadium xv d. Solutum pro ij obitibus {h) annuatim 
in ecclesia predicta tenendis ij d. Solutum 'Willelmo Bedeman pro 
consimili jd. 

Et Summa [xiii erased] xviij d. 

Stipe ndinm famulorum. In allocacione facta duoous custodibus bon or um 
ecclesie per annum dimidium marce (t ). In stipendio derici fadentis 

(j) At Pilton in 151 1 there were spedal wardens for the Church herd called 
Key-wardens. 

(a) speplum, a veil. 

{b) Corona for candles ; vid. Gloss. Som. Rec, Soc, Vol. 4. 

(c) Warden in 1366. 

(i) Probably a mistake for I2d. as the totalis one penny too large. 

(«) spelt Fricon in 1367. 

(/) These two words are much blurred. 

{g) Some temporary pressure led the Wardens to pawn one of the Church 
Books. 

(h) For oneobit in 1428 the chaplain had 6d., the clerk id. and the Bedmaa 2d. 
(f) Blurred. 



Somtrut &• Dcrui Noiis 6* Querus. 95 

oompotiim anm cnm pcrgameoo ad idem empto xij d. 
Et Somma vii s. viij d. 
Uberatnm. Liberatmn WiUelmo Kyng et Johanni Sherper custodibiii 
sQCcedentibas Izvi s. per j tallinm. [Iknich blurred] 
£t Samma Ixvi t. 
Somma totalis expense et liberadonis c s. ijd. 
£t sic debent cnstodes vi U. ▼ s. z d. ob. 
Hemicom Tannere et Johanncm Vayrber (J) nopcr cnstodes 

xziiis. ind. 
WOlelmom Minye et Robertun atte Lavendrie (k) otstodes 



Undesoper 



penes ipsos xziij s. ij d. 

et Thoma 



Johannem dcaloon et Thomam Bozwell cnstodes penes iptos 

Izvijs. ob. qu. 
Johannem Osteler (/) et Ricardnm Mnrymonth nunc cnstodes 
xij s. iiij d. ob. qu. 

(On b9ck of roll). 
Instanmm (m) Timm. Idem respondebant de j vacca de remanentia. Et 

remanet nna racca. 
Mortnnm instanmm. Idem respondebant de j olla enea j firmacnlo (u) argenteo fj 
anulis argenteis deanratis iij peplis j tuall et j locnlo de mbeo velvet de 
remanentia et de j tnall de legato Alide Tottone [et de j pepla serica 
de legato Johanne Tavemers nosed] qne vendita imra. 

The Accounts of 1404, 1405, 1406 and 1407 appear to have 
been presented at one audit on one roll of two skins. The roll 
is now torn in two which makes a gap at the beginning of 1405. 

1^04. 

Glaston. Compotns Laurencii Dam et Willelmi Conmbe custodnm bonomm 
ecdesie beati Jobannis Baptiste ibidem a die sabbati proximi post 
festum sancte Lucie ▼irginis(o ) anno domini millesimo cccc lii usque cuem 
sancti Jobannis Evangeliste Anno millef imo cccc iiii to. 

Redditus Assisus. Idem rebpondebant de cxixs. xd. de redditus assisus 
tenninomm Natalis domini Pasche Nativitatis beati Jobannis Baptiste 
et sancti Micbaelis ut patet per antiquam redditarism cum iiis.de 
incremento redditus Jobannis Dorsete super uno cotagio cum 
curtillagio in Northlode (/) quondam Jobannis Moorene hoc anno 
quarto. 

cxix s. X d. [written small.] 

Exitus officii. Idem respondebant de xi s iii d. de coUecdone ad Pascha pro 
cereo paschali et de xiid. de medietate locapii unius \acce sd 
Jobannis reddente capellano (q) ecdesie parodiijuis ejusdem. Et de 

(j) Spelt Fairh* in 1367. 

{k) Wardens in 1366-7. 

(l) He had taken the place of Aldenham, or perhaps Ostelei=dnnkeeper, 
(Wydiffe's St. Luke x, 35), denoting the occupation of Aldenham. 

(m) For store, or stock living and dead ; see Pref. Churchwardens Accts., 
p. xiii. {Som. Rec. Soc, vol. 4) Weaver's WtUs Wills, Pref. p. vL 

(fi) Clasp, broodi. 

(0) Dec. 13. 

iP) Northlode, Madilode and South Street designate the ways leading 
North, West and South from the Market Cross, now called Northlode, 
St. Benedict and Magdalen Street. The last called also Spital St. from the 
hospital of St. Mary Magdalen. The Saxon ldct=Mzy ; cflodistar, 

(q) Since about 1200 the tithes belonged to the Sacristan of the Abbey, 
who served the cure by a chaplain removable at pleasure. 



96 Somifut S* Dors^ Notss S» QmrUs. 

iis. de ii torchiis locatis executoribus deffiinctonim sepeliendonun 
hoc anno. Et de iiis. iiiid. de legato Margarete Wason. £t de 
vijd. de nno annlo de legato Isabelle que fait uxor Johannis Pomeiys 
▼endito. £t de ▼ d. de altera anulo vendito Thome Kene. £t de 
ix d. de tercio annlo Tendito Johanni Hogheles. 

xixs. iiii d. \ [Written 
Total vili. xixs. iid. | smalL] 

Bicessns. In excessn nltimi compoti anhi precedentis iii s. ▼ d. ob. 

Snmma iiis. vd. ob. 

Ratc^ndo Redditns. In redditu resoluto preposito domini Abbatis pro 
tenemento qnondam Skynnere ii s. ad iiii terminos. 
Summa its. 

Expense necessarie. In ferramento unios fenestre facto de iiii Barns ponderis 
X Ubraurom faciendo ana cum ferro ad idem empto xij d. In una 
serura cum clave ad eandem empta vid. In coopertura putei calds 
reparanda iid. In xxx libris cere emptis ad diversa lamina inde 
fadenda xiu s. ixd. predum libre ▼ d. ob. In y libris lichini ad idem 
emptis XV d. predum libre iiid. In luminibus inde faciendis xvd. 
In V libris Rosyn ad idem emptb iiid. ob. qu. predum libre ob. qu. 
In iii baudreys (r) emptis ad campanas pulsandas ix d. In ▼ libris 
cere emptis ii s. iia. ob. predum libre yd. ob. In cereis inde fadendis 
iii d. In quodam calice benedtcundo viij d. In cc latth < mptis iiii d. 
pro centum ii d. Item in xx latth emptis i d. In stipendio unios 
tegulatoris per unum diem dimidium tegulantis super alam (5) beate 
Marie per loca defectiva vii d. In iiij bushellis calds emptis iiij d. 
Item in iii baudreys emptis ad campanas pulsandas ixd. Item in 
i baudrey empto iii d. In c petris tegulatoriis emptis ad predictam 
alam beate Marie per loca emendandam xvj d. In uno tegulatore per 
xxxiii [sic] (t) dies dimidium tegulante super alam per longitudinem 
.ecclesie ex parte boreali ad thascam ix s. xd. ob. qui cepit derdiem 
vd. In uno carpentario oonducto per xviii dies ad deserviendum 
dicto tegulatori xviijd. capienti per diem id. In iij quarteriis j 
bushello calds emptis ij s. jd. precium busbelli jd. In uno carpentario 
conducto per duos dies pro uno pentido (u) juxta alam sancti Nicholai 
faciendo ad thascam vii^ d. capienti per diem iiij d. In arundinibus 
emptis apud Mere videhcet cecxxx garbis ij s. vi d. precium centum ix d. 
In dictis arundinibus cariandis a Mere usque Glastoniam vi d. In uno 
stipulatore conducto pro serviente ad iilud tegendum ad thascam 
iis. ijd. In vestimentis ecclesie lavandis per annum xd. In una 
classe (v) defracta reparanda per Willelmum Smyth xxd. 

xlvij s. viiid. ob. qu. [Written small.] 
In vadiis et stipendiis domini Thome Hopere capellani (w) beate 
Marie Virginis per annum iiiili. In stipendio duorum custodum 
bonorum ecclesie per annum vis. viiid. In stipendio clerid pro 
compoto fadendo cum pergameno empto ad idem xx d. 

iiiili. viijs. iiijd. [Written small.] 
Totalis vij Ii. xviij d. [qu. erased] ob. 

[Here the roll has been torn]. 

(r) The Tower with its bells then stood in the middle of the church. 
(5) The aisles of St. Mary and St. Nicholas, N. and S. of the Nave. 
{t) There is some error in the figures ; yet 9s. 10^. agrees with the sum 
total. 

(m) a shed or lean-to. 

(v) Meaning uncertain. 

(«/) Distinct from the Parish Chaplain who was paid by the Abbey Sacristan. 













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Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 97 

74. St. Dubritius. — ^The illustration which forms the 
frontispiece is taken by the kind permission of the Aathorities of 
the Bodleian Library, Oxford, from one of the Dugdale MSS. 
(G. 2, No. 14, fo. 15.) 

We are told in a note that the volume contains a copy of an 
ancient Roll, formerly in the possession of Robert Arden, of 
Park-hall, co. Warwick, ' armiger,' written about the beginning 
of the reign of Henry VII., by John Rous, a diligent searcher of 
antiquities, and chantry priest at Guy's Cliff, near Warwick. The 
copy at the Bodleian Library was made by William Dugdale, of 
Blyth hall, in the said county, A.D. 1636 ; the original Roll is 
(I believe) now in the College of Arms, and these are the only 
two pictures of St. Dubritius, known to be in existence. 

St. Dubritius is the Patron Saint of Porlock,* Somerset, and 
of Ballingham, Hentland, Whitechurch, and St. Devereux in 
Herefordshire; the last name being a softened form of the Saint's 
own name, the Welsh form being Dyfrig, 

The Mariiloge, reprinted by the Henry Bradshaw Society, 
1893, from the rare edition of Wynkyn de Worde in 1526, p. 178, 
gives the following account of the Saint. 

Nov. 14. "In south wales the feest of Saynt Dubrice 
bysshop of landaf and after archebysshop of all englonde and 
wales that was in the tyme of kynge Arthur whose moder whan 
he was in her wombe was by her own fader a king of wales put 
in to a narowe vessell and cast dyuerse tymes in to a flode and 
ever the vessell came to lond agayn than was she bounde and cast 
in to a grete fyre wherin she remayned all nyght and therin was 
delyuered of this childe and gaue hym sowke in the myddle of 
the fyre w*out noyaunce whiche chylde forthw* dyd myracles and 
after in his holy lyfe many moo." 

The Latin inscription in the picture reads as follows : — 
(The contractions have been expanded). 

Sanctus Dubritius vir in suis temporibus maxime sanctitatis, 
cuius primis diebus tota hec Regio erat solum britonibus 
inhabitata. Hie ad civitatem perveniens Caerguerensemf sedem, 
habuit episcopalem, non in ecclesia sancti Johannis baptiste, sed 
in ecclesia omnium sanctorum que nunc includitur in castro 
Warwici. Accidit postea Saxonibus per Regem Vortigerum in 
regnum vocatis plurime perturbaverunt regnum unde Sanctus 
Dubritius (sicut et plures) recessit in Walliam, et is factus est 
primus episcopus Landavensis, deinde per Regem Aurelium 
Ambrosium factus est Archiepiscopus urbis Legionum,} et vice 
sua sanctus Thelanus factus est episcopus Landavensis. Succe- 
dente postea tempore coronavit Regem Arthurum et postea 

* See History of Porlock, by the Rev. W. Hook, 1893. 
t An old name for Warwick, as we are told on the preceding page of the 
MS. (fol. 14). 

X »'.*., Caerleon. 

Part xxvii. September, 1894. g 



4 



98 Smtrsii & Domt NoUs S» Qmrm. 

magnam [inter] conTiTimn Regis Arthori, festo peatecoite, 
resignavit archiepiscopatam, et statim coUatom est (jir) Daivkii 
avonculo regis, qm sedem archiepiscopalem transtnlit uqiie 
Meneviam.* Sanctasqae Dabritias, certo tempore, vizit heremetice 
apod Stepholmef in Sabrina, tandemqne sepaltns est in Insnla de 
Bardsej^ in North wallia et itemm translatns Landa¥ensi 
A^ dni. . . .Einsqae festom celebratnr [14] die mensis NoTembris. 

Sanctos Dnbritins trinm 

ecclesiamm cathedralinm 

episcopns. 
" St. Dabritias, a man of exemplary holiness, in whose early 
days all this coantry was inhabited only by Britons. On his 
arrival at the city of Warwick he occupied his episcopal chair, not 
in the church of St. John Baptist, but in the chorch of All Saints 
which is now included in Warwick Castle. Afterwards, when the 
Saxons had been summoned into the kingdom by King Vortigem, 
it came to pass that they threw it into the greatest confimon, 
and St. Dubritius, like many others, departed thence into Wales, 
and became the first Bishop of Llandaff, and afterwards was made 
by Kini^ Aurelius Ambrosius Archbishop of Caerleon. and St. 
Thelanus in his room Bishop of Llandaff. In process of tiaie he 
crowned King Arthur, and subsequently at a great basqiDtt of the 
King's, at the Feast of Pentecost, resigned the arc&bia&io^irac. 
and at once it was conferred upon David, the Kings's «uc&^ wte 
removed the seat of the archbishopric as far as itesis^uai.. SIl 
Dubritius lived for a certain time as a hermit at Ste^^^idhitt' iim tdbe 
Severn, and at length was buried in Bardsey Is[laun£ ijai N^Qirtdh 
Wales, and again transferred to Llandaff. His feasi as (rekdcated 
on the [14th J of November." 

The following reference to St. Dubritios is to be Rrand in 
Elton's Origins of English History (p. 269). 

'' The Saints Brychan and Dubricius were ascribed to the 
kindred of the ' Maniac Kings,' whose flocks were the stus in 
the firmament, and who seem in reality to have been the ignres 
of a constellation or a sign in some ancient zodiac : they were 
the two oxen of Hugh the Mighty, transformed into beasts for 
their pride, ' a yoke of homed cattle in the plough, one on either 
side of the high peaked mountain,' The goddess of love was 
turned into St. Brychan's daughter: and as late as the 14th 
century lovers are said to have come from all parts to pray at 
her shrine in Anglesea, and to cure their sorrow at her miraculous 
well." 

F. W. Wkavkr. 

• St. Dsvid'i. 

f Steepholm near Wetton-nuper-Mare. 

{ Off the coast, on the Houth of Carnarvonshire. 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries, 99 

75. Invbmtorixs op Church Goods, Dorsbt, 1552. 
(III. xxiv. 319, IV. XXV. 15, xxvi. 36.) — 

The pishe of \ fifyrst, j chalis Sylucr pcell gylt, ij copes, j of blewe 
Tarrant sylke, thother yellowe sylke, iij vestmtes j redd 
Monacor. ) satten of bridges, j j yellowe sylke thother domex, 
j front clothe for the Table of satten whyt & yellowe, j tunicle 
of yellowe sylke, ij Table clothes, j towell of lynnyn clothe, j 
surplice, ij aibes, j crose copp, ij candelstickes bras, j senc' bras, 
j cruet, iij belles in the Tower. 
To thuse of the ) Appoyntyde by the sayde comyssion's, j chalis 

Churche. ) Sylur peel gylt, j cope of blewe sylke, wth all 
the Table clothes and surplices The resydewe of all the p'misses 
comyttyd to the custody of thes men whose names be under 
wrytten. 

Sr John Gaole, vicar. ) Nichola, Lanbtit. 1 

The pishe of I ffyrst, j chalis pcell gylt, j crosse of \attyn gylt,. 
Wymborne | j payre of candelstickes bras, j pyx bras, j payre 
Sc. Egidii. ) of sencers bras, j payre old vestmtes of red sylke, 
ij payer of vestmtes of yellowe sylke, j payer of blewe saye, j 
bann' of sylke, iij bann*s red buckram, j corporas case Tawny 
veluet, iij fruntes for the Table, j of blewe & yellwe [sic] satten of 
brydges, thother of blewe russet satten of brydges, j cope of blewe 
satten of brydges, yj lynnyn clothes, ij Towelles, j surples, j clothe 
to cover the rowde lofte, j holy water pott of brass, ij cruetes of 
pewter, iij belles in the Tower. 

To thuse of the ) Appoyntyde by the said comyssion's, j chalis, 

Churche. ) j cope of blewe satten, w**»all the Table clothes 

& surplices. The resydewe of all the p'miss' comyttyd to the 

custody of thes me whose names be under wrytten. 

Richarde Thome. ) R^bt, Mase. 

The pishe of j ffyrst, j chalis Sylur pcell gylt, j crosse of copp, j 

Tarrant > sencer of latten, j corpas & j case, iij Table clothes, 

Hynton. j ij Vestmtes j whyt fustyon thother blewe sylke, ij 

copes j of blewe damaske thother of grene satten of brydges, ij 

surplices, j vestmt of purpuU veluet, iij belles in the Tower. 

To thuse of the ) Appoyntyd by ye said comyssion's j chalis, j 

Churche. ) cope blewe damask, wth all the Table clothes 

& surplices. The resydewe of all the p*miss' comyttyd to the 

custody of thes m6 whose names be under wrytten. 

Sr Richard Gybbs, curat ] t>^k* rk--., 

Ric. Gawlcr. J^JflSf"- 

RicTayler. j Xpofer Morys. 

The pishe of \ ffyrst, j chalis Sylur pcell gylt, ij payre of vestmtes 
Stower Payne. J of dornex, j cope of domex, j surplice, iiij belles 
in the Tower. 



lOO Somerset S* Dorset Notes 6* Queries, 

To those of the ) Appoynted by the saide comyssion's j chalis of 

Churche. ) Sylur, j cope of dornex, wth all the Table 

clothes & surplice. The residewe of all the p*miss' comyttyd 

to the custody of thes me whose names be under written. 

^' ^tJin^Sn'' '^'^' \ John Cooker. 
fe7eL. i John Allen. 
Cappella de ) fifyrst, j chalis Syluer, j cope of blewe chamlet, iij 

Knolton ) payre of vestmtes of whyt sylke thother of domex, 
ij candelstickes of brass, j scencer of bras, j surplyce, iij Table 
clothes, j lyche bell, iij belles in the Tower. 
To the use of ) Appoyntyde by the saide comyssion*s j chalis, j 

the Churche. | cope of blewe chamlet, wth all the Table clothes 
& surplices. The residewe of all the p*miss' comyttyd to the 
custody of these me whose names be under written. 

^^hoSla^age!- ""' j Edward Kennet. 
The pishe of i ffyrst, j chalis Sylur pcell gylt, j cope of satten of 
Ayshmeyre. ) brydges, iij vestmtes j of blewe satten of brydges 
j of whyt bustyan, j of blewe worsted, iij albes, ij surplyces, iij 
Table clothes, ij candelsticks brass, j crose copp & leade, j holy 
water pot bras, j payre of senc's bras, j pyx bras, iij bann's canvas 
payntyd, j strem* canvas payntede, ij Towelles, ij corporas cases 
& a charchif, ij belles in the Tower. 

To thuse of the ) Appoyntyd by the sayd comyssion's, j chalis peel 
Churche, j gylt, j cope of satten of brydges, withe all the 
Table clothes & Surplices. The resydewe of all the p'miss* 
comyttyd to the custody of thes men whose names be under 
wrytten. 

Sr John Radyshe. pson. ) John Welles. ) 
Willm Were. V Roger Burlton. I 

George Mowlon. ) Willm Keyrlye. j 

The pishe of j fifyrst, ij chalis Sylur, j pyx of Sylur pcell gylt, j 
Shapwyke. j cope of crymsen veluet wth flowers of goulde, j 
vestmt of the same, j cope of blewe satten of brydges, j vestmt 
of crane culler sylke wth flowers of gould, j vestmt of tawny 
damaske, j vestmt of whyt bustyon, j vestmt of blacke saye, iij 
Table clothes of canvas, j frunt for the Tabell of satten of brydges, 
ij crosses of bras, ij candelstickes of bras, j holy water pott of 
bras, j payre of sencers of bras, iij belles in the Tower 
To thuse of the ) Appoyntyd by the sayd comyssion's, j chalys 
Churche. j Sylur, j cope of blewe satten of brydges, wth 
all the Table clothes and surplices. The resydewe of all the 
p'mysses comyttyd to the custody of thes men whose names be 
under wrytten. 

Sr Willm Bradford, vicar. ) rp, ^_ ^ r 
Robt. Taylor. Thomas Xpofer. 

Willm Spenser. j T*^^"^^^ L^^^- 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes 6* Queries. loi 

The pishe of J ffyrst, j chalis Sylur pcell gylt, ij copes j of redd 
Pympne. ) branched damaske thother redd sylke & blewe, j 
frunt before the Table of dornex, j pax of latten/j crosse of Latten, 
j payre of candclsticks of bras, j sencer bras, iij cruetcs of Tyn, 
iij Table clothes, iij Towelles, iij corporas cases wth ther clothes 
of gould wycr, ij of grcnc sylke, j pyx of Sylur, j sance bell, iij 
belles in the, Tower. 

To thuse of the ) Appoyntyd by the said comyssion's j chalis, j 
Chnrche. | cope of redd branched damaske, wth all the 
Table clothes & surplices. The resydewe of all the p'misses 
comyttyd to the custody of thes men whose names be under 
wrytten. 

Sr John Oliuer, pson. 1 John Hunt. j 
John Selby. > Harry Jenkens. | 

John Pytt. ) John Mollan. ) 

{To be continued,) 

76. WiTHAM Friary. — What is the true meaning of this 
name ? Is it equivalent to Witham Priory^ or does it signify only 
the domus inferior of the Priory ? 

Mr. Gee (Vol. I, 193,) derives 'friary' from 'fraterium,' a 
word which is not to be found in Du Cange ; will he kindly quote 
passages in which it occurs ? 

The oldest examples of the word are puzzling. Under date 
1376 we find " W, Frarye val. in Xmis majoribus et minoribus 
rcorie ibm' cum oblac* coibus annis Ixiijs ijd *' (Hoare's Witham^ 
&c., p. 23), and according to Collinson Henry VIIFs grant to 
Hopton included "the site of the building. . . .a messuage called 
La Frarie, as also the rectory of Witham and all tithes of grain 
and hay in and arising from Witham. . . .and La Frarie." In the 
latter quotation La Frarie seems to signify the ' domus inferior,' 
but it is diflficult to understand how the rectory, whether of Witham 
proper or of the * domus inferior,' could have come into existence, 
or why it should have been endowed with tithes due from the land 
of the convent, when (as the grant shows) the rectory itself was 
impropriated to the convent. Perhaps the convent began at an 
early date to let their land out to farm, but if so, how did they 
manage without a font until 1459 ? 

The words ' in capella de la Frery ' in the license for this font 
(S.A.N.H.S. XXXIX. ii. 13) appear again to point to 'domus 
inferior ' as the meaning of Friary ; but the sense would not be 
affected if 'Priory' had been written instead of 'Frery,' for 
' capella ' was a technical term for the church in the ' domus 
inferior' as the following passages from the Statutes prove : — 

" Semper ad matutinas surgendum est,. . . .ad ecclesiam (viz. 
the church of the monks). . . .concurrunt [sc. fratres conversil. . • . 
Vesperas in capella a deputato sibi monacho audituri" {Stat. 
Guigonis LXII). 



102 Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries, 

**In omnibus domibus conversoram, quae alitcr inferiores 
nominantur, in quibus est capella, ter vei bis ad minus in 
hebdomada celebretur missa a procuratore vel priore ; aut clerico 
sacerdote." (5'/a/. nova III. ij.— A.D. 1368). 

But there is another question intimately connected with this 
discussion, viz. whether or not the Carthusians can properly be 
called ' friars.* 

' Frater * not * dominus ' is the correct title of a Carthusian 
monk, and 'Frater N. Prior Cartusiae'is the signature of the 
General, as it appears for instance under the imprimatur in 
Carthusian books. In the statutes every member of the order is 
called ' frater,* from the General down to the * redditi laici* ; and 
in Carthusian literature the word ' fratres ' is constantly applied 
both to the whole body and to the monks alone, while the converts 
are spoken of as • fratres conversi * or merely * conversi.' The 
word • monachus ' is comparatively rare. And so far is it from 
being the fact that they called the lay brethren distinctively 
' fratres,' that the precise contrary is the case, for the monks are 
sometimes called ' fratres ' to distinguish them from the converts. 
The result of the second fire at the Grand Chartreuse in 1370 is 
thus described by a monk of that house writing shortly after the 
event r'^ — "Propter quod fratres, scilicet conventus domus 
Carthusiae, ad domum inferiorem descendentes, scilicet conversor- 
um,....cum conversis degebant** {Brevis Historia Ord, Cart, 
printed in Veterum Scrip torum^ 6*r., edited by Mart6ne and Durand, 
1729, tom. VI. xiv). The author is anxious to make his meaning 
perfectly clear, probably because few houses in his time retained 
the old arrangement ; so that this example is particularly striking. 
Considering the way in which the Carthusians used the word 
' frater,* it is not easy to understand how they can have got to call 
the ' domus inferior ' by such a name as ' fraterium.' 

1 1 seems that the Carthusians were in fact regarded as the 
leading order of Friars, for it was a law of the Church that a 
member of any of the mendicant orders, might at any time enter 
the Carthusian ranks, if he aimed at a higher life, though it was 
impossible for a professed Carthusian ever to change his Religion. 
(Butler's Lives of the Saints, Oct. 6th.) 

And there is a remarkable clause in the Statutes of 1 509. 
which seems to show that up to that time the monks had been 
generally called ' Frere,' but that the title ' Dan,' was then com- 
ing into use, and was approved by the monks themselves 
"Monachi vocentur fratres in provinciis illis in quibus inte* 
secnlares esset scandalum si vocarentur dpmni.*' ( Tertia compili 
atio Stat, Cart, XII.) In England the change seems to have- 
taken effect, for at the dissolution we find the title 'Dan,* attached 
to the names of monks of London, and of Axholme {Camden 
Soc, vol. XXXVI. 68, 174). 

The conclusion seems to be that it is correct to speak of 



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103 



Carthusian friars, and that the name ' Friary,* must have arisen 
from outside to designate perhaps the whole convent originally, 
but more certainly that part of it with which alone the world 
came into contact. Mr. Gee and Mr. Elworthy object to the 
letter * i ' in * friary,' saying that it has crept in through a false 
analogy with * friar.' But the two words stand in the same posi- 
tion in this respect ; for a common medieval spelling of ' friar * 
was * frere ' which Chaucer rhymes to * prayer.* The Somerset 
peasant who spoke of the place as ' Vrary ' would have also used 
' Vrare ' to describe either a mendicant friar or a Carthusian 
convert. 

Edmund Buckle. 



77. Dorset Administrations. — Continued.— {II. ix. 10, 
X. 49 xi. 78, xii. 113, xiii. 150, xiv. 178, xv. 217, xvi. 242, III. xvii. 8, 
xviii. 57, xix. 94, xx. 151, xxi. 183, xxii. 233, xxiii. 279, xxiv. 323, 
IV. XXV. II, xxvi. 38.) 

1651. 



Polio. Nam* of Deceased. 

52 Abbott, John 
147 Baseley, Samuel 
156 Brooke, Alice 

88 Calvert, Joan, spr. 

19 Chinnocke, John 

121 Combes, Walter 



Pariih. 
Bridport 
Lyme 
Mamholl 
•• Ransome " 
Winterbome 
Kingston 
Hampreston 



Orsntee & Relatioiialiip 
to Deceased. 

Dorcas, relict 
Martha Baseley, sister 
Nicholas, son 
John Calvert, brother 
William, father 



Date of 
Adminiatration. 

23 Apl., 1 65 1 
15 Sep., 165I 
26 Oct., 1651 
18 June, 1651 

24 Feb., 1650 



35 Cornelius al's San- Charmooth 

ders, William 
167 Curiys,Tohn "Foake" 

130 Darby, John Sturthill 

51 Dober id's Noke see Noke 
87 Drayton al's Abbotsbury 

Harris, Henry 
157 Edgar, John 



157 Francke, Richard 
200 Hallet, Frances 



Mosteme 
" South 

Provost " 
Winfrith 

Newburgh 
Bridport 



Ellenor Burgan, widow, 30 July, 1 65 1 

daughter (letters of Dec., 

1646, renounced^ 
Rose Cornelius ai's San- 22 Mar., 1650 

ders, daughter 
Anne, relict 14 Nov., 1651 

Anne, spinster, sister 7 Aug., 1651 

Agnes Baunton, wife of 14 June, 165 1 

William Baunton, sister 
Walter Partridge, next of 25 Oct., 1651 

kin 



Hester, relict 



13 Oct., 1651 



87 Harris al*s Dray ton see Drayton 
66 Harvey, Matthew Dorchester 



3 Henley, Susanna Colway 

131 Ho£ford, Walter Bridport 
185 Jubber al's War- Ensbury 
reiiy Joan 



Stephen, James and Ursula, 24 Nov., 165 1 
children 

Richard Bury, uncle (sister's 19 Apl., 1651 
side) of William, Mar- 
garet, Dorothy and Eliza- 
beth, children of deceased 

Henry Henley, arm., 13 Jan., 1650 
husband 

William Gollop, sister's son 4 Aug., 1651 

William Warren, husband 18 Dec., 165 1 



itH 



Scwtersit S» Dorset Notes S* Qmries. 



B9 Jabber, WiQiaa Corfe 



Grantee ft BelatioBaUp 
to Deceased. 



Date of 
Adminittration. 



Alice Jubber, niece (fiirther 30 June, 1651 

grant Dec., 165 1) 
Agnes, wife of Richard 19 Dec., 165 1 
Reakes, and Alice, wife 
of Leonard Guy, daugh- 
ters of sister of decea^, 
of goods not adminis- 
ter^ by Alice, relict, 
now deceased 
John, son, <5f goods not 3 Jane, 165 1 
administered by Toan, 
relict, now deceased 
Anne Clarke, niece 25 June, 1651 

Richard NichoUs, husband 10 Mar., 1650 
of Mary Nicholls. relict 
of deceased, who did not 
administer 
36 NicboUs, Mary West Orchard Richard, husband 10 Mar., 1650 

51 Noke al'i Dober, Long Barton John Noke, son-in-law 25 Apl., 1651 

Frances 
76 Oliver, Richard Holtlodge Anne, relict (further grant 31 May, 1651 

July, 1658) 
2 Ricfaardfon, John Edmondsham Catherine, relict 18 Jan., 1650 

35 Sanders al's see Cornelius 



S92 Jabber, WilHam Corfe 



^ Moore, Roger Shaftsbary 



89 Newman, Thomas Gillingham 
36 Kicholls, John Tumworth 



Cornelias 
17 Sare, Emanoel 
120 Sctttt, John 



Afipuddle 
"Rushon* 
Stoake 
53 Sbeppard, Richard Durweston 
200 Sidlen, Elizabeth Eberton 



Dinah, relict 
Ann, relict 



X Snooke, Michael Stalbridge 
150 Squibb, Eleanor Whitchurch 



Mary, relict 
John Galpin, grandson 
Margaret, relict 
John, William, and Mar- 
gery, children 
181 Streete, Thomas, Purbeck, died John, brother 
bachelor at Harwich 

Essex 
67 TUIey, William Came 



I Feb., 1650 
25 July, 1651 

7 Apl., 1651 
22 Dec, 1651 
17 Jan., 1650 
20 Oct., 1651 

17 Nov., 165 1 



156 Trew, Henry Beer Regis 

156 Trill, Alice, spr. Hampreston 
35 Walsh, Susanna 
spr. 



16 Bird, George 



Sarah Bartlett, betrothed 10 May, 165 1 
wife and principal 
creditor 
Collett Trew, relict i Oct.. 1651 

Edward Troke, sister's son 18 Oct., 1651 
Milbome St. Edmund Walsh, brother 29 Mar., 1650 
Andrew 



1652. 
Judith, relict 



Westhay 
Whitechurch 
53 Bowden, Stephen Weymouth Thomas, brother 

died at Jersey 
72 Clarke, Benjamin Milton Abbas Lucy, relict 
I Cooth, Nathaniel Blandford Elizabeth, relict 
Forum 
184 Drew, Roger Tollpuddle John, son 

18 Eastmond,Thomas Fivehead John, gen., brother 
Magdalen 



19 Feb., 1 65 1 

9 Apl., 1652 

14 May, 1652 
12 Jan., 1 65 1 

27 Oct., 1652 
6 Feb., 1651 



Sonursst S* Dorset NoUs &» Queries, 105 

Qrantee k BalatiODsbip Dmto of 

FoUo. Namt of DacAMed. Parlih. to Deceased. Admlnistratioii. 

I Edgar, John Mostcme Maxj, mother, of goods not 20 Jan., 165 1 

administered bv John, 
father, deceased. 
72 Gey, Richard Stafford John, brother 31 May, 1652 

51 Giliingham, VTVL" Lydlinch Melior Hanham al's 23 ApL, 1652 

liam GilUngham, daughter 

183 Gould, James Wooll Arthur, orother and prind- 4 Oct., 1652 

pal creditor 
121 Hebberd.Nicholas, Weymouth, Anne, relict 5 July, 1652 

mariner died abroad 

97 Hele,Jane(?Anne) Clifton Matthew Shipp, principal 3 June, 1652 

Dame, widow creditor (further grant 

27 March, 1664) 
71 Langford, John Pentridge Ellis Langford, cousin ger- 4 May, 1652 

man and next of kin 
147 Monke, Christo- Childe OkefordFaith Monke, spr., sister 23 Aug.j 1652 

pher died abroad 

97 Moreton, Henry, Milbume Sir George Moreton, bart., 17 June, 1652 

cs^. " CO. Dorset " father 

71 Momce, Sampson Hampreston Margaret, relict 21 May, 1652 

58 MuUens, Richard Whitechurch Dorothy, relict 17 ApL, 1652 

35 Payne, John, Ljrme Elizabeth, relict 5Mch., 1651 

mariner 
III Perrott, Joan, Gillingham Joane Granger, widow, 28 June, 1652 
widow niece (brother's side) and 

next of Idn 
121 Powell, Rice Sherborne Margaret, relict 5 July, 1652 

184 Pjrmiey, William West Milton, John, brother 12 Oct., 1652 

Poorestock 
100 Richards, John Netherbury John Browne, guardian of 26 June, 1652 

John and Mary, children 
of deceased 
i%± Ring, Robert Thomford Joseph, son 2 Oct., 1652 

90 Sanlord, George <' Lyme Grey" urace, relict 4 June, 1652 

99 Smedmore, Ber- East Lulworth William Dunning, grand- 14 June, 1652 
nard father of Bernard son of 

deceased (further grant 
Aug., 1654) 
35 Staplehome, Crambome Nicholas Blunt and Wil- 18 Mch., 165 1 

Emme, widow liam Gosse, guardians of 

Robert Baruett, grand- 
son and next of kin 
96 Toomer, Richard, Chalbury Joane, relict 8 June, 1652 

clerk 
53 Turner, Thomas, Stalbridge Sarah, widow, mother 23 ApL, 1652 

bachelor died in Ireland 

34 Walter, Susan, Child Okeford Mary, wife of Walter 27 Mch., 1651 
spinster Morgan, sister 

Note. — 1646— Willis, John. Administration granted to 
Anne, wife of William, not Willing, Etterick. 1647 — Smith, 
Thomas. Administration granted to Jodrell, wife of William 
Bisson, not Biston. 

{To be coniinued.) Geo. S. Fry. 



io6 Somsrset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

78. Old Funeral Customs.— The following interesting 
extracts are from the works of John Gregory, Canon of Sarum, 
(b. 1607. d. 1646-47). 

** We know whose use it was to bury their dead in their 
Gardens, sowing their bodies with as much faith as their Fruits, 
and equally expecting the spring of Both. Tis for no other 
reason, that we our selves stick our Hearses with Flowers, and 
go forth to the grave with Rosemarie." 

(Sermon I. Cor. xv. 20.) Vol. II. 170. 

" Remaining yet [1646] unto us of this, is that which we 
more commonly call the Chrisome, wheiewith the women use to 
shrowd the child if dying within the month. Otherwise it is to 

be brought to the Church at the day of Purification 

Wht'/e doth best of all become the Children of Lights saith Clem- 
ens Alexandrinus." Vol. I, p. 1 1 1. 

*• The funei-al Tapers^ (however thought of by some), are of 
the same harmless import. Their meaning is to show that the 
departed souls are not quite put out, but having walked here as 
the Children of the Light , are now gone to walk before God in the 
Light of the Living^ Vol. I., p. 112. 

It has not I believe been noticed, that this last passage is the 
source of a piece entitled. Tapers^ in Herrick's * Noble Numbers.' 
The poet has also skilfully rendered into verse portions of 
Gregory's discourse on the Shechinah^ and several of his quotations 
from the Talmud, the Arabic catena in the Bodleian, Psellus, 
Leo Moden, &c. 

Before 1552 the chrisome was put upon the child at the font, 
with the words, * take this White Vesture for a token,' &c : rubric 
of 1549. In the bills of mortality, up to the 12th of George I., 
children dying within the month were described as chrisomes. 

Rosemary, a well known botanist informs us, was probably 
introduced into England by the monks. It was formerly recom- 
mended for strengthening the memory, hence the allusion, 
•there's rosemary that's for remembrance.' Hamlet, IV. 5, It 
was worn at funerals, and is still [? 1829] in some parts of Wales, 
distributed among the company, who throw the sprigs into the 
grave along with the corpse. 

J. C. Loudon, Encyclopedia of Plants^ page 22, note. 

J. H. W. 

[I have seen sprigs of rosemary thrown into the grave at a 
funeral in Dorset, and have myself complied with the custom. 
It is perhaps some twelve years since I saw it last. 

Editor for Dorset.] 

79. Somerset Knighthood Compositions. — These are 
similar to those that have already appeared for Dorset (IV. xxv. 
6), and are among the Exchequer Special Commissions, being 
Nos. 5614 and 5615. 



Samerut S» Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 107 

The Commissions bear date 12 Feb., 6 Chas. I, (1631) and 
29 Jnne, 7 Chas. I, (1631) and the Commissioners appointed are 
in both instances the same, namely John Lord Powlett, John 
Stawell, Robert Phillips, Edward Rodney, Robert Henley, John 
Symes and John Hunt. The 14 instructions are the same as in 
the Dorset compositions. 

The " Book of Compositions " in the Exchequer of Receipt 
contains in some cases the title and abode of the individual 
which the returns themselves do not supply, and where this addi- 
tional information is given it is inserted within brackets. 

To avoid needless repetition of names, the " Book of Com- 
positions " has been compared with the Commissioners returns, 
and in a separate list are given those names which appear in the 
former and not in the latter, the majority being, in all probability, 
those who paid their compositions direct into the Court oif 
Exchequer. 

E. A. Fry, 172, Edmund Street, Birmingham. 

P.R.O. Special Commissions^ Excheqtur. No. 5614. 

This return consists of 3 sets of membranes, the first is the 
Commission dated 12 Feb., 6 Charles I. (1631), the second 
contains the 14 instructions to the Commissioners, and the third 
the List of Freeholders. 

The heading of the latter is as follows : " The names of such 
freeholders as were returned to appear before us, at the several 
times and places within the county of Somerset, according to His 
Majesties Commission hereunto annexed together with their 
several compositions and answers." 

TiNTENHULL HuNDRBD. 

John Napper saith that he was not seized of any 

estate of freehold at the Coronation. 
Thomas Napper, ditto. 

£ s. d. 
Thomas Raymond, (Esq., of Kingstone) compounds for 31 10 o 
William Dawe, (gent, of Tintenhull) 10 o o 

SOMERTON. 

Thomas Lyght, Esq., by Thomas Pitcher, compounds 

for 28 o o 

John Hunt, gent., by William Dawe abovesaid, 

answereth that he hath compounded. 
William Hunt, gent., saith that he was not seized of 

;^40 freehold at the Coronation. 
Stone. 
John Harbyne, Esq., compounds for 35 o o 

Edward Hodges, (gent.,) of Lufton by his brother 

Henry Hodges compounds for 
Giles Jennings of Yeovil, gent. 
John Laver of Yeovil, yeoman, (gent.) 



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Willian Whitby, (gent., Houndsborow) 
John Boys, jun., (gent.) 
George Beaton warned and appears not. 
Thomas Hawker warned and appears not, but told the 
baylife he would compound at London. 
Martockb. 
John Jeanes, gent., compounds for 55 o o 

John Goodwyne, yeoman, (gent.) 42 o o 

HOUNDSBURROWE. 

Henry Hodges, (gent.,) of Haselburrowe compounds for 24 10 o 
Henry Bonner of Osmocke, gent. 100 o 

Richard Draper 1668 

Barwicelb. 
No freeholders returned. 

COKER. 

Henry Hellyard, senior, a tallye (see under Milverton 

as to 'tallye'). 
John Hambridge answers by his son John that he is 

sike, and hath taken order to answer in the 

Exchequer. 
Christopher Abbott, (gent.,) compounds for 1000 

Abdickb and Bulston. 
William Walrond, Esq., (of Ilbrewers,) compounds for 42 o o 
Marmaduke Jennings 10 o o 

Thomas Bowerman of Ilbrewers, (gent.) 10 o o 

John Newton, gent., answereth by the bayliff that he 

will appear above. 
Humphry Walrond, gent., answereth he will plead 

above. 
Thomas Muttleberry appears not. 

Kingsbury. 
Edmund Walrond. gent., answereth that he never was 

seized of ;^40 of freehold. 

South Petherton. 
John Preston, Esq., answereth that he conceives he is 

not lyable to the composition, because he 

had not £\o per ann. of freehold at the 

Coronation nor 3 years before. 
William Strowde of Barrington, Esq., answereth that 

he would answer in London. 
Emanuel Sands, (Sandys, gent.,) compounds for 28 o o 

Pitney. 
Ralph Treavillian saith he was not seized, &c. 
Richard Trevillian, ditto. 

Crewkerne. 

John Merifeild, Esq., absent at London, 
ohn Longe, ditto. 



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8. 


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10 





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Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 109 



Tames Bale, (Esq.,) compounds for 

John Partridge of Misterton, yeoman, (gent.) 

William Curry, (gent.) 

William Cope« gent. 

Taunton Burgus. 

Roger Prowse, gent., answereth that he was rated at 
subsidie but £S in lands before said lands 
left his hands in Devon for which he was 
raysed in subsidy in lands £^t and that before 
the rating of the last subsidie he was not 
seized of the said lands in Devon, and so 
ought to have bine discharged of £^ part of 
the subsidie and to have been rated but at 
£S lands, but the rators of the said subsidie, 
not knowing that he had conveyed away the 
said lands, in his absence being at London, 
continued him at ;^i2 lands as (two words 
illegible) the subsidie before. Nevertheless 
he offereth after (two words illegible) £S 
lands £2S which he humbly prayeth may be 
accepted. 

Taunton. 

Robert Farthing at Pittney, not seized, &c. 

Nicholas Colford, ditto. 

Henry Walcott, ditto. 

Richard Warr, Esq., did not appear, he is gone for 
London. 

Robert Farthinge of Kingston, (gent.,) compounds for 

John Fulliames, (gent.) 

William Combe, (gent.) 

Thomas Dix, (gent.) 

WiLLITON FrEBMANORS. 

John Sweetman not seized, &c. 

Edward Gibbs, (gent.,) ditto. 

Thomas Dix, (gent.,) ditto. 

John Blinman answereth that he is now summoned to 

appear in the Exchequer to answer there, 

and to that purpose intendeth to put in his 

plea this terme. 
John Norris, gent., saith he hath compounded before 

the Exchequer. 
John Sidenham of Skilgate, Esq., compounds for 1400 

Arthur Mallett, Esq. „ 28 o o 

John Sidenham of Dulverton „ 31 10 o 

Carhampton. 
Nicholas Nutcombe, not seized, &c. 
Edward Tyrrell, 



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£ s. d. 

Charles Steynings, Esq., componnds for 35 o o 

Richard Worth, gent., (Esq.) 28 o o 

George Churchey (Churchill, gent.. Williton Free- 
manors) 14 o o 
Whitley. 

John Brent, Esq., yet under age and is His Majesties 
Ward, and his lands are in the King's hands. 

Thomas Durston, not seized, &c. 

Hugh Pine „ 

Andrew Pine „ 

Phillipp Mathew „ 

Nicholas Bult „ 

William Rosse „ 

Edward Watts „ 

Phillipp Watts „ 

Thomas Powlett of Budleigh, Esq., did not appear. 

Andrew Walters of Lighe (?) ,, 

Henry Sellake „ 

Thomas English „ 

Humphry Quicke, (gent, of Westmuncton), compounds 

for 10 o o 

Power Wester Tythings. 

John Bourne, Esq., (of Wivelscombe,) compounds for 28 o o 
)avid Yawe, (gent., of Kingsbury) 21 00 

Thomas Kingston, did not appear 

North Curry. 

John Court, gent., answereth by Ire. {t\e,. letter) that 
by reason of sickness, he is unable at pres- 
ent to appear, and that his lands are all 
now seized into the Kings hands. 

William Sealie, not seized, etc. 

William Greenwood „ 

Henry Stevens „ 

William B (name hidden by the sewing together 

of the membranes), not seized, &c. 

William Wadham, „ 

Thomas Williams, Esq., compounds for 35 o o 

Andersfield. 

John Still, Esq., not seized, &c. 

Henry Halswell did not appear. 

Robert Cuffe, Esq., offereth for composition £^0, and 
humbly prayeth that it may be accepted, for 
that since the time that he was assessed in 
subsidie ;^2o in terris his estate is much im- 
paired. 
[Note at Side]. We know this answer of Mr. Cuflfe 
to be very true, and we hope that your 



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£ ». d. 

Lordship will be favorable according to the 

— — - (one word illegible) of it. 

William Farthing, compounds for i8 8 4 

Andrew Cuffe, gent., (? Crosse, Williton Freemanor) 21 00 

William Towifls, gent. 10 00 

North Pbthsrton. 

John Harvie. gent., not seized, &c. 
lenry Cheeke, gent. „ 

William Catford did not appear. 
Roger Warr „ 

Alexander Pophan, (gent, of Andersfield) 10 10 o 

Cannington. 
John Stronge, not seized, &c. 
John Evered, gent., compounds for 
Humphry Blake, gent, 
William Bacon, (gent, of Andersfield) 
Richard Lawrence, als. Dier (of Andersfield) 
Thomas Hobbs, Esq., (gent.) 

MiLVBRTON. 

iohn Lancaster, gent., compounds for 10 

Edward Lancaster, Esq., gent., answereth that he hath 
already compounded at Council Table, and 
hath stricken his tally in Exchequer for the 
same. 

Norton Frrrbs. 

Snes Churchey, not seized, &c. 
omas Churchey „ 

Henry Blynson (?) „ 

Henry Glynn „ 

iohn Mogge », 

Lobert Byflett not seized, &c., and besides saith that 
he was then a confined recusant, and could 
not repair to the Court without danger of 
the lawe. 
Andrew Ewens, gent., compounds for 
Bamabie Lewes, Esq., (gent.) 

James Farwell, Esq. 
ohn Ewens, gent., (Esq.) 

Hardclifb and Bkdminster. 
John Counsell, not seized, &c. 
William Husell 
Richard Dibdine „ 

William Clapton, (Esq.,) compounds for 17 10 o 

Henry Nevell, Esq. 14 o o 

Bath Forum. 
Thomas Blancherd, not seized, &c. 
William Blanchard, Esq. „ 



ID 








10 


10 





25 








10 









£ 


s. 


d. 


n 


10 





1 1 


«3 


4 


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o 



1X2 SomiTSit cS* Dorsit Notes S» Queries. 



William Forde, gent., compounds for 
Richard Waldron, gent. 
Richard Gaye, gent. 

Chewton. 
John Hipsley, Esq.» saith that his lands were in the 

King's hands at the Coronation, and that he 

hath pleaded already in the Exchequer. 
John Britton, not seized, &c. 
Nicholas Harvie of Bocklay appeareth not. 
Peter Roynon of West Harptrie „ 
Richard Hipsley, (gent.,) compounds for i6 6 8 

Keynsham. 
William Richman, not seized, &c. 
John Vaunham „ 

John Flower „ 

John Slige (? Slye) appeareth not. 
Nicholas Vaunham, (Abaham, gent.,) compounds for lo o o 

Wellowe. 
Robert Bliber, not seized, &c. 
Anthony Wastfeild „ 

William Brode, (gent.,) compounds for 1 1 13 4 

William Jackson, Esq. 14 o o 

Whixestone. 
Nathaniel Barnard, not seized, &c. 
Thomas Bysse, Esq., sick and lame and not seized, Sec. 
Richard Kelwey, not seized, &c. 
Greorge Hole „ 

iohn Moore „ 

'homas Strowd appeareth not. 
William Hole „ 

Samuel Mil ward, (gent.,) compounds for 10 10 o 

Wells and Wells Forum 
Francis James saith that he answered at the last 

commission to which he referreth himself. 
John Strowde answereth that he hath put in his plea 

in the Exchequer. 
James Godwyne, gent., appeareth not. 

Brent. 
Samuel Gorge, gent., saith he doth intend to plead 

next term. 
Augustine Spaldine, not seized, &c. 
John Leaman, gent. „ 

William Capell, Esq., now in London and not warned. 
John Cudrington, Esq., ditto. 

Bruton. 
Robert Albine, yeoman, has taken order to put in his 
plea. 



Somerut S* Dorset Notes S* Queries, 113 

£ s. d. 
Edward Moore never had £^0 in freehold. 
Maurice Cottington appeareth not. 
John Greene, Esq., (of Clevedon,) compounds for 12 10 o 

Glaston and Eight Hydes.* 
Peter Coward, gent., never had £^0 in freehold. 
Robert Grynnsteed, ditto. 

John Rushe, not seized, &c. 
lumphry Grymsteed „ 
John Chaffie „ 

William Grymsteed „ 

John Foxe „ 

Hcholas Ellis „ 

Thomas Goodson appeared but made no answer. 
Edward Dyer, (Deyer, Esq.,) compounds for 14 o o 

Walter Rushe, (of Baltonsbury) 11 13 4 

Bbmstonb. 
William Boulbing, not seized, &c. 
Edmund Bower appeareth not. 
George Hodges, (Esq.,) compounds for 31 10 o 

Catiseashb. 

Edward Rirton of Caiy, Esq., answereth by letter that 
being summoned to appear under penaltie in 
the Exchequer he is gonn thither, by means 
whereof he cannot give his attendance on 
the Commissioners. 

John Carie appeareth not. 

Thomas Carie „ 

Robert Newman, gent., compounds for 14 o o 

Edward Keynes, Esq., 17 10 o 

KiLMBRSDON. 

Thomas Bamfeild, Esq., is to pay if he bring not in 

his discharge within 10 days 21 00 

William Long of Strolton appeareth not. 

James Hodges of Wriglington ,• 
iarvin Halse „ 

Froomb. 
Roger Newburrowe, (Newburge,) Esq., compounds for 28 o o 
Robert Hopton, Esq., answereth by Ire {t\e, letter) 
that by reason of some extraordinary 
occurence which he now hath at the time of 
the meeting he could not attend, but saith 
that either by himself or his son he will give 
ye Exchequer satisfaction this term. 

*I have here Glaston and 8 hides, I see it is generally 12 hides, 1 may have 
made a mistake. 

H 



114 Somifut 6» D^s$i NaUs S» Qtmiss. 

£ 8. d. 

Richard Prater, Esq., appeareth not 
Thomas Sambome „ 

John Horton „ 

John Coxe ,» 

HORBTHORNB. 

Barnard Gould, (gent.,) componnds for 1668 

Thomas Jerwood [sic] (Gerrard, Esq.,) of Trent 1000 

Thomas Goyen appeareth not. 

{ohn Deckham „ 

lanrice Carrant „ 

Hampton. 

William Bassett, Esq., compounds for 24 10 o 

Charterhouse. 
Christopher Mayi Esq. 10 o o 

PORTBURY. 

Richard Morgan, Esq. 17 10 o 

Edward Tyson, (Tysang of Clevedon) 21 00 

WiNTERSTOKB. 

Edmnnd Kenn, Esq. 10 10 o 

Chewb. 

James Forde, gent., compounds for 2100 

Whitechurch. 

Nathaniel Hobatch (Holbatch) gent. 17 10 o 

WlNTERSTOCKB. 

Robert Johnes appeareth not. 

George Fuller „ 

William Younge „ 

William Spaner (?) „ 

Thomas Jenman (?) „ 

John Bythesea „ 

Christopher Feanes „ 

John Farr „ 

Special Commission, Exchequer, No. 5615, also consists of 
3 sets of membranes, the first being the Commission dated 
29 June, 7 Charles L (163 1), the second the 14 instructions, and 
the third the answers given by the freeholders which is thus 
headed. 

** List of the several answers and compositions made in the 
county of Somerset upon the 3rd Commission granted and 
directed to the Right Hon. the Lord Paulett, touching 
such as did not appere at his Majesties coronation to receive the 
order of Knighthood.'' 

At Yeovil, the 23rd day of Sept., 1631. 



Smmimt 6* Dorssi Notss S» Qmriis. 115 



It is alleadged that these 
have compoanded 
formerly. 



ABDICK and BULSTONl. 

William Walrond, Esq. 

George Speak, Esq. 

George Balch, gent. 

Daniel Powell, gent. 

James Forte, gent. 

Thomas Bowerman, gent. 

Thomas Mnttlebory, Esq., maketh answer that he hath 
pat in his plea into his Majesties Conrt of 
Exchequer and stands to that plea. 

{ohn Newton, gent., ditto, 
farmaduke Jeannings, gent., made default* 

H0UNDSBUS.ROWB. 
Henry Bounde, gent. i 
Henry Hodges, gent. > It is alleadged, &c. 
Richard Draper, gent. ; 

TiNTENHULL. 

Thomas Raymont, gent. | 

William Dawe, gent. > It is alleadged, &c. 

Thomas Hillard, gent. ) 

Thomas Napper, gent., hath not compounded but 

hath put in his plea. 
John Napper, ditto. 
Robert Cogan, gent., hath ;f 40 p. ann. freehold within 

this hundred, but does not live within this 

county, but lives at Cheeswicke neare Brom- 

ford in the county of Middlesex. 

Barwickb. 

John Frye of Chilton Canteloe being warned made 
default. 

Stone. 
Henry Saintbarbe, Esq. \ 
John Harbyn, Esq. 

fedward Hodges, gent. Y It is alleadged, &c. 
Giles Jennings, gent. I 

iohn Lavor, gent. / 

'homas Hawker, gent., (of Vagge.) hath now com- 
pounded for 28 
George Beaton saith he ought not to pay to this 
composition, for that the lands for which he 
is returned are his Sonne's, and has sent his 
plea into his Majesties Court of Exchequer 
by which he abides. 

COKBR. 

Henry Hellier, Esq. ) it is alleadged &c 
Christopher Abbott | " *^ aiieaagea, «c. 



ii6 Somerut S» Dorset Noiss 6* Queriis, 

£ 8. d. 
John Hambridge of East Coker, gent., is dead. 
William Keymer hath sold his lands and is gone out 
of the county. 

Martock. 

sombrton. 
Thomas Light, Esq. \ 

aJ'fSr.r^r I'"11e»<««d.»c. 

John Crane, gent. / 

I ohn Merriott of Litleton, (gent., ) hath compounded for 1 6 o o 
William Smith of Kingsdon „ lo o o 

Richard Clarke of Long Sutton, gent., saith he is not 

lyable to this composition nor had £^o p. ann. 

freehold at the Coronation 
William Hurd, gent., hath pleaded, &c. 

South Petherton. 
Tames Rose, Esq. | 

Henry Henley, Esq. ^ It is alleadged, &t. 
Emanuel Sands, gent. ) 
John Parsons, Esq., hath pleaded, &c. 
William Enthrowde, (?) Esq., made default. 
Crbwkerne. 

James Bale, Esq. 
Lobert Henley, Esq. 



These have formerly compounded. 



John Partridge 
William Cox 
William Curry 

John Goffe, gent, 
lumfrye (William) Huddy, gent., hath now com- 
pounded for 10 
William Wikes, gent., by Markes Wikes, gent., his 

nephew, ditto lo 

John Merefield, Esq., hath pleaded, &c. 

Kingsbury. 
Edmund Walrond of Chard, Esq., made default. 
Philobert Cogan, gent. \ 

fcE^^Usq. It is alleadged. &c. 

John Tucker, gent. / 

At Taunton the last day of Sept., 1631. 

Whitleigh. 

Andrew Walton of High hath pleaded, &c. 

Edward Watte and Phillipp Watte of Graynton have 
likewise pleaded, and shew Mr. Attomies 
hand for ye allowance of their plea. 



Somerset S* Dorut NoUs cS* Qusries. 117 



Nicholas Sellake of Murdon (?) answereth that he had 

not £^0 freehold at Coronation. 
Thomas Daston (Durstone) of Cattcott hath com- 

jponnded for 10 o o 

William Rose of Wheathall giveth 14 o o 

liiilip Mathew », 1 1 6 8 

Carhampton. 
Edward Tyrrill of Dnnster hath pleaded, &c. 
Nicholas Nnttcombe of Lozborow, ditto. 
George Pronse answereth that he was not seized, &c. 

WiLLiTON Frbb Manors. 
Edward Gibbs of Netherstowey hath pleaded, &c« 
John Prior of Kilton, ditto 
George Windham, ditto 

North Pkthbrton. 
John Bunckcombe, not seized, &c. 
John Harvie of Michnollcharch, ditto 
Henry Chick of North Petherton hath pleaded, &c. 
George Harp (?), ditto 
Walter Pearse of Bridgwater giveth 568 

Taunton. 
William Fraunce, Esq. \ 

Emanuel Lucas f Have compounded and 

William Lacy, Esq. ( shewed their tallies. 

Martin Samford, gent. ; 
Roger Prowse will plead. 
Henry Woolcott, ditto. 
William Bitherdon or Ritherdon, (of Langford,) gent., 

giveth 14 o o 

Canninoton. 
Edward Rich not seized, &c. 

Pytney. 
Ralph Trevillian, hath pleaded, &c. 

North Curry. 
William Sealy hath pleaded, &c, 
John Rowman of Curry hath given 14 00 



List of names in the ''Book of Compositions" in the 
Exchequer of Receipt which do not appear in the 2 returns 
furnished by the Commissioners as having compounded. They 
in all probability paid direct into the Court of Exchequer. 

Sir John Stawell, Knt. of the Bath, collector. 

£ s. d. 
Philip Pyntz, Esq. 20 o o 

Francis Windham, gent. 27 10 o 

George Poulett, Esq. 2500 



ii8 Samerut S* Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 





£ 


a. 


d 


ohn Peccocke, gent. 


10 








ohn Burland, gent. 


12 








Charles Crofte, gent. 


10 








Edward Frye, gent. 


10 








William Curswell, gent. 


12 


ID 





James Prowse, gent. 
Edward Allin, gent. 


12 


10 





ID 








Edward Warr, Esq. 


20 








John Turbervile, gent. 
Robert Buttler. Esq. 


J2 


10 





20 








Giles Pyntz, Esq. 


30 








Thomas Coward 


10 








Haniball Bastervile, Esq. 


10* 








Edward Davies» gent. 


20 








Robert Corpe, gent. 


10 








George Roynon 


'S 








John Farre, gent. 
Thomas Dale, gent. 


10 








12 


10 





. ohn Cottrell 


12 


10 





] eames Pearcivale, Esq. 


n 


10 





Ldward Bridges, Esq. 


ID 








Henry Davison, gent. 


10 








Anthonv Abarrow, gent. 
Richard Adams, sen., gent. 


lO 








14 








Richard Adams, jun. 


10 








Humphry Newman, gent. 
George Speake, Esq. 


H 








*5 








Samuel Powell, gent. 


i8 








James Foot, gent. 


10 








Andrew Parsons, gent. 


20 








James Northover 


lO 








John Crane, gent. 
Thomas Hillard, gent. 


10 








20 








Phillibert Cogan, gent. 


20 








John Parris, gent. 

William Bassett, Esq., Hampton 


10 








24 


10 





ohn Bowes, sen., gent., Socke 


10 








'ohn Tucker, gent., Huish 


23 








Nicholas Bult of Westmuncton, gent. 


10 








Thomas Chappell of Portishead, gent. 


14 








Robert Jones of Criston, gent. 


'7 


10 





George Fuller of Axbridge 


14 








Richard Davies of Tickenham, Esq. 


35 








Christopher Foster of Horsington, gent. 


II 


,13 


4 


William Hurd of Kingsdon, gent. 


21 








William Hassell of Barrow, yeoman 


10 








Andrew Bowerman of Wells, gent. 


10 









SoMiTui S* Darsit Nates S^ Queriis. 119 

£ 8. d. 
William S wanton of Wincannton, Esq. 10 o o 

Francis Baber of Chew, Esq. 77 o o 

Total amounts paid into the Exchequer 
575 o o solut. 23 Nov., 1630. 
1,250 00 ,, 4junii, 1631. 
150 6 8 „ ,, M 

206 34 •» 17 Nov., 1 63 1. 
174 13 4 „ 15 May, 1632. 

j^*.356 3 4 



80. St, Algar. — Speaking of the forest of Selwood 
Leland (//. vii. 106). says •• In this Forest is a chapelle and theryn 
be buryed the Bones of St. Algar of late tymes superstitiously 
soute of the folisch commune People." 

In Frome parish. West Woodlands Tithing, on the west side 
of the high road to Maiden Bradley, just before it crosses the 
boundary into Wilts, stands St. Algar's Farm, commonly known 
by that name and so marked in the Ordnance Map. In the rate 
book Henry Thynne, Esq., was rated in 1708 for St. August's ; 
and in 1665 the same holding is called St. Tagust. This seems 
to be a corrupt form of the name Algar locally honoured in 
Leland*s time. The farmhouse is said to preserve remains of an 
ecclesiastical character. But who was St. Algar ? No one of this 
name appears in the lists of the hagiologists. 

There was one Elgar bom in Devonshire apparently about 
the middle of the i ith century, so I read in Stanton's Menology, 
p. 268. Danish pirates carried him off in childhood to Ireland. 
Passing as a slave into the hands of King Roderick O'Connor 
he was made public executioner ; but he managed to quit Ireland 
and was shipwrecked on Bardsey Island, off the coast of Carnar- 
vonshire, called *' The Rome of Britain," because of its many 
saints. Here for seven years he remained among the cenobites 
of the island. But about 1090 his companions were slain or 
dispersed by the Normans, and he remained for seven years in 
Bardsey quite alone. St. Caradoc in vain persuaded him to live 
with him on the mainland. He dug his own grave, and feeling 
the approach of death, laid himself in it, where his body was 
found yet warm by fishermen. His relics were translated in 
1120 to Llandaff where he was honoured as a saint. No day is 
connected with his name, and if this be Leland's Algar, Stanton 
observes there must have been some unrecorded translation of 
his bones. 

Algarus appears as the Latin for iElfgar in a charter (Free- 
man's N.C. ii. 680) and iElfgar was a common Wessex name. 

W.E.D, 



I20 



Somerset 6- Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 



8z. Dorset Christmas Carols (III. zviii. 67, xiz. 118, 
XX. 141, xxi. 204, xxii. 255, xxiii. 228, IV. xxvi. 52.) — This is 
another of the Carols traditionally in nse at Long Burton. 

COMB! HAIL THIS GLORIOUS MORN. 
Trtimionat. (Copyright.) Hatmonixed by E. HomorHL 



i >' " ' r 'l | ' i ' M 'i ;-i 'l | ' i ' .' ^ 



r ' r f ^ r t-- 

Come ! bail this glorious moni,ThaLt Christ came from a • bove. 



I II i'i^^'ih'"iii^'iiMi 



f 'I.Tmi'Im;.^!,::!' 



For to make known to sin • fnl men The 



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den of His love, The won-ders of His love» For 




Somerset 6* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 121 

n. 

RefoioB, thfireforo, sod sini^, 

Lift up your voice and cry 
Hosanna to our new-bom King, 

Glory to God on High. 

III. 
See the eternal God 

Who earth's foondation laid ; 
Veiled in oar flesh He now appean 

And in a manger laid. 

IV. 
Hail Jesus, King of Kings, 

All glory be to Thee 1 
We join to bless Thv sacred Name 

Through all eternity. 

82. Bond to Churchwardens. — Will some correspondent 
kindly explain the document copied beneath ? Judging from the 
contents of one parochial chest documents of the kind were 
common in the 17th century. W.M.B. 

Noverint universi per presentes nos Elizabetham Bartlett 
juniorem et Georgeum Bartlett filium ejus ambo de Sturton 
Candle in Com' Dorsett teneri et firmiter obligari Rawleigh 
Lawrence et Joh. Luckham Gardianis ecclesiae de parochia 
Buckland Newcon in Com' Dorsett in viginti libris bene et legalis 
monete Anglias solvend' iisdem Rawleigh Lawrence et Joh. 
Lnckham aut successoribus suis. Ad quam quidem soluconem 
bene et fideliter faciend' obligamus nos et utrumq' nostrum per se 
et utrumq' nostrum firmiter per presentes sigillis nostris sigillat 
dat' decimo die Mail Anno Regni Domini nostri Jacobi secundi 
Dei gratia Anglias Scotias ffranciae et Hibemiae Regis fidei 
defensoris &c quarto annoq' Dni. 1688. 

The condicon of this obligacon is such yt if ye above 
bounden Elizabeth Bartlett and George Bartlett or either of them 
their or either of their heires executores administrators do well 
and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the above named Rawleigh 
Lawrence and John Luckham churchwardens of ye parish of 
Buckland Newton or to their successors churchwardens of ye sd 
Parish ye full sume of tenn pounds and twelve shillings of good 
and lawfull money of England for the use of ye Poor of ye sd 
Parish of Buckland Newton on the tenth day of May next 
ensuing the date hereof Then this obligcon to be void or else 
to remaine in full force. 

Sealed and delivered 

in ye p'sence of us Eliz. Bartlett (Seal.) 

Will. Watkins 

Will. Arnold George Bartlett (Seal.) 

Elizabeth Lawrence 

[Such a bond may have been required to secure the return 
of a loan from the parish stock, or for the maintenance of an 
illegitimate child, in danger of becoming chargeable to the parish.] 



122 Simurmt 6* Dorset Nohs S» Qumes. 

83. Custom at Thornford. — '' At the village of Thoni- 
ford» Dorset, an ancient custom exists among the tenants of 
lands of depositing five shillings in a hole in a certain tombstone 
in the churchyard, which prevents the Lord of the Manor from 
taking tithe of hay during the year. This must be done on 
St. Thomas's Day before 12 o'clock, or the privilege is lost." 

The foregoing paragraph is taken from the Salisbury and 
WinchisUr Journal ol November 2nd, 1829. 

T. H. Baker, Mere Down, Wilts. 

[It is stated in Hutchins that a tomb in the churchyard, belong- 
ing apparently to a family named Ellis, was called the " Prebendal 
Tomb," because in a hole on its cover the modus in lieu of tithe 
on the prebendal lands due to the rector was formerly paid on 
St. Thomas's Day. " This curious modus led to a dispute between 
the Rev. George Henry Templer and the late Earl Digby, which 
being carried into the law courts, ended in the defeat of the rector. 
The suit in the Exchequer Court lasted from 18x0 to 1827, when 
Lord Digby purchased the advowson from Mr. Templer, the 
rector and patron." 

Can any further information be added on this subject ? 

Editor for Dorset.] 

84. Elton Family. — The following rhymes touching the 
founder of this much respected Somerset family were current in 
Bristol in the 18th century, now, it may be well supposed, 
forgotten. 

Old Mr. Abraham Elt 
Had neither sword nor belt ; 
But now Sir Abraham Elton 
Hath both his sword and belt on. 

The date probably belongs to the last decade of the 17th 
century, when Mr. Elt, who had been bred a Quaker, had risen 
to wealth by commerce, conformed to the Church, received 
municipal honours, and knighthood. In 1717 he added a 
Baronetcy to his honours, and a syllable to his name. 

It may here be remarked how much the county has been 
indebted to Bristol for replenishing the stock of its landed gentry. 
The families of Gore of Barrow, Langton of Newton St. Lo, 
Dickinson of Kingweston, Finney of Somerton, Hobhouse of 
Hadspen, Miles of Leigh, Gibbs of Tyntesfield and of Barrow, 
perhaps others, have all come forth from Bristol, most of them 
since the Eltons. H. 

85. Somerset and Dorset Proverbs. — 

Somerset. 
I. " Where should I be bore else then in Tanton deane." 

A Peasant's bragg ;'^hat place is indeed populous, pleasant, 
and so fruitful with the zun and toil alone, that it needs no 
manuring. 



S9mers$t 6* Dorset NoUs 6* Queries. 123 

11. "The Beggers of Bath." 

Dorset. 

I. '' As much a kin as Leuson-hill to Pilsen-pen." 

Spoken of those who are neighbpurs and no relations. The 
first of these two hills is wholly, the other partly in the parish 
of Broadwindsor (whereof I once was minister) ; yet seamen 
make a velation betwixt them calling the one the Caw and 
the other the Cal/, as being eminent sea-marks. 

II. •• Stab'd with a Byrdport Dagger." 

That is Hangdy the best Hemp growing about Byrdport. 

III. •' Dorsetshire Dorsers," i>. Panniers. 

[From An Abstract of the Worthies of England,'' by G. S. 
London: 1684. pp. 172, 742. Thomas Fuller was vicar of 
Broadwindsor, 1634-1661.] 

F.W.W. 

86. Halswbll of Halswell, Somerset. — ^The following 
entries relating to this family occur in the parish Register of 
West Alvington, South Devon. 

161 2. Nov. 23. Robt. Halswell, gent, and Mrs. Grace Gilbert, 

were married. 
1626. March 24. Robert Halswell, Esq., of Halswell in Somer- 
set, was buried. 

The Gilberts or Gilberds of West Alvington possessed an 
alias^ and frequently occur in the Register as Gilbert alias 
Webber. This lady, the wife of Robert Halswell, is probably 
the person whose baptism is registered under the following form : 
*S95- Feb. 12. Grace, daughter of Nicholas Webber, was 
baptised. 

C.H.M. 

87. Richard King, M.P. for Mblcombb Regis (HI. 
XX. 149, xxiii. 276, 277, xxiv. 329, IV. xxv. 22). — John King and 
Flizabeth Strangways were married on 27th August, 1650. 
Register of Melbury Sampford, Dorset. 

Editor for Dorset. 

88. Monumental Inscriptions in other Counties 
relating to Dorset (III. xxiv. 337). — InthetowerofCaversfield 
Church, Oxfordshire (formerly Bucks), on a tablet of white 
marble ; — 

'* Sacred to the Memory of | Christian Walter Relict | 
of Peter Walter Esq. | of Stalhridge in the County of Dorset \ 
by whom she had one daughter | Anne married to | Joseph 
Bullock Esq. | of this Parish. She died | Dec. 3i» 1789 | Aged 
78. 

" Sacred | to the Memory of I Anne relict of Joseph Bollock 
Esqre. | who terminated a life of | charity and benevolence | on 
the 2d of August, 1828, | aged 88 years. 

A. 



I7II. 


Dec. 27. 




wife. 


»7»*/3- 


Feb. 10. 


1714. 


May 18. 


i7'S/6. 


Feb. 24. 


1717. 


Not. s. 


1719. 


Aug. 14. 



124 Somnset 6- Dorut Notes 6* Qmries. 

89. Browns Willis, the Antiquary. — The Parish 
Register of Whaddon, Bucks, contains the following entries 
of the children of Browne Willis, the Antiquary, a native of 
Blandford St. Mary, Dorset, and the encourager of Hutchins in 
his work of writing the County History. 

Baph'sms. 
. John, s. of Browne Willis and Catherine his 

. Henry, s. of ditto. 

Mary, dr. of ditto. 

. Alice, dr. of ditto. (Born Jany. 17.) 
Francis, s. of Browne Willis, Esquire. 

Eliot, s. of ditto. 



90. The Preservation of Old Books. — Not long since 
a letter appeared in the Times newspaper from a Mr. A. Herbert 
Safford in which he says with regard to old books — " My practice 
is to periodically wash the backs with soap and warm water, and 
at once to rub in Neat's foot or Porpoise oil. The books are 
improved in appearance, and the cracking at the edges of the 
back is stayed." Having a great many old books I have recently 
adopted the practice suggested, and as I find that in addition to 
the benefit to the books, it puts such a polish and freshened 
appearance on them, I strongly recommend it to the attention of 
those who love old Books, Possibly however some may prefer 
their old Books remaining as they are, and take the same view of 
them as a Gentleman lately did of his picture frames, who on my 
remarking on the dirty state they were in replied " Oh, but they 
show antiquity." 

D. H, S. 

91. John Taunton, Vicar of Long Sutton. — It is 
stated in that most valuable publication, Somerset IncumbeniSf 
edited by Mr. Weaver, in the lists of Vicars of Long Sutton, 
Somerset, that Paul Godwin A.B., was succeeded in that incum- 
bency, 18 Jan., 1607, by John Tombe, who in his turn was suc- 
ceeded by John Taunton, to whom no date is assigned, while on 
27 April, 1 63 1, William Woodhouse succeeded on Taunton's 
death. 

Archer, the compiler of the MS. edited by Mr. Weaver, 
seems to have misread Tombe for Taunton in the Wells records, 
as will appear from the following memorandum taken from the 
parish register of Long Sutton. 

** Md that John Taunton minister did publiquely read the 
Articles provided for vniformition [sic] of Religion, set fourth 
in the time of the late Queene Elizabeth, the viith daie of 
ffebruary, 1607. 



Somerset <5- Dorut Notes S* Queries. 125 

In the pfice of vs whose names foloweth 
Paule Godwyn 
Thomas Grenfeld Minister 
Willm Hurd 
David Warren 
Anthonie Hodges 
most parte of je parishioners of Long Sutton assembled at 
Evening Prayer ye said 7th of ffeb : Teste me Johe Smith." 

It is to be noticed that Paul Godwyn, the retiring incumbent, 
is the first to sign the certificate. 

John Taunton, Vicar, was buried at Long Sutton, 16 Afay, 
J 63 1. His marriage with Jane Collier is recorded on the last 
day of August, 1608. 

G. S. Hbnning. Long Sutton Vicarage. 

ga. Parliamentary Survey, i 650. — ^After the Confiscation 
of capitular property in 1649, the ruling powers ordered a survey 
to betaken (i) of the Cathedral fabrics and residences with a 
view to their sdienation (2) of the parochial endowments of the 
church with a view to their maintenance of a preaching 
ministry in the ancient Churches under control of the State. 

The returns made to these two inquiries were at the Restor- 
ation deposited at Lambeth. Some were afterwards sent by the 
Archbishop to diocesan and capitular registries, others, including 
Bath and Wells, remain at Lambeth Library, where they can easily 
be seen on the open days. 

The inquiry was made by Juries in the Hundred Courts. It 
touched not only the value of each Benefice, its privileges and 
extent of cure, but also the efficiency of the Incumbent, a point 
which naturally brought out differences of opinion. 

The following abstracts will serve as samples : 
Brewton Hundred Court. 
Bnwton, Mr. Parker, preacher. Salary ;^ioo, paid by Sir 
Charles Berkeley [of Brewton Abbey] impropriator. 200 
Families. Chapels at Week and Redlynch. 
Brewham. William Wykes, preaching minister. ;£ 20 paid by 

Sir C. Berkeley. 120 Families. 
Piicombe. Emmanuel Mason preaches every Lord's Day. Sal. in 

Pitcombe and Week/'30 paid by Sir C. B. 49 Fam. 
Weeke, Mr. Mason, no preaching minister. 22 Fam. 
Redlynch, William Wykes. ;^io paid by Sir C. B. 30 Fam., 
including Discove. 

Notes. 

These five Churches and Chapels belonged to one great 
tithing area of which Sir C. Berkeley, by succession from Bruton 
Abbey, was impropriator. Bruton was the mother Church. The 
four Chapels, two of them parochial, were daughters, but all 



126 Somerset & Dorset Notes S^ Queries. 

dependent on the impropriate rectory. Total charge on rectory 
;£i6o to maintain three ministers. Total families 421, or 2,105 
people at 5 per family. 

At Wyke there was " no preaching minister." This mast 
mean that Mr. Mason who "preached every Lord's Day" at 
Pitcombe did no more than say prayers for his smaller flock. 
The same thing is noted at Chesterblade, a Chapel of Evercreech. 

Hundreds of Catash and Horethorne 
Juries Empanelled together. 



Norih Cheriton. William Rooke, Rector ;f 55. 42 Fam. 
At Latterford there was formerly a chapel propriate adjoining 
to a farmhouse. Theodore Gullson, gent., reputed pro- 
prietor and possessioner of said chapel, worth £1^^ 
received by T. G. 
Combe Abbis [i>. Abbatis]. On testimony of Rolt and Bryne, 
two Jurors, is a parsonage [t.e. Rectory^ presentative with 
cure, worth £^0, John Darby, preaching minister. 
In Temple Combe there is a mansion with a chapel adjoining 
for the ease of the Lord of the Manor of Combe Temple and 
Abbatis. Chapel maintained by Sal. of £^ from said lord, given 
to a curate for preaching every month at the lord's will. 52 fam. 
Only one family more than i mile from Church. 
Horsington, [teste James Hannam, Juror] parsonage present- 
ative. David Williams, preaching minister. Sal. ;^ 100. 90 
Fam., the farthest 2 miles off. 
No mention of South Cheriton Chapel. 

Note. 
A protest of certain Jurors, [the more puritan members 
doubtless] is entered, asserting that only 5 of the ministers [t.e, 
in the two hundreds] were " able and painful." 

H. 

93. Carving on Merriott Church (IV. xxvi. 33.) — It 
seems to me that the Merriott stone carving has Christian signifi- 
cance and may have stood over an entry Arch of Church or Porch. 
I think that the two Doves ** billing " represent Love, Joy and 
Peace within the dwelling ; above them is a Pig on the left and 
on the right a Dog's head.- The nose is long and he looks hard 
at the Pig, if he is not barking at him. This represents the 
strife and rankling of foul creatures outside the Church. The 
Bible always considers Dogs and Pigs accursed animals. 

F.J.P. 

94« Amizbr. — Respecting this query I have come across a 
little further information in the 8th vol. of the Huguenot 
Society's publications, which contains the names of those who 
took out patents of naturalization or denization. There are 



S^mimi 6* Dorsit Nates S» Qtmiis. 127 

inanj other Dorset names giren which would be of interest to 
readers of this periodical, as showing, even if no other information 
is giren, that an individual was living at the date of the patent. 
The period embraced in this list is from 1509 to 1603. 

Amjser, Philip, of Litton, aged 63. In England 40 years. 
I July, 1544 (Westm. Deniz. Roll, 36 Hen. viii). 11 July, 1544 
(Denis. Roll, 36 Hen. viii). 

Amyser, Raff, of Abbotsbury in Dorset, tailor, aged 63 years. 
Is stajdng for his age. i July, 1544 (Westminster Deniz. Roll, 
36 Henry viii.) 

E. A. Fry. 

95. Hatbakds for Gaiters (HI. xziii. 309). — In the 
early part of the century these were occasionally worn by well- 
to-do farmers in the neighbourhood of Ceme Abbas. It was a 
joke against the rustic recruits for the Militia that the words of 
command in their drill were, to suit their intelligence, altered 
from "Right— Left" to " Hayband— Strawband," their legs 
being so distinguished. In those days the prisons of the county 
were full of " Pouvrymooskies," 1.^., " pauvres messieurs " — 
French prisoners waiting for exchange. 

T.B.G. 

96. Local Stay-at-Homss (I. vii. 334). — ^There was a 
woman bom and bred at Uplyme, who lived there all her lifetime, 
and died at a ripe old age some 12 years since. This woman, 
although not crippled or otherwise hindered, had never seen the 
sea, in spite of having lived within a couple of miles of it all her 

^*^^- F.M.P. 

97. Jan Ridd (I. i. 39). — I remember reading, some years 
ago, in a newspaper account of some run with hounds over 
Ezmoor (I think it was in the Ft'e/d), of an implement having 
been fetched from a farmhouse in the occupation of one of the 
direct descendants of the great John Ridd. 

F.M.P. 

98. Richard Rose (I. v. 208).— "Rose or Roze. John 
Rose came from St. Burlado (St. Brelade ?) in Jersey, and was 
elected mayor in 161 1. He shortly after married Fayth, daughter 
of Ralph Ellesdon, Esq. Richard, his son, married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Henry Henley, Esq., of Leigh, and represented 
Lyme in parliament from the year 1639 to 1655. He occurs the 
first possessor of Wooton Fitzpaine about that time. Thomas 
Rose, Esq., sheriff for the county in the reign of George I., left 
an only daughter, who married Francis Drew, Esq., of Grange, 
in the county of Devon. Arms — Sable, on a pale or, three roses 
slipt gules, leaved proper." (Roberts* Lyme), 

F.M.P. 



128 SomiTUi 6* Dorsii Notes £• Queries. 

99, Branscombe (I. vii. 318.) — Branscombe, near Beer, is 
close to the sea, so that need be no hindrance to the interpreta- 
tion — ^Valley of Burning — in connection with a Beacon-fire. 
Cwmdran, near Newport [lit. valley (of the) crow] would be the 
Welsh for Crow's Valley, just as Dinas Briln (the well-known hill 
near Llangollen) is generally taken to mean Crow's Fortress. 
To strengthen this view, we have a half-translation in the common 
west-country name Crowcombe, spelt in various ways, both for 
persons and places. In this case, it might be conjectured that 
ihe second half of the word (brin) becoming obsolete, ihe word 
was Saxonised into Bran's Combe, under the idea that Brin was 
a personal name ; and this, indeed, is an alternative interpretation 
of Dinas Brin,— Bran's Fortress. Finally, it is to be remarked 
that the stream running at the foot of the hill Dinas Br&n is also 
called Bran. Celtic names, describing the features of a country 
(as cwm, pen, afon) survive, long after their compounds have 
either dropped out, or been translated into Saxon equivalents. 

F.M.P. 

xoo. Strangwaybs of Melbury, Dorset.— It is some- 
what remarkable that there should be no record of the dates of 
knighthood of two such characters as Sir John Strangways, M.P. 
for Weymouth in the Long Parliament, and his son Sir Giles, 
M.P. for Bridport in the same Parliament. Sir John must have 
received the honour early in life. He matriculated from Queen's 
College, Oxford, on the 30th Oct., 1601, aged 16, as ** armiger," 
and entered as a student of the Middle Temple in 16 10, as a 
knight, so that the accolade must have been bestowed between 
those dates, probably in the first years of King James, when so 
many youths and young men were knighted. His son Giles, who 
matriculated from Wadham College, 30 Oct., 1629, aged 14, was 
not a knight in Long Parliament days, but is styled thus, 
apparently for the first time upon record, upon his election for 
Dorset in 1661. Most likely, therefore, he received the honour 
from Charles II. when abroad. Can any correspondent furnish 
more definite dates ? 

W. D. Pink. 

xox. Lawrence Whitaker. — M.P. for Okehampton 1641- 
53, He was also M.P. for Peterborough from 1624 to 1629. 
This well known and active member of the Long Parliament is said 
to have been "a Somersetshire man," (Foster's Alumni Oxontenses.) 
He was B.A. of St. John's Coll., Cambridge, 1596-7 ; M.A. 1600 ; 
.incorporated at Oxford, 1603; student of the Middle Temple, 
1613, as ** of London gent." ; Secretary to Sir Edward Phelipps, 
M.R., and one of the Clerks of the Privy Council. He died 15 
April, 1654, aged 76. He was buried in the Church of St. Giles 
in the Fields, London. On Feb. 6, 1637-8, the marriage was 



Somifut &* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 129 

alleged between Lawrence Whitaker of St. Giles hi the Fields, 
esq., widower, aged 50, and Dorothy Hoskins, spinster, aged 28, 
daughter of Charles Hoskins of St. Andrews, Holborn, esq. — at 
St. Giles in the Fields. {London Marriage Licenses, Harleian Vol.) 
I shall be glad to learn the parentage of this M.P. ; also the name 
of his first wife. Although an ardent supporter of the Parliament- 
ary cause during the Civil war, he was in the earlier part of his 
career of one the Court-party. In 1641 he was brought to bar for 
breach of privilege in 1628, in ** entering the chamber of Sir 
John Eliot, searching of his Trunks and papers and sealing of 
them." Notwithstanding his plea that the oftence was committed 
in " the confusion of the times at that time ** he was committed 
to the Tower, but his imprisonment lasted only a week. 

W. D. Pink, Leigh, Lancashire. 

Z02« George GoLLOPP,the 5th son of Thomas Gollopp of 
Strode, co. Dorset, by Agnes, daughter of Humphrey Watkins of 
Hoi well, Somerset, {Burke's Commoners, L 600) was an Alderman 
of Southampton, which borough he represented in Parliament in 
1625, 1626, 1629, and 1640 ; until secluded by Pride's Purge in 
1648. He was one of the Hants County Committee of Seques- 
tration, and was a member of several other local Parliamentary 
Committees, including the Committee for the defence of South- 
ampton in 1643. ^ ^^^W be obliged by any further information 
respecting this member of a well-known Dorset family. Although 
he retained his seat in Parliament until 1648, and served on 
several County Committees for Hants, he seems not to have 
been a very zealous Parliamentarian. As there is no reference 
to him after the Purge, I assume that he died before the 
Restoration. 

W. D. PiMK. 

103. The Cuckoo. — I should be glad of some fuller 
information concerning this mysterious visitor to our shores 
than is to be obtained in the ordinary ornithological works, such 
as Bewicke, Mudie, Wood, and Morris. The latter writer states 
that ** the Common Cuckoo (our English visitor) is found (in 
Asia) in Japan, Java, Kamtschatka, Asia Minor. India, and many 
other parts. (In Africa also) in Egypt, and, according to 
Temminck, in the south of that continent." 

I would ask, do any of our great explorers or travellers 
mention it in their works ? Did Livingstone or Stanley ever hear 
its familiar cry, when journeying through the Dark C ontinent ? 
Did Bumaby meet with it on his ride to Khiva? I have no 
recollection of it being mentioned by either of these great 
travellers. As the Cuckoo lives a life of eternal spring and 
summer, does it breed again in the countries it repairs to on 
quitting our shores ? The following lines are, no doubt, familiar 



130 Somerset S* Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 

to many, but are, I believe, pecnliar to the " West Countree." 
I had them from my late father (bom 1800), and he had learnt 
them when a child from his nursemaid, a Somersetshire girl : — 
The Cuckoo's a gay bird, 

He sings as he flies, 
He*s truthful and lionest. 

And never tells lies. 
He sucks little birds' eggs 
To keep his voice clear. 
And always cries * Cuckoo ' 
In the Spring-time of the year. 
(Or ianother version), 

When Summer is near. 

D.K.T. 

104. Metrical Advbrtisbmbnts. — ^The following whim- 
sical verses were formerly to be seen on a house in Holwell, once 
in Somerset, but now in Dorset. 

Reading, writing, and Mensuration, 

Barter, interest, and Alligation, 

Extraction of square, and cubic Root, 

And musick taught on German flute. 

Sign painting done and Wills well made. 

Timber measured, and land surveyed. 

The true Contents and Valuation, 

Of every kind, and Denomination, 

Their real Worth, & told so near. 

By W. Ross, the Auctioneer, 

Holwell, Somerset. 
Can any correspondent furnish similar instances ? 

E.R.D. 
[The following were to be seen last year at Turvey, in 
Bedfordshire : — 

•* Here lives a man who don't refuse 

To make and mend both boots and shoes. 

His leather's good, his work is just, 

His Profits small, he cannot trust. 

John Edmunds."] 

105. Cartulary of Athelney Abbey. 
This valuable record is now lost. 

In 1662 it was in the custodyN)f Sir Wadham Wyndham, and 
in 1735 in that of Sir William Wyndham.*^ Enquiry has been 
made as to its being in the Libraries of Lord Leconfield or of 
the late Lord Egremont, but without success. Can any reader of 
S, S* D, N. S* Q. suggest any clue to the present abode of this 
unique MS. ? 

. ^ / 2. 



Somsrui 6* Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 131 

106. Strachbt MSS.— Where are these to be seen, and 
who compiled them ? 

They are alluded to in the late Rev. Fredk. Brown's MSS., 
now in the Library of the Taunton Museum. 

D.K.T. 

X07. Stokb St. Grbgory, Sombrsbt.— Does the above 
parish contain more manors than one ? If so, I should like to 
know their number and names. 

Philip S. P. Connbr. 
Octorara, Rowlandsville, Maryland. 

X08. NuNNBY Castlb. — In the London Chronicle, or 
Universal Evening Post y dated 18 October, 1759, is this notice: 
"The ancient Castle of Nunney, bear Mendise (probably a 
misprint for Mendip) in Somersetshire, is fitted up for the 
reception of French prisoners of war." 

Can any one tell me whether French prisoners were ever 
confined in Nunney Castle ? The date is about that of the 
Battle of Minden, ist August, 1759, and of the Battle of Quebec, 
13th September, in the same year, both a long distance to convey 
prisoners. Edward Pbacock. 

zog. Wbst Chblborouoh, Dorsbt. — Is anything known 
of the Dedication of this Church ? In common with many 
others in Dorset, no information is to be found regarding it in 
Hutchins's History, or in Bacon's Liber Regis. X. 

1x0. John Phblps, M.P. — In 1742, 'John Phelps, M.P.' 
was rated in the Frome ratebook. Do the letters mean anything 
but Member of Parliament ? if not, what was his constituency ? 

W. E. Danibl. 

XIX, Mound in Ilb Abbots Churchyard. — On the 
occasion of a visit I paid in 1869 or 1870 to the church of lie 
Abbots, Somerset, one of our party asked the meaning of a 
mound, of perhaps 30 or 40 feet long and 3 or 4 feet high, that 
stood in the N.W. corner of the churchyard. The woman in 
charge of the key replied " it was when the people went out 
Dooking." This was her fixed answer, which, when she was 
asked for further information, she repeated without variation, or 
any appearance of consciousness that the meaning (to say the 
least) was not obvious. Probably some fighting took place in 
the immediate neighbourhood of He Abbots during Monmouth's 
march towards Bristol ; or if no recorded skirmish in which his 
followers were engaged will account for so large a mound at this 
particular place, may not the victims of the important fight that 
took place some 40 years before between Masse/s troops and the 



13^ Somerset S» Dorset Notes S* Queries. 

van guard of Goring's retreating army ''in the meadows of the 
He " have been interred here ? and then, supposing the mound 
to have been opened again during the advance of the illstarred 
Duke of Monmouth, the fact of his name (or rather his title) 
being left in possession would be accounted for. On a subsequent 
visit some 5 or 6 years ago I found that the mound had been 
levelled down. 

E. Cely Trevilian. 

U2. Recumbent Figure, Stourton Caundle Church. 
— The accompanying illustration, from a photograph by the Rev. 
H. J. Poole, represents a recumbent e&gy in the Church of 
Stourton Caundle, Dorset. The figure now lies in a recess in the 
North wall of the Nave, close to the stairs to the Rood-loft, un- 
der a foliated arch surmounted by a pointed and crocketed canopy, 
on either side of which are slender pinnacles. The portion of wall- 
space below the figure is divided into ** eight vertical panels with 
trefoiled cusped heads." Within the pointed canopy are two 
blank shields. 

The effigy, which is of alabaster, is that of a Lady dressed in 
a closely fitting bodice with tight sleeves, the cuffs turned back, 
with a plain skirt falling in folds to the feet. Round the neck is 
a whimple or cravat, and over the shoulders is a cloak, open in 
front, and falling to the feet, fastened across the neck by a looped 
cord, the ends of which, after passing through a boss or button 
on the breast beneath the hands (which are folded in the attitude 
of prayer) fall away to right and left halfway down the skirt. The 
remains of a small tassel are attached to the end of the left hand 
cord, but that on the right has been broken away. 

Round the waist, and sloping to the left, is an embroidered 
girdle, fastened with a buckle on the left side, from which a long 
end of strap depends. Attached to this belt, also on the left side, 
is a rosary terminating in a tassel. An open hood covers the 
upper part and side of the head, and reaches nearly to the elbows. 
The head rests on two cushions, one above the other, the upper 
supported by a small angel on either side, now much mutilated. 
The forepart of the feet has been broken away. 

The most curious part* of the effigy consists of the small 
carvings contained in the folds of the cloak on either side of the 
skirt, on the right hand being the diminutive figures of eight 
girls, and on the left three boys, and below the latter of these 
figures a man in gown and hood, with rosary. The hands are 
folded, but the heads are gone. These figures doubtless represent 
the children of the lady, dying in her lifetime. The monument 
ia artistically executed, and must have been a beautiful piece of 
sculpture, when it issued from the hands of the statuary. The 

• This is not noticed in the description given in Hutchins* History of 

POfS0tn 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S* Querus, 133 

slab from which it is carved measures 52 inches long by 16 inches 
wide. Traces of colour (red) still remain adjacent to the small 
figures. 

This recumbent effigy evidently does not fit its present 
position, and according to a MS. (Cotton Lib. Julius F. VI., p. 
366), quoted by Hutchins, was formerly in the Chancel. " On the 
south side of the chancel, under a tomb of alabaster, is buried a 
Lady Sturton, the wife of Lord Edward Sturton, great-grandfather 
to the Lord John Sturton now living, she was daughter of Fount- 
leroye, and had issue nine daughters and six sonnes.*' It is 
added, apparently by one of the editors of Hutchins, " against 
the south wall of the chancel, under the window between 
the door and piscina, is a short altar tomb, only two feet two 
inches long* with four demi-quartrefoil arches at the side." 
Then follows a description of the Qf^gy. 

When or why the tomb was destroyed, and the ^f^gy removed 
to its present position, where it is placed upon what is asserted to 
be the tomb of Sir Simon Chidiock, is not known. There is now 
scarcely a trace if any of a monument having stood between the 
blocked chancel door and the piscina, where it must have projec- 
ted into the sacrarium, but the opening of the archway from the 
chancel to the south chapel, (which is to the west of the said 
door) has evidently been much disturbed. 

From the MS. before cited it would appear that this lady 
was Agnes, the wife of Edward, 5th Baron of Stourton, living in 
the earlier part of the reign of Henry VIIL 

Editor for Dorset. 

113. Penance at Bishop's Caundle, Dorset, 1785, — ^The 
following note is written on a fly leaf at the beginning of the 
second volume of the Register of this parish. 

"On Sunday, the 23rd Day of October, 1 785, Susannah Philips, 
who lives near Colonel Bridge in this Parish of Bishop's-Caundle, 
did Penance in this Church by standing, during the whole time 
of divine Service, near the Reading Desk, in a white linen sheet, 
and immediately after the second Lesson, repeating words, after 
the Minister, to the following effect." 

Here the note terminates, and the recited words are not 
recorded. The occasion which gave rise to this act of Penance 
may be seen on referring to the Baptismal Register on 15th June, 
1785, when an entry appears of the baptism of Job, base-bom son 
of Susannah Philips at Colonel Bridge, aged three months. 

Colonel Bridge, more properly Kernel or Cernel Bridge, 
crosses the brook dividing Bishop's Caundle from Holwell. 

Are any later instances of public penance known to have 
occurred in Dorset ? C.H.M. 

* This measurement must be an error. 



134 Somerset S» Dorsei Notes & Queries, 

114. — Henry Norman of Bridgwater. Henry Norman 
OF Langport. — In 1670 Henry Norman and Elizabeth Wilson 
were married at St. Mary's, Bridgwater. In 1706 Henry Norman 
was appointed Master of the Grammar School at Langport, and 
died there in 1730. It is not known whether these two Henry 
Normans were related. 

Five pounds are offered for any additional parish certificate 
concerning Henry Norman, or his wife Elizabeth, and also for 
any certificate concerning Henry Norman of Langport, his 
parentage, birthplace and wife before 1706. 

Any postages incurred will be repaid. 

J.K., Quinta dos Fanquinhos, Madeira. 

1x5. Dorset Phrases. — I have during the last two days 
heard two different quaint phrases, which were quite new to me, 
and on which I should be glad to have light thrown, 
(i.) An old man speaking of a makeshift occupation which kept 
the wolf from the door did not, it is perhaps needless to say, 
express himself in those words, but said that this temporary work 
•• neaied the cat:' ** Nettled " was the word which he used, and 
repeated two or three times. Did he mean '' nestled " the cat, 
by keeping tlie hearth warm ? 

(2,) A man, who had been called to account for some actions of 
his, told me that he had been *' brought to cloth." This too I got 
him to repeat more than once by wary questions, the only variation 
being that he sometimes represented himself as ''dragged to 
cloth." What is the origin of the phrase ? 

C. E. Seaman, Stalbridge. 

116. IwERNE Minster Church Bblls. — Will anyone 
give me a construe of the Inscription on the third bell of Iwerne 
Minster Church ? At onetime I thought Tertia had been an Abbess 
of Shaitesbury, which would make it easy, but there is no such 
name in Dugdale. 

I believe sometimes the third bell was called the Jesu Bell. 

It is of beautiful metal, very thick, tone G. The founder's 
mark is on it, and it is supposed to date from about a.d. 1360 ; 
certainly from the beginning of fifteenth century, 
Huic: Ecclesiae: Dedit: 
Tertia : Sit : Bona : Sub : Jesu : Nomina : Sona : 
The writing is of very early English character. 

The inscriptions on the other bells are : 

1. Give laud to God. I.W. 161 8 

2. O be joyful in the Lord. I.W. 161 3 
4. Fear the Lord. 1609 

S- My treble voice makes men rejoice, 

Abraham Bi|)ie, Founder 
Mr. Thomas Harvey & Mr. John Applin, Churchwardens. 1768. 

J. AcTON, Vicar, Iwerne Minster. 



Sonursit' &^ Dorut Notes S* Queries. 135 

NOTICES OF BOOKS. 

117. Early History of the Church of Wells. — By the 
Rev. C. M.Church, M.A.,F.S.A., Sabdean and Canon Residentiary. 
London: Elliot Stock, 1894. Pp.xiv + 450, with 13 Illustrations, 
8vo. Price 1 5/-. 

We have much pleasure in welcoming and commending to 
our readers' attention this important work, which deals with the 
Early History of the Cathedral Church of Wells, and represents 
a loving labour of ten years. A portion of it has already appeared 
in the pages of Archaologia^ but this is the first time that it has 
been issued to the public. The first five chapters deal with the 
episcopates of Bishop Robert. 1 136-66, Bishop Reginald, 1 174-91, 
Bishop Savaric, 1 192-1205, Bishop Jocelin, 1206-42, Bishop Roger 
of Salisbury, 1244-7; and when we add that the first Register now 
extant at Wells is that of Bishop Drokensford, 1309-29, it will at 
once be seen how important and valuable the present work is ; 
in fact it gives us, from the muniments of the Dean and Chapter, 
a history of nearly 200 years of the see, for which these documents 
arc probably the only authority : we say probably because, as some 
think, a portion of the registers of this diocese may be lying perdu 
in the Vatican Library. Chapter vi deals with " the Chapter of 
Wells " 1242-1333 ; chapter vii, with ** The interior of the Church 
of the 1 3th Century." There are no less than twenty-four learned 
appendixes and the book closes with a really useful index. 

The work is well printed and got up, and is enriched with 
side-notes and foot-notes; in the latter the Author has most care- 
fully noted his indebtedness for every contribution, however 
slight ; would that his example in this respect were more often 
followed I Speaking of foot-notes, a friend has pointed out that 
on page 90 (note i ) arcu should probably be and : the former word 
is masculine, and guam refers to it. In this case Savaric would be 
fined for wresting a chest and not a bow from the King's foresters, 
and the heavy sum (;f 26 3. 4.) would be more easy to explain. 
As the Author observes, ** This first appearance of Savaric is 
ominous of his masterfvl character and turbulent career." 

The space at our disposal does not allow us to deal with this 
book at the length which it deserves ; we must content ourselves 
with saying that it is one of the most valuable contributions to 
the History of the County of Somerset that has appeared during 
the present century. 

118. Two Chartulariks of Bath Priory. (Somerset 
Record Society, Vol. vii.) Edited by the Rev. William Hunt, M.A. 
1893, Pp. Ixxx -H 262, small 4to., with a plate of seals: Price (to 
subscribers) a guinea. 

The Introduction to this volume gives the best account of 



136 Somsrset S» Dorset Notes S* Queries, 

Bath Priory that has yet appeared : Mr. Hunt has the rare gift of 
writing in an interesting way about matters which are usually 
supposed to be "dry." William Holleway, the last Prior of Bath, 
is reported to have been an alchemist ; 

" He had our Stone, our Medicine, our Elixir, and all 
Which when the Abbie was supprest he hid in a wall." 

It is somewhat remarkable to note that Robert Sherborne, the 
last Prior of Montacute, was also an alchemist ; in his will he leaves 
to his nephew *• certain books, one lymbeck, one stillatorie, 
and XX dozens of glasse, part of every sort.*' (Som. Arch. Proc. 
xxxviii. Pt ii. 344.) From the books not being named it seems 
likely that it may have been illegal to possess them. Of the two 
Chartularies here printed one is at C. C. C. Cambridge (MS. cxi) 
and the other belongs to Lincoln's Inn. The first is printed 
in extenso ; of the second a Calendar in English has been compiled, 
which gives all names of persons and places and all dates given 
in the MS. Both the Chartularies are illustrated by notes, and 
there is a good Index. By the issue of this volume, the Somerset 
Record Society keeps up the high standard of usefulness and 
accuracy which it has already attained. 



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Somirset cS* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 137 

121. Churchwardbns' Accounts, St. John's Glaston- 
bury. (IV. xxvi. 73.) — 

1405- 

The beginning of this account is torn off. Probably the 
same wardens, Davy and Coumbe, held office for this and the 
two following years. The total of receipts shows that the amount 
of Redditus Assisus which forms the first item is ;^5 19s. lod., 
as in 1404. An asterisk denotes that the MS. is defective. 

*^ Pasche Nativitatis beat! Johannis Baptiste sancti Michaelis at patet per 
antiqaam redditariam cum iijs. de inaremento redditas Johannis 
Dorsete super uno cotagio cum curtilagio in Northlode quondam 
Johannis Moorene hoc anno quinto. 

snmma t li. xix s. x d. (x) 

Ezitus officii. Idem respondebant de x s. Tii d. de coUecdone ad Pascha pro 
cereo paschali et de xij d. de medietate locagii unius vacce beati 
Johannis r' [i.e., reddente] capellano parochialis [sic, ecciesit omisso] 
ibidem [et de iiis. iiii d. de legato Margarete Wason nosed] et de ijs. 
locacione torchionim ad diversos morluos sepeliendos per annum 
[et de yij d. de uno annlo vendito Willelmi Noteiy (?) etdevd.de uno 
anulo vendito Thome Bene. £t de izd. uno [sic] de uno anulo 
vendito Johanne Hogheles erased.] 

Summaxiiis. vijd. 
Eft summa totalis Receptevili. siijs. vd. 

Excessus. In excessu ultimi compoti acquietando xvj d. qu. 

Summa xvj d. qu. 

Resolucio Redditus. In redditu resoluto prepesito domini Abbatis pro 
tenemento quondam Skynnere ij s. ad iiij terminos. 
Summa ij s. 

Defectus Redditus. In defectu redditus Magistri Thome Berton pro 
tenemento quondam Jervasii Grice nuper incendio vastato per annum 
viij s. ad iiij terminos quod conceditur eidem Thome et Johanne 
Bodond ad terminum vite utriusque eorum per certum redditum 
xij d. per annum ad iUud edificandum et oneratur de ix s. In defectu 
redditus Hemd Tyrel super uno messua^o cum curtillagio nuper 
Henrici Meddon in alto vico Glaston nuper mcendio vastato ij s. iiijd. 
ad iiij terminos quod conceditur eidem Heme et Johanne Bo< lond 
ad terminum vite utriusque eorum tenendum per certum redditum 
viij d. ad terminum xij annorum nunc proxime sequentium indpiendo 
reddere hoc anno primo et pobt ipsos annos completes solvendo 
antiquum redditum. In defectu redditus Ricardi Wodeford dicti 
Smyth tenentis j messnagium cum curtillagio in alto vico Glaston 
prius Isabelle Voghe nuper incendio vastatum per annum x s. ad iiij 
terminos quorum nulla oistrictio. 

Summa xx s. iiij d. 

Expense necessarie. In v libis cere emptis pro trendall inde fadendo ii s. yj d. 
predum libre vj d. In ij [iij erased] libris cere emptis pro cerds inde 
fadendis pro la yeldislygnt {y) xiii d. [xix d. ob. erased] predum libre 
yj ob. [in margin, quere vj d. ob.] Item in viij libris cere altera vice 
emptis pro trendall perfidendo et pro duobus cereis videlicet coram 
beato Johanne et altcro coram ymagine beate Marie Virginis 

{x) This is so blurred as to be illegible except xd. 
iy) Yeldislyght=guild light. 



138 Somerset &» Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 

sustentandis iiii s. iiii d. precinm libre vi d. ob. In predicto trendall 
cum cereisde predicta cerafadendisTJij d. videlicet pro lactura cujustibet 
libre ob. In vestimentis ecclesie lavandis per annnm x d. item in 
lij libriscere emptis xviiid. precinm libre vid. In j libra antique 
cere pnrienda j d. ob. In lichme empto ob. In cereis inde faciendis 
ad ilmminandum coram alta cmce (1) ymaginibus beate Marie et 
sancti Johannis ij d. 

Snmmaxis. iiid. 

[The rest has been cut off.] 

A.D. 1406. 

Compotus cnstodum infra scriptomm de anno domini millesimo 
cccc vj to. 

Arreragia. Item respondebant de x s« j d. ob. qn. de arreragiis compoti anni 
precedentis. 

Summa xs. j d. ob. qu. 

Redditns Assisus. Idem respondebant de cxixs. xd. de redditu assisns 
terminorum Natalis Domini Pasche Nativitatis beate Johannis 
baptiste Sancti Michaelis ut patet per antiquam redditariam cum iij s. 
de incremento Johannis Dorsete super uno cotagio cum curtillagio in 
Northlode quondam Johannis Moorrene hoc anno yj to. 
Summa cxixs. xd. 

ExitnsOffidj. Idem respondebant de xijs. de colleccione ad Pascha pro 
cereo paschali. £t de xij d. de medietate locagij unius vacce sancti 
Johannis reddente capellano ecclesie parochialis ibidem. £t de xvi d. 
de locatis cereis ad sepulturam Hemei Tyrel et Johanne que fuit uxor 
Roberti Hanham. £t de vjd. de * torchiorum ad sepulturam 
'Willelmi *. £t de xi s. de ramis arborum drca cimiterium serpatis (a) 
hoc anno. £t de xd. de sepultura Johannis Coumbes. £t de xxd. 
de sepultura Agnete Mo *. £t de xij d. de* sepulcro Johannis 
Wigesby (?) dduncti [cut off] sepultura Johanne que rait uxor 
Roberti L *. • 

[Hen the roll has been cut.] 

Defectns Redditus. (b) In defectu * vastato per * ad terminum vite utriusque 

* et oneratur de ix s. In defectu redditus Johanne * curtillagio 
nuper Henrici Meddon in alto vico Glastonie quondam * iiij d. ad iiij 
terminos quia ilia conss [i.e. concessa] sunt prefate Johanne ad ter 

* ut patet in compoto p * tenenda ad terminum xj annonim nunc 
proxime sequentium per certum redditum viijd. per annum et 
oneratur de iijs. et post dictos xj annos completos reddendo 
annuatim antiquum redditiun. In defectu redditus Ricardi Wode- 
ford dicti Sm^th tenentis unum toftum cum gardino in alto rico 
Glastonie nuper incendio vastatum quondam Isabelle Voghell per 
annum xs. ad iiij terminos quia nulla districtio. 

{in another hand) viij viij viij 
Summa xxs. iiij d. 
£xpense necessarie. In ramis arborum crescentium circa cimiterium beati 

(m) On the Rood loft with the images of the B. Virgin and St. John. 

(a) Serpare=sarpere. 

(b) A piece has been torn away ; but the gaps may be for the most part 
supplied from the entries of 1405. Resolutio Redditus 2s. od. was the first item 
of expense, justifying the total thus : 2/. + ;f i o 4 + jf i 3 6J + ;f 4 8 4 = 
£6 14 2i. 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S* Qmrus. 139 

Johanais scrpandis et fattimlln focalhim ex Oils ramis Ikciendis per 
dietas videlicet in dnobiis hominibus condnctis ad idem per y} mes 
iij s. cpiontm ntenrae ctpit per diem iij d. In virgis saliceis emptis 
ad dictos £issiciiIot ligandog ijd. In xvj libris cere emptis pro 
torchiis inde fadendis viij s. preanm libre v] d. In iiij libris Rosyn 
{c) ad idem emptis ij d. predom libre ob. In ▼ libns cere emptis 
ad eeieos inde nabendos ad illuminandnm coram alta cmce ymagine 
beati Johannis Baptiste et ymagine beate Marie Tirginis ijs. vjd. 
prednm libre tj d. In vij libns cere emptis altera Tice ad illos cereos 
snstentandos iij s. v} d. predom libre rj d. In ▼ libris lichini emptis 
XV d. predom libre iiid. In dictis torchiis et cereis de predictis 
einptis fadendis xrjd. ob. viddicet pro cjoalibet libra ob. In 
antiqoa cera porienda vd. In lodone vestimentorom ecdede per 
annom xd. In j classe defracta reparanda per Ricardom Wodeford 
dictom Smjrth xyj d. In j libra dimidia cere empta ad lomen inde 
fadendom ix d. In factora ejosdem lominit ob. 
Somma xxiii s. yj d. ob (i). 
Vadia et Stipendia. In vadiis et slipendiis Thome Hoopere capellani beate 
Bfarie Virginis per annom iiij li. In stipendio Laoreodj Dav^ et 
Willelmi Coombe costodnm bonorom eccfesie per annom vj s. viij d. 
In stipendio derid pro compoto scribendo et pergameno xxd. 
Somma iiij li. viij s. iiij d. 
Somma totalis expense vjli. xiiijs. ijd. ob. 
£t sic debent-CQstodes xzxix s. xid. qo. 

1407. 

Compotos costodom prenominatorom Anno domini millesimo cccc 
septimo. 

Arrcragia. Idem respondebaat de zxxiz s. xj d. qoadrante de aireragiis anni 
precedentis. 

Sonmia xxxix s xi d. qo. 

Rtdditos Assisiis. Idem respondebant de cxixs. x d. de reddito terminorom 
Natalis Domini Pascne Nativitatis beati Johannis Baptiste et sancti 
Michaelis ot patet per eorom redditariam com iij s. de iocremento 
redditos Johannis i>orsete soper ono cotagio com cortillagio in 
Northlode qoondam Johannis Moorrene hoc anno vij mo* 
Somma cxixs. xd. 

Exitos Officii. Idem respondebant de xi d. de ono velamine vendito Johanne 
Coombe. Et de xvd. de ono velamine vendito Edithe Kelde. Et de 
xiiij d. de refiiso meremii remanente de meremio ale beati Nicholai 
noper comboste vendito et de xijs. de coUecdone ad Pascha pro 
cereo paschali. Et de xij d. de medietate locagii onius vacce sancti 
Johannis reddente capellano parochialis ecclesie ibidem. Et de yjs. 
viij d. de legacione Roberti Drake sepulti in ecclesia. 
Somma xxiijs. id. 
Somma totalis Recepte com arrera^s ix li. ij s. xd. qo. 

Resolocio Redditos. In reddito resoloto preposito domini Abbatis pro 
tenemento qoondam Skynnere ij s. aa iiij or terminos. 
Somma ijs. 

Defectos Redditos. In defecto redditos Magistri Thome Berton tenentis 
tenementnm qoondam Jervasii Grice noper incendio vastatom per 
annom viijs ad iiijor terminos qood conceditor ddem Thome et 

(c) Resin in Oxford aboot this time cost i^d. a poond, and in 1478 as moch 
as 5d. (Boase's Hist, of Exeter ColL, p xlv.) 

(d) The above items amoont to ;(i 3s. 4d. 



140 Somerset S* Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 

Johanne Boclond ad terminiiin vite atriusque eoram per certain 
reddittun zij d. per annam ad illud edificanduni et oneratur de ixs. 
In defectu redoitus Johanne Boclond loco Hemei Tyrel tenentis 
uanm messnagiom cum curtillagio quondam Henrici Meddon in alto 
vico Glastonie quod Hemeus Tyrel nuptr edificavit ijs. iiijd. ad 
iiij or terminos * concessa sunt prefate Johanne ad terminum vite 
sue ut patet in compoto de anno domini [blank] * . ad terminum 
X annorum nunc proxime sequentium per certum redditum viijd. 
per annum et oneratur de iii s. Et post dictos x annos completos 
reddendo annuatim antiquum redditum. In defectu redditus Ricardi 
Wodeford dicti Smyth tenentis unum toftum cum gardino in alto vico 
Gtistonie nuper incendio vastatum auondam Isabelle Voghel per 
annum x s. ad iiij or terminos quia nulla destrictio. 
Summaxxs. iijd. 

[Foot of roll.] 

The compotus of Thomas Dunster and Matthew Stokwode 
for 141 8 is no longer extant. Warner prints extracts including 
20/- for three altars in the Church, viz., of B. V. Mary, St. George 
and [blank], and i5d. spent on a feast to which 3 young pigs 
were contributed by the Sacristan, the Archdeacon of Glaston, 
and the Chaplain. Warner also gives extracts from a lost 
compotus for 1421, John Morthfeld and John Smert Wardens, 
which notices that a mud wall has been raised in the western part 
of the cemetery *' ubi scalera prius fuit." A full inventory of 
church goods is also given to be compared with that for 1428. I 
transcribe it from Warner with a few necessary corrections. 
5 silver cups, 3 of them gilt with 5 wicker cases ; 2 silver cruets 
with 2 wicker cases ; 2 pixes of silver, one gilt for the Body of 
Christ ; i of ivory, 2 of latten ; 6 cruets of pewter, i eclfaat, i.e. 
oil vat ; i bucket of pewter, i lamp, i blue suit, t.e. set of vest- 
ments for priest and two assistants, with a cope, i white with 
cope, I blue without cope, i cope yellow, 6 chesipels, 4 aubes 
besides 9 above in the suits, 6 amices, i frontal steyned for the 
high altar, 10 panni for the high altar and the altar of the Blessed 
Mary ; 3 missals, 3 graduals, i psalter, 3 antiphonals, i legend, 

2 collectarii, t.e, books of collects, i processional, i old gradual ; 

3 new lychbells, 4 bells ; i chest for archives, 6 other chests ; 
1 iron candelabrum, i of latten ; 5 banners, 3 of silk and 2 steyned, 
I black, 2 white, i of St. George steyned, i pennon, i cofifer 
covered with red velvet, i latten seal of St. John. 

1428. 

* Walteri Prise et Walteri Wilcokes custodum bonorum ecdesie 
beati Johannis baptiste * anno domini millesimo cccc vicesimo 
octavo usque idem festum proxime sequ'^ns. 
Arreragia * de arreragiis compoti anni precedentis. 

Summaxxvis. xd. 
Redditus Ass. * cxix s x d. de redditu terminonim Natalis Domini Pasche 



Somerset S» Dorset No/es S» Queries, 141 

Nadvitadt bead TcAannis bapdste tancti MkhaeHt nt pattt in 
compoto de anno domini m cooc ix no. {$.) 

Snmmacxizs. xd. 

Incrementum Redditns. Idem respondebant de viiid. de incremento redditns 
Thome Greynton super uno tofto in Glastonia quondam Walter! 
Sampson et postea Agneds Barbere in Chelkwell (/) preter iiij d. 
pro eodem tofto superins onerato * ad iiii terminos. Et de ij s. 
viij d. de incremento redditns Johannis Goldsmyth pro uno messuagio 
cnm cnrtillagio et suis pertinendis in alto vico nuper RobertiDorlet (g) 
habendis pacando ad iiij terminos hoc anno ix s. preter iij s. vj d. 
superins onerato et preter yjd. quos Ricardus Ivethom perapit 
annuatim de eodem messuagio. £t de ij s. de incremento redditns 
Roberd (Hover pro una placea terre in Madelode ab andquo 
Gropecombe lane preter iiij d. superius onerato. 

Summa iij s. yj d. 

Exitus Officii. Idem respondebant de xij s. j d. de collecdone ad Pascha pro 
la Trendd (A) et de ns. de uno vetere Psalterio (1) vendito Johanni 
Morfile hoc anno. £t de xxv s. iiij d. de uno plnmbo quadrato 
unde medietas nuper de dono Johannis Boxwill ponderis iiij c. xxv 
librarum vendito Kicardo Touker hoc anno. £t ae ▼ s. yj d. receptis 
de Nicholao Pepnr ex legato uxoris sue. Et de Tiij d. de j anulo 
argenteo ex legato uxoris Johannis Pepur vendito. Et de xs. de 
exitu unius cotagii nuper Alide Childe (vs.) et unius cotagii nuper 
Ricardi Ma3mard vendid quia in manibus custodum. De exitu unius 
cotagii nuper J. Lockyer nichil ob defectum emptomm. Et de viij s. 
receptis de Willdmo Deor et sociis suis ludendbus in festo Natalia 
Domini. Et de xxyj s. viij d. receptis de Waltero Brewderer* et 
sociis suis ludentibus in villa meoia (j) estate. Et de vijs. de 
Hogel^gselver (k) in festo Epiphanie domini. Et de liijs. vd. 
receptis de Waltero Wilcokes de una bracina (/) cerevisit. Et de 
iiij s. iiij d. de una olla enea ponderis xxiiij librarum vendita de dono 
Willeimi Cotder. Et de xijd. de meremio veteris porchie vendito. 
Et de iiij libris xxij d. receptis de Thoma Dunster Waltero 
Wilcoxs. Palmer Morthfeld {m) et aliis de donis ad opus ecdesie 



{e) This amount of Redd. Ass. first appears in 1404. 

( /) In 1498 spelt Shalkewyll, now Chilkwell, said to represent Chalice W$U 
in reference to the story of the Sangraal. 

ig) Elsewhere spelt Dorset. 

(A) A hanging corona or hoop for lights. 

(i) See again in Inventory bdow. 

(j) The Christmas Play was apparenUy in less favour than the Midsummer 
Play on the festival of the ration or the Church. 

{k) Hoglers explained (Ch. wardens Accts., p 251) as the lowest class of 
labourers. They formed a guild at Glastonbury as at Pilton and elsewhere. 
Notice the connecdon with Epiphany. 

(/) Brewing a Church Ale. 

(m) Probably same name as Morfile above, and Morfyld in 1498. Had J. M. 
been on pilgrimage since his Wardenship in 1421 ? 



142 Sooner set &» Dorset Notes &^ Queries. 

at patet per balUm (n) coram parochianis monstnUm. 
Snmxna zi lib ZYij 8. xl. 

{Written smaU.'] zi li. zvij s. xd. 
Perquisita. Idem respondebant de x s. de fine Thome Barioneis pro omnibus 
terns tenementis et pratis cnm snis pertinenciis que JLoda Cook 
quondam tenuit in vula Glastonie et £dgarligh et uno curtillagio et 
suis pertinenciis (quondam Ricardi Bole in Edgarligh habendis sibi et 
uxon sue ad tenmnum vite eorum. 

Summa xs. 
Summa totalis Recepte cum arreragiis xix lib. xviij s. 
Resolucio Redditus. In redditu resoluto preposito domini Abbatis pro 
tenemento Johannis Bogbe ij s. ad iiij terminos. Item custodibus 
bonorum capelle {0) sancti Benigni pro cotagio Johannis Moyn in 
Madelode xij d. 

Summa iij s. 

Defectus Redditus. In defectu redditus Johanne Bodonde tenentis unum 
toftum in Alto vico Glastonie quondam Gervasij Gricz nuper incendio 
vastatum per annum viij s. ad iiij tenninos quia conceditur 
eidem Johanne per certum redditum xijd. per annum et oneratur de 
ix s. in defectu redditus Ricardi Wodeward tenentis unum toftum 
cum gardino in alto vico Glastonie nuper incendio vastatum quondam 
Isabdle Voughel per annum yjs. aa iuj terminos quia conceditur 
Edithe relicte Henrid Fdde per certum redditum iiij s. tantum. In 
defectu reddilus unius messuagii in alto vico Glastonie nuper Alide 
Childe per annum vij s. ad iiij tenninos quia in manibos custodum. 
In defectu redditus unius cotagii in alto vico Glastonie quondam 
Thome Boxwill per annum ijs. ad iiij tenninos quia conceditur 
Thome Webbe per certum redditum xs. et oneratur superius in 
capite ad xiis. In defectu redditus unius cotagii in alto vico 
Glastonie nuper Ricardi Maynard per annum vi s. ad iiij terminos 
quia in manious custodum. Item in defectu readitus unius cotagii 
in alto vico Glastonie nuper Johannis Lokver per annum eadem 
de causa viij s. ad iiij terminos. Item in defectu redditus unius 
messuagii cum curtillagio in Chelkwell prius J. Cachman per annum 
xij d. aid iiii terminos quia conceditur Roberto Robyns per certum 
redditum iii s. per annum. 

Summa xxxviii s. 

Nccessaria. Solutum pro obitu Philippi Maluam tenendo boc anno xxiijd. 
videlicet capelJano vi d. derico i d. Bedmanno iid. Procuratori brevis 
sancti Johannis Jerusalem (/) iid. et dirersis pauperibus die sancti 
Georgii xij d. In x ukiis panni lind emptis pro panno quadragesimali 
inde fadendo vi s. vi j d. precium ulne viij d. In cera et lichinis 
emptis cum factura parvorum cereorum per annum vi s. viij d. In 
locione vestimentorum cum paruris (^)deponendis et reponendis diversis 
vidbus per annum xviij d. In v ubris ligandis et cooperiendis cum 
uno cereo vitulino empto ad idem xviij d. In ij almiciis defiactis 
emendandis v d. In uno veteri turribuli [sic] de latyn apud London 



(n) BUlf schedule. 

(0) Here first in the Accounts, though mentioned in the Charter of Savaricusy 
bishop 1 192-1205. 

(p) A brief on behalf of the Mother house of St. John in London, or of 
the Hospitallers* house in this diocese at Buddand. 

(9) Ornaments on vestments. 



Somerset 6* Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 143 

ezcamUato pro uno noTO xxd. In nno coope rt orio linneo pro 
corporibus mortaomm defracto emendando ijd. Solutum Sacnste 
pro rcdditn coUgii naper T. Swelle (r) de predo j qoartronis piperis et 
nniiu ooartronis cumw sibi debito anDoattm iii d. ob. Item ddem 
de rcKlmta ejnsdem coUgii in denariis iii d. In dhrersis ezpensis iactis 
drca reparadonem nove ecdesie cnm pordiia at inhberis petris 
tractandis et frangendis apnd Doultvng cnm ezpensis pro eisdem 
deinde apnd Glastoniam cariandis. waUton tractandis et frangendis 
apnd Strete cnm eisdem domum cariandis xxix ({oarteriis vj busheUis 
calds emptis nno novo ostio ecclesie fadendo diversis ferramentis et 
claTis emptis pro eodem ostio et stipendiis diTcrsomm latamomm et 
cementanomm per ebdomadasut patet per sednlam coram parochianis 
monstratam, xlib. xrjs. yd. Solutum Johanni Gryme latamo pro 
porchia ecclesie de noTo iacienda et cooperienda de liberis petris et 
Walston ad thascam iiij lib. In j novo frenge de serico empto pro 
▼exilla [sic] crucis zij d. 

Summa xv li zviij s. ▼ d. ob. 
Written small xv li. xriij s. iiij d. ob. 

Vadia et Stipendia. In vadiis et Stipendiis ij custodum bonorum ecdesie per 
annum vj s. viij d. In stipendio derid compoti una cum pergameno 
empto XX d. 

Summa viij s. iiij d. 

Expense forinsece. In pardonis (5) parochianorum Thome Stoke de parte redditus 
sui iij s. iiij d. 

Summa iij s. iiij d. 

Summa totalis expense xriijli. xjs. jd. ob. Written small, zviij li. 
vij s. viij d. ob. 

Written small xxs. iij d. ob. Et dc debent custodes xxvjs. zd. ob. 
lidem responderunt de v calidbusargenteisunde ij deaurati cum iiij {t) 
cases de virgatis pro eisdem ij crewetts argenteis cum ij cases de virgatis 
pro eisdem ij pixidibus argenteis u^ide altera deaurata pro corpore 
Christi imponendo j pixide de yvory et ij pixidibus de laton pro 
consimili yj crewetts de peltro {%) j eelfaat (v) j boket de peltro cum 
manicla pro aqua benedicta j lucema j blodia secta (a;) cum capa 
j blodia secta sine capa j alba secta cum capa j capa zdew 
vij chesipl v awbes preter ix superius cum sectis vi am]rces preter 
ix supenus cum sectis j frontel stajmed pro magno altari i frontd 
stayned pro eodem altari cum j panno xle {x) cum 1 lyne pro 
eodem xiiij pannis pro magno altari et pro altari beaie Marie cum 



(r) Swell was chaplain now or a little later. 

(5) Had Stoke let his house for the use of a Pardoner, such as Chaucer 
describes, C. T. Pr. 670, or does pardona mean a fine ? 

(t) Cf. Yatton Ace. 1518 ** Paid for 2 casis for 2 chalis I4d." 

(u) Pewter thought by Skeat to come from an original English form Spelter, 

(v) Oil, Saxon ele. Fat=vat, cf Joel 2, 24, Is. 63. 2. 

(to) The suit implied vestments for th : celebrant, deacon and sub-deacon. 
Hence in these 3 suits were 9 albs, and 9 amices. 

{x) i.e. Quadragesime. Arrangements for hanging the Lenten Veil still 
remain in some churches, e.g, Orchardleigh, and perhaps the Lndychapel of ths 
CathedraL 



144 Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

ij canvaces (y) pro eisdem altaribos ziij towell pro altar ii hontelynf; 
towell (i) uterine de longitudine vii virgamm unde j de denatmt' (a) 
iii missalibusiij gradalibus j psalterio vocato albo iij minoribuspsalteriis 
preter j Tenditum (6) hoc anno j portiforio ij mannalibus iii 
antiphonariis j legenda ij coUectariis iij processionalibns j ordinalj 
cujus secundum folium incipit it ij parvis hbris de scrmonibus unde J 
secundum folium incipit domine et alterius secundum folium incipit 
jerico (c) j ympnario iij novis lich bells v campanis tintinnabulis j 
communt cista pro cartis imponendis vij aliis cistis v candelabris 
ferreis j candelabro de laton v baner imde iij de serico et ij 8ta3med 
j nigro baner ij albis baner j baner sancti Georgii {d) steyncd J loculo 
de reedfelewet i s gillo (e) sancti Johannis de laton j clepur ierreo iij 
dext (/) j caas ligneo pro parvis cereis inde ponendis j bushello ferreo 
ligato cum ij maniculis ferreis iij lynthiamentis de braban {g) j lecto de 
worsted (h) cum testar broided pro sepulcro ii lanceis pro baners 
pendendis ij beres cum j cooperculo ij pannis steyned ad altare beate 
Marie j yindi chesipl cum j albo [su] j almiao i stool j fanel (t) 
cum iij viridibus paruris de secta predicte chesibl ad predictum altare 
j nave de peltro pro frankencens v corporaces j parva campana j parva 
cruce de laton j palla de viridi felewet de longitudine iij virgarum j 
cruce de cooper deaurata ij bocketts plumbeis i picos {j^ in custodia 
Bedmann [blank] superpelJidis pro pueris de aono sacnste. Item j 
Mappa continente iiij virgas de legato J. Dorset j tuella continente 
ij Tirgas dimidiam de legato Thome Seriaunt j tuella de longitudine 
ij virgarum dimidie de legato Elene Dev ij candelabris de Uton de 
dono Margerie Stanligh j virga de Braban clooth. Item j canape 
cum ij foletts de plesauns (k) pro corpore Christi. 



{y) So canabum is mentioned with thurible, oil vessel and boat, Yatton 
Ace. 1553. 

(g) Seven yards of houselling cloth would stretch across the chancel. 

(a) Qy. from Dinant ? 

(h) To John Morfile, vid. Ex. Off. above, for 2/- 

(c) Item, Domine, Jerico were the initial words on the pages. 

(d) The altar of St. George had been erected in 1418. 

(i) This seal still exists being about 2 inches in diameter. It has a full 
length figure of the Baptist with the lamb on a small scutcheon ; the legend is 
Signum commune BapHsU Glastoniensis. It is mentioned in a lease of 1325. 

(/) Probably for reading the Passion in Holy Week. 

{g) The finest kind of doth from Brabant. 

(h) The manufactory of woollen at Worstead in Norfolk had been established 
under Edward III. 

(t) A maoiple. Stool=8tole. 

(/) A pick or pickaxe, spelt picois, pikeys in old French and English. 

(k) A fine kind of gauze. 'Fo\et=feuUlei, Mr. Weaver quotes from Hall's 
Chrcnude ** The ladies tyer was after the fashion of Inde with kerchiefes of 
pleasaunce backed with fyne gold; " and again, '* their faces, necks, arms and 
hands covered with fined pleasaunce black, some call it lumberd3mes.'* The 
canopy with its doable ha.igings was for procession on Corpus Christi Day. 




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Tune, X654 
March, 1653-4 
Novmbr., 1654 
June, 1654 
October, 1654 
Septbr., 1653 
June, X653 
August, 1654 
Janry.. 165^-4 
August, 1653 
June, 1653 
August, 1654 
Septbr.. 1654 
Maf. 1654 



J%, 
July, 
July, 
June, 
July. 



1654 
1653 
1653 
1653 
1653 



March. 1653-4 

Febiy., 1653-4 

Fuly, 1653 

Septbr., 1654 

July, 1654 

Vugust. 1653 

septbr.. 1653 

'uly, 1654 

uly, 1653 

lay. 1653 

Vugust, 1653 

anry.. 1653-4 

larch, 1653.4 

eptbr., 1653 
me, 1653 
me. 1653 
larch, 1653-4 

bry., 1653-4 
me, 1654 
lay, 1654 

ay, 1654 

ly. 1653 

ugust, 1653 
niy^ X651.4 

1654 

ly. 1654 

ne, X653 

ly. 1654 

le, 1654 

cmbr.. 1654 

tober, 1654 

ntbr., 1653 

gust, 1653 

gust, 1653 
rch, 1653-4 

^e, 1653 

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S amm 'mt S' D^rstt SoUs <S* Qumss, 145 

it^ Tsa, Effigt of a Lady in Ilton Church.— The 
foDowin^ papa was read bjr the Rev. R. B. Gardiner. M.A.. 
F3JL^ before the Society of Antiquaries on Feburary iit, 1894. 

** Ob Thursday September 7th, 1893, I visited Ilton Church 
Bear Ilminster in Somerset. I was attracted thither by the fact 
dot the N, Aisle was known as the ** Wadham Aisle/' and that 
ti»ere were two Wadham brasses in the Church. There is nothing 
to remark about the Chorch, which has been completely rPKtorod ; 
but under a low arch of decorated woik, at the South end of thr 
Sonth Transept, lies the effigy of a Lady ; the figure was formotly 
ai the end of the North Aisle of the Church, and was romovrd 
to its present position about forty years ago. It evidently Dtigitt- 
afly rested upon an Altar tomb. By the courtesy of the Vi« nt the 
fignre has been photographed for me: those who removed it for 
the purpose reckoned that it weighed about 6 cwt. The nHMM\ 
which is cot in Alabaster, is 4 ft. 11 inches in length • «)«*' li* « 
supine with the hands clasped in prater : her hefid (e^ik i(|toM h 
pillow and a cushion which was originally sutijinrted hy Amm^'I'* 
On her head is a cap richly diapered, from wliit h t^«» h(Uh« Mut- 
straight over the forehead: and over thene a veil In dhtwH whii \\ 
falls to the shoulders ; round her neck in a < oIImi, *4)i|ttih ntly \\\ 
qoatrefoils, from which a rose badge dependn ; heiieiilh thUi lui 
neck is twice crossed by the cords which crmnne the UhMiile in 
which she lies. She is clothed in a long rohe witli h, I tldhk, 
concealed the feet, for I do not think that (hey |ihi|iM li d lu \ond 
it, although in the darkness of the arclt I < oiild \\u\ hi c Mhd nav 
obliged to trust to feeling the end of the n^iMe. lit an ho %vv\\ 
from the photograph that the part wheir ilie ii^lu jooi Wiiuld 
have been has been broken away ; the Vh ar (Itliikn thai iho itM*ii 
of the left foot projected, though now liiokeh away ; he iha'** not 
think that the left foot was shewn entirely. ( )vei thu nho han a 
tunic coming well below the kneen, with u hem ul two int hen 
clearly defined. Over this again n Jacket, (alluut awav Hlmiply 
over the breasts and hips, again with n ( learly delliied fu)i(ler of 
about an inch. Over tnis the hands antl urniH project from the 
mantle in which she lies, which also hai* tt border an inch broad. 
The cords of the mantle, after being brought together on the 
neck, pass under the hands, and after being united by a slide at a 
little below the thigh, terminate in two taHHels at the knees. 

There are a few traces of colour still remaining. The cushion 
supported by the Angels was once red, and had an edge of red 
with a gold line and gold spots, and there are traces of gold on 
the lady's collar, but the colour is most clear near the left foot, 
where the corner of the mantle is lifted by a tiny dog about 4 
inches over all, who has a collar also once gilded : he is cut clear, 
and passing my finger behind to remove the dirt and cobwebs I 
brought out the pattern of the border of her mantle, a Vandyke 
pattern in blue and white and gold, as fresh as when painted. 

Part xxviii. December, 1894. k 



146 



Somerset S» Jborset Notes &• Queries. 



I regret to say that the nose and raised hands of the figure 
have been knocked off; and the whole surface is scored with 
initials and other signs. 

In exhibiting the enlarged photograph of the head, I would 
point out how the mutilations of the eyes, mouth and nose, and 
the scoring of a star on the forehead, have spoilt what was doubt- 
less originally a lovely face. 

'I'he Vicar informs me that he has found a figure exactly like 
this at Norbury in Derbyshire. It differs only in being 6 ft. 6 in. 
in length, and the badge on the neck is a Madonna lily instead 
of a rose. 

I suggested the restoration of the injured parts, but in that 
case it would be necessary to re-colour the figure in order to 
conceal the ravages of the barbarians, a course deprecated by 
the Vicar and by our fellow, Mr. Jackson, who, while visiting 
Ilton like myself in pursuit of Wadham remains, was also struck 
by the figure, of which he gives an account in his book on 
Wadham College, where he suggests that she may have been one 
of the Wadham family, coming as she does from the Wadham 
Aisle, and having the Wadham rose as a pendant to her collar." 

[We are indebted to the Rev. R, B. Poole, Vicar of Ilton, for 
the above article. We understand that Mr. St. John Hope 
believes that the material of which this figure, and also the 
Stourton Caundle one consists, came from Derbyshire. 

The Editors.] 

123. Dorset Administrations.— C(?«//>i«f</.— (II. «. 10, 
X.49, xi. 78, xii. 113, xiii. 150, xiv. 178, xv, 217, xvi. 242, III. xvii. 8, 
xviii. 57, xix. 94, xx. 151. xxi. 183, xxii. 233, xxiii. 279, xxiv. 323, 
IV. XXV. 1 1, xxvi. 38, xxvii. 77.) 

1653-1654- 

The Administration Acts for 1653-4 for Dorset are at present 
missing from the series at Somerset House. They are entered in 
•* Original Calendar No. 4 " which includes Cornwall, Gloucester- 
shire and Somersetshire as well as Dorset, but there is no 
indication as to which of these counties the deceased belonged. 

The following entries consequently refer to one or other of 
the four counties mentioned. 



(See printed 


Calendar to 


Administrations 


for 1653-4 at 


Somerset House.) 










Date of 




Data of 


Name of deoaoiied. 






Adminiitration. 


Abbott, Joane 
Abbott, Robert 


March, 1653-4 


A grove, John 
Alford, Thomas 


Septbr., 1654 


Mav, 1653 


Septbr., 1653 


A Court, Thomas 


Novmbr., 1654 


Ames, WiUiam 


June, 1654 


Adams Mawde 


Septbr., 1654 


Andrew, Thomas 


Septbr., 1654 


Adams, Robert 


Septbr., 1654 


Apsly, William 


August, 1653 


Adams, William 


March, 1653-4 


Ammdell, Robert 


May, 1654 


Ady, Richard 


March, 1653-4 


Atwatcr, Sibell 


May, 1654 



Somtrsft &• Dorset Notes £• Qutrits. 



H7 



Nam« of Deceased. 
At wood, Katherine 
Austen, John 
Ayleway, Richard 
Baber, Richard 
Baber, Robert 
Baily, William 
Baker, Elizabeth 
Baker, Henry 
Baker, Joane 
Baker, Michaell 
Baker, Stephen 
Bailer, Thomas- 
Barker, Marv 
Barnacott, Kichard 
Bartlett, Alexander 
Basill, John 
Batcheior, Henry 
Batten, Richard 
Baunton, Edward 
Bayley, Alice 
Bead on, Thomas 
Beard, Thomas 
Beare, Andrew 
Beare, Richard 
Beare, Richard 
Beareham, Dorothy 
Bennett, John 
Bennett, Richard 
Bennett, William 
Beomont, William 
Beny, Lewis 
Bettie al's Morford, 

Frances 
Biggs, Dorothy 
Biggs, George 
Bird, John 
Bird, John 
Blackford al's Stod- 

den, Alice 
Blake al's Daw, Alice 
Blake, Thomas 
Blaney, Zachary 
Blewett, Thomas 
Blue. Edward 
BlynmanJ"oane 
Boddy, William 
Bond, Edmund 
Bond, Mark 
Bonnen, Greorge 
Bradripp, Dorothy 
Bragg, John 
Braunton, John 
Brawley al's Wed- 

lack, John 
Bray, John 
Brayne, John 
Bremble, Dorothy 



Date of 
Admlnietnitloii. 

June, 1653 
May, 1654 
»ovmbr., 1654 
August, 1655 
Septbr., 1653 
Janry., 1653-4 
Septbr., 1654 
Septbr., 1654 
Septbr., 1653 
Septbr., 1653 
June, 1654 
May, 1653 
Febry.. 1653-4 
Septbr.. 1653 
May. 1653 
Septbr., 1654 
Decembr. 1654 
August, 1653 

1653 

June. 1654 
August. 1653 
October, 1654 
July, 1654 
June, 1653 

July. 1653 

Septbr., 1653 

Septbr.. 1654 

May, 1654 

July. 1653 

Septbr.. 1654 

Septbr.. 1653 

August. 1654 

June. 1653 
Septbr., 1653 
Septbr.. 1653 
March. 1653-4 
August, 1653 

July, 1653 

June. 1654 
August, 1654 
August, 1654 
Jy.i653(fo.i6) 
l^y* 1653 
Septbr., 1653 
Septbr.. 1653 
Novmbr., 1654 
Febry.. 1653-4 
June, 1654 
July. 1654 
May, 1654 
Septbr., 1653 

Tune, 1653 
May. 1653 
Febry., 1653.4 



Name of Deoeaaed. 
Brethers, William 
Brewer, Michael 
Brian, Thomas 
Brimsmeade, Roger 
Brinckworth, Anne 
Brittell, William 
Brittell, James 
Broade, Isaac 
Brooke, Isabell 
Brooke, Peter 
Brooke, Richard 
Brooke, Thomas 
Brooke, William 
Brookes, Richard 
Browne, Daniel 
Browne, Jane 
Browne, John 
Browne, Robert 
Browne, Tobias 
Browne, Valentine 
Bucke, Jeremiah 
Bucnoll. John 
Budd, William 
BuUocke, Edward 
Bumsteed, Fraunds 
Bunburv, John 
Burd, John 
BiirletoHjJ'ohn 
Burton, Eleanor 
Burton, Richard 
Bush, James 
Butcher al's Masters, 

Edmund 
Cade, Richard 
Cadell, Peter 
Cadell, William 
Callow, William 
Calloway, Richard 
Carpenter Andrew 
Carpenter, Toby 
Carter, Hester 
Casely, Edward 
Casse, Joane 
Castell, Thomas 
Castle, Ralph 
Cavillian, Nubery 
Chaffey, Guy 
Chaffie, Agnes 
Champion, John 
Chapman, John 
Chapman, Williani 
Chappell, Alice 
Chappell, Richard 
Chappell, Stephen 
Chappell, Thomas 
Charlett, William 
Cheeke, Henry 



Date of 
Adminiatratioa* 

Tune, 1654 
March, 1653-4 
Novmbr.. 1654 



1654 
1654 
1653 
1653 
1654 



June, 
October, 
Septbr., 
June, 
August. 
Janry., 165V4 
August, 1653 
June, 1653 
August, 1654 
Septbr.. ' 
Ma^. 



1654 
1654 
1654 
1653 
1653 
1653 
1653 
;arch. 1653-4 
Febiy.. 1653-4 



Septbr., 

July. 

August. 
Septbr.. 

May. 

August. 

Janry., 



1653 
1654 
1654 
1653 
1653 
1654 
>653 
1653 
1653 
1653-4 



March, 1653-4 

Septbr., 1653 

June, 1653 

Tune, 1653 

March, 1653-4 

Febry., 1653-4 

iune, 
iay, 

May, 

July. 

August, 
Janry^ 



Tuly. 

Tune, 

fuly. 

fune, 

^ecmbr., 
October, 
Septbr., 
August. 
August, 
March. 1653-4 

June, 1653 
une, 1654 



1654 
1654 
1654 
1653 
1653 
1653-4 
- 1654 
1654 

1653 
1654 
1654 
1654 
1654 
1653 
1653 
1653 



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Sonmsit &» Dorset Notes 6* Qumis. 



Dftfteof 
NAme of DeoeMMd. AdminictratioB . 

Chewes. Jane March, 1653-4 

Christofer, Edward March, 1653-4 
Christopher al's March, 1653-4 

George, \^niliam 
Chynalls, Margaret 
Chynalls, Thomas 
Clare, John 
Clarke, Edward 
Clarke, John 
Clarke, William 
Citgg, Edith 
Cleggs, Edith 
Clement, Joan 
Clerke, Richard 

(Further grant December, 1656). 



Date of 
Adminiitration. 




Clewes, Robert 
Cliflfeton, John 
Clotterbooke, John 
Clutterbucke, Samuel 
Cl3rmes, Edmund 
Coad, Marv 
Coate. William 
Cocke, Francis 
Codner, Joseph 
Coker, Elizabeth 
Colchester, Thomas 
Coleman, Moses 
Coles, John 
Coles, John 
Collett, Elizabeth 
Collins, John 
Collins, Robert 
Collins, William 
Combe, John 
Comyns, Thomas 
Comyns, Tristram 
Conett, John 
Conier, John 
Coode, William 
Cooke, George 
Cooke al*s StiUman 

al's Twitt, Joane 
Coombe, John 
Cooper, Joseph 
Cornish. John 
Cotton, Timothy 
Court. Thomas 
Courtney, John 
Courtney, John 
Coventry, Elizabeth 
Coventrey, John 
Cox, Giles 
Cox, John 
Cox, John 
Cox al's Smith, Win- 

ifrid 
Crabb, Agnes 



1653 
1653 
'653 
1654 
1654 



Septbr., 

Septbr.. 

May, 

Septbr., 

Septbr., 

Novmbr., 1654 

Septbr., 1653 

Novmbr., 1654 
October, 1654 
Novmbr., 1654 
1653 
1654 
1654 
16 j3 
[arch, 1653-4 
March, 1653-4 
Decmbr., 1654 
Novmbr., 1654 
June, 1653 
Tune, 1653 
March, 1653-4 
Septbr., 1653 
May, 1654 
Tanry., 1653-4 
March, 1653-4 



October. 
May, 



1654 
1653 



Febry., 1653-4 



May, 
Tanry, 

July. 

May, 

July. 
July. 

June, 
Febi 



1653 
1653-4 
1653 
1653 
1653 
1653 
1654 

1653-4 



►ry., ID 

March, 1653-4 

August, i?53 

March, 1653-4 



Name of DeoeMod. 
Creech, Henry 
Crewe, Arthur 
Crewes, Aj-thur 
Crocker, Christopher 
Crocker, Christopher 
Crocker, Christopher 
Crocker, Robert 
Crocker, Samuel 
Cidverwell, Andrew 
Curie, Hugh 
Curtis, John 
Cutler al's Towneinge^ Febiy., 1653-4 

Jane 
Dabinett, Margaret 
Dando al's Herman, 

Joane 
Dando, Peter 
Davie, George 
Davies, John 
Davies, Robert 
Daw al's Blake, Alice 
Daw, Edmund 
Dav, Robert 
Delavere, Reynard 
Devenish, Richard 
Didmillal's Stanier, 

Robert 



August, 1653 
July. 1653 
March, 1653-4 
May, 1653 

July, 1653 

Febry., 1653-4 
Septbr., 1653 
Febry., 1653-4 
Septbr., 1653 
Febry,, 1653-4 
Febry., 1653-4 



June. 1653 
Febry., 1653-4 



June, 

Septbr., 

J»fy. 



1654 
1653 
1653 
1654 
1653 



March, 1653-4 
August, 1653 
Novmbr., 
Septbr., 

July. 



1654 
1654 
1653 



Dier, Christian 
Dingle, Richard 
Diskett, Edward 
Doble, Joan 
Dodimeade, John 
Dole, Richard 
Doleinge, Thomas 
Domey, Mary 
Dudfield, Samuel 
Dugmore, William 
Dunne, Ralph 
Dyer al's Harris, Aim 
Dyer, Jane 
Dyer, Ralph 
Dyer al*s Hewes, 

Thomas 
Eame, John 
Edwards, Emanuel 
Ellis, John 
Evans, John 
Everett, Fardinando 
Everett, John 
Evrins, Joane 
Facie, John 
Fawkener, John 
Fisher, John 
Fisher, bamuel 
Fleay, Edward 
Foord, Robert 
Ford al's Kneebone, 

Joan 



Tune, 1654 
March, 1653-4 
June, 1654 
August, 1653 
Tune. 1653 
March, 1653-4 
Febry., 1653-4 
March, 1653-4 
October, 1654 
Tune, 1653 
Novmbr., 1654 
1653 
1653 
1654 

1653-4 




1653-4 
1654 

1653-4 
1653-4 



Pebry., 
May, 
Febry., 
March, 

Decmbr., 1654 
August, 1653 
March, 1653-4 
Janry., 1653-4 
August, 1653 
August, 1653 
July, 1653 
Septbr., 
Septbr., 
June, 



1653 
1654 
it>53 



Somerset & Dorset Notes S^ Queries. 149 

Date of Date of 

Nftme of DsMftMd. Adminittemtlon. Name of Deeeesed. AdminlttoatUm. 

Ford, William JanTT., 1653-4 Freake, Robert Febry.. 1653-4 

Fowler, William June, 1654 Freetbeme, Rowland Tmie, 1053 

Foxe,Tbomas July, 1653 Ftcnch, Dorothy Tune. 1653 

Tnnds, Richard June. 1653 Fty, William March, 1653-4 

Francklin, Richard July, 1653 

(To be continued)^ 

Geo. S. Fry. 

124. Grants of Arms to Somerset and Dorset 
Families. — The following are taken from HarL MSS. 11 72; 
1441 ; II 15; 1359; 1438; 1422: and Addtiional MSS. 14,293; 
14,295 ; 14*297 ; and 16,940. These volumes* which are lettered 
'Grants of Arms/ appear to be more or less careful copies from one 
source ; the same coats appear in many cases in all of them, but 
as some appear in one MS. and not in others, and some give 
more complete information than the others, it was necessary to 
go carefully over the whole. The execution varies, not only one 
volume differing from another, but one part of a volume from 
another, the early part of each being more carefully executed 
than the latter part. In some cases the arms have been tricked 
and coloured, but the grant has the name omitted, in other cases 
the grant is given and no arms drawn ; this last does not matter 
if the arms have been described, but in some instances an 
abstract of the grant only is given, the writer evidently trusting 
to the accompaning tricking of the arms which has sometimes 
been entirely omitted. Harl. MS. 1 1 15 is chiefly of Northern and 
Home Counties, the only two Somerset families being Swayne 
and Lottisham. Harl. MS. 1441 has a number of nicely 'drawn 
and coloured shields, many being of Welsh families. Harl. MS. 
1 1 72 is less carefully executed, but has a few pedigrees. Harl. 
MS. 1359 is a good volume, with the arms for the most part 
tricked. Harl. MS. 1438 has at the commencement full grants 
with the arms tricked, then several pages with the arms drawn, 
but the grants with the names not filled in. Then comes an 
alphabet of Yorkshire families, with their paternal coats in blazon 
only ; followed by some funeral notes, chiefly bills of charges for 
armorial banners, &c. ; among these there is a long account of the 
funeral of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, with the charges. 
Harl. MS. 1422 is a very good volume, the arms are all well 
drawn, but only abstracts of the grants are given. It contains 
most if not all the arms given ,in the above volumes, besides 
some others; at the end are many spaces unfilled. Near the 
middle of the volume occurs a note to the effect that the 
coats following it are from an old book belonging to Ralph 
Brooke, York Herald, all given iemp. Hen. V, Hen. VI, Edw. 
IV, Ric. Ill, Hen. VII and Hen. VIII, which book now belongs 
to Sir Edward Dearing, Knt., Bart. 1618. Further on 14 is stated 



150 Somerui S» Dorset Notes &» Queries. 

that the coats following are Patents granted by Sir Christopher 
Barker, Garter, carefully copied out of a book of Garter's in 
colours. Add. MS. 141295 is rather an indifferent volume. Add. 
MS. i4>293 is a large folio book, on each page of which is a 
shield with helmet and mantling printed from a copper plate. 
The first few pages have the shields filled with the arms coloured, 
accompanied by the full grant ; but after, the arms are not even 
tricked. At folio 112 (old number 109) are given the ordinances 
of the order of Garter, after which follow more grants, with 
much untouched paper at the end. Add. MS. 14,297 has the 
arms nicely tricked, four on a page, with the name, and date of 
the grant. On one page is the following note ; " Sent to 
Rougecross 5 blanks for Pattents sealed with my hand to them, 
6 Aug., 1 591, at which time he was my Marshall in ye visitation 
of Somerset ; these 5 Pattents were for these 5 coats following." 
They are for the following names, and are given hereafter, Webb 
3f Clifford, Syms of Chard, Morgan of Easton in Gordano, 
Snigge of Bristol, Bysse of Batcombe. Add. ?IS. 16,940 is in 
an older hand than the others, {ctr, 1570), and has no drawings 
of arms. Had. MSS. 2180, 2041, and Lansdowne MS. 879, are 
funeral certificates by Randal Holme of Chester, deputy to ^ir 
William Segar. They relate to Cheshire and adjacent counties, 
and contain nothing relating to Somerset and Dorset. 

It has seemed best to reduce all the grants and confirmations 
taken from the whole of the above MSS. to one alphabetical 
arrangement, appending to each the reference to the particular 
MS. from which it has been noted. A few coats have been 
added from Harl. 1559, which is a copy of Cooke's Visitation of 
Somerset in 1573, with additions ; in it are some arms without 
any pedigree appended. These, when given below, are marked 
(A). Bristol has been included as part of Somerset. Two other 
points remain to be mentioned ; first, that this is not a complete 
armory of Somersetshire, but only such grants, &c., as are given 
in the above manuscripts, including confirmations of arms and 
grants of crests ; and as in many cases the individual is mentioned 
to whose descendants the right to use the arms and crest so 
granted was limited, this list will be very useful, as showing from 
whom descent in the male line must be traced to give any person 
a right to a particular coat. It is believed that all the actual 
information given in the foregoing volumes and not to be found 
either in Burke's General Armory or the Visilah'ons of Somerset and 
Dorset^ printed by the Harleian Society and the Rev. F. W. Weaver, 
has been given: Harl. MS. 1559 is excepted. The latter contains 
much heraldic and genealogical information not given in the 
above works, but which must be left for some future occasion. 

Arthur, John, of Dometh in.... Patent Feb., 1646. Az. a 
chev, betw. three rests, or clarions or. Crest. An arm 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes <&» Queries. 151 

embowed, in armour ppr. garnished or, in the hand a clarion 
of the last. Harl. MS. 1441. 

Avery. James. Quarterly ; i and 4, Gu. a chev. or, betw. three 
bezants. 2 and 3, Arg., a ram*shead caboshed arg., horns or. 
Harl. MS. 1559. 

Aylesworth, John, of Somersetshire. Patent by Sir Christopher 
Barker, Garter (1536-1548). Arg. on a fess eng. cotised plain, 
betw. six billets gu. three boys' heads couped ppr. hair or. 
Crest. From rays of the sun or, a cubit arm erect vested sa. 
cuff erm. in the hand ppr. a skull of the last. Harl. MS. 1422. 

Baber. Edward, of Regelbery, Somerset, Esq. Grant of a crest 
to be borne by the descendants of his father John Baber, by 
Robert Cooke, dated Jan., 1574. The arras, Arg. on a fess 
gu. three hawks* heads erased of the first. Crest granted, on 
a mount vert a cock rousant or, membered gu. Harl. MS. 

1359- 
Barber, Robert, of Ashmore, co. Dorset, Esq., High Sheriff of 
that county. Confirmation of Arms and grant of this crest, 
dated i April, 1670. A buck's head couped arg. horns sa. 
on the neck a cinquefoil betw. two barrulets gu. Add. MS. 

H.293- 

Basings. Arg. on a fess betw. three pheons sa. two fleurs de lis 
or. Crest. A boar's head and neck couped, quarterly or 
and gu. gutt6 counterchanged. Harl. MS. 1559. (A.) 

Benen. Gu. three martlets or, a chief chequy of the first and 
second. Harl. MS. 1559. (A). 

Bisse. James, of Batcombe, [Somerset.] By Robert Cooke, 
Clarencieux, 1591. Sa. three escallop shells in pale arg. 
Crest : on a mount vert two snakes erect interlaced and 
respecting each other ppr. Harl, MS. 1359, says of Atcomb 
for Batcomb ; Harl. MS. 1422 spells the name with Siy in place 
of t\ the place of residence is correctly given, also the date 
and by whom the grant was made. Add. MS. 14,297 adds 
the Christian name, but gives the date as 1580. 

Bond, Dennis, of Dorset, Esq. Thus altered by appointment 
of Mr. Bysshe, Garter, i and 4, Sa. a fess or. 2 and 3, Arg. on 
a chev. sa. three bezants. Harl. MS. 1441. 

BouREMAN, James, of Hemyoke, Devon. Confirmation of Arms, 
Erm. on a bend cotised sa. three boars' heads couped or, 
tusked arg. Crest. A bugle's head erased or, horns wreathed 
or and sa. Add. MS. 16,940. 

BouRGES of Somerset. Patent March, 1614. Arg. a fesslozengy 
or and az. in chief three mascles of the last, all within a 
bord. of the second bezant^e. Crest. A camel's head 
erased ppr. bezantee. Harl. MS. 1359. 

Bourne. Richard, of Wells. Arms confirmed and crest granted 
by Dethick. dated 1591, to Richard Bourne, sometime of 
London and master of Company of Merchant Tailors ; 



152 Soiiurset <$• Dorset NoUs <§• Querus. 

brother of Gilbert Bourne, Bishop of Bath and Wells and 
Lord President of the Marches of Wales in the time of 
Queen Mary ; and also cousin german to Sir John Bourne, 
Secretary to Queen Mary. Arg. a chev. gu. betw. three lions 
ramp. sa. a chief erms. Crest. A demi tyger arg. maned 
tufted and armed sa. gorged with a collar erms. Harl. MS. 

1359- 

Buckler, Waxter, of Causeway, Dorset. Patent by Sir Christ- 
opher Barker, Garter. Sa. on a fess betw. three dragons' 
heads erased or, as many estoiles of the first. Crest. A 
dragon's head erased sa. gutt6 d' or, and gorged by two bars 
gemelles of the second. Harl. MS. 1422. 

BucKLAND, Richard, of Shepton Mallet. Patent by Sir Christ- 
opher Barker, Garter. Per fess wavy arg. and gu. two 
barrulets wavy betw. three stags statant all counterchanged. 
Crest. A fountain of two basins ppr. from behind which 
issue two stags gu. turning their heads back to drink. Harl. 
MS. 1422. 

BuLBECK of Kingston Se3miour. Confirmation of arms and 
grant of crest, 1559. Arg. three bars wavy az. over all a 
lion ramp, of the first wounded on the shoulder gu. Crest. 
A bull pass, vert, turning his tail towards his back, horned, 
hoofed, maned, and the tip of the tail or. Add. MS. 16,940. 

Buroes, of Somerset, 1614. Harl. MS. 1422. See Bourgbs 
above. 

Bykdb, of Bath. From an old book belonging to Ralph Brooke, 
York Herald, all the coats in which were granted /emp. Hen. 
V. to Hen. VHI. Per pale sa. and gu. a chev. erm. betw. 
three eagles displ. arg., on a chief or, a rose betw. two 
lozenges gu. Harl. MS. 1422. 

Cann, Sir Robert, late Mayor of Bristol; son of William 
Cann, late Mayor of the said city, by Margaret Yeomans 
sister of Sir Robert Yeomans, killed by the rebels, in Bristol, 
1643. A grant dated March, 1663/4. Az. fretty arg, on a 
fess gu. three leopards' faces or. Crest. From a mural coronet 
gu. a plume of six feathers alternately arg. and az. Add. 
MS. 14,293- 

Carr, Edward, of Bristol, descended out of the House of Carr 
in Cumberland. Grant by Dethick, Garter. Gu. on a chev. 
arg. three estoiles of the first, and in chief a martlet or. 
Crest. A stag's head couped arg. gorged with two bars gu. 
and betw. them a martlet sa. Harl. MS. 1441. 

Clarke of Wells, quarterly i and 4 or, two bars and in chief 
three escallop shells gu. over all a horse's head erased erm. 2 
and 3 three arrows erect in fess. This coat is given for 
Claike under tiie pedigree of Upton of Worminster in 
S. Cmhbert parish, but no grant is mentioned. Harl. MS. 
«559- 



SomifSit <5* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 153 

Clifton of Banington. Sa. a lion ramp, within an orle of 
cinquefoils arg. all within a bord. or, charged with nine 
trefoils gu. Harl. MS. 1559 (A) 

Cole, Richard, of Nailsea, Somerset, descended from Cole of 
Colchester. Arms confirmed and crest granted by Sir Richard 
St. George, Clarencieux, in 1623. Per pale arg. and gu. a 
bull pass, counterchanged, on the shoulder a crescent for 
difference. Crest. An arm in armour embowed, the gauntlet 
grasping a snake entwined round the arm, all ppr. Harl. 
MS. 1422. Add. MS. 14.293 says Rich. Cole, Esq., J. P., 
Captain of a troop of horse. 

CoRNWELL of Dorset, granted by Camden, Ciarencieux, Dec, 
1608. Arg. on a fess sa. three plates fretty of the second. 
Crest. A boar's head in bend couped or, from the mouth a 
broken sword arg. Harl. MS. 1422. 

CouPBR, John, of London, son of Richard Couper of Somerset. 
Grant to said John. Az. a saltire arg., on a chief or, three 
lions ramp, gu. Crest. From a mural coronet arg. a pelican 
erm, beaked or, vulned gu. Add. MS. 14,297. In Harl. 
MS. 1559 these arms are given with a pedigree of Cupper, 
and are there said to have been granted to John Cupper of 
London, i March, 1592, and this is no doubt right. In the 
Visitation of 1623, printed by the Harleian Society, the arms 
have the field arg. and the saltire sa. which is no doubt an 
error. 

Crosse, Robert, of Somersetshire. Granted by Chester herald, 
1586.... a fess arg. and in chief two mullets of the last 
pierced gu. Crest. A tower arg., from the top fire ppr. 
Add. MS; 14,297. 

Cupper. See Couper above. 

Dampitt, ai's. Damport, John, of Lovington, Somerset, Esq., 
s. of John, s. of John Damport, third s. of John Damport 
of Broomhall, CO. Chester. Arms confirmed i April, 1582. 
I and 4, Sa. on a chev. betw. three crosses crosslet fitchee 
arg. a mullet. 2 and 3, On a cross five mullets (no colours 
given.) In the Visitation of Cheshire printed by the Harl. 
Soc. is a pedigree of Davenport alias Damport of Bromhall, 
the colours of the arms are just reversed and the quartering 
is not given, the crest is also quite different. Crest. A 
lion pass. erm. crowned or, the dexter paw on a shield or. 
Harl MS. 1441. 

Deering, Nicholas, son of Nicholas, of Worgreet, Dorset, gent. 
There is in his house long since set up three bucks' heads as 
his proper arms. This coat is therefore granted and con- 
firmed 13 Feb., 1664-5, to him, the said Nicholas Deering, 
and to his brother Thomas Deering, viz. Gu. three bucks' 
heads coupled arg. the horns or. Crest. A buck's head 
couped arg. attired or, gorged with a wreath of oak vert, 
acorned of the second. 



154 Somirut S* Dorset Notes 6» Queries. 

Dun, Danibl, Doctor of Law, now of Essex, and William Dun 
his brother, now of Bristol, M.D. Patent 8 Aug., 1588. i 
and 4, Az. a wolf ramp. arg. on the shoulder a fleur de lis gu. 
2, Arg. a lion ramp. gu. debruised by a bendlet sa. 3, Gu. a 
fess vaire in chief a unicorn courant betw. two mullets or. 
all within a bord. eng. of the last. Crest. From a coronet 
a lion's gambe erect or, grasping a snake ppr. Daniel became 
Sir Daniel m 1604. Harl. MS. 1359. 

Ears, Robert, of Somersetshire, i and 4, Arg. on a chev. sa. 
three trefoils slipped or. 2 and 3 Gu. three luces haurient 
betw. nine crosses crosslet or. Stowe MS. 649. 

EsTERCOMBE, RiCHARD. of Somerset, Esq. Confirmation 10 
July, 1576. Gu. a lion ramp, within an orle of crosses crosslet 
fitch^e air arg. Crest. A griffin's head couped az. beaked and 
collared or. (This is really Warre of Hestercombe.) 

Every, John, of Somerset, Sergeant at Arms to King Hen. 

VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. 
Patent by William Camden, Clarencieux. Or, five chevrons 
gu. Crest. A demi unicorn gu. maned and homed or. 
Harl. MS. 1422. 

EwENS. John, of Wincanton, Somerset. Grant of Arms and 
Crest by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, in 1578. Sa. a fess 
betw. two fleurs de lis or. Crest. On a mount vert, a curlew 
ppr. Harl. MS. 1359. 

Foyle, John, of Shaftesbury, Dorset. Grant by the Earl Marshall 
in Feb.. 1609. Arg. a saltire chequy or and sa. betw. fou^ 
trefoils slipped of the last. Crest. A horse's head couped 
arg. mane gu., gorged by two bars compony or and sa. Harl. 
MS. 1422. 

Galle, John, of Dorset. Confirmation, 1558. Sa. a fess arg. 
fretty of the first betw. three greyhounds sejant of the second 
collared gu. studded and ringed or. Crest. A horse's head 
erased bendy wavy of six or and sa. ^ Burke gives this as 
Gale of Stalbridge, co. Dorset, and makes a slight difference 
in arms and crest.) Add. MS. i6,q40. 

Gardener, Thomas, of South Brent, Somerset, gent. Grant by 
Dethick, Garter, 20 July, 3 and 4 Phil, and Mary. Quarterly 
gu. and az. on a bend cotised or, betw. two dragons ramp, of 
the third, a leopard's face of the first betw. two fleurs de lis 
sa. Crest. A leopard pass. gard. arg. spotted sa. holding 
in the dexter paw a pomegranate or slipped and leaved vert. 

GiLSON, of Leigh on Mendip. Or, on a fess gu. betw. three 
hand-grenades sa. exploding ppr. a crescent arg. HarL 
MS. 1559 (A). 

GiRDLER, William, of Bristol, and of Clacke in Wilts. Gu. a 
chev. erm. betw. three lozenges arg. each charged with a 
goat*s head erased of the first. Harl. MS. 1482. 

GoDWYN, Thomas, Bishop of Bath and Wells. Or, three lions 



Somerut S» Dorset Notes S^ Queries. 155 

pass, sa., on a canton of the last as many bezants. (The 

arms are tricked only and it makes the lions appear as if 

ramp.) Harl, MS. 1359. 
GoDWYN, William, of Wells, Somerset, gent. Grant and 

confirmation by Gilbert Dethick, Garter, 20 Feb., 1 and 2 

Philip and Mary. Sa. a chev. erm. betw. three leopards* 

faces or. (The name is spelt Goodwyn in the MS.) Had. 

MS. 1359. 
Grace, Roger, of Wilts, son of John Grace of Somerset. Gu, 

a lion ramp, within an orle of cinquefoils or. Had. MS. 

1441. 
Gunning, John, Mayor and Alderman of Bnstol. A patent to 

him, 22 Dec. 1662. Gu. three guns barways in pale arg. 

Crest. A wheel of a carriage betw. two angels' wings arg. 

(The guns are drawn as cannons.) Had MS. 1441. 
Halswell, Nicholas, of Goathurst. Confirmation of arms and 

grant of a crest, 1591. Az. three bars wavy arg. a bend gu. 

Crest. A demi griffin erased (no colours given). 
Harbin. Robert, of Newton Sermerville {sic) Patent May, 

16 1 2. Az. a saltire voided betw. four spear-heads or. 

Crest. A cubit arm in armour the gauntlet grasping a spur 

leathered, all or. Harl. MS. 1441. Harl. MS. 1359. 
Harrington, John, of Kelston, Somerset, son of Alexander 

Harrington, descended of a younger brother of Harrington 

of Brierley, CO. York. Confirmation dated 30 April, 1569. 

Sa. a fret arg. within a bord. chequy arg. and sa. Crest. 

A lion's head or., langued and erased gu.. collared chequy 

arg. and sa. Harl. MS. 1441, and Harl. MS. 1359. 
Hawker. Sa. a hawk close arg. belled or., on a perch of the 

second. Crest. A hawk's head couped arg., beak or. 

Harl. MS. 1559(A) 
Helmbribge. 1 and 4, Chequy arg.and az. a bend gu.Hflmbn'df^e. 

2 and 3, Az. on a chev. or betw. three acorns of the last, cups 

vert., a crescent for difference, MiUheldever. Harl. MS. 

'559- (This is among some church notes taken at the 

Visitation of 1591, and appears to belong to Long Ashton, 

but it is not quite clear). 
Henley, or Hendleigh, Robert. Esq., High Sheriff" of 

Somerset, 1613. Patent 26 Feb., 1612. Az. a lion ramp. 

arg. crowned or, a bord. of the second charged with eight 

torteaux. Crest. A lion's head couped arg. sem6e of hurts, 

crowned or. Harl. MS. 1359, Harl. MS. 1441. 
Hippesley of Cameley, Somerset. Confirmation, 1554. Sa. 

three mullets in bend betw. two bendlets all or. Crest. A 

hind's head erased or, collared sa. thereon three mullets of 

the first. Add. MS. 16,940. 

A. J. Jewers. 
{To he continued,) 



Z56 Somerset 6* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

125. Gborgb III.'s Visit to Sherborne. — The following 
contemporary account of this visit, is found in a newspaper 
cutting (probably taken from one of the Sherborne newspapers 
of that date), pasted on a fly leaf at the end of the 2nd volume of 
the Parish Register of Caundle Bishop, Dorset. 
Sherborne, Aug. 6. [? 1789]. 

On Tuesday their Majesties, and the Princesses, attended by 
the two Ladies Waldegrave, and Lady Courtown, Lord Courtown» 
Col. Gwyn, Col. Goldsworthy, and Col. Digby, arrived at Sher- 
borne Castle, on a visit to the Right Honourable Lord and Lady 
Digby. Their Majesties entered at the Park gate about twelve 
o'clock, amidst the joyful acclamation of a prodigious concourse 
of people assembled in the Park, and on the Lawn before the 
House. Soon after their arrival, the Royal Visitants appeared in 
the garden, and having walked there some time, proceeded to 
take a ride through the Park. His Majesty was on horseback, 
attended by Lord Digby, and the suite before mentioned. The 
Queen and Princesses were in open carriages, attended by Lady 
Digby, Miss Digby, and the Ladies Waldegrave and Courtown ; 
they passed slowly through the Lawn, surrounded bv vast crowds 
of loyal subjects, who were charmed with the condescension of 
the Royal Visitants, and expressed the most unbounded joy at 
seeing their Majesties appear in such good health and spirits. 

It is well known that Sherborne Castle is one of the most 
beautiful and venerable seats in the kingdom, and on the present 
occasion everything conspired with the natural beauties of the 
place to render the whole a most exquisite and enchanting scene. 

Their Majesties having passed through the Park, proceeded 
to take a view of the Ruins of the Bishop*s Castle, so famous for 
the siege it sustained in the civil war. Here the Queen and 
Princesses and the attendant Ladies alighted from their carriages, 
and entering Str Walter Raleigh's Grove, continued their walk 
through the Pleasure Ground, at the gate of which their carriages 
were in waiting. His Majesty, attended by Lord Digby and his 
suite, crossed the fine and much admired piece of water, which 
covers the vale between the Ruins of the Castle and the House, 
and the whole party returned to dinner, a most splendid and 
sumptuous entertainment being provided for the Royal Guests. 

Nothing could exceed the pleasure and satisfaction expressed 
by all ranks of people on occasion of this Royal visit. The town 
was one universal scene of festivity and joy, and the inhabitants 
seemed desirious of giving eveiy possible testimony of their 
loyalty and affections to their sovereign; the bells rung incessantly. 
Flags were displayed on the summit of the hill where their 
Majesties entered the Park, on the Church and Tower, and on 
several private houses. 

The Friendly and Union Societies made a very respectable 
appearance on this joyful occasion, ^and taking their station in 



SomiTut S' Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 157 

the Park, throagh which their Majesties entered, hailed the 
arrival of the Royal Visitants with repeated shoats. Their 
approach was thus announced to the crowded and brilliant 
company assembled on the Lawn below, and the acclamations 
soon became general. The Societies proceeded, in regular order, 
to Sherborne Castle, with colours flying, and a band of musick 
playing before them •* God save the King." Their appearance 
seemed to give general satisfaction, and they conducted them- 
selves with the utmost regularity and decorum." 

A. 

ia6. Witchcraft in Somerset. (III. xvii. i.)— It is hardly 
credible, but there exists, even in our day, a belief in Witchcraft 
in some parts of Somerset. 

The following incidents happened during this year. A poor 
woman, the mother of a large family, had for a period of two years 
a series of misfortunes ; her husband was ill, two children were 
injured accidentally, they were all laid up by a prevailing epidemic ; 
the woman herself, no doubt tired and worn out, came to the 
conclusion that this long and bitter trial, being, as she considered, 
undeserved, must be the result of an evil agency at work, and she 
pronounced herself *' overlooked." Once the idea took possession 
of her, it seemed to spread through the family, her husband and 
children testifying that they saw strange looking little black 
objects sitting on the boxes at night, and that these little things 
used to try to pull them by the feet out of bed. 

She became so thoroughly convinced that she was bewitched, 
that she went to interview a wise man who lives at Wells ; he took 
the same view of the case, and said that he would have to pray 
for her, the point at interest being, who had bewitched her ? 
She had to go through a list of names, names of women ; after 
mentioning many and not the right one amongst them, as she was 
turning away, remembering one more, she mentioned^her, and that 
one the wise man pronounced to be the woman who had bewitched 
her. He told her that he could break the charm and take away 
the power of the witch, but it would take a lot of prayer and work. 
He then gave certain directions which the woman and her 
husband were to follow, in order to break the spell. About the 
hour of midnight she and her husband were directed to sit in 
front of their fire and burn salt, and for the space of one hour no 
conversation had to pass between them, only they had to repeat 
the following words : 

" This is not the thing I wish to burn 

But Mrs. 's heart of Somerset to turn 

Wishing thee neither to eat, drink, sleep nor rest 
• Until thou dost come to me and do my request 
Or else the wrath of God may fall on thee 
And cause thee to be consumed in a moment — Amen."^ 



158 Somerset S* Dorset Notes <S* Queries. 

This accomplished, they were to retire backwards to the foot of 
the stairs, climb the stairs still backwards, repeating at the same 
time the Lord's Prayer also backwards, and then not speak a word 
to one another till they were in bed ; in this way they would 
break the spell. 

The man and his wife tried this, with implicit faith that the 
enchantment would be broken, or the evil eye averted. 

[Our correspondent wishes to remain anonymous, but I can 
vouch for the truth of the story : in fact, I know the locality and 
some of the characters quite well. 

Editor for, Sombrset.] 

127. Grant of the Rectory of Winterborne S. Martin, 
&c. — In the following document, for which we are indebted to the 
kindness of Rev. W. Miles Barnes, Queen Elizabeth grants to Sir 
Thomas Howarde, Vise. Howarde of Byndon. for;^i 300, the Manor 
of Winterborne with its members, formerly belonging to the 
Monastery of Ceme, « « « and also the Rectory of 
Winterborne ' Martin, formerly belonging to the Monastery of 
Abbotsbury, the Rectory of Byndon, formerly belonging to the 
Monastery of Byndon, together with the rights enumerated in 
Winterborne [Abbas], Cattistock, Winterborne Martin, Byndon, 
Bovington, Burton, Shalden, Woodestrete and Burnegate, all in 
Dorset, pertaining to the said Demesnes, Manors and Rectoties. 

The Rectory of Winterborne S. Martin was worth £j$ 38. 8d. 
per ann., and that of Byndon 538. 4d. 

There are certain reservations which may be read in the 
grant itself. 

Patent Roll. 2 Elizabeth, part 10, m. 25. 
D' Thoma d*no Howard 1 Regina om'ibus ad quos etc' salt'm 
con sibi et hered* ) Sciatis q*d nos p* suma Mille trescen- 

tarum lig'lis monete Anglie ad recept Scac'ij iiri ad manus Ro^'i 
Alford vnius numeratorum eiusdem recepti ad usum nrm p dilcm 
nob' Thomam Howarde Militem vie Howarde de Byndon p' 
manibus bene et fidel'r psolut' unde fatem* nos plenarie fore 
satisfcos et psolut eundemq' Thomam Howarde Militem vie 
Howarde de Byndon hered' executores et administratores suos inde 
acquietat* et exon*at esse p p'sentes de gra lira spiali ac ex c'ta 
sciencia et meromotu n*ris dedim' et concessim* ac p psentes p'nob' 
hered' et succ nris dam* et concedim' p'fato Thome Howarde 
Militi vie Howarde de Byndon totumillud d'niu* et man'iu' nnn de 
Winterborne cuni suis Juribus membris et ptin vniv'sis in Com nro 
Dors nup dissolut monast'io de Ceme quondam spectan et ptin 
ac pcelr possessionu inde quondam existen 
• • « • • • • • « 

Necnon totam illam Rectoriam nram et eccFiam nram de Wmter- 
borne Marten cum suis juribus et ptin vniv*sis in p*dco Com nro 
Dors nup dissolut monast'io de Abbottesbury quondam spectan et 



Somerset ^ Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 159 

p'tin ac pjcelle possessiono] inde existen. Aceciam totam illam 
Kcoriam nram et eccriam nram de Byndoii cum suis juribus et 
p'tin vniv'sis in dco Com' Bro Dors nup' dissolut monast'io de 
Byndoii quondam spectan' et p*tin ac p*cell* possessionu* inde 
existen Aceciam om'ia et singula mesuagia grangia molendina 
domos edificia horrea stabula columbar ortos pomar gardina t'ras 
tenta prata pascua pastur coias vasta iampii bruer moras mariscos 
aquas piscarias piscacoes reddit' rev'coes et s'vicia reddit' on'is 
reddit* siccos ac reddit' et s'vicia reservat' sup' quibuscumque 
dimissioD et concession Aceciam decimas garbarum granorum feni 
lane agnellorum lini et canabis ac alias decimas quascumq' tarn 
maiores q'am minores oblacoes obvencoes et p'ficua Necnon Cur 
let vis franc pleg' speclant et p'tinent seu impost'um spectare 
possint Aceciam firmas feod* firmas et annuitates ac feod' Militum 
Ward* maritag* escaet rel'ia h'ietta fines am'ciamenta bona et 
cataUa waviat et extrahuras ac om'ia alia jura p'ficua^ co'modital 
fruct emolumenta et hereditamenta nra quecumq'tam spualia q'am 
temporalia cuiuscumq' sint gen'is nature vel specie! seu quibus 
cumq'noibus sciant'censeant'vel cognoscant'scituat iaceii et existen 
ac p'venieii crescen sive renovan in villis cam pis p'ochijs seu 
hamelett de Winterborne Cattistocke Winterbome Marten* 
Byndon' Bovington' Burton' Shalden' Woodestrete et Bumegate 
in dco Com n'ro Dors ac alibi vbicumq* in eodem Com p'dict 
d'nijs et man'iis ac Rcorijs p' p'sentes p'concess seu eorum alicui 
vel aliquibus quoquo modo spectan* vel p'tin' aut ut membr p*tes 
vel p'ceir eorumdem d'niorum et man'iorum seu eorum aliquorum 
vel alicuius h'it cognit accept vsitat' seu reputat existen*. 

• •««♦«••• 

Ac p'dict Rcoria de Winterborne Marten' p'dict' cum p'tin' 
ad clarum annua valorem tresdecim librarum triii solidorum et octo 
denariorum Necnon p'dict Rcoria de Byndon' p'dict cum p'tin' ad 
clarum annuu valojem quinquaginta triu' solidorum et quatuor 
denariorum Except tamen semp' et ext'a p'sentem concessionem 
nob' hered* et successorib' n'ris om'ino reservat om*ibus campanis 
et toto plumbo de in et sup' p'missis existen' p*t' plumbeas guttur 
et plumbum in fenestris eorumdem p'miss Ac eciam om'ibus 
advocacoibus p'miss sen eorum alicui spectan' p'tin' vel incumben' 
p't' p'dict advocacoes p'dict Rcoriarum de Winterbome Abb'is et 
Cattistock' p'dict sup'iu^s p' p'sentes p'concess nob' hered' et succ 
n'ris simili modo except et reservat h'end' tenend' et^gaudend* 
p'dict d'nia et man'ia Rector et advocacoes ac p'dict mesuag' 
molendina t'ras ten' prata pascua pastur coias boscos subboscos 
reddit rev'coes s'vicia decimas oblacoes et obvencoes necnon 
cur let' vis Jranc pleg' ac cet'a om'ia et sing'la p'missa sup'ius 
exp'ssa etspificat'et p' p'sentes p'concess cum eorum p'tin' vniv'sis 
Except' p'except' p'fato Thome Howarde Militi vie Howarde de 
Byndon' hered et assign' suis ad p'priu' opus et vsum ipius Thome 



i6o Somsrsit S* Dorset Notes &• Queries. 

Howarde Militis vie Howarde de Byndon' hered' et assign' suorum 
imp'pm Tenend' ^ ♦ * ♦ ♦ * * 

Ac tenend* p'dict Rcorias de Winterborne Marten et Byndon* 
p'dict cum p'tin* de nob' hered' succ n'ris ut de Man'io n'ro de 
Estgrenewiche in Com n'ro Kane p' fidelitatem tantum in lib'o 
socagio et non in capite p' om'ibus reddit s'vicijs exaction' et 
demand' quibuscumq' p'p'missis sen aliquo p'missorum nob' hered' 
et succ n'ris quoquo modo reddend' solvend' vel faciend. ♦ * 

[The grantee is discharged of payments except certain cases 
named among which occurs this] ac p't'q'am de om'ibus et 
omnimod' denariorum su'mis et on' i bus quibuscumq' alicui vel 
aliquibus solut vel solubil' p' cur p'dic? eccliarum de Winterborne 
Marten' et Byndon' sen earum aliqua sive administracoe in 
eisdem fact seu impost'um fiend.' ^ * * * 

In cuius rei etc' T. R' apud West in xvij®^ die Maij p' bre de 
private sigillo &c. 

128. Monumental Inscriptions, in other Counties, 
RELATING TO DORSET. (III. xxiv. 337, IV. xxvii. 88)— In Holy 
Trinity Church, Cambridge, is the following : — 

M:S 

Sam>*« Conant A : M : et Collegij | 

D.M. Magdalens^ apud Oxonienses Socij | 

Cujus eximia eruditio morumq' sanctitas | 

Ad Regimen Ecclesiae de Dorcestri4 apud Durotriges | 

eum summo applausu provexerunt. | 

At, quam subitae rerum vices ! | 

Vix munus attigerat atq* in gravem Pthisim incidit [ 

Victusq' malo in otia Collegij suj recessit. | 

(Noluit enim vir bonus ultra sustinere | 

quod Exequi non potuit,) | 

Verum illic quoq' proh dolor! | 

Insecuta est ilium molesta Comes. | 

Quam cum null4 arte neq' equitando posset excutere | 

Gymnastic^ defatigatus Medicini | 

hie loci occubuit. XVIII die Maij | 

An. Do. 1706. /EtSLt, suae tricesimo. | 

Accipe fortuitum Hunc Hospitem Alma Mater | 

Eumq' qui Literis intabuit in bonarum Artium Sectibus | 

Inter Uestros Academicos | 

Honesto dignator Loco. 

129. PouNSETT FAMILY (II. xiv. 1 97). — ^Thc following Notes 
may be of interest : for the extracts from the Pitcombe Registers 
I am indebted to the Revd. D. E. Norton, Vicar of Pitcombe : 
this old family seems to have died out as far as Somerset is 
concerned. I have sometimes wondered whether the name is a 



Somerset <5» Dorset Notes S* Queries. i6i 

corraption of Pauncefooty a Norman family, which gave its name 
to Compton Pauncefoot, a small parish five miles West of 
Wincanton. 

1414. " Two messuages is Horsestret once the property of Edward 
Pounsot, of Bristol, goldsmith, and his wife Amy." 
(Wadley's Bristol Wills, p. 94). 

1424-5. William Poanset was Portreeve of the Free Borough of 
Stoford, Somerset. (Batten's South Somerset ^ P- 7)- 

1 520-1. Mar. 15. William Pounset, sup. for B.A., M.A., 1526. 



LReg. Univ. Oxon.l. 117). 

wii - 



1554. William Pounsett, Esq., of Barking, Essex, Thames St., 
London, ahd North Barrow, Somerset, had his will proved 
(F. I More.) 

1590-1. Feb. 10. Marriage License between William Pownsett, 
gent., of Barking, co. Essex, and Eliz. Megges, sp., 
daughter of William Megges of St. Mary, Whitechapcl, 
Midd., draper. 

1594. Nov. 15. Henry Pouncett, aged 19, gen. fil. (Essex), 
matriculated from St. John's Coll., Oxon. {J^eg. Univ. Oxen. 
n. ii. 207). 

1596. Dec. 31. Marriage License between Henry Pownsett of 
Barking, co. Essex, gent., and Bridget Kightlye, sp., 
daughter of Thomas Kightlye, of Gray's Thurrock, co. 
Essex, Esq. 

1665. April 20. Marriage License between Samuel Pownsett, 
of Hornchurch, co. Essex, widower, and Mary Parker, sp., 
daughter of Jacob Parker of the same, yeoman. 
These Licenses are from Col. Chester's London Marriage 

Licenses, (arranged by Foster). See also Morant's Essex I. 5 ; 

Harleian Society, xiii, go. The Will of William Pounsett, 1554, 

shews that there was a connection between the Somerset and 

Essex families ; this is also seen in Sims's Index to Pedigrees 

(Essex). *• Pouncett of Locksford, from co. Som., 1137 fo. 89b, 

1432 fo. 83b, 1 541 fo. 170b." 

Extracts from the Registers of Pitcomhe. 

1793. Apr. 27. Edith Pounsett buried, aged 80. 

1795. Apr. 4. John Pounsett buried, aged 63. 

1798. Jan. 25. William Frederick Grove of Melbury Abbas* 

and Jane Pounsett married by license. 

Extracts from the Registers of Milton-Clevedon. 
1705-6. Mar. 8. Elizabeth, d. of John Pounset of Barrow and 

Christian, bapt. 
1708. Mar. 25. John, son of John Pounset of Barrow and 

Christian, bapt. 

• The Rev. W. F. Grove, B.A., was Rector of Melbury Abbas from 
27 June, 1794, till his death in 1847. 

L 



l62 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries, 



The following extract is from Phelps's Somerset (I. 258). 
This work is dated 1836. 

*• On the sale of Sir Henry Winchcombe's property, 
the principal purchaser of that part which lay at Cole was 
Mr. Joseph Guppy, from whom it descended to Mr. John 
Pounsett ; whose only daughter married the Rev. William 
Frederick Grove, who holds the estate." 
To the above may be added the two following references 
given by Mr. Sweetman (II. xiv. 197). 
1707. Richard Pounsett of Wincanton. 
1720. Thomas Pounsett, buried at N. Cadbury. 

POUNCETT. 

[From the Visitation of Essex — Harleian Society, xiii., 90.] 
George Pouncett of North Barrow= 
in com. Somerset. 



William Potmcett:=daiighter of Stafford, 
of North Barrow. ' 



Thomas Pomicett of Locksford (Loxford)=£lizabeth da to 
in Barkinge in com. Essex. 1 Ltthom of London. 



Thomas Pouncett=da. to Martha da^ to=Henry Ponncett=Bridgett da. to 
ofHaveringe. Springe *' ** * ' - . - . 



Matthias Dol- 
man of Lon- 
don, gent. 



of Lockford 
(Loxford). 



Martha. Mary. 



Elizal 



beth. 



I 



ThomasKigh- 
eley of Grayes 
in Essex. 
[M.L.3iDec., 
'5960 



Thomas Pomicett. William. George. 



illia 



I 



Hmmice Pomicett of=da. to Wood. 
Chaulden in Surrey, j 



Thomas Pomicett. 

This pedigree, which has been kindly copied for me by 
Mr. W. Bidgood, is entirely without date. I have supplied the 
date in square brackets. No arms are assigned to the family 
either here, or in £urke*s Armoury. 

F. W, Weaver. 

130. Lyddon Family of Winsford (IV. xxvi. 42.) — ^At the 
above reference it is stated that it is not known when or how the 
family became possessed of Edbrooke. Through the kindness of 
the nephew of the late William Lyddon, I am able to give a few 
more particulars. He has very recently sent me a box of old deeds, 
relating to Edbrooke and the Lyddons, among them being one 



Sometset <5» Dorset Notes S* Queries. 163 

deed bearing date January 7th, 1670-1, in the reign of Charles 
II., which sets forth the purchase of Edbrooke, also called Brooke 
Sandford tenement, on a 99 jears' lease from Ferdinando Gorges, 
the son of Thomas Gorges, Esq., of Heavitree in the county of 
Devon, then deceased, for the sum ^^41 5, payable in four years by 
William Liddon and Robert Liddon his son, the said William 
Liddon being tenant of Edbrooke, at a yearly rent payable to 
Thomas Gorges. By this deed the sum of 10s. was to be paid 
yearly, at the four usual feasts, to the said Ferdinando Gorges and 
his heirs as high rent, and at the death of each successive tenant 
the best beast for a hen'ott. In 1 680 another deed was executed, 
and the following receipt for payment given : — 

•• Know all men by the p'sents that I, Fardinando Gorges, of 
Eye in the county of Hereford, Esq., doe heareby acknowledge, 
espresse, and declare, that I have the day of the date heareof had 
and received of Robert Lyddon, of Winsford, in the county of 
Som'set, yeoman, the sume of one hundred and three-score pounds, 
lawfiill money of England, being the Fine and consideracon 
money menconed to be payd to me in one Indenture of Release 
bearing date the thirtyeth day of June last, for one inherytance 
and Fee Simple of one messuage and tenemt and th* appurtenances 
called Edbrooke, lyinge in Winsford and county of Som'set 
aforesaid, and of the said one hundred and three-score poundes 
and of every pte thereof, I, the said Fardinando Gorges, doe free 
release, acquitt and discharge the said Robert Lyddon, his eyers, 
adminstrs and Assignes and every of them by these p'sents. In 
witness whereof I, the said Fardinando Gorges, heare unto sett 
my hande and seale, even the day of the date hearof. 

Dated this fowerth day of August in the year of the Raigne 
of our Sou'aigne Lord Charles the second now Kinge of, &c., the 
xxxij. 

Anno Dom 1 680 

ffer Gorges. 
Sealed and delivered in the p'sence of 
Ric: Blackford 

John Giles 
ohn Lyddon 
Roger Raccliffe." 

In S. & D.N. S' Q. IV. xxvi. 42, it is shown that the above 
mentioned William Liddon, the father of the above Robert Liddon, 
John Lydden and also Thomas Lydden, died in 1681. The 
marriage register gives the marriage of Robert Lyddon and 
Joanna Squirrel, April 20, 1670. 

The other farms with the exception of West How, given as 
belonging to the Lyddons, were probably leasehold, and left the 
family on the deaths of the persons whose lives were on the 
property. A parchment lease, dated 1 75 5» grants the farm of Halse, 
Winsford, to Robert Lyddon of Edbrooke on the lives of two of 



164 Somerset <S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

his children, Robert aged eight and Elizabeth aged four, or for 
the spac^ of 99 years should they so long live, for the sum of 
;^ioo, and a payment of 4s., as high renf, and a /a/ goose every 
year on the first of January, and also the best beast or £$ as 
Heriot. The Lyddons had possession of this farm till 1824, 
when the last life died. It then came into the possession of 
Sir T. D. Acland. 

The farm of West How in Exton, which adjoins Edbrooke, 
was bought by Robert Lyddon in 1753 for ;^i2oo of John Cording, 
whose family had held it for many generations and were related 
by marriage to the Lyddons. Many parchments preserved relate 
to this property, one being a lease dated 1597. 

W. Dicker, Winsford, 
131. Deeds Relating to North and South Cadbury. 
— (III. xix. 113, xxiv. 334.) — 

(10) Thomas Hatchings Medlycott of Ven, in the parish of 
Milborne Port, and Jane his wife, and John Warry of New Inn, 
CO. Middx. gent. Relates to lands, &c., in South Cadbury called 
Brooke close. Broad Mead orchard or Folly orchard. Rush close, 
Hill close. Knight mead or Parting mead, Lyneing or Linnell, 
and land in the commonfields in possession of Richard Howard, 
John Read, Abraham Penny, Benjamin Parker, and widow Day 
as undertenants, and were late the lands of inheritance of John 
Hutchings, Esquire, deceased, late father of the said Thomas 
Hutchings Medlycott. Dated 19 Nov., 1776. Heraldic seals and 
signatures of Thomas Mulchings Medlycott and Jane Medlycott, 

. ('0 Thomas Hutchings Medlycott of Ven, Esquire, and 
Edith Swanton of South Cadbury, widow. Recites lease dated 
5 May, 1740, from John Hutchings, Esq., deed., of premises here- 
inafter mentioned, to William Day, deed, for 99 years now 
determinable upon the death of William Day, his son. A 
messuage in South Cadbury. formerly in the occupation of Ralph 
Oould, since of the said William Day, and now of the said Edith 
Swanton. The said Edith aged 42 years. Sarah Swanton, her 
daughter, aged 20 years, and William Swanton, her son, aged 18. 
Uated 5 Feb., 1777. Seal and signature of Edith Swanton. 

(la) Francis Newman jun., Esquire, of North Cadbury, and 
Urcenford, co. Middlesex, and Alexander Higginson of Harley 
tlreot. Cavendish square. Esquire. Relates to the manors of 
Worth Cadbury and Sparkford. in the possession of William 
welch as trnent. Refers to Mr. Newman's uncle, Francis the 
oiut^r, and Frances, wife of Francis Newman junior. Dated 3rd 
2>cptomber, 1 789. Three skins. Seal of Fcis. Newman. 

(13) Francis Newman, late of Broad street in the city of 
i-ondon, but now of Shudy Camps, co. Cambridge, Esquire, and 
inomas Jones of Sloan street, Knightsbridge, co. Middx., 
TT^^^C f^^"^^^ Rashford of Cannon street, London, turner, 
ana John Laycock Hill of Austin Friars, merchant. Refers to 



Somerset &• Dorset Notes <5» Queries. 165 

Sparkford farme in Sparkford, co. Somerset, late in the occupa- 
tion of John Rugg but now of widow Rugg, and a messuage in 

South Cadbury in the occupation of Banger, and all the 

manors of North Cadbury, South Cadbury and Sparkford, and 
the messuage called Cadbury Castle. Dated 19 Sept., 1791. 
Heraldic sea/, and signature of Fcts, Newman. 

(14) Francis Newman of North Cadbury, Esquire (lord of 
the manor of South CadburjO, and James Rogers, of Sherborne, 
CO. Dorset, clerk (son-in-law of the said Francis Newman.) 
Relates to land called Shortwell, and land in Littleton field on 
Limekiln hill, and land near a place called Court Close, in the 
occupation of John Stickland, yeoman, which premises are part 
of a tenement formerly in possession of Nathaniel Nayle and 
late of George Parker, both deed. And land called Castle field 
in a field called Chappie field, and an acre in West field, also in 
the occupation of John Stickland, part of a tenement formerly in 
possession of Grace Dawe, widow, since of Robert Barnes and 
late of James Curstos, all deceased. All which lands are part of 
the manor of South Cadbury. Mentions Ann Amelia Rogers, 
the daughter, and Francis James Newman Rogers, the son of the 
said James Rogers. Dated 30th Sept., 1793. Seal and signature 
of y antes Rogers. 

(15) Francis Newman of North Cadbury, Esquire, (lord of 
the manor of North Cadbury) and James Rogers of Sherborne, 
CO. Dorset, clerk. Relates to a messuage called Perry's tenement, 
and closes called Great and Little Elbridge, the Downs, and 
Bow Woods, all in the parish of North Cadbury and in the 
possession of John Perry. Mentions Catherine Newman, daughter 
of the said Francis Newman. Dated 1 Oct., 1793. 

Seal and signature of James Perry. 

Endorsed : This Lease invalidated at the Lammas Assizes 
1802, at Wells, in a cause: Roe on the demise of 
Bennett, Esq. v. Rogers, D.D.— C.C.C* 

(16) Francis Newman of North Cadbury, Esquire, (lord of 
the manor of North Cadbury) and James Rogers, of Sherborne, 
CO. Dorset, clerk. Relates to a close called Wilfords, formerly 
in the tenure of Richard Mitchell and William Penny, and late 
of Elizabeth Churchouse, widow, (formerly Elizabeth Mitchell, 
spinster) but now of William Bull as tenant thereof. Mentions 
Francis James Newman Rogers, son of the said James Rogers, 
and Frances Charlotte Newman (grand-daughter of the said 
Francis Newman) and a close called Brookbutts. Dated, 
3 Oct., 1793. 

Seal and signature of James Rogers. 

Endorsed : Recovered by Ejectment,— C.C.C. 

( 1 7) James Bennett of Cadbury House, North Cadbury, and 

•C. C. Clutterbuck, Solicitor, North Cadbury. 



i66 Somerset & Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 

John English and Peter English of the same place, brickmakers, 
and Daniel English of Maperton, brick and tile maker. Relates 
to land called Kiln Close, otherwise Little Shortwell, near a piece 
of ground granted to the said John English by Francis Newman 
late of North Cadbury, Esquire, deceased, in the great road from 
Sparkford to Castle Cary. and near a place called Catash which 
is in the parish of North Cadbury. And a close called Shorthedge 
in North Cadbury, now in the occupation of the said John 
English, Dated 31 August, 181 1. Seals and signatures of John, 
Peter, and Daniel English. 

(18) James Bennett of Cadbury House, North Cadbury, 
Esquire, and James Tucker of the same place, yeoman. Relates 
to land called Frying Pan. in North Cadbury. Dated 3 1 October, 
1 8 1 o . Heraldic seal and signature of James Pmnett. 

(19) James Bennett of Cadbury House, North Cadbury, and 
James Tucker of the same parish, nurseryman. Relates to a 
close called Brockington in North Cadbur) . Dated i August, 
1 8 1 1 . Seal and signature of James Tucker. 

(20) James Bennett of Cadbury House, Esquire, and John 
Laver of South Cadbury, yeoman. Relates to land called Lesser 
Ridgeway, Side marsh, and Hoopers, all in North Cadbury in 
the occupation of Thomas Hilliear, yeoman. Dated 29 May, 
1813. Signatures of James Bennett and John Laver. 

(21) James Bennett of Cadbury House, North Cadbury, 
Esquire, and James Tucker of the same parish, yeoman. Relates 
to land called Down Ash and Drove Leaze end in North 
Cadbury. Dated 7 Sept., 181 3. Heraldic seal and signature />/ 
James Bennett ; seal and signature of James Tucker. 

«« \^^)a^,"^^^ Bennett of Cadbury House, Esquire, and John 
Martm of North Cadbury, yeoman. Relates to land, &c., called 
Longcroft, Home Mead plot. Clay Hill acre. Hither plot, 
Cockhill acre, Down Ash, Peckford's mead, the West Leazes, 
and Runneys mead on Great Down Ash, all in North Cadbury, 
m the occupation of the said John Martin. Dated 25 Feb., 1818. 
Seal and signature of John Afirtin. 

wniiJ'mM.W'^^^^ North Cadbury, brick and tile maker, 
Xlt S? ^^^^^t^ Cadbury, butcher, and James Bennett of 
Cadbur^ wf ^' '^^V''^' Relates to a messuage, &c., in North 
DatdT, n^ ^ '2 o^^ occupation of Samuel Gifford, yeoman. 

Gro f ^^'^'^- ^^^a^s and signatures of the parties. 

OEo. F. Tudor Sherwood, Petersham House, 

Walham Green, London, S.W. 

Alderaan ^ff..^^^• Crane of Bridgwater.— He was Grocer, 
bSS in iYo« ''V '^l^' ^^^ Member of Parliament for the 
pu3ed about?; "" *^^ anonymous Life of Admiral Blake, 
described as Irl^""^ ^'^^ ^^ ^^ Attributed to Oldmixon. he is 
described as married to a daughter of Humphrey Blake, the 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S* Queries. 167 

Admiral's brother and heir. Of such a marriage no trace has 
been found. In the Registers of St. Mary's, Bridgwater, George 
Crane appears, between 1662 and 1668, as the husband of Sardi, 
and in 1673, of Ann, whose death is thus recorded: "1688, 
Sept. 4, Mrs. Crane, the wife of Mr. George Crane, Ald."[erman] 
No family name of Sarah, or of Ann, is given. Oldmixon also 
states that John Norman, son of John Norman, Presb3rterian 
Vicar of Bridgwater, had married another daughter of Humphrey 
Blake, and of this marriage likewise no trace can be found ; nor 
of a married son of the Puritan. 

I venture to inquire whether any one can supply the family 
names of Sarah and Ann, the two wives of Mr. George 
Crane, M.P. 

J. K., Quinta dos Tanquinhos, Madeira. 

133. Kitum's Well. — Can any of your readers give me 
information as to the derivation of " Kitums " as applied to a 
well ? In my park is a shallow well with a constant supply of 
pure spring water. The oldest inhabitants call it '* Kitums " well. 
Mr. Blackmore, the author of ** Lorna Doone," makes one of his 
characters swear ** by Kitums" but he writes me word that he 
has no idea who " Kitum " was, tho' he has often heard him 
invoked or attested ; never, however, in a friendly tone but as an 
adjuration of evil. "Kitum's knows" and •* My Kitums "—the 
i always long. My people here who know the well in my park 
speak of " Kitums " as a person — as a surname. 

Charles Penruddocke, Compton Park, Salisbury. 

134. Apportionment of seats in Low Ham Church. — 
The following is the apportionment of seats in Low Ham 
Church (in the parish of High Ham) in the year 1699. It is 
copied from a roll of sheepskin, 14 inches long by 5 in width, 
and containing, as it does, the well known names of Hezt, 
Mowrie, Stawell and others, may prove of interest. 

Seats. 
In the Body of ye Chappel on the South Side. 

I. Ralph Lord Stawell. 

II. Mr. Higgs Mr. Broome Mr. Mowrie, Mr. Hext. 

III. Robert Chase Mr. Marshall and Stephen Tasker ye house 

at paradice. 
nil. Hayward house Rob : Stapleton Henry Bond Wm. Richards 
junr. 

V. Wm. Richards senr : Tho. Wallis. Hunt's old house. 

VI. Pages. Whellers. John Goold. James Hunt. 

VII. Mr. Compton. Joseph Binney. John Hill Senr. 

In the South He. 
I. II. III. Ralph Lord Stawell. 

IV. Henry Worthey. Mr. Bernard for Catties. John Cattle. 



1 68 Somirsei S* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 

V. Henry Wallis. Edward Cogger for Pines. Wm. Page. 

VI. Thomas Binney, John Giles. Wm. Reeves. 

VII. John Westlake, Wm. Chambers, Harrises. 

VIII. Thomas Curtis. Thomas Barnard. 

Woomen, In ye Body on ye North side. 

I. Mrs. Higgs Mrs. Broome Mrs. Mowrie Mrs. Hext. 

II. Mrs. Marshall. 

III. Mrs. Clase. JaneTasker ye house at Parridice. Haywards. 

IV. Joane Stapleton. Eliz: Bond, Eley Richards, Mary Richards. 

V. Dorithey Wallis. Hunts. Whellers. 

VI. Pages. Margert Goold. Elizabeth Hunt. Mrs, Compton. 

VII. Goody Binney. Joane Masters. Kathrin Hill. 

The Two great Pews, Ralph Lord Stawell. 
In the North He. 

III. Ralph Lord Stawell. 

IV. Worthey's. Mr. Barnard for Catties. Catties. 

V. Wallis for Clarkes. Eliz : Coggen for Pines. Eliz : Page. 

VI. Joane Binney. Margret Gyles. Jane Reeves. 

VII. Margret Westlake. Chambers'es. 

VIII. Eliz : Curtis. Eliz : Barnard. 

Juley the 26th, 1699. 
Douglas L. Hayward. 

135. Public Penance in Churches (IV. xxvii. 113). — 
My brother, about 1 848, saw a Penance in one of the Parish 
Churches of Cambridge (I think Barnwell). It was for libel, but 
I cannot remember whether the person was a man or a woman. 
I believe this Penance led to a most unseemly scene ; all the 
Roughs from the surrounding neighbourhood took the galleries 
round the church by storm. 

A.B. 

136. Curious Advertisements. — The following occurs 
over the door of a huckster's shop. 

" Bibles, blackballs, and butter, 
Testaments, tar, and treacle. 
Godly books, and gimlets. 
Sold here.*' 

T. K. Eaton, Pilton Vicarage. 

137. Tradesman's Token. — 

Obverse. " Remember the debtors in Ilchester Goal." 

••Go forth." 
Reverse. Arms of city of Bath. 
W. Gye, Printer and Stationer. 1794. 

T. K. Eaton, Pilton Vicarage. 



Somerset <S» Dorut Notes S* Queries. 169 

138. John Down at Pool. — Inscription on a tombstone at 
Odcombe co. Som. 

In memory | of Sarah wife of John | Down at Pool and 
Dater | of Mrs. Hankins of Lilling | ston in ye County of Dorset 
I who departed this life j May 26 Ano 1724 | iEtat suae 47. 

Here also | lies the body of John | Down at Pool sen. who | 
dy'd October the 5th | 1729 aged 68. 

Is it not rather strange to find a surname of this description 
*Down at Pool' so late as the 1 8th century? Lillingston is I 
suppose intended for Lillington. 

E. A. Fry. 

139. Local Stay-at-Hombs (I. vii. 334, IV. xxvii. 96). — 
A woman, about 40, a farmer's daughter, came to consult me 

a few years ago. She lived a few miles from Ringwood and not 
two miles from a railway station. As she was in a state of 
pleasant excitement, I enquired the reason why. She had that 
day, she told me, been in a train for the first time in her life. 

May I quote a passage from a review article I wrote a few 
years ago ? ** Corbett, in his * Rural Rides,* relates a conversa- 
tion he once had with a woman in the village of Tangley, which 
gives a vivid idea of the stay-at-home habits of the people at the 
beginning of this century. He says * I rode up to the garden 
wicket of a cottage and asked a woman, who had two children, 
and seemed about thirty years old, the way to Luggershall, which 
I knew could not be more than four miles oflf. She did not 
know. A very neat, smart and pretty woman but she did not 
know the way to this rotten borough, which was, I was sure, only 
about four miles ofi".' * Well, my dear good woman,' said I, * but 
you have been to Luggershall ? ' * No.' * Nor at Andover ?' six 
miles another way. ' No.' * Nor at Marlborough ? ' nine miles 
another way. * No.' * Pray were you born in this house ?' 

* Yes.' * And how far have you ever been from this house ? ' 

* O, I have been up in the parish and over to Chute.' That is 
to say the utmost extent of her voyage had been two and a half 
miles." 

A few weeks ago a farmer's wife, living three miles to the 
North of Wimbome, though not on the road to Cranbome 
itself, told me she had just been to see her son, who lives at 
Cranbome, seven miles oflf. She is sixty, active and well-to-do, 
but that was her first visit to the place, where her son had taken 
up his abode. I must add that she thinks little of going to Bath 
and Bristol however, and as for Poole and Bournemouth she is a 
frequent visitor to both. 

Another curious case was that of a well known Dorset 
County Magistrate, who was asking me where a certain gentleman 
lived. I fully explained, but no light came over that Magistrate's 
face. That worthy judicial luminary drives a carriage and pair 



170 Somerset <5» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

and has ample leisure, and is perhaps over 60 and yet he had 
never been to a village less than seven miles from his own 
comfortable mansion. Indeed, so much in the dark was he as to 
the route that it was clear that he did not even know the names 
of the villaj^es near it. Another magistrate, living six miles from 
a certain village, wrote to the Rector that he did not know the 
way thither and his coachman was equally ill informed. This 
too happened not long ago — to the amazement of one of the best 
known Dorset rectors living not far from Poole. 

Here at Wimborne there are not a few well-to-do people 
who have never been to Dorchester, Wareham and Blandford, 
though they are familiar enough with Bournemouth and Swanage 
and are no strangers to the Great Metropolis. Even in 1894. the 
Stay-at-homes are a rather large order. 

A. J. H, Crkspi, Wimborne. 

140. Dorset Phrases (IV. xxvii. 115.) — ^* Brought to 
ClothP I should have understood to mean ** brought to a severe 
reckoning" without having a clear idea of the derivation of the 
phrase. Has it anything to do with the severity of processes in 
the manufacture of wool into cloth ? Compare the ** Card ** 
used in wool combing, and its use upon women by the Irish as 
a punishment ; (see Davies* Supplementary English Glossary and 
Authorities there quoted, sub ** Carders.") Another possible 
connection may be with " The Clo/h=the clerical profession ** 
(Davies s. v. Cloth). Or lastly, has it any connection with the 
phrase to be '* carpeted." (See the Slang Dictionary), ** a good 
carpeting," &c. 

S. R. B. 

141. Arms of db Mandeville of Coker — Sir William 
Pole's MSS. — In my ''Historic Notes of parts of South Somerset" 
(p. 125) I blazoned these arms, on the authority of the seal of 
Geoffry de Mandeville to an ancient charter preserved at Coker 
Court, quarterly arg. and or^ differing, in colours only, from 
those of the original stock of the de Mandevilles Earls of Essex 
which were arg. and gu, ; and I also observed (p. 1 24) that 
there was probably some relationship between the families of 
de Mandeville. of Coker, and le Bretun. I was not, at the time, 
aware that the arms of le Bretun were arms of adoption ; no 
doubt they were, but, it has been suggested to me by a friendly 
correspondent, that the western de Mandevilles bore the original 
coat arg, and gu, inasmuch as on several rolls of arms, and 
particularly on the seal of John le Bretun to the famous Baron's 
letter to the Pope in 1301, the arms of le Bretun are quarterly 
arg, and gu, (differenced only by a bordure az.) whereas, if 
my reading of the Coker seal was correct they would after the 
Mandeville alliance naturally have been arg, and or. 



Somerset &• Dorset Notes S* Queries. 171 

I certainly felt rather uneasy at this view of the case, and 
was considering how it could be met, when I had the good 
fortune to discover a MS. of the great Devonshire antiquary 
Sir William Pole of which I had long been in pursuit. On 
examining it I found several charters of de Mandeville, and 
amongst them were two of Robert de Mandeville (Robert III. of 
my pedigree) — both undated, but of the time of Hen. III. 

The first is one whereby Robert de Mandeville grants to 
Richard Flandrensis all the land de la Shaw, and is witnessed by 
Ralf Fitzwilliam, Robert de Aubemarle. Henry Flandrensis, 
Reginald Vautort, Roger de Reymes, Thomas dc Boloign. Ralf de 
Funtamines, Hugh Fitzwilliam, Walter de Aubemarle, Martin de 
Fissade, Richard de Availes. Seal Quartet ly arg. and vatr. 

The second is a release by Robert de Mandeville to William 
de Widewurthy of the service of one Knight in Suthwurth. 
" Sealed with ray seal." Witnesses Guy de Bryan and others. 
Seal Quarterly arg, and vair. Legend ** Sigill* Roberti de 
Mandeville.*' 

From this I began to suspect that my reading of the Coker 
seal was wrong and on re-examining it I am satisfied, although 
the lines are much defaced, that the second and third quarters are 
vatr and not or, and that my blazon should be so altered. 

As to the le Brelun coat I can offer no explanation except 
that Brito or Breton or Bretun was a generic name borne by many 
ancient families and that the evidence of the Baron's letter raises 
a presumption that a member of one of them married a daughter 
of the parent stock of de Mandeville and not one of the western 
branch, as I supposed. 

It may be mentioned that although the original colours were 
arg. and gu, the coat of ** Le Comte de Mandevile " and of 
William de Say, who succeeded him, are in ** Glovers Roll " and, 
(as to Say) in "Charles Roll " also, quarterly or and gu. ; and, in the 
Roll of Edw. II. (published by Nicolas), ''Sir John de Mandeville " 
is said to bear quarterly vair. and gu, but I do not think these 
variances strong enough to impugn the cotemporary evidence 
that has been brought forward. 

A word or two now respecting the Pole MS. More 
than ten years ago, in reading Prince's memoir of Sir Wm. 
Pole in his Worthies of Devon (first published in 1701) I was 
struck by his statement that amongst the MSS. Sir William left 
behind him, there were, amongst others, four volumes which he 
had perused, one of them being (to quote his words), a ** vast 
manuscript volume in folio as big as a Church Bible, containing 
copies of deeds, seals and grants .... in which also the several 
seals and coats of arms thereunto belonging are finely drawn 
with a pen, with the pedigree of divers gentlemen of the county 
and some few of the neighbouring counties." 

Speaking of these four volumes Oldys in his life of Sir 



172 Somerset S* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

Walter Raleigh (fol. 1735, p. 5, note) says, "Many of Sir Wm. 
Pole's MSS. miscarried in the civil wars so effectually, that the 
very titles and arguments of them are likewise perished, as Prince 
tells us, and these four or five volumes having since been 
lent about are thought, and have been reported by some of the 
family, to be now also irretrievably lost." 

The ** big Bible " one was, however, clearly not lost then, as 
amongst the Harbin MSS. at Newton is one written about 1736 
by the Rev. George Harbin, the non-juror, which makes several 
references to "Sir Wm. Pole's large MS. Book of Evidences" 
and the pages containing them. 

After many years ineffectual search in places, likely and 
unlikely, I was rejoiced to find the lost sheep, safe and sound, in the 
keeping of Col. Pole-Carew, C.B., of Antony, Cornwall, a lineal 
descendant of Sir Wm. Pole, and also of another worthy anti- 
quary Richard Carew, the author of the Survey of Cornwall. 
Being kindly allowed by him to examine it, I journeyed down to 
Antony and, under his mother's hospitable roof, I spent a whole 
day (except when my genial Cicerone, the Colonel's brother, 
beguiled me out to admire the beauties of Antony) in poring over 
it carefully, and taking several extracts of interest, some of which I 
hope to communicate to S, 6f D, N. 6f Q. 

Such an apparently unique treasure as this, must not, I 
thought, remain hid under a bushel in the muniment room at 
Antony, but there would, I found, be very great difficulty in 
removing the extinguisher, for, presuniing Col. Pole-Carew's 
consent to its publication to be obtained, it would take an expert 
a month or six weeks to transcribe it, and the work must be done 
at Antony. Its removal from there was impossible, for an 
imperative mandate of Col. Pole-Carew's grandfather confronted 
me on the first page of the volume, by which, after lamenting the 
loss of so many of the family MSS. by loans and otherwise, he 
strictly prohibited his descendants from taking this volume out 
of the house under any pretence whatsoever. 

Here then was a deadlock, with no plan practically feasible 
for obviating it, when by a strange coincidence, during a visit to 
Oxford this summer, I was attracted by a MS. in the library of 
Queen's College, No. 152 in Black's catalogue and described as 
"Pole's Collections." On obtaining access to it through the 
courtesy of the Rev. E. Walker, the librarian, I found it to be a 
MS. folio volume of 291 leaves, i.e. 582 pages, with the title 
•* Ould Book of Evidences " written on the back and inscribed 
on the front fly leaf "Ran Bro.oke alias Yorke Herald 1608" 
and this note underneath in the handwriting of Sir Thos. Phillipps 
of Middle Hill: 

"This is [from] Sir Wm. Pole's collection of ancient 

Deeds of Devon Somerset and Wilts &c., and is either his 

autograph or a coeval copy [but query if it is not an abstract 



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TOMS OF JOHN BEAUFORT, OUKC OF SOMEWBIT, 
WIMSORME iilNfiTefl« 



Somerset <S* Dorut Notes <S* Queries. 173 

of Ralph Brooks]. It was long supposed to have been 

destroyed during the Civil wars— see introduction to ** Pole's 

Collections" for Devon, p. 1 1. T, Phillipps. 

[I believe there are other MSS. of Sir Wm. Pole's in Queen's 
College Library]. 

N.B. — The parts within [ ] are in another hand. 

On examining the MS. in which there is no mention of 
Sir William Pole aiid comparing it with my extracts from the 
Antony MS. it appeared, as far as I could judge, to be a duplicate 
of that MS. (omitting the roll of Knights fees mentioned by 
Prince and perhaps also the charters of Newenham Abbey) but 
with similar drawings of the arms in the margin, and I came to 
the conclusion that it was made in 1608 by Brooke, with Sir Wm. 
Pole's permission, which is quite possible as Sir William did not 
die until 1635. 

Add to this discovenr, on my road home through London 
I was referred to one ot the Additional MSS. in the British 
Museum (No. 28649) which proved to be a copy of such parts of 
one or other of the volumes as related to Devonshire only, made 
by Prince himself before 1701, in compiling his history of the 
Worthies. 

The result is that we have three independent sources from 
which a complete edition of Sir W. Pole's valuable MS. can be 
compiled, and with these materials at command, it is to be hoped 
that the publication of such an important and verified contribution 
to the genealogy and topography of the Western counties may 
at no distant day be successfully accomplishsd. 

John Batten. 

142. The Wimborne Minster Helmb, — So early as two 
or three hundred years before the conquest there appears to have 
been a custom at the funeral of men of noble rank to present 
to the priest the arms and horse of the deceased ; with this custom 
may have originated the practice of setting up in Church the funeral 
achievements* namely, the helme and other armour with the 
banner and penon of a deceased knight or noble, which had been 
previously borne by heralds, or carried upon the horse of the 
deceased in the funeral procession. 

At first the armour was doubtless that which had been 
actually worn by the deceased in war, such was a portion of the 
armour of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral, of which 
there were two sets, one for war and one for peace. Of these there 
remain the gambeson, the gauntlets, the shield, the small sword 
sheath, and the belt : in later times the helme and arms worn in 

♦ According to Stnitt (Horda Angelcynnan) the whole achievement 
in Elizabeth's rei^n consisted of "crest, helme, targett, sworde and cote 
armour. '* 



174 Somerset S» Dorset Notes <S* Queries, 

joust and tournament, or at the barriers on foot, were substituted, 
and still later, when armour was out of date through the intro- 
duction of firearms, and the tournament was out of fashion and 
discontinued, the helme and other portions of the achievement 
were made and sold for the purpose, and were not such as could 
have been worn either in war or in the joust. 

The practice of leading the charger with the arms of the 
deceased in the funeral procession still survives in the funerals of 
officers of cavalry regiments and artillery batteries. 

According to Baron de Cosson, a high authority on mediaeval 
armour, we have in the Wimbome Minster helme ** a very remark- 
able specimen of the helme used for combats on foot, a form of 
headpiece of considerable rarity ; ** the date he states may be as 
early as 1450, the weight of the heteetis i4jlb. ; "being designed 
for those combats on foot with very sharp and dangerous swords 
and axes which were so much in favour with the great champions 
of the second half of the isth century, it is provided with a visor 
of great strength, the only apertures in which are numerous very 
narrow slits. . . .the large size of the visor and the great number 
of slits in it for fighting on foot were rendered necessary by the 
fact that the helme being secured firmly to the cuirass had no 
motion independently of the body of the knight, and to look to 
the right or to the left, up or down, he moved his head freely 
about inside the helme which was always large enough to enable 
him to do so." Archaeological Journal, vol. 39. 

In the photographic illustration the helme will be seen 
suspended over the tomb of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, 
and by Blore {Monumental Remains, 1826), it was thought to 
belong to that tomb, with which however it seems to have had no 
connection, it was fixed in its present position in recent times. 

The spring catch by which the visor, when lowered, was 
secured to the chin piece is in perfect preservation, and the whole 
helme is of good form and workmanship. 

The Rev. W. Miles Barnes, Monkton, Dorchester, will be 
obliged to readers who may inform him of Churches in Dorset 
in which portions of Ancient Armour are still preserved. 

W. M. B. 

[The Editors return their best thanks to Mr. Barnes for the 
kind loan of the photograph from which the illustration to the 
Article is taken.] 

143. Toller Whelmb, Dorset. — Hutchins' History of 
Dorset (3rd edition) tells us that the manor and farm of Toller 
Whelme was a possession of Ford Abbey ; that in or after the 
reign of Henry II. a chapel was built there, which subsequently 
fell into decay ; and that the manor house shows ** extensive 
remains of ancient architecture." A manuscript in the British 
Museum (Additional Charters No. 28677), entitled "Depositions 



Somerset (S* Dorset Notes S» Queries, 175 

concerning tithes of Toller Whelme — 1550," gives some additional 
information concerning the manor, and enables us to fix approxi- 
mately the date when the chapel was taken down and when the 
manor house was erected. The following is a copy of a portion 
of the manuscript : — 

** Hereafter foloweth ye depositions of such witnesses as 
were sworne and examined by me John Tregonwell at Milton in 
ye countie of Dorset ye iide day of October in ye iiiith yere of ye 
reygne of or Souarayne lord Ky'g Edward the Vlth by vertue of 
a letter directed unto me fro ye right noble therle of Wilshere 
lord high Tresurer of England for and cOcemy'g the right & 
possession of tythes of ye ferme of Toller Wylme y' ye sayde 
countie of Dors wch witnesses were p'duced before me as well of 
and for ye behalft of Edmonde Hardy fermor of ye sayde ferme 
as of & for ye behalff of Willm Berne fermor of ye p'sonage of 
Coscombe in ye sayde countie ye day & yere above writen. 

Thomas Fawne tenn'te of the mannor of Tollerwilme in the 
parrisse of Corscombe in the countie aforesayd of thage of 
xlti yeares & upwardes borne in Cattescliflf p'cell of the sayd 
mannor, where hath dwelled ever since, sworne, and examined, 
deposeth & sayth that Abbote Tybbe the last Abbate of forde* 
was owner and lord of the mannor of Tollerwelme in the ryghte 
of Thabbye of forde and keapt the same in his owne hondes by 
the space of twentye yeares of this deponentes knolege by all 
that tyme he payd no tyihes of the sayde fearme to the parson 
of Corscombe savinge onely iiis by the year and iiis more to one 
other parrishe called Mapertone and sayth that he knoweth this 
to be true, for there was a monk of forde continually lyinge in the 
bowse of the sayd farme & other old men theare, wch hathe 
oftentimes told this deponent, that there was no other devotie to 
be payde to the persone of Corscombe oute of the sayd farme but 
onlv iiis by the yeare as long as the sayd Abbot keapt the same 
in his owne handes & furthere sayth that he hem self did paye 
the said iiis divers yeres to the sayde parsons deputte and was 
allowed agayne in his rent by the said parson monke. And 
further sayth that he hard one Rechard Mathewe of thage of 
Ixxxx years reporte and saye wthin thes ten dayes that the 
shepherdes of the ferme of Tollerwilme aforesayde, were allwayes 
wonte to paye the one halfe of their tethinge lambes to the 
parsone of Corscombe, and the other halfe of their tethinge 
lambes to the Abbote of Forde. And further sayth that he herd 
the said olde man saye, that he hath sene the waylles of a church 
or chapell standing at Tollerwelme when he was a boye and did 
helpe to carye perte of the stones of the sayd walles towardes the 
building of the mansion house theare as he did reporte to this 
deponent within theise ten dayes. And further this deponent 
sayth that abowte iii or iiii yeres before the dissolution of sayd 
monasti of Ford the sayd Abbotte made a lease to Alexander 

• Thomas Chard alias Tybbes : sec Som. Arch. Soc. Proc. xzxvii. ii. 5. 



176 Somerset S» Dorset Notes <S* Queries, 

payne and Thomas Fisher of the sayd farme wch as the depone't 
herde say did agree wth Robert Rine the fermor of the p*sonage 
of Coscombe, for their tithes But what their agreme't was this 
depone't caiiot tell as he sajrth sauing that he herde some sayde 
yt was nothing at all was payde to the sayd Rine And further this 
depone't canot saye." 

** Robert Rene of Coscombe y* ye countie aforsayde husbanman 
of thage of Ixviii yeres borne wthyn a myle of ye sayde cosco'be 
and dwelly*g in ye sayd Coscombe by ye space of xl yeres or 
thereabout sworne and examined deposeth & sayth yt he knewe 
one Abbot Tybbe ye last Abbot of Forde wch had ye ferme of 
Tollerwylme i his owne bond co'tynually duri'g his tyme except 
two or iii yeres next before ye surre'dre of ye abbay of Forde y'to 
ye Kyng ha*ds and by all yt tyme were no tythes payde to ye 
ferm'r of Coscombe but only iiis by ye yere wch ys depone't 
knoweth to be true for he ye depone't was ferm'r of ye sayde 
psonage of Cosco'be by ye space of vii yeres before mr doctor 
Benet was pson there. And by yi tyme ye sayde Abbat of Foorde 
had & kept ye sayde farme y' his owne hand & payde no more 
of tythes for ye sayde ferm to the depone't bey'g fermV of ye 
psonage of Coscombe but only iiis wch ye depone't did receyne. 
Howbeit he sayth yt ye Abbats shephards and oy's his seruant 
inhabity'g and abydy'g in ye sayde ferme dyd eny yere pay tythi'g 
lambe & wooll of there shepe wch they kept uppon ye sayde 
ferme wth ye Abbats sheepe to ye depone't in ye right of ye 
pson of Coscombe. But when he had no sheape he payde to ye 
depone't ye tythes of ye wages. And lykewyse one Duche thelder 
dyd pay unto ys depone't all ye tythes of such demeanse grounde 
of ye sayde farme wch he dyd holde of ye sayde Abbat whillest 
ye ferme was in ye occupation of ye sayd Abbat by ye space 
abovesayd and ii yeres & s'nwhat more before ye surre'dre of 
ye sayde Abbot and Co'uet for certayne yeres not yet expired he 
dyd agre wth ye depone't bey'g ferm'r to mr doctor Benet ye newly 
made pson of Coscombe for ye tythes dury'g all ye tyme yt he 
shoold be ferm'r there of ye sayd psonage of Coscombe (wch was 
vii yeres fully & more). And he payde ye depone't for ye fyrst 
yere after ys entre into ye same iiii li & eny yere aftr v li xiii s 
iiii d and so co'tinually he payde ye sayde money unto ye depone't 
accordy'g to ye agreme't duryng all the sayde tyme & aft'r yt ys 
depone'ts lease was expired y' ye same ferme of ye sayde psonage 
one Willm Berne obtayned a lease of ye sayde psonage of mr 
doctor Benet who receyue the tythes of ye sayd ferm'r eu'r sins his 
tyme quietly tyll now wtyn ye two or three yeres as the sayde 
Berne & also ye said ferm'r hath tymes declared ye deponent. 
But touchyng paynie't made to ye sayde Berne ye depone't can not 
depose anythy'g of his owne knowlege. And further he can'ot 
depose." 

The other witnesses were : 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 177 

Richard Dowch, the elder, tenant of the manor of Toller Whelme, 

husbandman. 
William Semclere, another tenant of the manor. 
William Longeford of Corscombe, " Toumer." 
Alexander Payne of Evershot, Baker. 
Thomas Fisher of Evershot, husbandman. 

F. J. Pope. 

144. Kblston and Kilton. — The Index to the viith. 
Volume of the Somerset Record Society confuses these two parishes. 

1. P. 87. Calve8tona = Kelston: this is right. 

2. P. *o8. No. 479. ** Kelveton, i>., Kelston nr Bath." On 

referring to p. 95, (479) the peipetual Vicar of Kelveton is 
mentioned : this proves that Kilton is meant : Kelston has 
always been a Rectory. 

3. P. 125. No. 653. Kelveton (=Kilton) is again indexed 

under Kelston. 

4. P. 168. No. 839. Kelveston = Kelston, and is properly 

indexed. 

5. P. 74. No. 346. Kelveston= Kelston is again properly 

indexed: also at P. 105. No. 531. 

6. P. 89. No. 65. Kalveton, i,e.y Kilton on the Somerset Coast ; 

this seems to contradict p. 208. No. 479, 

7. P. 192. No. 56. *• • Calvet ' is Kilton " : this is correct and 

is properly indexed. 

8. P. 194. No. 813. Kylveton=Kilton, and is properly indexed. 
All the above references go to shew that the Note on p. 208 

is wrong, and that where an s appears in the spelling or these 
kindred names Kelston is meant, and that where no s occurs 
Kilton is meant. 

[The above is a summary of a communication from our 
correspondent, F.J.P. Editor for Somerset.] 

145. "Going out Booking." (IV. xxvii. in). — "There 
lived in Sutton one old man at least who, before his memory 
failed, could remember having known in youth another old 
man who had seen the hangings and horrors of the ' Duking 
days ' as they used to call the time of Monmouth's rebellion." 

This illustrates the reply of the He Abbots woman to Mr. 
Cely Trevilian, given at the above reference. The extract is 
from a charming book entitled, " Love and Quiet Life^^ Somerset 
dylls, by Walter Raymond, Author of ** Gentleman Upcotfs 
Daughter^' ** Young Sam and Sabina'* &c. (Hodder& Stoughton, 
London: 1894.) ^^^ passage quoted will be found on page 79, 
and we heartily recommend all three volumes to lovers of 
*' Zummerzet " and that melodious lingo which is so fast dis- 
appearing. 

F.W.W. 

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146. Dorset Christmas Carols (III. xviii. 67, xiv. 118, 
XX. 141, xxi. 204, xxii. 255, xxiii. 228, IV. xxvi. 52, xxvii. 81.) — 
Here is another Carol traditionally in use in Long Burton. 

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But greater news from heaTen was brought, 

Their Saviour Christ was bom. 

in. 

Go DOW with speed, the Angel said, 

And haste without delay, 
The heavenly Babe Hiat now is bora 

Doth in a manger lay. 

IV. 

Within a staU, where oxen feed. 

The heavenly Babe you'll find, 
A blest Redeemer, Who will save 

The souls of all mankind. 

147. Elton Family (IV. xxvii. 84). — I have long been ao 
quainted with these lines purporting to give the origin of the 
Bristol Eltons ; but I understand that Mr. £lt was believed to be 
of Jewish, not of Quaker extraction. I do not, however, suppose 
that the quatrain is more than a jeu ^esprit. Eltons (not Elts) 
frequently occur at Bristol in the i7th century. 

George Elton, labourer, was admitted to the freedom of that 
city, 24th April, 1639, by reason of his marriage with Ann, widow 
of John Roome, mason, deceased. 

Jacob Elton,cooper, was alsoadmitted 23rd November, 1667, 
as apprentice of Henry Bullock. 

Abraham, son of Jacob [ ? Isaac] Elton of Bristol, gardener, 
was apprenticed to Jacob Elton, cooper, and Hester his wife, for 
7 years, 3rd Oct., 1670, but was released by consent. 



x8o Sontirset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

Then Abraham, son of Isaac Elton of Bristol, gardener, was 
apprenticed to Thos. Winstone, mariner, and Margaret his wife, 
19th Dec, 1672, and took aphis freedom, 6th May, 1680. 

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Elton, merchants, sons and 
apprentices of Abraham Elton, were admitted to the freedom, 
i6th Sept., 1700, 7th Nov., 1702, and 7th Nov., 1705, respectively. 
Other names occur at subsequent dates. 

One stray notice of a Bristol Elton may here be placed on 
record. It occurs in the Register of the Meeting House, at 
Cam, Gloucestershire: 1706, April 11, Abraham, son of Isaac 
Elton, of Bristol, merchant, was baptised. X, 

148. Archbishop Laud's Visitation (I. i. 4, iii. 112), — 
The Frome Churchwardens paid 15s. od. at the Archbishop's 
Visitation in 1634 (they had paid 9s. 4d. and 5s. 4d. respectively 
in 1577 and 1589 at Grindal's and Whitgift's Visitations '* for our 
charges for dinner and our bill "), but no entry occurs of changes 
introduced in consequence, like those ordered at Beckington 
about the same time (Dioctsan History of Bath and Wells^ 
S.P.C.K., p. 20s). But an item of expense the same year may 
have reference to the Archbishop's directions. 

*' Paid, which was spent at severall times in riding to Wells to 
the Bishopp upon ourselves and others of the parish, and in wine 
upon him and Sir Henry Ludlye at their comeing to our towne 

j6« »9 7-" 

Does this mean Sir Henry Ludlow of Maiden Bradley, the 
father of the regicide Edmund Ludlow ? If so, what was he 
doing with Bishop Piers ? W.E.D. 

149. Ellesdon (I. vi. 274). — "One of the most dis- 
tinguished families here for many years, from about the close of 
Henry VII.'s reign. They had a short pedigree in the visitation 
books, 1623. Several of the name were chosen Mayors, four or 
five times each, and represented Lyme in parliament. The 
impropriation of Charmouth belonged to them. They removed 
t6 Charmouth and other places about 1670. Anthony Ellesdon, 
the last of the male line \jn quo sttrps mascula deftcit familia de 
Ellesdon^ who died 1737, lies interred there. He bought 
Newlands estate of J. Jefferys, Esq., in 1649. It was sold by the 
Henvils to Mr. Coade. Richard Henvil, Esq., of Bristol, 
merchant, married a daughter, and the estates devolved upon 
him. One of the Henvil family is possessed of the coin given to 
William Ellesdon by CharlesII.; it is said to be in the West Indies. 
Arms — Argent, on a chevron sable, three fleurs de lis or, between 
three croslets gules. Crest ^two balls." (Roberts). F M P 

X50. Sir George Summers (I. viii. 355).— "Sir George 
Summers, as his name is spelt in the parish register, received his 
birth here [Lyme] of respectable parents, in the year 1554. His 



Somerui &» Dorset NoUs 6* Quiriss. i8i 

fother, John Sammers, was in trade in the town.** Matthew 
Summers, a captain in the navy, was his nephew. Sir George 
died in Bermuda, Nov. 9, 1610, aged 56. He was apparently 
buried at Whitchurch Canonicorum^ near Charmouth, 4th June, 
161 1. (The particulars will be found in Roberts, together with 
a short account of his travels). F.M.P. 

151. Somerset Knighthood Compositions (IV. xxviL 
79>. — The John Court, gent., on p. no, was, of course, of 
lillesdon in the parish of North Curry, co. Somerset. Daniel 
Powell, gent., p. 115. He was, perhaps, of the Powells of 
Stoke Saint Gregory, a family, judging from the arms borne by 
its members (Per fesse argent and or, a lion rampant gules), 
descended from the Princes of Powis, by some one of the 
branches springing from Howell ap Griffith of Abertanat, who 
lived circa 1500. (Query: Can no one give me definite informa- 
tion as to the family and place of residence of this Daniel 
Powell ? He must have been a man of some consequence in his 
day.) In the Parish Register of said Stoke, occurs, under the 
date of June 12th, 1659, the birth of a William, son of a Daniel 
Powell, while the burial of the said William is entered on 
June 1 2th, 1660; then, on August 20th, 1661, is recorded the 
burial of Jane, daughter of ** Danel " Powell. — I fancy that the 
Daniel Powell of the Register, and the Daniel Powell of the 
Composition List were one and the same person. — ^The Samuel 
Powell, gent., of p. 118, was, no doubt, of Heale House, in the 
parish of Curry Kivel, who married Mary, the daughter of 
Marmaduke Jennings, Esq., of Burton, in the said parish and 
county. This gentleman also avoided knighthood. The Powells 
of Heale, though Welsh, were of an ongin different from that 
whence sprung the Powells of Stoke above mentioned. The 
Heale family, according to its old pedigree, derived directly from 
the Rev. William Powell, Archdeacon of Bath in 1590. — Arms: 
Per pale azure and gules, three lions rampant ardent. 

Phillip S. P. Conner, Octorara, Rowlandsville, Maryland. 

152. Vailes. — In an examination with reference to the 
settlement of a Cheddar woman in 1741, she states that "she 
lived with one Thomas Vizey who kept the Three Queens Inn in 
Bristol for two years, but had no wages but only such vaiies as was 
given her by guests resorting to the same Inn," &c. — Dr. Johnson 
recognizes the word, and gives as its meaning ** money given to 
servants,'* but thinks that it should be spelt va/^s, deriving it from 
the Latin * vale •=Farewell. Are the readers of S. dfD.N.Qt Q. 
acquainted with the word, as being still in use ? 

James Coleman. 

153- John La Faussille, Major-General, was married 

in Cheddar Church, by license, to Ann Barron, Sept. 13th, i74it 

but the name so puzzled the Parish Clerk, who registered the 

marriage, that he wrote it thus : — " Mr. John Laverull and Mrs. 



x82 Smerut S» Dorset Notes 6- Queries. 

Ann Barron." Mrs. La Faussille out-lived her husband and was 
buried in the family vault of the Barons in Wells Cathedral (see 
Jewers' Wells Cathedral, p. 58), October 22, 1787. Can anyone 
supply me with information respecting the family of La Faussille ? 

Jambs Coleman. 

154. John Pym. — The Puritan leader in his Note Book says 
that his mother died at Morton in Marsh in 1596. (Hist. MSS. 
Com. 10 Rep. Ap. VL p. 82). Her funeral sermon by Charles 
Fitz-Geoffrey, dedicated to Pym, is dated in 1620 (Forster's Life 
of Pym, p. 3). How is this contradiction to be explained } 
rjixCs mother at her decease was the second wife of Sir Anthony 
Rous of Edmerstone. Sir Anthony took for his third wife 
Susanna, widow of John Copplestone of Coppleslone (Mar. Lie. 
at Exeter 13 Sept., 1620), but survived his third marriage only a 
few months, his will being proved on 4 June, 1621. 

W. D. Pink. Leigh, Lancashire. 

X55. Sake, Sears, Thatcher and Jones Families.— In 
a former number of ^. S» D. N. S* Q,, I rea J that Binder church 
was originally but a chapel. 

At what date did it become the parish church, and would the 
fact that it was merely a chapel previously, account for the earliest 
register now remaining dating only from 1695? Is there any 
number to show that it was the first book ? Where would the 
entries of baptisms, marriages and burials before that date be 
recorded ? 

I wish to trace the families of Sare or Sears, Thatcher and 
Jones who intermarried about 1630, and are supposed to have 
resided at Dinder and Croscombe. 

Any information regarding either family will be gratefully 
received. Sam. P. May, Newton, Mass., U.S.A. 

156. Smith of Canonslbigh, Black Torrington and 
St. Acjdries. — I wish to discover the origin of a family of 
ancestors, extinct in the male line in 1748 — Smith or Smyth of 
Black Torrington, Canonsleigh, Devon, and St. Audries, Somerset. 
Burke, in his book on Heraldry, the name of which I forget, 
but edition of 1884, gives them the same arms — cinquefoils and 
leopards' faces— as the family of Sir Greville Smyth, Bart. A 
James Smith of this family was M.P. for Taunton in 17 14 and 
1724 ; he appears to have been a London goldsmith, and married 
a daughter of one Henry Rowland, also a banker in Lombard 
street. His son, another James Smith, purchased St. Audries, 
and married Grace, daughter of Edward Dyke of Tetton. He 
left four daughters only, and the eldest, Margaret, my great grand- 
mother, married in 1760, Sir Charles Bingham, ist Earl of Lucan. 
I should like also to find the origin of the families of Rowland 
and Dyke both of which appear to have belonged to Somerset. 
A Rowland married a Bickford of Dunsland. D. Browne. 



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183 



157. Emlyn, Emlen or Emylby Family. — (Arms : Sable, 
or argent, a savage with his club proper). — I have evidence that 
snch a family was in Somerset, at Shepton Mallet and its vicinity, 
in the 17th century. Where can I find some account of it ? Does 
it yet exist in the county ? 

Philip S. P. Connbr, Octorara, Rowlandsville, Maryland. 

158. Ebbnbzer Cottages. — What was the origin of 
*' Ebenezer Cottages," such as at Bishops Caundle, Pulham, &c., 
with the very curious figures carved over the doors ? 

E. R. Dale. 

159. Dorset Clergy. — ^The following is a List of the 
Dorset Clergy who made Composition for First Fruits, from 27 
to 38 Henry VIIL, extracted from ** Excfuquer Composition Books ^ 
First Fruits'* Public Record Office, London: — 



BENEFICE. 




CLERK. 




DATS. 




Paddletown 


V 


Joh'es Draper, Prior. 


17 Jan. 

18 Feb. 


27 Hen. Vnii 


Nether Compton 

S. Mary de Blandford 


R 


Pancr. Grouse 


f» 


ff 


R 


Jacobus Robinson 


24 Feb. 




,f 


Ewryn 


R 


] foh'es Draper, Prior 


3 May 
16 June 


28 


ff 


Officium Sacristae in 


Coll. 


Simon Benyson 


27 


ff 


Wimborne 












Cant. voc. Redcots in 


Coll. 


Simon Benyson 


» 


»> 


»> 


Wimborne 












Cant, in Ecd. de Abbotsbory 


Thomas Elkyn 


»f 


»» 


»f 


Compton Haworth 


R 


Rob'tus Frye 


27 Jutt« 


f» 


» 


Pentrige 


R 


Will'us Noble 


24 Jan. 


32 


tf 


Buckland Rypers 


R 


Walt'us Jerman 


27 Jan. 


If 


ff 


Winterbome STleton 


R 


Joh'es Bodnam 
Simon Barwick 


7Apl. 


»♦ 


ff 


Warham 


R 


17 June 
I July 


33 


ff 


S. Peter in Shafton 


R 


WUl'us Level 


ft 


ff 


Cant, in Coll. of Wimborne 


Walterus Mathewe 


3 Aug. 


>» 




Gillingham Cant. 




Galfr'us GUI 


19 Sept. 


i> 


ff 


Hampreston 


R 


Cyprianus Thistlewait 
Will»us Stanley 


27 Oct. 


»» 


f» 


Shafton S. Catherin 


Cantar 


14 Dec. 


,, 


ff 


Tolpuddle 


V 


Thomas Wallts 


3 Dec. 


35 


•f 


Dorchester S. Trinity 


R 


Nicol* Knewesfubbe 


15 Dec. 


»» 


,, 


Chaldon 


V 


Joh'es Drayton 
Joh'es Rythe 


14 Feb. 


33 


»» 


Gillingham cu* Cap. Estover V 


21 Feb. 




f» 


Combe Kaynes 


V 


Simon Harbjm 


28 Feb. 


91 


»» 


Clyston Mabanke 


R 


Rob'tus Ducke 


6 Mar. 


»* 


ff 


Crauford 


V 


Will'us Fayle 


14 May 


34 


ff 


Shafton S. Ann 


Cant. 


Walfus Hayes 


19 May 


»» 


ff 


Dorchester S. Trinity 


Cant. 


Will'us German 


21 June 
25 July 


»• 


f » 


Wymboume Magna 


Cant. 


Toh'es Stone 
Laurentus Copferlcr 


ft 


•f 


Stirtyll 


Cap'a. 


17 Aug. 


f* 


„ 


BeU 


R 


Toh'es Olderfielde 
Thomas Tanner 


16 Dec. 


f( 


ff 


Archdeaconry Dorset, 


&c. 


29 Dec. 


»» 


ft 


Brappole 


V 


Rob'tus Churd 


13 Feb. 




,, 


Bemister prima 


P 


Steph'us Cheston 


23 Martii „ 


„ 


Stanbridge 


R 


WiU'us Houncell 


12 Ap. 


,, 


,, 


Mediety of S. Ann's 


Chantry 


Joh'es Redberd 


9 June 


35 


,, 


in Shafton 












S. John's Chappel in 


Shafton 


Joh'es Hame 


15 July 


•» 


,. 



1 84 



Somsrset 6* Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 



BBMSFICE. 

Winterbome S. Martin V 
Alton V 
Whitechurch V 
TolpudeU V 
S. Trinity in Dorclicster R 
Horton com Ci^'a V 
Fountmell R 
Fifehead R 
Sturmister Newton V 
Omnium Sanctorum in Dor- 
chester R 
Charmouth R 
Childe Okeford Superior R 
M >« Interior R 
Hasilbere R 
Pulham R 
Tarrant Rairshton R 
Wintcrboum Cane R 
Frome Vauchurch R 
Otmington V 
Knuwle R 
Shapwyke V 
Bere V 
SkirtiU Lib* Cap'a 
Bincomb R 
Gillingham P 
Wyke Regis R 
Gussage Omnium SanctorumV 
Crichdl P'va R 
Helton V 
Catestock R 
Spetisbury R 
Bridport £cclesia 
Pudilletrenthed V 
Bn;inston R 
Blandford Mary R 
Stoke wake R 
Chelborough R 
Netherbuiy in Ecd. Sarum P 
Hasilbers R 
Langton R 
Stoke Gaylard R 
Frampton V 
Alrington Lib' Cap' 
Tumerspuddle R 
Fordington V 
Burton R 
Stanbridge R 
Okeford Fitz Pain R 
Wicbampton R 
Stinford V 
Brodcway R 
Buckland V 
Brodway R 
Guisage S. Michael R 
Oimynton V 
Clid Frome ct Wroxall R 



CLERK. 

Will'us Thorpe 
Mattheus Utton 
WiU'us Walker 
Thos. Walles 
Nich*us Knewestubbe 
Toh'es Rowe 
Rich*us Dennis . 
Thomas Hawkins 
Rogerus Lewis 

Will'us Maundfield 
WiU'us Sankey 
Henricus Samweys 
Will'us Wilcoks 
Will'us Saunders 
Joh'cs Meid3m 
Will'm Marten 
Rob'tus Marley 
Joh'es Manfield 
lEdrus Brown 
Joh*es Hamme 
Will'us Bradforth 
WiU'us Valence 
Thomas Smith 
Will'us Baker 
Rob'ius Peterson 
Thomas Watson 
Rad'us Ratewe 
Walterus Baron 
WiU'us Styby 
Toh'es MaskaU 
Thomas SUk 
Toh'es Baker 
Edrus Hebbes 
Toh'es Grime 
Thomas Alford 
Rob'tus Childes 
Rogerus Grenaway 
Edrus Semer 
Thomas Sawle 
Georgius Dojion 
Toh'es ColceU 
Vincentius Genge 
Toh'es Hardye 
Toh'es BrickhiU 
WUl'us Stanley 
Thos Slater 
Thos Dewhurst 
Toh'es Morecomb 
Thos Hall 
Rob'tus Beachton 
Toh'es Busby 
Kob*tU8 Friday 
Wil.'usTrue 
Thos Combe 
Wiirus Hemerforde 
Will'us HiUarye 

W. 



DATS. 

19 July 35 Hen, VIII. 
I Sept. „ 

6 Nov 

3 Nov 

15 I>«c 

25 Jan 

25 Feb 

20 March „ „ 
24 March „ „ 

I April t, „ 

9 May 36 „ 

12 May ,. 

19 May ,. 

23 May ,. 

28 May „ 

15 Aug 

27 Oct. „ „ 

27 Nov. „ „ 

26 Ap 

II June ., 
i6Juiy 37 
17 July .. 

26 Aug 

28 Aug 

5 Sept 

23 Sept. ., 

28 Sept. „ 

7 Oct 

8 Oct. ,. 
15 Oct. .. 
17 Oct. „ 

27 Nov. ,, ., 

29 Nov. „ ,, 
20 Dec 

9 Feb. ., 
5 March ,, ,. 

10 March ,, ,. 

27 March „ ,, 

13 May 38 !! 

20 May „ „ 

9 June ., 

8 July M 

2 Aug. „ 

4 Aug. „ 

6Au<; 

• II Sept. ,. „ 

25 Sept. ,. 

18 Oct 

20 Oct. „ 

8 Nov 

25 Nov. ., „ 

25 Nov 

26 Nov, „ „ 
4 Dec 

29 Jan 

Miles Barnes. 



Somersii 6* Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 185 

t6o. Churchwardens' Accounts, St. John's Glaston- 
bury. (IV. xxvi. 73; xxvii. 121). — It was a mistake to suppose 
that the accounts of 1418 and 1421 were lost; they had been 
placed in another bundle of documents and so had not come to 
my hand. I am now able to transcribe these two computi which 
should have preceded the one last printed. Two copies exist of 
that for 1 42 1, almost identical, one much better preserved than 
the other. The slight variations which occur have been noted. 
The account of 141 8 is a palimpsest, of which the previous 
writing has been insufficiently erased and makes the present hard 
to decipher. 

An asterisk denotes that the MS. is defective, or illegible. 

1418. 

* Thome Danster et Mathei Stokwood custodum b'>norum ecdesie 
beati Tohannis * aniroaruin anno domini mccccxviij mo usque 
idem festum proxime sequens |>er unum annum integrum. 

* viij 11. iiijt. ij d. de arreragiis compoti anni precedentis. 

Summa viij li. iiij s. ij d. 

* cxixs. xd. de redditu terminorum Natalis Domini Pasche 
Nativitatis beati Johannis Baptiste * chaelis ut patet in compoto 
de anno domini mccccixno. 

Summa cxix s. x d. 

* mentum Redditus. lidem respondebant de vs. de incremento redditus 
Johannis Burgeis et Isabelle uxoris ejus super uno cotagio cum 
curtillagio in Madelood prius Johannis Leicestr habendo pacandis ad 
iiij terminos preter ij s. de antiquo redditu unde xijd. allocantur 
custodibus boiiorum capelle sancti Benigni annuatim. £t de viij d. 
de incremento redditus Thome Greynton super uno tofto in * 
quondam Walter! Sampson et postea Agnete Barbor in Chelkwell 
preter iiijd. pro eodem tofto superius oneratos pacandis ad iiij 
terminos. 

Summa vs. viiid. 

Exitus Officii. Idem respondebant de xij s. ix d. ob. de coUecdone ad Pascha 

f>ro cereo Paschali. Et de iiij d. de dimidio ceteris * de cerico ex 
egato Thomasine Dorlet vendtto. Et de iij s. iiij d. de j oUa enea 
ponderis xvij librarum ex ♦ ♦ Et de ♦ oUa enea ponderis ix 
iibrarum ex legato Alicie relicte dicti * * ponderis * librarum 
ex legato Matildis Olyver vend. Et de • ♦ de j oUa enea 
ponderis ♦ ♦ Agnete Crogge vendita. Et de ij s. de uno ♦ ♦ 
xix librarum ex legato Cecilie W * ultra xviij d. solutes de debito 
dicte Cedlie. Et de xij d. de Johanne Forstinor prepositi dicti 

* • pro filio suo sepelliendo. 

Summa xxiiij s. xj d. ob. [small^ xxiiij s. xj d. ob. 

Perquisita. * devjs. receptis * • • mesuagio in alto vico Glastonie 
nuner Ricardi Wodeward pro ♦ ♦ ♦ Ricardi Maynard et 
Jonanne uxoris sue pro uno cnesuagio in alto vico Glastonie * * 
vendito pro vetere debito ♦ ♦ districcio. 

Summa x s. [Small x s.] 

Recepcio Forinseca. Idem respondebant de xxj s. yj d. receptis de Jobanne 
Westbury de denariis coUectis inter parocnianos ad lumen beate 
Marie Virginis. Et de viij s. receptis de eodem de denariis collectis 
ad lumen sancte Katarine. Et de xvd. receptis de Henrico Ffelde 
de denariis collectis ad lumen sancti Nicbolai. Et de vj s. viij d. de 
Jobanne Fforstrall de denariis collectis ad reparacionem He sancti 
Georgij. Et de xvjd. receptis de Waltero Coumbe de denariis 



1 86 Somerset S* Dorset Notes S» Queries, 

collectis ad habendam tabulam * * sancti Georgij. £t de 
vj s. viij d. de dono Johannis Scalon capellani ad sustentandam ilam 
sancti Nicholai. 

Summa ♦ ♦ ♦ [small] liiij s. vij d. 
Summa totalis Recepte et arreragii xviij li. xixs. ijd. ob. 

Resolutio Redditus. In redditu resoluto preposito domini * * * ii s. ad 
iiij terminos. 

Samma ijs. 

Defectus Redditus. In defectu redditas Magistri Thome Bodond tenentis 
unum toftum in alto vico Glastonie quondam Gervasij Grices nuper 
incendio vastatum per annum viij s. ad iiij terminos quia conceditur 
eidem Thome et Johanne Bodond ad terminum vite utriusque eorum 
per certum redditum xij d. per annum et oneratur de ix s. In defectu 
redditus Ricardi Wodeward dicti Smyth tenentis unum toftum cum 
gardino in alto vico Glastonie nuper incendio vastatum quondam 
J. Vogbel per annum x s. ad iiij terminos quia nulla districdo. In 
defectu redditus unius mesuagii nuper Alicie Childe per annum xij d. 
ad iiij terminos quia conceditur Willelmo Ladde per certum redditum 
yjs. In defectu redditus unius cotagii in tuto vico Glastonie 
quondam Thome Boxwell per annum ijs. ad iiij terminos quia 
conceditur Thome Webbe capellano per certum redditum xs. et 
oneratur superius in capite ad xij s. 

Summa xxj s. 

Necessaria. In cera et licbinis emptis una cum factura cereorum per annum 
vij s. X d. In locione vestimentorum et aliorum omamentorum cum 
paruris eorundem deponendis et reponendis xixd. In una ydria 

• ♦ all et j tapp3mg ferreo pro eadem pendenda super p * 
ecclesie ♦ In panno lineo pro ♦ inde fadendis xiij d. In xv 
crucibus fadendis in V auterclothes cum cerico empto * iiij d. In 

♦ facto clerico capelle domini Abbatis pro dictis auterclothes • 
in dictam capellam deferendis et reportandis vj d. * * de bonis 
ecclesie perdito rehabendo iiij d. In stipendio unius plumbarij per 
unum ebdomada pro certis defectibus * navis ecclesie emendandis 
iij s. qui cepit per diem vj d. In xxvj libtis saudyr emptis ad ^ 
V s. vij d. unde • libre precium libre iij d. et de rosyn preciiun 
libre ij d. ob. In stipendiis unius tegulatoris cum ij hommibus alam 
ecclesie per V dies ♦ ♦ removentis laththantis et de novo 
tegulantis et pinctitaniis xviij s. yjs. utrique. In stipendio unius 
hominis * * tegulantis per V dies xxd. In lathth et lathnaill 
emptis ad idem ij d. In in quarteriis calcis emptis ad idem cum 
caria^o ij s. predum bushelli j d. In v^ bushellis zabuli emptis ad 
idem iij d. In pane et cervisio et vino diversis ♦ ♦ opus iij d. In 
qaadam cruce ae latyn defracta emendanda per Johannem Kmg vii d. 
In la * campane defracte emendanda cum ferro empto ad iaem 
xviij d. In bawdrey dicte campane defracte emendando ij d. £t pro 
uno novo candelabro faciendo ae ferro de stauro cum eodem assedendo 
coram ymagine beate Marie ij d. In ij novis torchiis fadendis xij d. 
In iiij libris lichini emptis ad idem xiiii d. precium [torn] ob. In 
xviij libris cere emptis ad idem viij s. iij d. precium libre v d. ob. 
In iiij libris rosyn emptis ad idem ♦ d. In ii ♦ • ♦ crewetts 
datis per excambium. In iij altaribus in eccfesia edificandis viz,, 
beate Marie Sancti Georgij et Sancti Nicholai * Suffraganeo xx s. 
In feodo dato familie sue xx d. In vino et frankincence emptis ad 
idem vj d. In pane cervisio et vino et camibus emptis pro eodem 
familia sua et pro sacerdotibus et aliis de parocbia auxihantibus ad 
idem officium xv d. preter unum porcellum de dono sacriste unum 
porcellum de dono Archidiaconi Glastoniensis j ancam j porcellum 
de dono J. Scalon capellani et alia victualia focalia et ob * *■ 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 187 

Colbrook. In pane equino empto pro prcbenda (1) equoiiim 
suffiraganei ♦ ♦ dicto sofifraganeo qaerendo ad Well. • scndcio 
ijd. In j frontal! [xxjd. above] de blodio bokereham com * * 
lane ♦ ♦ 

Somma xviij s. 

Vadia et Stipendia. In vadiis et stipendio Tohannis Westbury capellani beate 
Marie Virginis iiijli. In stipendio ij cnstodum bonorum ecdesie 
per annnm yj s. viij d. In stipendio clerici compoti una cum 
pergameno empto xzd. 

Somma iiijli. viijs. iiijd. [5ma//] iiij li. viijs. iiijd. 
Summa totalis expense viij li. xix s. iiij d. 
£t sic debent custodes ix li. xixs. xd. ob. 

Thomam Porter et Johannem Bourton nuper custodes yj li. xiij s. xd. 
Et super Thomam Dunster et Matheum Stockwood nunc custodes 
Ixvjs. ob. 

Idem respondebant de v calicibus argenteis unde iij deaurati cum 
totidem cacez de virgis pro eisdem ij crewetts argenteis cum ij cacex 
de virgis pro eisdem ij pixidibus pro corpora Christi inponendo 
argenteis unde j de dono Simonis Bernard j pixide de yvory yj 
crewetts de peltro ij pixidibus de latyn pro corpore Christi j bokett 

♦ pro aqua benedicta j ♦ cum manida pro sancta aqua de- 
spargenda j lucema j blodia secta cum * j alba secta cum capa 
j blodia secta sine capa j capa facta de ♦ jrelew yj chesipul liij 
aubes preter ix superius cum sectis v • preter ix superius ♦ * * 
X pannis pro altari ♦ ♦ canvacez • j psalterio ♦ Jerico 

♦ ♦ ♦ Tomas j portiforio ij manualibus iij antiphonariis j legenda 
ij collectariis j processional! j vetere gradali j ordinal! cujus secundum 
folium incipit it ij parvis libris de seimonibus unde j secundum folium 
incipit dominus et alterius secundum folium jerico uj novis lichbcU v 
campanis tintinnal j communi cista pro cartis inponendis yj aliis cistis 
V candelabris ferreis j candelabro de latyn j clogge ferreo predum 
xviij d. V baners unde iij de cerico et ii steyned j nigro baner ij albis 
baner j baner sancti Georgij steyned j penoun steyned iij peplis de 
cerico j loculo de red folowet j sigillo sancti Johannis de latyn ^ depcr 
ferreo iij dext iij caas ligneis unde ij pro lining inde portandis i pro 
factura parvorum ceriorum j bushello ferro ligato cum ii maniculis 
ferreis ♦ ♦ anulis argenteis cum i faro i cruce j firmaculo argenteo 
ponder ♦ ♦ iij anulis • ♦ iij lintniamentis de braban j lecto 
de Worsteed cum testar broided pro sepulcro ij lanceis pro baner 
pendcndis ij beerez cum j cooperculo j parte tabule auree de dono 
Rose Bernard [blank] libris plumb! receptis de cus.odibus precedent- 
ibus preter [blank] expensas in diversis necessariis ecdesie toto 
tempore Maine! Stockwcod vij anulis argenteis de donis diversis ad 
altare Sancte Katarine pond [blank] iiij anulis argenteis de donis 
diversis ad emendadonem cujusdam veteris calids defracti pro altari 
beateMarie pond [blank] ij pannis steyned de dono Thome Hoopere 
ad altare beate Marie ♦ ♦ • Nicolas ♦ * 



1421. 

Glastonia. Compotus Johannis Morthfeld et Johannis Smert custodum 
bonorum ecclesie beat! Johannis ibidem a die commemoradonis 
animarum anno domini mccccxxjmo. usque idem festum proxime 
sequens. 

(i) provender. 



1 88 Somerset &» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

Arreragia. Idem respondebant de xli ziij s. j d. ob de arreragiis compoti anni 
precedentis. 

Summaxli. xiijs. jd. ob. 
Redditus Assisus. Idem respondebant de cxixs. xd.de redditu tenninoniin 
Natalis domini Pascne Nativitatis beati Johannis Baptiste et Sancti 
Michaelis ut patet in compoto de anno domini mccccixno. 
Summa cxix s. x d. 

Incrementum Redditus. De v s. de incrcmento redditus Johannis Burgeis et 
Isabelle uxoris ejus super uno cotagio cum cur^agio in Madelode 
prius Johannis Leicestr* nichil quia remanet in manibus cnstodum 

Ser mortem predicti Johannis et per reddidonem predicte Isabelle 
oc anno. Et de viii d. de incremento redditus Thome Greynton 
super uno tofto in Glastonia quondam Walteri Sampson et postea 
Agnete Barbor in Cbelkwell preter iiij d. pro eodem toflo superios 
oneratos pacando ad iiij d. terminos. £t de ij s. viij d. de incremento 
redditus Johannis Goldsm3rth pro uno messuagio cum curtillagio et 
suis pertinenciis in alto vico Glastonie nuper Roberti Dorlet habendo 
pacandis ad iiij terminos hoc anno iiicio preter iijs. yjd. superius 
oneratos et preter yjd. quos Ricardus (i) percepit de eodem 
messuagio 

Summa iij s. iiij d. 

ExitusOfficij. Idem respondebant de xs. de colleccione ad Pascha pro la 
Trend el. Et de xiiijd. de uno anulo argenteo vendito Ricardo 
Bosyn. Et de ijs. de uno anulo argenteo de legato Maxione 
Gremter (2) vendito. Et de xijd. de exitu unius cotagii cum 
curtillagio apud Edgarlegh nuper Ricardi Bole venditi. 
Summa xiiijs. ijd. 
Summa totalis Recepte cum arreragiis xvij li. x s. v d. ob. 

Resolucio Redditus. In redditu resoluto preposito domini Abbatis pro 
tenemento quondam Skynner ij s. ad iiij terminos. 
Summa ij s. 

Defectus Redditus. In defectum redditus Johanne Boclond tenentis unum 
toftum in alto vico Glas onie quondam Gervasij Grycez nuper incendio 
vastatum per annum viijs. ad iiij terminos <^uia conceditur eidem 
Johanne ad terminum vite sue per certum redditum xij d. per annum 
et oneratur de ixs. In defectu redditus Ricardi Wodeward dicti 
Smyth tcneniis imum toftum cum gardino in alto vico Glastonie 
nuper incendio vastatum quondam sabelle Voughel per annum x s. 
ad iiij terminos qu a nulla destriccio. In defectu redditus (3) nuper 
Alicie Chelde per annum xijd. ad iiij terminos quia conceditur 
David Cowbrygge per certum redditum vij s. tantum et oneratur de 
viijs. In defectu redditus imius cotagij in alto vico Glastonie 
quondam Thome Borwell per annum ijs. ad iiij terminos quia 
conceditur Thome Webbe capellano per certum redditum xs. et 
<oi»cratur superius in capite ad xij s. In defectu redditus unius cotagij 
cam curtillagio apud Edgarligh nuper Ricardi Bole per annum ij s. 
nd iiij terminos (|uia in manibus custodum. In defectu redditus umut 
c^ttt(«i} nuper Ricardi Maynard per annum causa que supra yj s. ad 
iii; t^nninos. In defectu redditus unius cotagij cum curtillagio in 
^fftd«lo^ nuper J. Burgeis et Isabelle uxoris ejus per annum eadem 
<it cans^ 1 1^ *d iiij terminos. 

Summa xxxjs. 
T..».«w*^, ir i i>^*ri$ torchiis ponderantibus xxvij libras ix s. iiij d. In una 



- , -^* . ^^-y >ej^^ T^at* unius messuagii. 



Somtrut 6» Dorut Notes & Queries. 189 

novs cmce dedonoMathd Stocwod depinctitanda (i) ijs.jd. In 
Qno novo snperpellicio empto pro clerioo parochuUi iijt. izd. In 
ima Tetere cista hi ecdesia defracta emendanda jd. In lodooe 
Tesdmentonim per annum xiiijd. Inqnodam moroluteo ex (>ute 
occtdentaU dmiterij facto in loco ubi scalera (2) prios fait facta liij d. 
In ana nora clave pro ostio serrnre ecdesie empu iiii d. In ooadam 
patella feirea pro carbonibos defracta emendanda ob. In oatisura 
et fossato circa cortfllaginm nnper Ricardi Bole apad Edgarligh 
emendandU viij d. In cera et lechinis emptis cum factnra parvorum 
cereorom per annum vij s. vij d. 

Summa zxvs. iiij d. ob. 

Vadia et Stipendia. In vadiis et stipendio unius capellani beate Marie nichil 
quia nullns fuit hoc anno. In stipendiis ij custodum bonorum 
ecdesie per annum yj s. viij d. In stipendio derid compoti una cum 
pergameno empto zx d. 

Summa viij s. iiij d. 
Summa totalis expense Ixyj s viii d. ob. 
£t sic debent custodes xiiij li. iij s. ixd. (3). 
Unde super Thomam Porter et Johannem Bourton nuper custodes 
vili. xiijs. xd. debiti de diversis parochiams ut patct |>er parcellam 
penes predictum Tohanncm Bourton remanentem. £t super 
Johannem Morthield et Johannem Smert nunc custodes 
viili. ixs. xjd. 

Idem respondebant de v calidbus argenteis unde iij deaurati cum v 
casez de vir^s pro eisdem ij crewets argenteis cum ij cacex de virgis 
pro eisdem ij pyxidibus argenteis unde altera deaurata pro corpore 
Clui^ti imponendo. j pyxide de yvory. ij pyxidibus de laton pro 
consimili. yj crewets oe pdtro U) eeUaat. i bokett de pdtro cum 
manicula pro aqua benedicta. 1 lucema. j blodia sect a cum capa. 
j alba secta cum capa. j blodia secta sine capa. f capa zdew. 
yj chesypl. iiii awbez preter ix superius cum sectis. vi amicez i)reter 
ix superius cum sectis. j frontd steyned pro summo altari. j n-ontd 
steyned pro eodem altari cum uno panno xli [t.«., auadragesimali] et 
j lyne pro eodem. x pannis pro altari et pro altari beate Marie 
(iiij above) cum ij canvacez pro eisdem altaribus. viij towell. iij 
missalibus. iii gradalibus. j psalterio vocato alba, iiij minoribus 
psalteriis. i porUforio. ij manualibus. uj anthifonariis. j legenda. 
ij coUectoriis Unum [sic] processionale j vetere gradali. j ordinali 
cujui secundum folium indpit //. ij parvis libris de sermonibus unde 
j secundum folium indpit aommus et alterius secundum folium jirico. 
lii novis lychebell. v campanis tintinabiL j communi cista pro cartis 
inponendis. yj aliis dstis. v candelabris ferreis. j candelabro de 
laton. V baners unde uj de cereco et ij ste%ned. j nigro baner 
ij aibis baners. j baner sancti Georgij steyned. j penoun stejmed. 
vij peplis de cerico. j loculo de red fellewet. j sigillo sancti 
Johannis de latyn. j depor ferreo. iij dexts. j caas ligneo pro 
parvis terciis (5) inde ponendis. j bushell ferro ligato cum ij 
manicuUs ferreis. ^blanh"^ anulis cum j caas et j cruce et j fimaculo 
[su] areenteo. iij anulis aureis. iij linthiamentis de braband. 
1 lecto de Worsteed cum testar broyded pro scpulcro. ij lanceis pro 
baner pendendis. ij beris cum uno cooperculo. j peri [sic] tabularum 

(i) Depinctitan neemt to mttLn to puai owtt. 

(2) Scalera a flight of steps. 

(3) This line and the next five are wanting in one copy. 

(4) The other copy supplies j. 

(5) What are small thiras ? Perhaps an error for cereis ; but both copies 
agree. 



I 



igo Somerut <§• Dorset Notes <S* Queries. 

auri. Tij annlis argentds de donb diversts ad altare sancte KaUiine : 
ij pannis steyned de dono Thome Hoopcre et J. Westbmy ad altsre 
beate Marie, j viridi cheidpl cam j alba, j almido. j stcx^ 
j fane] (I) cum lij viridibas paniris de secta predicta chesipl de dono 
Willelmi London ad altare oeate Marie, j plumbo qnadrato de fine 
'fhomarine Doriet. j nave de peltro pro franckencence. j ofla 
ponderit xl librarum ex legato Robert! llonycod. j hoselyng towd 
de denaunt (2) continente in lon^tndine vij vir^as et in latitudme yj 
virgas. iiij corporacez. Vc xiiij libris plombi qnalibet centena de 
cxij librarum pondere pro la Shaft (3) Willelmi But. j oUa enca 
ponderis xx librarum. j patella predo xviijd. j manpa et j tndla 
de legato Alide foranour. ij tudlis tuell [sk) de legato IsabeUe 
Selez. XXX libris plumbi. 1 parva cam[)ana et j parva cruce de latyn 
de legato J Sherp. cxyj libris plumbi in custodia Willelmi Sooper. 
(4)* J P^P^ ^^ cerico ex legato uxorb Ricardi lood. j oUa enea 
ponderis [blank] ex legato T. Haywood, j anulo argenteo deanrato 
ex legato uxoris J. Androw. 

'439. 
This year's accounts mark the introduction of the Roodloft, 
and the first beginnings of letting seats to the parishioners, and 
burying within the church, which was directed at Wells Cathedral 
by an ordinance of 1 243 for the majores persons de ecclesia. 
Henceforth the church let out torches for funerals at various 
sums according to the number burnt. 

Glastonia. Compotns Thome Burton et Walteri Poole custodum bonomm 
ecdesie dancti Johannis ibidem a festo Sancti Michaelis anno domini 
millesimo ccccxxxixno. usque idem festum proxime sequens per 
unum annum integrum. 
Arreragia. Idem respondebant de iiii li. xi d. ob. de arreragiis compoti anni 
precedentis. 

Summa iiiili. xid. ob. 
Redditus Assisus. lidem respondebant de vili. vis. de redditu terminomm 
Natalis Domini Pascne Nativitatis beati Johannis et Sancti Mirha^ff 
cum viiid.de incremento redditus Tohanne relicte Thome Greynton 
super uno tofto in Glastonia quondam Walteri Sampson iis. vixjd. 
de incremento redditus Johannis Goldesmythe pro uno mesuagio com 
curtilla£io et suis pertinendis in alto vico quondam Philippi Maluenie 
XV d. de redditu unius tenementi cum curtillagio et suis pertineociis 
vocato Georges 3mne nuper Johannis Nevwe etpostea N. Kynge 
xiid. de redditu unius tenementi cum curtillagio m alto vico nuper 
Ade Hardy ng et postea Johannis of Chambor xij d. de incremento 
redditus Roberti Glover pro una placea terre in Madelode ab antiquo 
Gropekomelane nuper Ricardi Wittyng lijs. iijd. de redcfitu 
tenementi Roberti Wilkys dicti Glover Thome Burgeys et sodorum 
suorum pro * * * in compoto anni precedentis conceduntur 
ad sustentadonem misse et capefle beate Marie Virginis « « « 
dictorum tenementorum prout plenius patet per evidendas remanentes 
in communi dsta. Et de us. de mcremento redditus Johannis 
• * * cotagio cum curtillagio in Chelkewdl prius Johannis Hulle 
hoc anno x mo. 

Summa vili. viijs. 

(I) Fand, diminutive of fane, vane; a maniple* 

i2) In other copy houselyng towd de dinaunt. 
3) Referring apparently to lead mines. 

(4) What follows is in a different hand, and omitted in the other copy, 
wUdi also reads J. Sooper. 



Somerset 6* Dorset Not esS* Queries. 191 

Exitus Officii lidem respondebant de xj 8. ij d. ob. dc collcccione id Pascha 
pro la Trcndell ct de xijs. de Hogdyngscl ♦ de collcccione 
eJQsdem. Et dc iij s. v d. receptis ci legato Jobannc Hurnc ad opuf 
ecclesie. Et de vj ♦ de eiecutoribus Johaimis Palmer pro pulco 
sno in ecdesia habendo. Et de iij ». iiij d. ei legato ejutdem ad * 
de iijs. iiijd. receptis de diversis ezenniis (i) ad fabricam novi 
Rodeloft. Et de xij d. ex legato M ♦ ad opui eccle»ic. Et de 
yj d. ex legato Johaimis Bridde ad opus ecclesie. Et de« xx d. ex 
legato Will ♦ ad opus ecclesie. Et de iiij s. receptis dc Johanne 
Walters pro puteo pro Isabella uxore ejus in ecclcsia. El de • 
ex legato eiusdem ad opus ecclesie. Kt de iijs. iiijd. ex legato 
Thome Colbrook ad opus ecclesie. Et de • receptis de 
executoribus ejusdem Thome pro torchis eisdem locatis. Et de 
yj s. vuj d. receptis ex dono Roberti Jukes • Bertram ad fabricam 
novi Rodelofti. Et de xijd. receptii pro torchis locatis ad 
sepulturam Isabelle Walters • Willelmi Corv. Et de iiij s, 
receptis pro torchis locatis executoribus Johanne Palmer. Kr de x d. 
receptis pro torchis locatis ad sepulturam Jacobi Mareys. Et de 
XV s. de quodam basilard (2) argento reparato ex legato Kogerl * 
vendito. Et de iij s. iiij d. de sedibus m ecclesia venditis hoc anno 
Et de xxs. X d. do donadone diversorum parocbianorum ad fabtlcam 
novi Rodelofte ut patet per quandam sedulam penes cuitodet 
remanentem. Et de vs. de exitu unius * cum curtilaglo in 
Northlode prius Willelmi Marshall venditi hoc anno quia in manibus 
cnstodum. 

Snmma (3) cxj s. xj d. ob. [at side, cyj s. xj ob.] item v 1. 
xvli. xvs. xjd. Summa totalis Recepte cum arrera|;lik xvjH, i|d« 
item vs. 

Resolndo Redditus. In redditu resoluto preposito domini Abbatlt pro 
tenemento nuper Agnete Boighe ijs. ad quatuor tormiiios, Item 
custodibus bonorum capelle saocti benign! pro cotagio Joham)ls 
Moighenin Madelode xij d. 

Summa iij §• 

Defectus Redditus. In defectu redditus tenement! nuper Ricardi Wodyer (4) 
in alto Tico Glastonie nuper incendio vastati et pontea Isabelle 
Voughell per annum yj s. ad iiijor terminos quia conccditur Kdlthe 
relicte Henrid Felde per certum redditum flij s. tantum. Item in 
defectu redditus unius cotagii in alto vico Glaitonie nuper Alide 
Childe et postea Lucie Marshall per annum xijs. ad iiijor terminos 
quia conccditur Galfrido Barbor per certum redditum vJ s. tantum. 
Item in defectu redditus unius cotagii in alto vico Glaitonie quondam 
Thome Boxwell per annum ad iiijor teiminos quia conccditur 
Ricardo Lymberg loco Thome Wcbbe per certum redditum x t. et 
oneratursupcrius In capite redditus ad xijs. Item in defectu unius 
cotagi; in alto vico Glastonie nuper Johannls Lokyer per annum H s. 
ad mjor terminos quia conccditur G. Barbor per certum redditum vj s. 



(i) Exenium, f^vtoy^ a gift. 

(2) Baslard. or Basehed, a long dagger, Piera Plowman iii. 303, worn by 
dvibans. prohibited to labourers and to priests. Halliwell asserts that an 
ordinance of 1403 forbad the use of a baslard decorated with silver to any who 
had not a yearly income of £^. This would account for the notice of the 
repair bdng in silver. The pncc it fetched marks it as a very handsome weapon. 
Unhappily Roger's surname is lacking. 

(3) Of this £1 108. lod. is for the Roodloft, but £6 i6s. 8d. was spent. 

(4) Spdt Wodeford in 1405. 



1 93 Sowerset 6» Dorset Notes & Queries. 

tantum. Item in defectu redditus unius cotagij cum curtillagio in 
Chelkewell prius Johannis Catheman superins onerato ad iiij s. per 
annum xx d. ad liijor tenninos quia coDceditur Thome Kyneman et 
Johanne uxori ejus per certum rc^ditum ij s. iiij d. Item in defecta 
redditus unius cotagij cum curtillagio nuper Willelmi de Northlode 
per annum ixs. ad iiijor tenninos quia in manibus custodum. Item 
in defectu redditus unius cotagij m la Niw strete nuper Johannis 
Boighe quia in manibus Custodum pro prima medietate anni zx d. 
Summa xxiij s. viij d. [in another hand] xxiij s. viij d. 

Necessaria Ecclesie. De obitu Philippi Maluerae nichil hie quia per custodes 
bonorum beate Marie. In cera et lichinis cum factura parvorum 
cereorum per annum xs. 'vjd. In lodone vestimentorum cum panuis 
deponendis et reponendis per annum zx s. In bacillo medie campane 
in turri defracto emendando cum eodem pendendo xijd. In uno 
novo superpellicio cum factura ejusdem empto pro derico parochiali 
iij s. iiijd. In D petris tegulatoriis emptis cum cariagio xxijd. In 
lumine alte cruds faciendo cum cera lichinis et factura ejusdem 
xiiijs. ixd. In decem estru^bord (i) emptis apud Well pro la 
Rodelof^e cum eisdem cariandis apud Glasion viij s. iiij d In uno 
planke quercino empto ad idem viijd. In clavis emptis pro la 
Rodelofe xij d. Solutum Roberto Hulle in partem soludonis xij li. 
ex convencione pro la Keruyngworke Rodeloft fadendo ad thascam 
vj li. In meremio quercino empto de Thoma Dunster pro postibus et 
aiiis inde faciendis pro la Rodelofte yj s. viij d. 
Summa viij li. ixs. ixd. 

Vadia et Stipendia. In vadiis et stipendiis duorum custodum bonorum ecclesie 
per annum vjs. viijd. Item in stipendio clerid compoti ima cum 
pergameno empto xx d. 

Summa viij s. iiij d. 

Liberado denariorum. Liberatum Thome Smyth et Johanni Hulle tayllour 
V custodibus bonorum beate Iklarie zlis. xjd. £t non plus quia 
ixs. iijd. de redditu unius tenementi in Northlode remanent in 
manibu4 custodum ob defectiun empdonis. 

Summa xij s. xj d. 
Summa totalis expense et Uberadonis xij li. vjs. viij d. 
Et sic debent custodes Ixxiiij s. iij d. 
On reverse. 
Unde super Thomam Colbrok et Johannem Hull nuper custodes 
ijs. viij a. de redditu tenementorum nuper Nicholai Kyng et 
Johanms Coppe. Johannem Hull et Bartholomeum Martyn custodes 
post ipsos xiij s. X d. debiti de redditu predictorum tenementorum 
cum li's. vid. pro cotagio nuper Johann» Lokyer quia nulla 
districtio. Et super Thomam Bruton et Walterum Poole nunc 
custodes Ixii s. ix d. 

Adque debentur eisdem de redditu tenementi nuper Nicholai 
Kyng vocati Georgesynne per tres annos v s. De Johanne Chambor 
de redditu exeunte de tenemento suo prius Peverell per tres annos 
iijs. De Johanne Baker de redditu tenementi nuper Willelmi 
Marshall v s. quia nulla districtio. De Johanne More de redditu suo 
aretro xxij d.'Vemanente usque proximum computum pro distictione. 
De Johanne Wastell de redditu suo aretro liiis. vjd. remanente 
usque proximum computum quia nulla districtio. 

XXV 8. xd. 
ca [i.e, cavete] de ix s. vi d. oneratis anno futuro pro hogdyngselvere 
[xlix s. ix d. erased] xliij s. v d. 

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161. Sandford Orcas. — ^The village of Sandford Orcas, 
although 

•• it lies 
•• Deep meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard-lawns/* 

does not get its name from its position, but from the more 
prosaic fact, that once on a time it was the property of the 
Norman family of Orescuilz, a name which has been corrupted 
into Orcas. 

Collinson in his History of Somerset (II. 378) gives the 
following account of the family : 

** The family of Orescuilz came from Normandy and bore 
for their arms six lions rampant. Little mention is made of them 
in history ; but thus far we know, that they possessed lands in 
this county, Wilts, and Gloucester, soon after the Conquest. 

In the time of King Henry I., Henry Orescuilz held one 
Knight's fee in this county of the Abbot of Glastonbury, in 
which possession he was succeeded by Helias de Orescuilz his 
son, who was living 12 Henry II. To this Helias succeeded 
Richard de Orescuilz, lord of this manor, and that of Sturis, in 
the beginning of the reign of King John, in the 1 2th of which 
Roger de Viliers paid twenty marks that he might inherit the 
share of his mother Alice in the lands of the said Richard de 
Orescuilz. Maud the daughter and coheir of this Richard, and 
sister of the said Alice, was lady of the manor of Sharncot in 
the county of Wilts, as also of the Manor of Sandford. 

She married William the son of John de Harptree, of 
Harptree in this county, who possessed the same in her right, 
and transmitted it to his posterity, of whom were the Gournays, 
De la Mores, and others." 

For the accompanying illustration of the Manor House we are 
indebted to Mr. Hutchings, the present lord of the Manor, who, 
with an unstinted hand, in perfect taste, combined with full anti- 
quarian knowledge, and in a thoroughly conservative spirit, has 
restored the house to its pristine beauty. This beautiful building 
was erected in or about the reign of Henry VIII., as is shewn by the 
Tudor arms, supported by an heraldic lion, over the east gable. 
For three centuries the Manor belonged to the family of Knoyle, 
whose pedigree is given in the Visitation of Somerset in 1623 
{Harl, Soc. xi. 123). The church contains a monument to 
Leonard Knoyle, who died in 1607. ^^^ close proximity of the 
Church to the Manor House — a common feature of Somerset 
villages — is worthy of notice. Further particulars of this fine 
house will be found in S.A,S, Proc, xx. 67, and in The Cosmo- 
poliian N.S., Vol. iv. No. i, p. 90. 

F. W. Weaver. 
Pari xxix March, 1895. n 



J 94 Somerset S* Dorset Notes S» Queries, 

162. KiTUM*s Well. (IV. xxviii. 133)— Here we have like- 
lihood of a mythological person. He appears in Saxon place- 
names as CUta^ Cyta^ Cetia ; in the genitive case C titan, Cyian^ 
Cettan. Thus C///tf«c/^« (Chidden, Hants) = the vale or glen of 
Citta; Cy tan ford, Cy/dnig= the ford, the isle of Cyta ; Cyian- 
seohire5'/ord=i\\e ford of the gully of Cyta; Ce/tan-treo = the tree 
of Cetta. The text references for the verification of these names 
may be found in Kemble's Index to the Codex Diplomaiicus, The 
form Kiium is one which the genitive Cyian might naturally 
assume, when its genitive meaning was forgotten, and had to be 
replaced by the modern V. 

This weak form Citta, Cyta, or Cetta implies an older strong 
form Cit, Cyt or Cet; and this also is found. Chetwood (Bucks) 
is Cetwudu ; and Chatham (Kent) is CethcBma mearc. In these 
names the initial C has become Ch ; but that does not forbid our 
identifying them with words having an initial K, Thus Cyrice 
has produced both Kirk zxi& Church, 

There is another probable trace of this Cet or Ket. In Cod, 
Dipt, cxxvi., in an ancient Latin version of a perambulation we 
read ''post illud ad tumulum vocitatum Kett," = ** thereafter to 
the tumulus called Kett." Those who have not access to the 
Codex Diplomaiicus may see the text in my Land Charters, p. 309 ; 
where also the Saxon perambulation may be compared. If the 
Saxon there exhibited is the original of the Latin, then the Latin 
is not a simple translation but an expansion and interpretation 
withal. 

That the name Keti should suggest a tumulus to the trans- 
lator is remarkable in connection with the mysterious and (so far 
as I know) unexplained name of** Kit's Cotty house," a cromlech, 
the extant skeleton of a tumulus near Maidstone. J. Eakle. 

163. Carol Books and Chant Book, Combe Keynks. 
Dorset. — The parish clerk ofTyneham has put into my hand 
three singers' books of the former part of this century. 

1. A duodecimo carol-book of 56 pages, written out by one 
Lake of Combe Keynes. Though the cover into which it has 
been sewn by a former owner appears to have belonged to 
another booklet and has the inscription ** Joseph Willcoxs Book. 
Coombe Keynes, Dorset, 1839 " and at the other end the same 
name with the earlier date ** 1823/' the carols cannot have been 
written out much before 1839, as ** Long may Victoria rein" 
occurs in the original hand at p. 54. 

2. An oblong book of tunes for the Carols (the same set, 
approximately, as those of which the words are g^iven in No. i.) 
This is bound in parchment, inscribed outside ** Musick-Book " 
and inside the cover ** Joseph* Willcox* His* Book* Coombe * 
Keynes* Dorset* 1842*" at the end, (** Dec. 15, '841" at the 
beginning). This contains 52 leaves numbered only on the verso 
side. 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes <5» Queries. 195 

3. An oblong chant-book of 126 leaves, of which qg have 
the original numbering (usually on the verso). Only hve of the 
leaves are blank. At leaf 61 a fresh hand takes up the music. 
There is another change at leaf loob, where ' Spofforth/ * Norris,' 
and * Henley ' are entered in a lady-like hand. Some of the 
writing is attributed to Mrs. T. £. L. Sainsbury, wife of the 
curate, cir. 1862. At loib (now numbered 105) we come 
upon a modern stratum of Sankey's tunes, written in by 
or for, the old singer's daughter. Later on we have the 
Anglican revival with * St. Peter's,' * Innocents,' Walmesle/s 
Kyrie, Redhead's tunes, &c., &c. 

Index of a M.S. Book of Carols 

belonging formerly to Joseph Willcox, 

Coombe Keynes. Dorset, 

cir. 1833-41. 

** God Save the Queen" appears near the end, and the book- 
cover bears also the date 1839 at the beginning. 

The music-book corresponding is dated 1841-2. The carols, 
nearly threescore in number, are as follows : — 

1 . Behold the joy full day apears ♦ 

2. Mortels awake with Angels join. 

3. Arise arise, come shout and sing. 

4. By night while shepards on the plain. 

5. The glorious armeys of the sky. 

6. Behold good news from heven [is]t come. 

7. Behold what news we bring. 

8. What jofull newse to us are { told. 

9. Ye mortals all rejoice and sing. 

10. What joiful newse, awake and hear. 

11. Rejoice mankind rejoice on earth. 

12. Awake arise rejoice and sing. (As in Tradtiional 

Carol No. viii., but omitting stanza 2, and with 
a suitable doxology) § 

1 3. Hark shepards hough the angels sing. 

14. Blest are the sons of peace. (3 of 8 line.) 

1 5. Come tune your cherful voice. 

16. Awake and hear what (<?/. ' the ') joyful! news. 

17. See seraphic choirs {aL songs) descending. 

(3 stanzas, with * Hallelujah ' and repeat.) 

18. Oh Jesus my Saviour I feign would embrase. 

* Where the spelling of first line in the book of the words and that prefixed 
to the tunes are not identical, I pve preference to the quaint or unusual form. 

t The word "is" has been inserted above the line in the book of words, 
but not in the tune-book. 

t It is hardly necessary to observe here that * news ' is a true plural. 



Goo< 



} Doxology : * All glory be to God on high And heavenly peace en earth 
la will to men to angels join At our redemers birth.' 



196 Somerset S* Dorset Notes &> Queries. 

19. While shepherds watchd their flocks by night. 

(S stanzas. See * Traditional Carols^^ No. x. et alibi,) 

20. Rejoice the glorious day is come. (3 stanzas.) 

21. All hail the morn loud antems raise. 

22. Arise ye (a/. * bright ') Sons of Rigteousness. 

23. Hark (a/. ' A Hark ') what triumphant notes are these. 

24. Lift up your hart in joyfull hope. 

25. Shepherds rejoice left up your eyes. 

26. Joy to the world the Lord is come. 
27a. Lo what a glorious sight appears. 

(This opening line only occurs, with the music, i^ the 
tune-book.) 
27b. Hark the glad sound ye mortels all. 

28. Rejoice ye mortals of the earth. 

29. High let us swell our tunefull notes. 

(P. Doddridge : included in the supplement to Tate 
and Brady appended to Prayer Books.) 

30. Come hail the glorious morn. {Traditional Carols^ 

No. vi.) 

31. Behold the morning star, [The tune-book names 

" I. Haris," presumably as composer.] 

32. O what abounden (a/., ' unbounded ') goodness Lord 

(3 stanzas.) 

33. Awake and join the cheerfull choir. 

(This is No. 36 in tune-book. 3 stanzas.)* 

34. (Tune 37) Awake and sing for now is bom. 

35. Behold with joy the happy day. 

36. Betimes upon the glorious morn. (3 stanzas.) 

37. Glory be to God on high 

Let the Redeemd, &c. 

38. Hail, hail, hail, happy man thrice happy wee 

(3 stanzas of 4 lines, with chorus, 
''Sweet halelujah let us sing, 
To God our Saviour and our King.") 

39. Glory to God the angels said. (3 stanzas.) 

40. Hail prince of peace and king of kings. 

41. Hark how the heavenly angels sing. 

42. (=T. 47,) Awake arise ye sons of men. 

43. (=T. 48b.) Bright was the guiding star that led. 

44. (=T. 49.) Arise my soul and thou my voice. 

45. (=T. 50.) Once more behold the glorious day. 
4.6. (=T. 51.) Once more we all together meet. 
47. Let Zion and her sons rejoice. (3 stanzas.) 

* Here the numbers in the tune-book (dated 184 1-2) begin to vary from 
those in the book of words. Nine tunes (viz., T. 38 to T. 4^ have no words 
assigned. 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes & Queries. 197 

48. He comes the broken heart to bind. 

(Only this one verse is from Doddridge's • Hark the 
glad sound ' as printed in Julian's * Dictionary of 
Hymnology.') 

49. Awake arise and joy full sing. 

50. Rejoice with us mankind and sing. 

5 1 . Awake our souls and let us sing. 

52. Ye sons of Adam now arise. 

53. (=T. 52.) Awake each heart rejoice and sing. 

(3 stanzas.) 

54. (»T. 48a.). God save our gracious Queen. 

(3 stanzas.) 

55. For us a child of royal birth 

The Son of Man the God of heaven. (3 stanzas.) 

56. Hark what means those holy voices. 



>♦ VIZ. : 
;57]=T. 33. 
^58l=T. 34. 
59J=T. 35. 



The Tune-Book has music for three carols, giving as usual 
the first line only, which are not written out in the book of 
words, viz. : 

Rejoice rejoice ye mortals all rejoice. 
Come let us join in sweet accord. 
Hark hear the Angels heavenly sound. 
The description given by Mr. Mayo to the words of the 
eleven Traditional Carols from Long Burton, Dorset, which he 
printed in 1893, that ''they are extremely simple, and bear 
evident marks of unskilled hands " applies equally to those in this 
larger collection from Combe Keynes near Purbeck. The reader 
will observe the meagreness of the vocabulary and the similarity 
in forms of expression which the index of first lines displays. 

•* God save the Queen,*' No. 54, is the only composition in 
the collection besides Christmas Carols. It must have been 
entered in the book about the time of Her Majesty's Coronation, 
in June, 1838. Four lines in verse 3 appear in the following 
form; — 

Confound their politics 
Flusterate their navish tricks 
On hir our hopes we Fix. 
God save us all. 

The regulation length of a carol was evidently four stanzas. 
I have noted the number of verses of all that deviate from this 
standard. A few, it will be seen, have three verses. •* While 
Shepherds watched" is the only one which exceeds four. 

Lying between the leaves of the book and in the same hand- 
writing is a transcript of 

A Feu Lins 

Printed By the Request of 

Henery Bishop. 



198 Somerset <5» Dorset Notes S* Queries, 

Accompanied with a wish that his untimely death might be 
a warning to those who carry on the unlawful practice of 
smuggling* 

A Funeral Hymn, 

My Father calls me to his arms 
And willingly I go. 

There are seven stanzas of no great interest, written probably 
by some friend of the deceased, who thought more of comforting 
the survivors with the * hope of glory * for the poor wretch, than 
of expressing any real conviction of guilt. It is not altogether 
impossible that to be caught smuggling was a greater offence than 
to smuggle successfully in Old Dorset, 

Chr. Wordsworth, Tyneham Rectory, Wareham. 

{To he continued^ 

164. PouNSETT Family. (IV. xxviii. 129). — Since writing 
the above article, through the kindness of several correspondents, 
important fresh light has been thrown on the subject. Thus I 
am indebted to Bishop Hobhouse for pointing out that the 
ancestors of the Pounsetts must not be looked for in the 
P^ancefoots, but in the Ponsands or Ponsots, probably also 
Normans, lords of South Barrow, vassals of the Barony of Gary 
(see Wells Cathedral MSS., p. 21.); the Bishop adds that the 
name sounds as if derivedjfrom ''Pont saint." In 1237 Alfred, 
son of Robert de Ponsand, lord of S. Barrow, and Matilda his 
mother, who held the same in dowry, make an agreement with 
the Dean and Chapter of Wells, touching the advowson of 
S. Barrow. To Prebendary Coleman again I am indebted for 
the following extract (A.D. 1648) from the Cheddar Morewardens' 
Accounts ; it only occurs once. . . . ** Widdow Ponset . . . 6d." 

The following will of William Pounsett [P.C.C. i More], 
dated February i, 1553-4, proved May 4, 1554. is interesting, as 
showing how long the family remained connected with N. and S. 
Barrow. The testator evidently left no children. 

Dr. William Cook, who is a legatee, was presumably the 
fellow of All Souls* College who was a chief agent in Bonner's 
persecutions ; but the Editor of the Oxford University Register 
seems to think that there may have been at the same time two 
William Cooks, both being D.C.L., Oxon. {_Iieg, Univ, Oxon 
(Boase) 150, 161]. A comparison of these references shews, I 
think, that these men are identical, for both were licenced for 
D.C.L. on Oct. 1 1, 1536. F. W. Weaver. 

♦ On June 28, 1832, some smugglers look Lieut. T. E. Knight of the 
lYeventive (Coast Guard) Service by the arms and legs, and murdered him by 
throwing him down the diff. See Parish Register of Burials at East LulworUi, 
qnoted by Hutchins. 



Somerset &> Dorset Notes S* Queries. 199 

The 1st day of Febmaiy, 1553, I WilUam Pounsett of Loxforde in the 
parish of Barking in co. Essex, Esq. 

I commit my soul to the blessed Trinity to our Lady and to all the holy 
company in heaven. 

My body to be buried in our Lady Chapel nere unto my '*pue" at 
Barking. 

After my death there shall be every day for one month <* dyrige and masse 
of Requiem by note*' in the parish Church of Barking, and there to be given 
amongst the ** preestes, clarkes, poore folkes, and other necessares '* at every 
mass IDS. 

To Sir John priest of the Hospital of Great Uford £S to say mass and dirge 
3 times in the week in the Church of Barking for i whole year, to begin imme- 
diately after my death. 

Upon the day of my funeral I will that 4d. be given to every man, woman 
and child there present. 

To the Church of Barking to provide ornaments for the same ;^I3 6s. 8d. 

To Sir John Gregill now Vicar of Barking £$ to pray for me. 

To the parish Church of North Barrowe where I was bom 66s. 8d. to buy 
ornaments and other necessaries for the same. 

To every household of the same parish 6s. 8d. 

For the making of the highway within the said parish of Barrow leading 
from the cross standing at the ** courte close stille vnto the watringe place next 
thoniefelde " ;£'20 and more according to the discretion of my executors, so that 
it may be thoroughly made, provided that the inhabitants there will of their own 
charge *' make cariage *' of the stones necessary for the same way. 

To my brother Thomas Pounsett £1$ 6s. 8d. 

To every one of his children 40S. 

To the poor householders in *'BarKinge" and Great Ilford ;^20 in two 
years. 

For the mending of the highways in Barking ;^20. 

I will that Mr. Borne the Queen's Chaplain nave 40s. to preach 2 sermons 
in the Church of Barking, one at my burial and the other at my month's mind. 

To Katheryn Gover my aunt an annuity of ;f6 13s. 4d. to be paid out of my 
farm of Loxforde and the demesnes of Barking Abbey. 

I give to Helen mv wife and to her heirs for ever my house in London set in 
Thames Street called tne Swan which I lately purchased of Nicholas Howe of 
London *<boocher" ; also 1000 marks in ready money, and all the 
plate she broueht with her on our marriage, •* so that she doe nothinge 
Imbesell from myne Executours." but do make a true declaration in all things to 
them ; also all my household stuff in my house at London, and all my bedding 
and napery now in Mr. Leonard's house in London, upon condition that she 
make a lease of the " posterne feldes " during her life to Thomas Pounsett at a 
reasonable rent. 

To Thomas Pounsett my nephew I bequeath all my farm, lease and term of 
years of my farm of Loxforde, to enter immediately after my decease, he paying 
the customable rent and charges ; if he die before the said lease shall expire, then 
the residue of the said years shall remain to Creorge Pounsett his brother, with 
like conditions. 

I also give to the said Thomas my term of years in 2 fields, the one called 
Cotmorelande and the other Loxforde field, lying on the north side of the high- 
way leading from Barking to Ilford. 

Also to the said Thomas and his heirs my house called Philpottes lying in 
Barking which I purchased of one Tull of London, and for default of sucn heirs, 
to Greorge Pounsett his brother and his heirs for ever. 

I give to the said Thomas all my years in a marsh lyine in Ripple marsh 
called Showldams Marsh, Reds Marsh, Dyers land. Bedford Landes, 15 acres 
and a piece of 6 acres adjoining the said 15 acres which I have by lease of the 
late Abbess and Convent of Barking ; also the " posterne feldes " which I lately 



200 Somerset S* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

purchased of John Burre of Barking ; for default, I give the said fields to George 
tounseti, ray nephew and his heirs for ever. 

To the said Thomas nil my years in a parcel of marsh called Highland hilles 
lying in Barking ; also mylease of 2 marshes, theone called xiiij Acres and the other 
viij Acres, now in the occupation of Richard Woodland alias Egham, which I had 
of ** Srunt " [Sergeaunt] Rolt, with the years yet to come in " muehe paradysc," 
also the term of years in a parcel of land called Ferryman now in the occupation 
of Robert Yerad my servant lying in Waliham Forest, provided always that 
he do not interrupt the said Richard Woodland and Robert Yearde in their 
occupancy for 15 years, he paying yearly 14s. 5d, to the **Sellerys** rent of 
Barking for the same. 

Also to the said Thomas the lease of Little parradice chapplefeld and 
brykefeld ; also the bam and stable in Loxforde street whfch I lately purchased 
of John Burre of Barking ; also all my ** Welch Runtes" which were bought at 
Byrmycham fair last Michaelmas ; all my oxen, kine, horses, geldings, mares, 
and colts not bequeathed in my will ; 200 of my sheep ; all my moveables and 
plate in my house at Loxforde ; also a little silver salt parcel gilt and 12 silver 
•peons. 

I will that the said Thomas give to his said brother George £6 13s. 4d. 
yearly to " fynde hym at his studye in Oxforde "for 7 years : at the end of the 
7 years he shall have £$ a year during his life. 

' I will that Mrs. Gover my aunt have the chamber wherein she now lies with 
all the stuff thereto belonging for her life. 

To Thomas Coke my G^son all my annuity of ;f 18 going out of a manor 
called Wigboorrowe Hall in co. Essex paid by Stephen Bekingham of I'ool- 
shunt Mayor in the said County Esq., as may appear by indentures dated i4ih 
March 37 Hen. 8 ; if the said Thomas die before the age of 21, then the said 
annuity to remain to William Coke his brother. 

To Mr. William Cook Doctor of Law all my years in a marsh ground called 
Docke Mersshe Bochers Lease and Fyve Acres joining Docke Mershe in the 
said parish of Barkinge. 

To Richard Bowdishe my servant the term of years yet to come in the 
demesnes of the Abbey of Barking, on condition that'he give to the marriage of 
his sister £io; also to the said Richard the lease and term of years of the 
paisonage of Da.enham in co. Essex. 

To Sir John Sturdye of Barking 40s. yearly for 3 years to pray forme. 

To Sir William Pe'lre Knight the lease and temi of years of 18 acies of 
pasture lying in Popler Mershe, now in the occupation of John K ound of 
London, butcher. 

To my Lady Petre 6 angels of gold ** for a poore token of Remembrance." 

To Mr. KaUieryn Baker 2 " suffraimces " of los. the piece. 

To every one of Mr. Peter's daughters besides los. each. 

To John Petre his son and heir 20s. 

To George Stonerd £ 10. 

To Richard Stonerd and John Stonerd my Godsons los. each. 

To James Leonard of London fruiterer and Alice his wife ;f20. 

To Mr. Keynolde Hollyngworthe Surveyor of Essex jTc, 

To Mrs. Marie Perscy ** abiding " with Mr. Secretary Petre ids. 

To William Bexwell my servant the term of years in Warpath now in his 
hands, he paying vearly for the same to the farmer of the Abbey 40s. 

To William Stedman my servant £$, 

I give 30 rings of the value of 26s. 8d. each to be bestowed amongst my 
friends by my executors : also Bbckes at my burial according to iheir discretion. 

To Robert Comwell of Barking, gent., 40s. a year for 5 years. 

To Joane Eggelsfeld of Estham, widow, a gilt bowl. 

To John DyMale my servant the vineyard for 7 years, he pa3ring to the 
farmer of the demesnes of the Abbey 26s. 8d. by the year. 

To every servant in the service of Sir William Petre, Knight, both men 
and women, 5s. each, *• gentilmen excepted,*' to whom I give 6s. 8d. 



Somerset <S- Dorset Notes S* Queries. 201 

To Thomas Busshope 6s. 8d. 

To each of the servants of the said William Cook 5s. each. 

To every poor bedeman of the Hospital of Ilford 20s. each. 

I give to Lawrence Wagstaf all the monev he owes me. 

I forgive Robert Richcmond and Alezanaer Parker their debts. 

To the said Alexander of Specialty for ;f 10 which John Burre of Barking 
■owes me. 

To every one of my Godchildren 6s. 8d. 

To Mrs. Napo [eri one of my best white geldings. 

To Thomas T>rreU son and heir of Sir Henry Tyrrell Knt. xos. 

To Richard Stonleye 20s. 

To Mr. John Keym 20s. 

*'To every one both men and women" belonging to Mr. George Stonerd, 
Mr. John Stonerd and Mr. Hen. Stonerd in Mr. Stonerd's house 3s. 4d. each. 
To every retainer 2s. each. 

To Sir George Mr. Stonerd's chaplain 5s. 

I will that ^1 the te^tors of the beds in the chamber called Mr. Coke's 
chamber, my own chamber and the one adjoining it be given to the Church of 
Barking, to make vestments, copes and otner ornaments. 

I desire that my executors shall take any of my oxen, sheep, calves, wheat, 
malt '* connyes,'* poultry and all other things necessary for my burial, months 
mind and 12 months mind, to spend amongst them and my other friends at the 
same times. 

If any ambiguity strife or doubt arise about this my will my desire is that it 
shall be ended by my executors. 

I make the Right Hon. Sir William Petre Knt. Chief Secretary to her 
Majesty, William Cooke Dr. of Law and Edward Napper gent, my executors, 
and I give to each of them /20. 

The residue of my goods to be bestowed amongst my kinsfolk and in good 
deeds of charity. 

[No witnesses.] 

Proved at London 4 May 1554 by the oath of Wm. Cooke and Edward 
Napper. 

165, Head Masters of Sherborne School. — No name 
of any master is given in the Account Rolls till the year 1561, 
though the Head Master's salary was paid from at least as early 
as 1553, which is the first year, of which the Account Roll still 
exists. 

N.B. — The identifications in italics are conjectu.»-es. 

1561 Myddelton, left at Christmas. There is no authority 

for his Christian name being Hugh, as Hutchins 

gives it. 
1 56 1 Thomas Parvys, M.A., left at Christmas, 1563. Ch, 

Ch, Oxon,, B,A. 1556, M,A. 1558. 
1563 Woln ETON, left Lady Day, 1565, prohahly Um. Wo//on, 

Fellow of Met ton ColL, Oxon, 
1565 Dalabere. left Christmas. 1565. 
15^5 John Hancock, M.A., 1563. Fellow of Merlon ColL, 

ILD,, 1574, left Midsummer, 1573. 
1573 Thomas Seward, M. A,, Fellow of B.N.C, Oxon. Mr. 

Seward seems to have been ill during 1574, for I find 



202 Somerset S* Dorut Notes & Queries. 

in the account Rolls that the Master's salary front 
Michaelmas '73 to Lady Day '74 is paid to Mr. Tatam 
{probably Thos. Tatam, B,C,L., 1573, Fellow of Merion 
College) and from Lady Day '74 to Michaelmas '74 to 
Mr. White {probably Wm. While, M,A,, of B.N.C, 
Oxon.) Mr. Seward ceased to be Master at Mid- 
summer, 1 58 1. 

1581 William Wood, M.A., of B.N.C., Oxon., of Hereford. 
He was by his will a benefactor of Sherborne Alms- 
house and of the poor of Hereford. He resigned at 
Midsummer, 1601. 

1601 John Geare, M.A., of Queen's Coll., Oxon. He 
resigned at Midsummer, 1603. He became Vicar of 
Lyme Regis and Rector of Symondsbury. He was- 
recommended to Sherborne School by Sir Walter 
Raleigh and Mr. Secretary Cecil. 

1603 George Grove, M.A. He resigned at Midsummer, 
1639, but drew a pension of ;^2o a year till his death 
in 1644; he was buried on the 12th Nov. in that 
year. 

1639 Richard New'Man, M.A., Fellow ofMerton ColL, Oxon, 
He died in 1641, and is buried in Sherborne Abbey. 

1641 Robert Balch, M.A., ofMerton College, Oxon. He 
resigned at Christmas, 1653. 

1653 William Birstall, D.D., of King's Coll., Cambridge, 
Canon of Wells, 1660. In March, 1661, the Governors 
dismissed Dr. Birstall and appointed in his place 
Edward Allanson, M.A., Fellow oV New College, Oxford. 
Dr. Birstall refused to go and Mr. Allanson did not 
come. Dr. Birstall left at Lady Day, 1663, when he 
became Rector of Eversley. 

1663 Joseph Allen, B.C.L., Fellow of New Coll., Oxon., 
resigned 1670. Rector of Maiden Newton. 

1670 John Goodenough, M.A., Queen's College, Oxford. 
Not a clergyman. Ejected in 1683 for taking part in 
Lord Shaftesbury's Exclusion Plot. 

1683 Thomas Curgenven, M.A., Exeter College, Oxon. ; a 
Comishman. He resigned in 1694 on being presented 
to the Rectory of Folke, but continued to hold the 
Head-mastership till Midsummer, 1695, as the Head- 
master Elect. Thomas Creech. B.D.. Fellow of All 
Souls' Coll.. Oxon., and an old Sirburnian, delayed to 
come. Mr. Creech in the end resigned without coming 
to Sherborne. 

1695 George Gerard, M.A., of W^adham College, Oxford^ 
he left his Mastership Lady-day, 1720. and became 
Rector of Church Stanton, Devon. He is buried ia 
Sherborne Abbey. See Hutchins for his epitaph. 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S* Queries. 203. 

1720 Benjamin Wilding, M.A., of Balliol Collei^e, Oxford, 
educated at Shrewsbury School. Famous for his law- 
suit with the Governors, who treated him very unfairly. 
He won his suit. He died at Sherborne of heart- 
disease " as he was walking with Milton's * Paradise 
Lost ' in his hand on a Sunday morning in the Bristol 
Road." (Toogood's MS. History of the School.) 
His death took place in October, 1733. 

'733 John Gaylard, M.A., Fellow of Emmanuel College,^ 
Cambridge. He died in 1743. 

1743 Thomas Paget, M.A., Fellow of C.C.C, Oxford. 
Resigned in 1751, and became Rector of Mells, 
Somerset. Hutchins gives his epitaph, which is in 
the Church there. 

175 I Joseph Hill, M.A., of Ch. Ch.. Oxon. Resigned Lady- 
day, 1766, and became Rector of Kington Magna. 

1766 Nathaniel Bristbd, M.A., of Emmanuel College, 
Cambridge. A Pluralist under whom the School 
went down. He was Rector of Bishop's Caundle, 
Vicar of Sherborne and of Haydon, as well as Head- 
master of the School. He resigned Michaelmas, 1 790, 
and died in 1810. 

1790 John Cutler, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford ; 
educated as a boy at Eton College ; chaplain of 
H.M.S. Hero ; Master of Dorchester Grammar School. 
He resigned the Head-mastership of Sherborne at 
Lady-day, 1823. 

1823 Ralph Lyon, D.D., of Trinity College, Cambridge. 
Resigned Midsummer, 1845. Rector of Bishop's 
Caundle from 1841 till his death in 1856. 

1845 Charles T. Penrose, M.A.. of Trinity College, Cam- 
bridge. Resigned Midsummer, 1850. 

1850 Hugo Daniel Harper, M.A.. Fellow of Jesus College, 
Oxford; non-res. Canon of Salisbury, 1871. Resigned 
Headmastership Christmas. 1877. Principal of Jesus 
College, Oxford, 1877 J ^'^' 'S?^- Rector ofClynnog- 
vawr, 1878-1882; of Besselsleigh, 1882-1895. Died 
January, 1895. 

1877 Edward Mallet Young, M.A., Fellow of Trinity 
Coll., Cambridge, non-res. Canon of Salisbury, 1890. 
Resigned Easter, 1892. Rector of Rothbury, 1894. 

1892 Frederick Brooke Westcott. M.A., Fellow of 
Trinity College, Cambridge. 

W. B. Wildman. 



1204 Somerset <§• Dorset Notes S* Queries. 

i66. Sherborne School. (I. iii. 122).— With reference 
to a Report made by Gilbert Ironside, Bishop of Bristol, to the 
Archbishop of Canterbury in 1665, so far as it refers to Sherborne 
School as quoted in S, S» D, N, &> Q,, I. iii. 122, 1 can throw 
some light on the relations then existing between the School 
Governors and their visitor, the Bishop of Bristol. In the 
Governors' Minute Book under date November i8th, 1660, ** it is 
agreed that the Warden, with Dr. Nathaniel Highmore and Mr. 
William Sansome, or any two of the company, in case the said 
Dr. Highmore or Mr. Sansome shall not be at leisure, shall 
repair at some convenient time unto the Bishop of Bristol with 
the Orders all ready made for his confirmation of them." The 
Bishop, as his Report tells us, refused to confirm these Orders, 
<ind made them School Orders of his own, which ** they refuse to 
receive, because they think those orders to entrench on their pre- 
rogatives." Again, under date 22nd August, 1663, **it is ordered 
that on Monday, the 31st day of August instant, the Warden, Mr. 
Whetcombe, Senr., Mr. Wm. Sansome and Mr. John Williams do 
repair to the Lord Bishop of Bristol for the settling of the School 
Orders." This new attempt was as ineffectual as the former. 
During Bishop Ironside's time nothing more was done. Bishop 
Ironside was the son of a Dorset vicar and was himself once 
Rector of Winterborne Steepleton and Winterborne Abbas. 
However, in 1679, William Gulston, Rector of Simondsbury and 
Bishop of Bristol, did confirm Statutes for the School, which 
Statutes, signed and sealed by him, are now in the School 
Library, and are very interesting indeed. In them is contained 
the School Prayer still used at the Daily Service, and it is pretty 
certain that Dr. Gulston wrote the Prayer : for in the Old Statutes, 
dated 1592, which are also in the School Library, there is no 
School Prayer in the short service from the Prayer Book there 
appointed to be said and sung. Dr. Gulston died at Simondsbury, 
4th April, 1684, and was buried in the chancel there. The 
Bishop is quite right as to Joseph Allen, B.C.L., the Master of the 
School ; he had been Fellow of New College and had been 
ejected at the Restoration. He resigned his Mastership of the 
School in 1669, when he became Rector of Maiden Newton. There 
was an Usher, the Rev. Jonathan Grey, as the Bishop might have 
discovered, if he had not been afraid of interfering in the peculiar 
of the Dean of Sarum. That there was good reason for some 
interference on the part of the visitor is clear from other entries 
in the Minute Book referring to Mr. Allen's predecessor, the Rev. 
Wm. Birstall, D.D., Canon of Wells ; who. when ordered by the 
Governors in 1661 to leave, refused to do so, and brought an 
action against the Governors with reference to their administra- 
tion of the Endowment under the Statute for Charitable Uses, 
and evidently got the best of them. Dr. Birstall gave up his 
Mastership in 1663. when he became Rector of Eversley. 

W. B. WiLDMAN. 



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167. WoRLE Notes (III. xxii. 266, xxiv. 320, IV. xxvi. 76.) — 
XL My Sunday School Scholars, when talking over with me 

the Covenant of God with Noah, expressed their belief that the 
reason that animals (horses and cattle) were afraid of man was 
that their eyes magnified objects ; so that (as they expressed it), 
**aman did look so big as a harse to they." This, they said, 
they had always been told, but the theory when pressed, was not, 
they admitted, satisfactory. 

Curiously enough I find that the idea is by no means without 
countenance from mediaeval authorities. The Eastern traveller, 
Felix Fabri, (quoted in Nineteenth Cent, Mag. for March, 1894) 
says. " A Camel has a small head, and is without horns. It has 
big and terrible eyes, and always seems a sorrowful and troubled 
animal. Its eyes are like fire-beacons, and big reflections shine 
in them ; for whatever a camel looks at seems great and huge to 
it, wherefore it seems to view everything with wonder and alarm. 
When, therefore, a man goes up to it, the beast begins to tremble, 
so that the man perceives that the beast trembles because the 
man coming towards it seems to it to be four times bigger than 
he really is." 

XII. It is an article of belief here, that if in cold weather 
a pan of water placed in a room freezes, the ice, or, rather, the 
freezing process, attracts the cold from the room, absorbing it, as 
it were, and actually thereby warming the room. Indeed, in this 
way, according to my informants, seed potatoes are often preserved 
from being "frosted." The process certainly possesses the 
charm of simplicity as well as the merit of cheapness. 

I think it very probable, and should be much interested to 
be informed on tne point, that for this belief (as for that in the 
magnifying power of the eye), respectable authority could be 
produced from the natural philosophy of a pre-scientific age. 

W. F. Rose. 

168. Hayford or Hayward Bridge. — (See Bos well's 
Civil Division of Dorset ^ 2nd Edition, page 162, and Hutchins* 
Dorset, 3rd Edition, volume iv, page 79.)— -The following abstract 
is from the Record Ofl&ce. 

Petty Bag. Charities, Part I., No. 11. 

Hayford Bridge, 6 September, 1600. 
Whereas for due execution of a recent statute made in the 
High Court of Parliament holden at Westminster 24 October, 

29 Elizabeth (1587) as to lands given to Charitable Uses 

A Commision is appointed consisting of John, Archbishop of 
Canterbury, Thomas Howard, Lord Viscount Bindon, Richard 
Rogers, George Trenchard. clerk, Ralph Horsey, knt., Francis 
"ames. Doctor in Law, Thomas Jessop, Doctor in Physic, 
■"illiam Gibbes, Thomas Freke, John Fitziames, John Ryves, 



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ao6 Sonurset S* Dorset Notes &» Queries. 

John Strode and John Luttrell, esquires, and John Ryves, Robert 
Osker and John Budden, gents., to enquire by oaths of 12 lawful 
men of their county of Dorset as to Charities, &c. 

And Whereas, by an Inquisition taken at Blandford, Dorset, 
30 August, 42 Elizabeth (1600) before above Commission, it was 
found by oaths of 12 lawful men of said County that one John 
Shilling (or Eskyllin) and Robert of Childe Ockforde, long 
deceased, by their deeds without date did give for maintenance of 
a Bridge called Hayford Bridge certain lands lying on east side 
of the bridge opposite the corner called Paynes linch and lands 
called the bridge lands in the parishes of Shilling Ockford and 
Child Ockford amounting to 7 acres, or thereabouts, and now in 
the several tenuies or holdings of John ffrye, Hugh ffrye and 
Anthony Gawpin of the value of /6 and los., and that the said 
messuages, lands, and common in or about the 6th year(i 563-4) of 
Elizabeth was conveyed to one Thomas Bennett deceased (about 
14 years past, and lands have descended to Thomas Bennett his 
son) who in his lifetime by himself and his servants did labour, 
&c., to the said bridge, but since his death the bridge hath not 
been repaired to the damage, &c., of the Queens Majesties 
subjects. Now therefore said Richard Rogers, &c., hath ordered 

That said Thomas Bennett (son of Thomas before men- 
tioned) John ffrye, Hugh ffrye and Anthony Gawpin, who by 14 
years past have received and fraudulently converted the revenues 
and profits of said bridge lands which amounted in 14 years to 
fourscore and eleven pounds to their private use, shall before ist 
day of April next pay to the Churchwardens of said parishes of 
Shilling Ockford and Childe Ockforde the sum of;^2o to be 
forthwith by them bestowed on repairs, &c., of the bridge, viz. : 
Thomas Bennett who hath received 20s. yearly for 14 years shall 
pay ;^6 13s. 4d. John ffrye who hath received 50s. yearly for 
14 years shall pay other £(> 13s. 4d. Hugh ffrye who hath 
received 40s. yearly for 14 years shall pay £^ 6s. 8d. and the 
said Anthony Gawpin who hath received 20s. yearly shall pay 
other £^ 6s. 8d. On failure to make payments by time 
appointed the said Bennett, John ffrye, Hugh ffrye and Gawpin 
to pay a fine of 40s. for each month and henceforth all profits, 
&c., to go to repairs of Hayford Bridge. Dated 6 Sept., 42 Eliz. 

The Inquisition mentions one messuage or cottage with an 
orchard or backside containing about \ acre in tenure of Hugh 
ffrye and one meadow nigh to Beermarsh called Still's meadow 
containing by estimation 5 acres in tenure of John ffrye and 
certain land in Childe Ockford about i acre and 1 close called 
Eastwell in holding of Hugh ffrye or his assigns. It also men- 
tions a plot of ground adjoining Beermarsh, containing i acre 
upon which 2 dwelling houses and i outhouse within space of 40 
years past have been erected, and now in occupation of Anthony 
Gawpyn and others. 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 207 

It appeared that one John Still of Little Funtmill was owner 
of the Bridge lands, and about b Elizabeth they were alyened by 
him^to Thomas Bennett lately deceased, and the jurors say that 
the deeds concerning the bridge lands in about 1556 were read 
by the Steward of Beere Marsh in open Court of Beere Marsh, 
and were by the Steward committed to the custody of Thomas 
Forde of Shilling Okeford, now deceased, who after, for fear of a 
suit threatened by John Still, the tenant of the bridge lands, 
-delivered said deeds to Still. Thomas Bennett the father pur- 
chased the land of Still and had the deeds. 

Can anyone give me any information concerning Hugh Fry 
and John Fry mentioned above ? They probably belonged to 
the Fry family of Tarrant Gunville, as on 6th January, 14 James I. 
(i6i6)John Fry of Eastbury in Tarrant Gunville conveyed to 
Robert Seymer~ of Han ford certain meadows in manor of Beer- 
marsh in Ockeford Shilling (Indentures, Vol. v., 14 James I. 
Record Office) which were possibly some of the ** bridge lands" 
referred to in the foregoing inquisition. It is not improbable that 
John Fry of Eastbury was identical with John Fry alluded to in 
the inquisition and decree, and that Hugh Fry with whom he was 
jointly holding the land was a kinsman. 

Geo. S. Fry, 
Inglewood, Upper Walthamstow Road, Walthamstow. 

169. John Fry. the Regicide. (I. ii. 67, iii. 95.)— Since 
writing the account of this person at the above references, I have 
come across further information respecting him, which may 
interest your readers. 

On page 73 of Vol. I, I stated that I was perplexed at the 
relationship that evidently existed between him and my ancestor 
William Fry, of Ashgrove ; but this difficulty is now removed, for 
in some proceedings in Chancery [Bridges* Depositions, 
No. 355, Fry v. Napper], it is clearly stated that they both 
married sisters, John Fry marrying Anne, and William Fry 
marrying Mary, both daughters of Edward Lindsey, of Wey- 
mouth, merchant, and mayor of that town in 1626 and 1638. 

If any one has seen Edward Lindsey's will, dated 1645, would 
he kindly send me an abstract of it ? 

On page 55 of the same volume I stated I was unable to 
find what were the estates of John Fry that were forfeited to the 
Crown at the Restoration. This point, too, is satisfactorily 
cleared up, for in a Close Roll of 14 Charles II, pt. 18, No. 12, 
the following Indenture is recorded, made 30 Aug., 1662, between 
H.R.H. James, Duke of York, of the first part, John, Lord 
Berkeley, Sir Charles Berkeley the younger, of Westminster, Knt., 
and Henry Brounchard. of Westminster, Esq., of the second part, 
and Sir Charles Berkeley the elder. Treasurer of His Majesties 
Household, of the third part, by which, after quoting an indenture 



2o8 Somerset <S» Dorset Notes S* Queries, 

dated the day before in which Sir John B., Sir Charles B., jun., 
and Henry B., by appointment of Ii.R.H. James, Duke of York, 
had let for a pepper corn rent for one year to Sir Charles B., the 
elder, the farm with barn, hay house, &c., in Eweme Minster, 
CO. Dorset, now in tenure of William Durnford, also a farm in 
Bedcister in Fontmell, now in tenure of Christopher Bowden, 
and also a farm called Burses Stool Farm, in Gunville, now in 
tenure of Robert Warren, All which farms were the possessions 
of John Fry, deceased, attainted of High Treason for the 
murther of King Charles I, and forfeited to King Charles that 
now is, and by him vested settled on the said John Lord B., 
Sir Charles B., jun. and Henry B., for the sole use of H.R.H. 
the Duke of York, All the above lands were sold for ** a compet- 
ent sum of money" by Lord John B., &c. to Sir Charles B., the 
elder, for his sole use for ever. 

It would not be a difficult matter, I think, to trace the 
descent of this property down to more recent times ; while, I 
believe, that if ever a detailed account of the Regicides and 
their forfeited estates were undertaken (Noble cannot be implicitly 
relied upon) the transfers from the Duke of York and his trustees, 
as given in the Close Rolls soon after the Restoration, would be 
the most authentic sources of information, for I noticed many 
such transfers before I came on that relating to John Fry. 

E. A. Fry, 172. Edmund St.. Birmingham. 



170. Local Stay-at-Homes. (L vii. 334, IV'- xxvii. 96, 
xxviii. 139). — Dr. Crespi's experience in finding no small per- 
centage of mankind wholly without a tinge of exploring enter- 
prise entirely agrees with my own. It is in Scotland and Ireland 
that I have found the largest number of examples, and astonishing 
examples some of them were. But I will not go so far afield, 
but limit myself to a Dorset story, if I may be allowed space 
for it. 

Many years ago I was taking a sketching tramp along the 
coast. One day I planned to bear down on a small public house 
then open at Kimmeridge, and there to have something to eat, 
and so I did. It was a very odd inn-experience, but this is not 
to the point. When about to start I asked the landlady (Mary 
West we will call her) to tell me my way. I may here say that 
Mary was a hale old woman, as able as any one to walk five or 
six miles, — further that one road only passed her house, and that 
a gate crossed that road quite near. ** My way to Encombe*s 
through that gate, Mrs. West, isn't it?" *'0h yes, that be 
rwud to Encombe — zo they do tell I." ** So they tell you, Mrs. 
West; surely you've often been to Encombe, only a couple 
of miles or so away." "Encombe — good now — what call 'v' I 
to go vampen to Encombe ? There — come to that — never a 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes <5» Queries. 209 

bin drough thic geat in all my life." " Mrs. West, that's sur- 
prising, — how long have you lived in this house?" "Better 'n 
forty year — lauk, now, what need for I to tramp about for ? 
Allays zummut or tother to do 'bout house. Ther* — without 'tis 
to Church and oonce a yer to Wareham to get license — I don't 
never goo furder than garden from year's end to year's end." 
Well, I asked a clergyman, who had had charge of the parish, if 
this was really a fact. He said "No. Mary exaggerated her 
travelling. Her walks to Church were extremely rare." 

H. }. MouLB, Dorchester. 

171. — I do not know whether you care to follow up this 
most interesting subject ? But I fancy that the number of stay- 
at-homes is still far larger than most people suppose, and some 
of these cases are truly remarkable and not confined to the 
poorer walks of life. The truth is that many people hardly ever 
leave home ; they are too busy, or disinclined to stir. A lady at 
Childe Okeford tells me that a farmer's wife near Childe Okeford, 
though she had lived 20 years there, has never been to a village 
a mile off, and this woman hardly ever stirs out anywhere. So 
much for Dorset. 

Now for Devon. I knew a lady of position, the sister of a 
wealthy clerical landowner, who has never been to the Midlands, 
nor has her brother. The lady is nearly 70 and has nothing 
to do. 

A short time ago, in Birmingham, I was mentioning to a 
gentleman there the magnificent Collegiate Church at Aston, 
which, by the way, had been in the gift of one of his ancestors. 
Aston is only five minutes by rail from New Street and 15 by 
tram-car. That gentleman, a most intelligent person, has been 
living in the town 37 years, and has had an office in New Street 
for 32, but he has never once been to Aston, not even on a 
Saturday or Sunday afternoon, when he would be at full liberty. 
When I was in practice at Edgbaston I once received a letter 
asking me to see a lady in the Victoria Road, Aston. Judge of 
my surprise when I found that she had lived 21 years at Aston, 
had been rich, strong and active all the time, but had never once 
got to Edgbaston, hardly knew where it lay, though Edgbaston 
and Aston are parishes of Birmingham, hardly two miles apart as 
the crow flies. 

When a little boy, living partly at Cheltenham and partly 
near Quinton, the latter only just a few miles from New Street, 
the chief station of Birmingham, I can remember that hardly any 
of the labourers, mechanics and farmers had ever been far away. 
Halesowen and Birmingham were the places they knew ; a few 
had been to Stourbridge, still fewer to Bromsgrove and Worcester, 
hardly one in a thousand to London. Indeed the stay-at-home 
habits of the people in that district were then, and still 



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are remarkable, and they seem to be changing slowly, perhaps 
not at all. 

Not long ago I met with a young lady here living in a big 
house who had never been to London, while I have recently 
heard from a lady at Sheffield, nearly 30 years of age, that she 
was just going to pay her first visit to Town, and a friend of 
mine, a girl of 22, in Birmingham, has just paid her first visit to 
London. I could multiply these cases a hundred-fold. 

Perhaps the explanation is simpler than appears at first 
sight. There are busy, active, intelligent, well-to-do people, who 
like to see all they can and to visit distant places, but most 
persons get into a groove and never get out of it. These people 
look on a railway journey as something awful. Why last night a 
lady told me that she was positively going to Netley in six weeks 
on a visit, and her friends are talking about the proposed expedi- 
tion as though Netley was Odessa, while I was called to Netley 
on Tuesday and stayed there for the night, and have almost for- 
gotten the matter. When one travels 10,000 to 15,000 miles a 
year a run to Netley is not an event. 

A brother of mine, on his return from much wandering in 
and exploring of jungle lands and distant continents, was asking 
a relative of mine in Town the way to Wimborne. He was told 
it was a long and most difficult journey, in fact almost as tedious 
as getting to St. Petersburgh or Madrid. My brother subse- 
quently laughingly said to me **See what you stay-at-home 
English people are ! You think a railway journey of three hours 
in extent worth recording, and are quite anxious for days at the 
mere thought of going 113 miles." 

A. J. H. Crespi, Wimborne. 

172. Crane Family. (IV. xxviii. 132). — This family 
appears to have been connected with Somerton as well as Bridg- 
water. In the Rev. Douglas L. Hayward's ** Notes on Somerton 
Churchwardens' Accounts, 1647- 1747" (Somerset Arc hceo logical 
and Natural History Society s Proceedings^ Vol. XXXIX.) the name 
is mentioned several times. The following are extracts from the 
Will of Francis Crane, Esq., of Bridgwater, proved in the 
Archidiaconal Court of Taunton in the year 1710, but what 
relation he was to Francis Crane of Somerton, disclaimed by 
Sir Edward Bysshe on the 30th Aug., 1672, I am not prepared to 
say. (Somerset Notes — Heraldic and Genealogical, by the 
Rev. F. W. Weaver, M.A., Somersetshire Archaological Society* s 
Proceedings, Vol. XXXIII.. page 33.) 

Will of ** ffrancis Crane of Bridgwater in the County of 
Somerset Esqr., &c. Unto Henneretta my Deare and Loveing 
Wife the Messuage Tenemt. Gardens outhouses and Backside 
thereunto belonging wherein I now dwell in Bridgwater aforesaid 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 211 

Also the Barae called Beddows Bame and ten acres of Meadow 
and pasture thereunto Adjoyneing and the Hay house and 
fififteene acres of Meadow and pasture Ground thereunto Adjoyne- 
ing called Kidsbury and Ten acres of meadow or pasture called 
Morleys = meade all which now are or late were in the possession 
of William Davis of Bridgwater aforesaid Malster [_stc] and do 
lye in the parish of Wembdon in the county aforesaid And also 
all those Seaven acres of pasture ground called Gobies and one 
acre called the Long acre now in my possession &c. piece of 
Ground called Roade Close &c. ffoar acres of pasture Ground 
lyeing neere pyle Ditch in the said parish of Wembdon now or 
late in the possession of Mr. Thomas Yeates &c. ffower acres of 
pasture ground now in the possession of Mr. James Cooper 
lyeing neere the ffourteene acres I now enjoy in Bridgwater 
aforesaid &c. Kings acre Vivians acre and Crophill acre neare 
orAdjoyneingto the said ffourteene acres in Bridgwater aforesaid 
&c. three acres of arable and ffower acres of meadow (be it more 
or lesse) now or late in the possession of George Rogers Lyeinge in 
Wembdon aforesaid &c. Dureing the terme of Nynety Njme yeares 
&c. in full bar of all such Dower and thirds &c. unto my said Wife 
my Charryott and Horses and Harnesses thereunto belonging for 
ever &c. unto my said Wife the use of my Household Goods dureing 
her Life Also I give unto my said Wife in as large a manner 
as I could Reape the same AH benefitt and Advantage of and 
concerning all such personall Estate as formerly belonged to 
Mr. Bicknell her former husband or to Mr. Bicknell her late 
ffather in law &c. or doth or will belong to presilla Bicknell 
my Daughter in law— unto my Kinsman William Knight and 
his heirs &c. the Revertion &c. of three Seu'all Tenements now 
or late in the possession of Mr. Welch Traverse Cox and John 
Mew Lyeing in the pish of Curry Rivell in the said county of 
Somerset — unto my Servant William Chappie a tenement and 
garden lyeing in North Streete in Bridgwater aforesaid now or late 
in the possession of one Hughes &c. for nynety nyne yeares if three 
lives to be named by him the said William Chappie within three 
Months after my Decease &c. [subject to the yearly rent of is.] 
&c. unto my said Kinsman William Knight the younger and Henry 
Selleck the younger of Wallford within the pish of Westmonkton 
&c. Gent and their heirs &c. my lands of Inheritance next herein- 
after mentioned and to them their Executors &c. my Leasehold 
Estate next hereinafter mentioned &c. And also all that my moyety 
of the pfitts of all ffaires marketts and Tolls &c. within the Towne 
or pish of Somerton &c. in Somerton earely in the said county 
and also all my Lands at Littleton in the pish of Compton 
Dundon &c. Interest &c. unto my Sister Anne Parsons — unto my 
Nephew Henry Parsons &c. Estate at Hill in the pish of 
Chilthorne in the said county of Som*set &c. he shall continue in 
the Uniu'sity of oxford &c. Refers to my Nephew Samuel Lea&c. 



212 Somerset <5* Dorset Notes <5* Queries. 

at Schoole &c. in the University &c. my neece Anne Parsons my 
neece Elizabeth Parsons — my Neece Hannah Parsons — ^my two 
Sisters Anne Parsons and Hannah Lea — Estate at Somerton to 
my Nephew Henr}- Parsons &c, for ever — My Silver Tankard 
which was given to me by Mr. Brent to my said Nephew Samuel 
Lea — unto my said Wife my Silver Coffee pott &c. all my Lands 
of Inheritance &c. in Bridgwater, Wembdon and Littleton in 
Compton Dundon &c, [after death of his wife] unto my said 
Nephew Samuel Lea — Residue to Trustees — Unto my Daughter 
in law Mrs. Precilla Bicknell two Silver plates and to my Neece 
Mrs. Hannah Lea my Silver Tankard used in Comon — To the 
poore of Bridgwater ^5 to the poore of &c. Somerton £$. — 
Dated 9 May 17 19 (Signed) Fra: Crane [Seal a shield charged 
with a dragon rampant]. Witnesses J no. Symes, Robert ffisher, 
Thomas Taylor. 

'* Whereas I ffrancis Crane of Bridgwater &c. Esqr. Did on 
yesterday being the Nynth day of this instant May Duely execute 
my Will And being now minded to make some Additions and 
alterations " &c. Legacies to his servants Anne Palmer, Spinster, 
Elizabeth West, Spinster ; to Joane the wife of William Butcher 
of Bridgwater, Amy Veale of Bridgwater. Additional bequests 
10 his nephew Henry Parsons and to his (Testator's) wife. 
Bequests to his wife, his daughter-in-law Mrs. Precilla Bicknell, 
his sisters Anne Parsons, Mrs. Lea, Mrs. Joane Steere **to buy 
them mourneing," unto his Nephew Henry Parsons "to buy 
him Mourneing" — "All my Law Books to my Cousin William 
Knight the younger And all my other Books I doe give to my sd. 
Nephew Henry Parsons" &c. Revertion and Inheritance of a 
House and Garden &c. Lyeing without North gate in Bridgwater 
aforesaid &c. in the possession of Richard Syms or his under- 
tenants to my Neece Hannah Parsons (Daughter of my Sister 
Anne Parsons) &c. for ever " &c. two peeces of arable or pasture 
ground now in the possession of James Cooper &c. in Wembdon 
&c. for a terme of Twenty-one yeares to Commence after two 
Lives now in being** &c. "to my Cousin Henry Knight Son of 
my Brother Mr. William Knight &c. Debt due to me by bond of 
fforty pounds &c. from William Luffe of Bridgwater aforesaid 
Blacksmith &c. to my said Deare Wife.** Dated 10 May, 17 19. 
(Signed) Fra: Crane; Witnesses John Coles, Jno. Symes, ffra: 
Veale. Proved at Taunton the 1 ith day of July 171 9 by William 
Knight Junr. and Henry Selleck Junr. the Executors. 

** John Grene of the pishe of brudgwater** by his will dated 
the 26th day of September, 1551, bequeathed to ** Richard 
Crane of the pishe of Strete A horde A bedde A bolster A coffer 
and a whice [vice] that is in my myll A forme and my seconde beste 
crocke.** (From a Book of collected Wills in the Archidiaconal 
Court, folio 6, page 576.) 

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appears in the parish of Somerton. Is the name of Dutch origin ? 
The name of Krane of Amsterdam appears among the list of 
the passengers who are supposed to have lost their lives on the 
foundering of the ill-fated North German Lloyd passenger steam 
ship Elbe off Lowestoft, last week. 

Alfred Jas. Monday. 



173. DoRSBT Administrations. — Continued, — (II. ix. 10, 
X. 49, xi. 78, xii. 1 1 3, xiii. 1 50, xiv. 1 78, xv. 2 1 y, xvi. 242, III. xvii. 8, 
xviii. 57, xix. 94, xx. 151, xxi. 183, xxii. 233, xxiii. 279, xxiv. 323, 
IV. XXV. 1 1, xxvi. 38, xxvii. 77, xxviii, 123.) 



1 65 3- 1 654 — {conlinued). 



Nun« of Deceased. 
Galton, John 
Gardiner, Richard 
Garland al's Tovcy, 

William 
Garrett, Walter 
Gaylard, John 
Gaylard, William 
George al's Chris- 
topher, WiUiam 
Gibbs, Mathew 
Godolphin. Frauds 
Gollopp al's Mullett, 

Mary 
Goodall. David 
Goodinge, Thomas 
Goodman, John 
Goodridge, John 
Graues al's WcUer, 

Margery 
Gray, Nicnolas 
Gray, Peter 
Grcedie, James 
Greene Gabriel 
Greene, James 
Greene, John 
Gregorie, Robert 
Gregorie, William 
Griffin, Thomas 
Griffin, William 
Groom es, Jndeth 
GuUie, Richard 
Gullocke, Thomas 
Gully, Nicholas 
Gunne, Robert 
Halford, John 
Hallam, Nathaniel 
Hallett, Andrew 
Hamley, Humphrey 
Haman, James 
Hampton, John 
Hancocke, Thomas 



Date of 
Adminiitratioii. 

Febry, 165^-4 
May, 1654 
May, 1654 

Febiy, 165^-4 
May, 1054 
March, 1653-4 
March, 1653-4 

Tune. 1653 
May, 1653 
May. 1653 

Janry, 165^.4 

June, 1653 

May. 1654 

May, 1653 

June, 1653 



Sept., 

June, 

Sept., 

Janry, 

June, 

June, 

Sept., 

July. 

Sept., 
June, 
March, 

Jul.v, 

March, 

Dec, 

June, 

August, 

Feb., 

March, 

July. 

March, 
Nov., 

July. 



1653 
1653 
1653 
1653-4 
1653 
1654 

1653 
1654 
1653 
1653 

1653-4 
«654 

1653-4 
1654 

1653 

X653 

1653-4 

1653-4 

1654 

1653-4 
1654 

1653 



Name ofDeoeMed. 
Harbyn, Zanchy 
Hardmg Richard 
Hardinge, Sarah 
Harford, Nathaniel 
Harrington, Mary 
Harris al's Dyer, Anne 
Harris, Prisalla 
Hatwood, Thomas 
Hawkins, James 
Hayne al's Wills. 

Dorothy 
Hearle, Henry 
Hdiar Robert 
Hellier, Thomas 
HeUier, William 
Hensley, Michael 
Herle, Josias 
Herman al's Dando, 

Joane 
Hewes al's Dyer, 

Thomas 
Hext al's Hizt, John 
Hidon, Nicholas 
Higdon, Peter 
Hill, Thomas 
Hill, William 
Hix, Alice 
Hixt, Wilb'am 
Hobbs, Edmund 
Hobbs, Samuel 
Hobman, John 
Hobson, William 
Hodder, George 
Hodges, Anthony 
Hole, John 
Hole. John 
Holies. Hellenor 
HoUeway, Anne 
Hopkins. Henry 
Horier. Walter 
Horsington, William 



Dale of 
AdmiBittraltoB. 



Janry, 
Sept., 
Nov., 
June, 
Janry, 

July, 

Sept., 
Janry* 



arch, 



1653-4 
1653 
1654 

1653 
1653-4 

1653 

1653 
1653-4 

1653 
1653-4 



»653 
1654 
Sept., 1653 
August, 1653 
August, 1653 
March, 1653.4 
Febry, 1653-4 

March, 1653-4 



July. 

Sept., 

May, 

June, 

Sept., 

li. 



1654 
1653 
"653 
1654 

1653 
1654 
1654 



ebry, 1653-4 
July, 1654 
July, 1654 
October, 1654 
Sept., 1653 
Sept , 1653 
March, 165^-4 
Mav, 1054 

"uly, 1653 



July, 
Sept., 



1653 
1653 
1653 
1653 



314 



Simnrsii <S* Dorsit Notes S* Qutri$s. 



Date of 
Administntion. 



Mtrch, 1653-4 



Muneof De Mm d. 
Hort, Tobias 
Horwood, Humphrey 
Hoskyn, John 
How, Robert 
Howell, Jane 
Howell, John 
Hughes, Walter 
Hmsh, William 
Homby, Leonard 
Hamfiyes, William 
Hunt, John 
Hard, Richard 
Harden, Henry 



• By order of Coort, see Long Acts, 
Jaly 13, 1653, fo- 225" (of co.Dorset) 




Hordinge, Edmand 

Hmt, Benjamin 

Hyett, James 

Irish, Mathew 

Izod, Frauncis 

lacklet, Jo^ 
acobb, William 
ago. John 
arrett, Aagostine 
eanes, Henry 
feflfrey, John 
enkins, Anne 
fennens, John 
fones, EdfmunJ 

.ones, Henry 

^ ^oncs, John 

] ope, John 

' osham, Thomas 

' add. Prter 

! Cearle, Joane 

Keate, John 

I^Uey. Henry 

Kelley, John 

Kempe. Anthony 

Kendall, Walter 

Kenderick, John 

Kennard al's Whit- 
ledge. Elisabeth 

Kerley al*s Stickland, 
Martha 

Kerraskin al's Rich- 
ards, John 

Kewer. Robert 

Keynell, John 



Kidley al's Pointer, 

John 
Kinge, Joseph 
Kirton, Dorothie 
Kirton, Edward 



Febiy, 1653.4 

^'ly* 1653 

ay, 1654 
Sept.. 1653 
March, 1653-4 
Sept.. 1654 



Nov., 
Tone, 
Not., 
Aag, 
Sept., 
Nov., 



1654 

1653 
1654 

1653 
1654 
1654 



October. 1654 
July, 1653 
Aagast, 1653 
August, 1653 
Janry, 1653-4 
June, 1653 
Sept., 1653 
Aiig,;i653or54 
October, 1654 
June, 1654 
Sept., 1653 
Sept., 1654 
Febry, 1653-4 
August, 1653 
June, 1653 



June, 
June. 



1654 
1654 



October, 1654 
Sept., 1653 OJ" 

August, 1653 



Name of Deceased. 
Kneebome al's Ford. 

Joane 
Knolles. Roger 
Knowles, Matthew 
Knowles, Thomas 
Lacie, Robert 
Lamborae, Josias 
Lane, Katheme 



Date of 
A dm in titration. 

June, 1653 



April, 
Sept., 
Sept., 
Sept., 
August, 



Mathew, June. 



1653 
1654 
1654 
1653 
1653 
1653 
1654 

1653 
1653 
1653 
1653 

1653-4 



Sept., 

ry, II 
October, 1654 



;ept., 1654 
Febiy, 1653-4 



Lane al's 

Ralph 

Lang. William Sept., 

Langbridge, Edward August, 

Langwell, Robert August, 

Larcombe. John August, 

Larder, Margaret Febry, 
Large, John 
Latham, John 

Lawrence, Sir Edward May, 

Lawrence. Thomas October, 

Leane. Syi^ion May. 

Leeker, Frances August, 

Leir, Richarvi May, 

Leman, Peter March, 

Ley, John March, 

Long. Dorothy Febry, 

Long. Hugh June, 

Long, Thomas Sept., 

LovelJ, Richard July. 

Ludlow. Edmond May, 

Ludlowe. Anne July, 

Lugg (?) William May, 

Lukms, Thomas Sept.. 

Lycie, John Sept., 

Lypeake, Richard May, 

Maidman, Richard Match, 

Mallery, Robert October, 1654 

Malson, John June, 1653 

Manfeild, Roger August. 1653 

Manshipn, James Janry, 1653-4 

Marke, Robert March, 1653-4 

Markes, Thomas Sept., 1653 

Marler, Matilda Janry, 1653-5 

Marten, Elizabeth August, 1653 

Martin, Geoige Sq)t., 
Martin, Thomas 
Martyn, Margaret 
Mason. James 
Mason, William 
Masters al's Butcher, 

Edmund 

Masters, Edward May, 
Masters al's Tydall. June, 

Elizabeth 

Masters. Peter August, 
Mathew al's Lane, June, 

Ralph 

Mathewcs, Beavis August, 



Tulv, 1654 

March, 165^-4 
1654 
1654 
1654 
1653 
1654 

1653-4 
1653-4 
1653-4 
1653 
1654 
1653 
1654 

1653 
1654 

1653 

1653 

1654 

1653-4 



Sept., 
July, 
Sept., 
July, 
r, M 'rch, 



1653 
1653 
1654 
1653 
1653 
1653-4 

1654 
1653 

1653 
1654 

1653 



Somerset S- Dorut Notes &• Queries. 



215 



Name of Deceased. 
Matson. Benbow 
Matthewes, Thomas 
Maycock, William 
Maynard al*s Nash, 

Elizabeth 
Majrnard, Joane 
Maynestone, Eliza- 
beth 
Mayo, John 
Meader al*s Shedd, 

Robert 
Mealder, John 
Mercer, William 
Merret, Richard 
Merrett, Mary 
Merrick, Frances 
Metford, Samuel 
Millard, John 
Miller, Edward 
Miller, John 
Mills, Elizabeth 
MUls, John 
Mills, William 
Mitchell, Henry 
Mogg, Richara 
Moore, Samuel 
Moore, Thomas 
Moore, William 
Morford al's Bettie, 

Frances 
Morgan, Robert 
Mullett al's GoUopp, 

Mary 
Myles, John 
Nash al*s Maynard, 

Elizabeth 
Nayhoe, Thomasin 
Neale, William 
Neast, Edward 
Neighbours, Isaack 
Newport, John 
Newlon, William 
Nicholls, Fardinando 
Nicholls, James 
Noath (or North) 

Nathaniel 
Norman, Edward 
Norman, Robert 
Norris, John, the 

elder 
Norrfs, John 
Orchard, John 
Orchard, Walter 
Osborne, Robert 



Date of 
Admlnietration. 

Febry, 165^-4 

June, 1654 

Nov., X654 

May, 1653 



Sept., 
June, 

Sept., 
Sept., 



1653 
1654 

1653 
X654 



March, 1653-4 
March, 1653-4 

July, 1653 
July. 1653 

August, 1653 
March, 1653-4 
March, 1653-4 
Sept., 1654 
Febry, 1653-4 
October, 1654 
May, 1654 
June. 1654 
May, 1654 
May, 1653 

March, 1653-4 
August, 1653 
March, 1653-4 
August, 1654 

March, 1653-4 
May, 1653 



May, 
May, 



1653 
1653 



Sept.. 1654 

August, 1654 

June, 1654 

August, X654 
October, 1654 

July. 1653 

Sept., 1654 

Mav, 1654 

August, 1653 

Febry, 1653-4 

July, 1653 

May, 1653 

May, 1654 

Sept., 1654 

July, 1654 

Sept., 1654 



Name of Deoeaaed. 
Paal, Thomas 
Pard, Robert 
Parker, Frances 
Parker, James 
Parker, Thomas 
Parmiter, Henry 
Parratt, James 
Parris, Bridget 
Parris al's Turner, 

Julian 
Parsons, Andrew 
Parsons, Thomas 
Parsons, William 
Partridge, Richard 
Paul, Barnard 
Paul. John 
Pavy, Henry 
Payne, Richard 
Penrenton al's Pearce, 

John 
Pearse, James 
Pearse,joane 
Peart, Giles 
Pcnhale al's Tom, 

John 
Peokenell, Grace 
Penwarden, Christo- 
pher 
Pepwell, Thomas 
Perkins, Nicholas 
Perroit, John 
Perry, George 
Perry, Richard 
Pester, Jane 
Pew, John 
Pinckard, John 
Pinke, Daniel 
Pinney, William 
Pitt, George 
Pitt. Richard 
Pitts, William 
Plummer al's Rossom, 

WiUiam 
Pointer al's Kidley, 

John 
Pollard, Launcelot 
Ponter, Richard 
Pope, Thomas 
Popham, Edward 
Pophams, Richard 
Porker, John 
Porter, John 
Poimceford, Thomas 
Powell, Thomas 



Date of 
Administration. 

Sept., 1654 
March, 1653-4 
August. 1654 
March, 1653-4 
Sept., 1653 
June, 1653 
August, 1653 
Tune, 1653 
May, 1653 

May. 1653 

Sept., 1653 

Febry, 165^-4 

June, 1654 

Febry, 1653-4 
August, 1653 

Sept., 1653 

Febry, 1653-4 

July. 1653 

Tune, 1653 

Nov., 1654 

March, 1653-4 

May, 1653 

Nov., 1654 
Febry, 1653-4 

May. 1654 

August, 1653 

June, 1653 

October, 1654 

July. 1653 

July, 1654 

May, 1654 

May, 1654 
March, 1653-4 

June, 1653 

Sept., 1653 

June, 1654 

May, 1654 

Sept., 1653 

August, 1653 

July, 1654 

June, 1653 
August, 1653 
Febry, 1653-4 
August, 1653 
Sept., 1653 
March, 1653-4 
August, 1653 
August, 1653 



To be coniinued. 



Geo. S. Fry. 



2i6 Somerset <S* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 

174. Incumbents op Long Sutton, Somerset. — ^The 
following list of Institutions from 1753 to present date is in 
continuation of Mr. Weaver's invaluable publication Somerset 
Incumbents. 

Date of Ref.toBp.'s 

Institution. Incumbent. How Vacated. Patron. Register. 

25 Sept., 1753. Aaron Foster. per mort. Moses Dean and Chap. 

Foster. ofWeUs. Willes. 

5 Nov., 1767. Aaron Foster. per cess. A.F. D. & C. Wells. Willes. 
2 Oct., 1776. Christopher 

Tatchell. per cess. A.F. D, & C. Wells. Moss. 

6 Oct., 181 7. William James, per cess. C.T. D. & C. Wells. Beadon. 
I Oct., 1825. William James, per cess, of him Bishon of Lich- 

the sameWil- field & Coven- 
liam James try, and D. & 

C. of Wells. Law. 
12 Feb., 1859. John James. per mort. W.J. D. & C. Wells. Auckland. 

4 April, 1888. George Skurray 

Henning. per mort. J.J. D. & C. Wells. Hervey. 

G. S. Henning, Long Sutton Vicarage, Langport. 

175. Arms of De Mandeville and Le Bretun (IV. 
xxviii. 141). — Mr. Batten mentions that the arms of the de 
Mandevilles, Earls of Essex, were quarterly arg. and gn. a 
bordure azure and those of Le Bretun " quarterly arg. and gu. a 
bordure azure.'- The ancient Rolls of Arms at the College of 
Arms, prove that the blazon of both coats should be "(^rand gu." 
with a bordure azure '* or " a bordure engrailed azure " added 
in the case of le Bretun. The arms of de Say were also 
" quarterly or and gu." 

The arms of John le Bretun on his seal attached to the 
Baron's letter to the Pope in 1301 are "quarterly within a 
bordure," but as dots and lines to indicate the metals and colours 
in seals and carvings were not in use in England before the time 
of the Stuarts, it is evident that by the mere inspection of a 
Plantagenet seal the tinctures cannot be determined. These 
remarks do not apply to the furs, e,g,^ ermine and vair, which in 
their nature have a distinctive pattern which is shown in the 
engraving of seals. 

Having established the point that "or" cannot in a seal of 
Plantagenent times be distinguished from *' arg.," the 2nd and 
3rd quarters of the Coker seal have to be dealt with. Mr. Batten 
says " the lines are much defaced," and that he first understood 
the seal to be "arg. and or" (why these particular tinctures does 
not transpire), so it is possible that these quarters are diapered 
only to create a variation from the ist and 4th quarters. 

The same arguments may also apply to the coats of de 
Mandeville recorded in Sir Wm. Pole's manuscript. 

In '* Historical Notes relating to parts of Somerset ^^ Mr. 
Batten refers (p. 154) to "Notes taken in the Visitation of 
Somerset, 1591, in East Coker" where an impaled shield, the 







M/:^.^«im * umlT Tajla L^nJmmn . 



Somerset <S* Dorset Notes <S* Queries. 217 

dexter side of which was ** quarterly within a bordure," is 
recorded. These arms, as they stand, answer to those of le Bretun, 
and may, on investigation, confirm the probable relationship 
between the families of de Mandeville of Coker and le Bretun 
suggested by Mr. Batten at p. 124 of his interesting work. 

Ph. Brito. 

176. Frances, Duchess of Richmond. — With the kind 
permission of Messrs. Ellis and Elvey, of 29 New Bond St., 
London, who have lent the block for that purpose, we are able to 
present our readers with a copy of the very rare portrait of 
Frances, Duchess of Richmond, and daughter of Thomas Lord 
Howard of Bindon. 

The plate, from which this portrait is derived, is an exquisite 
-engraving by William Passe, found in Capt. John Smith's General 
Hiiiorieof Virginia^ 1624, a work dedicated to this lady, the volume 
itself being excessively rare, and few copies containing this portrait. 

Thomas Lord Howard, the lady's father, himself a younger 
son of Thomas Howard of Bindon, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was 
created Viscount Howard of Bindon in the county of Dorset, 
13th January, 1559, and received considerable grants of land at 
Bindon and the neighbourhood, (See .S". 6f D. N. & Q,, IV. 
xxviii. 127). By his third wife, Mabell, daughter of Nicholas 
Burton, Esq.. of Carshalton, Surrey, he had issu^ a daughter, 
Frances, who married (i) Henry Pranel, Esq., of Barkway, Herts; 
(2) Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford ; and (2) Lodwick Stuart, 
Duke of Richmond, but had no issue (Burke's Exiinct Peerage). 

The following account of the rare volume from which the 
portrait is derived is taken from Messrs. Ellis and Elvey's 
Catalogue. No. 78, page 66. 

•* Smith (Captain John), The Generall Historie of 
Virginia. New-England, and the Summer Isles: with the 
names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their 
first beginning. Ano. 1584 to this present 1624. With the 
Proceedings of those severall Colonies and the Accidents that 
befell them in all their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps 
and Descriptions of all those Countryes, their Commodities, 
people. Government, Customes, and Religion yet knowne. 
Divided into sixe Bookes. By Captaine John Smith, sometymes 
Governour in those Countryes & Admirall of New England. 
London, Printed by I. D. and /. H. for Michael Sparkes, 1624. 
Folio. First Edition, engraved title-page, by John Barra, with 
portraits of Elizabeth, James /., and Prince Charles, also the four 
folding maps, a very large and fine copy (if J X 7J), sumptuously 
bound in brown morocco super extra, the sides richly ornamented in 
black and gold after an old English pattern and powdered with f*ilt, 
gilt edges, by Riviere. £%\r One of the very few that were 
originally issued containing this portrait of the Duchess of 
Richmond, which is placed after the title, opposite the dedication. 

C. H. Mayo. 



2i8 Somersit &* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

177. Monumental Inscriptions in other Counties 
RELATING TO SOMERSET AND DORSET. — In Fovant Church 
(Wilts) there is a tombstone with the following inscription : — 
"To the Memory of I 
their deceased parents | 
whose remains are deposited in this chancel | 
Tho Eyre clerk late Rector of this Parish | 
And Chancellor of the Diocese of Bath and Wells | 
A Judicial character for wh he was eminently fitted | 
by native vigor of mind intense applic° to Business | 
and Integrity of life and manners | 
And Ann his Wife Daughter of James Edgell | 
of Standerwick Court in the County of Somerset Esq | 
This marble is here inscribed by their | 
Two Surviving Sons Thomas and James — 
In the year 1791." 
In Wells Cathedral there is the following monumental' 
inscription : — ** To the memory of the Rev. Thos. Eyre, LL.D., 
eldest son of the Rev, Thomas Eyre, some time Chancellor of 
this Diocese and brother to Sir James Eyre, L.C.J, of the 
Common Pleas, Rector of Fovant and Chilmark in the County of 
Wilts. Treasurer of Wells Cathedral, and Canon Residentiary of 
Wells and Salisbury, who died March 26th, 1812, aged 81, 
deservedly respected, beloved and lamented." F.W.W. 



In Long Sutton Church, Somerset, " In Memory of Elizabeth, 
the wife of M. Hill, Apothecary, and Sister to the Rev*- John 
Gaylard, A.M., late Master of Sherborne School, who died Jan. 
20, 1760, aet. 51." G.S.H. 



On a flat stone on the S. side of King's Somborne Church,. 
Hants, is the following inscription in Roman capitals : — 
Hie Jacet Franciscvs Rivet de Somborn Regis 
In Agro Sovthamptoniensi Arm. et Elizabetha 
Vxor ejvs III. obiit decimo Tertio Die Decern. 
Anno Dni MDCLXV et JEtSitis svae Septvagesimo 
Qvarto Hec vero Decirtno Sexto Aprilis A. Dni 
MDCLXIX JEt3Ltis Sexagesimo qvarto. Filia [s] 
Reliqvervnt Binas Coheredes Elizabetham 
Natv Majorem Gvlielmo Strode de Barrington 
In Agro Somersetensi Armigero Envpta[ro] et 
Margeritam Olivario St John De Far. St John 
i^n Agro Sovthamptoniensi Arm. Conjvncta[m] 
Qvarvm Cvra Officii et Amoris ergo in 
Parent[es] optime meritos Hoc [qvalecvmqve] 

Extat Monvmentvm T.H.B^ 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries, 219. 

178. Browne Willis, the Antiquary (IV. xxvii. 89.) — 
In the register of the parish of Broughton, near Newport PagneU 
Bucks, occurs the following entry. 

••Thos. Willis, Esq., of Bletchley, and Mrs. Frances Robin- 
son of this Parish, married by licence at St. James' Church in 
London, Feb. 4, 1747/8." 

This was the eldest son of Browne Willis, born, according to 
Hutchins' Dorset^ (vol. i, p. 174,) 27 Dec. 17 10, and died 18 June, 
1756 She was bis second wife, called in Hutchins '* Frances 
Robinson of Cranesley, co. Northampton, who died 1767." 

A. 

179. — John La Faussille (IV. xxviii. 153). — By the kindness 
of two correspondents, the following is a reply to my enauiry 
(December, 1894). John La Faussille, or more correctly ** ae la 
Faussille.*' was the elder son of Ren6 de la Faussille, clearly a 
refugee. His mother was Jane Feltman. Both father and mother 
died in the year 1723, the former having made his Will in Dublin 
in 1720, the latter hers at Sligo, some three months before her 
death. They tell of two sons /ohn and Peter ; a daughter Jeane 
already provided for in 1723, and three daughters yet unmarried, 
Anne, Mary and Susannah. The issue of the marriage of John 
with Ann Baron was an only daughter Hester, who married 
Charles Torriano. When he made his Will in 1761 the General 
calls himself "of Wells." But a codicil is dated at Havana in 
Cuba in 1762, and he seems to have died at sea. The Will was. 
proved in 1763. If we could trace Peter and find out whether 
the family name died with him, we should have a fair knowledge 
of de la Faussille, 

Jambs Coleman. 

180. St. Erasmus. (I. i. 21, ii. 76, iii. 147, II. xvi. 255, 
256.) — The following note by my friend Mr. Edmund Buckle 
should be added to the Notes already made on the above saint. 

** According to some transcripts by Mr. St. John Hope from 
the Wells Fabric rolls he (St. Erasmus) had a pix in the Cathedral 
in which were collected the magnificent sums of 2^d. in 1480 
and 6d. in 1492, and the box was still there in 1500. But 
Bennett, p. 290, and Reynolds, p. xliii, give the name of the 
Saint as Grasmus.** 

Also, in Som. Archaoi. Soc. Proceedings , vol. vii, p. 104, there is 
the following at the end of an Inventory of Vestments, &c., belong- 
ing to ** Saint Katherine's He," in the Church of Bridgwater. 

** Md. that Agnes Cuttelar have gevyn an anvyll to the 
Chirche of Briggewat' that is to witte to oure lady, to Seynt 
Kateryn, and io Seynt Rasmus y 

James Coleman. 



220 Somerset S» Dorset Notes £* Queries. 

i8i. Elton Family (IV. xxvii. 84, xxviii. 147.)— I send 
you two Notes (extracted from the Bristol City Records) which I 
happen to have taken on the Bristol Eltons. 

( 1 ) One of these is clearly an addition to the data given in 
IV. xxviii. 147. 

(2) The other rather amplifies what is printed on page 179, 
sub. fin. as to Abraham Elton. 

It makes assured that his father's name was Isaac, and gives 
the names of the parties to his release from his first apprentice- 
ship to his relative. I take it that the Jacob and Isaac, there 
named, were his Master and his Father. 

I also add an outlier from the Register of Westbury (? Wilts.) 
"Marriage, 1702. Abraham Elton of the City of Bristol, gent., 
and Mrs. Abigail Baylie of Westbury the 14th May." 

( 1 ) From the Apprentice Rolls of the City of Bristol. 
Ao. 1660. Sept. 25. 

"Isaac the son of Jacob Elton of the City of Bristol, 
gardener, apprenticed to Hen. Bullock of Bristol, cooper, and to 
Elizabeth his wife for 7 years." 

[The above from a fragmentary Roll of a few leaves only, 

Henry Creswick, Mayor.] 

(2) From the Burgess Rolls, Ao. 1670. Oct. 5. 

" Abraham Elton fils. Isaac Elton posuit se apprenticium 
Jacobo Elton, cooper, et Hester ux: ejus. ♦ ♦ ♦ Consensu 

Jacob Elton 
Isaac Elton." 

F.J.P. 

183. Vailes. (IV. xxvii. 152) — This word is a very old term 
for •• tips " given to servants, and is still in common use. 

The old spelling was •* Aua>le " or " Avayle." See Promp. 
Parv. p. 17 (Camd. Soc.) which gives the derivation from 
" Valeo," and in the note quotes ** Auayle, proufl5t. Palsg." and 
refers to certain manors " with all proufites and avayles to the 
same perteyning." 

In a MS. Book belonging to the Parish of St. Nicholas, 
Bristol, commencing in 1385, there are some curious Regulations, 
dated 1481, which some years ago I edited for the Clifton Antiq. 
Clab. (Vol. I, p. 142, Ancient Bristol Documents), A portion is 
headed " Thys ben the Caswell Avaylis longgying to ye Clerke 
aad je So&ygan." 

•*Ib p*mas the Clerke to have ye vaylys of ye bellys ye 
3any^ aad of cvy Pardoner for ye Surplys, &c." 

The iaconveniences to which Nurses of young children are 
^iwirtinirg ssi^ccted used to be, when I was a boy in Wiltshire, 
<inci I beHe!*e stiQ aie, jocularly alluded to as " Nurse*s Vails." 

Jambs R. Bramble. 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 221 

183. I am quite familiar with the expression "Vails" or 
Vales for "Tips" to servants. Some writers derive it from 
Availeo: to benefit, and these consider it short for "Avails;'* 
others derive it from valere=to bid farewell (? both in word and 
deed) and spell it * vales/ " 

I wonder how our descendants will derive " Tips ? " That 
may be something short of " palming ? " 

F.J.P. 

184. The word is in use here, not restricted in its meaning 
to •* money given to servants " but in the sense of " perquisites" 
generally. Thus, an old sexton, now dead, would say to men 
excavating a grave in the solid rock, " You may have the stone 
for your vails." 

Skeat {E/ym, Diet, s,v^ says it is a headless form of zvail sb. 
in the sense of profit, help. Dr. Johnson's suggested derivation 
would appear therefore simply an ingenious, though mistaken, 
guess, and his proposed emendation a misleading one. 

The word is, I should say, here obsolescent, and used only 
by the elder sort. Indeed, I doubt whether at the present day it is 
an3rwhere in common use. It has, I fancy, among servants, been 
quite ousted by the familiar " tips." 

W. F. Rose, Worle Vicarage. 

185. Frightened Isaac. — When I was a boy and came 
in with rumpled hair, the nurse would reproach me with " You 
are like a frightened Isaac." 

I always thought myself compared to the lad on Mount Moriah 
when his father bound him and took the knife. But Haysuck is 
said to be the name for a hedgesparrow in Gloucestershire, and I 
would suggest that the expression which I have heard used this 
last summer in Somerset, is a reference to the frightened Haysuc 
when he ruffles his plumage at the approach of danger. Can 
any reader corroborate or improve on this explanation ? 

W. E. Daniel. 

t86. Metrical School Grace. — Can any reader of S. <&• 
D, N. & Q. inform me from what source comes the invocation 
which many Somerset children use as a ** Grace before Meat," 
and which is not unfrequently " said or sung " before quitting the 
Schoolroom in the morning ? 

" Be present at our Table, Lord, 
Be here and everywhere adored. 
Thy (or ? these) creatures bless and grant that we 
May feast in Paradise with Thee. Amen. 
It looks as if it had connexion originally with the blessed 
sacrament. Especially does the word adored point to this 
connexion. 

F. J, POYNTON. 



az2 Somerset S* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 

187. Skeletons at Lillington.— •* A curious discovery 
was made a few days since by some persons occupied in turning 
U|^ a field near Lillington, Dorset. Twelve skeletons were found 
within a space of about 6 yards in the middle of the field, and 
not more than a foot below the surface; each was deposited 
about two feet apart from the rest, and surrounded by drain stones 
from six to nine inches. The field belongs to Robert Gordon, 
Esq., of Leweston House. {Salisbury and Winchester journal. 
May 1 2th, 1828.) 

188. Longevity at Pitminster.— The instance of longevity 
in one family resident in the Parish of Pitminster, Somerset, as 
shown in the annexed table, may perhaps be interesting to some 
readers of S. S* D, N. S> Q., and may be worthy of record. 

£. D. BOURDILLON. 

Elizabeth Oaten of Feltham, Pitminster, 

died 1855, aged 108. 

Besides other children buried elsewhere there lived 

and died at Pitminster. 

! 

Hannah Hartnell Betty (m) Wescomb William, died 

died 1867 aged 93, died 1876, aged 100, i878,aged 94, hav- 

having been 81 at having been 79 at her ing been 71 at his 

her mother's death, mother's death. mother*s death. 

! 



John Hartnell, Anne (m) Rochester, 

died 1893, aged 82. died 1889, aged 88. 

189. Secret Passages in Old Buildings. — I desire to 
be referred to any published works on the subject of secret 
passages or subterranean communications with ancient buildings. 
Are such passages known to exist or to have existed in the old 
Castles or other buildings of England, a description of which 
might be found in the County History of the district in question'? 
I should be glad to ascertain the existence or strong probability 
of the existence of subterranean, or rather, in any way masked 
and concealed passages for actual military purposes, such as 
communication with the outer ground in case of close siege, or as 
a means of sally, to take the besiegers* lines in reverse unexpected- 
ly, it being of course a fact that in days before the use of weapons 
of range and precision ground was broken within a very short 
distance of the walls in cases of leaguer, so that a subway of 
moderate extent would reach beyond such lines. 

W. Bailey Langhorne. 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 223 

190. Deacon Family of Somerset. — Volume 15 of the 
Harleian Society — Visitation of London^ 1633-4 — gives a pedigree 
of Deacon from Billingsgate, from John Deacon oi Hunnicourt 
(Holnicote), co. Somerset, to which the editor has appended a 
cut of the Coat of Arms : — Argent, a chevron gules fretty or, 
between three roses of the second, stalked and leaved vert. 

This, I think, is quite unauthorized ; the arms in question 
belong to the family of Decons or Dicons .of Bedfordshire, 
and their collaterals and descendants in Warwickshire and 
Hertfordshire. 

Extended investigation seems to establish the fact that the 
families of Deacon of Somerset, Dorset and Wilts, traces of which 
are found at Stourton, Devizes, Plymouth, &c., are an entirely 
distinct race, from different stock, whose humble Wills are found 
as early as the fifteenth century in the P.C.C. It is doubtful if 
any of this family ever bore authorized arms. On the other hand 
the Decons of Bedfordshire, who were allied to many influential 
families, are distinctly recognised as armigerous, receiving 
confirmation and augmentations at the Heralds' College. 

Edward Deacon. 

191. Barbor of Barnstaple. — According to Lysons* 
Magna Britannia^ Vol. 6, Devonshire, Part I., this family came 
from Upcot in Somersetshire ; the first who is mentioned being 
William Barbor, who settled at Barnstaple as a physician in the 
17th century, and married the heiress of Pointer, of Northcote in 
Bittadon. 

I should be greatly obliged if anyone could give me the 
pedigree of the above named Wm. Barbor, and of his wife, the 
heiress of Pointer, or any particulars on the subject. 

H.R. 

192. Dorset Clergy and the Protestation of 1641-2. 
— In the House of Lords is preserved a valuable series of returns, 
received from parishes throughout the country of the names of 
all persons who signed the ** Protestation" in 1641-2. The 
Protestation itself runs in the following terms : — . 

**I (A.B.) doe in the presence of Almightie God promise, vow 
and protest to mainetaine and defend so farre as lawfullie I may, 
with my life, power and estate, the true Reformed Protestant 
Religion exp'ssed in the Doctrine of the Church of England 
against all Poperie and Popish Innovations within this Realme 
contrarie to the same doctrine and according to the dutie of my 
Allegiance his Maties Royall person, honor and estate. As also 
the Power and Privileges of Parliament, The lawfull rights and 
Liberties of the subiect, and every person that maketh this 
Protestation in whatsoever hee shall doe in the lawful pursueance 
of ye same. And to my power and as farre as lawfullie I may I 



224 Somerset S* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 

will oppose and by all good waies and meanes indeavor to bring 
to condigne punishment all such as shall either by force, Practise, 
Counsells, Plotts, Conspiracies, or otherwise do anie thing in this 
p*sent Protestation contained. And further, that I shall in all 
Just and honorable waies endeavor to p'serve ye Vnion and 
Peace between the three Kingdomes of England, Scotland and 
Ireland . And neither for hope, feare, nor other respect relinquish 
this pmise, vow and Protestation." 

To quote the appendix to the Fifth Report of the Historical 
MSS. Commission, page 3, — "This protestation was reported 
and agreed to in the Commons, and ordered to be made by every 
meml^r of that house on the 3rd of May, 1641. It was agreed to 
by the Lords, and ordered to be made by every member of their 
House on the following day. On the 5th of May the Commons 
ordered the protestation and preamble to be printed, the copies 
to be attested by the clerk, and then sent by the members to 
their several counties and boroughs, with an intimation with 
what willingness the members of this House made this protesta- 
tion, and as they justify their taking of it in themselves, so they 
cannot but approve it in them that shall likewise take it. 
Snb^sequently it was resolved that the protestation is fit to be made 
by everyone, and that what person soever shall not make the 
|>kty>tcsiAtion is unfit to bear office in the church or commonwealth, 
anvl that it is a * Shibboleth to discover a true Israelite.' In 
lanuary, 1641-2, the Speaker recommended by letter the making 
y^^f lV,o protestation to the sheriffs, mayors, and others in general. 
V:s^ ix^turns of the names of those who had made the protestation 
^ii^MNir 10 have come in rapidly after this, for on the 8th of March 
V'^v^x 4n* nt^ferred to a committee instructed to receive them, and to 
v»\s^v,v5x^r what is fit to be done with those that refuse the protest- 
t.^^»^. The returns are for the most part dated February or 
Vi^vV »H*"*» ^^^ contain in almost all cases the names of 
. > Av,^ ;s^tT^v>ns who have subscribed the protestation, and sometimes 
t Ks^ v^^> \umes of any who have refused. In a few cases the 
'♦* *■ v,N^ yvf the parish certifies that all have subscribed without 
vA'>.i \'^^ names." 

V- kv:V3Ce» I to to 134 of the Appendix may be read the names 
ss *^v >Nvu\ne5 and parishes from which returns are extant. 

'^ v' \^ kindness of our correspondent. Mr. E. Filliter, who 
v^v . * Vtt'v examined the returns from Dorset, we are able to 
x'^* \ x; v*t the Incumbents or Officiating Ministers in the 
.xsi* s ^ vxSvx .Mijned the protestation. The complete returns 
N4vs..a N^ t,^t too voluminous to find a place in our columns, 
^i- ^^ ^ixM ha!^ compared the parish returns with another 
. , * u uMvK^ t^y the justices, which differs somewhat from them, 
t M ' u^vMs^x xx\thin square brackets are those reported by the 

Editor for Dorset. 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S* Queries. 



225 



Blandford 
Division. 



DORSET PROTESTATIONS (164 1-2). 

CUrgy. 



Desaibid as 



Coombs Ditch Hundred. 

Anderson Samuel Highmore Rector 

Blandford Forum John Linslie Minister 

Blandford St. Mary Jo: Guy Rector 

Bloxworth Kobte Welsteede Rector 

Winterborne Clenston J?^^ Bernard Pastor 

Winterborne Whitchurch lobijah Walton Rector 

Do. CoRFE Castle Hundred and Liberty. 

Corfe Castle Beniamin Devenish Curate 

Do. Hasilor Hundred. 

Arne 

Church Knowle 

East Holme 

Kimmeridge 

Steeple 

Tvneham 



James Rawson 
John Lambert 
James Crouch 
Thonias Whitroe 
John Churchill 
Joseph Dyke 



Pastor 

Curate 

Clericus 

Clericus 

Rector 

Rector 



Do. Hundredsbarrow Hundred. 



Affpuddle 
Turners Puddle 

Do. OVERMOIGNE LIBERTY. 

Overmoigne 
Do. PiMPERNE Hundred. 

Bryanstone 
Durweston 
Fife head 
Hammoon 
Haselbury Bryan 

Houghton 

Pimpeme 

Steepleton 

Stourpain 

Tarrant Hinton 

Tarrant Keynston 

Tarrani Launceston 

Langton Long 

Winterboume Houghton 

Winterboume Stickland 

Do. BiNDON Liberty. 

Bindon 
Wool 



Tho: Jacob 
William Poole 



Vicar 
Rector 



James Dovertie Curate 



Robert D[B]askett 
Richard Hooke 
Joseph Gannett 
Samuel Hardacre 
Thomas Clarke 

[ChriaUan name ^ , .. 
notgiTeninorg.] UQell 
Ch: Pitt 
[No name]. 
Jo: Straight 
Philippe Dugdale 
Onesip: Barnard 
Henry Martin 
John Young 
Edw. Highmore 
[No name]. 



Parson 

Minister 

Rector 

Minister 

Rector 

Curate 
Gierke 

ClicetVic. 

Rector 

Curate 

Vicar 

Minister 

Rector 



[No name]. 
Edward Galton 



Clerk 



226 



Somimt S* D&rut Net^ & Qu&rm, 



Blmdfiwd 








CNMon. 


RowBARRow Hundred. 








Langton Matravers 


Jos. White 


Rector 




Studland 


Fr: Frampton 






Swanage 


Brune Cockram 


Parson 




Worth Malraven 


Francis Lewis 


Vicar 


Do. 


RusHMORB Hundred. 








Winierborne Zelston 


[No name]. 




Do. 


WiNFRiTH Hundred, 








Chaldon Herring 


Nicholas Robbins 


Vicar 




Combe Keynes 


[ ohn Gallton 


Yicar 




East Lul worth 


\ ohn Gallton 


Vicar 




East Stoke 


' ohn Sacheverell 
Thomas Payne 


Rector 




Moreton 


Rector 




Poxwell 


Richard Fillioll 


Clerke 




Ware ham^^ — T rin i ty 


Wm, Wake 


Rector 




Do. Do. 


James Rawson, 
Curate of Aren 
[Arne]. 


Clark 




Do. St. Martins 


Jo. Thome 


Clerke 




Do. Our Lady 


Ja. Crouch 


Clerke 




Warm well 


Christopher Bull 


Minister 




Wiiifriih 


John Hayne 


Clic 




Woo4sXord 


thos. Stickler 


Rector 



{To he c&nfmmd,) 



193. Grahts ok Arms to Somerset and Dorset. (IV. 

lioiiToa^ of Wilts nnd Somerset, Patent by Sir Christoplier 
BiilccT, Garter, confirming arms and i^ranting a crest Arg. 
041 mfess tE. belw, in chief two wolves pass. gu. and In base 
A crossbow of the last three martlets or. Crest. A cubit arm 
erect T<este<t gti. caE arg. in the hand ppr. an arrow az. 
fettlvim:^ and barbed or, and two rosei^ arg. leaved vert. 
Hart. MS, 1421. 

IVATT. Aa* ittiir arg* on a fess gu, three mullets or, HarL 
MS. i5|q(A). 

llcVTWli, RAtpTH, of Churchill, co. Somerset. Confirmation 1 563. 
QwMetIf I and 4^ Gu. on a fess or, three torteaux. 1, Gu. 
• teU*! beaid cabosb^d arg, 3, Az. two bars or, on each 
dMt tuidM |o« Crest. A demi lion erased or, holding a 
mu3E at. Add. MS. 16,940, for the crest ; the arms and 
um iildked, Sukw MS. 7 r4, 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes & Queries. 22y 

Jbssop, Thomas, of Gillingham, co. Dorset. Patent by Robert 
Cook, Clarencieux. Or, two bars and in chief three leopards* 
faces gn. Crest. A cockatrice's head erased ppr. memb. 
gn. betw. two cockatrice wings also ppr. 

JoYLiFFE, Richard, s. and h. of John Joyliffe of Estover, co. 
Dorset, gent., formerly a captain of the trained bands of the 
said county ; granted 8 March, 1663/4. Or, a fess embattled 
betw. three pneons sa. Crest. From mural coronet or, a 
horse*s head sa. maned of the first. Add. MS. 14,293. 

KsBTB, William, of Chellesbome, co. Dorset. With the differ- 
ence of a second house, as Roger Keete of Farington, co. 
Dorset, quartering arg. a chev. eng. betw. three leopards' faces 
gn.9 for hfarvile. Crest. A unicorn's head erased ar^. armed 
or, gorged with a belt gu. buckle pendant and garnished of 
the second. Add. MS. 14,297. HarU MS. 1422 nves Keyt 
of Cheselbome, co. Dorset. Grant by Robert Cook, Claren- 
cieux, dated 1588, Az. a chev. betw. three hawks* heads 
erased or. Crest. A unicorn's head erased, &c. See Visit, 
of Dorsetshire 1623, printed by the Harl. Soc. 

KsNN, Christopher, of Kenn, Esq. Confirmation dated 8 April, 
1561. £rm. three crescents gu. Crest. A unicorn's head 
erased az. sem6e of bezants, mane and tuft or, horn wreathed 
of the last and sa. Harl. MS. 1359. Crest granted 1591. 
Three crescents interlaced arg. Harl. MS. 1422. 

KsNNY of Weston. Arg. two bars and in chief three lions' heads 
erased sa. Crest. A lion's head couped sa. pierced by a 
spear arg. Harl. MS. 1559 (A). 

King, Robert, of Somerset. At present one of the gentlemen 
ushers to the King and Queen's Majesty. Grant by Dethick, 
Garter, 15 April, 2 and 3 Phil, and Mary. Sa. on a chev. 
arg. three escallop shells gu. and in base a cross patde 
fitch6e or, on a chief of the last a dragon's head with two 
wings couped of the third, betw. two battle axes az. Crest. 
A cubit arm erect vested bendy wavy purp. and or, cuffed 
arg., in the hand ppr. a broken spear sa. headed of the third. 
Harl. MS. 1359. 

Lancaster, William, of Milverton. Arg. two bars gu., on a 
canton of the last a lion pass. gard. or, in chief a crescent 
for difference. Crest. A demi sea horse ppr. finned or. 
Harl. MS. 1559 (A). See Harl. Soc. Visit, of Somerset^ p. 66. 

LucAR, Emanuel, of Bridgewater. This occurs in Harl. MS. 
1412 in the part stated to be patents by Sir Christopher 
Barker, Garter, 28 Hen. VHI. to 3 Edw. VI. The arms are 
tricked and unfortunately a part of the page is torn away ; 
only the crest and a comer of the shield remain, the latter 
having a mascle and the back part of a lion's head, the former 



228 Somerset S* Dorset Notes 6» Queries. 

is a cubit arm vested, in the hand a hawk's lure, showing 
that it probably agreed with the arms attached to the Lucar 
pedigree in Had. MS. 1559, viz. Quarterly i and 4, Arg. a 
chev. sa. betw. three horses* heads erased gu. bridled or. 2, 
Arg. a fess nebulee az. betw. three mascles gu., a lion's head 
erased inter the two in chief of the second. 3, Or a fess 
betw. three winged bulls az. (so in the drawing and not 
dragons). Crest. A cubit arm erect vested per pale az. and 
gu. cuffed arg. in the hand ppr. a hawk's lure, tassel arg. knob 
and rings or, line gu. This crest is also over the coat in the 
second quarter placed in a shield by itself. The pedigree which 
accompanies the above shields is the same as the two on p. 7 1 
of the Visiiation of Somerset , 1623, printed by the Harleian 
Society, united in tabular form with the following slight 
variations, William the Forester of Exmore is son instead of 
brother of Richard, steward to the Duke of Exeter ; to the 
children of Emanuel Lucar of Bridgewater, a daughter 
unnamed is added and the daughter Mary is made the wife 
of Richard Pegrem, while her sister Jane is said to be married 
to William Rowe of London, Alderman ; and their brother 
Emanuel to have died without issue. The second wife of 
Emanuel the father is called Joane da. of Thomas Trombole 
or Tumbull of London ; in the issue of this marriage the 
MS. omits Luke and Matthew, but gives husbands to the two 
daughters namely, Mary wife of Christopher Carlyll and 
Martha wife of Richard Pyrgell. 

Malyart, Thomas, of Somerset. From an old book of grants. 
Hen. V. to Hen. VIIL Barry of four arg. and gu. on the 
first three torteauz each charged with a fleur de lys or, on the 
third as many escallops of the second. Harl. MS. 1422. 

Marshall, Richard, of the parish of Street, co. Somerset. 

Confirmation 1 June, 1573. Arg. on a fess betw. three 

chessrooks sa. as many mullets or. Crest. A dexter arm in 

armour ppr. garnished or, a scarf tied about it of the last and 

az. supporting in the hand of the first a broken tilting spear 

erect of the second. Harl. MS. 1441. 

Ma^dley, Richard, of Nunney. Granted 18 June, 1532. Arg. 

on a chev. az. betw. three lozenges gu. as many fleurs de lis 

or, all within a bord. sa. 

Maudley, of Wells, Somerset. The same without the lozenges. 

Crest. From a crest coronet or, an eagle's bead arg. Harl. 

MS. 1559. The former coat it will be seen differs from that 

in the visiution printed by the Harl. Soc, and as the pedigrees 

in Harl. MS. 1559 give fuller information than those in the 

Harlciaii Society's volume or in the Rev. F. W. Weaver's 

Visitations of Somerset, i573-'59». it may be interesting 

to give them here. 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes 6* Queries, 
MAUDLEY OF NUNNEY. 
Richard Mawdley of Niiimey= .... 



229 



John Maiidley=£Emma da. of. . . . HemerfTord 
of.... CO. Somerset. 



Roger Maudley o^Margaret da. i Elizabeth 



Nunney. 



(M; 



I John 



of William 
LeTersedge. Sir John Horsey 
of Clifton. 



ary 



1st.... 
Bonham 

2ndly John 
Tnrbcrfield 
of Blad..? 



John Ash 



Mandley^Bllizabeth da. 2 Richard=Ann da. of 



Ann 



Elizal 



of Nnnney, 



of Lambert Maudley 
of Bnddng- of Nun- 
ham. ney,i59i 



Roger 



William 

Thynne, William John Horler 
clerk of the Sylman. 
Green Cloth 



Roger Maudley^iMargery da. of. . . . Rachel Dorothy 
Imng 1623. Brice and relict 
of Walter Hun- 
gerford. 



Ann, aged 16 Margaret (John Jessop Esq., and Frances 
in 1623. aged 15 in Margery Maudley, gent, aged 13 in 

1623. mamed 15 Tune, 1628, 1623. 

Vide Bp's. Trans. Nun- 
ney Par. Reg. A.J.J.) 



MAUDLEY OF WELLS. 
John Maudley of Wells: 



I 



John Maudley of Wells=iEllen da. of Thomas Poxwell. 



Thomas Maudley=France8 da. of George Elizabeth Joane 
of Wells, living I John Roinon of 
1573. IbickfOTd. 



Jol 



zEdward 

Baker of 

Bewers 

Gifford, CO. 

Essex. 



(For the will of the first and the second John Maudley of 
Wells see Somerset Wills , \sl Series, p, 9) 



230 Somsrset S» Dorset Notes S* Queries. 

MutEFiBLD. Vert, five garbs or, in cross. Harl. MS. 1559 (A). 

Mbrick, Andrew, of West Camell, co. Somerset. Patent 1589. 
Paly of six or and az. on a fess gn. three mullets arg. Crest. 
A dog pass. arg. Harl. MS. 1441. 

Morgan, Thomas, of Easton in Gordano. Patent by Robert 
Cook, Clarencieuz, 1591. Sa. three crosses crosslet in bend 
arg. Crest. A demi griffin erased sa. 

Nappbr, Robbrt, of Grange, co. Dorset, Lord Chief Baron in 
Ireland. By Robert Cook, Clarencieuz. Arg. a saltire eng. 
sa. betw. four roses gu. Crest. On a mount vert a curlew 
ppr. Harl. MS. 1422. 

NswiCAN. By certificate of Humphrey Newman of Win canton, 
gent, dated 2 April, 1664, it appears tliat Richard Newman 
of Fifehead Magdalen, co. Dorset, is son and heir of Thomas 
Newman, grandchild of another Thomas Newman, and great 
grandson of Richard Newman, gent, unto whom and to 
Christian his wife and Robert and Richard their sons, William, 
Abbott of S. Augustine's, Bristol, by deed 23 Hen. VIII. 
demised the manor of Fifehead for lives, and unto which 
Robert Newman, Paul Denelfe, Bishop of Bristol, leased 31 
July, 4 Edw. VI.. the manor of Fifehead Magdalen for eighty 
Tears and which is now possessed by Richard Newman of 
tvercreech, co. Somerset, Esq., and who may bear, quarterly 
sa. and arg. in the first and fourth three mullets of the second ; 
on an inescutcheon gu. a portcullis imperially crowned or. 
Crest. Tricked as a bird close one leg raised. Add. MS. 

t4.«95- 

A. J. Jewers. 
{To be continued.) 

194. Wetmouth Piers and Harbour. — By the kind per- 
oossioii of Mr. G. Troyte-Chafin-Grove, of North Coker House, 
ve mre able to p>rint the following petition from the Corporation 
of WeymoQth and Melcombe Regis to the King in 1671, asking 
for a renewal of a grant of an annuity of ;^ico per ann., pay- 
ibko^of the Customs there, for the repair of the Piers, Fort 
and Harbour. The original grant had been made ten years pre- 
nooslr, and i« referred to in Mr. Moule's Descriptive Catalogue of 
iki CkMrien^ 6<, §f Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, at page 183. 
No record of this petition seems now to remain among the 
Weirmouth Archives except it may be found in VI. 126, a Bopk 
of Accounts, 1668-1694. The allusion at the end to the in- 
habitants being " burnt out" refers to the fire which occurred at 

Melcombe Regis on 17 Sept, 17 Car. II. 

Mr. Troyte-Chafin-Grove has placed several other documents 

friating to Dorset at our disposal, which will appear in subse- 

fie«t numbert of 5. &-D.N.& Q. 

Editor for Dorset. 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes S* Queries, 231 

Endorsed ** Waymouth Petition, for his Ma^*** Renuing the 
100" p ann' given to his Ma**«, 1671." 

" To his most Sacred Ma**«. 

The Humble Petition of the Mayor. Aldermen, Baylifs, and 
Common Council of Waymouth and Melcome Regis, in the 
County of Dorset, Sheweth 

That your Ma*^, (Presently after yo« happy restoration) was 
Gratiously pleased by your letters Pattents, baring date the 10 
October, 1 660, and in the 1 2^ yeare of your reigne, To grante to 
your Petitioners an anuety of 100" p an* for the reperation and 
maintenance of there Peers, and Improving of there Port & 
Harbor; The same to Continue for the terme of ten years. 
Payable out of the Customs there, which time being now expired 
and the worke not perfited, although in a good forwardnes, vntill 
the late horred tempest, & extraordinary greate ,tydes, hapning 
together in March last. Threw downe, and Damnifyed the sayd 
Peers, & works ; more then 300^ will repayre. and much more 
then your poore Petitioners are able (of them selues) to make 
good, and which is worse. If not speedely amended, may 
indanger the Harbore, which hereafter will be very Considerable, 
if the Improuement be Continued, for som few years longer. 
There being by what hath ben done alreddy an increase of two 
foote-water, more then formerly. And Ships that were usnte to 
lye on dry grownd, at low water, doe now Swime, so as yo' 
Petitioners no ways doubt. But within a few years any 5* rate 
Friggot, belonging to your Nauy Royal 1, may come in with safety 
& Careene there, A thing not heard of heretofore, & will be 
of Infinet advantage to your Ma**«" seruice, vpon any accident, or 
fowle weather, as well as to trading in general I, but espetially to 
the poore inhabitants, burnt out and vndone for want of trade. 

Wherefore yo'f Petitioners most humbly Implore your 
most Exelent Ma**« That you will be most (iratiously 
pleased to Continue your Princely fauor, In renuing your 
sayd letters Pattents, for such longer time, as your 
Ma**« in your Princly Bounty, shall ihinke fitt, That so 
good a worke may be perfitted, and your petitioners pre- 
serued from ruen, and as in duty bound, shall ever pray." 

195. Public Pbnance in Churches. (IV. xxvii. 1 13. xxviii. 
135.) — I am all but sure that, if A.B. investigates the story of a 
public penitence in or soon after 1848, he will find that it did 
not take place **in one of the Parish Churches of Cambridge," 
but in that of Fen Ditton, a village about a mile from that town. 
Barnwell is near, and the roughs from this suburb certainly 
invaded the Church and made a perfect bear garden of it. The 
The penitent (?) was a man. 

H. J. MouLE, Dorchester. 



232 Somerset 6* Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 

196. A writer to the Church Times of 8th Feb., 1895, sends 
the following: 

** Somewhere about 1849 the wife of the Rector of Fen 
Ditton, near Cambridge, considered herself slandered. She put 
the slanderer in liie Arches Court — or the Consistor>' Court — but 
I think the former, the result being that the slanderer was ordered 
to do penance in that parish church. I knew the rector and his 
wife, and well remember the penance. The slanderer's friends 
organized from Barnwell, the notorious suburb of Cambridge, a 
mob of roughs, who filled the church in the afternoon of the 
Sunday named in the judge's order. The slanderer stood up in 
a pew near the reading desk, vested in a white sheet and read a 
recantation. The mob hooted, threw hassocks and books about, 
stood upon the seats and the backs of the pews, some took 
possession of the pulpit. A Cambridge clergyman conducted the 
service, such as it was ; the recantation was read at the end of 
the third collect ; pews were then broken down, and the whole 
place was a bear garden. Things were so bad that no Arches 
Court judge has been found to decree penance since." 

A. 

197. When I was serving a curacy in West Somerset an old 
parishioner told me she remembered seeing a young woman clad 
in white stand in a conspicuous position during Divine Service 
in Dunster Church, as a penance under circumstances like those 
mentioned in IV. xxvii. 113. 

I have been told of a like occurrence in Porlock Church. In 
this church. I was told, the parish clerk was in the habit of read- 
ing the lessons, the clergyman occasionally interrupting him for 
the purpose of explaining something in the lesson. In the same 
church, I was told, there had been in use for the rousing of 
sleeping lads or others a long-handled board, one side of which 
presented to the eyes of the newly awakened the words •* Awake 
thou that sleepest," the other " Could ye not watch one hour." 

My two informants were bom, I should say, at the close of 
the last century. 

An autograph sermon of a deceased relative, preached at 
Stoke Brueme Church, Northamptonshire, has the following 

words appended : " March 14th, 1 8 1 3. ( having performed 

pnblick penance on that day for fornication by an order of the 
spiritual court)." It had been preached five times previously on 
a similar occasion. The sermon contains the following words as 
to •*tlie crime and the punishment which have been brought 
befcwe ns this day." " Concerning the crime, I may observe that 
examples of it are now so much multiplied, and it is committed 
with so little shame and so little remorse, that all serious persons 
are shocked by its frequency and alarm'd for the consequences. 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 233 

Concerning the punishment, I will only remark briefly that it is 
designed to reclaim gross offenders by exciting a spirit of sincere 
repentance, and a resolution to forsake their sins. If it produce 
these effects, let us give God the praise ; if otherwise, we may be 
satisfied, however, with what hath been done, and bewail that 
hopeless depravity which no shame can reach, which no sufferings 
can subdue." 

H.F., Lytchett Minster. 

NOTICES OF BOOKS. 

198. Dorset Records. Edited by E. A. Fry & G. S. Fry. 
Published quarterly. Annual subscriptions, los. 6d., to be sent 
to Mr. G. S. Fry, Inglewood, Upper Walthamstow Road, 
Walthamstow. 

We have received five numbers of this valuable publication 
(the first of which was issued in January, 1894,) containing 
Calendar of Dorset Wills at Blandford, 1681-1792 (in progress), 
Dorset Inquisitions post mortem, Chas. I. (in progress), and the 
Parish Registers of Long Burton, 1580-18 13, and of Holnest, 
1590-1813 (both complete) and of Bishop's Caundle, 1570-1813 
(in progress). 

This Record Series is worthy of especial commendation on 
account of the brave effort of the editors to exhibit in a printed 
form the complete Parish Registers of the County, from their 
extant commencement until 1813, when the more modern forms 
of registration began, as directed by 52 Geo. III. c. 146. Their 
-endeavours are being warmly seconded by Dorset Incumbents, 
and we understand that several more Registers are already tran- 
scribed, and waiting their turn. No entry is omitted during the 
period covered, superfluous words only being left uncopied, and 
each Register is accompanied by an introduction, describing the 
Original Books and their condition, an Index of Names and a 
carefully revised List of Incumbents. 

It is a matter of much regret that this spirited effort does 
not meet with greater encouragement. The list of Subscribers 
in No. 5 contains only 78 names, and the Editors feel that unless 
a large addition is made to it, the series will have to close at the 
•end of the y^r. Will not some persons of spirit connected with 
Dorset come forward to prevent this unfortunate catastrophe ? 

A. 

199. The Evil Eye: An Account of this Ancient 
AND Widespread Superstition ; by F. T. Elworthy. With 
nearly 200 illustrations. London, John Murray, 1895. Svo, price 
21 shillings. 

This is a most attractive and beautiful book. It is the result 



234 Somerset 6* Dorset Notes 6* Queries, 

of many years' work in out of the way bye paths of folklore and 
dialect. 

•* Frequent and protracted visits to Italy and Southern 
Europe have enabled me/' writes the author in an all too short 
preface, *' to collect many charms and amulets, some of which are 
depicted in these pages." This book should be particularly 
interesting to our readers, because of the numerous allusions to 
Somerset folklore which it contains ; indeed our own pages have 
been frequently referred to, and the author has spent bis life in 
the congenial pursuit of things not generally known, and has 
rescued from oblivion many a quaint custom. We need only 
refer to his learned paper on ** Crying the Neck " read before the 
Devonshire Association and referred to in this book. The 
illustrations are very numerous and well executed ; indeed the 
book is in all respects beautifully got up and forms an attractive 
shrine for the curious subject matter. We wish that we could 
speak at greater length of its many merits, but we must content 
ourselves with wishing it a success worthy of the time and 
trouble spent upon it. 

2. 

200. I. The Diary of John Hervey, first Earl of 
Bristol, i 688- 1742. 

II. The Letter Books of John Hervey, first Earl 
of Bristol, 3 vols., 165 1-1750, with several portraits. 

III. IcKwoRTH Parish Registers, 1566-1890. 

All edited by the Rev. S. H. A. Hervey ; Jackson, Wells, 
1894. 

The first four of these substantial volumes are the result of a 
labour of love spent upon the literary treasures in the library of 
the Marquis of Bristol : and the last named is a carefully pre- 
pared copy of the Parish Register of Ickworth, Suffolk ; which 
will ever be remembered by Somerset folk as the early home of 
their late beloved Bishop. John Hervey, first Earl of Bristol, died 
in 175 1, aged 85 ; three portraits of him are reproduced in these 
volumes. His letters show him to have been **a right worthy 
man ; . . . . there was a warm heart capable of sincere and con- 
stant affection ; that simplicity of character and that capacity for 
happiness which can find all the happiness it wants in 
domestic life and rural scenes, and needs not continual gas and 
glitter and glare to satisfy it ; that true piety and devoutness, 
which is satisfied with a very few principles and formulas, and 
they of the simplest kind." We seem here almost to be reading 
of that descendant of his whom we have so recently lost. We 
congratulate Mr. Hervey on the completion of these interesting 
books : they are valuable historical memoirs. 

2. 



Somerset & Dorset Notes 6- Queries. 235 

aoi. Churchwardens' Accounts, St. John's Glaston- 
bury. (IV. xxvi. 73, xxvii. 121, xxviii. 160). — The two following 
rolls are imperfect and bear no date. The former records great 
damage done by the fall of pinnacles from the church tower, and 
the rebuilding of the church, at least in great part. It may be 
placed about 1465. The second about 1483, as it precedes the 
death of Joan Atwell, 1485, and apparently is subsequent to the 
death of John Modiford whose will was proved in 1484 ; but it 
cannot be of 1484 because the balance at the opening of 1485 
was ;^8 13s. The arrangements for getting timber from Witham 
and for supplying the fishponds are interesting, also the free 
labour of Hardyng, the plummer, and not least the results of 
the distraint on Edith Aleyn for arrears of rent. 

W. E. Daniel. 

* ♦ d. Solutum * ♦ pro campanis per Will ♦ *ixsixd. Et 
in factura vij • Solutum Ricardo Busshe pro sepoltura ♦ * pro 
factura ij cristall iiijd. Item solutum Jonanni Goldsmyth * * 
emendand : cum dimidio quadrantis argentei empto iiij s. £t in uno 
calatho empto pro jocalibus imponencUs * denariis solutis Johanne 
Jamys pro locione pannomm et albarum ecclesie per annum v s. Et 
m XXX * olei emptis de Silvestro Rowes pro lampade coram 

summo altari xxviij s pro lagena * In denariis solutis pro obitu 
Philippi Malvern xix d. Et in pergameno empto iij d. Et in uno 
superpellicio empto pro clerico cum reparacione ij superpelliciorum 
V s ij d. Et in exequiis Johannis Lalley viij d. 

Summa cxvij s iiij d ob. 

Expense facte drca Solutum Johanni Deverell carpentario conducto per 

reedihcationem ecclesie v dies ad deponendum mearemium et plumbum navis 
et sedilium infra ecclesie defractum per casum et ruinam pinadorum 

ecclesiam per ruinam turris et cooperiendum eandem cum tabulis et aliis 

ecclesie decassatotum pro tempore ij s vj d. Et in consimili Willelmo 
Nicolls carpentario per v dies ij s ij d. Et in consimili Thome 
Northemman per totidem dies ij s ij d. Et in consimili Waltero 
Dunkerton per v dies ij s ij d. Solutum Thome Whitehede et filio 
suo lathomis conductis per iiijor dies iij s j d. Item Thome 
Whitehedde et aliis laborers circa rudacionem ecclesie per WUlelmum 
Vayle xiij d. Et in consimili Johanni Atteyoo laborer per iij dies 
dimidiuro xvijd. Et in consimili Johanni Hamlyn laborer iiij d. 
Item iij laborers aliis per ij dies dimidium xviijd ob (i). Et in 
cervisia empta pro laborers predictis ij d. Et in papirio empto j d ob. 
Et in uno homine conducto cum ij equis ad careandum pisses (2) 
fluviales ad priorem domus Cartusiane de Withame pro mearemio 
emendo xv d. Et in denariis solutis Johanni Deverell carpentario 
pro labore et expensis suis existenti apud Charterhouse per v dies 
pro mearemio eligendo capiendo per diem yjd, ii s yj d. Et in xyj 
quercubus emptis de priore ibidem cum regardis datis liijs iiijd. 
Item pro regardis iis vd. Et in prostradone dictarum quercuum per 
Johannem Deverell iiij s iij d. Et in denariis solutis dicto Johanni 

(i) At the rate of 24d. a day, but deducting the odd farthing. 

(2) Probably to stock the ponds which may still be seen about half a mile 
east of Witham Friary Church. One horse would have sufficed for a load offish 
for eating. 



236 Somerset S* Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 

pro azacione (i) died mearemii apud Charter hous per ziij dies 
capiendo per diem vij d, vij s vij d. £t in consimili iiijor famulis suis 
existentibus ibidem per zv dies quorum quilibet cepit per diem yj d, 
zzx s. £t in consimili Arthuro apprenticio (2) ejus4em per toddem 
dies qui cepit per diem iiij d, vs. £t in denariis soluds Johanni 
Howe pro sarracione (3) xvij centum dim, et xvj pedes xvij s xd (4). 
£t in consimili [Johi erased] Willelmo Deverell pro satracione 
xxiij centum xvij pedum mearemii xxiij s ij d. Solutum Ricardo 
Broderubbe et Willelmo Haireys existentibus apud Charter hous per 
iij dies et pro mearemio iSidem superind [superintendendo] et 
ordinando ij s. £t in aggregacione tabularum et parvi mearemii 
insimul cariandi per Ricardum Broderubbe una cum expensis 
ejusdem Ricardi per ebdomada Rams palmarum xij d. £t in 
denariis solutis pro tractura mearemii de bosco de Charterhous in 
planiciem vj s. Solutum pro cariagio xj plaustrorum mearemii de 
Charterhouse usque Glastoniam xxxiij s x d, viz. vj s Johanni Wise 
pro ij cariagiis. yj s viiij d Johanni Burgeis et Ricardo Veyle pro ij 
cariagiis vjs. viijd. Johanni Burgeis et Ricardo Vejle pro ij 
cariagiis, yj s Willelmo Huchens et Johanni Huchenspro ij cariagiis, 
iij s Willelmo Huchens senioii pro j cariagio et iij s £dmundo Foze 
pro j cariagio. Item solutum alus modis [torn] Wise iij s £dmundo 
Foxe iij s Johanni Attewode et ij s Burgeis iij s Ricardo [torn] iij s 
Ricardo Broderubbe et iij s Willelmo Harreis. Item pro pastura bo 
[tomj. Item solutum Johanni Attewode et Ricardo Broderubbe 
pro ij plaustris mearemii careandis usque Glastoniam [torn]. Item 
pro pastura boum viij d. £t in denariis soluds Johanni Deverell pro 
visu et preparacione mearemii ^tom] Charterhous erga cariagia ij s. 
£t in consimili iiijor famulis suis per ijos dies ibidem iiij s. £t [in] 
expensis careagii mearemii de vico in Cimiteritmi ij d. £t in ij doliis 
plumbi emptis per R ♦ Broderubbe et Willelmum Harries pro cooper- 
tura ecclesie viij li vi s viij d (5) ultra dimidium dolii plumbi datum 
per Johannem Raynesbury et centum libras plumbi datas per Aliciam 
nuper uxorem Thome Mer ♦. Item pro cariagio ejusdem ejusdem 
[51^] plumbi de Well usque Glastoniam iis. Solutum Willelmo 
Hard3mg plommer pro expet)sis suis per vij dies ij s v d recipienti nil 
pro labore quia ex dono. £t in uno laborer conducto adauxiliandum 
ei iij s ij d. Solutum Thome Whithedde lathomo et servienti suo 
cooducto per i ebdomada pro muris ecclesie et gutteris in diversis 
locis lapsis renciendis ad thascam iiij s ij d. £t in tabulis quercinis 
cmpds de Tohanne Deverell viz. iiijor semys (6) dimidio pro sedilibus 
in s ixd. Solutum Johanni Deverell carpentario pro nova reedifica- 
oavis [torn] decassate ciij s iiij d. Et in denariis soluds die to 
ud cl Nicnolao Kerver • • ecclesie defracte ex novo 
e una cum xxs de eonim regardis C s et in calce empta de 
BaJc viij d. Et in calce empu per Will el mum Vayle xvjd. 
*iettariis solutis Nicholao Coke pro dealbacione murorum 
a^ nd tha'^c^a"! v s vj d. Et in laborers conductis ad mxmdan- 
^^^jgjupn dij d. Kt in denariis solutis Thome Whitehedde pro 




.^ TSk jnijiitiifff revwe^ I of a maii s pay. 

I « ^kiaZ lena. The sawwig is at the rate of u, per 100 feet. 

2 A^sk agaiiat tJ^ in the MS. seems to call alicution to the irregular 



^ Salh St Mkhaers £t t6s. 6d. was spent on new lead for the 



lHlfc^ i!wi«lowl'3f *^**^ See S.RS. IV. p. 239. Wells WiUs. 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes S* Queries, 237 

pavimento ecclesie xij d. Item eidem pro consimili per Willelmom 
Vayle xij d. Solutum Nicholao Kerver pro tabula meremii empta de 
domino Thoma Kyngesburi viij d. Item solutum eidem Nicholao pro 
tabulis querdnis de eodem xx d. Item solutum Ricardo Hardye pro 
dimidio C et xxx pedibus tabularum quercinarum emptis xx d. £t 
in clavis emptis ad reparacionem ecclesie de Waltero Adams 
xiij s ix d. Solutum Thome Whitehedde pro grosso lapidum super 
turrim deponendorum ad thascam iiij s. Item Henrico Forscue 
laborer pro iij diebus ix d. Item solutum Thome Vayle plumbario 
pro jactura plmnbi et coopertura ambulatorii borealis cum «<aldar 
empto vij s. Item Radulpho Shupper illi adjuvanti j s. Et in spike- 
nail et crampis ferreis emptis de Johanne Amore yj d et eo minus 
<^uia habui ferrum de ecclesia. Et in dimidia centena bradds empta 
iijd. Et in j clave empta iijd. Et in cake empta de Willelmo 
Foxe X d. Et in zabulo * iij d. Et in una planca quercina empta de 
Ricardo Davy viij d. 

Somma (i) xxxiij li xiij s ij d. 

Expense facte circa Et in vino empto pro colloquio habendo cmn Magistro 
placitum tenementi Vowell (2) viij d et in expensis apud Wells pro colloauio 
vocati Smertys place predicto viij d. Et in expensis WiUelmi Cory et Willelmi 
Harries apud London per xvij dies xxxvj s iiij d. Et in feodo soluto 
diversis de consilio nostro una cum feodo curie et clericorum con- 
simili xxxiij s viij d. Item solutum Magistro Portman (3) ad terminum 
sancte Trinitatis iij s iiij d. Item solutum clerico Magistri Fitanames 
(4) apud Glastoniam in crastino Sancti Michaelis xx d. Item solutimi 
eidem pro termino Sancti Hillarij xx d. 

Summa Ixxviij s. 
Et in stipendio clerici compoti iij s iiij d * * annum vi s viii d. 
Summa xs. 
Summa totalis [torn]. 

An imperfect compotus, date about 1484, as appears from 
some deaths referred to, and from the twenty-fifth obit of John 
Mark to be counted from 1458. 

Et de viij d receptis de j sede in ecclesia vendita uxori Willelmi 
Dooe et de iii s iiii d de j sede in ecclesia vendita Roberto Lokyar 
Et de yj s viij d receptis de j puteo infra cimiterium vendito uxori 
Willelmi Shirwold. Et de iiij d de j sede in ecclesia vendita Matri 
Julyn Grvflfyn. Et de iiij d receptis de legato Matris Willelmi 
Gierke acf opera ecclesie. Et de vj d receptis de torchiis locatis die 
sepulture Matris fratris Johannis Bailly. Et de Ix s receptis de Alcia 
Parsevale pro denariis a retro de redditu in Norlode ex dono 
Johannis London pro diversis annis. Et de xxxiij s iiij d receptis ex 
dono Johanne Moaiford (5) ad opera ecclesie pro puteo infra ecclesiam 
sibi vendito. Et de vj s de j olia erea ex legato uxoris Thome Herte 

(i) The items amount to j£'32 i8s. 5d., so that only 15s. 9d. is represented by 
the lacunae. 

(2) There was a Canon John Vowel, Vicar of Cheddar, 1487. Hist. MSS. 
p. 143. Also one Richard Vowell generosus 1487, Reynold's Wells p. 164. 
Master William Vowell is mentioned in a Bath Chartulary subsequent to Prior 
John Dunster who died 1412. S.R.S. vii. p. 61. 

(3) The office of seneschal to the Wells Chapter seems to have been held 
by the Portman family. Wells' Hist. MSS. p. 233, anno 1546. 

(4) Perhaps John Fitzjames of Redlynch, who died 15 10, aged 67. See 
Som. Arch. Soc. 1878. 

(5) J. M.'s will proved 1484. 



238 Somerset <5- Dorset Notes S* Queries, 

defoncte. £t de xxiijd receptis de Alejandro Chamicelar de 
denariis per ejus uxorem coUectis nil (?). £t de xvj s receptis de 
incremento de j idrea(i) dicU Croke in bovetown et Wyke hoc anno. 
Et de XX s Tij d ob de de [sic] j idrea in alto vico Glastonie receptis 
hoc anno. 

Sununa (2) viij li xix s ij d ob. [Small viij li xix s ij d ob.] 
Summa totalis Recepte com Remanenda xxv^ li xiij s ob. 

Solndo Redditns. In redditu resolato preponto domini Abbatis pro tenemento 
Edyth Aleyn ij s. Item eidem preposito pro redditu trium acrarum 
terre et dimidia de dominico Domini supHcr Wexbull juxta Norbjn 
iij s. Item custodibus bonomm ecdesie sive capelle sancti Benigni 
de redditu cotagii prins Moyghen in vico de Mayddott xij d. Item 
coUectori redditus Sacriste (3) pro tenemento nuper Johannis SweU 
capellani iij d. Et j quartrone piperis et j quarirone cumini pro 
redditu ejusdem tenementi viijd. 

Summa vj s x j d. 

^Defectus Redditus torn ojf\ In defectu redditus unius cottagii in alto rico 
Glastonie ouondam Boxwyll per annum vj s ad iiijor terminos quia 
conceditur Deon^o Cotard alias Fann^g per certum redditum vnj s 
et oneratur de xiiijs. In defectu redditus unius cotagii in alto rico 
Glastonie nuper Johannis Martyn iij s viij d ad iiijor terminos quia 
conceditur Lucye Dyar pro viij s tantum. In defectu redditus unius 
cota^ cum curtillagio in Chalkewyll nuper Willelmi Pouter xiiij d 
quia in manibus ecdesie. In defectu redditus unius tenementi cum 
pertinendis in parte ocddentali ecdesie ibidem nuper Wfllelmi 
Thressher viz. pro redditu per annum iij s iiij d quod igne combustum 
et remanet in manibus ecclesie. In defectu redditus unius tenementi 
cum pertinenciis in vico de Mavddott nuper Johannis Moyghen per 
annum ijs causi predicta. In defectu redditus unius cotagu in alto 
vico Glastonie nuper Johannis Hackeijs quod conceditur Johanne 
servienti Johann« atte Welle (4) pro x s tantum et oneratur de xij s. 
Summa xviij s ij d. 

'[Necessaria ecdesie] . In cera et lichenis emptis pro lex Trendell et cereis 
infra ecclesiam inde factis per annum xii s vj d ob Solutum Johumi 
Totehull carpentario pro factura de j novo trianguio in nova domo 
supper I orticu ecdesie ibidem xj s ij d [interlined v s with cross in 
fnargin]. In diveipd^ tabulis Wallenc' ad idem emptis xij s xj d 
[interlined v s ij d] preter meremium ad idem emptum anno proxime 
preterito ut patet nunc. Item in meremio ad idem empto xviij d. In 
' diversis davis ad idem emptis xx d [interlined xvij dj. In diversis 
tabtdis querdnis emptis pro fundo de les Triangul et pro les Wedredors 
in le vvce (5) super porticu ecclesie vjs. In diversis ferreis vix. 
seris cJavibus stapell baps et aliis ferramentis ad idem emptis cum 
uno vane et cruce iiij s Solutum Thome Corode pro leggs pro dicto 
trianguio fiendis et imponendis viij d. In j lathamo conducto pro j 
clave3re (6) cum ij novis jambys stapul et formandis. pro nova domo in 
vico de Maydelod nuper Moyghen xiiij d. Solutum domino Abbati 

(I] The town was divided into Bovetown with Wick and the High street, 
and collections were made in crocks or jars and so brought to the audit. 

(2) The various items amount to £y 9s. 8|d., leaving £1 los. 6d. unac- 
counted for. 

(3) i.e. the Sacristan of the Abbey who was separately endowed. 

(4) Joan Atwell died in 1485. Her tomb is in the chancd. 

(5) Weather doors or shutters in the winding stair. Vyce, French vis, from 
Latin vitis, a screw named after the vine tendril. 

(6) '* The beam of wood, the mantd, which is always found in old wide- 
<:himney'd houses, serving for a lintel over the fire-place opening." [Elworthy's 

West Somerset Word Book.] 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 239 

ad novam ediHcationem de uno novo pignown (i) in parte occidentali 
ejusdem tenement! xiij s iiij d. In lez cappyng de minutis orgons xij d. 
Solutum Johanni Totehull pro lez copem (2) ultri la vyce in porticu 
ecclesie de novo faciendis cum tabulis davis et aliis ad idem emptis 
in grosso xiiij s. In vij centenis dimidia plombi emptis pro cuopertura 
ejusdem copem* xxzvj s iiij d sciiicit pro centeno iiij s x d. In dicto 
plumbo de villa ad Sacristariam canando ad jactandum iij d. In j 
plumbario conducto pro dicto plumbo jactando cum dicto copem 
de novo cum predicto plumbo cooperiendo in grosso viij s iij d. 
In j lathamo conducto per j diem circa ecclesiam ad thascam vj d. 
In magonbus[5»r] or j^ons deu-actis et de novo reparandis et emendandis 
ad thascam xxvj s viij d. In dictis orgons super lez Rodelofc cariandis 
cum eorum expensis iiij d. In una parva linea pro una lampade empta 
ij d. In X J novis quayars (3) de nova legenda emptis apud Bristoll xl s. 
In eisdem de inde usque Glastoniam querendis ijd. Solutum yro 
obitu Elyzabeth Marcbell ixd. Item solutum sacerdoti parochiali ad 
orandum pro anima Elizabeth Marchell in lez Bederoll per annum 
iiij d. Solutum ballivo ville Glaston pro secta yj d. Item solutum 
Roberto Payne pro eodem redditu vj d. In pannis lineis pertinentibus 
ad ecclesiam lavandis et mundandis per annum iij s iiij d. Solutum 
Solutum [sir] pro obitibus Magistri Johannis Marke et Johanne uxoris 
ejus Thome Dunster et Matildis uxoris ejus hoc anno xxv annuatim 
tenendis in ecdesia sancti Johannis Baptiste Glaston die Lune 
proximo ante festum Sancti Michaelis in Monte tumba (4) xiiij d 
unde capellano parochiali iiijd ob. ijobus custodibus ecclesie iiij d 
clerico parochiali ii d. 

No. 4. 

Bedemanno j d cera j d et pro pane et cervisia pro sacerdote post 
exequias ij d ut plenius patet in dorso rotuli compoti ecclesie preoicte 
facti anno domini millesmio cccdviij. Item solutum pro factura de 
novis metis juxta Norbyn in grosso x s. In urtids et aliis infra 
cimiterium falcandis et extra cariandis una cum fenestrarum vitreis 
circa ecclesiam mxmdandis iiij d. Solutum Willelmo Lobyn pro 
liberis petris apud Doultyng trahendis et occupanti alios [occup al] 
V s yj d linterlined ij s ij dj. In j plumbario conducto pro reparadone 
plumbi super ecclesiam m parte australi cum sawdr ad idem empto 
xviii d. In diversis zonis lyneis dictis Tuckyng gorrdel (5) emptis v d. 
(Solutum Willelmo Lob)rn et Johanni Wardeford (6) pro novo 
batylment circa capellam sancti Nicholaietpro novo batilment in fine 
orientali capelle Sancti Georgii una cum lez crests in fine occidentali 
ecclesie ibidem ex boreali parte juxta turrim de novo fiendis ad 
thascam in grosso xxxvj s erased^. In focalibus emptis tempore 
jacture plumbi pro lez copem* super porticu ecclesie ij s j d. In 
cariagio dictorum focalium ij d. In nova domo supra porticum 

(i) Perhaps « pinion, French pignon. In Bath St. Michael's Ace. spelt 
punyon,jpoynin. pynowne, a gable. 

(2) Coporne, Capitellum. Prompt. Parv, a note says that coporm is "the apex 
or pinnade, the work with which a tower is crowned.*' 

U) i.e. quires. 

(4) Oct. 16 in Sanun Kalendar, when a church was dedicated to the 
Archangel, who is said to have appeared in A.D. 710, to Autbert, Bishop of 
AvrancheSy bidding him build a church on the island mount in periculo maris. 
The festival was in much favour with Benedictines. 

(5) Tucking girdle, a girdle in which a long garment might be tucked, 
when the wearer was at work, or walking. This is the origin of the name 
^» Friar Tuck." 

(6) One John Wardeford was servant to Bishop Oliver King, who died 1499. 



240 Somerset &» Dorset Notes S* Queries, 

ecclesie scopanda (i) et mtmdanda cum stramine empto pro dicta 
domo straminaiida v d. In xrj libris cere emptis et datis ad facturam 
luminis Sancti Nicholai x s viij d precium hbre viij d. In diversis 
Wallenc* emptis pro diversis rebus infra ecclesiam inde fiendis et 
pro moldis pro latnamo x s ij d. Item solutum WiUelmo Plummer 
pro reparacione plumbi super ecclesiam in diversis locis cum sawdre 
ad idem empto v s iiijd. In vitro in fenestris ecclesie defractis et 
emendandis ctmi vitro ad idem empto diversis vicibus iij s ij d. In j 
novo Repagulo (2) ferreo ponderis xxij lib dimidie loco unius domini 
Abbatis apud ecclesiam furati pro petris apud Standowne fodiendis 
empto xxij d ob cum factura. 

Summa xij li viij s [Small xii li viij s.l. 

* famulorum. In stipendio duorum custodum bonorum ecdesie per annum 
vj s viij d. In stipendio clerid compoti ami pergameno empto xx d. 
In expensis custodum et derici tempore fincture compoti ij s vij d. 

Summaxsxid. [Smo// x s xid.] 
Summa totalis expense xiiij li iiij s. Et sic est Remanenda in claro 
xii li ix s ob Unde in Rewardo facto per parochianos clerico scril enti 
compotum iiis iiijd. Item in rewardo facto duobus custodibus 
ecclesie pro eorum deligencia per iij annos x s cuilibet vs. Item in 
Rewardo facto clerico ecclesie ibidem pro suo labore in officio ibidem 
X s [Et sic erased]. Item Rewardo facto Willdmo Morfyle capellano 
pro suo labore per annum iij s iiij d. Et sic est Remanencia m claro 
xili ijs iiijd ob. 

Unde Super diversos Custodes ut particulariter patet in compoto de Anno 
domini millesimo cccc. Ixiiij iiij li ix s iiij d. 

Super Willelmum Tyke et Jobannem Flemmyng (3) custodes nunc 
videlicet pro redditu tenementi nuper Johannis Drapere [interlined 
xij dl et horti nuper Johannis Stowdl [interlined xxd] pro xviij annis 
xfviij s. Item de fine Johannis Baker aretro ad solvendum j^ro 
tenemento quod tenet in Norlode iiijs. Item de fine Waited 
Gane aretro ad solvendum pro tenemento quod tenet in Norlode xs 
re etc [? reddendo, &c.] Item de redditu Edythe Aleyn aretro 
tempore Alexandri Chauncelar et Johannis Bougent (4) custodum 
ecdesie xxvj s xj d ob. pro quo redditu ceperunt districcionem viz, j 
chafer ponderis xxxviij librarum. Item ij brigens (5) ferreis ponderis 
XXX librarum. Item diversa pondera plumbi unde j continet dimi. 
dium centene predum iij s ij J. j quartronem precium xix d. j dimi- 
dium quartronis predum ix d ob. j ocme de ferro pro bilanx predum 
vj s viij d et vorutis de ferro precium iij s v d. Item respondent 
super Alexandum Chauncelar et Jobannem Bougent nuper custodes 
de remanenda ultimi compoti eorum vij s ij d etc. Item 
respondent super Jobannem Modcford et Thomam Greynton nuper 
custodes de eorum remanencia xxviijs j d ob. Unde habent j anuluni 
argenteum precium js vjd. Summa vi li iiijs iij d. Et sic est 
[Summa erased] remanencia in daro viij s ixd ob (6). 
An additional note, partly torn says : ♦ Androwe no ale beate Marie 

prox. futur. non comp. yj s de incremento. 

(i) Scopare to sweep. Is. 14, 23 Scopabo eam, in scopa terens. 

(2) A crowbar. 

(3) J. F.'s will proved 1505. These two were wardens in the 28th year of 
Abbot Selwood, 1485. 

(4) J. B.'s will proved 5 Oct.. 1485. 

(5) Halliwell says hrig is an iron set over the fire. Bailly says brigham is a 
horse coMar in the North country. 

(6) The original balance ;f 1 1 2s. 4jd. is reduced by £^ 9s. 4d., not pro- 
duced in 1464 and £6 4s. 3d. of which the items are given above: the balance 
produced is therefore only 8s. g\d. 




ANCIENT CARVING AT THORNFORD, DORSET. 



Sofnerut S» Dorut Notes <5» Queries. 241 

202. Ancibnt Carving, Thornford. — We present to 
oar readers in the current number an illustration of a carving 
in stone found a few years ago on the removal of some old 
buildings at Thomford* Dorset, a photograph of which has been 
kindly supplied by the Rev. H. J. Foole. 

The following is the account given in Hutchins's Dorset 
(3rd edit.) vol. iv. p. 302. 

" Many new cottages have been built in this village, and in 
palling down some old buildings to erect four cottages at the 
Yetminster end of the village, in 1863, some old ecclesiastical 
remains were found, leading to the supposition that there had 
once existed a chapel with a clergy house on that spot. Amongst 
the relics is a curious representation of the Coronation of the 
Virgin, by our Lord, who is represented as " The Word," with the 
Book in one hand, crowned and seated, while with the other he 
crowns the Virgin, herself seated on the same level, but with 
hands joined in adoration. On each side is the kneeling figure 
of a hooded monk, at the bottom is a trefoil, and apparently the 
whole has formed an ogee-headed panel. It is carved in Ham- 
hill stone, and is now in the possession of the rector." 

The following additions and corrections may be made in the 
foregoing account. 

1. The carving is of 13th century workmanship which is 
especially noticeable in the conventional foliage at the feet of the 
central figure. 

2. The panel has not an ogee-shaped head. 

3. It measures 14 ins. across, by 15^ ins. high. The figure 
of our Lord is 12^ ins. high, of the Virgin 1 1^ ins., and of the 
kneeling attendants 9 ins. 

4. The left kneeling figure has a cowl, a feature which is 
not so distinctly marked in the corresponding figure on the 
other side. 

5. There are three grooves at the back for fixing the panel 
in position, and lead still remains in the central cavity. 

6. The panel is still kept at the Rectory. 

C. H. Mayo. 

203. Chbwton Mendip, Somerset, Vicarial Endow- 
ment OF — In the Chapter Archives at Wells, Reg. III. fo. 183-4, 
is the deed whereby Bishop Jocelin appropriated to the Norman 
Abbey of Jumieges, the Rectory of Chewton embracing the 
chapelries of Emborrow, Easton minor and major (now combined 
in Stoneaston) Faringdon and Paulton. 

The following abstract is offered for the sake of several 
historic points recorded. 
Feb. 17, 1 241-2. 
J^ectfais. 
That the Abbot, as Patron of Chewton and of all its chapels. 

Part zxx. June, 1895. g 



242 Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

and Sjrmon of S. Pierrc-sur-Divc, as Rector of Chewton, had 
yielded to the Bishop's Award all their rights (including 
10 marks paid to Abbot by Rectory) and the Wells Chapter 
had consented to same. 
Decree, 
(i) That Symon shall resign. 

(2) That the Abbot be inducted as perpetual Rector, and be 

Patron of a presentative Vicarage. 

(3) The Vicar shall be endowed with 

(a) Altelage.i 

(3) Small Tithe of Church and Chapels (save tithe of the 

' curia monachorum,' rights of legacy' and chirset,^ 

reserved to Abbot), 
(r) The House, hitherto occupied by the Chaplains, and 

two acreas of meadow on East toward Aldredescomb. 
{d) The Housesin the Chapelries,used by serving Chaplains 

(save Granges). 

(4) Vicar* s Liabiliiies. 

To serve the Mother Church. 

Chapels by Chaplains, as of old. 

To pay 5 marks to Abbot, with Synodals, &c., to Bishop and 
Archdeacon. 

(5) Abbot's Liabilities, as Rector. 

{a) To pay 35 marks to the Chapter Common fund. 

3 daily light at Mass in Our Lady's 

Chapel. Wells. 

3 Archdeacon of Wells. 

(3) To repair Chancels, and share cost of Vestments and 
ornaments. 

(6) Provisoes. 

(a) If the pending suit should evict the Church of Chewton 
from the chapelry of Eston minor, the Abbot to 
compensate Vicar. 

{b) A life pension of 29 marks to be paid to present Abbot by 
the Dean and Chapter out of their 35 marks. 

Remarks. 
We learn from hence : 

That the Abbey had remained patrons since the Conqueror's 

gift of advowson. 
That the Abbot levied a payment of i o marks upon the 
Rector}'. 

I. alias Altarage, i.e,y all the oblations of the Altar. 

a. i.$. Right to the bequests left to the Church of Chewton or Chapels, 
without any specification of a minor object, such as a window or rood. 

3. Church scot, a payment due at Martinmas from tenants, payable in see<I- 
corn, in eggs and poultn'. 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 243 

That the Rector lived at St. Pierre-sur-Dive in Normandy, 
and served his cure by Chaplains. 

That there was a * curia monachorum/ a head grange, where 
a small band of Monks resided for the management of the 
Tithe taken in kind. This * curia' with the minor out- 
lying granges was to continue. Being Tithe-free the 
Tithe Map must show the site of the ' curia.' 

That the Abbey was henceforth to be Rector and Patron of 
the Vicarage. H. 

204. Hbad Masters of Shbrborns School. — (IV. xxix. 
165.) •* John Gaylard, M.A., Head Master, 1733- 1743." — In the 
list of the Vicars of Winsford, given in ** Somerset Incumbents," 
by the Rev. F. W. Weaver, occurs the name of "John Gaylard, 
A.M., per mortem R.F. ad praes. John Balderston, S.T.P. Magist. 
&c. Dec. 20, 1714." 

This vicar, who was a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cam- 
bridge, signs the Parish Vestry Book as Chairman of the Vestry 
till 1724. His last entry in the Register of Baptisms is on 
Dec. 23, 1723. From that date he appears to have been non- 
resident, keeping a curate here — the Kev. Andrew Cox, — whose 
first entry in the Registers is among the Baptisms, January 5th, 
1723/4, while in February he presides at the parish vestry, signing 
the book as '* Curate de Winsford." In the year 1729, the poor 
child, George Norman, was bound parish apprentice to the Kev. 
John Gaylard in respect to his farm, the vicarage, the indenture 
being preserved among the parish documents. It is signed and 
sealed by John Gaylard, the witnesses being Andrew Cox and 
Sarah Cox. 

In the overseers' rate book the Rev. Robert Farthing is rated 
for the year 1714, and in 17 15 the Rev. Mr. Gaylard is rated in 
the sum of 12s. for the relief of the poor, (the rate being collected 
'* as often as need shall require "} and his name continues yearly 
till 1742. There was no separate rate made in 1743 or 4, and the 
rate for 1745 contains the name of the Rev. Mr. Bentham, vicar, 
who was appointed in 1743- 

The Rev. John Gaylard, Vicar of Winsford, must have also 
held the Head Mastership of Sherborne School, as he does not 
appear to have resided here after 1724, although his name 
appears in the poor rate year by year. 

The vicarage of Winsford is in the gift of Emmanuel College, 
Cambridge, having been presented to that college in 1589 by 
William Neale, Esquire, Auditor to the Treasury. 

W. Dicker, Schoolmaster, Winsford, Somerset. 

205. Somerset Court Rolls. (III. xxii.234) — In the Librar)' 
of Lambeth Palace,' amongst a varied collection of documents 
relating to places formerly held by the Archbishop of Canterbury, 
are the following Court and Reeves Rolls of manors, &c., in 




E.iL Fkx. 



«(lier Soils 

rkKe the Airiihwhop of 

Asbridge 
baamelt 

l(Mh Md Well*. KdMp of. teap. Edw. HI. Hoodiold 
BMnfMMoo xo Hea. VUL Govt RoO 

Hen. VL 




BMcklMd 
ChaddM 
(hard 



Compton 
Congmbwy 

Kit Cory 
Kvurorloit 



llulth 

Klngibury 

LydMfd 

Otiofford 



IJ'I4 

ti'tt 

lO-ll 

2 

t 

t't 

6 

X 

*-| 

1-4 

2 

a 

6-7 

6-7 

lO-ll 

«7 

3 

16 

It 

J6 

t 

>S 

t 

i«t 



Edw, 
Rich. 
Hea, 
Hen. 



III. 
U. 
V. 
VI. 



I. 

II. 

IV. 

V. 



Edw. 
Rich. 
Hen. 
Hen. 
Rich. II. 
Hen. V. 
Rich. II. 
Hen. V. 

Hen! VI. 
Edw. IV. 
Edw. III. 
Hen. VI. 
Edw. III. 
Hen. V. 
Hen. VII. 
Edw. VI. 
Hen. VII. 



Reeves 



Cooit Rolls 



Reeves account 

Court 'RoU 

Reeires accocmt 

Court Roll 

ffff 
Reeves account 



Roll of Hundred Couru 
Court Roll 



Reeves and Farmers' ace. 



Somerset 6* Dorset Notes <§• Queries. 



245 



Wcdmore 


20 


Hen. VIIL 


Court Roll 


Wellington 


6 


Edw. I. 






36 


Edw. III. 






2 


Hen. V. 




Wens 


6 


Edw. I. 


Court Roll 




4 


Edw. IV. 






2-3 


Hen. VIII. 




Winsham 


3-4 


Hen. Vni. 




Wivelscombe 


2 


Rich. II. 






2 


Hen, V. 






4 


Edw. IV. 






15 


Hen. VII. 






3 


Edw. VI. 






22-23 


Hen. VI. 


Reeves account 




3-4 


Edw. IV. 




Woky 


1-2 


Edw. IV. 




Yatton 


21-22 


Hen. VI. 





Group III Somersetshire. 
From 16-17 E^w« m* ^^ 37-38 Elizabeth. 
Miscellaneous places. 



Court Rolls. 



Presentations to Livings during'the Common-wealth to the 
following places in Somersetshire, Churchill, Maperton, Froome 
Zelwood, Mochelney, Farleigh. 



206. Thb Will of John Napbr of West Baglakk, 
Dorset. — ^This will, (registered in P.C.C. as 94 Fines), of which 
portions are given below, contains remarkable, and somewhat 
pathetic, evidence of the state of mind, and the condition of the 
affairs, of a country gentleman in the time of the great Civil Wan 
'* In nomine Patris et filii et Spiritus Sancti Amen 
The Fower and Twentieth dav of February one thousand 
Six hundred fortye and three. 
''In the name of God Amen I John Naper of West Baglake in 
the Countie of Dorset and pansh of Longbriddy Esquire Doe 
make this my last Will and Testament in manner and forme 
following: First I most humbly bequeath my soule to God 
humblie beseeching his Divine Clemencie to have mercie on me 
for the merrits of Jesus Christ my onlie Saviour and Redeemer by 
whose meritts and mercie I hope for Eternal Salvation trusting 
that my good Jesus will give me a glorious Resurection. Item I 
doe utterlye abhorr and Defie all manner of Errors and Erronions 
oppinions and all Sismaticall oppinions which shall in the least 
particle be broched by the Instruments of Sathan which shalbe 
contrarie to the holy Apostles Creed and the most holy and 
glorious Catholike Apostolike and Roman Church.*' 



244 

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Somerset S» Dorut Notes S* Queries. 247 

a draper, and to Mrs. Hvett widow, mercer of Dorchester. 
Money was due to testator from Francis Bartlett " my farmer at 
Baglake." The will concludes as follows : '* Then I give and 
bequeath all that I have in the world moveable and unmoveable 
whatsoever to my only Sonn and heire Henry Naper Provided if 
he should Dye (as God forbid) before he be one and Twentie 
yeares ould Then mv will and meaning is that Elizabeth Warham 
daughter to my brother in lawe Edward Warham gentleman Shall 
have all the goods moveable and unmoveable whatsoever I have 
in this world to her only use and benefitt And I give unto her the 
said Elizabeth Wareham if my sonn should dye (which God 
forbidd) Childles and l^ave noe children behinde him the whole 

profitt of all my Farme of West Baglake." " Item I doe 

make and ordaine my trustie and well beloved brother Master 
Edward Warham gentleman and.Frances his wife and my trustie 
and well beloved friends and Kinsmen Gregorie Gibbs of South 
Parrett in the Countie of Dorsett esquire and Robert Mohune of 
Meerehayes in the parish of Bewminster in the Countie of 
Dorsett aforesaid esquire my executors of this my last will and 
Testament wholye Confideing in their Good Consciences that 
they will see this my last will and Testament Punctuallie and 
reallv performed according to my full intent and meaneing By 
me John Naper." 

The Will was proved i8th May, 1647, ^7 Edward Warham. 
This John Naper was perhaps identical with the John Napier of 
Puncknoll, who, according to Hutchins' pedigree of the Napiers, 
had, by his first wife, Frances, a son named Henry, and who 
married secondly Elizabeth Saunders. Where was he buried — in 
Puncknoll Church, or in the garden at Baglake ? 

F. J. Pope. 

207. Prodigies in Somerset and Dorset, 166 1-2. — 
Extracts from a Pamphlet entitled "Ewavrov Tepa<rTio9, Mirabilis 
Annus, or the Year of Prodigies and Wonders &c." 1661, about 
June or July. At this date the worst fears of the Nonconformists 
were being realized. The Savoy Conference was showing that 
the Bishops were not likely to make any such concessions either 
in the matter or ceremonies of the Prayer-book as would enable 
them to use it with a clear conscience. The Parliament which 
met in May, 1661, was ultra-Church and King, and Charles was 
hardly the man to try to uphold the Declaration of Breda when 
the great bulk of the nation was clearly against any scheme of 
inclusion or toleration within the Church of aught but the old 
doctrine and use. In this extremity the Presbyterians tried, as a 
last resort, to work on the fears of the populace, for the Preface 
states " that though so many hundreds if not thousands of our able 
godly preaching Ministers have been removed into corners this 
year, yet the defect of their ministry hath been eminently supplied 
by the Lord immediately preaching unto us from heaven in these 



248 Somerset S» Dorut Notes S' Queries. 

great and wonderful works of His providence.*' The Pamphlet 
contains accounts of 1 14 prodigies and judgments, which it is 
impossible to criticise in cold blood, and they are therefore given 
as they stand in print without comment. 

Page 54. We are from very good hands assured of a very 
strange providence of God that lately happened at Wincanton in 
the County of Somerset on the 29 of May 1661, the Relation 
whereof as it was received from honest and faithful persons eye- 
witnesses take as foUoweth. 

Upon the said 29 of May (being his Majesties birthday, and 
appointed as a day of thanksgiving for his Majesties Restitution to 
the exercise of his regall power over the nations), Mr. Sacheveril 
the Minister of the town of Wincaunton aforesaid did in the 
Celebrating the memorial of that day or on the Lord's day fore- 

foing, preach to the People from that portion of Scripture, 
. Sam., 12, 25, But if ye shall do wickedly, ye shall be consumed 
both ye and your King ; From which words he raised very clearly 
this observation, viz. That wicked and profane men are the worst 
subjects, which he demonstrated and confirmed by several 
arguments, and in his application did endeavour to convince that 
part of his Auditory which his text was most applicable to of the 
inconsistency of their present course of Prophaneness, Drunken- 
ness, Scoffing at Religion, Swearing, Blaspheming, &c." With 
that which is Loyalty indeed and wherewith any Prince can be 
either advantaged or honoured ; The rude debauched multitude 
of the Town (who judged themselves the best subjects because 
most obnoxious to the preacher's reproofs) were extreamely 
scandalized and enraged at this Doctrine, and resolved to be 
avenged on the Minister for so open detecting their disloyalty to 
their Sovereign, to which purpose they prepare an effigies made 
of straw and clothed it in black, which might represent Mr, 
Sacheveral and put into its hand, the Catechism compiled by the 
late reverend Assembly of Divines, and with a horse or horses 
drew it through the Town upon a Sled, and at several honest 
sober mens doors as they passed along they made a stand, 
demanding of it whether it would read the Common-prayer or no, 
to which some were appointed still to make answer in the 
negative, whereupon they drew it away to the place where they 
had set in order above an hundred fagots of furses and other 
such like combustible matter in the midest of which pile they 
place the aforesaid effiges upon a short pole, and then kindled 
their Bonefire ; and though the effigies was in the midest of a 
very quick and fierce flame which ascended above it, yet the fire 
had no power at all over it, but it remained after a good part of 
the matereals were consumed altogether untouched, at which the 
multitude were so enraged that one of them discharged a gun at 
it, which as he shot it off, brake in pieces and hurtiiimself with 
some others that stood near him. Then another of the company 



Somerset <5» Dorset Not^s <&• Queriis. 249 

struck at it with a hanger which also by the force of the blow 
brake in two ; then they took it down and held it in the fire, and 
the wind blew the flame from it, so that they could not make it 
bum, then they held it in the fire on the contraiy side, and the 
wind immediately turned and kept the fiame again from seizing 
upon it ; After all they were forced to pull it to pieces, and so by 
piece-meal at last consumed it in the fire ; This relation with 
the severall circumstances of it, as we have here inserted them 
will be attested by divers Inhabitants in the said Town of 
Win canton, and the truth of the story is so notoriously known 
there, that the actors themselves have not the face to deny it or 
any part of it, and we cannot but hope that it hath left some 
conviction upon them, seeing the Lord by this strange and 
miraculous providence hath so publiquely and manifestly disowned 
and rebuked their barbarous and inhuman usage (and that only 
for telling them the truth) of their faithfull Minister in their 
attempts (though in vain) against that man of straw which the}- 
made to represent him. And let it also be an encouragement 
to him, and all the rest of the Lords faithfull Messengers in this 
day of great Apostacy to hold fast the truth, and to cleave to that 
God who stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves 
and the tumult of the people. 

^^S^ 74* At Ilmister in Somersetshire, a woman who very 
much hated a godly able Minister that was newly turned out of 
his Living there, as she was bringing home some fire which she 
had fetched from a Neighbours house, wished that it were burning 
within the said Minister ; the same day as it is reported there 
was acted in the Town a Play in derision (as some do afiirm) of 
that which they call the Rump Parliament ; This woman made 
great haste to despatch her business that she might be at leisure 
lo attend the Divertisement of so good an exercise as that Play 
was, and it seems in her haste did leave her fire (kindled, by that 
which a little before she wished in the Minister) very carelessly, 
insomuch that her own house with about twenty-six houses more, 
upon or near the Market-place, were before night burnt down to 
the ground. 

{S. 6f D. N. 6f Q., ix. IL 24. Collected at Compton 
Bishop, 26 May, 1661, for people of Ilminster who had losses 
by fire, 5 sh.) E. H. Bates. 

{To de con/mued.) 

208. The Pkiory of Burtle alias Spraulesmede.— 
Bishop Hobhouse (/?<^. Drok., p. 54) tells us on the authority of 
Dugdale*s Monasiicon, vol. I., p. 34, that this Augustinian Prior}% 
situated on Burtle Heath, about fis^ miles West of Glastonbur}\ 
was originally founded as a Hermitage in 1199 by the Lord of 
Edington Manor. By successive Endowments it became rich 
enough to maintain three hermits one of whom was called Prior ^ 



^mmm ^ Dmet NaUs S- Qmia, 



^Mmtmi WIS c&Iled The Prioij of St. 
wuMitaj being Pition. It is remaik— 

«- : ba'fe been M^tAt to discover, oa 
^ v'^oUiason in his History of this 

9r^ MMe Spfumktmede seems to have 
Bmtfe sometimes takes the 



•1^ th^ Hn^ MSS. B.M.) 

^>wr ^ Vacancy, Ref. to B/.'p 

<*ii^ Drok. 42. 

im »Ort. R. dc B. Rad. 347. 

mmr^ mt »Oft. W. de F. Rad. in Drok. 

298. 
Bub. ^i. 



ret m\M\, T. B. 

?wf wort. J F. 
?^ tiiort/j.B. 
;*?< iiKirL T V. 



Bcdc. 2g6. 

Stilling. 28. 

SttUing. 42. 
SdUing. 149^ 
King 67, 



.w* |V4 nioH. S,C. WoSscTj, 

-— ,MrimurLjJ. Wobey 13, 

. • Hrti vui, (,535) Stephanas 

4W i\ifYrs Ben. vm\ xiv, i, 

K' Cmin of Augmentations we 

~MT SjHaules Mede, Soms., 

vh/* 

_ yc ihrii valued at ;^6 5s. ijd. 

F.W.W. 

^^^^*»S!ii^—Ci)ftfinued. — (II. ix. 10, 

-^ XV. J 17, Kvi. 242, III. xvii. s[ 

wit, 153, xxiii. 279, xxiv. 323, 

%ti$. lit* xxix, 173.) 

I'W*^, John 

m. Nl.irgaret 
. Anihony 
John 
> John 




Administntion. 
May, 1653 
June, 1654 
October, 1654 
Septbr., 1653 

^^\ J^^^ 
March, 1653.4 

DecembT,i654 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S* Queries. 



Name of DeotMed. 
Rawlins, Richard 
Rawlins, Robert 
Rawlins, William 
Reed, Benjamin 
Reynald, Richard 
Richards, John 
Richards al's Kerra- 

skin, John 
Roach, John 
Robins. Walter 
Rodford, Katherine 
Rogers, Francis 
Risers, Henry 
Rogers. Hugh 
Rogers, Jane 
Refers, Wihnott 
Rdes, William 
Roper. Thomas 
Rosewame, Ridiard 
Rossom al*s Plummer. 

WiUiam 
Rowdiff, Thomas 
Rowe, John 
Rowe, Joseph 
Rowley, EUzabeth 
Rowswell, Richard 
Raddocke, John 
^^««g. John 
Rntter. William 
St. Leger, Richard 
Sambome, Cornelias 
Sambu3rm, Anne 
Sampson, John 
Sampson, lliomas 
Samwayes, Margery 
Sanders, Thomas 
Sanders. Thomas 
Sandford, Martin 
Sand ford, Susan 
Sanger. Thomas 
Sangwen, Richard 
Saunders, Thomas 
Saundry, Lewis 
Savidge, William 
Sawel, Anne 
Screene, Robert 
Search, William 
Seaward, Humphrey 
Selwood, John 
Se3rmour, John 
Shedd al's Meade, 

Robert 
Shephard, Joseph 
Shirley, Richard 
Shutt, Richard 
Sindercombe,£dward 
Singer, Elias 



Date of 
Administration. 

March, 1653-4 
May, 1654 
Janry., 165^-4 
Septbr., 1653 
Novmbr.,1654 
June, 1653 
June, 1654 



May, 



1653 

1654 

. 1653-4 



Febnr., i 
Septbr., 1653 



March, 1653-4 
March, 1653-4 
May, 1654 
August, 1653 

Novmbr., 1654 
July 1653 
Septbr., 1653 



'653 
1654 
1654 
1653 
1654 
1-4 



Septbr., 

May, 

May, 

it. .. 

Febry. 165^.4 
October, 1654 
August, 1653 
May, 1654 
Novmbr., 1654 
March, 165^-4 
October, 1654 
July. 1653 
October, 1654 
July, 1654 
Septbr., 1654 
Febry., 1653.4 
March, 1653.4 
June, 1653 
Janry., 1653.4 
March, 1653-4 
Febry., 165^.4 
August, 1653 
Novmbr, 1654 
Septmbr. 1653 
May, 1654 
August, 1653 
October, 1654 
May, 1654 
Septbr., 1654 

Febry., 1653-4 



June, 
Septbr., 
July, 
Septbr., 



1653 
1653 

1653 
1653 



Name of Deceased. 
Singer. William 
Skinner, Cicelie 
Skinner, Phillipp 
Slade, Richard 
Slade, Thomas 
Slarke, Jotham 
Smeaths, John 
Smedmore, Barnard 
Smith,^ George 
Smith, Giles 
Smith, Toseph 
Smith, Nicholas 
Smith, Richard 
Smith, Robert 
Smith, Thomas 
Smith, Valentine 
Smith al's Cox, Wini- 

fryd 
Smorthett, John 
Snooke, John 
Snowden, Thomas 
Somersett, Htnry 
Soper al*s Thurstone, 

Dorothy 
Spurrier, Peter 
Squibb, William 
Squire, William 
Stainings, Charles 
Stallinge, John 
Standfast, Richard 
Stanier al's Didmill, 

Robert 
Steere, John 
Steevens, Thomas 
Stephens. George 
Stephens, Henry 
Stephens, Philipp 
Stephens. Phillip 
Stephens, Roger 
Stickland, John 
Sticklandal^ Kerley. 

Martha 
Stillman al's Twitt 

al's Cooke, Joane 
Stocke, Agnes 
Stocke, Richard 
Stodden al's Blackford. 

Alice 
Stone, Eleanor 
Stone, William 
Story, David 
Strood. John 
Strowd, Thomas 
Stuckey, William 
Sully, James 
Suter. Leonard 
Sutton, Degory 



Date of 
Administration. 

June, 1653 

Septbr., 1653 

Septbr.. 1653 

August, 1654 

Septbr.. 1654 

*une, 1653 

uly, 1653 

uly, 1654 

uly, 1653 

"eptbr., 1653, 

Septbr. 1653 

June, 1653 

Novmbr. 1654 
Septbr. 1653 
Septbr., 1653 
August, 1653. 

uly, 1653 

une. 1654 

arch, 1653-4 

August, 1653, 

Janry., 1653-4 

Septbr., 1653. 
July. 1654 
Septbr., 1653. 
Novmbr.. 1654 
March, 1653-4 
Septbr., 1653 
July, 1653 

May, 1654 
March, 1653-4 
June, 1653 
June, 1654 
June, i6si 
Novmbr., 1654 
Septbr., 1654 
June, 1654 
June, 1654 

March, 1653-4 

J«Jy. 1653 
June, 1653 
August, 1653 

August, 1653 
August, 1653: 
August. 1653 
March, 1653.4 
March, 1653-4 
March. 1653-4 
Septbr., 1654 
June, 1653. 
May, 1654 



252 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S* Queries. 



Nune of DeeeMtd. 
Symons, Humphrey 
Symons, John 
Tabb id's Shinner, 

MichoU 
Talbott, John 
Tayldor, William 
Temple, Eleanor 
Templeman, Anthony 
Tenicombe, William 
Thomas, Alice 
Thomas, Stephen 
Thome, Joane 
Thomelmll, Ralph 
Thurston al's Soper, 

Dorothy 
Thurston, William 
Tibbott, Robert 
Tiler, Ajine 
Todd, William 
Toleman, John 
Toleman, Thomas 
Tom al's Penball,John 
Toms, John 
Tonge, Charles 
Toogood, £leanor 
Toope, John 
Tovey al*s Garland. 

WiUiam 
Tovie, Charles 
Towneinge al's Cutler, 

Joane 
Towneinge, Robert 
Townesend, Henry 
Trehane, John 
Trcw, Roger 
Trcwin. John 
Trewolla, Philipp 
Triggs, Lewis 
Trinder, George 
Tripp, Henry 
Trowte, Edward 
Trowte, George 
Trubody, John 
Tucker, George 
Tucker, Henry 
Tucker, Henry 
Tucker. Julian 
Turner al's Parris, 

Julian 
Twisell. Richard 
Twitt al's Cooke al's 

Stillman, Joan 
Tydall al's Masters, 

Elizabeth 
Tyler, Joane 
Venn, John 
Verman. Edward 



Date of 
Adminlttratkiti. 
Septbr., 1654 
March, 165V4 
July, 1653 
? Devon 
March, 1653-4 
October, 1654 

>ly, 1654 
March, 1653-4 
Tune. 1653 
Sepibr., 1653 
May, 1654 

June, 1653 
anry., 1653-4 

Decembr,i654 
May, 1654 

iune, 1653 
larch, 1653-4 
Septbr., 1654 
Febry., 1653-4 
May, 1653 
"une, 1654 
«ly, 1653 
eptbr., 1653 
March.,1653-4 
May, 1654 



I 



August, 1653 
Febry., 1653.4 

October. 1654 
Novmbr.,1654 
May. 1654 
Jui.e, 1653 
Febry., 1653-4 
June, 1653 
Decembr,i654 
October, 1654 
Novmbr.. 1654 
Septbr., 1653 
August, 1654 
August, 1654 
Sepibr., 1653 



1654 
Septbr., 1654 
Febry., 1653.4 
May, 1653 

July, 1653 
March, 1653.4 

June, 1653 

July, 1653 
October, 1654 
March, 1653-4 



Name of Deeeaaed. 
Vigures, Edward 
Vile, Robert 
Voscombe, Abraham 
Wadham, William 
Walker, John 
Wall. Thomas 
Wallis, WUliam 
Walton, William 
Warman, Richard 
Wame, Gregoiy 
Warren, John 
Warren, Olive 
Warren, Thomas 
Wasboiow, Thomas 
Wathen, Rowland 
Watts, Christopher 
Watts, Margery 
Webb al's West, 

Edith 
Webb, George 
Webb, John 
Webb, Richard 
Wedlaek al's Brawly, 

John 
WeJler al's Graves, 

Margery 
Wdls, Toby 
Wenmouth, Anne 
Wcscott, Richard 
Wescott, Walter 
West al's Webb, 

Edith 
West. John 
West, Robert 
Wethy, John 
Wheddon, Giles 
Wheeler al's Wilkes 

Thomas 
WheUieke, Richard 
Whitchcr. Edward 
White, Edwaid 
White. Paul 
White, William 
White, William 
Wbiteinge, Thomas 
Whitledge al's Ken. 

nard, Elizabeth 
Whitney, Edward 
Whitteme, Martha 
Wickham, Thomas 
Wike, Elizabeth 
Wild, John 
Wilkes al's Wheeler, 

Thorn a.s 
Wilkins, Anne 
Wilkins, Gyles 
Wilkins, Henry 



Date of 
AdmlaltttatioB. 
August, 1653 
heptbr., 1653 
June, 1653 
Septbr., 1654 
Tanry., 1653.4 
May, 1653 
June, 1653 
October, 1654 
March. 1653.4 
May, 1654 
Tune, 1653 
March, 1653.4 
Septbr., 1653 
Jwy. >653 
June, 1653 
October. 1654 
Tanry., 1653-4 
June, 1653 

June, 1653 

Septbr., 1654 

June, 1653 

Septbr., 1653 

June, 1653 

Septbr., 1654 
June, 1654 
August, 1653 
May, 1653 
June, 1654 

Septbr., 1653 
March, 165V4 
August, 1653 
June, 1654 
Septbr., 1654 

Tune, 1654 
March, 1653.3 
July, 1653 
Febry., i65?-4 
June, 1653 
Septbr., 1653 
August, 1653 
June, 1653 

Septbr., 1653 
^— •^— 1654 
June. 1653 
October, 1654 
June, 1654 
Septbr., 1654 

July, 1653 

July. 1653 

Joly. 1653 



Somersei <5* Dorset Notes <5* Queries, 253. 

Dat« of DftU of 

NaoM of DwNMtd. Admialikratioii. Name of DocetMd. AduinUtntion. 

Williams, Thomis J^Qry*. 1^53-4 Wood, Gerrard, Joly, 165^ 

Wills al's Hayne, March, 1653.4 D.D 

Dorothy Woodward, William March, 1651*4 

Windham, Francis Jane, 1653 Wreach, Mary August, 1654 

Windham, Oeorge June, 1653 Younge, John May, 1654 

former admn. Janry., 1648 

{To be continued.) Geo. S. Fry. 

axo. Fry Family of Paulbt, Somrrsrt, and Ewbrn 
Minster, Dorset. — In Hutchins (3rd edition) vol. iii. page 537 
is a pedigree, said to be taken from " Visitation Book 1623 Harl. 
II 66,'' of Fry of £wem Minster and Tarrant Gnnville, which 
gives four generations of the family commencing with William 
Fry of " Paolet, co. Somerset " and ending with John Fry, aged 
14, in 1623. The Visitation of Dorset, published by the Ilarleian 
Society, taken from Harl. MS. No. 1166 fo. 28b, gives five 
generations of this family, one earlier than Hutchins, but says 
nothing about "Paulet, co. Somerset,*' and Harleian MSS. 1451 
fo. 47 and 1080 fo. 368 are also silent on this point. 

There was a family of Fry of Paulet, co. Somerset, which is 
referred to in the Visitation of Devon for 1564 where a William 
Fry of Pawlett is given as a great-grandfather of a Robert Fry of 
Exeter, living in 1564, but there is no reference to Dorset in the 
pedigree. 

There was also a family of Fry at Tarrant Gnnville in 1507, 
if not earlier, who in 1560 were in possession of ^ of the manor 
of Gunville Eastbury and who apparently bore the same arms as 
the family Hutchins says came from Paulet, co. Somerset. It is 
very curious that two families of Fry, bearing the same arms, 
should be living side by side in the same parish and owning 
portions of the same manor, one recorded in the Visitation 
and the other not. It almost makes one suspect something 
wrong in Hutchins, especially as the authority quoted does not 
bear out his statement. Can anyone refer me to any record 
or document which will bear out what Hutchins says, viz., 
that the Frys of Ewem Minster and Tarrant Gunville, recorded 
in the Visitation of 1623, came originally from Paulet, Somerset. 

Geo. S. Fry. 
Ingle wood. Upper Walthamstow Road, Walthamstow. 

axz. How Names Change. — In the parish of Castle Cary 
there is a hamlet called to-day Clanville and so spelt in Kelly's 
Directonr of Somerset (1894). ^^ Greenwood's Map of the 
County (1820) the place is given as Clanford, and in a Somerset 
Fine of 52 Hen. III. (1267-8) it is spelt Ciane/eid {Som. Rec. 
Soc. vi. 219). 

Clanville is an easy transition in native dialect from the 
original Clanefeld. Cianford is an evident error. Z, 



254 Somirset S* Dorset Notes <&• Queries. 

212. Carol Books and Chant Book, Combb Keynes, 
Dorset— Conitnued. (IV. xxix. 163.) — Mr. F. Willcox of 
Tjneham, the present owner of the carol-books, has lent roe also 
a book of chants and hymn tunes (1823), of which the music is 
neatly written throughout and by one of the scribes, with con- 
siderable skill, as bv a very precise schoolmaster or curate. A 
list of the names ot the tunes and chants may sooner or later be 
of interest. They occur in the following order : — 

Jacob Chant; Battishill Cbant; Minore, Moniing:ton Chant; King 
Street; Chant Soper; Mathias, S.M.; Mount Ephiaim, S.M. ; Moraisg, 
L.M. ; Careys, L.M. ; Sboles, L.M. (p. 5) ; St. Stephen ; Spain (sevens) ; 
Old Martin's Lane, L.M. ; Vesper ; Before the Gospel ; ** Glory, Gk)ry, 
Glory ! " Arabia ; treble and counter of Winchester ; Gibbons (p. 10) ; 
Divine ; Devises. CM. ^ Stonsfield, L.M. ; Chatswortb, L.M. ; Judca, 
2.6 and 8.4. 2.6. 8.4 ; Hy. 670* ; Justification, L.M. ; Atonement Sixes 
and Sevens; Hy. no; Peru, L.M. ; Watchman, S.M. ; Eaton, L.M. 

Sp. 15); Troas; Hy. 46, P.M.; St. George's, CM., with dignity; Abing- 
on, C.M. ; Condescension, CM. ; Broomsgrove, CM. ; New York, CM. ; 
Oatlands, C.M. ; Terah six eights ; Chant Hymn 203 ; Redemption, four 
lines sixes and two eights (p. 20) ; Derby, L.M. ; Chappiis, L.M. ; Derb>' 



Bess (? Bass) ; Stroud (Minoie). CM. ; Walsall (Minore) C.M. ; Depend- 
ance, sevens and sixes, Hy. 552 ; CM, ; L.M. ; Wainwright. CM. : C.M. ; 
Samson, L.M.; CM; L.M.; Winken, CM,; Cambridge New. CM.; 



Lulwonh, C.M. ; Lvda, C.M. ; Bromton, C.M. ; Nayland, CM. ; Ascen- 
sion. CM. ; Portugal, L.M. ; Manchester, CM. ; Lent. P.M. ; L.M. ; 
Britin, P.M. : Hormonia, CM. ; Comfort, CM. ; Easter Hymn ; New - 
port, L.M. (p. 35) ; C.M. ; St. Albans, C.M. ; Hark from the Tomb. C.M. ; 
Nehemiah, C.M. ; Poole, CM. ; Snow hill, L.M. ; Stowbridge, L.M. ; 
Brelljr Church. S.M. ; Winchester, C.M. ; CM. ^p. 40) ; Dirge. L.M. ; 
Dismissal Hymn ; L.M. ; Naies Chant ; Cyrus. L.M. ; Stowbridge Bass, 
L.M. ; Suffolk. LM.; Chant; Rous[s]eaus Drame (Dream); Spanish 
Chant, L.M. ; Warwick. CM.; Naverino. L.M. ; Sidmoutb, S.M. ; 
Swanage, C.M. ; Bumham, four lines sixes and two eights; Leoni. CM. 
(p. 50) ; Before the gosple, . . . Halldieh Pr the lod ; The Refuge of Peace ; 
Vesper Aref; Counter; Vesper Bass; Finsbunr. L.M, ; Old Martins 
Lane, L.M. ; Perriat S.M. : Christchurch, C.M. ; St. Albans. CM. ; The 
Mariners ; [Ps.] 100, L.M. ; Blossom of Snow ; Artington, CM. ; What 
is life tis but a vapour ; Morning Hy.. L.M. ; Colchester, S.M. (p. 60) ; 
Psalm I6th; Conflict, L.M. §; CM. ; Mariners; Norreds, CM. (p. 65) ; 
Evening Hymn; Chant; Response; Lord have mercy upon us (p. 67) ; 
Harwood. L.M. ; China, L.M. ; Chant ; Caresbrook, L.M. (p. 70) ; 
Battishill Chant; CM.; TaUis Chant; CM.; Sherland. S.M. ; Hensbury. 
C.M. ; L.M, Hynm For the Holy Conmiunion (p. 75). Sing glory to God. 
sing Glory to God H A H A (? Hallelujah) ; Sion Temple, L.M. ; Boyce 
Chant. Reuben, S.M. ; Dr. Turner Chant ; Gregorian Chant ; Mount 
Pleasent, CM.; Chant; Aurbum, CM.; Thos. Purcell; H. Purcell ; 
Piety, CM. (p.8o); J. Jones; Joseph Warren; CM.; Flutorset Chani ; 

* What collection in 1823 was so extensive? Josiah Pratt's in 1829 con- 
tained about 600 hymns besides 350 portions of Psalms. Dr. Julian mentions 
42 hymn-books printed 1801-20, and 58 in the next twenty years, 
t Perhaps •• Vesper Air " or •« Hour." 
X Perhaps «• Persea" or " Persia." 

I Here at p. 61 the staves begin to be ornamented with chequered finials. 

II Gregorian : This is the *' Old Melody ** set to the Good Friday VeniU in 
Xovello's " Cathedral Psalter." 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S* Queries, 255 

S.M. ; Martin ; Psalm 50 ; Fcastcr, C.M. (p. 85) ; Bristol Chant ; CM. : 
P.M. ; Ezekiel, C.M. ; Unison Chant, Tones ; C.M. ; Langdon Chant ; 
CM.; Salisbury Chant ; Old 100 fPs.] (p. 90J; Dnpnis Chant; Corbin, 
L.M.; L.M.; Spencer Chant; Daventree, L.M. ; Woodward Chant; 
Hindle; Job, L.M. ; Robinson Chant; Old Eighty eaight Ps., L.M. 
(p. 95) ; Chant ; Psahn 90, CM. ; Arling Psalm 39th, C.M. ; Hanover, 
P.M.; Heathcote Chant; Bedford, CM.; St. Ann's, C.M. (p. 100; 

A refined hand writes the following : — 
Spofforth; Norris; Henley. Silver moonligte, 

A later hand inserts: 

Pass me not ; Hold the fort : Only trust him ; Safe in the arms ; The 
Home over there : In the sweet ; The Lifeboat Boat ; Shall we gather at 
the river ; Work, for the night ; Rescue the perishing ; For me, for me ; 

The ? Precious promise ; Washed in the blood of [the] 

lamb ; We shall sleep but not [for] ever ! The anchored soul ; Shall we 
meet. 

Praise the Lord.. 

Tottenham, CM. ; St. Peters, C.M. ; Innocents; Turner. 

Preparation, sizes and sevens, 54. 

P.M. 12, 9, 12, 9, 9; Pisgah, 491. 

Response [to the Commandments], Walmsley, Response. 

Before the Gosple. After the Gosple. 

Greene; Tarrant; Bacon; Dupuis; Grand; C Hayes; Eventide; 
Redhead, CM. ; St. George, S.M. ; Redhead, C.M. . St. Albinus ; 
Alleluia; St. Helena, S.M. ; St. Michael, S.M. ; St. Cuthbert; St. 
Alphege ; Tallis Ordinal, CM. ; Yorkshire ; Mendelssohn ; Nicaea : Nut- 
field; Hollingside; Redhead; St. Stephen. 

{Blank Pages.) 

At the end : — 

A sentence for Funerals, Weep ye not for the dead : For they shall 
return no more, and shall not be found. They wich have seen him shall 
say whear is he. Chorus. Weep. 

Chr. Wordsworth, Tyneham Rectory, Wareham. 

213. Grants of Arms to Somerset and Dorset 
Families. (IV. xxviii. 124, xxix, 193). — 

Northover of Alercort (Aller Court), co. Somerset. Patent, 
May, 1614. Or, five lozenges in saltire betw. four crosses 
crosslet az. Crest. A lion*s gamb couped arg. supporting a 
lozenge az. charged with a cross crosslet or. Motto, Deus 
erigit justos. Harl. MS. 1359. 

Pagrave, John, of Colford (? Coleford in Kilmersdon now a 
separate parish). Az. a lion pass. arg. Crest. A rhinoceros 
Stat, or, Harl. MS. 1359. 

Percye, John, of London, second son of Richard Percye of 
Shaftesbury, co. Dorset. Entered in the Visitation of 
London, 1634. Arg. a fess humett^e gu. betw. three swallows 
rising sa., on the fess a crescent for difference. Crest. A 
demi lion ramp. az. collared or, between the paws a lozenge 
of the last. Examined by Henry St. George, Clarencieux 
1684. Add. MS. 14, 295. 



256 Somersit S* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

Pitt, William, of Stepilton, co. Dorset. By Camden, Claren* 
cieux, 13 Aug., 1604. Sa. a fess chequy arg. and as. betw. 
three bezants. Crest. A heron arg. beak and legs or. 
Harl MS. 1422. 

Pollard, George, of Kelve. Arg. a chev. sa. betw. three 
escallopshells gn. Harl. MS. 1559 (A). 

Powell, John, Surveyor of Ordnance. He is of Somersetshire. 
Per pale gu. and az. a lion ramp, bendways or, within ao 
orle of crosses crosslet fitch^ of the third. Crest. A lion 
pass, supporting with the dexter paw a tilting spear arg. 
Harl. MS. 1359. 

Pkinne. These arms and crest made in parchment for Edward 
Prinne and signed by William Dethick, Garter, 1588. This 
Edward Prinne, a captain and Knight of the Order of Christ, 
so made by Don Antonio King of Portugal 1588, was eldest 
son of Richard Prinne, s. of Richard Prinne of Bristol. 
From this point the descent is carried back from son to 
father as given in the Visitation of Somerset edited by the 
Rev. F. W. Weaver, pp. 125, 126. Or. a fess engr. az. betw. 
three escallop shells gu. Crest. From a crest coronet or» 
a demi-eagle displ. gu. beaked sa. Harl. MS. 1359. 

Reads, William, of Bristol, 1565. Per pale or and arg. a cross 
boton6e fitch^e betw. four fleur de lis sa. Crest. A shoveller 
sa. membered or. Add. MS. 16,940. 

Reynalds of Langport. Arg. a chev. chequy gu. and az. betw. 
three crosses boten6e fitch6e of the last, in chief a crescent 
for difference. Crest. From a mural coronet or a demi 
talbot arg. ear gu., collar and line or. Harl. MS. 1559 (A). 

Richardson, Fekdinando, of Glastonbury, 1588. He was of 
the Privy chamber. Arg. on a chief sa. three lions heads 
erased of the first. Crest. A cubit arm erect vested sa. cuff 
arg. the hand ppr. brandishing a sword of the second hilt 
and pomel or. Harl. MS. 1441. 

Salmon. Az. three salmons haurient arg. Crest. A salmon 
naissant arg. This coat was Salmon's in an ancient window 
in Backwell church. (Mentioned under Whittington of 
Backweli) Harl. MS. 1559. 

Sbllbck, William, of Playnsfield in Over Stowey, co. Somerset^ 
son of William Selleck of the same place. Patent from 
Bysshe, Garter, 16 Sept., 1653. Sa. a fess wavy betw. three 
leopards' faces arg. crowned or. Crest. A leopard's head 
couped at the neck full face arg. crowned or. Granted to 
the descendants of William the son. Harl. MS. 1 172. 

Shan&b of Taunton. Az. three foxes' heads couped in pale or, 
betw. two flaunches arg. Harl. MS. 1559 (A). The coat is 
tricked and it is not very clear what the heads are, foxes' or 
wolves'. 

Skuttb, John, of Staunton (Stanton Drew), co. Somerset. Or, 



SontiTset &> Dorset Notes S» Queries, 257 

three hinds pass. ppr. on a chief gu. a tower betw. two 
shields of the first. Crest. An ostrich az. wings raised or, 
beak and legs gu., in the beak a rose or, slipped vert. Harl. 
MS. 1442. This part is stated to be carefully copied from a 
book of Sir Christopher Barker, Garter, and containing 
grants from him from 28 Hen. VIII. to 3 Edw, VI. 

SiCYTH. Per fess embattled erm. and gu. three crescents 
counterchanged over all a bend or. Crest. On a mural 
coronet gu. an owl arg. Harl. MS. 1559 (A). 

Sniggb, George, of Bristol, Counsellor at Law. By Robert 
Cook, Clarencieux. 1591. Az. three leopards' faces in pale 
or. Crest. A demi stag erased or. Harl. MS. 1422. 

SoMERS, Sir George, of Baron, co. Dorset, Knt. Confirmation 
of arms and grant of a crest by William Camden, Clarencieux, 
2 March, 1604. Vert a fess dancett^e erm. in chief a crescent 
or. Crest. A coat of mail hanging on a laurel tree all ppr. 
Motto. Foy tousiours {t\e. toujour) ver. Harl. MS. 1359. 

Sore, George. Quarterly or, and gu. in the first quarter a lion 
pass. gard. gu. all within a bord. eng. sa. bezant6e. Crest. 
An heraldic tyger's head erased arg. gorged with a coronet 
with line and ring, and gutt6e de poix. Harl. MS. 1549 (A). 

Spiller, John, of Shaftesbury, co. Dorset. Confirmation by 
Robert Cook, Clarencieux, 15 Feb., 1575. Per pale arg. and 
sa. a horse courant counterchanged. Crest. An eagle, 
wings addorsed arg. standing on a snake vert. Harl. MS. 
1422. 

Staluno. Erm. on a pale az. three lions pass. or. Harl MS. 
1559 (A). 

Statnyno, Edward, of Honycote, co. Somerset. Confirmation 
of arms and grant of crest 1559. Crest. On a wreath or 
and az. a "bonacon" ppr. homed clawed and maned or. 
Add. MS. 16,940. 

Staynings, Thomas, of Somerset. By Clarencieux, 29 Nov., 
1559. No arms tricked or blazoned. Harl. MS. 1422. 

Stbwklet, Thomas, of Marsh, co. Somerset, Esq. Grant of 
crest, 21 June, 1595. Arms quarterlv, i and 4, chequy arg. 
and sa. on a fess gu. a crescent or, for difference, all within 
a bord. az. 2 and 3, Az. a bend betw. six martlets arg. Crest. 
A plume of ostrich feathers 5, 5 and 3 at the top, the under 
parts arg. turned over sa. Harl. MS. 1359. 

Stone, Thomas, of Wedmore, co. Somerset. Granted 1588. 
Quarterly, x and 4, Per pale or, and gu. an eagle displ. with 
two heads, per pale az. and or, 2, A chev. betw. ? (The 
shield has been left unfinished). Add. MS. 14,297. 

Strachey, William, of Rutlands in Saffron Walden, co. Essex, 
gent. Confirmation of Arms {cir. 1560), Arg. on a cross 
eng. betw. four eagles disp. gu. a fleur de lis betw. four 
cinquefoils or. Crest. A lion ramp. erm. crowned or, 



258 Somerset 6* Dorset Notes S* Queriis. 

supporting a cross pat6e fitch6e of the last. This is the 

family from whom the present Sir Edward Strachey of Sutton 

Court, Bart., is descended. 
SwATMB, William. He was bom in Somersetshire. Grant by 

Guyan, King of Arms, 29 March, 29 Hen. VI., to him and 

his descendants. Az. a chev. betw. three pheons or, on a 

chief gu. three maidens' heads couped below the shoulder 

ppr. hair of the second. Harl. MS. 1438. 
Stms, of Chard, co. Somerset, Patent by Robert Cooke, Claren- 

cieux, 1590. Az. three escallop shells in pale or. Crest. 

A demi-hind erased or. Harl. MS. 1422. 
Stms, William, of Chard, co. Somerset. Az. five crosses 

crosslet salterwise in saltire or. Crest. A demi-greyhound 

erased or. Add. MS. 14.297. 
Van Wilder, Philip, of Little Briddow, Dorset. Gu. a fess 

barry of 10 or and az. a demi-lion ramp, arg., issuing from 

the dexter and sinister comers in chief, a rose gu. seeded 

arg. from the edges rays of the sun of the second. Crest. 

A man's head full faced couped below the shoulders ppr. 

wreathed on the head with woodbine vert, Harl. MS. 1422. 

Grants of arms, Hen. V. to Hen. VIII. 
Vernby. Quarterly. 1, Arg. three fern leaves vert within a 

bord. sa. 2, Vert a chev. betw. three lions ramp. or. 3, Arg. 

atrivett sa. 4, blank. Stowe MS. 649. See Visi/. of Sonursel 

by Rev. F. W. Weaver, page 83. 
Walle, Thomas, son of Thomas Walle, of Kent and of Somerset. 

1591. Arg. on a cross sa. five lions ramp. or. Crest. A 

cubit arm in armour erect holding a pistol all ppr. 
Warren, Edmond, of Herton, co. Somerset ( ? Horton in 

Ilminster). Patent 24 Sept., 1573. Gregory Warren, s. of 

Ger. Warren of S. Peter's in St. Alban's, Herts. Chequy or 

and az. on a canton gu. a lion ramp, within a bord. erm. 

Crest. A lion's gamb erect and erased arg. holding an 

eagle's leg erased at the thigh or. Harl. MS. 1441. 
Watkins. Confirmation to Humphrey Watkins of Hallwell, co. 

Somerset (Hoi well now in Dorset) son of Thomas Watkins 

of CO. York. By Lawrence Dalton, Norrey, 2 Jan., 1560. 

Gu. on a cross flory betw. four demi-griffins or, five cinquefoils 

az. Harl. MS. 1359. See Visit, of Somerset by Rev. F. W. 

Weaver, p. 89. 
Webb, Robert, of Clifibrd* co. Somerset. Sa. three escallop 

shells in bend arg. Crest. A demi-stag erased arg. horned 

or, Harl. MS. i359» 
Webb, William, of Motcombe, co. Dorset, second son of 

William Webb of New Sarum, Wilts, and of Katherine his 

* [Clifford is in the parish of Beckington. Thos. Webb, Esq., 20 Eliz., 
gave J^s to this parish. Collioson n. 202. — Editor for Somerset.] 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 



259 



wife, dau. and h. of John Aborough. Confirmed 17 June, 
1577. I and 4, Az. a cross betw. four falcons closed or. 
2 and 3, Sa. two swords in saltire arg. hilts and pomels or, 
betw. four fleurs de lis of the last, within a bord. arg. On an 
escutcheon of pretence, quarterly i, Arg. an annulet betw. 
three escallop shells gu. 2, Sa. three lozenges arg 3, Three 

bars and in chief as many cinquefoils 4, Chequy . . . . 

and. • • .on a chief. • • .two mullets 5,. • • .a crescent 

betw. three fleurs de lis 6, blank. Crest, i. From 

a crest coronet a demi-eagle disp. or. 2 . That of Aborough . 
Add. MS. 14,297. 
Whstham. The following pedigree is given in Harl. MS. 1 172. 

John Whetham of Milton Abbas,:=. . . .da. of. • . .Hicks. Arms, Gu. 
CO. Dorset. | fess wavy betw. three flenrdelis or 



Thomas Whetham of the same 
place. Arms. Arg. a cross sa. 
and in first canton a martlet of 
of the second. Crest. A cabit 
arm erect in chain armour the 
gauntlet brandishing a sword all 

2SL 



. . . .da. of. . . .MantelL Arms. Arg« 
a cross eng. betw. four martlets sa. 



m Whetham of I>rimpton=. 
CO. Dorset. I 

1 \ ITl 



...da. of....Peare, co. Dorset. Arms. 
At. a bend or, cotised indent, arg. 



3 Hercules 2 James 4 William i Thomas Whetham=Doix)thy da. of 



of Drimpton 



I James= 
Whetham 
ol Trull, 

CO. 

Somerset. 


=Ann da. of 

Thomas 

Whithoroe 

of 
Pitminster, 

CO. 

Somerset. 



2 Nathaniel=Joaneda. 



Whetham 
of London. 



Josieph John James Mary bapt. 12 
March, 1623, 
vide Trull Par. 

Reg. Bp. 
Trans. A. J. J. 



I 



Nathaniel Joseph 



of 
Shorter. 

Arms. 
Or, a lion 
ramp. sa. 
witmn a 
bord. of 
the last 
charged 

with 

eight 

escallop 

sheUsof 

the first. 



1 ' L 

4 Joseph 

Whetham 
of CO. 
Bucks. 

5 Robert 
Ann 

F 



Hooper of. 
CO. Dorset. Arms 
Gyronny of eight 
or and erm. a 
tower triple turr- 
retted, sa. 



Tohn=£leanor, da. of 



Whetham 

Broad 

Windsor 

CO. Dorset. 



Wykes of 
CO. Somerset. 

Arms, £nn. 
three battleazes 
sa. 



John 



Deborah 



Compared with the original in the College, and approved by me. 

William Ryley, Lancaster. 

Whitb, Thomas, of Fittleford, co. Dorset. Az. three crosses 

crosslet or. Add. MS. 14,297. 
White, Thomas, of the manor of Fittleford, co. Dorset. 1559. 



26o 



Somerset <S» Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 



Per pale or and az. on a chev. eng. arg. betw. three greyhounds 
coorant counterchanged a fleur de lis betw. two lozenges ga. 
Crest. An arm emb, vested or, charged with two bends wavy 
gn., holding in the hand by the legs a heronshaw (or stork) 
ppr. beak and legs of the first. Add. MS. 16,940. 

Whithornb, Thomas, of Pitminster, co. Somerset. Per chev. 
flory counter flory arg. and sa. in chief two towers and 
in base an escallop shell all counterchanged. 

Young, William, of Trent, co. Somerset, Esq., descended from 
Young of Wiltshire. Or, three roses gu., a canton of the 
last. Crest. A lion's head or, erased gu. crowned of the 
last Confirmed April, 1615. Harl. MS. 1359. 

Arthur J. Jkwkrs. 

214, Dorset Clkrgt and the Protestation of 1641-2. 
Continued, (IV. xzix. 192). 

N.B. Names within square brackets are as they appear in the 
Justices' Returns (imperfect). 



DORSET PROTESTATIONS (1641-2). 



Sherborne 
Division. 







Clergy, 


Described as 


Sherborne Hundred. 






Beer Hackwood 




Hugh Strode 


Rector 


Bradford Abbas 




John Penney 
Edward Buckler 


Curate 


Do. 




Clerk 


Castleton 




David Foorde 


Minister 


Caundle Bishop 




Hinry Watkens 


Clarck . 


Do. Marsh 




Robert Gannet 


Rector 


Do. Purse 




Nathaniel 
Highmore 


Rector 


Compton Nether 




Thomas Famham Curate 


Do. Over 


rWilliaxn 
Hardy 
Ourate.] 


Roger Abington 


Rector 


Folke 




Abraham Forrester Rector 


Haydon 




Edw. Jacob 


Vicar 


Holnest 




James Munden 
Ben. Walter 


Clarke 


Longburton 




Minister 


Lydlinch 




M.^JMjkh..id^J^.^, 


North Wootton 




David Foord 


Minister 


Obome 




Joseph Squier 
William Lyford 


Vicar 


Sherborne (Town] 


1 


Minister 






(who took a ipeoial 
form of oath, refos- 














Inf the exact termi 








of the Protestation) 








and John Filer 


Minister 



Shireborne LilUngton 1^ ^mef ** °'"""*^* [Minister] 



Somerset &» Dorset Notes S- Queries. 



26l 



Sliorbomc 
Division Thoraford 
Up Cerne 

Do. YSTMIMSTSR HUNDRED. 

Chetnole 
Batcombe 
Leigh 
Melbury Bubb 

Do. Osmond 
Yetminster 
Halstock Liberty. 



Clirgy. 
John Syroonds 
John Stickland 



Discribidas 
Rector 
Minister 



Thomas Sherringe Curate 
John Bishopl^p] Rector 
Thomas Shemnge Curate 
Richard Handleigh Curate 
Jorhn] Larder Rector 
William Bartlett Vicar 



Do. 



Do. 



WilHam Banks ] 
[Banckes] ) 
Rtmb Intrinsica Liberty. 



Halstock 



Minister 



Rjme Intrinsica 



[John Elford] Minister 



Cerne Sub- 
Divition. BUCKLAND HUNDRED 

Buckland and Tythings 

Mappowder 
Plush tithing 

Pulham 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 
Do. 



Thomas Ridout 



[Rydout] 

a - 



Wotton Glanville 

Whiteway Hundred. 
Chesil bourne 

Hilton 

Ibberton 

Melcombe Bingham 
Milton Abbas 
Stoke Wake 

Woolland 



Willm. Clarke 
Thomas Ridout 
Ri.Bragge 

jBragg] 
Tho. Mews ) 

[Mewe] ( 



Vicar 

Clic. Curate 
Vicar 

Curate 
Rector 



William Young[e] Curate 
Johannes Antra* 
Nohn Antram] 
William Stickley 
[Stickly] 
Robert Arnold 

John Talbot 
lenrie Souch 



Vic 

Minister 

Rector 

Vicar 

Rector 



Gualter Crompe ) r-i^ -^ 
[Walter Crom^l^'^"^- 



Minister 



Minister 



Piddlbtrenthide Liberty. 
Minteme Magna Thomas 

Willoughby 

Piddletrenthide ^""""l^^ ] 

Alton Pancras Liberty. 

Alton Pancras Thomas Dowton Minister 

Cerne, Totcombe and Modbury Hundreds. 
Cattistock Willm. Roberts Minister 

Cerne Abbas Henry Lambe Vicar 

Nether Cerne J"'" [B^iSL] } Minister 



262 

Cerne Sab- 
Division. 



Somerset S» Dorset tfotes S» Queries. 



Do. 



Compton Abbas 
Godmanstone 
Stdling Liberty. 
Sydling 



CUrgy. 
Hugh Borland 
[Boyland] 
Francis Mercer 



Discribed MS 
I Rector 



Rector 



[Those who have refused to take the Protestation. 
William Lyford, Minister of Sherborne 
John Dennat, Minister of Okeford Fitzpaine 
John Eastman, Minister of Shroton (Ewerne 
Courtney) ] 

Sturminster Sturicimstbr Nbwton Castle Hundred. 
Division. 

Hinton St. Mary 



Margaret Marsh 
Mamhull 
Okeford Fitzpaine 



Christo. Willan ) Minister 
[Wylland] j [Curate] 
Gyles Fynes Clarke 

John Glisson Rector 
John Dennet Clarke 
(refused) 
SturminsterNewtonCastle Richard Swayne Vicar 

Do. Browmshall Hundred. 

Stalbridge 

Stock Gaylard 

Stourton Caundle 

Do. Redlanb Hundred. 



ch I 
ch]} 



Rector 



Will. Douch 
[Souch 



Buckhorn Weston 
Child Okeford 

East Stower 

Fifehead Magdalen 

Kington Magna 
Manston 

Silton 

SuUon Waldron 

Todbcre 
Iweme Courtnay 

West Stower 



Thomas Chafie Cler. 
j [Gerard Wood] [Dr.in Divinity] 
( [James Wood] [Curate] 

Peter Blanchard Cler. ) 
(Refused) | 

[Edmund Clarke Minister] ) 
J John Baker Vicar 

( Edmond Clarke Cler.[Curate] 

iohn Palmer Minister 

Daniel Curray Pastor 
Matthew Corry 



[Perry] 
Thomas Yearde 

[Yarde] 
Roger Clarke 
Thomas Bolte 

(Refused) 
Edmund Clarke 



Rector 

> Rector 

Rector 
Gierke 

Minister 



Somerset &> Dorset Notes S» Queries. 



263 



Stunninster 
Division. StOW£R PrOVOST LIBERTY. 



CUrgy. 



Described as 



Stower Provost 



Do. 



. 



I Thomas Griffin 
Edward Amye 
[Amy] 



Minister 
I Curate 



Bridport 
Divinon. 



BBAlilMSTBR HUNDRKD. 



Beaminster 

Bradpole 

Chardstock 

Cheddington 

Corscombe 
Mapperton 

Mosterton with South 
Perrott 

North Petherton 

Netherbuiy 

Stoke Abbas 

Wambrook 



[Paul Godwin Dr.of Divinity] 
& Thomas Spratt Clerk [absent J 

I Richard Sweet Vicar 

( Henry Waye 

(._. JWay] 



Cler. 



Sohn Pitt Clarke] 

enry Myntem ) r-u-ir 
[Minteme] ) ^^^"^^ 
Stephen Lockett Rector 

{Hugh Gundery Clarke] 
ohnClement,senr.Cler.[ab8ent] 
[Robert Bowden Clerk] 
JohnClement.junr. Cler. 
Robert Bowden [Rector absent] 
( Richard Hooper Minister 
\ Paul 5 Godwjm Dr.of Divinity 

Guil. Gollop Clic. 

jGamalielDfchascR^^^^ 



Do. Broadwimsor Liberty. 



Broadwinsor 



Cler. 



r Thomas Fuller ) 

( Henery Sanders j 

Poorstock Hundred (Liberty ?) 

Poorstock John Tucker Curate 



Do. Frampton Liberty. 

Bettiscombe 
Bincombe 
Burton (Bradstock) 
Compton Vallence 
Frampton (Parish) 

(Winterboume) Came 



Edmond Gifford Parson 
Robert Cham ber[s] Minister 
Nicholas Ridgway Rector 
Edw. Pole [Peale] Minister. 
William Clifford Viccar 
Nathanael [iell] 
Frencham 



Rector 



Do. LOTHERS AND BOTHENHAMPTON LIBERTY. 



Loders 
Bothenhampton 



Geo* Reeves 

[Reives] 
Robt. Buckland 



I Vicar 
Cler. 



264 Sotmrset &* Dorut Notes &» Qtums, 

Bridport ClergV' Dtscribtd as 

Division. WHITCHURCH CaNONICORUM HUNDRED. 

Burstock ^'""Ss]! Vicar[ab8ent] 

Charmouth SamuelNorrington Rector 

Chideock William Hodder Curate 

FBanton] fRobert Buckland Clerk! 

Marshwood SamuelLockett,[junr.] Minister 

Pilsdon Thomas Crosse Rector 

Stockland Judgen [Gideon] Viccar 

Skinner 
Synaondsbury Richard Squibb Curate 

Whitchurch Canonicorum Samuel Lockett Vicar 

Wootton Fitzpaine ^Cookf^ '"'''"•' ^^^^^ 

Do. GODDBRTHORNB HUNDRED. 

AUington [Peter Studligh Clerk] 

sBpu.. G«,„. i fef „S?r 'c?i^ 

Walditch Robert Buckland Cleric. 

Do. Egoerton Hundred. 

Askerswell ^^Xl"] 1 ^'"'^^ 

Hooke teJIrdS"' Clerke 

Lo„gbredy& Kingston fejijf'^^^^ Parso 

Winterbome Abbas [Gilbert Ironside Clerk] 

Wroxall Henrie Watkins Rector 

{To he ccn/mtud.) 

215. Vicars of Winsford, Somerset.— A list of the 
Vicars of Winsford since 1663/4 is interesting. In that year 
Joseph Chadwick» vicar, was deprived for refusing to subscribe to 
the Book of Common Prayer and in 
16^ March 30, Robert Farthing was presented by the Bishop. 

He was buried in Winsford Church or yard on June 2nd, 

1714, having been vicar 50 years. 
1*1^ iVc. to, Joseph Gaylard, M.A., Fellow of Emmanuel 

C<>ittefe« was presented by the Master and Fellows of that 

%t%t ^^^l«>Htlri Btntham, B.D., Fellow of Emmanuel. 
^>. %'ahant Lajrcon, B.D., Fellow of Emmanuel. 
.si:» ^ooHi^SLdt^ B^D^ Fellow of Emmanuel. 

r%i^ viov w«s non-resident and there is no evidence 
:<U4 h^ Q«^ wrvtd in the Church. He kept Curates, 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 265 

John Tidboald who died in 1795, and Thomas Bealy 
who was here till the death of Mr. Slade. 

Collinson, iii, 555, gives the name of the Rev. James 
Slade as Vicar of Winsford. The only mention of his 
name in the Parish Books is in the Churchwardens' Account- 
Book in 1 819. when this entry occurs. "Postage of the 
Licence of the Rev. Mr. Slade, vicar non-resident, to 
Wells, 6d." This was the Bishop's licence granting him 
leave of absence through ill health. 
1825. Bennet Michell, B.D., Fellow of Emmanuel. 

1857. William Paley Anderson, B.D., Fellow and Tutor of 
Emmanuel, Prebendary of Wells. 

During a period of 231 years there have been seven vicars 
with an average of 33 years. 

W. DiCKBR. 

216. Singing Game.— (I. v. 194, vi. 255. 256, IV. xxvi. 41 .) — 
Tennyson has told us whitherward the youthful fancy turns in the 
springtime. Accordingly I have just witnessed, the morning 
being beautifully springlike, a game, an account of which might 
well be added to the collection preserved in the pages of 
S. 6f D. N. df Q. 

A child is placed inside a ring of playmates who go round 
singing 

Isabella, Isabella, Isabella so fair, 
Last night when I departed 
I left her broken-hearted. 
On the mountains (^/>) 
I left the fair girl. 

Take a choose, {sic) love, 

Xfer) Farewell. 

She chooses, and the pair walk off together out of the ring, 
to the strains of 

Go for a walk, love, 

{/er) Farewell. 

They return when bidden by the words 

Come back, love, 

(/^r) Farewell. 

but start again to the accompaniment of 

Go to church, love, 

{/er) Farewell. 

Say your prayers, love, 
{/er) Farewell. 



266 Somerset S^ Dorset Notes S* Queries. 

On the return of the supposed matrimonialists, the bride is 
summoned to 

Show your ring, love, 
{Ur) Farewell. 

and raises her finger, while her partner is directed to 

Take a kiss, love, 

iter) Farewell. 

They salute each other. The one last chosen stays in the 
ring, the other joins the circle, and the game begins again, 

Charlbs £. Seaman. 
Mar. 5, 1895, Stalbridge. 

217. Colonel Bullbn Retmes, M.P. for'^ Melcombb 
Regis. — Mr. Troyte-Chafyn-Grove has kindly placed in our hands 
a collection of papers and deeds relating to Dorset, and in par- 
ticular to Gerard's Waddon in the parish of Portesham. From 
these the following memoirs have been compiled relating to a 
Dorsetshire worthy who became the possessor of Waddon in the 
17th century — Col. Bullen Reymes. A few additions have been 
made from the Calendars of State Papers and other sources, which 
will be noted as they occur, but the great bulk of the material is 
from Mr. Chafyn-Grove's collection. The whole is interesting, 
as showing, from the original documents, the troubles in the life 
of a country gentleman during the period of the Interregnum. 

C. H. Mayo. 

Thomas Gerard of Trent, in the County of Somerset, Esq., 
had issue by his wife Anne, daughter of Robert Coker of Map- 
powder, Dorset, a son William, buried at Trent,* 23rd April, 
1 628, and five daughters, viz.. Amy, who died unmarried and under 
age, and was buried at Mappowder, 9th October, 1637, 
and four others who became the co-heiresses of their father. 
These were Elizabeth, the eldest, married to Bullen Reymes, Ann 
married to Francis Wyndham of Awler, Somerset, Etheldread 
married to Edward Hyde of Westhatch, Wilts, and Frances the 
wife of John Wynter of Dyrham in Gloucestershire. 

Bullen Reymes, the younger, as he is termed in an indenture 
of settlement of 2nd Aug., 18 Chas. I. (1642) was of St. Martin's- 
in-the-Fields, Westminster, the son of Bullen Reymes, the elder, 
of the same parish, who was styled of Hartford, Sussex, when 
administration was granted to his widow, Mary, 17 June, 1652. 
(BT0V9n*s Somerset Wills.lY. 125.) 

He had a brother William Reymes, also of St. Martin's parish, 
to whom he was bound in ;^8o, 13 Nov., 1654, and two sisters, 
Mary, wife of John Wheatly of Weymouth, and Constance, the 
wife of George Pley the elder, both ,of whom are mentioned in 
his will. 

•From the Trent Register, kindly extracted by Rev. C. R. Tale, Rector. 



Somerset <^ Dorset tfotes S* Queries. 267 

There is nothing at hand that throws light upon the circum- 
stances of his early life, * but he himself tells us that he was a 
gentleman of the King*s Privy Chamber, and waited on him at 
Oxford, till the king commanded him to the West. He then 
received a commission as Captain of a Company of 100 Foot from 
Prince Maurice, dated at Dorchester, loth Aug., 1643, and in the 
following terms : — 

"Prince Maurice, Court Palatine of ye Rhyne Duke of 
Bavaria, &c.. To Bullen Reymes, Esq : Greeting. 

By vertue of the power and authority given mee by our 
Sou'aigne Lord King Charles vnder the greate Seele of England 
&c. Thbisb are to signifie that I doe constitute and ordayne 
you Captayne of a Company consisting of 100 Foote Willing 
and requireing you & hereby giveing you full power & 
authority in his Mats, name and for his Mats, service to impresse 
rayse enroll and retayne your sayd Company wheresoever you 
shall bee able wthin the Kingdome of England and Dominion of 
Wales whoe will willingly and voluntarily serve his Mats, for such 
Wages and entertayment by the moneth, weeke or day or a longer 
or shorter tyme as you on his Mats, behalfe & they shall agree. 
And whatsoever you shall doe herein for & on his Mats, 
behalfe I doe promise & vndertake to allow of & pforme 
And further I doe give vnto you full power & authority as 
Capt : your Company to Command, arme, discipline trayne & 
order in warlike manner, Willing and commanding all inferior 
officers & souldiers (wch by vertue hereof you shall retayne, you 
to obey readilie to receive & accomplish your Direccons, Com- 
mands & Summons in all things here vnto app'tayning, as alsoe 
all Maiors, Sheirrifes, Justices of the peace, Comisconrs of array 
& all other his Mats. Officers & loveing subiects to bee ayding 
and assisting to you herein,^and you your selfe to observe & 
follow such orders and direccons as from tyme to tyme you shall 
receive from mee & other yor superior officers, and in all 
thinges to acquitt your selfe as Capt : to a foote company doth 
belong according to the discipline of Warre Ratifying and 
allowing you from the date hereof the full pay & advancemt 
due by establishmt. Wittnesse my hand & Seale att Armes, 
Given att Dorchester this loth Day of August, Anno 1643. 

MAURICE. 

It does not appear on what day he was promoted to the 
Colonelcy, but he had attained that rank not long after, as shown 
by the following document : — 

" William Guy off ffiffed. 

Whereas you haue entered yor selfe A souldier in the King's 
servis, vnder my Command, & haue receaued impres mony to 

• William Coker conveyed to him the Manor of W. Chelborough, A.D. 
1635 (Hutchins, 3rd edit., II., p. 638.) 



268 Somerset <S* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

that purpose, This is to require you to repayre to yor Cullors att 
Ma3rpowder on Saterday next being the 21th October 1645 ^ you 
will answer the Contrary att yorperrill giuen vnder my hand this 
17th present. 

Bullen Reymes, Collonell." 

The following are some of the directions received by Col. 
Reymes at this time : — 
*• For Co. Reymes. 
You are to bee with your Regiment to morrow momeing an 
houre before day on Compton Hill. Hereof you are not to faile. 
Dated this 12th 

of December J . Wagstaffe." 

1643 

" For Collonell Reams. 

Sr, To morrow being Munday you are to bee wth yr Regimt 
att Compton Hill by eight of the Clocke in the momeing with 
Bage and Bagage there you shall receiue further order whereof 
you are not to faile. 
Wedy ye 24th. J. Wagstaffe." 

" Sr, 

You are required vpon receipt hereof to give comaund to 
eu'y Capt. of your Regiment to drawe his whole Company into 
Armes. And you your selfe in your owne p'son to view all the 
Armes in your Regimt and to take especiall Care that the vnfizt 
Armes be ffizt with all possible speede, and that noe Muskett 
want a scowring stick And that every Soldiar haue allwayes in 
garrison 12 bulletts att his bandeleeres ffitted to the boare of his 
peece. And that hee Never Charge his peece when hee hath 
leasure without putting a Tampking after the Powder and another 
after the buUett, and that heere you give me a speedy accoumpt. 
Hereof you are nott to ffayle as you will aunsweare the Contrary 
att the vtmost p'ills of your honor and reputacon. Given vnder 
my hand th 27th daye of Decemb, 1643. Thomas Bassett. 

To Colonell Rymes or his Chieffe officers these." 

The City and Castle of Exeter had capitulated to Prince 
Maurice on 4th Sept., 1 643, by Articles agreed upon, Sept. 5th, 
between Sr Richard Caue, Knt., and Col. Joseph Banfield on 
behalf of the Prince, and the Rt. Hon. Henry Earl of Stanford 
and the Mayor, on behalf of himself and the Bailiff and Com- 
monalty of the City. The actual evacuation took place on 
Thursday, Sept. 7th, at 9 a.m. Thenceforward Exeter was held for 
the King, and Reymes, as his petition shows, was in the city 
from soon after this date until its surrender to Sir Thos. Fairfax, 
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Somerset 6* Dorset Notts 6* Queries. 269 

On the day last named Col. Reyroes received from Fairfax his 
pass to London. 

*• Su£fer Coll. Reames who was in the City of Exeter and is 
to haue the benefitt of the Articles agreed uppon the Surrender 
thereof with his two Seruants and Horsses and necessaryes, 
quietly and peaceably without any interrupcon or molestacon to 
passe to London, there to Compound with the Parliamt for their 
estates according to the said Articles, and to enioy their goods, 
debts, & moveables, accordinge to ye Treatys dureing the space 
of fifower Moneths, after the Ninth of Aprill instant, & to dis- 
pose thereof accordinge to the said Articles. Giuen under my 
hand and seale the 13th of Aprill 1646. 

Fairfax. 
To all Ofl&cers & Souldyers 
under my Comand, & to all 
others whome these may 
Conceme." 

On the 29th of June he presented this short petition to the 
Committee for Compounding at Goldsmiths' Hall. 

" Humb. Sheweth 

That yr Pet. being a swome Seruant to his Majy, was by 
him commanded into the West, where he bore armes in his seruis, 
and was in Exeter at the late rendring thereof to Sr. T : fif." 

** June the 29th 1646 

I gave it in & subscribed it." ♦ 

The draft of a longer petition enters moie into particulars. 

"TothehoWe ye Committee for Compositions wth delin- 
quents, The humble petition of B. R. [ ' junior * erased] 
Humbly sheweth 

That yr petitioner being a sworne seruant to his Maty in the 
place of gent, of his priue chamber, [' did according to his duty 
wayte* erased] and being ['commanded' erased] warned to 
wayte on him at Oxford, did so, till his Maj^ commande him 
into the West with the Marqs of Harford, where according to his 
former profession of a souldier he toke vp armes, and there con- 
tinued till with in this yeare & halfe, at which time yor peti- 
tioner reformed himselfe, and euer since remayned quietly In 
Exeter, but in all this time was neuer violent in the prosecuting 
the person of any man, or did euer take the goods of any man 
directly or indirectly to the vallew of a farding. May it there- 
fore please yor honours to admitt him to compownd. 

And he shall pray." 

In addition to these petitions the following letter was 

• From the •* Calendar of Proceedings of Committee for Compomiding," 
p. 1368, it appears that Bnllen Reynes, of Maypowder, Dorset, on 27 Tune. 
1646, compounds on Exeter Articles for delinquency; 1 6th July, Fine ^loo; 
22nd July, allowed to go into the country for three weeks to raise it. 



lyo Somerset <5- Dorset Notis <5- Queries. 

addressed by the Dorset Committee to the Committee at Gold- 
smiths* Hall : — 
•• Right Hoble. 

At the request of Coll : Reymes, we doe hmnbly Certify that 
the sayd Coll : Reymes was by vs sequestered for taking vp armes 
against the Parlemet as a Coll : yet notwithstanding he hath not 
Comitted any violent act against vs, or any person in this 
Countye, nor borne armes since the sedge of Taunton, for ought 
wee know or haue heard, but did, and hath ben always reddy to 
protect well affected persons from the violence and rappen of the 
souldier, when that partie did preuaile, and likewise hath payd 
the 20th and 5th p>arte of his estate, and therefore in regarde his 
estate came by his wife, who hath a greate Charge, we humbly 
recomend him to yor loships favor and rest 

Yor loships seruants 
A perticuler of his IP^^ Brodrip Rich : Burie 

estate wee send Kob : Coker John Arthur 

here inclosed John ffry John Whitway." 

A rough draft of this letter contains the words, after the 
name of Col. Reymes, " who hath taken the negative oath before 
vs" — words which are omitted in the fair copy. 

His application was favourably received, and the Committee 
made the following order : — 

'' Goldsmith Hall Att the Comittee for 

London Compounding wth Delinquents 

14th Septemb'r 1646. 

Whereas by an order of the Honoble Howse of Comons in 

Parliamt assembled of the 23rd of February 1645 This Comittee 

are authorized & enabled to suspend the Sequestracons of such 

Delinquents as shall compound wth I he said Comittee they 

haveing paid the moiety of such fyne and given securitie for 

ihother moiety and to stand to such composicons as shalbee 

allowed of or sett by the said howse of Coinons. Theis are to 

certifie all whome it may conceme that Bullen Reymes of 

Mapowder in the County of Dorst Esqr hath accordingly 

appeared to this Comittee & submitted to the fyne imposed on 

him in manner as by the said Order is directed, & paid & 

secured the same; And hereof all Comittees Sequestrators 

Collectors & other officers are to take notice & vppon sight 

ttiereof to^conforme therevnto & forbeare to prceed vppon the 

Seqnestracon to the preiudice of the Estate reall and psonall of 

the said BuUen Reymes Compounded for according to a pticuler 

thereof delivi'ed vndcr his hand a coppie whereof is herewth sent 

yo\i;^Vn\esse there shalbee any further estate discovered not 

mencotied in the said pticular : And if the said estate or any pte 

V\\eteof bee \ttt out m Lease by the Comittee of the County the 



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Compounder shall dureing thatyeare for^ch his estate is Leased 
out, receive the rent for wch the said Comittee have sett it forth ; 
Provided allwayes that the said Bullen Reymes doe sue forth a 
Pardon vnder the great seele within six weekes after his Com- 
posicon shalbee allowed of by both howses of Parliamt. 

To the Comittee of Antho : Irby 

Parliamt for the Willm Thompson 

Countys of Dors't & Michaell Herring 

Som'st & all others Jno. Oldfield 

whome it may conceme Jerom Alexander." 

The particulars of Col. Reymes' estate were as follow: — 

** A pticuler of thestate of Bullen Reymes of Mawpowder in 
the County of Dorset £sqr., Compounded for, remayning vppon 
record at Goldsmith Hall London. 

Hee is seized of an Estate for the terme of his owne life in 
right of his wife as Tennant by the Curtesie, of & in the 
fowerth pte of the Capitall messuage & the demeasne of 
Broadway Farme in the County of Dorset of the yearly value 
before theis troubles of Thirty five pounds. 

Hee is seized of a like estate as Tennant by the Curtesie of 
& in the fowerth pte of certaine old rents or rents of Assize 
ariseing and yssueing out of thaforesaid Mannor of Broadway 
& of Waddon in the said County amounting to Two pounds 
Fifteene shillings. 

Hee is seized of a like estate as Tennant by the Curtesey of 
& in the Fowerth pte of the Farme of Waddon in the County 
of Dorset aforesaid of the yearly value before theis troubles of 
Forty pounds. 

He is seized of a like estate as Tennant by the Curtesey of & 
in the fowerth pte of the demeasne of Trent in the County of 
Som'set of the yearely value before theis troubles of Twenty 
pounds. 

He is seized of a like estate of & in the fowerth pte of 
certaine old rents or rents of Assize yssueing out of the said 
Mannor of Trent amounting to yearely Twelve shillings sixpence." 

(To be Continued.) 

ai8. Mock Dial. — The following cutting is from the 
Birmingham Weekly Mercury of March 9th, 1895. **An old 
Somersetshire inn has a mock dial whose inscription often puzzles 
strangers : — 

* The hour is shown on other dials, but when the sun doth 

shine 
They have a style projecting whose shadow casts a line; 
But always, whether sun doth shine or whether clouds do 

lower, 
One of my hands will never fail to point to the true hour.' 



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The fact is that there are four hands, each having three 
hours opposite to it, so that there is always one pointing to the 
right hour." 

Where is the inn referred to ? 

W. Macmillan. 

azg. Chapman Family.— I am anxious to know about this 
family. The following particulars are taken from old papers. 

** John Chapman of Puddletown, Dorset, left a son, Walter 
Chapman, (b. 1676, d. 1751), who married Eliza, daughter of 
Walter South. By her Walter Chapman had 5 sons, viz., John, 
d.s.p., Thomas, d.s.p., William, d.s.p., George who married Sarah 

, Walter d.s.p., and 4 daughters, Eliza, Mary who married — 

Yorke and died s.p., Mrs. Spicer d.s.p., and Mrs. Knight." 

Mrs. Knight is said to have left 2 children, Francis Knight, 
physician to George III, and a daughter Mrs. Coates. 

George Chapman by his wife Sarah had 3 children, viz., 
George d.s.p., Elizabeth, and Mary. Mrs. Sarah Chapman was 
buried in the Parish of S. Mary le Strand, co. Middlesex. 
Elizabeth, the daughter, was married at S. Mary Magdalen, Old 
Fish Street, London, 31 March, 1785, to Roger Longden, of 
Doctor's Commons, only son of Robert Longden by his wife 
Lucy Crawley of Flaxley Abbey, co. Gloucester. {Gentleman^ s 
Mag.y vol. 55, part i, page 323.) In the pedigree at the Heralds* 
College, however, Elizabeth, who was born in the parish of 
S.Bartholomew, Smithfield, 5 June, 1755, is said to have been 
married at S. Gregory's. Mary Chapman, the other daughter of 
George and Sarah, married Thomas Raymond, who assumed the 
name of Symons, and whose family still, I believe, live at the 
M3mdc, in Herefordshire. 

George and Sarah Chapman had the entree at Court, where 
he is said to have had some office. They were always invited on 
great occasions, and Queen Charlotte often spoke to Mrs. Chap- 
man, so says tradition. 

Hbnry Isham Longden, M.A., 

aao. Crane Family. (IV. xxviii. 132, xxix. 172). — Mary, 
one of the six daughters of Sir Thomas Tresham (died c. 1636) 
of Newton, near Geddington, Northants, married John Crane, of 
of Loughton, Bucks, Clerk of the Kitchen to King Tames ( Visit, of 
Norihanis, 1 618-19, page 146). I should like to know more of 
him. There are no less than 16 Crane wills at Northampton, see 
Northamptonshire and Rutland Wills^ 1510-1652, published by 
the British Record Society. 

Henry Isham Longden, M.A. 

221. Hammet and Duncombe. — Any proof of relationship 
between Sir Benjm. Hammet of Taunton, and John Duncombe 
(1763- 1 831}, supposed a Taunton man, will oblige C.H. 



SomifSii S* Dorsit Notes *• Quiries. 273 

aaa. Black Dog of Langport. — In a very charming 
Somerset Idyl, by Mr. Walter Raymond, entitled Tryphena in 
Love^ which has just been issued by the Aldine Ptiss, a wassail 
song occurs, of which the first verse is as follows : 

*' The black dog o'Langport haTe a-bumed off his tail, 
And this is the night of oar jolly Wassail, 

Vor *tes our Wassail, 

An' *tes your Wassail 
And joy be you, Tor 'tes oar Wassail." 

What is the allusion in the first line ? Is the " Black Dog 
o'Langport *^ the devil ? And does it mean that at Christmas, 
when this song is sung, the season of goodwill bums off the tail 
of malice, hatred and all uncharitableness ? Perhaps some local 
antiquary can throw light on this. 

223, Sir George Summers. (I. viii. 555, IV. xxviii. 
150). — Sir George Summers appears to have left a widow who 
remarried the year after his death. The Register of Whitechurch 
Canonicorum,J^orset, records the marriage of William Raymond, 
Esq., and Doiha Sumers, Julie 29th, 161 2. 

^ Other Summers entries in the same Register are Alexander 
Somar and Anne Huddy (Hody) married 28 Nov., 1570, and the 
baptisms of their children, Mary 29 Sept., 1574, Elizabeth 28 
May, 1578, William 24 May, 1581, and probably John Somar, 
baptised 26 May, 1572 (parentage not given). Also Henry 
Ouslye alias Grange and An Somar married 29 Nov., 1588, and 
John Larcombe and Elizabeth Summers married 29 January, 
1 6 X 7, I did not make a note of any burials of this name save that 
of Sir George Somers. 

Matthew Summers, nephew of Sir George, died 3 1 August, 
1626, possessed of lands at Upwey and at Whitchurch Canoni- 
corum {Ing. p. fn., Dorset /Records, p. 18.) 

R. G. Bartlbtt. 

aa4. Metrical School Grace (IV. xxix. 186.)— The 
lines *' Be present, &c.," are not peculiar to Somerset : they are 
in common use at School and Temperance Tea Meetings ; but, 
perhaps, chiefly among the Nonconformists. They are said to be 
by "Rev. John Cennick, 1717-1755"; of whom I know nothing 
more. Theodore Compton. 

225, This Grace is by no means confined to Somerset. It 
was largely used in the Midland Counties 40 years ago, and is 
probably sung at Tea Meetings wherever the English language is 
spoken. The authorship is attributed to John Cennick, and the 
word ereaiures in the 3rd line is frequently rendered mercies. 

W. Macmillan. 



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ti& DoitSBT Christmas Carols (III. xviii. 67, xiv. 118, 
M. 141, xad. 104. xxii. 255, xxiii. 228, IV. xxvi. 52, xxvii. 81, 
xxviii* 146.) — ^The following carol is also in use at Long Burton. 

BEHOLD 1 THE GRACE APPEARS. 
TftiUwuU. (Copyright.) Harmonized by E. Howorth. 




TfrTVT^ 



Ma • ry, the won - dfous vir - gin,bcan, And Je sus is the 




y^iUl : )ib • ty, the won -drooa vir - gin,bear8^dje ■ sus is the 



W H i\r^i^ i 




V \^ v*^ V ^ wi^ and Je - 



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II. 

To bring the glorious news 

A heavenly Form appears ; 
He tells the shepherds of their joys 

And banishes their fears. 

III. 

Go, humble swains, said he 

To David's city hie ; 
The promised Infant, bom to-day, 

Doth in a manger lie. 

227. Secret Passages in Old Buildings. (IV. xxix. 
189,) — I would refer your correspondent to ** The Governor's 
Guide to Windsor Castle^' by the Marquess of Lome, K.T., 
Cassell & Co., in which occurs "the passages are dug from below 
the basement of the older portions in both of the great Wards and 
cut through the chalk ; arched ways penetrate deep below where the 
dry ditch existed at the foot of the walls. They have not been 
touched, and probably have seldom been used, since they were 
first hewn in the natural soft white rubble of this raised ocean 
bed . • • • Through lines of dark flints bedded in the raised up 
deposits of the prehistoric sea the soldier-craftsmen dug, preparing 
these passages as means whereby escape could be made, or the 
outer ditch's wall be manned by reinforcements from the garrison 
without the knowledge of those outside, whether friend or foe. 
Where are these passages, and where do they lead ? That is a 
State secret. Suffice it to say that they would still form very 
useful depositories for mines, were any foe to seek to rush the 
old ramparts." 

I tsJte this from a review of the book in the Daily Graphic of 
April 15,1895. W.C. 

aa8, Mr. Langhome will doubtless find something to his 
purpose in the Berkshire County History, or perhaps better in 
any good and full description of Windsor Castle. Many years 
ago I was in an underground passage to the North side of that 
building. I entered it from the • Slopes,' the very charming 
wooded hillside seen from the G.W. Railway. As for as I can 
remember the passage is about 7 ft. high and 4 or 5 wide. It is 
worked in the chalk rock, and has no masonry lining. I 
cannot recollect whether or not there is now a practicable 
entrance from it into the Castle. But I understood that anti- 
quaries were quite of opinion that the tunnel was for that 
purpose originally. H. J. Moulb, Dorchester. 

2ag. John Hbyron of Langport. — Some valuable 
references to the family of the above named individual were made 
in the Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural 



^76 Somerset S» Dorset Notes £• Queries. 

History Society for 1894 (Vol. XL. ii. 70.), by the Somerset Editor 
of *S. S» D.N, &» Q., but little or no light could then be thrown 
on his personality; the following note may therefore prove 
interesting : — 

In the Act of Conviction and Attainder of the Duke of 
Buckingham (i Ric. III.) *' Giles Dawbeney late of Barrington, 
Knight," and "John Heyron late of Longport, gentleman," 
were attainted. 

In the Act of Restitution, (x Henry VII.) "Giles Dawbeny 
late of Barrington, Knt." and John Heyron late of Long Porte, 
Gentn." were restored. 

The former, according to Lord Bacon (life of Henry VII), 
was created Lord Dawbeny at the sitting of Henry's first Par- 
liament. Of the latter we hear no more ; but from the company 
he kept and the tenor of his will, given in the Proceedings 
alluded to, we may assume that he was a man of large substance 
and considerable influence in the county of Somerset at the 
close of the isth century. 

The above information was afforded in a note I received a 
number of years ago from my friend Mr. Chisholm Batten, who 
I trust will forgive me for having forgotten all about it till 
chance threw it in my way a day or two ago. It may be added 
that in Harl. MS. 6166, fo. 10 1, John Heyron's name appears in 
the list of " Lords, Knights, Esquires and Gentlemen, within the 
county of Somerset," resident in the time of Henry VII. 

Hugh Norris. 

330. Oliver Cromwell ifjo. — ^Any clue to the ancestors 
of Oliver Cromwell buried at Bath, 1770, and junction with 
Cromwell of Beckington, Somerset, 1841, will oblige 

C.H. 

231, The Wimbornb Minster Helms. (IV. xxviii. 
142). — Probably W.M.B. knows that the Helme of Sir John 
Jeffery, Knt., who died 161 1, hangs above his tomb in the church 
at Whitechurch Canonicorum, Dorset. R.G.B. 

232. PouNSETT Family (IV. xxviii. 129, xxix. 164.) — 

1. Ralph de Punsont (A.D. 1219) Somerset Record Society^ vi. 40. 

2. Thomas Ponset (A.D. 1631) occurs in a list of Commoners 

who paid to the Morewardens of Cheddar various sums for 
their absence at common work. He paid fourpence. 

3. In a Terrier of houses, orchards, &c., belonging to the 

Vicarage of Cheddar taken by the view of Frances 
Arundell, vicar, the Churchwardens and their Assistants, 
and presented by them i Sept., 161 5, at Archbishop Abbot's 
Visitation, I find " Widow Ponsard an orchard and garden ; 
Robert Ponsard, ditto:' 

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333. WoRLB NoTBS (IV. xxix. 1 67.)— The reasonableness 
of the belief that water in the act of freezing warms to some 
extent the atmosphere of a room when below the freezing point 
in temperature can, I think, be justified by appeal to modern 
science ; as probably could many beliefs which are commonly 
regarded as errors of a prescientific age. I suppose, of course, 
that the room is closed, so as to prevent the entrance of the cold 
outer air. Then the introduction of a vessel of fluid water, has 
at once a certain though necessarily small effect on the tempera- 
ture. But when the freezing of the water commences, which it 
does on arriving at $2^¥, or o^^C, the process is gradual, in 
consequence of the ia/en/ heai of fluidity having first to be 
abstracted; and this of course passes to the air, raising its 
temperature possibly to a point above that which would be 
necessary to freeze the fluids in the vegetable tissues. These 
being solutions of a certain density would require for freezing 
a temperature somewhat lower than 32©?. The exact course 
followed is given thus by a work of authority (Watts' Did. of 
Chemistry.) ** The quantity of heat absorbed or liberated in the 
melting of ice or freezing of water is sufficient to raise the 
temperature of an equal weight of water to the extent of 79.2 ^'C. ; 
so that when ilb. of ice at o^C. is mixed with ilb. of water at 
79.2^C., the ice is melted and the whole of the water has a 
temperature of o^C." 

T.B.G. 

234. Barbor of Barnstaple (IV. xxix. 191.) — In the 
will of my great-great-great-grandfather, Thomas Langdon, clerk, 
made in 1722, William Barbor, of Barnstaple, gent., son of 
William Barbor late of Lary (? Leary) in the co. of Devon, Doctor 
of Pbysick, deceased, is appointed as one of the trustees of his 
son Thomas. Lary or Leary is, I believe, near Swimbridge in 
North Devon. 

F. E. W. Langdon. 

235. Hugh Ivy, Rector of Foxcot, Somerset.— It may 
be well to place on record that this person, who according to 
Weaver's Somerset Incumbents was instituted to Foxcot, 1 6th Jany, 
1668, was buried at Poulshot near Devizes, Wilts, 8th Nov., 1696, 
as •* Mr. Hugh Ivy, Rector of Foxcot, in Somersetshire." 

C.H.M. 

236. Francis Barnes, Rector of South Cadbury. — 
"Monday, was found dead on the road between Castle Carey and 
his own house, the Rev. Francis Barnes, Rector of South Cad- 
bury, in Somersetshire, and late of Eastham, in Worcestershire." 
(From Aris's Birmingham Gazette^ April 20, 1795.) 

W. Macmillan. 



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at Wells, and in 1494 he exchanged the benefice of Axbridge for 
the stall of Cudworth; in the next year (February 28, 1494-5) 
occurs the first mention of him in the Wells Chapter Acts as 
Canon- Residentiary ; on the nth July in that year "leave is 
given to him to reside for a year in the Hospital of St. John-the- 
Baptist in Wells from next Michaelmas under the usual statuable 
conditions," in the same year we find him one of the four 
Audiiores and one of the two Cusiodes Librariae of the Cathedral. 
The same Chapter Acts note a most interesting fact ; for they 
record that on May 26, 1500, Thomas Cornish, being then 
Chancellor of the Cathedral, received leave of the Chapter to 
bury his body, " luxta ostium introitus ad domum capitularem ad 
boriale coram altari sancte crucis infra ecclesiam et ad preparan- 
dum locum sepulture sue ibidem quando sibi placuerit." Here, 
then, thirteen years before his death, the Bishop arranged to be 
buried at the foot of the Chapter-house steps, and there his 
monument stands to day in fine preservation. 

This beautiful work of art is also referred to in his will ; 
the ground had been secured, but the tomb was apparently not 
begun, for, after leaving his body to be buried in the Cathedral 
Church near the entrance-door to the Chapter-house next the 
wall, he bids his executors make and ordain his sepulchre with 
an arch of free-stone, with a representation of the Resurrection 
" in urna " either on the north side, or between the altar of the 
Holy Cross and that of St. David. The altars have disappeared, 
but there is still to be seen a beautiful, though sadly muti- 
lated, sculpture of our Lord rising from the grave and a 
figure kneeling before Him. All visitors to Wells Cathedral 
should look out for this tomb, with its delicate canopy and figures. 

Running round the border of the tomb is the following 
inscription, finely cut in Old English characters : — 

OBIIT SUPRADICTUS DNS THOMAS TINENSIS 
EPUS TBRCIO DIB MENSIS JULII 
ANNO M° CCCCC XIIJ CUIUS ANIME 

p[ropicietur deus a] M E N. 

The letters enclosed in square brackets have perished ; the 
space occupied shows that these two words were contracted in 
form. The word supradicius refers to a brass which was let into 
the wall over the centre of the tomb. It has now been torn away, 
but the outline reveals the Bishop (wearing a mitre) in what 
seems to be a kneeling position. Issuing from his mouth is a 
scroll, and this is connected with an oblong tablet which 
contained a legend or inscription. 

On the front of the tomb are three shields. The first bears 
an Old English 7* encircling a garb or sheaf of corn, the third a 
C encircling a similar garb, while on the centre shield is 
engraved this coat — ** On a chevron, between three Cornish 
choughs* heads erased, a mitre." 



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It will be noticed that the tomb does not extend to the wall, 
bat there is a curious walled-up recess between the end of the 
tomb and the wall on the right hand side. This recess is called 
uma in the will, and it is difficult to say exactly what its use was. 

The mutilated figure of our Lord rising from the grave and 
another figure kneeling to him are still to be found (as mentioned 
above) on the outside of this recess, and under the canopy of the 
tomb. 

The Rev. H. J. Poole kindly presented us with the photo- 
graph from which the engraving was made. 

F. W. Weaver. 

242. Wells Palace. — Goad Words for June, 1895, contains 
a very interesting article on the Palace at Wells by the Rev. 
Canon Church, F.S.A., with illustrations by Alexander Ansted. 
Mr. Church gives an outline of the history of this unique building, 
with a short account of each of its four chief builders, " Jocelin 
of Wells and Robert of Acton Bumell in the thirteenth century, 
Ralph of Shrewsbury in the fourteenth and Thomas of Bekynton 
in the fifteenth centuries." 

The illustrations include The Ruined Hall, Interior of Chapel, 
Staircase, North Side and Moat, Main Front, Renaissance 
Panelling in the Servants' Hall, Virgin Tower, Chair of the Last 
Abbot of Glastonbury, and The Gatehouse. 

All collectors of Somerset Books shouldadd a copy of this 
number of Good Words to their store. 

2. 

243. Head Masters of Sherborne School. (IV. xxix. 
165.) — Since the last issue of S, 6f D, N. & Q,I have discovered 
a Head Master of this School earlier than Myddelton. In look- 
ing at the School account for the year 1554 the other day, I came 
upon a note added at the back of it where the Master's name for 
that year is given as Mr. Coke. He was, I imagine, Thomas 
Coke, M.A. 1545, Fellow of Queen's Coll., Oxon. Myddelton's 
Christian name was, I fancy, Francis who was a Fellow of 
Magdalen Coll., Oxon. 

W. B. WiLDMAN. 

244. Sherborne School. (I. iii. 122, IV. xxix. 165.)— I 
have now found the draft of the statutes, which Dr. Gilbert 
Ironside, Bishop of Bristol, drew up for Sherborne School, and 
which the Governors " refuse to receive, because they think those 
orders to entrench on their prerogatives." These proposed 
statutes differ little in reality from those which the Governors in 
the end received from Dr. William Gulston, Bishop of Bristol, in 
the year 1679. The school prayer, to which I allude in IV. xxix. 
165, as probably the composition of Dr. Gulston, occurs in the 
draft of Dr. Gilbert Ironside; it was therefore not Dr. Gulston's 
composition and may have been Dr. Ironside's. 

W. B. WiLDMAN. 



Somersit £• Dorut Notes 6* Queries. 281 

245. Churchwardens* Accounts, St. John's Glaston- 
bury (IV. xxvi. 73, xxvii. 121, xxviii. 160, xxix. toi). — A frajf- 
ment written on three skins in a large hand appears to date some- 
where about this time, perhaps rather before the last printed im- 
perfect compotus. It may be placed about 1470, as the following 
names, found on pp, 235, 236, reappear here : William Vayle, 
Nicholas Coke, William Huchyns, John Goldsmith, John Martyn, 
Joanjamys. At. the audit a system of notation was used, which is 
represented by dots for counters signifying units when on or 
below the line ; above the line to the right, one dot equals 5, to 
the left equals 10. ;^2o is represented by a single dot detached 
to the left of the other pounds. Farthings according to this 
plan were represented by dots to the right hand below the rest. 

The Chancel Bell and Altar canopy are now part of the 
Church furniture. The embroiderer (Browder) and the Auditor 
are here first mentioned. The Sou^h gild seems to mean what is 
before called a/a, and in the next document ila, 

♦ ♦ Tohanne ♦ ♦ innea et ♦ ♦ nnceys pro • de viij d re 

♦ Roberto Wyll3rs pro • we. Et de rij d rec • ptis de Agneta 
Revys pro una * £t de viij d receptis de Margeria * Margeria 
Mors pro ex ♦ de ♦ Pascha pro communi lumine et • Et de 
vj s viij d receptis pro sepnltura Jonannis Virwode * 

Johannis Broaerib de Hayghyatte et de ♦ 

ifra \sic\ in dorso quod remanet in dorso 

This is lost [Zonadesericoblodij coloriscumxiij stocs de ♦ erased.'] 
Et de una mappa mensali continente quinque virgas * 
iij s vj d receptis p [erased] de Willelmo Wade pro uno mes • 
de parte predi unius patelle enee ex dono Johannis Holder * 
iiij d receptis ex dono Johannis Cuffe. Et de ij s • 
receptis pro vasto cord pro pulsacione videlicet Thome iiii d Aysslow 

♦ Monachi Glastoniensis Laurendj iiij d Dyngley Johanne iiij d ♦ 
Willelmi iiij d Edward domini Willelmi iiij d Vayle Margeria iiij d 

Mors ♦ 
traditis ad firmam Johanni Brownyng de Edgarsley Et de ij s ♦ 
: * ** enee ex dono Margarete Larcomb vendite Johanni Buysshe * 
Warner pro una sede nuper Johannis Parker • 
iij d pro vasto cord pro pulsacione pro Thoma • 
Hoke de denariis per ipsum receptis ad fabricam * 
yj d ob receptis de ij codiaribus et argento fracto ponderis * 

;f 34 13 9 Summa vij 1: x s ♦ 

• : •• :•• : : Summa totalis Recepte cum remanenda 

Resolucio Redditus In redditu resoluto domino Abbati Glastoniensi pro tene- 
•mento Johannis * 
dicti domim Abbatis pro tenemento Ricardi Bany xij d. Item * 
terre exit* de dominico domini super Wexhull jux ♦ 
resolut' Sacriste Glastoniensi pro j quarteria piperis et j * 
resolut' Custodibus Capelle sancti Benigni pro v • 
in Maydelott xij d. 

: :: :• Summa vij • 

Defectus Redditus In defectu redditus unius cotagij^in alto vico Gl * 
Marshall xij d. Et in defectu redditus unius tenementi • 
XX d. Et in defectu redditus unius cotagij in alt * 
per Johannem Martyn Clericum ecclesie parochialis sancti Joh ♦ 
nuper inhabitabat iij s. iiij d. In defectu redditus unius tenementi * 



282 Somerset S» Dorset Notes 6» Queries, 

et modo \blmk] Skjoncr ▼ s [vi d trese^ £t in defects redditos 

tenementi * 
mans anni ij s. 

s 13s. 6d. S^ [S iresid] Snnunaxig s. 

Necessaria Solntnm Georgio Organmaker pro mntnacuHie snre * 

Item solntnm pro diij iibris stagni emptis pro predictis organis zlnj * 

denariis solntis Georgio Organmaker et Stephano Kerfcr pro co * 

Et solntnm Stephano Ka-rer pro factnra canapie snper allare * 

Wenscott empt' pro eadem xuj s iiij d. Et scdntnm * 

ij s ▼ d. Et solntnm WOlelmo Hnchyns pro nna rap * 

Et in nna rapa empta pro campana in canceHa * 

cmpt pro campanis in Turn ij s. Et solntnm pro repar * 

ij d. kt solntnm Waltero Browne pro nna patella * 

odem pro exaltadone trinm campanamm et pro reparadone 

vij s. Et solntnm Thome Carelys pro cerea sancti Geor * 

pro cera et linches emptis pro la Trendall et aliis ceri * 

viij d. Et solntnm eidem pro xij Iibris cere alia yice * 

Coreis emptis pro obitn Agnete Voxe xij d. Et solntnm * 

ecclesie yij s ij d. Et solntnm Bedman pro [m erased] iij * 

Tersns festnm Pasche xij d. Et solntnm eidem pro f • 

Bartholomeo He3rward et Nicholao Coke pro mnnda * 

empt' iijd. Et solntnm pro custodia sepmcri * 

carbonibus emptis j d. Et in calce [nit erased] nsta e * 

Et in petris tegulatoriis emptis pro eadem xij d. Et ♦ 

Et in lath et lath nayls [emptis erased] et p^nis emptis * 

Colls tegnlatori reparanti domnm Lcddivyci T • 

Fhilippi Malwome ix d. Et solntnm pro locione * 

in cerico empto de Margeria Hendy pro cana * 

reparacione gntturis in fine ecclesie iiij d. Et ♦ 

in hominibus condnctis ad pulsandas campanas * 

et incansto (i) empto j d. Et in hominibns condnctis * 

Et in vino empto m die Ramispalmamm iij d. * 

ijs yj d. Et solntnm Philippo Crese port diem Cor • 

Et solutum pro locione [vestium erased] linthiamentomm ecclesie * 

empt* pro Vestimentis ij d. Et solutum Thome Tap ♦ 

Et solutum Johanni Goldsmyth pro repararione et deauradone ♦ 

scriptura copie evidenciarum de Bruton et in expensis * 

mnndadone turns ij d. Et solutum Jobanne Jany * 

[pro lodone pannorum et albarum ecclesie per ann. vid. 1465. p. 235.] 

V 8. Et solutum uxori Aquebaiuli pro reparadone et * 

Et solutum pro exequiis et missa pro obitu Willelmi Lawlye ♦ 

Browder pro factura et les lyning unius palle v ♦ 

Satjrn empto pro eadem iiij s. iiij d. Et solutum ♦ 

austral* gildam v d. Et solutum Johanni Goldsmyth * 

et pro deauradone ejusdem ix s. Et solutum Stephano * 

Cruce ij d. Et solutum Willelmo Vayle pro terra ct • 

Et solutum pro fspintr et acubus erased] clavis j d. pro nna linea j d. 

pro pinguemne • 
Basyn j a. pro pinguedine die assensionis domini j d. et pro • 
pro pingueaine eodem festo ij d. Et solutum pro reparadone rote c * 
pro mundadone turris xij d. Et solutum proj Bawderuppe pro 

parva • 
[Aqu xij d. erased], Et solutum pro aqua vite die onmium Sanc- 
torum Jj d. Et solutum Johanni • 
Et sohktnm pt<^ j pecia meremij pro le Canapy iij d. Et solut' ♦ 
C^AApY mj s [Et solutum pro reparadone de le Clepur eraud and 

(\) First mention of ink. 



Somerset &» Dorset Notes 6- Queries. 283 

quod gnpra in alio titlo written above] pro * 
meremiis vocatis Wdshe Bords pro Cinapui empds [pro erased] de * 
tempore mensore eodesie j d. 

* s** is: Summa zxy. li. ij s. 

= jf 24 3 8 

Stipendia In stipendio duonun cnstodom ecdesie beati Johannis Baptiste 
vj s. viij d. in * Compoti iij s. iiij d. 
Smnma z s. 
Summa totalis Expense zxvj 11. xij s. ^ d. * 
xiij s z d ob. E qmbus allocatm: eis * 
Aquebajulo Tohanni ij s Slocomb Bedm * 
^ Cosiodia lominmn et vestimentonim ecdesie per * 

• l« ::: v Crese pro diligentia laboranti in dioro zv • 
=r;^a6 1 1 5 Anditori ij s Et ds allocator z s de re * 

pro factura canapie ultra iiij libras superius * 

dare viij li vij s z d ob. £ auibus positum * 

fiiit in regardo predicto Stepnano ICerver pro can • 

vij 8 z d ob . Et sic nunc remanet viij s 

Et degerunt ad Custodiam Gardianos Johannem * 

The following fabric roll is undated but seems to belong to 
about the middle of the fifteenth century. The mention of coal 
is noticeable. If John Marks be the man whose obit was so long 
celebrated the date must be before 1458. The convent at th^ 
time had no masons, or they were not available for the towns- 
people's church, as their window arches had to be sent to Bruton 
and other places to be fashioned. 

Glaston. Compotus Thome Colbrook supervisoris fabrice ecdesie Sci 

Johannis ibidem. 

Idem respondet de Izzviij li. zviij s. zj d. receptis de diversis paro- 

chianis et eztraneis ut patet per papirum predicti Thome £t de 

Izvj s. viij d. de yj veteribus fenestris dicte ecdesie venditis 



eguUs 

Et de zz d de c veteribus tegmis (2) borealis He ejusdem ecdesie 
venditis N. Person. Et de ij s yj d de veteribus leedlathth (3) 
ejusdem ecdesie venditis T.xWalshman. Et de viij d de iij pedis 
veteris meremij ejusdem ecdesie venditis Ricardo atte Welle. Et 
de zij d de zabulo vendito J. Morthfeld et Ricardo atte Welle (4^. 
Et de viij d de j quarteria calds vendita Ricardo Tighler. Et de 
iiij d de vetere meremio vendito T. Baker. Et de yj s viij d de j plaus- 
trato Uberarum petrarum et zabuli vendito T. Marks. Et dezzziiij li 
zii j s iiij d [zzyj li erased] receptis de Tnoma Dunster de bonis 
ecdesie de remanenda. £t de yj d de ij viae (5) venditis Johanni 
Cardemaker, 

( i) The Priory of Burtle or Byrkde was situated on Burtle Heath, 5 miles 
W. ot Glastonbury ; see ante page 249, Art. 209. - 

(2) If these be paving tiles such sales would account for the confusion 
arising from heraldic tiles being found where the families denoted by the arms 
had no interest. 

(3) Probably lead laths, upon which the leaden roof was laid. 

(4) J. Morthfeld was warden in 142 1 ; R. at Wells' will was proved 5 Feb. 
1475-6, and J. Mark died in 1458. The date of this roll is perhaps about X450. 

(5) Hurdles, Yatton Aces. 1461 " for flakys to make scaffote lod.*' 



284 Som&rsit £• Dorut NoUs £• Queries. 

Smnma czvij li yj s vij d (i). 

£ quibos in uno grosso scaffots et j logge pro massonibiis (a) una 
cum X planks * * de meremio cimitenj com eodem meremio 
prosternendo stapuls sarrandis ac edam cum V ^tornes (3) de novo 
factendis pro arcubus ut patet in papiro T. C. xlv s vij d. In xr 
cheveronibus emptis. pro la logge zv d. In lathth latbnails 
et virgis emptis pro eodem x d. In cc garbis arundinum emptis 
apud Mere cum cariagio pro eodem logge xxiij d. In dicto logge 
cooperiendo ad thascam xyi d. In Ixxj vlaks emptis pro scaffots 
xiiij s ix d ob. precium cujuslibet ij d ob. In eis(iem querendis apud 
Steneligh (4) cum batellis (5) usque Nortblode xiiij d. In eisdem apud 
ecclesiam cariandis ij d. In expensis diversorum hominum pro toto 
plumbo meremio et aliis veteribus ecclesie deponendis xiij d preter 
auxilium parochianonun. In ij hominibus conductis pro fundamento 
rudando preter auxilium predictorum. In quarera apud Doult3mg 
rudan la cum diversis Instrumentis ferrcis emendis • xxyj s. yj d. 
In clij plaustratis liberarum petranmi frangendarum et triturand- 
arum in dicta qupera eisdem stapul vij Ii. xviij d unde iiij. xx. ix 
(i.e. 89) pro quolibet xij d. et Ixiij pro quolibet * ^6) In eisdem 
ibidem querendis xij li. xiij s. iiij d. pro ouolibet xx d. In 
victualibus emptis pro car apud Doulting et Glastoniam xj s. ▼ d. 
ob. In rewarcfo facto Roberto Prusshe quarratori xxd. In diversis 
hominibus conductis pro liberis petris sarrandis per annum ut patet 
, per papirum xvij s. iiij d. In una nova sarra empta ad idem ij s. ij d. 

cum eadem diversis vicibus emendanda. In iij weggs (7) feireis 
emptis xij d. In iij novis axibus pro massonibus emptis et eisdem 
diversis vicibus emendandis iij s. iiij d. In j novo plank cum iij novis 
♦ pro le carr vij d. In stipendio Willelmi Smyth T. Ryd et ♦ 
pro arcubus fenestrarum et aliis dicte ecclesie faciendis per ebdos at 
patet per papirum x^ li. x s. viij d. In cemento pro dictis liberis 
petris empto xxj d. In viij virgis panni viridis emptis pro ij togis 
faciendis pro ij de dictis lathomis xiij s. iiij d. In expensis factis per 
T. Colbrook et aliorum parocbianorum pro coUoquio habendo ctun 
diversis lathomis v * et Ryel. ante adventum lathamorum 
operantibus [xxij d. erased] iij s. In [fundament erased] * ntraque 
parte cum arcubus et fenestris faciendis et assedendis ut in stipenaio 
diversorum ce * ebdomas ut patet per papirum xxli. ixs. ixd. 
In calce cremanda * labore per ebdomas ut patet in dicto papiro 
Ivij s. iiij d. In xiij pisis (8) * carbonis terrestris emptis ad idem 
iiij li. iij s. xj d. pro qualibet pisa vj * petrarum emptis ad idem 
cum cariagio videlicet xlviij plaustratis x s. iiij d. unde xx [pro quolibet 
ij d. is torn off^ xxviij pro quolibet iij d. In j raak ferreo empto pro 
calciatore (9) uj d. In ♦ ferro viij d. In j vanga (10) empta et 
consumpta, yj s. In iij cribris emptis vij d. ob. In j novo pail empto 

(i) The items amount to jf 117 19 7. 
. {2) Macio, machio, a mason, 

(3) sinter, cinter for the centering of an arch. Pr. Parv. cinctotium. 
Yatton Chw. Accts. 1491, "for making of the synlome 9ld." 

(4) Steanbow is a bridge over the Pylle stream between West Pennard 
and I^ton. 

K) Fr. bateau, boat. 

(6) This lot must have been bought at lod. each, costing £2 12 6. 

(7) Wedges. 

(8) pisa^=pondus. Fr. pois (Ducange.) 

(9) A rake for the limeburner. 

(10) A shovel. Old Fr. vonge. 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes 6» Queries. 285 

ilij d. In iiij novis grnnfis pro dumo (i) ostij ecdesie ij s. Tiij d. In 
v\ tabolis ostrugge (2) emptis pro ostio ecdesie viijs. In Iziij 
planstratis meremij quercini apud Selewode (3) viijii. viijs. pro 
quolibet planstrato ij s. viij d. In ij plaustratis leedlathth querendis 
ibidem yj s. unde j nj s. iiij d. et altemm ij s. viij d. In victoalibns 
emptis pro dicto cariatore diversis vidbus zxiiij s. viij d. In pastura 
empta apud Selewode pro xx canicatis bourn una vice vj * 
hominibus conductis pro lats leedlathth sarrandis yjs. iii d. In 
spiks emptis ij s. In c ♦ ij s. In [h erased] yj millibus cccc 
hachnaill xz s. viij d. In ferramentis emptis pro viij fenestris * 
xix s. vij d. [xlvj s. xj d. erased, c iij.xx.viij litre in marginj predumlibre 
j d. quadr. In eisdem querendis apud Somerton diversis vidbus 
xiij d. In liberis petns pro fenestris factis apud * Bruton et 
Guyme ibidem cariandis et ouerendis diversis vidbus v s. viij d. In 
diversis expensis factis pro lez scaffots diversis vidbus renovandis. 
gros^is petris de cimeterio ad ecclesiam deferendis. la logge pro 
carpentna fadenda iiij^ s. viij d. In cxiiij libris plumbi emptis de 
Ricsuxlo Spyne vs. yjd. In mille cccc libris veteris plumbi de 
cineribus amati xijs. viijd. In victualibus emptis pro plumbario 
\jd. In victualibus emptis pro plumbario pro toto plumbo ecdesie 
jactando iijs. iiijd. In iij cordulis emptis pro lerobenetiijd. In 
ccc * arundinum de Mere emptis cum cariagio [ixd. above] 
iii 8. ixd. In fenestris * euxand (4) cum iisdem xxjd. * paribus 
cirotecarum emptis et datis lathomo carpentario et cementario 
xviii d. In arcubus * cum plasterpariz [sic] emendandis et 
dealbandis cum petris calds emptis ad idem ij s. viip d. Solutum * 
Broun in partem soludonis carpentrie [xx li. xiij s. iiij d. erased] 
xxixli. vs. -viijd. In victualibus emptis pro carpenteriis per unam 
septimanam tempore levadonis meremij v s. 

Summa totalis expense cxvij li. iiij s. xj d. ob. 
£t sic debet xix d. ob. 

in margin cviij^li. xj s. vij s. ob. 

The two fraRments following mention the Sugar family, 
notable for Hugh Sugar, Treasurer of Wells Cathedral, here also 
spelt Suwygar, and the death of Thomas Wason, five years after 
his ejection from the Abbot's Chair. 

1489. 

Glastonia Compotus Ricardi Cote et Jfohannis Costrell custodum bonorum 
ecdesie Sd Johannis Baptiste ibidem A festo sci Michaelis Arch- 
angeli anno domini millesimo ccccmo octagesimo nono usque idem 
festum proxime sequens per unum annum integrum. 

Remanenda Et remanent Ixix s. iiij d. de remanencia compoti anni pre- 
cedentis in manibus diversorum condebitorum ut patet in pede 
compoti ejusdem anni 

Summa Ixix s. iiij d. 

Redditus assisus Idem respondebant de yj. li xij s. viij d. de redditu termino- 
rum Natalis domini Pasche Nativitatis Sci Johannis Baptiste et Sci 
Michadis Archangeli cum viij d de incremento redditus Johannis 
Greyngton pro uno cotagio in Glastonia nuper Walteri Sampson et 
modo Johannis Thurston ij s. viij d. de incremento redditus Johannis 
Tailloure super uno cotagio cum curtillagio in alto vico Glastonie 



i) Somerset for gate or door post. 

[2) Spelt esirugbord 1439= Wainscot, see p. 192 note. 

Tne forest of Selwood extended from Norton St. Philips to Brewham. 

This word begins with a letter difficult to identify. 



Iii 



286 Somerut & Dorut Notes S* Queries. 

cum snis pertinendis nuper Thome FfyssHr xx d. de redditn uiiixs 
tenementi cum pertinendis in Glastonia vocato Georgysvnne quon- 
dam Nevowe et postea Johannis Stowell zij d. de redditn unins 
tenementi cum curtillagio m alto vico Glastonie nuper Ade Hardyng 
et postea Johannis Drapere ac modo Thome Bowiyng et ij d. de 
inaemento redditus Ricardi Lymbury super j placea terre in 
Maiddott nuper Johannis Stoke et unde Ij s iiij d (i) de redditu 
Ricardi Lymburv vi d. Johannis Bariones vi s. Willelmi Tailloure 
ij s. Johannis Holman iiij s. Willehni Thressher xij d. Thome 
Yngker iii s. Johannis Bakers Walteri Gane ix s. iiij d. Thome 
Bowryng vi d. Johannis Thurston xij d. Johannis Parker iij s. iiij d. 
Johannis Stowell xxd. Alicie Sugar xij d. Ricardi Lymbury ihj s. 
Willemi Jenycoo iij s. Agnete Parson iij s. Johannis Tailloure 
iij 8 iiij d et Edithe Aleyn ijs. viij d. conceduntur ad sustentadonem 
misse et capelle beate Marie Virginis annuatim per donatores 
eorundem tenementorum ut plenius patet per evidendas in communi 
dsta remanentes. £t de ij s. de incremento redditus Johannis 
Pynte super imo cotagio cum curtillagio in Chalkeswell prius 
Johannis Hyll et Johannis Tregootz. Deij s. iiij d. de incremento 
redditus nuper Johannis Thressher super uno cotagio cum [toml 
ecciesie Sancti Johannis Baptiste in fine ocddenUdi nuper WiUelmi 
Ladleigh nil hie quia ille tenet de [torn] 

herd (2) et Johanni Androwe capellanis ad certum redditum ut patet 
infcrius. Super redditum [torn] 
super ij mesuagiis cum eorum curtillagiis et suis [torn] 
de iij s. iiij de incremento [torn] er £t de yj s. [torn] 
8cc £t de 

1498. 

Glastonia. Compotus Johannis Costrell et Willdmi Basse See, custodum 
bonorum ecciesie parochialis Sci Johannis Baptiste Glastoniensis a 
festo Sd Michaelis Anno Dommi millesimo ccccmo nonagesimo 
octavo usque idem festum proxime sequens per unum annum integrum. 

Remanenda. Idem respondebant de xxiijli. xijs. jd. ob. de remanencia 
compoti anni precedentis. 

Summa xxiiili. xijs. jd. ob. 

Redditus Assisus. Idem respondebant de vpli. xijs. viijd. de redditu 
terminorum Natalis Domini Pasche Nativitatis beati Johannis Baptiste 
et Sancti Michaelis Archangeli cum viijd. de incremento reoditus 
super j cotagio in Glastonia nuper Willdmi Sampson et modo 
Jonannis Thurston ijs. viijd. de incremento redditus Johannis 
Taylor super j cotagio cum curtillagio in alto vico Glastonie cum 
pertinendis nuper Thome Ffyssher. xx d. de redditu unius tenementi 
cum pertinendis in Glastonia vocato George ynne quondam Nevowe 
et postea Johannis Stowell xij d. de redditu unius tenementi cum 
pertinendis in Glastom'a viz. in alto vico quondam Ade Hardyng et 
postea Johannis Draper et modo Thome Bowryng et ij d. de 
incremento redditus Ricardi Lymbury super j placea terre in 
Maydelode nuper Johannis Stoke. £t unde Ij s. liiid. (3) de redditu 
Ricardi Lymbury vj d. Johannis Baryones vj s. Willelmi Taylor ii s. 
Johannis Holman iiij s. Willelmi Gen^co xij d. Thome Ynkar iij s. 
Thome Careles Walteri Gane ix s. iiij d. Thome Bowryng yj d. 
Johanne Thurston xijd. Johannis Porker iijs. iiijd. Johannis 

(I) The sums specified only amount to ;^3 9s 4d. Perhaps Bakers' 
rent was 2s. 

12) John Hardyberd and J. Androwe were chaplains in 1498. 
3) The sums specified only amount to £^ 9 4. 



Somerset 6* Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 287 

Stowell XX d. Alide Suwygar xij d. Ricardi Lymburv iig s Willelmi 
Tenico iijs. et Agnete Parson iijs. Johannis Taylor lij s. iijd. et 
Edithe Alyn ij s. viij d. conceduntur annuatini ad sustentacionem 
misse beate Marie Virginis annuatim per donalores eonmdem 
tenementomm at plenius patet per evidencias in communi dsta 
remanentes. Et de ij s. de incremento redditus Johannis Pynte pro 
nno cotagio com curtillagio in Shallcewyll prius Johannis Hylle et 
Johannis Tregootz. £t de iiijs. de incremento redditus Thome 
Careles et Walteri Gane super ij cotagiis cum eorum curtilaeiis et 
suis pertinenciis in NorthJode prius Willelmi Odamps et Johannis 
Dykemyll. £t de iij s. iiii d. cfe incremento redditus Edithe Aiyn 
super unum mesuagium in nne strati sancti Jacobi (1) nuper Willelmi 
Mey. Et de yj s. iiijd. deredditu Johanne nuper uzoris Robert! 
Buxstone pro iij acris terre super Wexhyll. Et de iij s. de novo 
redditu Tnome Ffitz pro j cotagio cum curtilagio in Alto vico 
Glastonie Juxta altam crucem pacato. Et de iijs. de novo redditu 
Willelmi Taylour pro uno cotagio cum curtilagio in [alto erased] vico 
[Glastonie erased] vocato Maydelode nuper Johannis Odyngton alias 
Coxe pacato. Et de ij s. de mcremento redditus Nicholai Parsone et 
Agnete uxoris pro uno mesuagio cum curtilagio in Alto vico Glast 
nuper [Nicholai erased] Willelmi Hylle pacato. Et de ij s. de novo 
reoditu Roberti Hendy pro j cotagio in alto vico Glastonie nuper per 
Ricardum at Well de novo edincato pacato. Et de xij d. de novo 
redditu Willelmi Morfyld 5 [olim] capellani super unum cotagium 
ibidem nuper per eundem Rjcardum atte Well de novo edificatum 
preter vii s. de antiquo redditu superius onerato. Et de ij s. de novo 
redditu Johannis Gierke super j cotagium ibidem nuper per dominum 
Ricardum noviter edificatum preter viij s. de antiquo redditu superius 
onerato et sic reddit in toto per annum xs. Et de ijs. de novo 
redditu Johannis servientis Ricardi at Well super j cotagium ibidem 
nuper per eundum Ricardum de novo edificatum preter xs. de 
antiquo redditu superius onerato in capite. Et de liij s. viij d. de 
novo redditu Lucie Dyar pro j cotagio ibidem prius Johannis Mart^ 
derid ecdesie ibidem preter vijs. de antiquo redditu supenus 
onerato pacato. Et de viii s. de novo redditu Thome Ffytz pro uno 
cotagio nuper per Ricardum Atte Well de novo edificato super 
terram vacuam in ocddentali parte ecdesie sancti Johannis 
Baptiste pacato. Et de xij d. de novo redditu Johanne nuper uxoris 
Ricardi Atwell (2) pro una camera per eundem Ricardum de novo 
edificata super scaleram cii^iterii ecclesie predicte pacato. Et de 
iij s. yj d. de novo redditu Ricardi Lymbury pro uno tenemento cum 
pertinenciis in vico de Maydelode nuper ae novo edificato prius 
Thome Stoke preter iiij s de antiquo redditu et preter vid.de 
quadam peda sou in predicto vico prius Johannis Stoke eidem tene- 
mento annexa et sic reddit in toto per annum viij s. tantum pac. 
Et de xij s. iiij d. de novo redditu Johannis Hardyberde et Johannis 
Androwe capellanorum pro uno mesuagio cum pertinendis in 
ocddentali fine ecclesie Sd Johannis predicte de novo edificato . 
preter xij d. de antiquo redditu superius onerato Et sic reddunt in 
toto per annum xiij s. iiij d. viddicet uterque illorum yj s. viij d. ad 
iiijor terminos. Et de yj s. de novo redditu Thome Wylts pro j 
tenemento cum pertinenciis in vico de Maydelode de novo edificato 

(i) St. James's Chapel still stands* now converted into a cottage. The 
steep ^otpath adjoining it is still known, Mr. Bulleid tells me, as Jacob's ladder. 

(2) Richard Atwell and Joan Atwell buried in the chancel of St. John's 
died in 1475-6 and 1485 respectively, as is shown by the proving of their wills. 
This Richard and Joan must belong to another generation. 



a88 Sowurset 6» Dorset Notes 5- Queries. 

preter ij s. de antiquo redditu. Et sic reddit in toto per annmii viij s 
ad iiij or terminos. £t de xx d. de novo redditu Jonannis Grrey pro 
uno cotagio cam cortilagio in vico de Maydelode naper de noro 
edificato prios Willemi Taylour preter v s. de antiqno redditu 



snperius onerato £t sic reddit in toto per annum vj s. viij d. pac. 
£t de ij s. de incremeuto redditus Magistri Walteri Wvlde pro uno 
cotagio in alto vico Glastonie nuper Willelmi Morfylde [capellani 



preter viij s. de &c et sic reddit in toto per annum z s. £t de 
vis. viij d. de novo redditu Isabelle Hemyng pro uno tenemento cum 
pertinendis in Dodlane (i) quod Willelmus Lalley dedit et concessit 
ad fabricacionem ecclesie ut plenius patet per evidencias suas in 
communidsta remanentes. Et de iiij s. de incremento redditus super 
unum cotagium cum curtilagio in Chalkewyll de novo constructum 
ibidem venditum Nicholao Treybarfette preter iiijs. de antiquo 
redditu snperius onerato in capite pacandos ad iiijor terminos. 

Summa x IL xiij s. yj d. 

Exitus officii. lidem respondebant de ix s. viij d. receptis de colleccione ad 
Pascliapro la Treudall hoc anno. Et de vij d. receptis de Johamia 
uxore Tnome Chanon pro j sede sibi vendita. Et de iiij d. receptis 
de Agneta • pro j sede sibi vendita. Et de xii d. receptis de 
Jobanne Wethvr Dyar pro j sede' sibi vendita. Et de vj d. receptis 
de domino Jooanne Alyores? pro torchiis locatis die sepultare 
Magistri Jonamiis Muddysle]^ Monachi Glastoniensis. Et de xxd. 
receptis * sepulturaRicardiCoote. Et de vis. viij d. receptis 
pro putuo ejusdem Ricardi sepeliti in ecclesia habendo. Et 
X d. pro [torn] r magistri Thome Wason (2) prioris Glast. Et de 
xii receptis de Johanne Wyllyams pro j sede sibi vendita. Et [torn] 
cambiend. Et de viii d. receptis de Rogero Drapar pro j sede sibi 
vendita [torn] sede sibi vendita com «ede uxoris sue cambienda. Et 
de [torn] sibi vend. Et de x d. receptis de Agneta seniore filia [torn] 
Alyne infra ecclesiam. Et de [torn], recept de Thoma [torn]. 

In Dorso. 

Jocalia. lidem respondebant de j annulo aurio et j zona]hamesiata (3) de 
remanencia. Et de j annulo auiio preaum vs. remanente in 
manibus T, Algar. 

Et remanent ij annuli aurei et j zona hamesiata in 
manibus custodum predictorum. 

Vasa Enea fblank] 

Plumb. Idem respondebant de una millia et liz libris plumbi de remanencia 

nou. J. Hatche lidem Johannes et Hugo respondebant de xxiij s. vd. de 
et Hugo Holman. remanencia in denariis ut patet in tdtimo compoto anni 

precedentis pro fratemitate misse nominis Jesu (4) ultra stipendium 

capellani et ministrorum Et de [unfinishid] 

(1) Dodlane leads from the High Street southwards opposite St. John's 
Church. 

(2) Thos. Wason (Wood's Ath. i. 640) elected Abbot but displaced 1493. 
Mentioned in Fox's Register, p. 170-174. 

(3j Ornamented with silver. See Wells Wills, p. 22. 

(4) John Hedge of Bury St. Edmunds, in his will, dated 1504, bequeathes 
*' to the gyld of ye holy name of Jhu hold in the Church of Seynt Tamys xl s." 
(Bury Wills, Camden Society, p. 104). Johan Parson, widow, of the parish of 
Middlesowey in her will, dated 1541, bequeaths '*to the serves of Jhuxld." 
(F. W. Weaver's MS. Collections). There was also an •* awter of Jhesus " in 
St. Cuthbert's Church at Wells ( Wells Wills p. 186). 



Somerset 6* Dorset Notes S» Queries, 289 

246. The Old Manor House, Purse Caundle. — Purse 
Caundle is a small decayed village in Dorsetshire with a population 
of about 130, in the Sherborne Division of the County, and 
immediately bordering on Somerset. It is about one mile from 
Milborne Port, and four from Sherborne, and was the birthplace 
of the celebrated Bishop Mew (of whom more hereafter) and the 
residence in former days of some of the oldest, still extant, and 
well-known families in Dorset, Somerset, and Wilts. 

The chief feature in the parish is the old Manor House, 
which bears marks of considerable antiquity both inside and out, 
and of which the above is an engraving, from a photograph taken 
by the Rev. H. J. Poole, Rector of Stowell. 

The Manor House is thought by some to have originally 
been a Hunting Lodge of King John's, but we do not consider it 
dates so far back, and moreover, think it is very questionable 
whether King John, or any subsequent monarch, had a Hunting 
Lodge in the parish. All that Coker (who is said to have written 
his survey of Dorset between 161 3 and 1633) tells us on the 
subject is that in the time of Edward L one John Alayne 
held lands in the parish by Sergeanty, viz., "That he shall 
entertain the wounded Dogges of our Lord the King, when the 
King may hunt in the forest of Blackmore and at the expence of 
the King ; " upon which he (Coker) quaintly remarks ** I wish 
this age were as careful for men as that was for Dogges." 

In the time of Henry VI. the Long family, of which the 
Right Honble Walter Long, the President of the Board of Trade, 
is, we believe, a member, were resident in the parish and owners 
and occupiers of the Manor House, one of the windows in which 
has or lately had in it, in colored glass, the arms of the family, and 
a portion of the Church is called or known as the Long Chapel. 

From the Longs their property in the parish passed according 
to Hutchins to the Hanhams, a family long and still well-known 
in Dorset and of which the present Sir John Hanham, Bart., is a 
member. One of the Hanhams appears to have married a Long, 
and Coker says ** Now Purse Caundle is the chief seat of the 
Hannumes unto whom it came by an Heir of John Longe 
descended from a great familie of that name in Wiltshire." 

The Mew family appear to have been resident in the parish 
in the 15th century. Peter Mew, the Bishop, was the son of Ellis 
Mew, and baptised there on the 14th of March, 1618. Ellis Mew, 
the father, is described in old papers in the writer's possession 
as " the descendant of a very ancient and worthy family at Purs 
Caundle in Dorsetshire." According to Hutchins the Bishop, 
during the rebellion, was an officer in the King's army, went into 
the King's service in Holland in 1668, was Vice-Chancellor of 
Oxford in the same year, Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1672, 
Bishop of Winchester in 1684, and next year was commanded by 
the King at the request of the gentry of Somerset to go against 

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290 Somerset S' Dorset Notes &» Queries. 

Monmouth, and did eminent service at the battle of Sedgemoor, 
where he managed the artillery. 

Among various old letters the writer has from members of the 
family there is the following one from the Bishop, the superscription 
on which is ** These for my loving cousin Mrs. Sarah Bartlett." 

** Cousin Sarah. Your letter is full of Piety, and I hope you 
practice what you write, for religion consist not in words, but in 
actions. The age you live in is very full of professions of 
Godlyness (but to my griefe I speak it) do not finde much 
of ye power of it, and least of all amongst those who fancy- 
ing themselves to bee holy separate from ye church. Cousin 
you are bom in a Church where Religion ms established in its 
purity, in a Church which is the envy of the whole world, in a 
Church which is the only bulwark against Popery who got more 
advantage agaynst the Protestant religion during the tyme yt this 
Church was suppressed, yn it did all along since the Reformation ; 
all which I say to you yt you may have a care you bee not seduced 
from it, by those false lights which misguide ye weake and lead 
you into ye paths of error, from which yt you may be preserved is 
ye prayer of yr loving Uncle, P. Mew, Oxford, March 26. 1670." 

By an act passed in 1700 (12 and 13 Wm. 3rd, c. 25) the Mew 
Family changed their name to '* Saint John.'* The Bishop died 
in 1706, and a portrait of him can be seen in the Council House 
at Wells. 

The Highmore family, so well-known in Sherborne, were long 
located in the parish. The first member of which we find men- 
tioned there is Edward Highmore in 1603, then Nathaniel in i6r 3, 
then Edward in 1645 and last Richard in 1695, all four being 
successively Rectors of the parish. 

The Hoskins family (descendants of which, including the 
present Admiral Sir A. H. Hoskins, G.C.B , late one of the Naval 
Lords of the Admiralty, are well-known in the neighbourhood of 
Crewkerne) were according to Hutchins resident in the parish in 
1 66 1, as he says in a Subsidy Roll relating to the parish '* Mrs. 
Ursula Hoskins" occurs in 1661, and that "John Hoskins, 
Esquire," was the first of the family who was seated there, having 
purchased property in the parish from the Hanhams. The 
family owned and occupied the Manor House and Lands up to the 
early part of this century when the same became divisible amongst 
various members of the family, and their respective shares were 
bought up by a Mr. Rawe, a London Merchant, through whom 
the whole came to the Huddlestones, the now owners. 

Looking at the Old Manor House, with the noble bloodhounds 
of the present occupiers roaming about its precincts, and the 
terms on which John Alayne held his lands some 600 years since, 
causes one's thoughts to revert to ancient times, and to picture 
in imagination **our Lord the King" with his retinue, horses 
and hounds, in Purse Caundle, when hunting in the Forest of 
Blackmore. D.H.S. 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 291 

247. Two Somerset Worthies, Father and Son. — 
No place has yet been found in S. &• D. N, &• Q., or 
in any other published records, for two Somerset men of 
the seventeenth century, who, in their day, filled no un- 
important place in county life. Sprung from one of the 
most ancient families in Somerset, of Norman extraction, and 
deriving their name from the Manor of which, at an early period, 
they had become the owners, Christopher and William Dodington 
may well fill a niche in our local history. Special circumstances 
have brought their names before me, both of them having been 
lessees of the rectorial manor and tithe of Cheddar, and William 
having a monument erected to his memory in Cheddar Church. 
A private book of memoranda, belonging to the latter, which was 
placed in my hands by the late F. M. Dodington, Esq., led me to 
make further research into the lives of both father and son, with 
what result will be seen. 

Christopher was the second son of John Dodington of 
Dodington, and Margaret his wife, and was bom at Dodington 
and baptized there June 9, A.D., 1605, Francis, more conspicuous 
in the history of the County than his brother, being the first born. 
Through his mother he was related to the family of Anketell, she 
being a daughter of Christopher Anketell*. By his sister Florence 
who was five years younger than himself,he became connected also 
with the ancient family of Saint Lo. Lawrence Saint Lo. of 
Broadchalk, Wilts, married Florence Dodington at Dodington, 
on the 8th February, 1634, in the same year that her brother 
Christopher was married in London. It was from his maternal 
grandfather that he derived the Christian name of Christopher. 
Of the days of his boyhood nothing has come before me : but we 
find him admitted a student at Lincoln's Inn on the 1 8th October, 
1623, he being then of the age of 18. In the entry of his 
admission to that Honourable Society, his name is spelt with two 
' ds ' : but more usually it is spelt with only one. Eleven years 
elapsed between this date and his marriage which took place at 
St. Anne's, Blackfriars, on Midsummer day 1634, when he was in 
his thirtieth year. The entry of it runs thus: ''Dodington 
Christopher of Lincoln's Inn Bachelor 30, and Mary Gouge 
20, d. of R. Wpful Wm. Gouge D.D. of Blackfriars London, at 
St. Anne's Blackfriars, 24 June, 1634." 

It appears that he continued to reside in London during the 
next ten years, for among the promises held out to the Mayor and 
Corporation of Wells, as inducements to elect him to the office 
of Recorder of the city in 1644, one was to the effect, that, if 
elected, he would take a house, and live among the citizens. As 
he was the successful candidate for that office, his close connection 

* Christopher Anket) U de Aylmer co.Dorset possessed the patronage of the 
rectory of Mells in 1620, and presented Henry Anketill in that year. — Som. 
Incumb. p. 142. 



292 Somerset S* Dorset Notes 6» Queries, 

with Wells dates from 1644 ^^ ^^^5* The contest was a severe 
one, as may be seen by the letters recommendatory of him, which 
are preserved among the Corporation records. These shew him 
to have been like his brother Sir Francis an ardent Royalist, and 
also a man of high repute in his profession, distinguished for his 
** learninge and knowledge in the lawes," and regarded as one 
who was well qualified from the position of his family in the 
County to advance the interests of the City. For his brother. Sir 
Francis, had been Sheriff of Somerset in the year 1630, and 
became one of the leaders of the Royalist cause in the West. 
Among the writers of these letters were men whose names will be 
familiar to the reader. Sir Francis Dodington himself, * Edmund 
Windeham, his kinsman. Sir Ralph Lord Hopton, Commander 
in Chief of the King's Forces in the West, f Edward Kyrton, 
and Sir Edward Rodney § These are names to command 
attention even beyond the county, but within the borders of 
Somerset they cannot fail to secure an interest in the man of 
their choice. I proceed to give a selection of them. The first 
is from Sir Francis Dodington himself : — 

1. To the Worll the Mayor and his Brethern of the city of 
Wells. These. 

Gentlemen, I am bold in my Lord Hopton's name to 
p*pound unto you Mr. Ctroper D. for the Recorder and shall 
stryve requit yor good acceptacon of my motion and let you see 
how little you value his Lpp being named by me. Thus wishing 
you a good choice, I rest, 

Yor very affectionate and humble servant, 

Fra Dodington. 
Ivelchester, the 7th day of August, 1644. 

A coppie of this Lre sent to the Comittee of the Pliament 
by they re comande 20 Sept. 

The next letter is from Edmund Windeham. 

2. To the Right Worll Mr. Mayor and the rest of the 
Aldermen and Burgesses of Wells. These. 

Gentlemen, I cannot challenge soe greate an interest in yor citty 
or acquaint^® with yor persons as that my lett" sh^- be pralent with 
you in the choice of yor Recorder but I doubte not that you will 
be pleased to give me that p'vilge w'ch all well wishinge friendes 
w'thout offence may challenge w*ch is the liberty to recoinend 
unto you a gentleman, my Kinsman Mr. Christopher Dodington 
of this county who for his abilityes in his p'fession, his integrity 

* Over the chimney piece in the hall of the Manor House at Dodington are 
the arms of Dodington quartering Wyndham and others. Somerset Arch. Soc. 
Proc. XV. i. 12. 

t For an account of Sir Ralph Lord Hopton see Myths, Scenes and 
Worthies of Somerset, ja. 541-553. 

^ Hopton and Rodney were returned for Wells, Wyndham for Bridge- 
water, and Kyrton for MUbome Port in the Long Parliament 1640. 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 293 

of lyfe, and his loyalty to his M'aty may in my opinion, be 
thoughte very worthie of that place and I conceave you will doe 
yor Towne right, and yorselves a courtesy in his E'lecon 
whose merites duely considered cannot want your approba'con, 
your own loyalty to his m'aty must ever clayme respecte fro. all 
Gentlemen that are so affected and in yr re'lacon I comende this 
Gentleman unto you hoping that hee will app've himselfe soe 
worthie of the place if you make choyce of him, that you will 
heareaft'r acknowledge my recomendacon of hym to be a tend & 
of some pt of that respecte I owe unto yor Incorporacon whose I 
am most really and affeconately to serve, 

Edmund Windeham. 
Bridgewater the xxx. day of Augt., 1644. 

This letter of Mr. Wyndham was followed by another from 
Mr. E, J. Phelips of Montacute in favor of Mr. Dodington and 
then comes another from Sir Ralph Lord Hopton. 

3. To the Right Worll my lovinge friendes the Mayor 
Mres. and Burgesses of Wells be these deliv'd. 

Mr. Mayor and Gentln. my hearty respects to you p'mised 
and hearinge of y® death of Mr. Weeks the late Recorder out of 
my constant well wishes to you and yor towne and to the publique 
good wch is alsoe to bee principally regarded, I heartily advise 
and desire you to elect Mr. Christopher Dodington for yor 
Recorder whose integrity and abilityes to serve you and the 
publique are well knowne. Besides w'ch his allyance and 
freindshpp in yor County will uppo all occasions muche conduce 
to the good of yor Towne and in whose choyce you will show 
yor good respecte to mee who desireth ever to continew yor 
assured lovinge freinde, 

Ralph Hopton. 

From y Armye w'thin a myle and halfe ofFoye, i. Sep. 
1644. 

Another letter from Lord Hopton to the same effect followed, 
dated Okehampton, 5th Sept., 1644, written to the Corporation in 
case the former should have failed to reach its destination. 

Mr. West the Mayor, sent a letter to his Brethren urging 
them not to elect any one to be Recorder until he came home. 
Dated Tiverton, 7th Sept. 1644. 

Eleven days later he wrote from West Monkton to 
Mr. Richard Casbeard, the Mayor elect, as follows : — 
Mr. Mayor Elect, 

My love remembered etc., to all yo'r brethren, thankinge of 
them for sendinge the lett'r you wrot vnto me conceminge my 
comynge home to be at the swearinge of the new Mayor. 
This day wee are to march fro' West Monkton towards Som'ton. 
O'r day is limmitted till Satturday next, how long to continue 
there, or whither to march wee know not. I sent to my Brethren 
a lett'r which came from my Lord Hopton conceminge a new 



294 Somerset <S* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 

Recorder which is Sir Francis Dodington his Brother, and that I 
have ingaged myself both to my Lord, Sir Francis, the Governor 
of Bridgwater, and Doctor Ancthill, he to be the man ; w'ch 
letters I received, at Totness, w'ch my Lord will take as a great 
favour and Sir Francis both ; hopinge to GOD to be with you as 
soon as I can have a discharge of his Majesty to bring ofif my 
men, then I will be at home w'th you, w'ch I hope will bee very 
shortly. 

Soe thankinge you all, hopeinge for yo'r healthes, I rest 
Yo'rs on what I may, 

William West. 
West Monkton, the i8th September, 1644. 

Two other letters, one from Edward Kyrton, and the other 
from Sir Edward Rodney close the collection as far as they refer 
to CD. From Edward Kyrton. 

To my very good freinde Mr. Rowley one of the Magistrates 
of Wells. These in Welles. 
Mr. Rowley, 

I understande you are about choosinge a Recorder. Mr. 
Christopher Dodington hath a great desire to serve yor towne in 
that place ; altho I wish the gentleman very well, yet in this 
businesse I shall lay aside all my respects and look onely to the 
good and welfare of yor Towne, havinge lived there amongst you. 
I know the forme and defectes and pjudice w'ch yor Towne 
receaved by wantinge the helpe and assistance of one in that 
place who would have co-opated with you in all yor affaires. 
T herfore if you will take my advice in it, I will advise you by all 
means to make the choyce of Mr. Dodington for he will take a 
house and live amongst you. I know his abilitye and industrye 
will be able to do your Corporacon a greate deale of seivice, 
besides hee is well knowne and experienced in all courtes w'ch 
may heareafter bee of yor goode. If you please to doe mee the 
favor to acquainte the Corporacon with this muche fro' mee I 
shall receave it as a greate favoure fro' them in taking my advyce, 
and I will ever bee ready to doe them any freindshipp or courte- 
sie w'ch is within my power, and I shall remayne 

Your assured and lovinge freinde, 

Edw. Kyrton. 
Brittoll, Sept 9th, 1644, 

From Sir Edward Rodney of Rodney Stoke. 

To my worthy freinde, the Mayor of Wells. These 
Mr. Mayor, 

I am desired by Mr. Dodington and alsoe by St. Frauncis 
Dodington to give you what furtherance I can in Mr. Dodington's 
suite to bee yor Recorder. If there were no other argument 
then Sir Francis Dodington his deserts to the country the King's 
just cause, and venturinge his p'son and fortunes soe freelye and 



Somerset <?• Dorset Notes S* Queries. 295 

faithfully itt were enough to ingage mee to gratifie him in any 
thinge within my pow'r ; — but and trulye w'thout that Mr. 
Dodington's owne meritts and abilities are soe well knowen — 
my recomendacon as a duty. In my judgment itt is a great 
advantage to yor towne that a man of that leaminge and knowledge 
in the lawes offereth you his services, I am confident yor neighbours 
in the countrye will pHake of the benefitt especiallie in these 
tymes by reason of his knowen fidelitye to the King and his cause. 
Thus as a member of yor body I have geven my advice faithfullye 
and nowe leave it to yo*r wisdomes — soe I comende you to GOD 
and reste Yor verie lovinge freinde, 

Edw. Rodney. 
Bristoll, the 19th of Sept. 1644. 

The election took place at a Meeting of the Corporation 
held on the 27th Sep., 1644, when Mr. Dodington, Mr. Bourne — 
and Mr. W. Bull were the candidates for the vacant appointment 
— Dodington being the successful one. 

Dodington .. ..10 

Bourne . . • • 4 

Bull .. -.3 

{To be conitnued,) 
248. Inventories of Church Goods, Dorset, 1552. 
{Concluded.) (III. xxiv. 319, IV. xxv. 15, xxvi. 36, xxvii. 75.) — 
Capella de ( ffyrst, one chalis of Sylur, j payre of vestm*«»j 
Up Wymbome. ) surplice. Too table clothes and too belles in the 
Tower, j cope. 

To the use of ) Appoyntyde by the sayd comyssion's, of [sic ? j ] 
the Churche. J chalis of Sylur, j cope wythe all the Table clothes 
and Surplices. The resydewe of all the premysses comyttyd to 
the custody of thes men whose names be under wrytten. 
Harry Doll. 

John Doll. Chu'ch wardens. 

[A bourne — the ' fluvius Wimburna ' of Bp. Aldhelm's charter — 
the 'cleere Allen' of the poet Drayton— rises here, and 
joins the Stour at Wimbome Minster. Another stream — 
the Terig of Holinshed's Chronicle — after passing through 
the Gussages, flows into the Allen. British^ Alwen ; Erse 



Alain ; bright stream.] 
^\ ffyrst, j cna 
Woodyattes. f vestm*^ of satten of brydges, ij Table clothes, j 



The pishe of \ ffyrst, j chalis pcell gylt of Sylur j payre of 



corporas clothe, j Surplice, ij belles in the Tower. 

To thuse of the ) Appoyntyd by the saide comyssion's, j chalis, 
Churche. ) j vestm* of satten of brydges, wythe all the 

Table clothes & surplice. The resydewe of all the p'miss' 

comyttyd to the custody of the men whose names be under 

wrytten. 

Sr Lewes . . . . , curat the^. ) 
Barnerde goulde. ) 



296 Somerset S* Dorset Notes S- Queries, 

The pishe of \ flfyrst, J chalis of sylur, withe pattent, ij corporas 

Crafforde > w*** there cases, ij copes j of blewe damaske & 

pva. ) thother of grene doraex, iij payre of vestm*«» ij 

Table clothes, ij fnintes for the Table of yellowe & grene satten, 

iij belles in the Tower. 

To thuse of the ) Appoyntyd by the sayd comyssion's one chalis 
Churche. / of Sylver, j cope of domex w**» all the Table 
clothes & surplices. The resydewe of all the p'mysses commyttyd 
to the custody of thes men whose names be under wrytten. 
Sr John Crosse, curat Wyllym Billys. 
John Laugforde Thomas Harvy. 

[The citation from the will of Sir R. Rouse {S, 6f D, N. 6f Q. 
II. xvii. 25) is incorrectly given in Hutchins. A transcript 
of the will of Sir R. Rouse made by James Strangman, Esq., 
Ump, Elts,, will be found in the Landsdowne MSS., 860 

(I.31O. 

I remember to have seen in the Library of C.C. Coll., 

Oxf., an interesting 1 3th cent., MS., formerly the property of 

Sir H. Spelman, containing the Constitutions {} 1225) of 

Bp. Poore, and Bp. Bridport (? 1256). No mention is made 

of this MS. in any account of those Bishops that I have met 

with.] 

The pishe of | ffyrst. Too chalices Sylver, one gylt, j payre of 

Blandford for. \ candelstickes of Sylur, j pax of Sylur, one 

crosse of latten, iij payre of cruetes of tyn, j payre of vestm*«» of 

redd chamblet,j payre of vestm*®^ of blacke worsted, j payre of 

vestm*«« w*^a cope of cheker sylke, one payre ofvestm*®" ofwhyt 

damaske, j cope of blewe veluet, vj Table clothes, fower Surplices, 

iiij corporas clothes, j sance bell, ij sacringe belles, j holy water 

pot of bras, iiij belles in the Tower. 

To thuse of the ) Appoyntyd by the said comyssion's, one chalis 
Churche. ( of Syluer, j cope of blewe veluet, wyth all the 
Table clothes and Surplices. The resydewe of all the p'miss' 
commyttyde to the custody of thes men whose names be under 
wrytten. 

Sr Thomas Claghton, vicar, \ Peter Munsoll 
John Swayne, > Nicholas Pytt, 

Willm Pytt ) Thomas Rawlynson. 

The pishe of ) ffyrst, one chalis withe the pattent of Syluer, Too 
Pentrydge. i payre of vestm*®^ one of blewe sylke, thother of 
grene sylke, one cope of domex, one Table clothe, one surplice. 
Too belles in the Tower. 

To thuse of the ) Appoyntyde by the sayde comyssioners, j chalis 

Churche. j of Sylur, one cope of dornex, wyth all the Table 

clothes and surplices The resydewe of all the p'misses comyttyd 

to the custody of thes men whose names be under wrytten. 

Sr Thomas Colman, pson, ) Walter Kerlye. 

John Heryngton, > John Garrarde. 

Hugh Gawdy, ) 



Somerset <S» Dorset Notes & Queries. 297 

[Bp. Ridley, on the plundering of the Church goods — ** I have 
heard that Cranmer and another, whom I will not name, 
were both in high displeasure, the one for showing his con- 
science secretly, but plainly and fully in the Duke of 
Somerset's cause, and both, but especially Cranmer, for 
repugning as they might against the late spoil of the Church 
goods, taken away by the commandment of the higher 
powe'-s, without any law or order of justice, and without any 
request of consent from those to whom they belonged. As 
for Latimer, Lever, Bradford, their tongues were so sharp 
that they ripped deep into their galled backs to have 
cleansed them, no doubt from that evil matter which was 
festered in their hearts of insatiable covetousness," &c. 
Treatises of Dr. N. Ridley (Religious Tract Soc.) pp. 115, 116.] 

J.H.W. 
249. Prodigies in Somerset and Dorset, i 66 i -2, continued. 
(IV. XXX. 207.) — The compiler and editor of ' Mirabilis Annus* 
was not discouraged by the failure of his attempt to stop the 
restoration of Episcopacy, from putting forth a fresh collection of 
marvels in 1662, which he entitled 'Annus Mirabilis Secundus.' 
In the preface he asserts that 'among all the symptoms of an 
approaching misery and destruction to any people, none is more 
significant and fatal, than a general slighting and neglecting of 
the great signs, which the Lord openly sheweth.' He also takes 
notice of two exceptions made against the first collection, firstly, 
that they were all false, and secondly, that the parallels drawn 
from sacred and profane history trumpetted out nothing less than 
sedition and rebellion. As regards the first exception he allows 
that in a few particulars the accounts may be corrected, but that 
in general the book stands in the judgment of all indifferent and 
unbiassed men rectus in curia. The parallels were dropped in the 
second book, because ''we do ingenuously confess there was 
an appearance of ground for the imputations cast upon the book 
and its author.' 

Prodigies, &c., seen in the heavens from April, 1661 — 
June 1662. 

P. I. In or about the month of«April, 1661, at Chard in 
Somersetshire, by several persons of credit, was seen in the 
heavens eastward, over London highway, about six or seven of the 
clock in the evening, a narrow long dusky cloud, which after two 
spectators had for a while beheld, seemed to open, and there 
descended from it, a great bright star, which seemed unto them 
much bigger than the palm of any man's hand ; immediately a 
second star also fell from the same cloud, and seemed by its motion 
as if it would have forced down before it the first star; andimmedi- 
a third star followed, somewhat lesse than the second, upon 
which it seemed to presse with great violence, as the other did 
before. These three stars, before there disappearing were joyned 



298 Somerset S» Dorset Notes <S* Queries. 

at some distance each from other by a contiguous flame, which 
was exceeding bright, but at length the whole appearance did 
form itself into the fashion of the blade of a very broad sword, 
which immediately fell directly towards the earth with great 
violence and speea, and so was seen no more. 

P. 2. On the 23rd of April. 1661, a person of credit riding 
on a high hill between Faychurch and Lime in Dorsetshire, about 
3 of the clock in the afternoon, looking up into the sky, saw a ver}- 
great black cloud, which he guessed to be over Portland; which cloud 
he saw suddenly formed into the likeness of a compleat ship, with 
masts and sails , bowsprit, stem, and everything else answerable. 
The stem he sayes, was high built. He discerned also in the ship, 
the likeness of the upper parts of men ; and at the head of the 
ship he saw many men with pikes on their shoulders, as perfectly 
(according to his own relation) as ever he saw them painted. He 
stood still and looked upon the whole with very great astonish- 
ment for the space of about half a quarter of an hour, during 
which time it rained, and thundered, and lightned exceedingly. 
This relation comes from the persons own mouth, who affirme it 
with much confidence, and is one to whom much credit may be 
given. 

P. 6. In the Western parts of Somersetshire, upon the 29th 
of June, 1 66 1, the sun was seen, by divers very credible persons, 
to set with streams of blood ; and the same night there not being 
a cloud to be seen in the sky, the moon shined without reflecting 
the least shadow, either of house, or tree, or hedge or man, &c. 
Several persons took notice of it, and were much astonished at 
it, from whom comes this relation. 

P. 7. About the beginning of September, 1661, upon a 
Monday or Tuesday, about two of the clock in the morning, at 
Stoak under Hamden in Somersetshire, four persons went forth 
together to cut beans in a field ; and as they began to enter on 
their work, they heard first a very great noise as if it had been the 
crack of a great tree when it breaks and falls : they heard it again 
the second time, whereby they were so terrified, that they left off" 
their cutting of beans immediately. After this, they heard the 
noise of the beating of a dram ; and one of the company being a 
drammer(and now in the King's army) could distinguish the several 
beatings, who affirms there was first a call beaten, and after that a 
Battail, which continued a good space of time, and in the midst of 
it a great shreeking, and a harsh confused noise, like the clattering 
of armour, and the groaning of dying men : this whole scene was 
repeated four several times successively. They heard the noise, 
sometimes as near them, sometimes as farther ofi", till the day 
brake, and then all ceased : only immediately after it they heard 
a more than ordinary bellowing and roaring of the Cattell that 
were in the pastures adjacent. These persons were so exceedingly 
affrighted at what they heard, that they were sometimes resolved 



Somerset 6» Dorset Notes <?• Queries, 299 

to run away from fear; but being four of them together, they 
animated one another, and stayed to it. They have been often 
examined and threatned about this thing, but they all jointly 
attest the truth of the whole relation, which is so notoriously 
known in these parts, that he that will take the pains to enquire 
after it, will receive ample satisfaction in the premises. 

P. 22. On Thursday, June 19th, 1662, in the evening, 
between Upper Compton and Trent, in the County of Somerset, 
the sky being much clouded and dark, so that it was thought the 
sun was set, on a sudden the sun began to break forth, but before 
it came to its brightness, it appeared very fiery and bloody, and 
the reflexion of it upon a town called Bing-weston (not far 
from the town before mentioned) was such, that the spectators 
thought it had been on fire : after this it shone ver}' clear and 
bright, and in it was seen a man on horseback very perfectly : in 
a short space after there appeared another sun, about two yards 
distance (as that conceived) from the first sun on the north side of 
it, then immediately appeared very plainly a man on horseback 
in this other sun : also both these men on horseback for a small 
space of time stood and faced each other : after that on' the west 
side of the real sun, was seen a great army fixed, but because of 
the multiplicity of them, it could not be easily discerned whether 
they were horse or foot : But there was plainly seen another army 
both of horse and foot coming out the north and marching very 
near the northern sun, and there they made a halt for a very short 
space of time, and then moved again, and marched very swiftly 
into the northern sun, upon which the man on horseback in the 
sun checked his horse, and moved backwards to the west and to 
the head of the western army, which remained fixed. Immediately 
after this, both suns joined together in one, and the northern 
army advanced towards the north west point, and that with the 
other army also, was seen no more ; and immediately the sun set, 
and upon its going down was very bloody and fiery : and the 
fields on both sides for about the space of four or five miles 
appeared as if they had been full of fire and blood, to the great 
astonishment of the spectators. This is testified by an eye witness. 
P. 24. About the 14th day of July, 1662, near Chard in the 
County of Somerset at ten of the clock in the night, were seen 
three moons together in the Heavens. The truth whereof is 
attested by many of the spectators. 

(^To de coniinued.) 

250. Colonel Bullbn Rhymes, M.P. for Melcombe Regis. 
— Continued, (IV. xxx. 217.) — ^An interesting letter shows that 
Col. Reymes had friends among the Dorset Committee. 
•• Noble Bullensius. ^ 

I in pursuance to yor comands was yor servant att ye Comitte 
where I procured this order for the taking of yor sequestration, 
the Coppy is as followeth 



300 



Somerset <S» Dorset Notes <?• Queries. 



October ist, 1646. 

Whereas wee haue received an order from ye Comitte of 
Goldsmiths' Hall London for ye suspention of ye sequestracon 
of ye estate Reall and personal! of Bullen Reymes of Mapowder 
in ye county of Dorset Esq., dated ye 14 of yber last : These are 
to will and requier you the sequestrators of this County, and all 
others whom it may concerne, to take notise their of and to 
forbeare to intermeadell wth the Lands and estate of Bullen 
Reymes sequestrated, and to suffer him and his assignes quietly 
to take and enioy the same according to ye savd order of 
Goldsmiths* hall 

•Joh. White way Joh. Arthur 
Rob. Coker John Hill 
Water Foy 
but this order I could not gett out of the sollisiters hands w***out 
his fees w<^ he demands 40 shillings to morrow hee hath 
engaged him selfe to deliver it him selfe to ye tennant att Broad- 
way, so y* hee might haue his fees payd by yor tennant their. I 
endeavored to haue gotten itt scot free but y« voat of y« Comittee 
weare against mee. I gaue ye Clarke halfe a croune for his fees. 
Pardon my scribleng. I am in hast and ready to serve you 
as long as 

My servise to all. Robt. Coker. 

Sir Thomas Trenchard and my vnkel John Trenchard must 
be your friend about Mr. Douche (?) Wee must keepe ye 
originale of letter from goldsmith Hall, but you shall receve a 
copy of it.** 

The fine laid upon Colonel Reymes amounted to ;^ioo, half 
of which was at once paid. This is the receipt. 

^^'REceived by us, Richard Waring a;i</ Mi- 
chael Herring, Treasurers of ihe monies 
to be paid into Goldsmiths = Hall of 

Bullen Reymes - - 0/ 

MaypOWder - - - «« fhe County of 
Dorset Esq\, the summe of ftfUe 
Poundes in Parte of One 
hundred Poundes imposed upon him 

by ihe House of Commons as a Fine for his Delin- 
quency to ihe Parliameni, Wee say Received, 

this 14th of Sept. 1646. 

Rich: Waring e 
Micheal Herring 



li. 

so 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes & Queries. 301 

Some delay occurred in the payment of the remainder, 
whereupon the Sequestrators for Somerset seized upon his 
personal estate to the value of ;^ioo, against which seizure be 
petitioned the Commissioners for Compounding. * 

The petition was successful, and the sequestration taken ofif. 

** Som^sett Att the standing Com**«« for this County. Tanton 
this 60 of October, 1648. 

It is this day ordered that ye Estate both Reall & psonall^ of 
Bulleine Rhemes Esq' be forth w**» discharged from sequeslracon 
according to an order from y« Rt. Hon*»^® ye Comissio" for com- 
pounding w*^ Delinquents. Dated ye 3° of October instant. 
To all sequestrate Ri Trevillian 

whome it may Robt. Roman ? 

conceme these He. Minteme 

Tho: English" 

At nearly the same date (3 Oct.) an order had been sent from 
London to the Dorset Committee. 

" Whereas wee are informed that you haue seized vpon the 
goods of Bullen Reymes of Mapowder in the County of Dorsett 
Esq' and threaten to resequester his reall Estate for that he hath 
neglected to pay into the Treasury of this Comittee the latter 
Moyety of his fine. These are to certifie you that the said Bullen 
Reymes hath paid in the same and received a discharge in full for 
his whole fine, and taken a course for the speedy suing out his 
Pardon ; and to Order and require you forthwith to restore vnto 
him his goods seized by you, and forbeare to sequester his Estate, 
but to suffer him to enioy the same according to former Order 
from this Comittee for suspending his sequestracon : And hereof 
you are not to fayle or you will Answer the Contrary. 

John Clotworthy 
D. Watkines John Boys Ed : Ashe 

Laur : Brimley Jn<^ Oldfeild Will. Thomson 

Meanwhile it appears from the ** Calendar of the Proceed- 
ings of the Committee for Advance of Money,'' that Col. Reymes 
was harrassed from another quarter. On ixth May, 1647, ^® ^^ 
assessed by this Committee to pay ;f 100. The matter may have 
slept, for the next entry is the order for his sequestration for non- 
payment, dated i8th May, 1649. With this may be connected 
his visit to London, for on 30 April of that year he received a 
pass from Fairfax to allow him to return into the Country. 

" These are to require every of you on sight here to pmitt and 
suffer the bearer hereof Bullen Reymes of Trent in the County of 

*^rd Oct. 1648. Bullen Reymes returned for nonpajrment of his 
second moiety and not suing out his ordinance [of discharge.J 

3rd Oct. The County Committees of Somerset and Dorset are to 
discharge his sequestration » as he has paid his fine. ("Calendar of 
Proceedings of Committee for Compounding, ' p. 1368.) 



302 Somerset S* Dorset Notes <S* Queries. 

Somerset Esqr. w^ his servants horses travelling Armes and other 
necessaryes to travell from the Citty of London to the said County 
and there peaceably to reside and thence to retonme about his 
occasions to the said Citty of London, w^ut offering any violence 
to his pson or medling w^ or takeing away his horses armes or 
other goods whatsoever As you will answeare the Contrary (he 
doeing nothing p^odidall to Parliam* or Army). Given vnder 
my hand and seale the last day of Aprill. 1649. Fairfax. 

To all Officers and Soldiers 
under my Comand." 

No sooner had he returned to Trent than another demand 
was sprung upon him. 

A little scrap of paper bears on the back 

*' To his loueing & muche respected frinde Mr.Elford Minister 
of ye Ghosple of Christ 

Trent this " 

and on the face 

•* Mr. Rimes I doe Exspet your horse to mory to be sent to 
my Randiuouz by this barer and you shall resieue any fauor ^om 
me that may be condusinge for ye peace of this poore Comon 
wealth: May ye i6th. Your Saruent, 
Samford Oaquez Willi. Pitman." 

Below this strange missive Col. Reymes has written a copy 
of his answer. 

" Mr. Pitman by this bearor I receaued an open scrip of 
paper, though directed to Mr. Elford, yet the inside to me, and 
whether to terme it a letter, an order, or a command I Know not, 
yet for your former ciuilityes sake shall pas by the circomstances, 
and to the matter thus I beleaue you expect not that euery 30I a 
yeare in this hundred should furnish a horse (for more than that 
I haue not) & if you intend it vpon the whole farme the directions 
ought to be to the heires of Mr. Gerard whose purses I can not 
dispose of, besides S'* wee haue one horse already in Cap. 
Barkers trope (comonly called the County trope) and is as we 
Conceaue likewise for the peace of y* Common welth) Now 
if possibly you can redeame him thence I confess really I had 
rather he were vnder yo' Conduct as my louing frend and 
neighbour than any others. In the intrem I hope yo' owne Justic 
will think that suffitient for our estate, how euer I am yo' seruant. 
May the 16-1649" 

Another journey to London in the spring of 1650 rendered 
necessary a further licence to travel, this time from the Com- 
mittee of Dorset. 

** Whereas the barer hereof Bullen Reymes of Trent in the 
Countie of Som*s^^ Esquier haueing subscribed to the Engage- 
ment of Parliam* desireth to haue Lycence to Travell vnto 
London being somoned to appeare before the Committee of 
Advance money And from thence to Ratfeilde in the Countie of 



Somerset S- Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 303 

Sussex to see his Mother And to returae againe vnto Trente 
aforesaid by or before the first of July next ensuinge We whose 
names are hereunto subscribed by vertue of an Acte of Parliamt 
in that behalfe made doe hereby Lycence and giue way to the 
said BuUen Reymes to Travell vnto the places aforesaide and soe 
to retume againe by the tyme Lymitted. In witnesse whereof we 
haue herevnto sett o' hands and scales the 8^ daie of Apriil 
Ano Doiii 1650 

To all Officers Souldvers & others John Browne 

to whome these shall come & • Jo : Bingham 

concerne gree tinge Anthony Floyer 

John Fry 

As the result of his visit an order was made on 10 May, 1650, 
by the Commissioners for advance of money. "That the 
Assessmt vpon Bullen Reymes of Mapowder in y« Countv of 
Dorsett, Gent, for his 20*** part be and is hereby discharged, It 
appearing by Certificate from Goldsmiths [x/V] that he Com- 
pounded there vpon the Articles of Exeter and is comprised in 
the same." [Cy*. the entry under this date in the •* Calendar of 
Proceedings of the Committee for the advance of money."] 

Not long after his return into the country he was again in 
trouble from another quarter, and imprisoned in Taunton Castle. 
Here is the order for his release. 

*• Whereas Bullin Rayms of Trent in the County of 
Som't Esqr. was by an order from the Comissio" for the 
Militia of the s^ County Com'ited prisoner to Tanton Castell 
vnder my Command, These are to Certifie" all whom it 
may Concerne that the saiyd Bullin Rayms is freed from 
his Restraynt and sett at liberty by the same power that comited 
him, and therefore it is desired that hee may quietly 
Retume to his owne home, hee acting nothing preiuditiall to the 
Com'on welth, Dated at Tanton Castell afores^ the 16 of 
October 1650. 

Tho. Robinson." 

Another licence to travel was issued to Col. Reymes, on 8th 
Feb., 1650, this time to visit several places in Dorset, probably 
with a view to the partition of the Gerard estates. 

** Whereas the bearer hereof Bullen Reymes of Trent in the 
Countie of Soms^ Esq., hauing subscribed to the engagement of 
Parlement desireth to haue lycence to trauell to seuerall places in 
this Countie, about his nescessary occations of liuelihood, and 
Law bewsiness, as to Possom, Westchelborough, Ensam, 
Langton, and Mapowder, and to retume to Trent aforesaid, at, or 
before the 15th day of March next ensuing Wee whose names are 
herevnto subscribed, by vertue of an Acte of Parlement in that 
behalfe made,Doe hereby Lycence and giue way to the sayd Bullen 



304 Somerset S* Dorset Notes cS* Queries, 

Reymes to travell vnto the places aforesaide, and so to retume 
againe by the time limmeted. In witnes whereof we haue here 
vnto sett our hands and seales the 8th day of Feb., 1650. 

To all officers, soldyers, & others Jo. Binqham. 

to whom this shall come and [seal, a bend cottised 

concerne, greeting between six crosses 

crosslet.] 

On 25th July, 165 1, a deed of Partition was made between 
the coheirs of the late Thomas Gerard, whereby Bullen Reymes 
** of Trent, Somerset, Esq.," and Elizabeth his wife, obtained the 
capital messuage, farm, and demesne lands of West Waddon alias 
Gerard's Waddon in the parish of Portesham, Dorset, with all 
lands, &c., thereto belonging. 

By order of the Commissioners * for putting in execution the 
orders of the Protector and Council, (21 Sept., 1655,) for securing 
the peace of the Commonwealth, dated 13 Dec, 1655, Col. 
Reymes was required to attend at the Red Lyon, Blandford, on 
Wednesday, 19th Dec, with an account of the value of his real 
and personal estate, and the names of all his " chaplyns and 
Meniall servants " and other persons relating to his family above 
the age of 1 6, and the names and places of abode of such 
Ministers or Schoolmasters by whom his children, or orphans 
under his tuition, were being taught. This order, which is 
addressed to Bullen Rheames, gent., and William Weare, is signed 
by John Disbrowe, John Browne, John Arthur, Richard 
Lawrence, Robert Pelham, John Lea, James Mew, Rich. South- 
wood, William Culliford, Hie Pottecary, John Chaflfyn, Edward 
Thornehill, John Eyres, James Dewey, James Baker, Edward 
Butler. 

On account of Col, Reymes' absence in London his appear- 
ance was respited to Dorchester, one week later. 

His return to this enquiry states that " By the courtesy of 
Ingland Hee holdeth during his life the proffitts of som lands 
calledWestWaddon in the parish of Portescham in this County to 
the yearely vallew of 140 li 

of which lands two third parts is mortgaged for the payment 
of his debts which are at least 1500 li." 

" Personail estate, he hath none other than 2 or 3 old and 
blind horses and 2 oxen with som smale household stuf to his 
naked walls, which hee refers to your immaginary vallewation 
100 li. 

Orphants, Chaplins, or Suriourners he hath none, 
♦ Joseph Derbie was Clerk to the Commissioners. 






Somerset & Dorset Notes S^ Queries, 305 

His sonn about 7 years of age, is at Skoole w**» on Mr. 
Clinch at Chilton. 

Denis Morgan 1 

Roger Darning > seruants 

Hugh Bartlett, a boy I 
Three mayd servants." 
In the result, (26 Dec.)the Commissioners laid upon him the 
yearly tax of £1^ 13 4, the first moiety to be paid to Josiah 
White at his house in Dorchester 24th Jany next, the second on 
24th June, and all subsequent payments on 21 Dec. and 24 June. 
Receipts for the first three payments are extant. The third is on a 
printed form. 

*• Dorchest. the ^Jfth day of Dece^' ^^sS- 

REceived of Bullen Beames, Esq^, 
the summe of seuen pouTides six shillings eight ^ 

pence <ind is for the third/ moyety of the extraordi- 
nary yeerly Taxe assessed on him by the Commissioners 
of this County, thereunto appointed by his Highnesse the y^*^ 
Lord Protector and Councet, for the secuting the peace qq' 
of the Common-wealthy and payable ye 25th day of 
this moneth I say received 

Per me Jos : White, Beer. 

43/' 

•' Ofl&ce of Registerie The 9th July, 1656. 

in London. 

These are to certifie that Bullen Reymes of Woddon in the 
pish of Possum in the Countie of Dorset, gent., on the 3 p'^sent 
certified the place of his lodging and this day his intenson to 
remove back on the loth p^sent to Waddon aforesaid. 

John Peirson Dep**« to 
Mr. Tho. Dunne Register." 
*• Dorsett. 

Whereas Bullen Reymes of Gerrards Waddon in the County 
aforesd esqr hath given security for his peaceable demeanor 
according to the late Orders and instructions of his Highness & 
Councell for securing the peace of this Coinon Wealth, and being 
desirous to keep a fouling peice for his owne private vse. These 
are to Certify all whom itt may Concerne y* I haue licensed the sd 
Bullen Reymes to Keepe the sd fouling peice for his sd private 
vse, he doeing nothing therew*** p'iudiciall to the p' sent Govem*» 
Given vnder my hand att Dorchester Aug. the 23th, 1656. 

Rich. Southwood." 
(To he continued.) 

h 



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Somerset S* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 



251. Dorset Administrations.— C<7«//«i/^^.— -(II. ix. 10, 
X.49, xi. 78, xii.i 13, xiii. 150, xiv. 178, xv. 217, xvi. 242, III. xvii. 8, 
xviii. 57, xix. 94, xx. 151, xxi. 183, xxii. 233, xxiii. 279, xxiv. 323, 
IV. XXV. II, xxvi. 38, xxvii. 77, xxviii. 123, xxix. 173, xxx. 209). 



1655. 

Grantee and 
Relationship to deceased. 

Mary, rdict, and John,son 



Folio. Name of DeoeiMd. Parish. 
9 Bailyal*sBrowme- Mosterton 
sey, John 
139 BailyaTsDenslowesee Denslowe 
139 Baker, Richard "Deverwood," Mary, relict 

CO. Dorset 
171 Banheld, Ridhard Svirannedge, John, son 
died at sea in 
ship •* An- 
drew" in the 
States service 
Shasbury Susan, relict 

Winterbome Mary, relict 
Hampreston 



Date of 
AdminlstratioD. 

20 Jan., 1655 



9 June, 1655 
28 Aug., 1655 



66 Belbin, John 
9 Bolter, jfohn 
9 Bownes, Francis 



68 Bryant, Robert Broadwinsor 
238 Cavillian,£lizabeth Corfe Mullen 



Dorchester 



Nctherbury 



Robert Munck, principal 

creditor 
John, brother 
Elizabeth Frampton al's 

Cavillian, only child 
Martha, relict 
Ower, Purbeck William, son* 
Morden Thomas Thickey and John 

Plemlye, guardians of 
Thomas, Anne, Peter 
and John Cox, children 
of deceased 
Georee Sampson, grand- 
father and guardian of 
Edmund and Mary, 
children of deceased 
138 Edwards, William Okeford Fitz- Rebecca, relict 
paine 

223 Ejrres, John Sutton Poyntz Richard, brother 

224 Fill, Robert, Wimbome Thomas Harding and 

bachelor Minster Robert Porter, guard- 

ians of Ann and PhiUis 
Fill, sisters of deceased. 
EUzabeth Porter al's 
Fill, another sister of 
deceased, having re- 
nounced 
Anne, relict 



66 Coker, Robert 
223 Collins, Margaret 
66 Cox, Edith 



139 Denslowe al's 

Baily, Edith, 
widow 



24 Mar., 1655 
2 Jan., 1655 
5 Jan.. 1655 

14 May, 1655 
20 Aug., 1655 

7 Feb., 1655 

2 Nov., 1655 

24 Mar., 1655 



29 July, 1655 



16 June, 1655 

22 Nov., 1655 
24 Nov., 1655 



260 Frenchman, Nath- 
aniel 

68 Furlor al's Hath- 
erly 
223 Game, Henry 
151 Game, Thomas 



Winterbome 

Came 
see Hatherly 

Netherbury 
Loaders 



203 Hallett, William Marshwood 
68 Hannam, Thomas Winbome 



Joane, relict 

Mary, wife of Symon 

Long, only child of 

deceased 
Dorothy, relict 
Edmund Hawles, esq., 

nephew 



10 Dec, 1655 



13 Nov., 1655 
20 July, 1655 



15 Oct., 1655 
25 May, 1655 



Somerset S- Dorset Notes <§• Queries. 



307 



Folio. Name of Deoeased. 
68 Hatherly al's 
Furlor, John 

223 Hillary, John 
253 Hodges. Philip 

54 Kennell, Robert 
138 Kidger. Robert 
9 Langford al's 

Moore, Edmund 
176 Laning, Joseph 

9 Lewis, John 
199 Metyard, Thomas 
9 J^oore ai's Lang- 
ford 

67 More, Richard 

224 Morgan, William 

68 Munck, William 
67 Noyse, John 
06 Oliver, Thomasine 

195 Pearse, Robert 



Grantee and Date of 

Pariih. Relationahip to deceaied. Adminittzation. 

Puncknoll Mary Hatherly al's Furlor 28 May, 1655 

(no relationship given) 

Broadwinsor Elizabeth, relict 14 Nov., 1655 

Hanley Sarah, daughter 8 Dec, 1655 

Wareham John, brother 31 Mar., 1655 

Corscombe Mary, relict 19 June, 1655 

Loders Mary, relict 27 Jan., 1655 



Okeford Mary, relict 

Shilling 
Charleton Charles, brother 

Burton Jane, relict 

see Langford 



224 Phillips, George 
68 Pinfold al's Ro. 

maine 
139 Pope, Elizabeth, 

spr. 
68 Romaine al*s Pin- 
fold, Joan 
157 Salter, Thomas 
68 Sandford, Abra- 
ham 
224 Stickland, John 

136 Symons, Edward 
68 Thome, Richard 

137 Toms, John 
67 Turner, Anne, 

widow 
139 Wade, Matthew 

176 Warren, Alexander 
67 Watts, William 
65 Webb, Noah 
65 Willett, Richard 



92 Adren, Thomas 



Bridport 

Hanley 

Handley 

Hampreston 

Whitchurch 

Poole, died in 
the"Farring- 
ton " frigate 

Poole 

see Romaine 

Tolpudle 

Sherborne 

Comb Keyne 
Lyme 

Ceme Abbis 
Melbury Abby 
Handley 
Winfrith 
Piddlehinton 

"Dinney" co. 

Dorset 
Bridport 
Stalbridge 
Brodway 
Marshood 



Mary, daughter 
Wilfiam, only child 
John, son 
Edith, relict 
Elizabeth, wife of Richard 

Abbott, daughter 
Elizabeth, relict 



3 Sep., 1655 

8 Jan.. 1655 
31 Oct., 1655 

3 ApL, 1655 
24 Nov., 1655 
22 May, 1655 
13 Apl., 1655 

3 Feb., 1655 

12 Oct., 1655 



Alice, relict 



Robert, father 



30 Nov., 1655 



6 June, 1655 



Nicholas Romaine, hus- 22 May, 1655 

band 

John, brother 17 June, 1655 

Arabella, relict 7 May, 1655 



John, son 
Thomas, brother 
Henry, father 
Thomasine, relict 
John Standley, son 

Mathew, eldest son 

Bethia, relict 
Ann, relict 
Frances, relict 
Maiy, relict 



22 Nov., 1655 
7 June, 1655 

15 May, 1655 
12 June, 1655 
31 Mar.. 1655 

23 June, 1655 

3 Sep., 1655 
30 Apl., 1655 
20 Feb., 1655 

7 Feb., 1655 



1656. 



Norden, 

Purbeck 
Winterbome 
Chilfrome 
Poole 



117 Bason, Henry 
278 Beere, Robert 
306 Beeson, Andrew 
91 Body al*s Marks, Wike Regis 

Thomas 
107 Bowdich, James New land, 

Whitchurch 



William, brothei*. Cicely, 20 May, 1656 

mother, renouncing 
Eleanor, relict 24 June, 1656 

Margaret, relict 14 Nov., 1656 

Abraham, son 2 Dec, 1656 

Joane, reUct 14 May, 1656 



John Chappell al's Hut- 
chins, prmcipal aeditor 



16 May, 1656 



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Somerset S* Dorset Notes S* Queries, 



Folio. Nuno of DoooMed. Parish. 
91 Butt al's Wallis, Afipadle 

Elizabeth 
315 Chaplvn, Isaac, Wareham, died 
bacnr. in Jamaica 

31 Chattock, William Studiand, 

Purbeck 

205 Clarke, George, Buckhorae 

widr. Weston 

278 Cleeve, William Wareham 



32 Cogan, Robert Chardstock 
278 Critch, Robert Blandford 



91 Deare, Edward Iberton 

92 Drake, William More Critchell 
278 Fairclough, Nath- Stalbridge 

aniel 
278 Ford, Anne, widow 
278 Garland, William 

205 Grove, Hugh 
222 Hardy, John 

77 Harris al*s More- 

combe, Honor 

78 Harvey, Edward 

9 Hodder, Mary 



Qrantee and 
Relationship to deceased. 

John Bntt, husband 

Thomas, brother ; Eliza- 
beth, mother, renouncing 

Richard Chattock, grand- 
father of Ann, only 
child of deceased 

Nicholas and William, 
brothers 

William and Thomas 
Topsham, principal 
creditors 

Mary, relict 

Edward, brother (revoked 
and will proved 14 May, 

Alice, rehct 
Mary, relict 
Elizabeth, relict 



Dftteof 
▲dministimtion. 

14 May, 1656 

16 Dec., 1656 
13 Feb., 1656 

I Aug., 1656 

17 Nov., 1656 



13 Feb., 1656 
7 Nov., 1656 



Heydon 

" Revelsey " 

CO. Dorset 
Gillingham 
Upsi(Uing 
Sturminster 

Newton 
Langton Long Mary, relict 

Blandford 
Bridport 



John, son 
Elizabeth, relict 

Eleanor, relict 
Robert, brother 
Morris Harris, husband 



55 Holman, Arthur Weymouth 
9 Holme?:, Mathew Ower 

222 Keat, Richard Weymouth 
91 Lane, Alice Bradford Abbis 

91 Marks al's Body see Body 

278 Meatyard, Robert Shaston 



306 Memphey, Thomas 
306 Mompesson, Mar- 
garet 
77 Morcombe aPs 
Harris 

117 Muston, Oliver 

32 Newberry, William 
32 Noble, Honor 

118 Pillion, John 
50 Selby, Warbora 

91 Streete, John 
279 Tree, William 
205 Tuchin, Henry 

92 Turner, John 
306 Tyler, John 



Stockland 
LanctonMatre- 
vers, Purbeck 
see Harris 

Sherborne 
Stockland 
Sturminster 

Marshall 
Allington 
Pimpeme 
Corte Castle 
Lyme Regis 
Lyme Regis 
Lyme Re^'is 
Corfe 



Elizabeth Glisson al's 
Hodder and Anne 
Hodder, nieces 

John, eldest son 

Thomas Bullock, brother 

Margaret, relict 

Rol^, son 

Deborah,daughter. Mar- 
gery, relict, and Hester, 
daughter, renouncing 

Marian, relict 

George, son 



15 May, 1656 
20 May, 1656 
27 Nov., 1656 

22 Nov., 1656 
25 Nov., 1656 

5 Aug., 1656 

6 Sep. 1656 

14 Apl., 1656 

15 Apl., 1656 
3 Jan., 1656 



21 Mar., 1656 
30 Tan., 1656 
30 Sep. 1656 
12 May, 1656 

25 Nov., 1656 



18 Dec, 1656 
I Dec, 1656 



Patience, relict 

Joane, rdict 

William Holway, nephew 

on brother's side 
Edward, only son 
Elizabeth Hayter, cousin 
Elizabeth, relict 
Anne, relict 
Katherine, relict 
Maty, relict 
Katnerine Cole al's Tyler, 

relict 



18 June, 1656 

13 Feb., 1656 
8 Feb., 1656 

27 June, 1656 
7 Mar., 1656 

14 May, 1656 
6 Nov., 1656 

15 Aug., 1656 

19 May, 1656 
17 Dec., 1656 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes S* Qiuries, 309 

Ora&teeand Dat«of 

Folio. Name of Deceased. Pariah. Belationahip lo deceased. Adminiaferation. 

91 Wallis aVs Butt see Batt 

117 Whittd. Thomas Dorchester Joseph, brother, guardian 18 June, 1656 

of Elizabeth, Ann, 
Mary and Martha, 
children of deceased 
278 Woodford, Walter Edmundsham Ann, relict 14 Nbv., 1656 

118 Write, William Yetminster William, son 25 June, 1656 

(7& be continued,) Geo. S. Fry. 

* 252, Taunton Bridewell. — ^The following Advertisement 
appeared in The Postmaster, or. The Loyal Mercury of Sept. 25, 
1724, and is worth reprinting as an item in the History of Crime 
in Somersetshire. 

T. N. Brushfield, M.D., Salterton, Devon. 

*• These are to give Notice to all persons that on Sunday, 
being the 20th of this September, '7^4. the persons undernamed 
broke out of the House of Correction, or Bridewell, in Taunton, 
in the County of Someset [j/*r.], between the Hours of 3 and 4 in 
the Morning, by cutting the bars of the Deep Hall (a place where 
Condemned persons, or others for High Crimes, are commonly 
kept, and by most thought impregnable) and from thence went to 
Mt'lverton, in the same County where they had their Irons cut off, 
viz. 

Thomas Exon, alias Axhole, arraign'd and convicted for 
Stealing One Yoke of Oxen, who was burnt in the Hand, and 
order'd to the House of Correction to hard Labour for Six 
Months. He is about 5 Foot high, has short Curl'd Flaxen Hair, 
a large Scar, or Raw Place, near his Mouth. He is about 25 
years of Age. He was pursued by the Keeper and his Assistant 
to the town of Tiverton, where he was seen by divers Persons. 

John Hole alias Goss, arraign'd and convicted for stealing two 
Yoke of Oxen, and offering them for Sale at Duns tar Fair ; was 
burnt in the Hand, and order'd to the House of Correction to 
hard Labour for Six Months. He is about 5 Foot and 7 or 8 inches 
high, wears a light coloured Fustian Frock, or Coat, near 40 
Years of Age. 

Pay, an Irishman, by trade a Stay Maker, arraign'd, convicted, 
and burnt in the Hand, for taking out of a Shop 12 £ 10s. 6d. 
He is about 5 Foot and 6 inches high, a pale complection, wears 
light coloured Cloath, trimmed with the same. He is about 35 
Years of Age. 

Walter Cording, of Exon, in the County of Somerset [Devon], 
committed to the House of Correction sometime in May last by 
the Worshipful William Blake, Esq ; one of his Majesty's Justices 
of the Peace, for several Outrages committed against his Parents, 
and threatening to kill his brother, and Fire the House, &c. 



3IO Somerut 6* Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 

Whoever shall discover, or cause to be apprehended, the 
above-said Persons, or either of them, shall have a Guinea 
Re ward, with reasonableCharges ; but if any, or either, of the above- 
said Persons will yield himself or themselves in, he or they shall 
be kindly received, and handsomely treated by Edward Hartly, 
Keeper of the said House of Correction. 

Bat if any Person or Persons shall harbour or support any, or 
either, of the Persons above-named, they will be prosecuted with 
the utmost Severity." 

253. Monumental Inscriptions in other Counties 

RELATING TO SOMERSET AND DORSET (III. Xxiv. 337, IV. XXVii. 

88, zxix. 177.)— In a hook of Monumental Inscriptions ordered 
from and cut by a marble mason, Mr. White Watson, of Bakewell, 
CO. Derby, and now in the possession of the sextoness there, the 
following entry touching Somerset occurs : 

"Here lies the remains of I the Rev. John Gresley, B.D. | late 
minister of this chapel | and Kector of Aller | in the county of 
Somerset | who departed this life | February lo, 1795 ( Aged 58 
years." 

Francis J. Poynton. 

254« Ushers or Sub-Masters of Sherborne School.— 
N.B. The identifications in italics are conjectures. No name of 
any usher is given in the account Rolls till the year 1561, though 
the Usher's salary is paid from 1553 onward. 

1561. John Martyn, B.A., Fell. 0/ Ex. ColL, Oxon,, after- 
wards vicar of Somerion, left Christmas, 1563. 

1563. Thomas Penye, B.A., left Lady Day, 1565. 

1565. Greorge Holman, B.A., Vicar of Sherborne, 1566, left 
left Mich., I $69. 

1569. Nicholas Buckler, B.A , S. AlhatCs Halt, Oxon, left 
Mich., 1570. 

1570. Hamnet Hyde, B.A., Rector of Bishofs Caundle, 1589, 
left Mich. 1572. 

1572. Walter Blobolle, left Lady Day, 1573. Rector of 
Poyntington, buried there 19th Jan., 16 17. 

'573- John Elford, left Midsummer, 1575. 

1575. No name, salary paid till 1581. 

1581. — . Womell, left Christmas, 1 5 8 1 . 

1581. Philip Morris, of Hereford, B.A., Line. Coll., Oxon., 
left Christmas, 1584. 

1584. Lawrence Fuller, of Magdalen Hall, Oxon., B.A. 
1 58 1, left Midsummer, 1589, Rector of Nichol Aston, Glamorgan, 
1589. 

1589. John Rooke, left Mich., 1595. 

^S9S' William More, Gloucester Hall, Oxon,^ left Mid- 
summer, 1605. 



Somerset 6» Dorset Notes S* Queries. 3 1 1 

1605. George Harrison, B.A., 5". Mary Hall, Oxon, left in 
161 1 or 1612. The account for this year is lost. 

1612. George Gardiner, B.A., 1609, Exeter Coll., Oxon., 
left Midsummer, 1625, Rector of Bn-anstone, Dorset. 

1625. Randele Calcott, B.A., 1625, Magd. Hall, Oxon., left 
Midsummer, 1629, D.D., 1648, Rector of Hayes, Middlesex. 

1629. Richard Camplin, M.A., 1623, S. Mary Hall, Oxon., 
of Somerset, left Christmas, 1629, Vicar of Kingston juxta 
Taunton. 

1629. John Jacob, left 1634 or 1635. The account for this 
year is lost. 

1635. John MichellofGussage S.Mary,Ball.Coll.,Oxon.,B.A., 
1635, left Mich., 1638; Proctor in University of Oxford, 1645; 
Rector of Langton Matravers, Dorset, from which he was ejected 
in 1661. 

1638. John Fyler. B.A., Ball. Coll.. Oxon., left Mid- 
summer, 1647. 

1647. Thomas Martin, Pembroke Coll., Oxon., B.A., 1647, 
M.A., 1653, of Sherborne, left Midsummer, 1664. 

1664. Jonathan Grey, B.A., left Lady-day, 1667. 

1667. John Walker, Demy of Magdalen Coll., Oxon., B.A., 
1667, left Mich., 1667. 

1667. William Plowman, Wadham Coll., Oxon., B.A. 1667, 
Magdalen Coll., Oxon., M.A., 1669, of Sherborne, Vicar of 
Abbotsbury, 1674; Rector of Winterbome Steepleton, 1694; 
Rector of Winterborne Came, 1696, of Long Bredy, 1701 ; here 
he died and was buried in 1712. He left Sherborne, Mid- 
summer, 1675. 

1675. Peter Blanchard, Magdalen Coll., Oxon., B.A., 1670 ; 
Rector of Winterborne Monkton, 1680. He left Sherborne, Lady- 
day, 1682. 

1682. Abraham Forrester, B.A., 1681, Ch. Ch., Oxon. He 
left Midsummer, 1695. 

1695. Robert Forrester, of Sherborne, Trin. Coll., Oxon., 
B.A. 1685. He died at Sherborne before 14th Oct., 1695. 

1695. John Butt, of Sherborne, Trin. Coll., Oxon., B.A., 
1694, M.A., 1 718, Vicar of Milborne Port, 17 18. He left 
Sherborne, Midsummer, 17 18. 

1718. Edward Cosins, of Castle Carey, Queen's Coll.,Oxon., 
B.A. 171 1, Rector of Yarlington, 1723. He left Sherborne, Lady- 
day, 1723. 

1723. John Gaylard, B.A., Fellow of Emmanuel Coll., 
Camb., left Midsummer, 1728, Master of Cathedral School,WeHs, 
1728, Headmaster of Sherborne, 1733. 

1728. James Martin, of London, B.A., Merton Coll.,Oxon., 
1728. Left Midsummer, 1737. 

1737. James Thomas, of Erie Stoke, Wilts, B.A., Ch. Ch., 
Oxon., 1737. Left Lady-day, 1760. 



3i2 Somerset &» Dorset Notes &» Queries, 

1760. William Sharpe, of Houghton- le-Spring, Durham, 
B.A., Univ. Coll., Oxon., 1747, M.A., 1749, Vicar of Longburton, 
1763. Left Sherborne, Lady-day, 1766. Died in North of England 
Dec, 1783. 

1766. John Bristed, M.A., formerly Rector of S. Ann's, 
Lewes. Left Lady-day, 1779. 

1779. Robert Pargiter, of Buckingham, Demy of Magd. 
Coll., Oxon., B.A. 1778. Left Lady-day, 1780. Died in London, 
20 Feb., 1803. 

1780. William Glasspoole, of Winchester, Fellow of New 
Coll., Oxon., B.A., 1779. Left Mich., 1790. 

1790. James Knight Moore, M.A., Camb. Left Christmas, 
1 801 . Rector of Sapcote, Leicestershire. 

1 80 1. William Hoblyn Lake, of Cornwall, B. A. 1798, M.A. 
1803, Fellow ofWadham Coll., Oxon. Left Midsummer, 1804. 
Drowned in the Texel, 181 2, when Chaplain of H.M.S. S. 
George. 

1804. [Henry Cutler, of Sherborne, Ex. Coll., Oxon., 
locum ienens to Lady-day, 1805.] 

1805. David Williams, of Cardigan,Oriel Coll., Oxon., B.A. 
1805. Left Christmas, 1813. 

181 3. Thomas James, M.A,, Camb., Rector of Lillington, 
1846. Resigned his post of usher, i860 ; elected Governor 1861, 
Died 1866. 

i860. Arthur Mapletoft Curteis, of Canterbury, B.A. 1856, 
M.A. 1858, Fellow of Trin. Coll., Oxon. Ceased to be usher 
when the office was abolished under the new scheme, 1871. 
Left Sherborne, 1876. W. B. Wildman. 

255. Relic found at Puxton, Somerset.— The Editors 
tender their thanks to the Rev. T. A. Robinson, Vicar of Hewish 
and Puxton, Somerset, for the photograph from which this 
illustration has been made. Mr. Robinson writes — "The Relic 
consists of a copper figure of the Saviour, and it is the same size 
as the enclosed photograph. It was found in the course of 
throwing out the contents of a ditch on a farm belonging to Mr. 
S. Say, of Puxton. The photograph has been sent to the keeper 
of Medieval Antiquities at the British Museum, who writes 
respecting it : — 

* The photograph represents the figure of our Lord from a crucifix or 
perhaps from a piece of church furniture, such as a book of the Gospels or 
a reliquary. It is of 13th century work and no doubt of copper or bronze, 
originally gilt. The lines upon the arms and body are curious, but I cannot 
quite understand them from the photograph.' 

The Editors. 

256. Glastonbury Tradition. — Is the following tradition 
known to any reader of S, & D, N. & Q., as existing at the 
present day in Somerset ? It is said that Joseph of Arimathea 
derived his great riches from trading in tin with Britain, that he 




RELIC FOUND AT PUXTON. 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes 6f Queries. 



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made several voyages to this country, and on one occasion 
brought Our Lord, then a boy, with him, and the place where 
they sojourned near Glastonbury is called " Paradise " to this 
day : and even now when the miners of Mendip (who by the way 
are recently extinct) arrive at a critical and dangerous moment 
in the process, they all repeat " Joseph was a tinman," as a 
charm to avert disaster. * 

2. 

257. Dorset Clergy and the Protestation of 164 1-2. 
Concluded. (IV. xxix. 192, xxx. 214.) 

DORSET PROTESTATIONS (1641 -2). 



Shaston 




Clergy, Described as 


Division. 


CoGDEAN Hundred. 








Litchett Minster 


Leonard Clatworthy 


Minister 




Do- Matravers 


Edmund Batson 


Minister 




Hamworthy 


Mathias Melledge 


Minister 




Kingston 


John Jues 


Minister 




Corfe Mullen 


[No name] 
John Everard 
Willm Oates (varied 






Charlton Marshall 


Minister 




Sturminster Marshall 


Minister 






the oath) 






Canford Magna 


Willm Beaumont 


Minister 


Do. 


MONKTON UP WiMBORNE HUNDRED. 






Chettle 


Rich. Rock 

(Befmed at first but took 
the oftth afterward!.) 


Minister 




Cranborne & Tithings 


William Swayne 


Vicar 


Do. 


LOOSEBARROW HUNDRED. 






Aimer cum Maperton 


Tho. Butler 


Minister 




Morden 


Nevell Drant 


Minister 




Spetisbury cum Craford 


Francis Souch 


Minister 


Do. 


Knowlton Hundred. 








Long Critchell 


Andrew Brawer 


Minister 




Gussage All Saints 


Henry Combe 


Curate 




Woodlands 


Tho. Gatehouse 


Curate of 
Knowlton 


Do. 


GiLLINGHAM LIBERTY. 








Gillingham 


Edward Davenant 


Doctor of 




Motcombe 


[No name] 


Divinity 


Do. 


Badbury Hundred. 








Chalbury 


Richard Toomer 


Rector 




Tarrant Crawford 


James Holford 
William Strong 


Clarke 




Critchill Moore 


Rector 



^ [The Mendip mines were lead mines.}— Editor for Somerset. 



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Somerset <K» Dorut Notes S- Queries. 



Shaston 


Clergv, 


Discribedas 


Division. _ -.^ _,. , , 
Gussage St. Michael 


i Fredericke Vaughan 
( William White 


Rector 
Curate 


Hinton Parva 


William Goddard 


Clerk 


Hinton Martell 


Richard Toomer 


Gierke 


Horton 


Robert Dackcombe 


Vicar 


Shapwjck 


Willm Sherley 


Gierke 


Wimborae Minster and 


Phillip Tayler 
Walter Flaye 


Gierke 


hamlets therein 


Gierke 




Richard Lewes 


Gierke 




William Stone 


Gierke 




(These two hesitated but 






eTentoftUy signed.) 




Do. Cranborne Hundred 






Ashmore 


Roger Gierke 


Rector 


Bellchalwell 


William Combe 


Rector 


Cranborne (parish) 






Edmondsham 


Thom. Gierke 


Rector 


Famham 


Christopher Hackney M mister 




(refused) 




Hampreston 


Robt. Heighmor 


Rector 


Holwell 


Hen. Hartwell 


Rector 


Oakford 


William Bisson 


Gierke 


Pentridge 


Gabriell Saywell 


Rector 


Rushton Tarrant 


Richard Cheyney 


Rector 


Tarrant Gunville 


FNo name] 




Turnwood 


Nicholas Odell 


Curate 


West Parley 


John Sherren 


Minister 


Witchampton 


[No name] 




Do. WiMBORNE St. Giles Hundred. 




Wimbome All Saint.s 


Thomas Rivers 


Rector 


Wimborne St. Giles 


William Young 


Minister 


Do. Sixpenny Handley Hundred. 




Cann, or Shaston St. 


Samuel Weale 


Rector 


Rumbald 






Compton Abbas 


William Toomer 


Curate 


Fontmell Magna 


Robt. Potter 


Minister 


Handley 


John Wells 
Thomas Hudson 


Minister 


Iweme Minster 


Minister 


Melbury Abbas 


Edward Simmons 


Minister 


Shaftesbury 


Ant. Prowse 


Rector 


Do. Holy Trinity 


Edward Williams 


Mynister 


Do. St. Peter's 


Thomas Hallett 


Minister 


Do. Alcester Liberty. 






St. James 


Christo' Greene 


Minister 



Somerset S- Dorset Notes <§• Queries. 



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Dorchester 


CUrgv. 


Described as 


Division. CULLIFORD TrEB HUNDRED. 




Broadway 


Tho. Bartlett 


Rector 


Buckland Ripers 


Walter Burges 


Pastor 


Chickerell 


Tristram Knapton 


Gierke 


Melcombe Regis 


Richard Marwell 


Rector 


Osmington 


John Blaxton 
Richard Marwell 


Minister 


Radipole 


Rector 


Upway 

West Knighton 


William Tounson 


Rector 


Percival Reech 


Rector 


West Stafford 


Richard Russell 


Rector 


Weymouth 


Ferdinando Talour 


Curate 


' Whitcombe 


Henry Bartlet 


Curate 


WinterboumeMonckton 


WiUia' Hurdacre 
[Hardaker] 


Rector 


Do. Sutton Pgyntz Liberty. 




Preston and Laurence 


Tho. Barlett 


Clarke 


Aggleford 






Sutton Poyntz 


[No name] 




Stockwood 


Robert Willyams 


Minister 



Do. Wyke Regis Liberty. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Wyke Regis Ferdinando Talour 

Isle of Portland Liberty. 



Curate 



Isle of Portland 

George Hundred. 

Bradford & Muckleford 

Broadmayne 

Charminster 

Stinsford 

Stratton & Grimston 
Winterbome St. Martin 

PUDDLETOWN HUNDRED, 

Athelhampton & Bur 
leston (North Bland 
ford Hundred) 

Milbome St. Andrew 

Puddletown (parish) 

Tincleton 

Tolpuddle 

TOLLESFORD HUNDRED 

Chelborough, East 
Chelborough, West 



[Name obliterated] Curate 

Thomas Kinge Curate 

Richard Harvey Rector 

Richard Dike Vicar 

William Golsbery \ 

[Goldesborough] > Ministers 



Giles Golesbery 
Richard Dike 
Robt. Hasell 



I Andrew Bromhall 

Thomas Hall 
John Sacheverell 
Francis Ward 
William Maycock 



John Pitt 
Trustra* Burt 






Clerk 
Vicar 



Rector 

Vicar 
Rector 
Cleric. 
Minister 



Rector 
Rector 



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Somerset S* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 



Dorchester 

Division Frotne Vauchurch 

Maiden Newton 

Toiler Porcorum 

[Name obliterated] 

f Name obliterated] 
Do. Ugscombb Hundred. 

Chilcombe 

Fleet 

Hawkchurch 

Langton Herring 

Little Bredy 

Litton Cheney 

Portisham ( 

Puncknowle 
Swyre 
Winterboume Steepleton 



Girgy. Dtscribid as 

{ohn Walton Curate 

latt. Osborne Parson 

John F. . . . [Rest obliterated] 
George Wood Vicar 

Thomas Clement Cler. 



Dal 1 wood I 

Fordington 

Hermitage 



Fordington 
Liberty 



Do. 



Puddlehinton Liberty 
Brke Regis Hundred. 
Bere Regis 
Winterbome Kingston 



Walton Orchard 
Ferdinando Taloar 
Rob. Jones 
Jo. Haslewood 
Tho. Hallet 
Henry Berieu 
Jtffery Samways 
John Galpinge 
Tohn Croft 
Roberte Fryer 
Albert Aronside f 
Henry C . . . . [rest 

obliterated] 
John Marsh 

James Munden 
homas Clavering 

John Rogers 
Jonathan Laurence 



Rector 
Vicar 
Rector 
Rector 
Curate 
Curate 
Vicar ♦ 
Minister 
Rector 
Curate 
Cleric 
Curate 

Curate 
Clarke 
Minister 

Vicar 
Minister 



258, PoRTMAN Family. — According to Burke's "Peerage " 
the family of Portman of Orchard town (extinct in the male line) 
was mentioned in the co. of Somerset as early as the reign of 
Edward I. 

Can it be ascertained where this family originally came from ? 
I presume it came from the Low Countries, as there existed, long 
before the Reformation, a distinguished family of that name in the 
county of Gueldres Netherlands, bearing the same coat of arms 
as the English family of the same name, viz., the fleur de lis. 

I shall be much obliged for any information regarding this 
family and its origin in England. 

Th. Jan Benthem Van den Bergh. 

259. Tyneham Notes. — We print the following extracts 
from the Tyneham Churchwardens* Accounts, 1752-1856, not on 
account of their own importance, still less for that of the retired 
village to which the originals belong, but chiefly with a view to 
stimulate the production of similar records having wider and 
more varied interest by those who have access to such parochial 
documents in other parts of the county. 



• Struck out in the original, 
t Probably Gilbert Ironside. 



Notes &• Queries. 317 

* '*^ hundred of Hasilor on the coast 

iVest Lulworth, commands a view of 



*^-^ 



'^^^^ TtatL'^ *i°^ Worbarrow Bay (so the late Mr. 

^ £^? ***• ^ house is about half a century old, and 



ian of Corfe Castle, would have 

ijjjl^ Jl *^ ^^ ^"' ^'^ ^^^ sister village of Steeple, 

f//^^ W*^^ A '^ ^^ Purbeck by two lines of hills of 

\^^^ ^ it respectively. 



^^ ^kr- • iipied by a curate-in-charge. The older 

Ijg*^ ••■* 'tage, which may be in part what was the 

i^^Jtt9t_ '*^ eiituries ago. It has in a lower room one 

y^*J?^^ *^^ hich (before the ground rose in front of it, 

j(^T^»| '^^ of some centuries) must have had a peep of 

^Jg^'^_* ^^ p burning within may have been dimly visible 

jr/J^^r^^^ 4|% :he terrier which Denis Bond exhibited at the 

•^r^^ *W ^ Visitation at Blandford, 14th Aug.. 1757. the 

'^^f^'^ 'i^ » described as having * a house for brewing or 

ii^^ 4»^ cable, one bam situate near the churchyard... a 

lest, belonging to it, about half an acre of glebe 

1 ^g it on the north, and about 26 acres more of 

•^ ^ oounded on the west by Balkington Farm, on the 

^ iam Farm, as also on the south ; on the north by 

•► iown.* The Church, which now is cruciform, had 

>'^ :)scope and the interesting miniature triple arch at the 

4^ Jch was once a feature in the Churches of this part of 

ut alterations made in an intermediate generation have 

1% d these architectural peculiarities, and nothing old 

^ save an early piscina, in the north transept, of the rudest 

workmanship. The roll of rectors ofTyneham reaches 

If J the confines of the 13th century, but as in later times 

^ id not always reside near this parish church, there are no 

records here, and the registers themselves do not reach 

V before the time of William III. and Queen Mary, while 

». -' of Steeple begin in the famous second year of King 

»^ard VL ; and there was no one here to see that other parish 

"^ -ks were not thrown aside by the farmers who held the parish 

ces, or by their relatives, when the pages were full and a new 

^ <urch warden had a new volume in which to enter his accounts. 

vS it is, the preservation of the only full book of parochial accounts 

vhich we have now at Tyneham, dating from the latter years of 

George IL, is due to the late Mr. T. Bond, himself a rector's son, 

who did the present writer the credit to think him worthy to be 

trusted with it, and it is now deposited in the iron chest. 

But time and its customs pass swiftly by, and records of 
Georgian era are already becoming matters of antient history ; so 
we at Tyneham venture to make themost of this solitary Sibylline 
volume which we have. Of course some other parishes can show 
US Churchwardens' accounts running back to Tudor times, but 



3i8 Somerset (S* Dorset Notes S* Queries, 

such happy parishes are I believe very rare. My own father pre- 
served from destruction one which carried the Church in his 
Berkshire village from Edward VI. to Queen Anne, right through 
the days of Philip and Mary and the Commonwealth without a 
break, and without displacement of parson or churchwardens at 
the most crucial times. As an instance of the continuity of the 
Church of England as a corporation I may mention that the 
parson and churchwardens included in one and the same bill the 
second book of King Edward and the new stone altars and pewter 
censers of Queen Mary. Again, the church officers who in 
1558-9 have to make their charge for paschal light, herse light, 
and Easter Sepulchre under Queen Mary, charge also for their 
services at the Visitation by Queen Elizabeth's Commissioners in 
the same twelvemonth. In 1639 the churchwardens charge for 
bread and Wine on Whitsunday, ts 'jd; at Michallmas, isjd; 
at Cristmas, 31 gd; and at Easter, 1/ 51. Their successors 
(under the * Directory ') in 1653 make ^i^® charges of 4X 2^,, 
3x id,, il 'js 4^ for three of the same feasts, omitting Michaelmas. 
The minister and two churchwardens who were nominated in 
1652-3 when the vestry paid los td 'for blotting out the King's 
armes and for setting up the State's armes ' were among those 
who signed the account for paying the ringers 3^ on the 29th of 
May in 1661. 

The Churchwardens' Account Book for the Parish of Tyne- 
ham St. Mary, in the Isle of Purbeck, and County of Dorset, 
A.D. 1752-1856, is a smdl folio ledger, bound in parchment 
(water mark(i) Britannia, within a palisade, a lion before her 
with sabre and bundle of (?) darts in his paws, illustrating the 
loyal legend • Pro Patriai (2) « G.R.' crowned.) 

I have stuck in at the end a curious broadside, which I 
picked out of a coal-scuttle in a cottage. A mass of such 
*• rubbish " (I regret to say) had been committed to the flames at 
Tyneham just before I came into residence. 

The greater half of the paper contains an announcement of 
;^5o penalty for administering estate without probate or letters of 
administration (37 Geo. III.), and the lower part of the page is 
turned to account for the following ecclesiastical announcement : 

<* The Bishop of Bristol intends holding his Visitation and Confirmation for 
the Year 1798 at the following times and places, 

Thursday, June 7, Blandford, Visit and Confinn. 
Friday, ,, 8, Warekam, Confirm. 
Saturday, „ 9, Dorchester, Visit and Confirm. 
Monday, ' „ 11, Bridport, Visit and Confirm. 
Tuesday, „ 12, Ceme, Visit and Confirm. 

Wedntsday, ,,13, Sherborne, Confirm. 
Thursday, „ 14, Shaftesbury, Visit and Confirm. 
Dated at Blandford Forum, the 8th day of May, 1798. 

Edmund Cooth, Dep. Registrar 

to the Bishop of Bristol, 
The Churchwardens will cause this to be affixed to the outer door of tne Parish 
Church immediately on the receipt hereof." 



Sofnerset S* Dorset Notes S* Queries. ' 319 

A Bishop's Confirmation and Visitation lists, whether in the 
Diocese of Salisbury or of Gloucester and Bristol, at the present 
dav certainly form a striking contrast with the above notice, 
printed for the County of Dorset in the first year of Folliot 
Cornwall, Bishop of Bristol, when George the Third was king. 

I saved also a fragment which illustrates the poor law pro- 
ceedings of the time : — 

Dorset \ To the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the 
to to. / Parish of Tintham, in the County of Dorset aforesaid to 
convey, and to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor 
of the Parish ^i Amtm the sam^ County to receive 

THESE. 

"IX^HEREAS Complaint hath been made by you the Church- 
wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the said Parish of 
Tineham in the said County of Dorset unto whose Hands and 
Seals are hereunto set, two of his Majesty's Justices of the 
Peace (whereof one is of the Quorum for tne County of Dorset 
aforesaid, That/oAn Neech Labourer hath lately intruaed him- 
self into your said Parish of Tineham there to inhabit as a 
Wm. Morton Pitt, Parishioner contrary to the Laws relating to the Settlement of 
[Signature] the Poor, and is likely to become chargeable to the said Parish 
. of Tineham And whereas upon due Examination and 

Enquiry made into the Premises (T)lank 

space left] it appears unto us, and we accordingly adjudge, 
that the said John Neech is wholly to become ch[argeable to the 
said Parish of i4rn* . . . .] 

The rest of the paper was destroyed. 

A paper of somewhat similar purpose, but entirely in manu- 
script t and probably earlier than the above, is written on a leaf 
with the same water-mark as the paper in the account-book 
which I am to describe. 

" We the Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the parish of West 
Lullworth in the Countjr ot Dorsett hereby certify that we own and acknowledg 
William Milledg and Elizabeth his Daughter to be both Inhabitants Legally 
settled in our said Parish of West Lullworth and we do herebv promise for our- 
selves and Successors to receive them in our Said Parish Whenever they shall 
become chargeable In Wittness Whereof we the said Churchwardens and 

t I have pasted this leaf into a vellum Register of Marriages and Christen- 
ings 1 692- 1 800 (with Burials beginning in 1792), which is chiefly remarkable for 
the notes at the beginning. The first leaf is headed 

Tyneham. Habitatio ocdusa. 

It gives a list of Rectors of Tyneham horn " Adam Richmaa, Rector de 
Tyneham obijt Octob. 15*^. Sepult. 16** 1581 "and Samuel Bolde ''de Steeple 
cum Tyneham " to the present day, the intention being for the succeeding m- 
cumbent to enter the date of his predecessor's departure or burial. There is on 
page p. 4 '*Note, That the Supputation of the Year of our Lord in the Church 
of England begins the 25th day of March." A memorandum in the hand- 
writing of Bernard Toup (rector of Tjmeham, 1691-1720). 



320 



Somerset 6" Dorset Notes S» Queries. 



Overseers have hereunto Respectively set our hands and seals the 27th day of 
March In the Year of our Lord 1763 

Wilhn. Randall 
Attested by George Lillington 

John Rumsay 
John MiUcdg John Vey 

Thomas Randall ' 



Churchwardens 



Overseers 



L.S. 
L.S. 



L.S. 
L.S. 



County of J We whose names are hereto subscribed Two of his Majesties 
Dorset / Justices of the Peace for the said County do allow of the above Cer- 
tificate and we do also certify that John MiUedg one of the Wit- 
nesses who attested the same hath made Oath before Us that He 
the said John Milledg did see the Churchwardens and Overseers of 
the Poor of the said Parish, whose Names are thereunto subscribed 
and set, severallv sign and seal the same and that the names of John 
Rumsey and John Milledg who are the Witnesses attesting the 
said Certificate are respectively of their own proper handwriting. 
Given under our Hands this nth Day of April 1763. 

Geo. Clavell. 
A. Churchill 



A list of the Churchwardens of Tyneham for half a century 
shews the system on which these officers were appointed to serve 
for one or two years. The duties were taken in some sort of 
succession by the tenants of certain lands, or their representatives. 



Richard Hopkins Chorch wardan 

[Robert] Ahier Chorch warden 

William Davis Church Warden 

William Stickland „ ,» Backenton 

William Stickland „ „ for Mr. Loads 

Mr. Symonds 

Wm Stickland for Tineham . . 

Wm Stickland for South Eggleston 

Wm. Sickland for pouenton farem 

John Hopkens Church warden 

Kobt. Amer »» »> • • 

William Davis t» ** 

Denis wiUs hear [ue., Willshire] 

Mr Symonds . . • . • • 

Mr Symonds . . . • • • 

James Randall 

James Randall sarvd for the Reve* Mr Bond 

John Dore for Povingdon 

John Dore for Hopkeses Living 

Henry Willshier for Balkington 

Robt Alner Church Warden . , 

William Davis „ „ South Tineham . 

Joseph Willshear Church warden 

WilUam Davis Church Warden for Mr Alner 

William Davis for South tineham 

Henry Willshire for Backington 

Samll Symonds for South Eggleston . . 

Samll Symonds for Do. 

Charles Richards for Great T3meham . . 

Charles Richards for Do. 

Thos Willshire for Backington 



1750 
1752 
'753 
«754 

1756 

1758 
1759 
1760 
1761 
1762 

1764 

1765 
1766 
1767 
1768 
1769 
1770 

1771 
1772 

1773 
1779 
1780 
1781 
1782 

I7»3 
1784 
1785 
1786 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes <5» Queries. 321 



Robert Alner for Whiteway 



1787 



Wm Davis for South Tyne^am .. .. ..1788 

Henry Wilshire for Povington .. .. .. 1789 

Richard Duell for Povington . . . . . . . . I79^ 

William Vyc for North Eggleston .. .. .. 1791 

&c., &c. 

(The appointment of the 2nd Churchwarden in Vestry begins 
atTyneham with this century, in 1801.) 

Chr. Wordsworth. 
{To be continued.) 

260. Sturminstbr Marshall and S. Giles, Pont 
AuDBMBR. (I. i. 34.)— The Rev. James Cross, Bailie House, 
Sturminster Marshall, Dorset, has sent us for insertion in S. &» D. 
N. df Q. some notes given him by Mr. Edward Filliter, bearing 
on the connection of this parish with the Hospital of S. Giles at 
Pont Audemer, the ancient possessor of the Rectory and advowson. 

Htstoire de la Maison UHarcourt^ La Roque^ 1662. 

Vol. HI. pp. 50, 51, 52. Robert, fils de Valeran, Comte de 
Meullent, et Matilde sa femme. 

Extraict des Chartes du Prieur6 de Sainct Gilles de Ponteau- 
de-Mer. 

Omnibus haec visuris. Officialis Lexoviensis salutem in 
Domino. Noveritis nos literas inferius annotatas non cancellatas. 
non abolitas, nee aliqua parte sui vitiatas vidisse, legisse et 
diligenter inspexisse, In haec verba. 

Robertus Filius Gallerani Comitis Mellenti, omnibus homini- 
bus suis praepositis, ministris, baillivis tam prsesentibus quam 
futuris salutem. 

Notum volo esse vobis et omnibus Dei Ecclesise filiis tam 
praesentibus quam futuris, me in perpetuam eleemosynam infirmis 
fratribus Sancti Egidii de Ponteaudomari concessisse et dedisse, 
ea quse subscripta sunt, assensu Matildae uxoris me» in praepositura 
mea de Ponteaudomari triginta libras per annum, ita ut singulis 
diebus ^uinquaginta solidos inde habeant septem marcas argenti 
in Anglia, in villa quae vocatur Cherlentona. 

«««««« 
Ecclesiam de Stramelisferia cum decimis et terns et omnibus 
pertinentibus suis assensu et dono Goscelini Saliberienis Episcopi 
ad vestitum suorum sacerdotum. 

«««««« 
Quod autem in dictis litteris vidimus, de verbo ad verbum 
transcribi fecimus et sigillo Curiae nostras Lexoviensis fecimus 
sigillari: — Datum anno Domini Millesimo ducentesimo sexagesimo 
decimo secundo, die Lunae post festum Beati Martini aestivalis. 
Et plus bas est escript ** collatio facta " avec apparence d'avoir 
est^ 8cell6 sur double queuS de cire verte. 

M 



322 Sofwrui S» Dorset Notes &» Queries. 

(In a ''Vidimus** dated 1314, the donation is referred to as 
follows : — ) 

Vol. III. p. 39. Eztraict des Registres du Priear6 du 
Pouteau-de-Mer, sur nn Vidimus. 

Autre Charte de la Fondation du Prieur^ de Sainct Gilles du 
Pouteau-de-Mer, par Valeran Comte de Meulant. 

Carolus, Dei gratia, Francorum Rex, notum facimus uni- 
versis, tarn prsesentibus quam futuris, nos quasdam litteras vidisse 
de verbo ad verbum sequitur in haec verba. 

Henricus, Rex Angliae et Dux Normaniae et Aquitanias et 
Comes Andegavensis ; Archiepiscopis, Abbatibus Baronibus et 
omnibus fidelibus suis Francis et Anglis totius Angliae et Normaniae 
salutem ; Sciatis me concessisse, et prsesenti Charta confirmasse, 
infirmis fratribus Sancti Egidii de Pontaudomari, quicquid eis 
rationabiliter datum est vel ab eis emptum scilicet ex dono 
Comitis Mellenti, triginta libras hujus modi monetae, quam ipse 
Comes recipiet de praepositura sua Pontaudomarensi in Anglia, 
in villa quae vocatur Ceiien/ona. unam carrucatam terrae, cum 
omnibus juramentis et communi pastura; ad ipsorum item 
Ecclesiam de Es/uenneis/na^ assensu et consensu Rogerii Sares- 
beriensis Epicopi, cum decimis et omnibus pertinensiis suis ad 
vestimenta suorum Sacerdotum concessum et quadraginta carra- 
tus lignorum adducendas usque ad Pontaudomarum. 

« « « « • • 

Datum Parisiis die quarta Maii, Anno Domini Millesimo tre- 
centesimo vtgesimo quarto, 

Etsur le reply est escrit " Dominum M. Maucond. Grervasi " 
et a cost6 *• facta est collatio " et scell^ en lac de soye verte et 
rouge du grand Sceau de cire verte. 



Hisioirede la VUh de PontAudemer. Par A. Canel (Published 
at Pont Audemer in 1885). Volume I. 

P. 57. — Nous avons ou que les seigneurs de Pont-Audemer, 
surtout depuis la conqu^te de I'Angleterre, et Tacquisition par 
alliance, du comt6 de Meulan, avaient joui d'une formidable 
puissance. 

«««««« 

Ce ne fut pas uniquement par leur richesse que se firent 
remarquer Roger de Beaumont [Belmont] et Robert Meulan 
[Mellent ?] ; ils se distingu^rent encore et surtout par de hautes 
capacit^s et par une prudence non moins recommandable. 

« « ' « 41 « « 

Ce deuxieme Robert de Meulan, dernier seigneur de Pont- 
Audemer, avait 6pous6 Mathilde, fille de Regnauld, comte de 
Comouille. II ent de ce manage trois fils ; Waleran, Pierre et 
Henri ; et une fille, nonimee Mabine, qui ^pousa Guillaume, 
comte de Whight. 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes &> Queries. 323 

P. 58. — Piere 6tait engage dans les ordres ; ce qui ne 
Temp^cha pas de prendre femme. // /ut poutvu de tiglise de 
Stourminsier, dans le comt6 de Dorset^ sur la prheniaiion des 
Mres di la Uproserie de Satnl-GllleSt et il devint ensuite doyen 
de r6glise coll6giale de Wimborne, dans le mgme comt6. 



Unechroniqae du temps fixe sa mort k Tann^e 1203, et c*6tait 
dla date du 28 Mai de la mSme ann^e que Jean sans Terre lui 
donnait un successeur au doyenn^ de Wimbome. 

Essai historique sur Tarrondissement de Pont Audemer. Par 
M. Alfred Canel avocat 1833. Page 60, Lorsque la guerre ^clata 
entr6 le Roi de France et le due de Normandie les frerds de la 
maison des lepreaux pour se soustraire aux devastations passerent 
momentariment en Angleterre 01^ ils poss6darent le patronnage 
de I'eglise de Sturmilester avec les dimes et quelques autr^s 
r6venus donnas par Waleran (Archives de rh6pital). 

£n 1418 le temporel du prieur6 de Saml Gilles fut confisqu6 
par le roi d'Angleterre mais il leur fut rendu quatre ans apr^s. 

261. Metrical School Gracb. (IV. xxix. 186, xxx. 224, 
225). — I am interested to learn that in the Grace " Be present, 
&c.," other persons besides myself have sought to avoid the word 
crealures in the 3rd line. When I came to Swanswick in 1857, ^ 
found this Metrical Grace in established use for parochial occa- 
sions and I have retained it. But I could not brook the phrase 
"These creatures bless," and I substituted the words ** Bless our 
repast." J. Earle. 

262. John Cennick, the author of this Grace, was a prolific 
hymn writer. He was descended from a family of Quakers, but 
brought up in the Church of England. He first assisted John 
Weslev as lay preacher (1740), then George Whitfield, and finally 
passed over to, and died a minister of, the Moravian Church. 
Bom at Reading in 17 18; died in London, July 4, 1755 (J. 
Julian's DicHonaty of ayntnology^ 1892, pp. 215-16). Although 
Cennick published several volumes of hymns and sermons he has 
no niche in the new Dictionary of National Biography. 

William George. 

263. PouNSBTT Family. (IV. xxviii. 129, xxix. 164, xxx. 
232). — The following entry occurs in the Parish Register of 
Lamyat, Somerset : — 

1714, Nov. 29, John Pounset of North Barrow and Mary 
fiurber of Evercritch were married. F W.W. 



324 Samerut *• Dorut Notes <5» Queries. 

264. Chapican Family. (IV. xxx. 219). The following 
notes on wills proved in London seem to bear on this subject : — 

The will of Edward Chapman of Eweme Courtney alias 
Shrowton, dated 12th April, 1660, and proved 3rd Oct., i66o» 
mentions his brothers Emmannell Chapman and William 
Chapman, both of Puddle Towne. 

The will of Edward Short of Fifehead Quinten in Bellchall- 
well, dated i8th Feb., 1658-9, proved 1659, mentions his brother 
John Chapman. 

The will of John Keynell of Goare in Bell Challwell, gent., 
dated July, 16581 and proved 1659, mentions his kinswoman 
Elizabeth Chapman, daughter of testator's brother Edmond 
Keynell. 

The name of Chapman is also found during the Common- 
wealth period at North Wootton and Haydon. 

F.J.P. 

265. Edbpibld near Bishop's Caundlb. — I find, in 
records of the 17th century, mention of a farm or hamlet called 
Edefield apparently in the neighbourhood of Bishop's Caundle or 
Holnest. Can any one tell me in what parish it was situated ? 

F.J.P. 

266. Malherbb Family.— As an instance of the difficulties 
connected with the compilation of early pedigrees I find that in 
31 Ed. I (1302-3) there were living in Somerset no less than four 
persons bearing the name of William Malherbe, their fathers' 
names being Adam, Hugh, Robert and William (S.R.S;vi. 322, 
325). Is there any pedigree of this family besides the one given 
in Collinson III. 601 ? 

F.W.W. 

267. ROBBRT FrYB, RbCTOR OP OvBR COMPTON. (IV. 

xxvi. 51). — May I point out that a question I asked as to this 
Robert Frye is answered by the Rev. W. Miles Barnes in his note 
on the " Dorset Clergy " (IV. xxviii. 1 59), where he refers to 
Robert Frye as having been instituted to the Rectory of Compton 
Haworth on 27 June, 27 Henry VIII (1535)? This clearly proves 
that Robert iric mentioned in Hutchins (Vol. IV. p. 173) as 
instituted to this rectory in 1535 is an error for Robert Frye. 

Gbo. S. Fry. 
Inglewood, Upper Walthamstow Road, Walthamstow. 

268. DosiTHBUS Wyer. (I. viii. 371, II. XV. 223, III. xix. 
96). — ^The Registers at S. Mary's Chitterne, Wilts, give the 
following information of him and his family : — 



Som&rsct S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 325 

•655. 

Deceb Margaret the wife of Dositheus Wyer minister of y^ 
4th Gbospell at Chitterae deceased the first day of Deceb 
1655. ^ buried on y« 4th of y* same. 

1656. 

The agreem* of marriage between Dositheus Wyer 
minister of Chitteme and Mrs. Siscella Wannerton of 
Cloford in y« county of Sumerset was published three 
severall Lord's days in y« close of y« morning exercise 
viz Januarii y* 18^ and 25^ days and the first day of 
Feb' according to y« tenor of a late act made, &c. 
March The above said Dositheus Wyer minister of y^ word & 
24 : M'" Siscella Wannerton were married on the 24^ of 

1656 March 1656. 

1657- 

The Agreem* of marriage between Robert Atkins of 
Sutton Benger gent and Millecent Wyer of Chitterne All 
S*" were published : 3 : severall dayes at Lavington 
Forum viz the 12 : y* 19*** and 26*** dayes of November 
Ano 1656. 
Maij 1 2 The above said Robert Atkins gent and Millecent Wyer 

1657 were married on the i2**> Maij 1657. 

R. G. Bartlbtt, 

269. Oliybr Cromwell, 1770. (IV. xxx. 230). — The fol- 
lowing extracts from the registers of All Cannings, co. Wilts, may 
perhaps be of service to C. H., showing as they do the existence 
of a family of the name of Cromwell not a very long way from 
Bath and Beckington : — 

Maria Cromwell filia Johan' Cromwell baptisata 8 Oct.,1585. 

John Cromwell buried 28 Nov., 1586. 

John Beale and Elizabeth Cromwell married 12 June, 1598. 

R. G. Bartlett. 

270. A Curious North Dbvon Superstition. — A super- 
stition prevails in North Devon that lead taken from any window 
in a Parish Church is the best material for stopping a decayed 
tooth. Does this idea exist also in Somerset and Dorset ? 

If good for the decayed tooth, the Devonian system is bad 
for church windows, two of which in the same Church I saw had 
to be partially boarded up. 

Alhbrt Bankes. 



326 Somerset S» Dorset Uotes S» Queries. 

271. MoATLBSs Houses. — ^Tonacombe. a most interesting 
specimen of a 1+ century residence in the parish of Morwen- 
stowe. North Devon, is built on so high a cliff that a moat with 
water in it must always have been out of the question. 

For defensive purposes therefore the house appears to have 
been surrounded by double walls, the space between them was 
called the street. No windows looked into this street, and the 
entrance was guarded by a portcullis and arrow slits. 

Is Tonacombe a unique specimen or are there any other 
examples of moatless houses either in the United Kingdom or 
abroad ? In Kingsley's Westward Ho ! Tonacombe is called 
Chapel. 

Albert Bankbs. 

272. John Trenchard of Evershot. — Who were the 
parents of John Trenchard who married Jane Guppy at Evershot, 
Dorset, 14 Jany., 1789 ; and where was he bom? He is supposed 
to have come from Winsham, near Chard. 

Thomas Sampson. 

273. Power of Scent in Bfes. — Have any readers of 
•S". S» D. N. S» Q. studied the varying powers of scent in the 
divers members of the bee family ? I ask because during this 
season I have seen evidence that this power is exceedingly keen in 
a certain small bumble bee. It has a dull yellow band before the 
wings, and another behind them ; its tail is orange. Both in my 
house and in one a few miles off this bee has come freely into the 
rooms, evidently attracted by a wealth of wild flowers therein. 
But the meadow sweet and all the rest of our flowers never drew 
the hive bee, or any other save the one described, through open 
windows and doors. By-the-bve, it has been said that bees do 
not suck knap- weed flowers. This is not true, at all events of the 
bumble bee in question. 

H. J. MotJLE, Dorchester. 

274. The Black Dog of Lanoport. (IV. xxx. 222). 
It appears from " An Exploration of Dartmoor^^ by J. LI. W. Page 
(pp. 36, 236), that the " Black Dog " is a member of the pack of 
wish or yeth hounds which hunt Dartmoor. The author tells us 
that on one occasion the driver of a coach was crossing the Moor 
near Lydford, when he suddenly exclaimed **There ! there I do you 
see thatV^ pointing to an animal keeping up with the coach, *' it 
is the black dog that hunts the Moor I '* 

2. 

275. Jennings Family. — I am engaged on the Jennings 
family, as a whole, and shall be glad of any West Country or 
other notes from Poll Books, Parish Registers, and Exeter 
Diocesan Records. Write direct to 

Thomas Perry, F.C.S. 
High School, Walthamstow. 



Somerut <S* Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 327 

276. Salisbury Spire. — ^The interest which must be uni- 
versally felt in the safety of the Spire of Salisbury Cathedral will 
justify our including in our columns the following extracts from 
the report of Sir A. W. Bromfield, A.R.A. :— 

'' During the progress of certain minor repairs in the central 
tower it became evident that something was seriously amiss with 
the upper part of the two western stair turrets which required 
investigation. 

'' A scaffold was accordingly erected round the north-west 
turret, from which a dose and careful examination has been 
made, with the result that its state proves to be even worse than 
was feared. 

*' A good deal of the external stonework is split and frac- 
tured, and it is in so loose and unsafe a condition that no 
assurance can be given of security from more serious disaister, 
which might at any time occur. Certain cracks which are observ- 
able internally, especially one in the base of the spire at this 
angle, though they are certainly not altogether new, shew 
indications of a slight recent movement which would inevitably 
become dangerously aggravated by any considerable fall of por- 
tions of the external stonework." 

Sir Arthur recommends the repair of the angle turrets, the 
north-west turret to be first taken in hand. The cost will be 
about ;f 5000, and contributions may be sent to the Dean of 
Salisbury. 

The Editors. 

277. Good Friday Superstition. — The following super- 
stitions may interest your readers. I have met with them all this 
season. Sow seeds at 12 o'clock on Good Friday and the flowers 
will come up double. Never throw away ** suds " after washing 
on Good Friday, it is unlucky. To prevent " quarter-oil" in a 
'* weanling " calf, slit the ear of the calf on the milking side. 

W. Macmillan. 

278. Wedding Ring for Styes. — To rub a stye with a 
wedding ring is recommended as a cure. 

W. Macmillan. 

279. Somerset River-Names, Ancient (III. xxiii. 286.^ 
In Kemble's Codex Dtpioma/icus (Sos. 74, 662, 839, 1299, 1358,) 
the river Parret appears under the forms P6odredan, P6drede, 
P^dredi Str^m. Ferguson in his I^wer Names of Eutope^ p. 83, 
connects the form Pedrede with the Sanscrit root pt\ to drink : and 
from this root he also derives the name of the Somerset Pedder 
and the Dorset Piddle. 

F.W.W. 



328 Somrui S» Dorut ttoUs S» Queries. 

280. Dbdication of Sombrsbt Churches (III. xvfi. 5, 
xviii. 51, xix. 92, xx. 139, xxii. 243, IV. xxvi. 61.) — Another 
change of Dedication occurs in the chapel in the Bishop's PaUce» 
Wells. In 1483 it was dedicated to St. Mark {Proc. Sam. Arch. 
Soc. xl. ii. 24.) 

According to the Ordnance Survey it is said now to be 
dedicated to the Holy Trinity. 

E.B. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS. 

281. Ancient and Holy Wblls of Cornwall. — By 
M. and L. Qniller-Couch. London : Chas. J. Clark, 4, Lincoln's 
Inn Fields, W.C. 1894. 8vo., pp. xxxi. 217. With numerous 
illustrations. 

This is a complete little work, based upon ' Notes ' on the 
Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall, made by the late Mr. 
Thomas Quiller-Couch. This gentleman had taken frequent 
journeys to these interesting spots, " with wallet, pen and pencil, 
and gathered many notes of a class of antiquities fast being 
swept away." The editors of the ' Notes ' have made a pilgrimage 
of several months duration to these sacred springs in various 
parts of the county, and the descriptions given in the present 
volume may be relied upon, in almost every instance, as being 
the report of an eye-witness on their condition to-day. More 
than ninety of these Wells are here described and several are 
illustrated, and the book forms k handy guide to those who would 
make a similar romantic pilgrimage for themselves. 



282. Old Stokb Charitt. Monumental Brasses and 
Heraldry, &c. By B. W. Greenfield, M.A., F.S.A. Pp. 27. 
Four plates. 

Mr. Greenfield has supplied us with a well-written and 
valuable account of the Hampton and other monuments in the 
Church of Old Stoke Charitv, Hants, reprinted from the proceed- 
ings of the Hampshire Field Club. The memorials described are 
those of Thomas Wayte, 1482 (brass), John de Hampton ? (tomb), 
Thomas Hampton. 1483 (tomb), Richard Waller, 1552 (brass), 
John Waller, 1527 (mural monument), and the Phelipps altar 
tomb ; and all but that of Richard Waller, of which brass the in- 
scription only remains, are illustrated. Pedigrees are given, 
together with an account of the descent of the Manor, besides 
abstracts of wills and other particulars. The whole forms a very 
complete piece of local history. 

A. 



SomiTsci S» Dorset Nohs S» Queries. 3^9 

283. Churchwardbns' Accounts, St. John's Glaston- 
bury (IV, xxvi. 73, xzvii. 121, xxviii. 160, xxix. 201, xxx. 24.5). 
— ^As John Selwood was elected Abbot in 1457, the following roll 
belongs to the vear 1485, and therefore precedes the Account 
last printed, which in some parts is a repetition of this. As 
however some of the names are variously spelt, and a few express- 
ions varied, it is printed throughout so far as the imperfections of 
the MS. allow. It has been endorsed in a late hand ''28th year of 
Selwood Abbot, 1493. See Johannis Glastoniensis Vol. ist, 280." 

Glastonii. Compotns Willelmi Tyke et Tohannis Fleinmyiig(i) cuitodum 
bonomm ecclede sancti Tohannis Baptiste a festo sancti Michadis 
anno domini Johannis Selwode Abbatis zxviij vo. usque idem festum 
proxime * per unum annum integnim. 

[Remanencia] de viij li. xiij s. de Remanenda compoti anni precedentis. 

Summa viij li. zin s. 

[Redd. Ass.] * de redditn terminomm Natalis Domini Pasche Natiritatis 
beat! Johannis Baptiste et sancti Michaelis cum viij d. de incremento 
redditus Tohanne Grey n ton super uno cota^o in Glastonia quondam 
Walter! Sampson et modo Joh * ston ij s. viij d. de incremento redditus 
Johannis Tayllore super uno cotagio cum curtillagio in alto vico 
Glastonie cum suis pertinenciis nuper Thome Fyssher, xx d. de redditu 
unins tenement! cum pertinenciis in Glastonia vocati Georgesynne 
quondam Nevewe etpostea Johannis Stowell xij d. de redditn unius 
tenement! cum curtillagio in alto vico Glastonie nuper Ade Hardyng 
et Johannis Drapere et modo Thomas Bowryng. et ij d. de incremento 
redditus Ricardi Lymbury super una placea lerre in Maydelott nuper 
Johannis Stoke et unde Ij s. iuj d. de redditu Ricardi Lymbory v] d. 
Johannis Bargones * Willelmi Tayllore ij s. Johannis Holman iuj s. 
Willelmi Thressher zij d. Thome Inkar iij s. Johannis Bakar et 
Walter! Gane izs. iiijd. Thome Bowryng yjd. Tohannis Thureston 
zij d. Johannis Porker iij s. iiij d. Tohannis Stowdl xx d. Ahde Sugar 
xyd. Kicardi Lymbory iiijs. Wmelmi Jenyco ijs. Acnete Person 
iii s. Johannis Taillore iij s. iij d. Edythe Ale^ ij s. viij d. concedimus 
ad sustentadonem misse et capelle beate Marie Virginis annuatim per 
donatores dictomm tenementorum nt plenius patet per evidencias 
in commun! cista remanentes. £t de ij s. de incremento redditus 
Johannis Pynte super uno cotagio cum curtillagio in Chalkewyll 
prius Johannis Hille et Johanms Tregotz hoc anno vendito. 
£t de ij s. iiij d. * * redditus Willelmi Thressher 

pro uno cotagio cum curtillagio aretro ecdesie sancti Johumis 
Baptiste in fine ocdJental! nuper * de redditn Sec. £t de iiij s. 
de inaemento redditus Johannis Baker et Walteri Gane super ij 
mesuagiis cum eorum * in vico de Northlode prius Wulelmi 
Odams et Johanne Bykenyll habend &c. £t de iijs. * £dvthe 
Aleyn super uno mesuagio in fine strati sancti Jacob! nuper Willelmi 
Mey habendo * Johanne nuper uxoris Robert! Buxton super iij 
acris terre jacentibus super Wexhyll * Johannis Ta\llore super 
uno cotagio cum curtillagio in alto vico Glastonie juxta altam cruccm 
* redditn WiUdmi Tayllore super uno cotagio cum curtillagio 
in vico de Maydelod nuper * £t de ij s. de incremento redditus 
Nichols! Person et Agnete uxoris ejus super j mesuagio * habend 
&c. £t de ij s. de qovo redditu Deonysii Gre^ton super uno cotagio 
« de novo edificato pacandis ad iiijor termmos. Et de xij d. de 

(x) Hit Will proved 1505. 



330 Somerset S» Dorssi Nates £• QunUs, 

novo * nnpcr per etmdem Ricardom AtteweUe de novo edificato preter 
vij s. de * uj d. de novo reddita Jc^annis Gierke soper imo cotagio 
ibidem nnper per * de antiqno reddita superios oneratos et sic 
reddit in tpto per annum xiij s. * Jobanne Atte Welle (i) super ono 
cotagio ibidem nnper per * snperius oneratos et sic reddit in toto 
per annum zij s. * ibidem prius Jobannis Martyn nuper * de 
▼iijt.de novo redditu Thome [tom.] 

The left hand margin of the following roll is badly damaged 
causing many hiatus. The date is determined to be 1499 by 
the death of Sibyl Camel, widow of John Camel, Treaswer of 
the Abbey, whose tomb stands in St. John's Church. 

* Et sic reddit per annum in toto x s. £t de ij s. de novo redditu 

* eundem Ricardum de novo edificatum preter xs. de antiquo 
redditu * redditu Lnde Djar pro j ootagio ibidem prius * 
pacatos. Et de viij s. de novo redditu lliome Ffycze (2) * tenram 
vacuam in ocddentaH parte Scalarii (3) ecdesie sci Jobannis Baptiste. 

* Atwell pro i camera per eundem KJcardum de novo edificata super 

* de novo redditu Ricardi Lymbury pro j tenemento cum perti- 
ncndis in vico * preter iiij s. de antiquo redditu et preter vj d. pro 
quadam pedasoli * et sic reddit in toto per annum viiis. tantum 
pacandos etc. Et de xij s. * Androwe capellani pro uno mesuagio 
cum pertinenciis in occidentali fine illius * preter xiid. de antiquo 
redditu superius onerato et sic reddunt in toto per annum * 
viij d ad iiij or terminos. Et de vi s de novo redditu Thome Wylte 
pro j tenemento * prius Jobannis Moyghen preter ij s. de antiquo 
redditu et c. Et sic reddit * novo redditu Jobannis Grey pro j 
cotagio cum pertinenciis in vico de Maydelode * antiquo redditu 
superius onerato et sic reddit in toto per annum yjs * proj 
cotagio in alto vico Glastonie prius Willelmi * sic reddit in toto 
X s. Et de yj s viij d de novo * Lally nuper dedit et concessit ad 
fabricacionem ecclesie ut * s de incremento redditus unius cotagii 
cum curtillagio in Shalke * de antiquo redditu superius onerato 
pacandos etc. 

[Exitus off.] * Trendall hoc anno et de vj s viij d receptis de domino Jobanne 

* de vj s viij d receptis pro j putuo infra ecclesiam vendito Tohanni 
Durstone * Chepmane in ecclesia vend' hoc anno, et de iiij d. 
receptis de ♦ Sepultura \hlank'}^ Wason tratris prioris Glaston et 
de viij d de tordiiis * et de vuj d receptis de Willelmo Rulle pro 
cambitu unius cedis in ecclesia * j sede sibivendita. Et de vjd 



(x) Joan At Well's Will is dated 15 July, 1485, and was proved 11 Nov., 
I49S- 

(2) T.F. was a mercer in Glastonbury as appears from the Will of W. 
Abre alias Pewterer, 18 July, 1497. All the references to Wills are supplied to 
me, as before, by Mr. Weaver, from bis MS. Collections. The earlier Wills are 
at Somerset House. 

(lyScalariumt whence the French escalier, is written scaUra in a subsequent 
roll. From meaning a staircase, it was applied to the Porch, and then apparently 
to the adjoining churchyard. Du Cange quotes from Gravamina Eoci. Angf. 
art. 22. Cum aliquis ad immunitatem ecclesiae fugitivus existat, per laicos 
custodes coemeterium vel scalarium ecclesiae drcumdatur et vallatur, quod vix 
potest fugitivus in alimentis ab ecclesia sustentari. 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes &* Queries. 331 

receptis de Thoma Parker pro j sede * Pynte pro j sede sibi 
venmta et de zij d receptis de Roberto 

: : • ! : =;f < >5 6 

* ne Raynesbmy pro obitu Willelmi Lundon' hoc anno et de ij s z d 

* gacione Johanms Pynte senioris [ven erase<Q ponderis [blank] 
vendito Ma^istro Tohanni Wytnev. £t * ar pro j pipa de Ferro 
vendita ex dono Sibille Camdl (i) 

:• • .. •::. =i£^ 2 10 

Summa Totalis Recepte cum Reroanencia zzxj li zix s xi d. 

[Sol. Redd.] * Edithe Alyne ij s. Item eidem preposito pro tenemento nuper 
Thome Kynman * redditu iij acrarmn terre exit' de dominico 
domini Abbatis super Wexhill juxta Norbyne iij s. Item in redditu 

* bononim capelle beati Benigni pro j cotagio nuper Johannis 
Moyghen in Maydelode xij d. Item in redditn resoluto * Glaston 
pro tenemento nuper Johannis Swell capellani iij d. Item solntum 
eidem pro precio imius quarterii piperis et * vjd. In redditu 
resoluto Johanni Marchall pro feodali redditu tenementi Thome 
Ffycz per annum vj d. 

[Def. Redd.] * quondam Boxwvll per annum yj s. quia conceditur Deonisio 
gotarde ad certum redditum * In defectu redditus unius cotagii 
m alto vico Glastonie nuper Johannis Martyn xxd ad iiijor terminos 

* pro xs tantum et oneratur ad xj s Tiij d. In defectu redditus 
unius cotagii cum curtiUagio in Chalkc^^yll nuper Johannis * iiij d 
quia in manibus ecdesie. In defectu feodaUs redditus tenementi 
Johannis Draper xij d et Johanms Stowell xx d per * Item in 
defectu redditus imius cotagii in Chalkewyll nuper Johannis Fynche 
iiij s quia in manibus custodum 

xvij s viij d. 

[Nee. Ecd.] * cereis fiendis in ecdesia per annum xiiij s ij d. ob. Solutum 
Johanni * vj s. In clavis emptis pro dictis campanis cum ferro 
empto de Roberto * Item solutum Ricardo Clockemaker pro 
clepra magne campane reparanda et emendanda ami ferro et * In 
imo lathomo conducto pro pavimento de lez y)es reparando ad 
thascam diversis vidbus iiij d. * datis Willelmo Androwe Johanni 
Howlegge et bedemanno pro eorum labore in ecdesia ad festum 
Pasche iiij d * expensis pro pulsantibus in die Assencionis domini 
iij d. [In hominibus conductis pro ix centum pedibus meremii empti 
serandis irased] * xj s. In pictura unius valans (2) pro sepulcro 
per Johannem Fawkyswell xviijd. * Superpellido fiendo pro 
Johanne derke cum iactura ejusdem ix s. In vino dato Magistro 
* no matris sue cum regardo dato servientibus suis et pro careagio 
ejusdem * campana vocata the salve belle iij d In panno lineo 
empto pro j * unius panni lind empti pro iij tewellis inde fiendis 
pro magno * whelebarowe reparando et emendando cum davis et 
Dords emptis ad * v d. In uno homine conducto pro plumbariis 
et les gutturs super ecdesiam mundandis et pro nive extra jactanda 
ijd. * panno lineo empto pro ij novis albis cum eorum amies 
fodendis et filo viij s xd. In una xijna (duodena) de zonis * In 
xxj cathenis ferriis emptis de Roberto liykyvr pro libris in ecdesia 
cathenandis xij d. * oerehowse reparando et emendando j d. In 
panno lineo pro magno Altari empto * che inde fiend' iij s iiij d. 

(1) By her will proved 20 Jan., 1498-9, Sibyl Camel left •* f^brice ecdesie 
parochialis S. Joan. Bapt. unum dolium ferri." Pf/a=2 hogsheads or ^ tun. 

(2) Hanging of silk. 



33a Somerset S» Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

In uno capido de dono Magistri Johannis Dale * ^ dat' pro labore 
omisso iHjd. In regardis datis Johanni Bedman iiij d. * Candel- 
abris argenteis pro magno altari cooperiendis empt* zxd. Item 
Solutum magistro Ricardo * solut' pro lez organs in choro 
ecdeiie xl ■ j d unde zzxiij s Td * recept' de Johanne Raynesboiy 
pro obitu Willelmi Lundon In acquietanda facta Johanni Raynesbory 

?ro dictis * vjd. Solutum pro obligadone inter Johannem 
logges et castodes ij d. In ccnis liij xx. zj pedibus et iiij pollidbos 
* empt' de Ricardo Gi^gge prednm centene ii s iiii d, yjs Td. In 
una sera vocata A tadlodce (i) * iijd. Solutum pro obitu Philippi 
Malbome hoc anno ijs ijd. Item solutum pro obitu * Item 
solutum pro obitu Magistri Johannis Marke et Johanne uzoris ejus 
ac Thome Dunstar et * hoc anno xxxizno tenendo in ecdesia 
sancti Johannis Baptiste die lune proximo post festum sancti * 
xiiijd unde capdlano parochiali iiijd duobus custodibus ecdesie 
iiij d clerico ecclesie ij d. * cera j d. Item in pane et cervisia 
emptis pro sacerdote et aliis post exequias ijd ut patet in dorso 
Rotuli ecclesie facti in annu domini millesimo ccccmo Iviijo. Item 
solutum pro obitu Willelmi * hoc anno xmo annuatim tenendo 
in ecclesia predicta in vigilia assumpcionis beate Marie Virginis xiiijd 
unde capellano parochiali * derico parochiali ijd ij custodibus 
ecdesie ijd Bedemanno jd et decem pauperibus vd. cuilibet 
illorum * 

Stmima cxiiij s X d ob. 

::: !: .: : =;f6 14 qj 

[Stipendia] * duobus custodibus ecdesie per annum vi s viij d utrique illorum 
iij s iiij d. In stipendio clerid compoti [pro erased] cum * empto 
pro rotulo iij s iiij d. In expensis custodum et derid tempore 
facture compoti ij s. 

Summa xij s. 
In dorso. Summa totalis expense ^j li xij s iz d ob. 
£t sic est remanenda xxiiij U vij s j d ob. 

£ quibus in [pardonis erasM] regardis datis domino Johanni 
Ancurowe capellano pro suo * * in ecdesia per annum vs. 
Item Johanm Gierke pro suo * ecclesia per annum vi s viij d. 
Item in expensis auditoris compoti * Item in regardis datis 
Roberto Hendy pro la vewe de ^ * ecdesie in persameno et 
papiro lactis ij s. £t sic est in daro xxiii li xij s j a ob. 

Jocalia. idem receperunt de uno anulo auro de dono * undarum et de j 
zona hamesiata de do * ponderis in toto iij undarum et j quarterie 

Vasa enea fblank] 

51umbum laem receperunt de j mill' et lix libris plumbi 
ohannes Hacche ) ij d quad. comp. die determinadonis * 
et Hugo Sherman > Jhesu et deliberand' 

Bartholometis ) Idem deliberavit de * 
Sherman ) annul 

The beginning of this roll which may be dated 1500 is much 
mutilated. The date is fixed by the will of William Genyco, 
proved in 1500, and the death of the Chaplain Androwe. It is 
full of interest as showing how goods were brought from Bristol, 
the larger vessels coming up the Brue to Meare, where transship- 
ment took place to smaller boats, which came as far as the 
bridge ; here wagons received the woodwork for the Church. 

(I) local Torn of padlock. 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes <§• Queries. 333 

Also how money was raised by Crocks in the hands of different 
parishioners, and by the Robin Hood Sports. Here is the first 
mention of a vestry and of the '* entrecloces of the Church." 
" Putte " is the everyday word in Somerset for a two-wheeled 
cart. 

* per Ricardum Atwell de novo edificatmn. £t de iii s ' * 
de novo edificatom ibidem * de incrementd redditus Tohanne 
Lancasse * pac. £t de iiij s viij d de novo redditu Johanniii 
Stevyns pro * nuper constructnm per Johannem Martyn preter 
vij s de antiquo redoitu superius onerato. £t de viij s de novo 
redditu Thome * cotagio de novo edificato super terram vacnam in 
occidentali parte scalere ecclesie Sancti Johannis Baptiste. £t de 
xijd * Tonannis Ales pro una camera de novo edificata super 
scaleram ibidem. £t de lij s yj s de novo redditu * pro j cotagio 
cum curtilagio in Maydelode nuper Thome Stoke preter iiij s de 
antiquo redditu et preter vj d [pro] quadum pecia terre et eidem 
tenemento jungenda rer redditum annuatim viij s. £t de zij s iiij d 
de novo redditu Johannis Hardyberd et Johannis Androwe (i) 
capellanorum pro uno messuagio et curtillagio in occ:dentali fine 
ecclesie Soi Johannis Baptiste de novo edificato preter zij d de 
antiquo redditu et sic reddunt in toto xiij s iiij d. £t de yj s de novo 
redditu Thome Wylte pro j cotagio cum curtiUagio in Maydlode pro 

♦ per annum ♦ pro j ♦ preter v s de antiquo redditu ♦ 
Wsdteri Joselyn pro 1 cotagio in Dodlane nuper willelmi Lally 

* de incremento redditus super unum cotagium de novo edificatum 
in Chalkewyll nuper Nicholai Treybarfott preter iiij s de antiquo 
redditu. £t de iij s iij d de incremento redditus Willelmi Coome 
pro uno cotagio cum curtiUagio ibidem et preter xij d de novo red- 
ditu ejusdem })ro una parcella terre ibidem et sic reddit in toto per 
annum vijs viijd. £t de iijs iujd de incremento redditus unius 
cotagii cum curtillagio ibidem nu^er Johannis Pynt venditi Willelmo 
Whytewell. £t de ij s viij d de incremento redditus unius cotagii in 
Norlode nuper Willelmi Grenyco (2) venditi Thome Gyll. £t de x s de 
incremento redditus Thome Hayne et Willelmi Feyreman (3) pro ij 
cotagiis de uno tenemento de novo constructis in alto vico et nuper 
Johannis Holman pacandis. 

Summa zj li zij s z d. 

Perquesita Idem respondebant de ij s de perquesitis hoc anno. 

£xitus Officii Idem respondebant de z s receptis de CoUeccione ad festum 
Pasche pro la Trendell. £t de zzyj s viij d receptis de Johanne 
Uajrnesbury pro ij ollis eneis nuper Johannis Holman venditis. £t 
de yj s viij a receptis pro uno putio domini Johannis Stevyns in 
ecclesia cepeliendi. £t de xx d pro uno putio fiendo in pavimento 
dmiterii Sancti Johannis * alias Rydhed. £t de viij d receptis de 
Thoma Mychell pro j sede sibi vendita. £t de viij d de T^elmo 
Corser pro sede sici vendita * Shyppar pro j sede sibi vendita. £t 
de iiij a de WiUelmo Myghell pro j sede sibi * de zij d de 

(i) J. H. witnessed the will of Sibylla Camel, 20 Jan., 1498-9, as Notary 
Public. J. A. died this year : see below in £x. Off. His name occurs as 
witness to the will of Richard ap Howell of Glaston, dated 26 Sept., 1498. 

(2) William Genyco's Will was proved in 1500. 

(3) By the will of Joan Benet alias £lyatt, proved 5 March, 1505-6, W.F. 
was to receive "i ciphum argenteum " weighing 12 oz., his wife Johanna *<j 
ciphum called a chast piece " weighing xo oz., and his three sons one goblet of 
silver. 



334 Somiruf 6* D$rsit Notes 6* Qturus. 

Willelmo Vyssher pro j sede sibi vendita. £t de yj s viij d de nno 
patio de novo iieEdo in ecdesia Sd Johannis Baptiste pro cepultura 
domini Johannis Androwe. £t de xzxiij s iiij d receptis de Roberto 
Page de Collecdone paellarum pro ymagine Sd Georgi deanranda. 
£t de xiij s iiij d de Koberto Hendy de Collecdone uxoris ejus et 
molterum ad novam deanradonem ejusdem operis. 
Summa d s viii d. 

Necetsaria Ecdesie. Idem [torn] zzziy s z d receptis de Johanne Crefirejs pro 
jcroke (i) vendito de Chalkewyll et de viijli vii s viiid receptis [per'} 
Kobertum Hoode et parochianos. £t de xls receptis de domino 
Johanne Androwe capellano pro bovetowne. (2) £t de z s j d receptis 
de Johanne Pederam pro sno croke et de v s de Johanne Wastell 
pro suo Croke £t de zxiij s. iiij d de Thoma Somersett pro suo 
Croke. £t de xij s ix d de Willeuno Walton pro sno Croke. £t dc 
xl 8 de Willelmo Laneman pro suo Croke. £t de zxzv s ii d de 
Ricardo Grygge pro sno Croke. £t de xls vijd de V^dmo 
Feyreman pro sno Croke. £t de vij s j d de Waltero Clocke maker 
pro suo Croke, Et de Et de [sic^ xxviij s iiij d de Magistro Boyes 
pro suo Croke. Et de xl s receptis de Johanne Costrell de suo dono 
ad secundam soludonem facture de sedibus ecdesie de novo fiend is. 
£t de yjsvd de Willelmo Jonys alias Corser pro suo Croke. £t 
de vs viij d de Willelmo ♦ cbwjfke pro suo Croke 

Summa xxiiij li viij s iij d • :- ;• *• * ' 

. :.: ::: ' = £zS i6 i 

x)j li ii s ixd Summa totalis Recepte xlj li ii s ix d. 

Kxcessus In excessu ultimi compoti anni precedentis ixli yj s viiid ob. 

Summa ix h yj s viij d ob ..:•••:: )f8 9 4 

Rcsolucio Redditus. In redditu resoluto preposito domini Abbatis pro tene- 
mento nuper Edithe Alyn ij s. Item solutum ddem preposito pro 
tenemento nuper Thome Kynman xij d. Item solutum eidem pre- 
posito pro iij acris terre exit' de dominioo domini super Wexhyll 
mxta Norbyn iijs. In redditu resoluto custodibus ecdesie soi 
^enigni pro cotagio nuper T. Moyghen in Mayddode xiid. In 
redditu resoluto collecton redditus Sacriste Glastoniensis pro tene- 
mento nuper Johannis Swell capdlani iii d. Item solutum eidem de 
precioumus quarterii piperis et j quarterii cumini vid. Item in 
redditu resoluto Johanni Marchallpro feodo redditu Thome Ficze vj d. 
Summa viij s lii d. 

Defectus Redditus. In defectu redditus unius cotagij in alto vico Glastonie 
nuper Johannis Martyn xx d quia conceditur domino Johanni Stevyns 
pro X s et oneratur de xj s viij d. In defectu redditus unius tenementi 
m alto vico Glastonie nuper Johannis West ix s quia in manibus cus- 
todum. In defectu redditus. In defectu redditus Isic"] tenementi 
Johannis Draper xij d et Johannis Stowell xx d viz la George Yn 
ij s viij d. In defectu redditus unius cotagij in Dodlane (3) a festo 
sancti Michaelis uscjue festum Annundationis beate Marie per dimi- 
dium annum iij s iiii d. In defectu redditus unius cotagij de novo 
constructi in Chalkew]^ll situati in occidentali parte tenementi 
Edwardi Chapell xxd quia in manibus custodum per unum quarterium 
anni. 

Summa zviijs iiij d. :.: :: =:i8s4d. 

(1) The Croke money, Croke bread and Croke box frequently occur in the 
Crosjombe Accounts. S.R.S. iv. 20-40. The contents of Geffi-ey's Croke were 
sold and fetched 33s. lod. 

(2) The part of Glastonbury east of Chilkwell Street still goes by this name. 

(3) Leading to C bailee hill (rom Chilkwell St. This corrects what was mis- 
state on p. 288, note (I). 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 335 

Expense pro In primis solutnm Davit Canrer de BriftoU in plena et 
CediDus ecdesie vltima soludone de zlj libris solvendis eidem per parochianos 
de novo fiendis pro sedibus dicte ecdesie noviter factis xzj u. In regardis 
datis eidem davit per parochianos ejusdem ecdesie zH. In expends 
apud Bristol! per custodes et alios existentes ibidem pro cedibus 
superindendis [sic] et pro regardis carpentaiiis et aliis vs xd. In 
auxilio conducto apnd bristoll pro dictis eedibus cum haliars carian- 
dis a temp]^ll neris usque la backe et pro ij magnis bootis 
condnctis ab inde usque Rokvs mylle cum dictis cedibis xxxiiij s yjd. 
In victualibus emptis pro eisdem cum diversis expensis ibidem factis 
eodem tempore xiij s xd. In expensis per eosdem apud Rokys mylle 
V s X d ob. In xiij bootis conductis apud Meer pro dictis cedious 
cariandisper a(}uam a Rooks myll usque pontem de Maydelode 
XV s j d. In xiij plaustris de parochia sancti Johannis conductis pro 
cariagio ejusdem a roks mylle usaue Glastoniam ut patet per librum 
custiMum xxixs vd. In victualibus emptis apud Glastoniam pro 
dictis cariatoribus v s ix d ob. In unocanagio conducto per Jonan- 
nem pederam pro dictis cedibus cariandis ab inde usque Glastoniam 
vjs viijd. In uno equo conducto per Johannem pederam per 
V] dies ijs. Item solutum Johanni Crodwyn pro cariagio iiijd. In 
cariagio conducto per Johannem pederam a Roksmyll aua vice 
ij Sf iiij d. Solutum Waltero Clockemaker pro diverds stayes et ferra- 
mentis constructis pro lez enterdoces (i) ecdesie xxiij s. Solutum 
diverds laboratoribus pro veteribus cedibus frangendis et pro la 
Robyll (2) portanda et extra carianda ixs xd. Item solutum 
Johanni Surges pro fimo cariando ab ecdesia cum suo putte xxijd. 
In diverds clepyd grots venditis per undam de pecuniis receptis [per 
undam erasgd] pro la crokes et Robyn Hoode xxiij s. iiiid. In una 
tunica empta pro Robyn Hoode xiiij s. In la pawng et levelyng de 
omnibus ambulatoriis ecdesie per Ricardum Busshe xlyjs viij d. In 
calce empta ad idem vij s. In serrura de liberis petris pro ecclesta 
iiis iiijd. In davibus emptis pro hostiis de ambulatoriis vid. 
Solutum Johanni Toker Nicholao Cooke et Roberto A chamber de 
WeUys pro la whyte lymeng de ecdesia et la pargettyng ejusdem 
cum calce victuahbus et aliis emptis ad idem ut patet per librum 
custodum xxix s ixd ob. In labore Davit Carver et yj serviendum 
suorum [te erased] per unam ebdomada tempore cariagii de dictis 
cedibus xxs. 

Summa xlvj li xi d ob. 

predo xlvi li xi d ob. 
Expense drca ymaginem In primis solutum Johanni Chjnierton paynter pro 
Sancti Georgij ymagine sancti Georgij de novo deauranda et 

picturanda vj li xiii s iiij d. In davibus et vitro emptis ad idem 
iiijd. In una nova cauda empta pro e<]uo iid. In regardis datis 
Johanni Cheverton pro suo emest iiijd. In uno carpentario 
conducto pro la scaffold ad idem construct a cum davibus et aliis 
emptis ad idem ii s j d ob. In auxilio conducto pro dicta soiffold 
deponenda xij d. 

Summa vi li xvij s iii d ob. 

vili xvij 8 iijdob. 

(1) Enterdou, a partition, screen. A will of 1479 is quoted by N.E. Diet. 
Lego ad &cturam le enterdose beate Marie ecdesie. In 1587 John Gryffyn of 
the parish of Temple, Bristol *' desires to be buried within the interdose in the 
place where the deske stoode before it was sett att the Pulpjrtt." Wadley's 
Bristol Wills 248. 

(2) Rubble Cf. Italian roba. 



336 Sotmrut S* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 

NecessarU Ecdesie In cera et lidiinis emptis pro U TiendaU et aliis cum cereis 
inde fiendis pro ecdeiia sancti tohannis per annnm xriij s. Solatam 
pro repmratume albanim et lodone Testiinentonim ecdesie per 
lamram vs. In reparadone de diverds de diverds [sic] defectibns 
domm Wtllelmi Langcasshere xyj d. In ij novis daviW emptis pro 
hostio ecdesie yiij d. In reparadone sere onius ciste ecdesie com j 
dave empta ad ulem iij d. In nno [sie] clave empta pro la cace 
magne cmds a^entee iid. In vino dato cantanti [b^te erasid] 
capelle beate Iwie Virginia drca passionem in dominira Ramis 
palmarnm vi d. In ono novo dave pro hostio de la vestre ij d. In 
regardis datis pro Inmine Cepnlcri cnstodiendo ad festnm pasdie ij d. 
In davibus emptis pro cepiUcro et reparadone unios albe ij d. In 
pairo [? papiro] et coa mbia emptis pro costodibos v d. In reparadone 
duomm thnribnlonun argenteornm iiijs xd. In anxiliis condnctis 
pro ecdesia mnndanda erga festnm pasche ziiij d. In expensis factis 
per magistrum hampton in die Corporis ChrisU pro lex pagetts cum 
J play in la belhay ( i) y| s viij d. In ij superpellidis emptis pro choro 
ecdesie sancti Johannis viijs. In una sera cum clave empta pro 
domo in Chalkewyll viijd. In regardis datis bedemanno diversis 
vidbus ix d. In factura unius pare isic] caligaram cum la l3m3mg pro 
Robyn Hoode viij d. In reparadone unius pomone et pro la iMtyl- 
ment ecdesie per Ricardum Bussbe iiijd. In plumbo empto de 
Willelmo Vayle vs. In una depra de quarta campana reparanda 
ns. In sera reparanda pro la vestre vd. Solntnm Willelmo 
Deverell carpentario et Willdmo Hardyng Plumbario pro factura 
unius mo^dl (2) cum la Brace in australi parte ecdesie iij s viij d. 
In vitraaone feDestrarum ecdesie et reparadone earundem vjs. 
Item solutum domino Jobanni Androwe capellano beate Marie 
aretro de stipendio suo tempore Willelmi Gold custodis yj s viij d. 
Solutum pro obitu Willelmi Lally et Willelmi Lundon pro quolibet 
illorum xiiij d, ij s iiij d. Item solutum pro obitu Philippi Malbome 
ijs ijd. 

Summa Ixxviij^s ij]d. Iviij s iij d. 

Iviij s iij d. 

Stipendia. In stipendio duomm custodum ecdesie utrioue illorum iij s iiij d, 
yj 8 viij d. In stipendio clerid compoti iij s iiij a. 
Summa x s. 

... ... .. .. Summa totalis expense et liberadonis cum excessu Ixvijli xix s 

=;f66 22 vdob. 

Et sic est excessus xxvjli xvj s yiij d ob. 

Item in regardis datis Jobanni Gierke per paroduanos et auditores 
compoti de redditu domus sue aretro xs. £t sic est excessus 
xxvijliyjs viijd ob. 

Onnverse. 

Item * corona argentea et deaurata 
Cnstodia sancte Item remanet in manibus custodis Sm Katerine viz WiUdmi 
Katerine Hardyng in Annulis argentiis xxvij • dono xpne [Christiane] 
mylbom 
Cnstodia Sancti Recepemnt pro Soo Georgio 
Georgii Item i pare de lambyr (3) 

(i) For an endosure round the campanile compare Bishop Stortford Ace. 
c. 1 43 1 ''Jobanni Wavell per ij dies drca focturam unius pde cum hostio pro le 
Bellehous in cimiterio." 

(2) A sparrow, dim of muscio, used of a small bastion. 

(3) ij.t a pair of amber beads. Pilton Ace. S.R.S. iv. 65. 




PANCL IN AXBRIDQE CHURCH. 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes 6f Queries. 337 

284. The Axbridgb Panel. — ^The Painting, of which a 
reproduction appears on the opposite page, formed some 20 years 
ago a panel in a pew which stood under the pulpit of Axbridge 
Church. When the church was restored and the old pews were 
removed, the painting was taken with other old oak work into an 
old room belonging to the parish, and standing on the south side 
of the churchyard. Here it remained till a short time ago, when 
the present Rector entrusted it to the Rev. H. P. Denison for 
restoration. He re-painted it, preserving the background, 
features, attitude, &c., as nearly as possible, but slightly modify- 
ing the drapery. It now stands in the Mordaunt chapel, on the N. 
side of the chancel. It is painted on two pieces of oak, joined 
horizontally across the middle. It is 2ft. 5 Jin. high, ift. Sin. 
broad, and the panel is fin. thick. It is supposed to have been 
one of many painted panels at the base of the old rood screen. 
It is supposed to date from the early part of the 14th century ; 
and the hair and beard are not unlike those on the recumbent 
e&gy of Edward II. in Gloucester Cathedral. 

T. H. F. HiCKES. 

285. Two Somerset Worthies, Father and Son, 
{continued) (IV. xxxi. 247.) — We have now to enter on {the ex- 
periences of Mr. Dodington during the troublous times of the 
Civil Wars 1644- 1657, in which latter year he died at the early 
age of 52. He had filled the office of Recorder of Wells just 
one year and one month, when the storm that had been threatening 
fell on the country gentlemen who were obnoxious to the Parlia- 
ment. Two years before, Dodington had become the lessee of 
the rectorial tithes and lands at Cheddar, under the Dean and 
Chapter, by transfer of them from the family of Upton of 
Wormister, who had held them since the year 1585. The 
lease granted to Geoffrey Upton was for a term of seventy years, 
and it had yet some twelve years to run when the Chapter Seal 
was placed to a new lease on lives to Christopher Dodington. 
This was April ist, 1643. On the 13th of October, 1645, these 
and all his other estates were sequestrated by the Parliament, 
and henceforth his life was a life of worry, wearing anxiety, and 
perplexity. From the State Papers that follow it will be seen 
that such was the case. [I will lay before the reader extracts, 
I St, from the Survey of Church Lands 1649 in the Lambeth 
Library; 2nd, from the Royalist Composition Papers at the 
Record Office.] 

Survey of Church Lands 1649, vol. i. 109. Com. Som. 

Parsonat. de Chedder cum Manerio ejusdem. 

A Survey of the Rectory or Parsonage of Chedder and the 

Manor thereof with rightes members and appurtenances thereunto 

belonging, situate lying and being in the County of Somerset 

late parcell of the possessions or late belonging to the late dean 

Part xxxii. December 1895. n 



:£^ ^ 



Somerset S- Dorset Notes S* Queries. 339 

unpaid by the space of 2 1 days next after any the said feastes in 
which it ought and should be paid, being lawfully demanded, and 
no sufficient distress be found upon the premisses the lessor may 
re-enter. * * * * * * We do 

aporcion the xii s. free rent the xl s. per annum for the parsonage 
house and the rents of the coppyhold with the royalties which are 
not yet valued to be sould in the manor and lands and the 
remaynes of the rent of xxix per annum is to be left on the tithes. 
November 14, 1650. Wm. Webb. 

Returned (among other things) into the Register Office for 
keeping the Surveys of Dean and Chapter Lands the 27 of Sept., 
1650 by 

Wm. Richardson. \ 

Alex. Lawson. ( q„^^„^,« 

Richard Combe. Surveyors. 

James Hibbins. ) 

Royalist Composition Papers, ist Series vol. 20, pp. 71 1, 723, 738. 

For an account of the Somerset Sequestrations during the 
Civil War the reader may peruse with interest two Papers by 
Mr. John Batten in Somerset Archaeological Society's Proceedings 
vol. iv., pt. 2, p. 60, and vol. xvi., pt. 2, p. 13. "Of all the 
measures adopted by the Parliament (says Mr. Batten) for 
strengthening their hands in their contest with the ill-fated 
Charles, none was more effectual than the ordinance of the ist of 
April, 1643, declaring the property of those who openly espoused 
the King's cause, to be forifeited for the use of the State. It not 
only produced very large sums for maintaining the army raised by 
the Parliament, and meeting other pressing demands, but it 
deterred many not actually committed to the King's cause from 
taking an active part on his behalf at the risk of their property 
and liberty." Christopher Dodington would certainly be a 
" delinquent," and we are prepared for what follows : — 

** To the honble. Comitte at Gouldsmiths Hall. 

The humble petition of Christopher Dodington, a Prisonre 
in Peetre house.* 

A particular of the Petitioner's Estate. 

The Rectory of Cheddre in Com Somsett for ) 
three lives charged wth the rent of 30I. p Ann. > 20I. p ann. 
worth above the rent. ) 

A particular of the Estate Reall and Personal of Mr. 
Christopher Doddington in the County of Somerset. 

The Rectory of Cheddar in the possession of the said Mr. 
Doddington in wch he hath an Estate for 3 lives from the Deane 
and Chapter of Welles att the Rent of 3oli. p Ann. 

Which Rectory hath bee sett for in the best ) li. s. d. 
of tymes p Ann. J 100 00 00 

• N. 6* Q., 6th series, vol. v., pp. 168 and 316, as to where this Prison was. 



340 Somerset S* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 

Hee hath alsoe in Cheddar a Mannor, consisting of about 
13 tenemte. 

The olde Rente thereof amounts unto p ) li. s. d. 
annum. ) 04 06 00 

His personal! Estate att Cheddar being ) li. s. d. 
Inventoried amounts unto ( 66 1 3 04 

For the honoble the Committee for petitions. 

In answer to your Letter of 21 October 1653 ^pon the 
petition of Christopher Dodington Esq. which you were pleased 
to send us with certaynej)aj)ers annexed and desiring us to certify 
what subsequent accusacons and proofs are before us whereby 
the pet'rs estate should be seq'd and whether we received the 
rents and profits of his estate the ist of December or since, we 
humbly certify 

The Com'rs of Somerset the 11 May 1653 certify that it 
appears by the Records of the late Comittee that the Estate of 
the said Christopher Dodington was seq*d the 13 Oct. 1645. 
That 16 July 1646 it was ordered that he should rent the Parsonage 
of Cheddar Seq'd from him at a reasonable value. That 30 March 
1649 the rents of his estate were ordered to remayne in the 
tenant's hands according to an order of the Lords and Commons 
of 9 March 1646. That the Parsonage of Cheddar was let 
6 Augt. 1646 to Wm. Smith for a yeare at the rent of 6oli. and 
8 Aprill 1647 was let to him for anoUier yeare at the same rent. 
That 4 September 1 649 the said Comittee ordered his estate to 
be seised and secured. That upon 11 October 1649 the said 
order of seisure was made void. And that by the account of the 
said Wm. Smyth it appeares that he was tenant to the Committee 
for the parsonage of Chedder for 3 years. That in consideration 
of the p'misses they thought it there duty to reinforce the seq'n 
and upon the 1 6 flfebruary then last ordered security to be taken 
for the arrears of rents and future profits 

Copies of Orders on the Records of the late Com'ttee of 
Somerset made in the case of Christopher Doddington Esqre. 
July the 1 6th 1646. 

Ordered that Christopher Doddington Esqre. shall have the 
remaynder of the Corne in Cheddar at his Parsonage, And that 
he Rent the s'd Parsonage for one yeare, paying a reasonable 
value for the same, And that a fifth pte be allowed his wife by 

o'r sequestrator for that hundred 

August the 6th 1646. 

The Parsonage of Chedder let to Mr. William Smith of 
Wells one yeare ending Aprill following for threescore pounds de 
claro except Lords Rent. 

Aprill the 8th 1647. 

The same parsonage let to the sd Mr. Smith one yeare to 
end the Lady day following for the Rent afores*d 



Somerset & Dorset Notes &» Queries, 341 

October the nth 1649. 

Upon heareing of the Charge exhibited to this Com'ttee 
against Christopher Doddington Esqre. and his defence to the 
same, this Com'ttee doth thincke fitt that it be respited until 
further order And that the order wch issued from this Com'ttee 
for securing of the Estate of the s*d Mr. Doddington be voyde 
And that he be p*mitted quietly to enjoy the same whereof all o*r 
sequestrators whome it may conceme are to take notice & accord- 
ingly conforme any former order to the contrary notwithstanding. 

By the Comissio'rs for sequestracons in the County of 
Somerset ffebruary the 16th 1652. 

Ordered that security be forth w'th taken for such arreares of 
Rents & p'fitts as are due to the State for the Estate of Christopher 
Doddington Esqre lying in this County since the same was first 
sequestred. And that the s'd Estate be forth w'th surveyed and 
security given for the Rents thereof for the future before the 15th 
day of March next ensueing, or in case of default, that the same 
Estate be set for the best benefitt of the Comon wealth. 

Sam. Whetcombe. 
Natha. Quash. 
A further particuler of the petitioner's estate is as follows : — 
R.C.P. G80F0711. 
w A A rs^(^^ Alhallowes in the County of Kent ) 

Hoo i ^^^^^ Intayled charged wth his wifes [ 6oli. p' ann. 
I Joynture worth ) 

^Hundred ^ j The Rectory of Cheddar. &c., &c. 2oli. p' ann. 

Willeton ffree j Lands at Bilbroke in Old Cleeve in \ 

Mann*rs. i Com. Somr'sett for 16 yeares yett to f .. , 

come at the rent of about three i ^ ** ^ ^"'^* 
pounds p* Ann. worth besydes the rent ) 

Fo 723. 
The Rectory of Cheddar &c., &c. \ 
Also his lands lying att Bilbrooke in f .. 
the parishe of Old Cleeve for tearme of I ^^^' ° ^ 
2 1 yeares yet to come worth per Ann / 

Sum Totdl 
His personall Estate at Cheddar, &c. 
Hee layes clayme to the Mannor of Lylstock and receaveth 
the Rents off the same but the value of the said rents or his 
interest in the Mannor wee cannot bee as yet informed of. 

Wee are alsoe informed that he hath alsoe a tvtle to or 
morgage on the lands of one Elie Harsunt of Old Cleeve but 
what interest he hath in it wee cannot as yet leame. 

Hen. Bonner. 
Roger Hill. John Pyne. 

Edwd. Ceely. Tom Preston. 

Chr. Pittard. 
{To be coniiniud,) James Coleman. 



342 Somerset S^ Dorset Notes S- Queries, 

286. John Maltravbrs versus Walter and Alice de 
TuRBERViLLB. — The following extract is taken from Vol. III. of 
the Selden Society's publications, in which it is reproduced from 
the Roll in the Record Office formerly referred to as Coram Rege 
John No. 6, but now as Curia Regis No. 24. 

Placita anno secundo Regis Johannis de diversis 
terminis. 

Termini Sancti Johannis fiaptistae. . . 
A festo Sancti Johannis in XV dies. . . 

Dors. Johannes Maltravers petit versus Walterum de Turba- 

ville et Aliciam uxorem ejus duas cartas Henrici Regis 
avi et i domini Regis Johannis et i cartam Comitis de 
Striguil quas Alicia habuit in custodia. £t Walterus de 
Turbaville venit et recognoscit se habuisse cartas illas. 
Sed dicit illas robbatas eis fuisse cum domus sue com- 
burebantur (MS. cocnburentur). Unde appellat ipsos 
combustores domus sue. Unde idem Johannes appella- 
tus est. £t ipse Johannes petit versus eos V loricas 
quas ipsi injuste ei detinent quae fuerunt Johannis patris 
sui. Et Walterus defendit quod nunquam habuenint 
loricas illas et quod Johannes pater praedicti Johannis 
nullam habuit loricam praeter unam solam quam dedit 
cuidam filio suo cum X libratis terrae septimo anno ante 
obitum suum. £t Johannes venit et dicit quod pater 
ejus illas V loricas habuit in quodam exercitu Wallie 
quia propter terram suam totidem debet. £t profert 
sectam inde sufficientem, scilicet Reginaldum de Ar- 
genten qui eas vidit. £t petit sibi allocari quod 
Walterus recognoscit se habuisse cartas illas et quod 
amisse fuerunt sub custodia sua postquam traxit eum in 
placito. Consideratum est quod Walterus sit in crastino 
Sancti Michaelis ad andiendum judicium suum de 
loricis et judicium de cartis ad eundem terminum. £t 
tunc essoniavit se Walterus et non fuit essoniatus quia 
ipse recessit sine licencia, et non expectavit judicium 
suum. £t attachiatus fuit et non venit. Ideo con- 
sideratum est quod Johannes disrationavit loricas suas 
per defectum et querelam cartarum suarum. 

Translation. 

Pleas in the second year of King John of divers terms. 

In the term of Saint John the Baptist. [Divers pleas follow] 

Dorset. John Maltravers demands against Walter de Turber- 

ville and Alice his wife two charters of King Henry the 

grandfather and one of our lord King John, and one 

charter of the £arl of Striguil, which Alice had in her 

keeping ; and Walter de Turberville comes and admits 

that he had those charters, but he says that they were 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes S* Queries. 343 

stolen from them and burnt when his house was burnt, 
whereof he appealed the burners of his house [and] 
whereof the said John was appealed. And he, John, 
demands against them five coats of mail, which they 
unjustly detain, [and] which belonged to John his 
father. And Walter defends that they never nad those 
coats of mail, and that John, the father of the said 
John, had no coat of mail but one only, which he gave 
to a certain son of his, with ten librates of land, in the 
seventh year before his death. And John comes and 
says that his father had those five coats of mail in a 
certain Welsh war, and was bound by the tenure of his 
land to have them; and he produces sufficient suit 
thereof, to wit, Reginald de Argentine, who saw them ; 
and he craves that it may be allowed in his favour 
that Walter admits that he had the charters, and that 
they were lost under his charge after that [John] 
brought him in the plea. It is considered that Walter 
shall be [here] on the morrow of S. Michael to hear 
his judgment touching the coats of mail, and the judg- 
ment touching the charters at the same term. And then 
Walter essoined himself, and was not essoined because 
he withdrew without licence ; and he did not wait for 
his judgment ; and he was attached, and did not come. 
Therefore it is considered that John has deraigned his 
coats of mail by default, also the complaint of his 
charters. 
B. FossBTT Lock, Lincoln's Inn, Hon. Sec, Selden Society. 

287, Prodigies in Somerset and Dorset, 166 1-2, 
coniinued. (IV. xxx. 209, xxxi. 249). — 

P. 46. We are certified from very credible persons out of 
Dorsetshire that in the month of March last it rained wheat in 
several places in that county ; a good quantity of it was brought 
to Dorchester, and seen by many honest men there. 

P. 48. About the beginning of June, 1662, there fell down a 
sheet of lightning upon the town of Shaftesbury in Dorsetshire ; 
it smote several persons in the streets down to the ground . and 
did them no further hurt ; it brake open the door and entered 
into the house of a godly minister who lived in the town ; it 
smote down two of his daughters and a young child to the ground, 
without doing further hurt to them ; it melted the pewter dishes 
in the kitchen, filled the house with smoke, and went out at a 
pane of glass which it brake. The next day this minister's son, 
a young hot-headed conformist died. The Minister himself will 
attest the truth of this relation. 

P. 48, Upon the 29th of June, a reverend and godly Minister 
one of the king's chaplains, as he was travelling with his man 



344 Sonurset &> Dorset Notes S» Queries. 

between Winterbourne and Dorchester, saw a great troop of horse 
upon the top of a hill with coloars flying, some of them alighted and 
walked down the hill : his man also saw the same, and did both 
really believe that they were a troop of horse, inasmuch, that they 
put on and rode hard, that they might get into Dorchester before 
the horsemen, to provide themselves of convenient quarters. 
But they still expecting when the troop should come, and none 
coming, upon enquiry found that there were really no horsemen 
thereabouts that day, so that it is generally believed, that this 
troop did belong to the Regiment that was seen in Wales, whereof 
account hath been given before. This Minister hath since been 
in London, and ownes this relation, though he is much puzzled 
about it, because it is so evident to him that there was no real 
troop there upon the road ; but he says, that he and his man did 
then behold them, and looked back about twenty times upon 
them, and was then so really satisfied that there were a troop of 
horse with colours flying, that he durst have taken his oath upon it. 

Since his going out of the town, there is a rumour, that the 
County Troop was abroad that day ; but we have not time now to 
examine it ; but having sufficient evidence of the truth of the 
foregoing circumstances, we are jealous lest this last report should 
be raised by those unwilling that the works of the Lord of this 
nature should be sought out by those who take pleasure in them. 
But we shall leave the Reader to satisfy himself in the truth of 
this report, which at present we have not time nor opportunity to 
do, and according as he finds things, to embrace or reject this 
particular Relation. 

In the latter part of 1 662 appeared ' Mirabilis Annus 
Secundus, or the Second Part of the Second Year's Prodigies.' 
Since the publication of the first part, S. Bartholomew's Day had 
arrived, when all the Presbyterians who yet held Livings in the 
Church were obliged to conform or depart. The Editor is 
obliged to confess that some of whom better things were expected, 
had proved false to their principles ; and therefore as a warning 
to all men, many dreadful instances of sharp and terrible dispen- 
sations towards the Apostates are furnished in the last part, which 
contains accounts of prodigies, &c., &c., seen and recorded from 
June to September, 1662. 

This series of works had one good effect: that John Spencer, 
afterwards Master of C.C.C. Cambridge, was moved to write a 
* discourse concerning prodigies wherein the vanity of presages 
by them is reprehended, and their true and proper ends asserted 
and vindicated.' Cambridge, 1663. 

P. 2. Two credible persons, living at Ford, a village in 
Netherbury parish in the county of Dorset, rising very early 
in the morning, July 6, 1662, did observe the sun to look as red 
as blood, and presently they beheld near the sun the perfect form 
of a man ; and after that they saw a multitude of men's heads 



Somerset 6* Dorset Notes 6- Queries. 345 

coming from the north, which drew very near to the man, and 
seemed very earnestly to contend with him for a good space of 
time, thrusting him up and down, till at length a great cloud of 
a blood red colour did overshadow the whole appearance. This 
information hath been received from the spectators themselves, 
who are ready to testify the truth of it. 

P. 7. About two miles from Chard in the county of Somer- 
set, on the 12th of July, 1662, being Saturday, towards the 
evening, were seen bv many credible persons, two suns together 
in the firmament. They were both so high that they could not 
discern which was the false sun, till after it had for a while con- 
tinued, it disappeared, and the true sun went on its course. 
(This phenomenon was seen again at Chard on 19th July, and 
at Frome, Dorset, on 5th of Aug.) 

P. 5. On the 1 3th of July, 1 662, at Stoke-Lane, in the County 
of Dorset [Stoke St. Michael, Somerset], several persons did observe 
the sun when it was about half-an-hour high, to look very red 
about the edges of it, and very black in the midst ; then that part 
of it which was black turned bright, and the edges of it, which 
before looked bright, became black, and so successively two or 
three times together. Afterwards it turned into several strange 
shapes, which they that beheld them could not express, and the 
parts seemed to strive with each other. At length there appeared 
seven suns together, which continued for a little time, and then 
they all joined in one again, in the midst of which there appeared 
a dark cloud, in the form of a black glove, as the spectators appre- 
hended ; the edges were exceeding bright, from them seemed to 
fall to the earth very great streams of blood, this was first dis- 
covered by a man and his wife, and afterwards seen by many 
credible persons of the neighbourhood, who do attest the truth 
of the whole story as it is here related. 

P. 7. On the 20th of July, 1662, about an hour after sunset, 
several persons, inhabitants of Chillington near Chard, in the 
county of Somerset, saw towards the West, a very long cloud, of 
an extraordinary azure colour, and immediately out of the cloud 
came forth the form of a man with a rod in his hand, and on the 
top of it there was a thing like a brush ; he held it forward in his 
hand for a little while, and vanished. And then issued forth of 
the same cloud, a man on horseback, having a sword in his hand, 
and one of his arms set by his side : he had also a flat round 
bonnet on his head, and something hanging down behind him 
like a feather. After which they saw several companies of Horse 
and foot marching two in a rank, and then vanishing, and 
immediately others successively appearing in their rooms ; they 
plainly discerned the footmen to be armed with musquets, and the 
horses to march very stately, touching their breasts with their 
noses. Two parties of them, the one from the east, and the other 
from the west, did charge each other with great fierceness, and 



346 



Somerset S» Dorset Notes 6* Queries, 



then all disappeared. This whole relation is testified by the 
spectators themselves. 

P. 27. In Dorsetshire, and not far from Dorchester, five 
young men, very eager and hot Conformists, who were newly 
settled in Living^ near each other, weie suddenly, and almost 
altogether, taken away by death ; which is much observed and 
spoken of by the People in these parts, where it is easy for 
anyone to receive satisfaction about the truth of the relation. 

P. 28. By letters bearing date the third of February, 1661(2), 
we are certified from very good hands, that not far from Dorchester, 
a Conformable Parson, was, according to the Canon, Celebrating 
the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and while he himself was 
down upon his knees eating the Consecrated Bread, the ground 
sunk under him, and he into the same up to his middle, to the 
astonishment of those three or four communicants who joyned 
with him at that time. This is much talked of, and smiled at by 
many, because it was his wives grave which he kneeled somewhat 
too heavily upon. (To be continued). E. H. Bates. 

288. Tyneham Notes, continued. (IV. xxxi. 259). — We 
will now proceed to give some extracts from the accounts. 

From 1753 to 1787 the church rate was always levied on an 
assessment with a total of 1 31. 9^/. But this quota was gathered 
at least once a quarter (sometimes as often as ten times), a 
perpendicular line being scored after each person's name when he 
made his payment. I will give the account for the first year as a 
specimen. 

A Church Ratte for the parish of 
Tineham for the year of our Lord 1753. £ s. d. 
John bond Esq. for Great tineham I HI 1 1 II II . . 040 

South tineham farm HIIIHIII 0111 

Pouington farm llllllllll 020 

Balington farm llllllllll 018 

Whiteway and Christophers HIIIHIII .. .. 012 

Eggleston farm ////////// 018 

South Eggleston farm HIIIHIII 0011 

Mr.Cloads ////////// 003 

Richard hopkins llllllllll 002 



Collected 10 Rates 
the last years stock 



Disburstments 

Remain in Stock . . 






'3 


9 


6 


n 


6 


I 


H 


II 


8 


12 


5 


6 


7 


4 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 347 

April 18 in 1754. 

We doth allow of the fore Going account and 
appoint William stickland to be Church warden 
for the year Ensuing. 

Robt. Aimer. 

Joseph Symond. 

Willm. Davis. 

In 1755-62 ' Madem Bond ' makes pajrment for the first 
entry. In 1782 it is The Rev. Dennis Bond. 
In 1 796 there is a fresh assessment. 
Proprietors Names, 
Miss Bond Tyneham Farm Richards 

[** Revd. Mr. Wm; Bond Rector Do. Do. 

Do. Glebe Do. 

struck out']. 
Do. for part of Tyneham Farm that was in ) 
Hand Richards | 

Revd. Mr. Thomas Bond for South E^leston Farm 
Wm. Speeke Esq. John Garland 

Wbiteways Farm and Povington Livings Rob. Alner 
North Egleston Farm Wm. Vye 

Backington Farm Henry Wills hear 

Povington Liveing Do. 

J. Bond Esq. Povington Do. 

Povington Farm Thos. Cole 



(The lower total involves the omission of the rate, for which 
the Rector was not chargeable). 

In 1799 the signatories begin to call themselves ''the 
principal (or in 1817 'Princible*) Inhabitants of the Parish 
(assembled at a Vestry)." In 1 843 the basis of ;^2 o 6 appears 
for the last time, and in 1843-4 we have a rate of i\d. in the 
pound upon;^iii8 amounting to ;^6 19 10 assessed on 23 names 
headed by the Rector (on £60) and Wm. Symes (on ;^i35), and 
concluded (after 20 names in alphabetical order) by ** Chief 
OflScer of the Coast Guard, Preventive Station, ;^3o " : and from 
that date the Poor Law assessment has become the basis of the 
Church Rate even when it ceased to be legally recoverable. 

The " Disburstments " (otherwise * Desburstments,' 'Dis- 
bustiments,* ' Disburstmst,' ' Desbustments,* ' Deburstments,* 
' Disbustmeuts sins ester,' 'Desbusemens sence Eastear,' *Des 
Busments sines Easter,* 'Dirsbrsments,* or as * Farmer Vie' ' more 
modestly begins them, 'Expence since Easter 1791 * but only 
to break out with a * Dis Burster since Ester ' lower down) deserve 
some attention : — 



C s. 


d. 


ID 


5 


3 


9 


I 


oi 





1,} 


2 


4* 


4 


7 


5 





5 





+ 


9i 




8 




8 


6 





* 5 


~\ 


2 


6 



348 



Somersii 6- Dorset Notes S* Queries. 



Disburstmst for the year of our Lord 1753. 



Aprle 26th 

May 1 6th 

April 27th 
June 10th 



», 30th 
Novem'br 16 
Decem'br 29 
March 29 



April 18 



Pd. Mr. Alner for a po Icat head 

Pd. William Stikland for caring the Bell 

Pd. Gorg Cetcat for mending the Chorch 

and Wal 
Pd. Mr. Bond for Expences at Vistation 

Pd. for a new Book 

Pd. Cort Fees at Vistation 

Pd. for Going to Vistation 

Pd. for Going to Wooll with the Ragestr 

Pd. Runyard Coks Hopkins for 3 Stots 

paid James £lby for mending the hatches 

paid John Brine for Cleaning ye Church 

yard 

paid for Bread and Wine 

paid a man that came with a pass 

paid for Bread and Wine . . 

paid John trent for i fox head . . 

paid William Davis for 4 fox heads 

paid William Meaden for i fox head 

paid David hibbs for work done a bout 

the Church 

paid Coastfield his bill . . 
paid Richard Rynyard for i stots head . 
paid Mr. Symonds for bringing the bell 
paid Mr. Symonds for 4 badgers heads 

2 foxes and 2 stots 

paid John fiveyear for i badgers head . . 
paid Will'm Cox for 3 badgers and 1 

polecat 

paid James £lby for i pare of posts and 

3 bars and for mending of the hatches 
paid John brine for fencing the Church 

yard 
paid William Stickland for bringing of 

the stone and lime ^ 
paid the Clerks wages and washing 



£ 8. 



d. 

4 
o 

o 
6 
o 
I 
o 
6 
6 
3 



1 o 

2 I 
2 o 

2 I 

I O 

4 o 

I o 



I 

2 

4 

8 

10 

2 



12 

9 



o 
8 

2 
o 

4 
o 

4 

o 

o 

o 
6 



6 7 + 
When the writer came to Purbeck a few years ago, fresh from 
the neighbourhood of Melton and Market Harborough, he was 
considerably astonished, if not horrified, to see half-a-dozen 
foxes' skins hanging up in a shepherd's cottage. Having 
witnessed hunting in Cornwall he was, however, not surpised to 
hear that hounds had a bad time of it, if ever they were drawn on 
to follow a cliff-fox over Gad Cliff; and, as there is no fox hunting 
on the Purbeck coast, it is easily intelligible that foxes and other 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 



349 



* vermin ' may become at times a grievous pest. 

The year's account for 1752 has shown how the parish 
authorities attempted to deal with the task of keeping down the 
number of such depredating animals. It may be well to give ten 
years' statistics of the heads brought to the Churchwarden to 
make good the reward claimed. 

The scale was as follows : 

For badgers or foxes' heads, is, each ; a polecat (' poltcat ' 
or ' pococat '), 4d. ; for a stoat, 2d. ; a hedgehog (usually spelt 
*higog,' 'head jog*) 2d.; a dozen of sparrows' heads ('spares 
bids ') 2d. A badger in these accounts is not unfrequently called 
a gny (* grays ' or ' greas '). The * 4 Kits Heads ' at 2d. each in 
1761, are I suppose kt/es, not young cats. At length in 1773 we 



find th 


e ordman 


f spelhn 


g ' for a k 


ite s hea 


Ld, 4d.' 






AD. 


Badgers 
or 'grays* 


Foxes. 


Hedgehogs 


Polecats 


Stoats. 


"Kits" 


Sparrows 


1753 


8 


8 


__ 


2 


6 


__ 


^_ 


1754 


6 


10 


— 


I 


— 


— 


60 


1755 


5 


10 


2 


— 


— 


— 


— 


1756 


— 


8 


S 


— 


4 


— 


— 


1757 


4 


13 


2 


— 


— 


— 


— 


1758 


6 


6 


4 


I 


2 


— 


— 


1759 


t 


7 


— 


— 


2 


— 


252 


1760 


II 


I 


— 


6 


— 


72 


1761 


4 


4 


— 


— 


I 


4 


66 


1762 




7 


— 


— 


5 




48 


Totals. 


46 Badgers 


84 Foxes 


14 
Hedgehogs 


Polecats 


26 Stoats 


4 'Kits' 


498 
Sparrows 



One • Gorg Gape * or * Geap ' appears to have been almost 
the most skilful in taking a ** kit," for he gets three heads in 
April 1763, and one in January 1765, besides the four noted 
above. Cox, • Mr. Glasbe,' and * Saml. Simence ' got one in later 
years. Payment was made for i fox-head in 1796, and for another 
in 1798, but at the Easter Meeting in 1798-9 it was " agreed at 
this Vestry that no more foxes heads be paid for at the expense 
of the Parish." In 1779 'James Locust, (i>. Lucas) for a i pole- 
cats head. is. : Feb. 4 Thomas pitcher for a otters head, is. ; in 
1782 another otter (April nth), and in July 1827 'for 3 Molds, 
IS. 6d.'* In 1769 Sarah Galten was so fortunate as to capture *a 
* In a parish in Rutland, of about the same population as T3meham, the 
constable, about 1760, would pay for thirty dozen sparrows a year, or more, at 
i^. the dozen ; and when in solemn Vestry in 1784, the parisnioners agreed to 
wage war against the gentlemen in velvet, locaUy called ^wunts' or * mouldy - 
warps/ the mole-catcher at Glaston set upwards of 20 traps and received two 
or three guineas a year for his pains. At last, in 1852, it was agreed * that the 
mole catcher should be discontinued, and that the £1 los. derived from [letting 
the grazing by the wayside in] the lanes should be expended in sparrows. See 
the Anttqmry 1890. 



350 Som$rs$i S» Dorut Notes S» Queries. 

heghog' and get her zd. from 'John Dore Chorch Warden/ and 
in 1770 she got is. for six. And in the same year ' Meches 
mayd' got the 6d. for two lots of sparrows heds, and 4d. 
for a stoat's head. In 1771 we were so liberal as to go over the 
border and pay the enormous sum of 3s. for 3 ' Hidgogs Heads * 
brought ' by one of Kimmerig/ which was altruistic to the verge 
of disloyalty to our own parish. March 23, 1773, John Harris 
gets 4d. for i hawk's head. Twice in 1775 John Randall brings 
one or more ' hocks hedgs/ which from the price probably means 
hawk's heads not hedge hogs. 

Of ordinary Church expenses the following is a normal 
specimen. 

Disburstment for the year 1758. 

£ s. d. 

Easter paid for Bread and Wine 27 

paid the Corte fees 42 

paid the peticost mone . . . . . . 15 

for my Expence at vesetation • . . . . . 100 

Whitsentide paid for Bread and Wine . . . . . . 27 

Christmas paid for Bread and Wine 27 

Paid for Cleanen the Churchyard and riten the wals . . 16 

Paid a bill of Glasen 112 

Paid Jams Elby for Riten the Church hatches . . : 20 

Paid for the militsha Chest 120 

Paid the Clarks wages and washen the Lenen . . ..126 
For washing the sarples, is. bd. (1782). 

The 'Clark's wags' or 'wagers' every year was £1, the 
2S. 6d. being for washing the ' Linning ' (or ' Carpet ' as it is 
called in 1776). 

The Court Fees* at the Visitation May 7, were only is. td. 
This was on occasion of the Bishop visiting in person, as again 
in 1787. Besides the Churchwarden's own expenses, lox., there 
was usually a payment of zs. 6</. * for the Reverent Mr. Bond/ 
* the Minister's fees ' or * the pasen ' (parson) * for Goen to 
vestation.' In 1774 this occurs simply as * paid Meastear Bond, 
IS. dd.^ And the entry ' paid the pent cus money ' may puzzle 
some future antiquary unless he finds the other variants ' Penticost 
money ' Pentost mone ' and the like. This payment was a survival 
of the antient custom for each parish to send to the mother church 
at Salisbury (for Dorset had not been always, nor is it now, in the 
diocese of Bristol) a procession of parishioners with their banner 
and oblations at Whitsuntide. The ' Pentecost money ' from 
Tyneham was always is. ^d. 

The parish Communions were evidently at this period the 
minimum canonical or statutable number of three in the year, 

* The Ardideacon's and Registrar's fees appear about 1785 as *The 
Decan Fees, 45. id. The Clark's Fees, 45.' And in 1810-25 it is ' pd for the 
Deanery, 45. ^.* Unless this last refers to a Ruri-decanal fee. 



Somtfset &» Dorsit Notes S» Queries. 351 

Easter being one. About 1801 quarterly celebrations began. In 
1 85 1 there was a 5th. In 1856 the surplice is washed six times. 
June 11^ 1762, the entry is ' Pd for Sakerment Wine, is. 6</.' In 
1768 'Pd for Bred & Win & a bottel, is. lod.' In 1795 the 
charge rose to 3^. $d. In 1797 to 4^. In 1804 to 4^. 6d. In 
iSii, ss. 6d. In 1812, 6s. 6d. In 1825 it suddenly drops again 
to $s. lod. 

In August 1 848 the Rector, Rev. W. Bond formerly Tutor of 
Wadham, ' considering the increase of Population of Tyneham and 
willing to promote the spiritual welfare of the Inhabitants, 
arranged to provide a second service every Sunday, Ash Wednes- 
day, Good Friday, and Christmas Day, and gave an endowment 
to maintain it, stipulating that a sermon should be preached on 
all those days (Ash Wednesday excepted). Up to that time 
Steeple and Tyneham had had one service each, morning or 
afternoon alternately. In 1849 accordingly we find W. Guy 
receiving i/. for 'off f iciatin]g as Clerk at 2nd Service pro tem.' and 
subsequently 'as clerk at 2nd service.' Presumably the old parish 
clerk had some objection to falling in with such newfangled ideas. 
(The population of Tyneham had numbered in 1 82 1 , 240,males 1 1 7, 
females 123; in 183 1, 247, m. iii, f. 136, but the numbers in 
1848 I have not ascertained. In 1891 we were 260. 

Dec. 23, 1780, Paid for a plate for the Communion, 2/. los. 

1805. Jan. 13, for ritten the Cupe, is. {t.e. repairing or 
setting to rights the chalice, an Elizabethan Communion Cup. 
The cover, dated 1574, with the same marks as the chalice, has 
apparently been overlooked in Mr. Nightingale's account nor has 
he mentioned the silver plate or dish with maker's mark HL. B„ 
with the hall-mark *^' which corresponds with the year i78o(-8i), 
and is clearly the * plate ' mentioned in these accounts.) 

1790. for a Napcen (napkin) is. Sd. 

1794. pd for a Cloth for the tabel, 6s. 

The font drain was probably out of repair; for in 1769 we 
find, ' Pd for a Chrisning Basen, i^.' In course of time the 
old font itself was discarded in favour of one of the standing 
basons which were fashionable in the eighteenth century and 
early part of the present, a more or less classical structure of 
painted wood capable of being lifted and placed in a comer when 
not in immediate use (for in those days, few thought of the 
presence of a font as having any teaching power) and fitted with 
a yet more moveable bason, too often of the commonest ware. 

Mr. J. Methuen Rogers of Berkley House, Somerset, who 
married Miss Margaret Sophia Bond of Grange in 1801, gave the 
wooden font, a copy of one at Berkley. It was superseded by a 
stone font at Tyneham in the present century. 

Chr. Wordsworth. 

{To be continued.) 



352 SanufHt S* Dorut NoUs S* Queries. 

289. North Curry Hundred, Somerset, (25 Edward L) 
— ^The following documents now translated refer to certain 
defalcations in the collection of the* tenths due to the King, in 
respect of the personal or movable property of the inhabitants 
of this hundred ; and the date will probably recall to the memory 
of the student of history the fact that, at this period, the struggle 
against the levying of talliages or prises by the King without the 
consent of Parliament had almost attained to a national crisis, 
which resulted in the King being compelled to bend before the 
storm ; and his confirmation of the Charters, together with the 
celebrated statute *' De Tallagio non concedendo," may be justly 
placed amongst the most important events in our national history. 

G. E. Weare. 

Edward, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of 
of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, to our beloved and faithful 
Gilbert de Bere*, Greeting. 

Whereas there is owing to us £s\ 15 loj of the arrearages 
of the tenth lately granted to us from the laity, from the men of 
the Hundred of North Coryf. i^ the County of Somerset, which 
Hugh de la Hele and John de Knappe (Cnappe), assessors 
(** taxatores ") and collectors of the said tenth in the said hundred, 
raised and appropriated to themselves, as we have heard by the 
assertion of our faithful Robert GuyanJ We have assigned you 
that you make diligent inquiry into the matter by the oaths of 
honest and lawful men of the said hundred, and especially of those ' 
who paid the said arrearages to the said collectors. Therefore, 
We command you, that on certain days and at a certain place 
which you shall provide for the same, you shall take the inquisition 
in the most discreet and faithful manner that you can. We have 
also commanded the Sheriff of our said County, that on certain 
days and at a certain place which you shall make known to him, 
he shall cause to come before you the said Hugh and John to 
hear the said inquisition, and as well Knights as others, honest and 
lawful men of the said hundred, and especially those who paid the 
said arrearages as is aforesaid, by whom the truth of the premises 

♦ «* Grilbertus de Bere '* was returned to Parliament for the Coonty of 
Somerset in 1299- 1300, and again in 1 300-1301. 

t *• Nort-Chori or Nort-Cnri " in Domesday (postea. North Cory and North 
Curry). The prae-Domesday or Saxon hundred, which contained North Curry, 
Stoke Grregory and West Hatch only, (the manors of Thurlbear and Thorn-Falcon 
now included in the hundred being subsequent additions), was part of the late 
Harold's Earldom (« Comes Haroldus *') ; it became vested in King William, as 
an Escheat, by forfeiture. 

1 The manor of North Curry was in the possession of the Dean and Canons 
of Wells from the latter part of the 1 2th century until it was transferred to 
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. It appears from the original Manumission 
still preserved in Wells Cathedral that pnor to A.D. 1264, William, the father 
of Robert Gyan (Guyan), was one of the villeins of the manor. 



Somerset S* Darut Notes S» Queries. 353 

may be the better known and enquired into. And, having 
enquired into the truth of this matter, if it appears to you that the 
said Hugh and John received those arrearages, or part thereof, as 
is aforesaid, that then you shall cause them to be attached, to 
cause and take them to appear before the Barons of Our Exchequer 
at Westminster on the morrow of Low-Sunday (*• Ciansi Pasch*,") 
that our Court may take consideration thereof in this matter. 
And the inquisition distinctly and openly made upon the premises, 
under your seal and the seals of those by whom it was made, 
together with all things touching that inquisition, you shall have 
there on that day. In witness whereof We have caused these 
our Letters to be made Patent. Witness, P. de Wilughby, locum 
tenens of our Treasurer, at Westminster, the second day of March, 
in the 25th year of our reign. 

[Endorsed.] In the Roll of the Pleas for the King of the 
25 th vear. 

inquisition made at Northcory, in the vigil of Palm Sunday, 
in the twenty fifth year of the reign of King Edward, before Sir 
Gilbert de Bere, who was assigned to this by the Lord the King, 
according to the form and tenor of his commission of the tenth 
granted to the Lord the King on behalf of the firoods of the laity ; 
and whether Hugh de la Hele and John de Knappe (Cnappe), 
assessors and collectors in the Hundred of North Cory, raised 
and appropriated to themselves £s^ 15 10}. 

It is found by the oaths of Sir Walter de Louery*, Baldric 
de Nonyngton, Thomas de Mere, Walter le Frye, Richard le Frye, 
Hugh Cancy, Robert de Asso, Roger Grey, William de la Putte, 
Richard de la Bule, John Ekke and Nicholas de la Chambre, and 
by the oaths of all those who paid the said tenth, who say that 
the aforesaid Hugh and John, the principal collectors, and Robert 
de Groys and William de Murydone their associates, raised in the 
Hundred aforesaid, to the use of the Lord the King in the name 
of a tenth, £^6 17 loj. And out of that they paid to Sir W. de 
Stantonf and J. de Blakefford, the principal receivers of the whole 
tenth of the County of Somerset, £^2$ 14. 2 J. And so there 
remains in the hands of the said Hugh and John ^51 3 8d. In 
witness whereof the jurors aforesaid have put their seals to this 
inquisition. 

[Endorsed.] To the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer 
by Gilbert de Seere. 
Somerset. . . .the morrow. . . .Palm Sunday. t 

• These names represent the twelve jurymen. It ap]>ear8 from the endorse- 
ment that Baldric de Nonyngton was a knight. Sir Baldric^held LiUisden, one of 
the Tithings of North Cory, of King Edw. I. ** as of the honour of the Castle of 
Carisbrooke, in the Isle of Wight." (CoUinson). '* Baldricus de Nomton,** in 
Cal. Inquis. Post Mortem, Edw. I. 

t **Willielmus de Stanton" represented the county of Somerset in the 
Parliament summoned to meet at Westminster, 15 July, 1290. He was again 
returned to the Parliament of 1295. The same (?) person was returned in 1304-5. 

X A portion damaged. Unfortunately the seals have been destroyed. 

o 



354 Somerset 6* Dorset Notes S* Queries. 

The Mainpernorsll (** Manucaptores **) of John de Cnappe 
William Hugoth. 
Walter le Hundredman. 
Thomas de Boklande. 
Simon de Domerham. 

The mainpernors of Hugh de la Hele. 
Sir Baldric de Nonyngton. 
Richard le Bole. 
Thomas de Boklande. 
William de la Putte. 

ago. Christopher Chilcot. (III. xxiii. 299) — The 
parentage of Christopher Chilcot will perhaps be found in one or 
both of these documents : — 

a. Grant of administration of goods of Robert Chilcott of 
Beminster, dated ib86. 

6, Will of William Chilcott of Beminster proved 1687. 

Both will be found among the records of the Prebendai Court 
of Netherbury, now in the Probate Registry at Somerset House. 

The following notes may be of use. 

The will of William Chilcott of Boughgrove in Beaminster, 
yeoman, dated 6th March, 1723-4, & proved P.C.C, 21st May, 
1724, (108 Bolton) mentions his wife Susannah and his brothers, 
Robert Chilcott and Christopher Chilcott, the last being father of 
William, £lianor, Anne, & Clorenda. 

The will of Joan Chilcott of Axnoller in Beaminster, widow, 
dated i8th June, 1707, and proved P.C.C. loth February, 
1707-8, (33 Barrett) mentions William Chilcott (husband of 
Susannah), Robert Chilcott of Beaminster, yeoman, and Christo- 
pher Chilcott of Tentagell, Cornwall, clerk. 

As Christopher Chilcott is described as " pleb.'* it seems 
unlikely that he was nearly related to the Chilcotts of Symondsbury . 
He was more probably descended from a yeoman family of his 
name, who were settled at Chilfrome in 164 1 and probably earlier, 
and who continued there for many years after that date. 

FJ.P. 

291. Dorset Subsidy Roll of 1661. — Hutchins' History 
of Dorset^ under the headings of several parishes in Sherborne 
and Yetminster hundreds, quotes a subsidy roll of this date. It 
is not in the London Record office. Will anyone kindly mention 
where it is to be found ? F.J. P. 

II Mainpernors differ fronv bail, in that a man's bail may imprison or surrender 
him up before the stipulated day of appearance ; whereas mainpernors can do ' 
neither ; but they are bound to produce him to answer all charges whatsoever. 
Sometimes, when a man is committed to his mainpernors, they give an under- 
taking for his appearance,' he is said <* to be let to mainprise.'' (Holthouse's 
Dictionary, pp. 241-2.) 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes S» Queries. 



355 



292. Somerset and Dorset Gentry. — Nobility and 
Gentry, which are, or lately were, related unto the County of 
Somerset : With their Seats and Titles by which they are, or have 
been, known. [Blome*s Bn'/annia, 1673]. 

SOMERSET. 



A. 

John Aconrt of Raden Esq. 
o. St. Albons of Alfoxton. 
Abraham Atkins of Chard Gent. 

B. 

Sir To. Baber of Wells Knt. 

T^Uiam Bacon of Mansell Esq. 

George Bacon of Langford-Budfield, 
Esq. 

To. Baker of Trull Esq. 

Tames Bale of Seaborow Esq. 

Warwick Bamfield of Hemington Esq. 

Sir Will. Basset of Claverfaam Knt. 

The Right Honorable John Earl of 
Bath, Viscount Grenvile of Kil- 
hampton, and Bidiford, Lord War- 
den of the Stannaries. High Steward 
of the Dutchy of ComwaU, Lord 
Lieutenant of the Counties of Devon 
and Cornwall, Groom of the Stool, 
first Grentleman of his Majesties 
Bed-Chamber, and one of the Lords 
of his Majesties most Honorable 
Privy CouncU, &c. 

The Right Reverend Peter Mew, 
Lord Bishop of Bath and WeUs, 8cc. 

James Bayle of Seaborow, Esq. 

Maurice Berkley of Yeriington Esq. 

Edward Berkley of PuU Esq. 

Henry Bonner of Combe St. Nicholas 
Esq. 

John Brent of Cossington Esq. 

Sir Thomas Bridges of Cainsham Knt. 

Henry Bridges of Cainsham Esq. 

The Right Honorable John Egerton, 
Earl of Bridgwater, Vise. Brackley, 
Baron Elsmer, Lord Lieutenant of 
the County of Bucks, and one of his 
Majesties most Honorable Privy 
Council, Sec. 

Waririck Bromfield of Bamfield Esq. 

George Browne of Wilton Esq. 

John Buckland of West Harptrew 
Esq. 

WUliam Bull of Shapwick Esq. 

Henry Bull of Midsomer-Norton Esq. 

Henry Bull of Shapwick Esq. 

C. 

Robert Cannon of Fitzhead Esq. 
Jo. Carew of Cammerton Esq. 



Berkl^ Came of Bath Gent. 

John Chaffey of Stoke under Hamlet 

Esq^ 
John Champneys of Orchardleigh Esq. 
Richard Churcney of Wincanton Gent. 
Sir John Churchill of ChurchiU Knt. 
James Churchill of Clapton Grent. 
Robert Chute of Combe St. Nicholas 

Gent. 
Edward CUrke of Chipley Esq. 
William Cl^ke of Samford Esq. 
WUliam Colford of Bromfield Gent. 
Giles.Combs of Chard Gent. 
Abraham Cooke of .Shipton Mallet 

Gent. 
Jonathan Cooth of Yenston Gent. 
Sir John Coventry of Pitmister, Knt 

of the Bath. 
Edward Court of Lilsdon Esq. 
T^niliam Coward of Wells Esq. 
William Crarrant of Milberton-port 

Esq. 
John Creswick of Langford Esq. 

D. 

Henry Davison of Badcombe Gent. 
Andrew Dewdney of Trent Gent. 
Edward Druston of West-Buckland 

Esq. 
Henry Dunster of Ilchester Esq. 



John Escott of Overstowey Gent, 
ohn Eveny of Cottie Esq. 



Thomas Farwell of Horsington Esq. 
Thomas Farwell of Holbrooke Gent. 
Thomas Field of Milbom-port Gent. 
Jo. Fitz-Herbert of Kilmingdon Esq. 



Abraham Gapper of Wincaunton 

Gent. 
Thomas Gratchell of Clacey Esq. 
Henry Gatchell of West Moncton 

Gent. 
Gregory Gibbs of Wayfiwd Esq. 
Goddard of Upton Noble Gent. 
John Goodwin of Martock Esq. 
Sir Thomas Gore of Barrow Knt. 



35^ 



Somerut 6* Dorsit Notes S* Queries, 



Edward Gorges of Wraxall Esq. 
Thomas Gould of Northover Gent. 
Odley Grey of Nether Stoney Esq. 

H. 

John Harbin of Yeoyell Esq. 

The Right Honorable Maurice Berkley, 
Baron Berkley of Rathdoune in 
Ireland, and Vise. Fitz-harding of 
Bearehaven in the said Kingdom, 
&c. at Burton. 

Henry Hair^ of Bridgwater Eso. 

Hie Right Honorable Francis JLord 
Hawley, one of the Gentlemen of 
the Bedchamber to his Royal High- 
ness the Duke of York, &c. at 
Bnckland-House. 

Robert Hawley of Buddand Eso. 

Sir Tames Hayes of Beddngton Knt. 

WiUiam Heartgill of Kilmington Esq. 

William Helyer of Coker Esq. 

Richard Helyer of Butley Esq. 

William Helyer of Sea iSsq. 

Thomas Helyer of Hayne Esq. 

Henry Henley of Coley Esq. 

William Hill of Pitmister Esq. 

Richard Hipsley of Stone-Easton Esq. 

Tohn Hody of Northover Esq. 

Sir George Homer of Mells ICnt. 

CopplestoneHorton ofWolverton Esq. 

John Huddy of Northover Esq. 

Sir Edward Hungerford of Farley 
Castle Knt. of the Bath. 

Robert Hunt of Compton Pansford 
Esq. 

John Hunt of the same, Esq. 

John Hunt of Speddngton Esq. 

George Hussey of Charlton Gent. 



Thomas Jening of Curry-revill Esq. 
Sir William Jones of Stowey Knt. 
Richard Jones of Stowey Esq. 

K 

Sir John Knight of Bristol Knt. 
Thomas Knoyle of Sandford Esq. 

L. 

William Lacey of Hartrey Esq. 
Richard Lainsdowne of Woodborow 



Joseph Langdon of Newton Park Esq. 
felmond Leversedge of Vallice Esq. 
Henry light of Lytes-Cary Esq. 
George Long of Stratton Esq. 
John Loscombe of Trent Grent. 
Kinsmel Lucy of Castle*Cary Esq. 



Francis Lutterell of Dunster Castle 

Esq. 
Thomas Lydgenham of Taunton Esq, 

M. 

John Mallack of Wilton Esq. 

Sir John Malet of St. Aadries in 

West Quantoxhead Knt. 
Michael Malet of Poyntington Esq. 
Richard Mattocks of Norton Gent. 
Robert Merefeld of Crewkeme Esq. 
Robert Mellier of Whettle Gent. 
Humphry Mildmay of Queen's Camel 

Esq. 
Henry Mompesson of Batcombe Esq. 
Thomas Moore of 9pargrove Esq. 
Andrew Moore oi Bridgwater Gent. 
Richard Morgan of St. Georges Esq. 
Richard Musgrave of Nettleoombe 

Ksq. 

N. 

Roeer Newborough of Berkley Esq. 
Robert Newman of Queens Camell 

Esq. 
Thomas Nichols of Clapton Grent. 
Geom NorthoTer of AJer Esq. 
Sir George Norton of Abbots- Ler^ 

Knt. 



William Orange of Foxcott Esq. 



Thomas Pacy of Babington Gent. 
Peregrin Palmer of Fair&ll Esq. 
Thomas Parsivall of Weston Esq. 
Andrew Parsons of Camell Gent. 
The R. Honorable John Paulet, Baron 

Paulet of Hinton St. George, &c. 
Francis Paulet of Wells Eso. 
Anthony Paulet of Preston Esq. 
Mallet Paulet of the same, Esq. 
Edward Phillips Sen. of Montacute 

Esq. 
Sir Edward Phillips Jan. of the same. 

Baronet. 
Thomas Piggot of Long-ashton Esq. 
William Pittman of Sandford Gent. 
John Pitts of Norton Esq. 
William Plumley of Locking Esq. 
Sir Francis Popham of Houndstert, 

Knt. of the Bath. 
Sir W Uliam Portman of Orchard, Knt. 

of the Bath and Bart. 
George Powell of Wilton Esq. 
George Prater of Nunney Esq. 
John Prouse of Compton Bishop Esq. 
Charles Prouse of Ofd-Cley Gent. 



SomiTut <S* Dorsit Noiis S» Qu$ms. 



357 



R. 

Peter Raymon of Hartrey Esa. 
Peter Raymoa of Northover (jent. 
Sir Francis Roll of Shapwick, Knt. 
Thomas Rolt of Abbas-Combe Gent. 
Jo. Rosewell of English-combe Gent. 

S. 

Mardley Sanbome of Timsbuiy Esq. 
Thomas Saunders of Milbomport Esq. 
Thomas Shute of Kilmersden Gent. 
William Sims of Pitmister Esq. 
David Slocombe of Bishops-Lydeard 

Esq. 
Sir Hugh Smith of Long-Ashton Bart. 
The Right Noble John Seymour Duke 

of Somerset, Marouess, and Earl of 

Hartford, Vise. Beauchamp, and 

Baron Seymour, &c 
George Spe&ke of White-Lackington 

Esq. 
Willi«n Speake of Jordan in AishiU 

Esq. 
TAHlliam Staynings of Selworthy Esq. 
George Stedlman of Stratton Esq. 
Ralph Stowell of Ham Esq. 
WiUiam Stroud of Barrington Esq. 
Edward Stroud of Downside Esq. 
Thomas Stroud of Mapperton Esq. 
Thomas Stroud of Bowles Esq. 
Sir Jo. Sydenham of Brimton Bart. 
Roger Sydenham of Skilgate Esq. 
Henry Sydenham of Dulverton Esq. 

T. 
Jo. Taylor of Adber Gent. 



Halsewell Tmt of Goat-hurst Esq. 
Hugh Tint of Wraxall Esq. 
Sir George T^evilian of Nettle-combe 
Bart. 

V. 
Francis Vaughan of Axbridge Esq. 

W. 

Henry Waldron of Ubrewers Esq. 
Thomas Warr of Shepton-Becham 

Esq. 
Henry Warr of Ashill Gent. 
Hugh Watts of Cucklington Gent. 
James Webb of Butley Esq. 
Thomas Wendon of Wytham-flary 



Jo. Westoombe of Creech Gent. 
Richard Westcombe of Milverton 

Grent. 
TAHlliam Whittington of Streat. 
Henry Winter of Claxton Esq. 
Sir John Wroth of Petherton-Park 

Bart. 

Sir Thomas Wroth of Newton Knt. 
Sir Edmond Wyndham of Cathanger 

Knt. Marshall of His MajesUes 

Household. 
Sir William Wyndham of Orchard 

Wyndham Bart. 
Francis Wyndham of Trent Esq. 
Thomas Wyndham of Witham Esq. 



^^lliam Young of Trent Esq. 

£. H. Batbs. 
(7b be contintud). 



293. Olivbr Cromwell. 1770 (IV. xxx. 230, xxxi. 269.) — 
The kindness of Miss £vie Coleridge-Smith enables me to send the 
following extracts from the Rodney Stoke Registers. A familjr 
of the name of Cromwell appears to have resided there or in 
this neighbourhood for upwards of two hundred years from 1656. 
At the present time the name does not appear in Kelly's Dinctoty 
o/Somersei, except in the single instance of Mrs. H. Cromwell, 
Bath. 

Jambs Coleman. 

From the Register of Baptisms* Marriages and Burials in the 
Parish of Rodney Stoke, Somerset, 1654-1787. 

1 656 Lenard Cromwell to be Parish Register 

(greater part illegible) 



358 Somsrset 6* Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 

1656 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Cromwell, 
bom • • • • • . • . 

1658 Leonard, son of Thos. Cromwell, bom 

1660 Agnes, daughter of Thomas Cromwell and 
firancis his wife, baptised 

1660 Leonard Cromwell signs the Rector's declar- 
ation • . 

1662 William and Agnes, son and daughter of 

Thos. and ffrancis Cromwell, baptised . • 
Agnes, grand-daughter of Thos. Cromwell, 

buried . . 

William, grandson of Thos Cromwell, buried 

1663 Leonard Cromwell, buried 

1675 Edward Cromell (xiir) son of Mark Cromell, 

buried 

1676 Mark Cromwell, buried 

1692 George Cromwell and Joan Sage, married . . 

1694 George, son of George Cromwell, baptised. . 
George, son of George and Joan Cromwell, 

buried 

1695 George, son of George and Joan Cromwell, 

baptised 

1699 Esther, daughter of George Lad Joan Crom- 
well, baptised 

1705 Frances, daughter of George and Jone Crom- 
well, baptised 

1716 John, son of George and Jone Cromwell 
baptised 

1720 Hester, daughter of George and Jone Crom- 
well, baptised . . . . » . 

1724 Elizabeth, daughter of George and Jone 
Cromwell, baptised 

1737 Frances, daughter of John and Hannah 
Cromwell, baptised 

1738-9 Mary, daughter of John and Hannah Crom- 
well, baptised 

1 74 1 George, son of John and Hannah Cromwell, 
baptised . . . . . . 

1744 John, son of John and Hannah Cromwell, 

baptised 

1745 Jane, daughter of John and Hannah Crom- 

well, baptised 
1749 James, son of John and Hannah Cromwell, 



1720 George Cromwell and Jone Denmead of 

Cheddar parish, married 
1736 John Cromwell and Hannah Williams, married 
1719 Hester Cromwell, buried 



Oct. 

Nov 


8 
. I 


Feb. 


25- 


Mar. 


3'- 


Aug 


. 8. 


Aug. 
Aug. 
Feb. 


9. 
If. 

21. 


June 
Oct. 


5- 


Jan. 
Oct. 


24. 
if. 


Nov. 


18. 


Mar, 


22. 


Ap. 


9. 


Feb, 


21. 


May 


I. 


Oct. 


3; 


Oct. 


5. 


Aug. 


12. 


Jan. 


21. 


Aug. 


9. 


Ap. 


1. 


Nov. 


3- 


Ap. 


2. 


May 17. 
May 2. 
Feb. II. 



Sep. 


8. 


Jan. 


21. 


Feb. 


20. 


Nov. 


29. 


Feb. 


4- 


Jan. 


2. 


Aug. 


2. 


Nov. 


6. 


June 


18. 


Mar. 


2. 


June 


22. 


Oct. 


22. 


June 


6. 



Somerset 6* Dorset Notes 6* Queries. 359 

1727 George, son of George and Joan Cromwell, 
Junr., buried 

George Cromwell, Junr., buried . . 
1729 Joan Cromwell, buried 
173 1 Mark Cromwell, buried 
1733 Frances Cromwell, buried 
1737-8 George Cromwell, buried 
1747 James, son of John and Hannah Cromwell, 

buried 
1 75 1 John Cromwell, buried 
1759 Jane Cromwell, buried 

Jone Cromal («V), buried 

George Cromal (x/V), buried 
T 766 John Cromwell, buried 
1775 James Cromwill {sic), buried 

294. Ralegh MS. — ^There is printed in Hutchins' History 
of Dorset , vol. IV. (1870) 217-9, an account . of the attempt 
asserted to have been made by Sir Walter Raleigh to commit 
suicide on July 27, 1603, while a prisoner in the Tower. It is 
entitled '* Sir Walter Raleigh's stabb," and contains the following 
prefatory note : — 

" Having in my possession a manuscript of the time relating 
in a quaint style a circumstance that has escaped our historians 
and biographers, I am induced to give the narrative here." 

Is it known where this is preserved ? 

T. N, Brushfibld, M.D., Salterton, Devon. 

295. Visitation of Dorset in 1677 by Bysshb. — Is 
there any copy of this Visitation known to be in existence outside 
the College of Arms ? If so, where ? There appear to be 
copies for some other countries, see Sims' *^ Manuat^* and 
Gatfield's " Guider 

£. A. Fry, 172, Edmund Street, Birmingham. 

296. Dorset Clergy in 1641. (IV. xxxi. 257). — ^The 
nameless parish in Tollerford hundred, of which Thomas Clement 
was clerk, must have been Chilfrome. The top of the sheet 
containing the name of the parish has been torn off, but the list 
of parishioners is practically complete, and among them occur 
the names of Hillary Elby (churchwarden), Arthur Cliffe, Ellis 
Rogers, Thomas Luckis, and three named Chilcott or Chilcoate. 
Now the Will of Hillary Elby of Chilfroome (dated 1651 and 
proved the same year in London) mentions Ellis Rogers, and 
Thomas Luckis, and is witnessed by Arthur Cliffe and Robert 
Chilcott. In " Alumni Oxonienses " Thomas Clement of Dorset, 
'* cler. fil.," who matriculated 161 2, aged 16, is said to have been 
rector of Chilfrome in 1620 and of Nether Compton in 1631. 

F.J.P. 



360 Somerset &» Dorset Notes S^ Queries. 

2gj. Thb "Shrine of St. Candida" in the Chprch of 
St. Candida and Holy Cross in the Parish of Whitechurch Can- 
onicorum, Dorset.— The reputed Shrine of St. Candida is a roughly 
constructed stone monument standing in a shallow recess in the 
North Wall of the North Transept of Whitechurch Canonicorum. 
It stands on a base which at its West end is continuous with the 
wall of the Church, but at its East end it projects some 3^ inches. 
The *• shrine " is therefore not parallel with the North wall against 
which it stands. There is moreover a difference of about 3 inches 
in the height of the monument at its two ends, the pavement of 
the Transept rising from West to East. The measurements in 
inches of the height from the floor in the middle are approximately 
as follows : (a) the base or platform, 8^ : {6) the chamfered 
plinth, 6^ : (r) the face containing the oval openings, 22 : (</) the 
stone slab, 2 J : {e) the coffin, 13^; (/* ) the Purbeck marble 
slab, 4i : total from the floor 57^ inches. The thickness and 
irregularity of the mortar joints make accurate measurement of 
the details impossible. 

The monument itself has every appearance of being compiled 
from various sources. The lower part of it seems to have been 
an Altar-tomb of the 13th century, rebuilt in its present position at 
an unknown date. The rebuilding has been roughly done, and 
interferes with the bases of the shafts which stand at either end 
of it. There is a rough walling from back to front between the 
oval apertures. The upper portion of the monument consists of 
a plain 14th century stone coffin, resting on the slab of the older 
work, and covered with a Purbeck marble slab, with a hollow 
chamfer. The surface of the marble slab is in places a good 
deal decayed. 

The coffin is said to have been opened by the Rev. W. 
Palmer, Vicar, about the year 1850, and to have contained a 
small box, in which were bones. A fracture which is observable 
in the south face of the coffin is said to be a memorial of this 
opening. No one knows what became of the bones, so it may 
be hoped that they were reverently replaced. There is no 
inscription or carving on the tomb. 

There is no ascertained reason for connecting the monument 
with the name of St. Candida. '* St. Candida " is explained in 
three different ways : 

I St, as a mistake for Candidus. A companion of St. Boniface 
in the 8th century bore the name of Wiiia, which name, converted 
into White, or Latinized into Candidus, is held by some to account 
for ••Whitechurch." dedicated to St. Candidus. St. Boniface was, 
and Witta may have been, born in the neigbourhood. The 
dedication was, it is suggested, confused or altered into Candida 
under foreign influence, possibly about the nth century. 

andly, Candida was a Roman or Spanish Virgin Martyr, to 
whom the Church was dedicated ; but no explanation is forth- 




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362 



Folio. Name of] 
140 CoUier» William 

325 Cox, Maiy 



34 Cooper, Thomas 

141 CiTunmey, William 
241 Dunning. William 

79 Edwards, John 

241 Evans, Henry 

142 Evered, John 

104 Faontleroy, 
Dorothy 



79 Fisher, Margaret 

140 Eox al*s Romayne 
142 Fry, George 

292 Gardner, Temper- 
ance 
191 Gill, John 

141 Harrie, William 



34 Harvey, Richard 



Somerset S* Dorut Notes S» Queries. 



Qranlooand 
Parish. Ralationthip to 

Piddle Trent- Frances, relict 

hide 
Iweme Mary Fnr, Elizabeth Lau- 

Minster rence,I)orothy Hastings, 
& Susan Cox, daughters 
George, son 



Melbury 

Osmond 
Wareham 
Eastholme 
Chardstock 



Hannah, relict 

Mary, relict 

Ricnard and Abraham, 

brothers 
Margery, relict 
Thomas Evered, nephew 



Date of 
Administration. 

1 June. 1657 

2 Dec., 1657 

II Feb., 1657 

18 June, 1657 

9 Oct., 1657 

23 Apl., 1657 



5 Oct., 1657 
19 June, 1657 



Spetisbur 
Charlton 

MarshaU 

Fauntleroy Jane Stuckeyal's Weston, 7 May, 1657 
Marsh, Folke sister ; William Faunt- 
leroy, husband,renounc- 
ing 
John, son 



Sherborne 
see Roma3me 
Map ton 

Dorchester 



Jane Fry, daughter, Ann 
Fry, relict, renouncing 
Henry, son 



Wool Elizabeth James, sister 

Puddletowne Dorothy, wife of George 
Pook, and Joane, wife of 
John Eyres, nieces, (re- 
voked, n-esh letters, Jan., 
ChurchKnowleThomas, brother 
Purbeck 



25 Apl., 1657 

29 June, 1657 

25 Nov., 1657 

22 Aug., 1657 
17 Jui^e, 1657 



''M 



9 Feb., 1657 





Bettiscombc 


Thomas, son 26 Nov., 1657 


326 Hicks, John 
140 Hillard. Mary 


Wickham 


Elizabeth, relict 24 Dec., 1657 


Blandford 


Thomas, son 12 June, 1657 
Christopher, brother 11 Feb., 1657 


34 Hixon, George, 


St. James, 


bachelor 


CO. Dorset 




241 Horlock, Sampson 


Great Funt- 
mil] 
Hamoone 


Ibert, relict 5 Oct., 1657 


241 Hurdaire, William 


Dorothy, daughter 16 Oct., 1657 


35 Jess, Thomas 
104 Joyce, John 


Burleston 


Eleanor, relict 21 Feb., 1657 


MamhuU 


Susan, daughter, and 15 May, 1657 






Thomas, brother ; for 






use of Susan, John and 
Margaret, chidren of 










deceased 


211 Kelway, Henry 


Winterbome 
Kingston 
Buckland 


Lucy, relict 1 6 Sept . , 1 65 7 


142 Keynes, Sibil, 


Robert Tillie and John 25 June, 1657 


widow 




Keynes, the younger, 
guardians ofSibill,Eliza- 
beth, John and Mary 
Keynes, children of 
deceased 


160 King, John 
58 King, Owen 


Cranbome 


John, son 25 July, 1657 
Elizabeth, relict 27 Mch.,i6s 


Edmondsham 


325 Knight al's Abing- 
don 


see Abingdon 

/ 





Somerset <S« Dorset Notes &• Queries. 



363 



Folio. Name of DeoeMod. 
151 Lavor» Robert, 



21 z Leach, John 
58 Lock, George 
325 Lockett, Thomas 
325 Longman, Alice 
104 Martin, George 
4 Mills. Lancelot 



Grantee and 
Relallonihip to 

Chrispin, father 



241 Mortimer. James Wejrmouth 



Pariih. 

Weymouth 
died at sea in 

••Speaker" 

frigate 
Pilsden 
Lillington 
Spettisbury 
Stalbridge 
Lidlinch 
Beamister*'Co.John, son 

Cornwall ** 



Mary Taylby, sister 
James, father 
Maiy. relict 
Robert, husband 
Elizabeth, relict 



Date of 

AdminlftratioL. 

26 June, 1657 



8 Sept., 1657 
3 Mch.,1657 
2 Dec., 1657 
SDec, 1657 
2 May, 1657 
ID Jan., 1657 



291 Munckton al*s 
Munck.Christopher 

325 Munckton ai's 

Munck,Christopher 
35 Mudge, Martin 

192 Northover, John 



Christopher Hall, grand- 30 Oct., 1657 

father of Christopher. 

Morgan,Margaret, Maiy 

and Joane, chfldren of 

deceased 
Matthew, son 



169 Osment, Richard 

79 Parmiter. Robert 

292 Parsons,Anthony 



Bishops Matthew, son 16 Nov., I657 
Caundle 

CauncUeMarsh Ursula, relict 4 Dec, 1657 

Poole Warbora. relict 23 Feb., 1657 

Bridport . died Alice, relict 24 Aug. , 1 657 

at sea in 

"Newberry" 

frieate 

Sherborne Magdalen, relict 25 July, 1657 

Wareham Joane, relict 28 Apl., 1657 

Shaston Elizabeth, relict 25 Nov., 1657 

Grrace, relict 20 Mch., 1657 



58 Payne, Nicholas Abbottsbury 
325 Phillips al's Amizer see Amizer 
169 Pomeroy, Robert Knighton 

140 Romayne al's Fox, Cemey 

William 
191 Seymour, William Iweme 

Courtney 

141 Sheldon al'sYoung, Mansion 

Katherine 
141 Sheldon, Elizabeth Manston, but Thomas Young, husband 18 June, 1657 



Robert, son 
Phillis. relict 

Joane, relict 

Thomas Young, husband 



22 July, 1057 
8 June, 1657 

I Aug., 1657 

17 Jnne, 1657 



292 Short, Robert DewUsh 

292 Speare, Thomas Bere Regis 
140 Stephens al'sChafin, see Chimn 
326 Tayier, Henry Wareham 

4 Thomhull, George Thomhill 



died in St. of Katherine Young al's 
Giles-in-the- Sheldon, of goods not 
Fields, CO. administered bv said 
Middlesex Katherine. daughter of 
Elizabeth (former grant, 
Dec, 1640) 
Margaret, reuct 
Joane, relict 



23 Nov., 1657 

24 Nov., 1657 



211 Vivian, Thomas Tolepudle 



325 Way. John 

305 Weldish, William 

79 Whiffin, Alice 



Mary, sister 21 Dec, 1657 

Margaret, relict 2 Jan., 1657 

Margaret. relict, and i Sept., 1657 
Thomas, son 

Bridport. died Grace, relict i Dec, 1657 

at Weymouth, Mary, relict 15 Oct., 1657 

but of St. Andrew's Holbom 
New Mills, Peter Whiffin, only brother 14 Apl., 1657 
Pnrbeck 



364 



Somerut <S* Dors$i Notes <S* Queries. 



VOM0. NMMOf 

14J WQHams al's Bart- 
lett, Dorothy 

293 Woolfriet, Henry, 
gent. 

141 Young al'sShddon 



Poddleton 
Mapton 
see Sheldon 



OmitM and 
B a lat io twh lp lo deoea t ad. 

Henry, son 



Dttia of 

Admtniatratlnn 

26 Jane, 1657 



Henry, eldest son ; Susan* 18 Nor., 1657 
relict, renouncing 



7 1 AHdams, Thomas 
86 Baker, Robert 

86 Blandymore al's 

Damer, John 
10 Bower, Jobn 



a8a Bower, WiUiam 
102 Channye, John 

338 Clark, Robert 
132 Come. Jerome 



102 Cotman. Robert 
86 Damer al*s Blandy- 
more 
86 Dinck, Joan, spr. Weymouth 



1658. 

Lyme Regis Rose, relict 19 Mch.91658 

Lei^ Yet- Ann Pomery al*s Baker, 23 Apl., 1658 

minster relict 
Godmanstone Samuel, son 20 ApL, 1658 

CorteCasUe Adry, relict 26 Jan.. 1658 

died at sea in 
*' Taonton " 
frigate 
East Orchard Honor, relict 
Mayden Elizabeth, relict 

Newton 

Weston Jane, relict .,_ 

Cow^rove, John Come, kinsman and 2 June, 1658 
Wunborae principal creditor 
Minster 
Cranbome Mary, relict 3 May, 1658 

seeBlandymore 



19 Not.. 1658 
10 May. 1658 

18 Dec.. 1658 



102 Dowding, Joseph 
39 Evans, Thomas 
39 Evered, Humphrey 

214 Flewdl, Christian 

102 Flewell, William 

39 Frost, Robert 

184 Gouldsborough, 

William 
338 Grandy, James 
1 1 Grubham, Mary 

8 Gunter, Henry 

282 HascoU, Thomas 
132 Hasting, John 

266 Hayward, William 
39 Hurle, John 

283 Ireland, Edward 

185 Jessopp, Constant 

184 Knight, Richard 

9 Lawrence. Roger 



Margeiy Wall, widow. 3 Apl., 1658 
sister 

StowerProYostMargaret. relict 10 May, 1658 

Shapwick Margaret, relict 13 Feb., 1658 

Pillesdon Joane, wife of Henry 12 Feb., 1658 

Hewstie, only sister 
Tollard Elixabeth, mother 10 Aug., 1658 

Famham 
Utchett Edith Crayford,grandchild 15 May. 1658 

Minster 
Charlton Richard, only son 15 Feb.. 1658 

Marshall 
Stinsford Margaret Raven,daughter 2 July, 1658 

Poole Barbara, relict 14 Dec., 1658 

Chardstock Andrew, son . 4 Jan., 1658 
Symsborough John, brother; Thomas, 12 Jan., 1658 

father, renouncing 

FuntmlU Joane, relict 20 Nov., 1658 
Woodlands Elizabeth, relict (further 26 June, 1658 

grant Sept., 1667) 

Helton Cicely, sister 23 Oct., 1658 

Nutford, Mary, relict 15 Feb., 1658 

Blandford Foram 

South Perrott Ann, relict 29 Nov., 1658 

Wimbome Elizabeth, relict 27 July, 1658 

Minster 

Shipton Walter, father 3 July, 1658 

Burton John, brother 14 Jan., 1658 

(To be coniinuid,) Gso. S. Fry. 



Samerut 6* Dorut Notes S* Queries. 365 

399. John Trsnchard of Evbrshot. (IV. xxxi. 272.)— 
In Evershot Churchyard there is the tombstone of this Trenchard, 
now fast becoming undecipherable. 
It reads as follows : — 

In Memory of Jane, the wife of John Tjenchard, who died 
30th October, 1802. Aged 39 years. 

Affliction sore long time I bore 
Phvsicians were in vain 
Till God was pleased 
Death should me sieze 
And ease me of my pain. 
Also of the above John Trench ard, who died 19th October, 
1838, Aged 74 years. 

" Whilst in this world I did remain, 
My latter end was grief and pain 
fiut when the Almighty saw it best 
He took me to a place of rest." 
Also Joseph son of the above John and Jane Trenchard who 
died 20th June, 1831, Aged 37 years. 

Also Judith Trenchard who departed this life March 21, 1841, 
Aged 53 years. 

Also William Trenchard Husband of the above who de];>arted 
this life Sept. 19th, 1854, Aged 64 years. 

The stone is an upright stone. No armorial bearings, merely 
Two cherubs carved at the top. 

I have not yet ascertained who John Trenchard*s parents 

were, though it seems pretty well known he came from Winsham. 

He has descendants living; and if Mr. Sampson wishes 

further information as to them, I shall be pleased to communicate 

with him on hearing. 

S. R. B. 

300. SoMBRSBT AND DoRSBT Brikfs.— *' The History of 
the Municipal Church of St. Lawrence, Reading," by the Rev. 
Charles Kerry (Reading, 1883) contains the following briefs re- 
lating to Somerset and Dorset. 

SamersiL £ s. d. 

1708 Aug. Fire at Wincanton. Loss ;f 2930 o 11 o 

1709 Aug. 14. Repairs of St. Mary Redcliff, Bristow. 

LosS;f44io o 12 2 

17 1 2-1 3 Mar. 15. For Pensford Ch. Damage ;^2742 096 
1733 Whitefeld (Somerset) o 8 9^ 

Dorsif. 

1695 Mar. 15. Fire at Gillingham. Loss ;f 3900 •• 012 6 

1714 Aug. 2. For fire in Blandford Forum. Loss;^ 7880 i 11 4 

1714 Aug. 15. For two fires in Dorchester. Loss ;^2537 o 14 2 

1717 Nov. 30. Fire at Frampton. (;^i56o) o 12 o 



366 



S<m$irsit <S* Dorut Notes <S* Qmries. 



1725 May 23. Fire at £. Morden on o 

1 73 1 -2 Feb. 6. Sufferers by fire in Shirminster 

Newton Castle, Dorset, 010 9 

1732 Oct. 22. For sufferers by fire at Blandford .... 210 9 

F.W.W. 

30Z. Rbctors op Thurloxton, Sombrsst. — Since 1891 
a full list of the Rectors has been hanging in a frame in the porch 
of Thurloxton Church. The following list will supplement and 
continue Mr. Weaver*s list in Somerset Incumbents. 



Date of 
Institution. 
1558. 



Name 

of Rector. 

William Bridge.* 



How Vacated. 



1587. 
1740. 
1742. 
1756. 
1768. 

1833. 
1859. 



23 Aug. 
29 Sept. 
II Aug. 

24 May. 
26 Feb. 



Succeeded J. 
Dowdyng. 
Philip ffiye. per mort. W. B. Hen 

&c.. as in Weaver's Sowurset Incumbents. 



James Minifie, A.M. 

Samuel Yard, A.M. 

Henry Fitch, A.M. 

B.C.L. 
CharlesRusaell,A.B. 



per mort. Jas. 

Woodky. 
per res. J. M. 



Patron. 
Elizabeth Regina. ? 
Portman, Arm, 
Portman, 



per mort. 
per mort 
per mort. 
perm<n*t. 



S.Y. 
H.F. 
C.R. 



W. H. B. 

Bart. 
W. H. Portman. 

Bart. 
W. H. Portman, 

Bart. 
H. W. Portman. 

Arm. 
Jos. H. Batten,D.D. 



H.V.L. Baron Portman. 



Henry Vyvyan Luke, 

17 May. Robert Leach Bart- 
lett, A.B. 

The willofWilliamHoniballofThurloxton.dated i Sept., 1557, 
was witnessed by Sir James Dowdyng ; and the will of Alexander 
Nowell of Thurloxton, dated 9 August, 1558, was witnessed by 
Sir William Bridge, who also witnessed the will of Agnes New- 
man of North Petherton, dated 4 May, 1558, in which she be- 
queathed *• xij** to the Parson of Thurloxton." Thus the date of 
the change of Rectors is fixed between i Sept., i557» and 9 Aug., 
1558, if not 4 May, 1558. 

R. G. Bartlett. 

30a. PowBR OF ScBNT IN Bbes (IV. xxxi. 273). — Some 
few years ago, on a very bright sunny morning in the first week 
of January, after a few days illness, mv brother-in-law was buried 
in this Churchyard (Iweme Minster). There were many very 
beautiful wreaths and crosses of Lilies of the Valley, white 
Hyacinth, and Eucharis Lily and Violets, sent, with which the 
grave was covered. Though there had been snow the day before, 
not 15 minutes elapsed before hundreds of bees were on the 
flowers. The nearest stocks were my own, about 200 yards away, 
but they had to fly over a clump of very high trees besides ever- 
green shrubbery, and at a time they usually hibernate. Many 

* Omitted in Som. Incumbents. William Bridge, Rector, bur. 14 Mar. ls^• 



Somerset S* Dorset Notes S- Queries. 367 

thought it at the time a most wonderful instance of their power 
of scent, and of communicating intelligence to the hive. I have 
kept bees many years and cannot remember a similar instance. 

J. Acton, Iweme Minster Vicarage, Dorset. 

303. Metrical School Gracb (IV. xxix. 186, xxx. 224, 
225, xxxi. 2b I, 262). — ^What is the objection to the word creatures ? 
** Thy (or these) creatures bless "would be perfectly good and 
understandable English whether " creatures *' applied to the 
singers, or to the ^od. I can understand a modem Dissenter 
substituting the word " mercies " for Cennick's *' creatures " ; as 
thinking the latter made the verse too much like the prayer of 
Consecration in the Church Communion Service of which it 
appears to be undoubtedly a paraphrase — ** grant that we receiv- 
ing these thy creatures." And see Wheatley's explanation of 
the rubic before the prayer for the Church Militant, where he 
speaks of the offering ** to Grod as Lord of the creatures." 

S.R.B. 

304. I do not think Mr. Earle has mended matters by his 
deviation from Cennick*s original, which ran as follows : 

'* Thy creatures bless and grant that we may feast in Paradise 
with Thee." It is ourselves, not the cake and bread and butter, 
oh which we invoke the divine blessing, and as a strong believer 
in uncorrupted texts, I trust you will use all the influence of your 
periodical to restore the correct original. 

Of course I fully share Mr. Earle's objections to ** these 
creatures " bacilli or otherwise. 

John W. Standbrwick. 

[Surely the reference (whatever the reading) is to the materials 
of the repast. I remember that my college grace ran as follows : 
" Benignissime Domine, benedic nobis quesumus Te, et hisce 
creaturis in usum nostrum, ut illae sanctificatae sint, et nobis 
salutares, &c." — Editor for Dorset.] 

305. Pbnancb in Churchbs. (IV. xxvii. 113, xxviii. 135, 
xxix, 195-)— 

In the consistorial Court of Sarum. 
Coleman v. Coleman. 
In pursuance of the Judgment of the Court obtained in this 
case, the defendant Thomas Coleman, butcher of Mere in this 
County, who had falsely and maliciously traduced the character of 
Mrs. Anna Coleman, the plaintiffs wife, appeared and performed 
penance before the congregation in the parish church of Mere 
aforesaid, on Sunday the loth instant, by repeating the following 
words: — *' Whereas I, Thomas Coleman, have spoken and 



368 SamiTut S» Dorset NoUs 6* Queries. 

attered certain reproachful words, tending to defame Anna the 
wife of Harrj Coleman, and to the injury of her good name and 
character, therefore I do now solemnly declare, that such words 
were unadvisedly, wickedly, falsely and slanderously, by me spoken 
of her, and I do ask pardon of Grod and man, and of the said 
Anna Coleman for the same." 

{Salisbury and Winchester Journal, December, 1815.) 

T. H. Baksr. 

306. A Curious North Devon Superstition. (IV. xxxi. 
270.) — I remember having the toothache while at Dunster, in 
West Somerset, a few years ago, and an old woman advised me to 
put a threepennypiece against the outside of the decayed tooth, 
and a piece of lead of the same size on the inside. This she 
informed me would be sure to stop the aching. 

W. Dicker. 

[Perhaps our scientific readers would inform us whether the 
cure IS to be ascribed to a gentle galvanic current, set up between 
the metals in the mouth. 

Editor for Dorset.] 

307. Somerset and Dorset Chronograms. — Mr. James 
Hilton, F.S.A., in his book of Chronograms (London: Elliot 
Stock, 1882) p. 27, quotes the three following Chronograms from 
a very rare tract of 1 2 pages 4to, entitled Chronometra memora- 
bilium nrum, elc, relating to the civil wars in England, printed at 
Cambridge, 1646. 

** On the battle of Langport, in Somersetshire, at which the 
Parliamentary army was victorious, loth July — 

Dbna DIes JVLI noVa protVLIt Vrbe troph^ea, 

orDInIbVs reonI, patrIbVs patrI^qVe probatIs. 

= 1645. 1./., The lenlh day of July brought nnv trophies from the 

city for the estates of the realm and for the senators of their country, 

" On the battle of Bridgewater, in Somersetshire, 22nd July — 

ORBE bIs VnDeno qVIntILIs, Mense sereno, 
eXpVgnatVs ERAr pons repLVentIs kqVm, 
==1645., !>., On the twice eleventh day of July, a serene month, the 
Bridge-of-refiuent-water was overcome. (Bridgewater). 

" On the capture of Sherborne Castle, in Dorsetshire, 15th 
August — 

aVgVstI DeCIMo qVInto tItane reVerso, 

ArX FERA SHERBORNE PER sVa FATA rVIt. 

= 1645^ i.e.. On the fifteenth of August, in the afternoon, the wild 
stronghold of Sherborne falls through its own destiny." 

Editor for Dorset. 



Somerset S», Dorset Notes 6f Queries, 369 

308. Colonel Bullbn Rbymes, M.P. for Mslcombb 
Regis. — Continued. (IV. xxx. 217, xxxi. 250.) — With the Resto- 
ration the fortunes of Col. Reymes began to mend. 13 Chas. II. 
(1661-2) he was elected Member of Parliament for Melcombe 
Regis, where he held some property. In 1662 he appears, from 
a statement of accounts, to be acting as Vice- Admiral of Dorset ; 
accounting for anchors taken up at Portland, Abbotsbury and 
elsewhere, and other salvage, including *' a Rundlett of strong 
watters apprased and sold at i8s.," together with "Two 
Sturgeons, one taken at Weke and the other at fleete both sent to 
London to the Vice-Admiral." 

On Nov. nth, 1664, he was appointed, together with Sir 
William Doyley, Knt. and Baronet, Sir Thomas Clifford, Knt., 
and John Evelyn, Esq., a Commissioner * "to take care of all 
such Mariners, Seamen, and other persons to be imployed in his 
Ma**«" service at Sea, as shall happen to fall sick or be wounded.** 
This office, to which was annexed a salary of ;^3oo a year, was 
held by Col. Reymes till his death. 

In 1 664 he was made Deputy Treasurer for all moneys arising 
by sale of shipps or goods deteyned, seized or taken as Prize and 
brought into Portsmouth, and the districts thereof. 

About this time he seems to have been engaged in contracts 
for the Navy, e.g. on July 17, 1665, he writes, with Constance 
Pley (his sister) to the Navy Commissioners from Portsmouth, 
stating that they are forced to renew their demand for money, 
having bought goods to the value of ^'10,000. They entreat an 
imprest of 2"3.ooo, in a bill to be discounted on the arrival of 
the said goods. {Cai.of Stale Papers^ Dom.) 

In the year 1666 he is the subject of the following order : — 

•* Charles R. 
Our Will and Pleasure is. That you Forthwith Pay or Cause to be 
Paid vnto our Trusty and welbeloved Seruant Collonell Bullen 
Reymes the sum of One hundred and Fowerscore Pounds Without 
Acount, out off such monys as are in your hands by the Sale of 
Prize Goods : And For so doing This shall be your warrant and 
discharge: Giuen at our Court at Whithall the 20th day off 
October 1666 in the Eighteenth yeare of Our Rayne, 

By his Ma*»« Comand 

Will Moris. 
To our Right trusty and 
welbeloved Counseller Antony 
Lord Ashley our Treasurer 
For Prizes. 

* This Commission, and the 16 Instructions '* to the Commissioners for 
the Sick and Wounded men, for the Releife of widowes, children, and impotent 
parents of such as shall be slayne in his Matiea service at sea ; as also for the 
Ordering of Prisoners of Warr," are too long to print on this occasion. 

P 



370 Souurut &» Dorset Notes &» Queries, 

Entred with his Ma«<* 
Comptrollr October 27th, 1666 
C. Brnnbt." 
On a 2nd Nov., 1667, at the Coart at Whitehall, Col. Reymes 
was appointed Surveyor of the Great Wardrobe, at a salary of 
;f 300 per annam. 

The relations of Colonel Reymes with the town he repre- 
sented in Parliament were of an amicable chararter. One refer- 
ence is contained in the Calendar of State Papers^ Dom. Serus^ 
Jannary, 1664. ** Rich, Yardley, Mavor of Weymouth, to 
Humphrey Weld. The corporation thanks him for obtaining an 
order to demolish the jeatty fort and use the stones, &c., for 
benefit of the town. Col. Reymes, one of their Parliament 
burgesses, has sent them a copy of the order, that which they 
had before being only his honour's letter, which did not state 
whether it was done by order of King or Council. Begs privacy, 
for fear of disgusting Col. Reymes, who is friendly in the town 
affairs." 

How serious were the expenses, and how many wheels had 
to be oiled in obtaining grants from the Crown may be seen in 
the following : — 

" Note of my expenses in Wavmouth bewsiness,'' which 
relates to this or some other affair. It is undated. 

U. s. d . 

Imp. For transcribing the petition 00. 01. 00 

To the master of the request 02. 00. 00 

To his Clarke • 00. 01 . 00 

To Sir Phillip Warwick 10. 00. 00 

To Mr. Attumy Generall 05. 00. 00 

To His Clarke 02. 00. 00 

To Sr Edward Nicklas 05. 00. 00 

To the Signett office 01. 16. 08 

To the Priue Seale 01 . 16. 08 

Att the Patent office 02. 16. 06 

Att the Hamper office 03. 02. 06 

Giuen to Dore keepers, vnder clerks, and 

for expedition in seuerall offices 03. 18. 06 

For Coch hyer, boate hyer, messengers, &c. 08. 07. 06 

46. 09. 04 
This note, together with the following letters on Weymouth 
affairs, are in Mr. Troyte-Chafyn-Grove's collection : — 
"To the Honble Colonel Bullen Reymes in Gardners Lane. 

In Westminster. Post paid 3** " 
*• Noble Colonel 

Your publique spirit hath very much quickened our thoughts 
of erecting the new Bridge soe long spoken of, wherein wee hope 
^o make som^ Qgnsider^ble progresse wth out delay, not doubting 



Somerset 6- Dorset Notes 6- Queries. 371 

(wth your good favor) that our other Parliament Burgesses will 
follow your liberall example, those Hon^*« Knights Sr John 
Coventry and Sr William Penn having already manifested their 
readines to promote the same, as we vnderstand by yor sonne 
Mr Pley. 

Sr to adde the more life to this good worke. wee are about 
to take the subcriptions of our Townesmen that are of ability to 
advance somewhat considerable. 

Wee are alsoe partly assured that Baronet Portman and some 
other Gentlemen of the Country will extend their bounty heerein. 
Wee could doe noe lesse then p'sent yor Honor w*** our very 
humble and heartie thankes for yor continued care for the 
psperitie of this Towne & Incorporacon, wherein you have 
formerly been pleased to accept of a Membershipp, for w^ (w**> 
your other acts of Charity) wee shall ever endeavor to manifest 
ourselves 
Waymouth, 17 June, S' Yo' Hon 

1 668 most gratefull and willing Servaunts 

Rog^ Cuttance Maior 
Fabyan Hodder Bi : Yardley RobertWall : Bayliflf \ ^ 

Ri. Scovil Geor. Pley, Jun' Tobias Bury j ^^^ 

Geor. Pley, Senio' Jn° Swetnam Mathew Swetnam 

Lamb Cornelius Alex. Clatworthy Just : Hington 
Ben. Gaich 
Simon Orchard Nath : Abbott" 

Endorsed '* The Corporation of Waymouth, June the 17th, 
1668, Concerning the repayre of there bridge." 

(Cf. Mr. Moule's Descriptive Catalogue of the Charters^ Gfc, 
of Weymouth and Melcomhe Regis^ VI. 123, p. 184.) 

*' Mr. Mayor, and Gent. 

Sir Walter Young, the Chayreman of the Committe to whome 
the Petition from the out Ports for regulating of ffees was refered, 
Goeing into the Country before he had perHted his reporte left 
his Papers and Chayre to Sr Charles Herbert, whose many other 
bewsines (towards the end of the Session) would not permitt him 
to finish it neither, and more ouer yesterday mome, fell sick, so 
as we were fayne to bestir our selues with greate industry, and by 
good fortune got the papers from him, and put them into S' 
Antony Irby's hands, vpon whose motion I got it so well 
seconded, as the House ordered the Speaker to Confirme the 
rates of 4 Ports, (whereof Poole is one) That is to say, as it was 
in the yeare 1624, and the members to paye as the head port, So 
our County being now settled, I hope there will be no more 
dispute in this matter. 

In the next place, I thinke it my duty to acquainte you (that 



372 Somerset S» Dorset Notes S* QueriiS. 

yon may not be surprised bat duly considder of it in time) That 
the Bill to inabie the K. to sell his ff fann whether yon will Pnr- 
chace to the vse of your Incorporation your owne ffee farme rents 
in Waymouth or no, if you are rich enough I could wish you 
would doe it and send me order to treat with the Tresorors or 
trustees, or elsce, that you will declare you will not bye (How 
euer, that you may haue full instructions in that matter, I will 
send you downe the acte as soone as it is Printed, In the intrem. 
Pray send me a Perticuler How much it is in all, who are those 
that paye it, and how often a yeare it is payd, ffor if you will not 
bye it, tis possible I may, (with your leave) who am 

Yo* very humble seruant 

Retmes. 
Aprill the 12th, 70. 

Yesterday the Parlement was aioumed vntill the 24th of 
October next, and thes acts past, here inclosed. 

The King went this morning towards Newmarket, for 10 
days." 

" ffor the right wo" Doctor de Selanoue, Mayore, of Way- 
mouth together with the Aldermen and Baylifs there, thes in 

Waymouth. 
Reymes." 

Col. Reymes died between 29th Oct., 1672, and 5th Feb., 
1 672-3, dates of the making and proving of his will. An abstract 
of this is given in Brown's Somerseishire Wills ^ 4th Series, p. 125. 
•• To be buried near my wife in the vault which I made in the 
Isle of Possum Church. My sister Mary Wbealy [t,e. Wheatly] 
to my daughter Marv Reymes ;^ 1 000, when she is married and 
hath a child, and a jointure of £%o per ann. settled on her. My 
three godsons, Hugh Windham, Reymes Pley, * and George 
Napper. To my sister Constance Pley my diamond ring. 
Residue to my son BuUen Reymes, sole exor." 

Col. BuUen Reymes appears to have had issue two other 
children besides those mentioned in his will, viz., William, bapt. 
1649, and Robert, bapt. 1651 (Mappowder Register). (See 
Hutchins's Dorset, 3rd edit., Vol. III. p. 723.) 

C. H. Mayo. 
{To be continued). 

♦ George Pley of Weymouth, iunr., son of George Pley, senr., and 
Constance (Reymes) his wife, married andliad issue Reymes Pley, of Causewav, 
George, Benjamin, and Mary married to Harry Chafyn as his 2nd wife. She 
died 2 1st Aug., 1721. Geo. Pley, junr., seals a letter of attorney, 2ah June, 
i6t>6, with a shield bearing **on a chevron between three crosses crosslet, three 
0eurt-de-li8." 



Somerset S' Dorset Notes S* Queries. 3^^ 

309. Mathew Beethell of Wimborne Minster. — Is 
anythiiiji^ known of the ancestry of Mathew Beethell or Bethell, of 
Pamphill in Wimborne Minster, (died area 1670) who is stated in 
Hutchins's Dorse/, iii, 236, to have been steward to Sir Ralph 
Bankes ? He had a son, Ellis Beethell, and a daughter Frances, 
and a grandson, Rev. Geo. Ellis Beethell or Bethel, rector of 
Long Crichel, 1704, till his decease in 1741. With the death of 
George, the son of the last named, the family appears to have 
become extinct. See monument in Wimborne Minster. Can any 
correspondent also furnish dates regarding Mathew Beethell and 
his descendants from the Wimborne Register ? 

Editor for Dorset 



310. Monumental Inscriptions in other Counties 

RELATING TO SOMERSET AND DORSET. (III. xxiv. 337, IV. 

xxvii. 88, xxix. 177, xxxi. 253). — On an octagonal slab of white 
marble on the West wall of the North aisle of St. Michael's 
Church, Oxford. 

H. S. E. I Guilm' : Stone Dorsetensis L.L. Bacc: | 
Eniditione, ludicio, Pietate eximius | Ingenio verb adeo supra 
fidem praecoci | Ut, juramento Suscipiendo nondum maturus, I 
Gradum Academicum quem abunde meruit | Differre cogeretur. | 
Egregiam hanc Adolescentiae Solertiam | Pari profectu ad 
Senectutem usq' prsstitit: | Et quamprimiim per aetatem licuit, | 
Ecclesis WiNBURNENSi, loco natalitio, | Summo cum populi 
desiderio praeficiebatur. | Gliscente jam bello civili, Perduellium 
injurijs opportunus, | In exercitum regium se recipit. | Ubi per 
multos labores, damna, et pericula, | Officio suo strenu^ functus 
est. I Succumbente tandem causi optimi, exteras regiones, | 
Insigni Prudentiae, et Doctrinae compendio, peragravit. | Post 
felicem Caroli 2di reditum, WiNBURNiE suae restitutus est, | De 
amplioribus minimi solicitus. | Dein, aetate, morbisq* ingraves- 
centibus, Oxoniam remigrans | Requiem qualem qualem in Aulae 
Nov: Hosp: praefectura quaesivit | Ubi diu corpore infirmo 
conflictatus, | Memorii tamen et judicio ad extremum vegetus, | 
Opes Egenis, Animam Caelo tradidit | X Kal: V*?* A.D. 
MDCLXXXV I iEtatis LXX. | 



311. Dorset Christmas Carols. (III. xviii. 67, xiv. 
118, XX. 141, xxi. 204. xxii. 255, xxiii. 228, IV. xxvi. 52, 
xxvii. 81, xxviii. 146, xxx. 226.) — ^The following traditional tune 
to a well-known carol is in use at Longburton and the neigh- 
bourhood. 



374 Somerset <^ Dorset tfotes S» Queries. 

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312. GiLLINGHAM AND ITS FORBST. ThOMAS JeSOPP, M.D. 

— ^The following entry occurs in a survey of the manors of William 
Lord Stourton in the counties of Wilts, Dorset and Somerset, made 
in the year 1 633. The survey is apparently made by William Hussey 
and Robert Byflete, £sqs., the stewards, and comprises manors 
and lands in the parishes and places of " Gillingham, Motcombe, 
East Chelborough, Ower Moigne, Stourton Candle, Antiox, 
Buckhome Weston, Winterbome Houghton, Fifett Nevell, 
Lidlinch, Huidee (?), Ramsbury, Blackrew, Haydon, Holbrook, 
Sherborne, Obome, Thomforde, Castle Towne, Shaftsbury and 
Sturminster Marshal in Dorset ; Stourton Penligh (in Westbury), 
Sarum and South Newton in Wilts; and Kington juxta Evell, 
Frome Selwood and Little Marston in Somerset." 

"GILLINGHAM. Thomas Jesopp Doctor of Phisick holdeth by 
Indenture dat. xi. July xii Jac, by the graunt of Edward Lord Stour- 
ton for the consideracon that the said Thomas Jesopp had surrend- 
ered into the hands of the said Lord Stourton an estate in the plars 
hereafter menconed during the lives of John Foyle sonne of John 
Foylc of Shaston gent., William Hussey sonne of William Hussey 
gent., and John Barnes sonne of John Barnes All that cappitall 
messuage and tenemt situate in Gillingham called East Haymes wth 
all manner of lands meadowes . pastures and comons thereunto 
belonging or enjoyed wth the same wth thapp'tenanc' (excepted 
and reserved unto the said Lord Stourton his heires and assignes 
all manner of p'fitts and advantages then being or hereafter to be 
taken or growne wthin the Parke and Forrest of Gillingham 
concerning anywise the office of feefostershipp wthin the Parke 
and Forrest of Gillingham and all timber trees groweing upon the 
same and also suite of court. To hold the p^misses (except before 
excepted) unto the said Thomas Jesopp during the lives of Wil- 
liam Willoughby (24) sonne of William Willoughby gent Thomas 
Awbrey (22) sonne of William Awbrey gent & Thomas Chapper als 
Nicholls (24) sonne of Thomas Chapper als NichoUs and the life of 
ev'y of them longest living under the yeerely rent of 5li. payable half 
yeerely and two capons at Mich*mas yeerely : and the best cloven 
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Somerset S* t)orset f4otes S* Queries. 377 

married the heiress of Poyntz or Pointz of Northcote in 
Bittadon, CO. Devon. He died ante 1722, and had issue : — 

1 William Barbor [Vide No. II-l 

2 Petronel Barbor, bapt. 1707, at Chittlehampton, co. 

Devon. 

3 Frances Barbor, married Henry Bellew of Stockleigh 

Court, CO. Devon. He died 1752. 
//• William Barbor, Bom about 1700, died 21 Nov.. 1767, and 
buried at Barnstaple. Educated at the Grammar School, 
Barnstaple, under Mr. Luck. Entered at Caius Coll. 
Camb. 19 March, 1718. Proceeded M.B. 1733; M.D. 1735. 
Settled at Barnstaple as a physician, married Elizabeth, 

daughter of ; she died 2nd Dec, 1780, and was 

buried at Barnstaple, leaving issue : — 

1 William Barbor [Vide No. HI.] 

2 John Barbor, bapt. 15 Dec, 1726, at Chittlehampton. 

Matriculated at Caius Coll. Camb. in 1745* 

3 George Barbor. Bapt. 16 Nov., 17 30-1, at Chittle- 

hampton, buried at Barnstaple. Barrister-at-Law. 
///. William Barbor, Born about 1724. Was 6 years at the 
Grammar School, Barnstaple, under Mr. Luck. Entered 
at Caius Coll. Camb. in June, 1741. Took degree of 
M.B., 1746. Settled at Barnstaple as a physician, and 
married 5 May, 1748, Susanna, daughter and co-heiress 
of Richard Acland of Fremington, co. Devon, leaving 
issue : — 

1 William Barbor. Bapt. i June, 1749, at Fremington; 

died 2 July, 1800, and was buried at Fremington. 
He married in 1774 Laetitia Marshall [bom 1754] ; 
she died 4 Jany, 1815, and was buried at Fremington. 

2 Richard Barbor. Born 13 June, 1750; bapt. i Nov., 

1750, at Fremington. A captain in the army; he 
was killed at the Battle of Brandywine, in America. 

3 Arthur Acland Barbor. Born 1754; died 30 Nov., 1795. 

Educated at Caius Coll. Camb. 1771. Took the 
two Degrees in Arts and was elected a fellow of that 
College. Of Bittadon Rectory, co. Devon. 

4 George Barbor. Bora 22 Nov., 1755; bapt. 9 Sept., 

1756, at Fremington; died 26 Mch, 1817. Of 
Church Stilehouse, Fremington. He married Mary 

dau. of ; she died 19 Mch, 1804, ^"^ was 

buried at Fremington, leaving issue : — 

1 George Acland Barbor, Bora 27 April, 1800 ; bapt. 

2 Sept., 1801, at Fremington ; died 7 July, 1839. 
at Frankfort-sur-le-Main. Of r remington 
House, CO. Devon. 

2 A daughter [married 1833], but of this I am not 

sure. 



37^ Samsrsii ^ D&rsii tfot$s <$• (jnems. 

Ptdigrtt of Susanna Acland, who married WiUiam Barber. Vide 
Aj. ///. above. 

L Richard Acland, merchant, purchased in 1672, the manor and 
barton of Fremington, co. Devon. He married and left 
issue: — 

1 Richard Acland [Vide No II.] 

2 Elizabeth Acland« married John, eldest son of Sir Hagh 

Acland, 5th fiart., of Colnmbjohn, co. Devon. 

//. Richard Aciand, married Susanna, daughter of , 

and had issue : — 

1 John Acland. Died without issue 1767. 

2 Frances Acland, Married 16 April, 1765, at Fremington, 

the Rev. Hugh Fortescue, Rector of Filleigh, co. 
Devon. No issue. 

3 Arthur Acland. Bapt. 23 Feb.. 1720-1, at Fremington 

d.8.p. 

4 Susanna Aciand. Bapt. 21 Jany, 1722, at Fremington, 

married 5 May, 1748, to William Barbor, of Barn- 
staple. Vide No. III. on Barbor pedigree. 
Arms : — Chequy ar. and sa, a fess gu. H.R. 

314. The Dorsbtshirb Dairy Maid, two hundred 
YEARS AGO. — The qualifications of a Dairymaid at that period 
may be seen in the letter of Miss Ann Coker of Mappo^der, to her 
cousin BuUen Reymes of Waddon. The spelling is phenomenal. 

••Sr 
When you was hear you told me that you could healp me to 
a dary maid if she can winnow com and make malt she will be 
fit for me I must haue a da3rry maid that can do that, Since you 
went away I knew of her going So if you pleas to send her over you 
will very much oblige your 

Affectionate Kinswoman 
June ye 29th And humble Servant, 

[16J 90. Ann Coker. 

Pray Sr let me haue an ancer if you can by this bearer." 

(From ihi Papers of Mr, Creorge Troyte-Cha/yn-Grove). 

Editor for Dorset. 

315. Old but Frequeni Sayings. — 

He^s as sound as a Roach, — Roaches are accounted incapable 
of any disease, — hence the saying. 

/// tell you under the Rose — ^which means in secrecy. The 
ancients always looked on the Rose as an Emblem of Silence, — 
hence the saying. 

Up lo Snuff, — This somewhat vulgar saying may be taken in 
common parlance to mean taking or gaining an advantage, or 
being cautious, and the saying is considered to arise from our 
ancestors, who used largely to take snuff when engaged in any 
dealings, &c., gaining the advantage of time for consideration by 
taking two or three pmches. D.H.S. 



Somerset S» Dorset l4otes <^ Queries. 37$ 

316. The Parish Register Society. — We liave received 
the prospectus of a Society which has just been formed, under 
the patronage of the two Archbishops and the majority of the 
English Bishops, for the purpose of promoting the systematic 
publication of parish registers. The undertaking is a vast one, 
but of its utility there can be no doubt, when the value of this 
class of records, and the irreparable losses which have happened 
in the past, are taken into consideration. Mr. E. A. Fry, the in- 
defatigable secretary of the British Record Society ^ is the hon. 
secretary, and Mr. W. Fergusson Irvine, 1 8, Devonshire road, 
Claughton, Cheshire, the hon. treasurer, and they are supported 
by a council, for whose names see our advertising columns. We 
hope abundant subscriptions (j^i is. od. per ann.) may be forth- 
coming. They should be sent to the hon. treasurer. 

The Editors. 



317. Churchwardens Accounts, St. John's, Glaston- 
bury. (IV. xxvi. 73, xxvii. 121, xxviii, 160, xxix. 201, xxx. 245, 
xxxi. 283.) — Unfortunately no accounts have come down to us of 
the great years of change under Henry VIII. and Edward. But 
the I St year of Mary exhibits the restoration of some church 
furniture ; and in the rents of Elizabeth's time we trace the 
history of the Church House and Priest's Chamber. The former 
was no longer wanted for the guilds. That form of parish and 
church life had been stamped out. The substitution of onus for 
computus appears with Elizabeth's reign. The proper names now 
become to a markedly increased extent those which have continu- 
ed in the neighbourhood. These and nearly all subsequent 
accounts are on paper — no longer on skins. 

ist Mary. 1553-4. 

Computus Willdmi Clowtyng et Willelmi Harreis gardianonun rive 
custodum bonomm ecdesie bead Johannis Baptiste Glaston a festo 
sancti Michaelis Ardiaogeli anno regni Marie prime Dei gratia 
Anglie Francie et Hibernie Regine etc primo usque idem festum 
tunc prozime sequens per unum annum integrum. 

Remanenda. Iidem respondebant de v s. de remanencia ultimi computi anni 
prozime precedentis. 

Stimma vs. 

Redd. Ass. Iidem respondebant de viij d de redditu Willelmi Brodrypp. £t 
de V s. de redditu Johanne Illery. Et de vi s. de Johanne Kobjms., 
Et de V s. de Edmundo Mullens. Et de yj s. viijd de redditu Johannis 
Ebber. Et de vj s. de Edmundo Somersett. Et de xij d de Johanne 
Bertill. Et de viij s. de Ricardo Somers. Et de viij s. de Rogero 
Steneyng. Et de iz s. de Johanne Xomdson. Et de vij s. de redditu 
domus nuper Petri Mede. Etde zyfs. iiijd. de redditu Agnete 
Deverell. Et de vj s. de Alicia Scly. Et de vi s. viij d. de 'Willelmo 
Clarke. Et de vj s. viij d. de Johanne Cursey. Et de yj s. viij d. de 
Ricardo Wezmaker. £t de vis. viij d. de Johanne Boucher. Et de 
iii s. iiij de Nicholao Roo. £t de ^ s. viij d. de Willelmo Alyn. 
Et de zzs. de Georgio Talbott. Etdeizs. yjd. deFlorendoFitz. 



380 Somsrset <$• t)orui hfotss <^ Querus. 

Et de xij d. de lidc irdo Davy. £t de v s. de nzore noper Hterici 
Corye. £t de vs. de Tohaime [sep erased] Joays alias Sheperd. ELt 
de v) 8. Tiij d. de Willelmo Ryng. £t de x:^ s. de Roberto Tomas. 
Et de xij d. de Welthean Shoot. £t de viii s. de Davith Smyth. Et 
de v) s. Tul d. de NichoUo Stephyns. Et de vj 5. viij d de Waltero 
Barges. £t de vj s. viij d. de Thoma Dobdt pro ij bos cameris. Et 
de ▼ 1. de Johanne Barrett [Et de xij d. de Ricvdo Davy trasid]. 
Samma est xi li. xxij d. 

ExUus offidj. Et de xij d. de Willelmo Warner pro j seda. Et de xij d. de 
Thoma Grympton pro j seda. Et de xij d. de Johanne Brodrypp pro 
j seda. Et de vij d. de Thoma Sheperde pro j seda. Et de xij d de 
Nicholao Mavnerde pro i seda. Et de xij d. de Johanne Hopkyns 
pro j seda. Et de xi) d. de Thoma Ffyvyan pro j seda. Et de xij d. 
de Sibilla Tomas pro j seda. Et de xij d. de Margerie Whorewdl pro j 
seda. £t de v) d. de Welthean Boucher pro [j erased] denariis 
ecdesie. Et de viij d. receptis de Isabella Raynolds pro denariis 
ecdesie. Et de xd. dc Nicholao Roo pro denariis ecdesie. Et de 
xij d de Willelmo Stonrton pro j [serd erased] seda. Et de yi s. viij d. 
de Johanne Lamb pro sepultura uxoris sue. Et de xij d. de Magistro 
Cowder pro j seda. Et ae xij d. de Johanne Molgre pro j seda. Et 
de iiij d. de Roberto Mathiloe pro [per erased] mutadone j sedis. 
Et de xviii d. receptis pro redditu aretro existente super tenemento 
nuper Isabelle Ewans. 

Et snmma est xxij s. ij d. 
Et de V 8. de ffine WiUelmi Alyn pro j tenemento in ocddentali parte 
ecdesie nnper Wlllelmi Fitz babendo sibi et Johanne nxori sue. 
Snmma est vs. 
Et simima totalis Recepte cum remanenda est xij li. xiiij s. 

E qmbos [torn J. 
Et snmma patet ix s. yj d. 

Defectos Redditos. In defectn redditus Edmundi Somersett hoc anno yj s. In 
defectn redditos tenement! nnper Alide P^e et modo Johannis 
Tompson pro tribus qnarteriis aoni vj s. ix d. Et pro defectn redditos 
tenement! noper Petri Mede pro tribos quarteriis vs. iiij d. Et pro 
defecto redditos tenore Johannis Corsey pro j qoarteria xx d. Et pro 
defectu redditos tenore Willelmi Alyn pro tribos quarteriis vs. 
Et pro defecto redditos tenure Willelmi Bartelett hoc annoyj s. yi^ d. 
Et pro defecto redditos tenore Henrid Coryer pro dimidio anni ij s. 
yj d. Et pro defecto redditos Johanne [Bartefot, erased] Bartlett hoc 
anno xij d. 

Somma est xxxiiij s. xi d. 

Expense In primis solotom pro pascal! ped com lineneis vd. Item solo- 

necessarie. tom pro f^rtora de la clapars yj d. Item solotom Johanni 
Goldsmyth pro ffactora traud] mondadone candelaborotn ijd. 
Item solotom Andreo AJam pro costodia sepolcri vjd. Item 
solotom Roberto Organmaker per annum ij s. Et solotom pro 
iiijor bawtricks oro campanis yj s. viij d. Item solotum Johanni Elis 
pro sowder xiiij d . Item solotom eidem com filio soo pro soo labore ij s. 
Solotom pro emendadone j rote pro campanis viij d. Item solotom 
Johanne Stownte pro reparaaone de la ber iiij d. In dassicis 
posatis [sicj versos episcopom (i) iiij d. Item pro reparadone fontis in 
ecdesia iiij d. In cantias emptis de Johanne Hopk^s pro ecdesia 
iijs. iiijd. Item solutom pro exoneradone cinens et aooe pro 
diversis tenementis pertinentibos ecdesie v s. Item solotom J ohaiin! 
. Byu^ pro clevejmg of Wodd vd. Item pro Wyer empto per 
Johannem Bever x d. In j locema empta pro ecclesia xij d. Item 
reparadone de la Wherolgoge xxij d. Item solotom Johanni 
Hopkyns com aliis versos Wells pro cuversis negodis agendis ij s. j d. 

(I) Gilbert Brown cons. April i, 1554. 



Somerset ^ Dorset Notes <&• Queries, 381 

quad. Item solutum Johanni Bentyll pro ferramentis circa la 
coandits xiij d. Item solntum Thome Harper pro suo labore per iij es 
dies xviij d. Item Nicholao Lodwyn per liijor dies ij s. Item 

Johanni per ijos dies xviij d. In clavis emptis iij d. Item solutam 
ohanni Norman pro sao labore mia die yj d. In Rosvn et flex 
emptis j d. Item Nicholao Lodwyn pro iibus diebos xij d. Item 
Johanm [blurred] pro iii bus diebus xvij d. [sic] . In c de { lum o 
empta de WiUelmo ^asshe vij s. £t ser [blank]. Androwes pro 
dimidio [torn^ plumbo ii s. viij d. Item solutam Kogero Fforewell 
pro j tripote ij s. viij d. Item Willelmo Busshe pro dmiidio centene 
de [torn] Item Johanni Wether pro suo labore per j diem 
V) d. Item Johanni Norman pro ij bus diebus xij d. In adipe cmpto 
[torn] yjd. Item solutum ii bus hominibus vigilantibus le pipes in 

campo viij d. Item solutum pro le peleyng of Jcdd in [torn] 

ij d. viz. Henrico Jete. Item solutum Magistro Davy pro i fune 
iij d. Item solutum Johanni Brownyng pro suo labore per vi dies et 
dimidium iij s. ij d. ^? iij). Item Jonanni Ba riant pro ij diebus 
xij d. Item Johanni Norman pro ii bus diebus xii d. item Johanni 
Burges pro j die vj d. Item solutum f.<mulis pro labore suo pelepg 
of ledd liij d. In ij bus ceris cum stapulis et clavis ad idem ij s. iiij d. 
[torn] plumbario ix s. Item solutum pro dimidio libre de cera v d. 
Item solutum [blank] Stownt pio suo labore pro j die yj d. Item 
solutum lathamis ij s. ij d. Item solutum pro xxj sackesis de calce 
adusta x s vj d. Item solutum Roberto Ffoxe pro cariagio de Ixxiij 
bigatis XXV s. iiij d. Item solutum Nicholao Hycks pro cariagio xij 
plaustrorum iiij s. yj d. Item solutum Johanni Barlent pro suo labore 
proj die et dimidio ixd. Item Nicholao Lodwyn pro j die vjd. 
Item pro iiii or saccs de calce adusta uf s. viij d. Item solututn 

{ohanni Hopkjros pro diversis cariagiis yj s. viij d. Item solutum 
ohanni Bever iij s. xj d. 

et Summa ix Ii. yj s. vj d. 
Stipendia famulomm. In stipendio iiorum Gardianorum pro annoyjs. viijd. 
Et solutum Johanni Bever de ip custod Horelo^ium per annum [vj s. 
yj d. erased] vj s. viij d. Item clerico computi ii^ s. iiij d. In regardo 
Johanni Jonvs clerico v s. Item solutum lotrici per annum yj s. Et 
solutum Willelmo Chapell bcdmanno ex consideradone parochia- 
norum iij s. iiij d. 

Et summa xxxj s. 
Summa omnium expensarum xuj Ii. xxiij d. Et excessus est vij s. xj d. 
Endorsed Mary I. 

4th Eliz. 1562. 

Glaston. Onus Johannis Hayle Roberti Wake gardianorum five custodum 
bonorum ecclesie parochialis Sancti Johannis Baptiste pro tribus 
annis finitis ad festum Sancti Michaelis archangeli. Anno regni 
domine nostre Eliaabethe Dei gratia Anglie Fiancie et Hibemie 
Regine fidei defensoris, 8cc., iiij to. 

Rem. ••• ::s .. li-e,]£z 15 2. 

Reddittts Assisus 1 Iidem respondebant deixs.yjd.de Johanne Hopkyns. Et 



iij um annorum. ) vis. viijd. de Anthonio Bowcher. Et de yjd. de Thoma 
Elys. Et de yjs. viijd. de Willelmo Scbbs. Et yjs. viijd. de 
Thoma Easselake. Et yj s. viij d. de Johanne Alan. Et vj s. viij d. 



de Thoma Coper. Et v s. de Johanne Sheperd alias Jonys. Et yi s. 
viij d. de Wulelmo R}'nge. Et viii s. de Thoma Geflreis. Et yj s. 
viij d. de Margareta uxore Edmundi Wodsine. Et yj s. viij d. de JasHne 
Burgeis. Et xijs. de Roberto Thoms. Et xijd. de Welthean Sh 
[tom^ et xijd. de David Richerds. Et iij s. iiijd. de Nicholao Roo. 
£t viii s. de Stephano Brodrip. Et v s. de Johanne lUaiy. Et vj s. 
de Johanne Shermond. Et v s. de Johanne Donkarton. Et v s. de 



Somerset 6« Dorset Notes S* Queries, 



383 



De Tocalyii Burges 
De Ricardo Chapell 
De Roberto Thomas 
De [blank] Kjmge 
De Johanne Sheparde 



De Johanne Stount 

De Johanne Crossepen 

De Edmnndo MoUens 

De Roberto Cooke 

De rMwA] ClyffDrd 

De Stephano Brodrip 
Recepta per 
Nicholanm Roo. De Willelmo Hucche 

Item de zz s. stirpe Robert! Wode. 

De Johanne Crossepen 

De Lucia Somer 

De Johanne Lame 

De Willehno Stebbs 

De Thoma Gasselake 

De Johanne Alam 

De Kicardo Dawe 

De Thoma Cooper 

De [btanh] Kynge 

De Ricanfo Cnapell 

De Magistro Wadham 

De Agneta Ebber 

De Stephano Brodrip 

De Edmnndo Mollens 

De Roberto Coome 

De Johanne Sherman • • . • 

De Johanne Stonnte 

De Johanne Sheparde . , . , 

De Kicardo Longe .. •• 

De Barnard Roode 

De DaTid Richards 

De Josalyn Bnrges 

De Nicholao Roo 

Item de zxs. ut de stiipe Robert Wode. 

P*ines (acti hoc anno. De fine Roberti Cooke zl s. Ricardi Dawe z s. Thome 
Coward ziij s. iiij d. Ricardi Austen vis. viij d. Hugonis Welsshe- 
man zls. 

Snmma totalis Recepte. [blank] 

^^ST^^wS^m \ ?"P?°4? »?*'**^ J!?°^* ^^^^ r^^i^' "J »• ^J d- 
H-irrew '"^""""* j Sementi vice oomitis pro sms ezpensis z s. 

Vitriario pro soo labore in ecdesia 
David Smyth apparatori 
Henrico Whitened pro bawdrickes 
Pro emendadone sedaram in ecclesia . . 
Item pro excnradone domus fossoris . . 
Item in ezpensis sois inter negosium Bulie 
Item pro feodo suo . . 

Item solntnm Johanni Jonys pro ezpensis sois 
Kzpense et soludones 
facte per N. Roo. [unfinished] 

Indorso. PeaseabuH possesshion and seasin of the premises within 
indenture and delivered unto the within namyd * 



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y)s. vujd. 
vs. 

▼ s. 
iiijs. 

▼ s. 

▼ s. 
vs. 
iiijs. 



zizs. yjd. 

viijs. 
viijs. 

zyj s. iiij d. 
vjs. viijd. 
ziiijs. iiijd. 
izs. zd. 
zs. iiijd. 
ziiijs. iiijd. 
iis. viijd. 
iiijs. 
zd. 

zijs. 
vs. 

vs. 

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qs. 

ij s. yj d. 

zijd. 

vj s. viij d. 

yjs. viijd. 



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vs. 



viijd. 



384 Somerut & Dorset Notes & Qutrits, 

«574- 
Glastoo. Onus Thome Somer et Ricardi Hochyns gardianonim shre costo- 
dum bononim ecclesie parochialis sancti Johannis Bapdste G{m>- 
toniensis pro ono anno integro finito ad festnm Sd Michaelis 
Archangeli anno regni domine nostre Eiizabethe dd gratia Anglie 
Frande et Hibemie Regine fidei defens, &c, xvj to. 

Remanenda lidem comp ? [torn] respondebant de xzx s. yj d. Remancncia 
altimi compati Anni proxime precedentis. 
Somma xzx s. yj d. 

Redditos Assis I Bdem respondebant de ix t vj de redditu Willelmi Hacdie. 

per annos iij. | £t de ▼) s. redditu Johannis Hartre. vi s. viij d. de redditu 
Willelmi Stebbs. yj •. viij d. de redditu Alide Gasselake. [vi s. 
▼iij d. ertuid] Et de \j s. viij d. de redditu Nidiolai Blandierd. £t 
yj f . Tiij d. de redditu Willelmi Trinez. Et de iij s. iiij d. de redditn 
Nidiolai Roo. Et de vi s. viij d. de redditu Reginaldi Roberts. Et 
de xyj 8. iiij d. de readitu Johannis Lame, v) s. viij d. de redditu 
Petri Ffrcman. ix s. de Redditu Osmundi Holmes, viij s. de 
redditu Willelmi Crospen. viij s. de Redditu Laurendi Cox. vi s. 
viij d. de Redditu Agnete Ebber. xij d. de redditu David Rob3ms 
pro Millewaye. v d. de Redditu Edmundi MoUens. yj t. de redditu 
Hugonis Welssheman. v s. de Redditu Thome Ludwell pro ootagio 
nuper Roberti Cooke, vi ?. de Redditu Johannis Holbroke pro j 
ootagio nuper Ricardi Nycolls viij s. de Redditu Johanne uxoris 
Willelmi Harrds junioris. v s. de redditn Thome Androwys. 
▼ 8. de redditu Johannis Shepard alias Jonys. ^j s. viij d. de 
Redditu Humfridi Kynge. xij d. de Redditu Ricardi Lon^. 
viij s. de redditu Johannis Clowde. vj s. viij d. de Redditu 
Johannis Pers. yj s. viij d. de redJitu Johannis Chapell. xij s. 
de Redditu Bemardi Roode. xij d. de eodem Bancuu^o. yj s. 
viij d. de Redditu Johannis Stokey et iiij d. de Redditu Ricardi 
Cocke pro j acra terre. 

Summa ix li xv s. x d. 

Exitus offidj \ lidem respondebant de xij d. receptis de Henrico Sadley pro j 
hoc anno J sede sibi vendita. Et de xij d. de Johanne A mells pro j sede. 
Et de xij d. de Greorgio Donken pto j sede sibi vendita. Et de xij d 
de Johanne Talbott pro j sede. Et de xij d. de Henrico Smyth pro 
j sede. Et de xij d. de Ricardo Ffatt pro J sede. Et de xij d. de 
Ricardo Boole pro j sede pro uxore sua. Et de viij d. de Henrico 
Merefdd pro j sede. Et de viij d. de Ricardo Ffussell pro j sede. 
Et respondebant de pecuniis receptis de parochianis nt sequitur viz. 
de Johanne Boole iiij d. Thome [sic] Jansen iiij d. Willdmo Bonde 
iiij d. Thome r5u{ Bade iiij d. Laurendo Hurman iiij d. Laurendo 
Hayle iiij d. Thome Hayle iiij d. Willelmo Brodrip uijd* Johanne 
Vayle iiij d. Willelmo Hacche iiij d. Thome [sic] Wacle iiij d. 
Henrico Smythe iiij d. Receptis de curato ecdcsie ut de parte certi 
libri sibi dehberati pro Gardina ut patet inferius ij s. 
Summa xiiij s. iiij d. 

Perqmsita. lidem respondebant de yj s. viij d. de fine Johannis Broke pro per- 
mutadone nominis pro j messuagio cum pertinenciis suis nuper in 
tenura Willelmi Turner x s. habendo sibi et [blankj. Et de xxs. de 
fi le Edmundi Colthurste pro j messuagio nuper m tenura Johannis 
Helbroke in Chelkewell haoendo etc. 
Summa xxyj s. viij d. 
Summa totalis Recepte xiij li. vij s. iiij d. 

Resoltttio Redditus. lidem Gardiani petunt allocationem pro redditu resoluto 
preposito Domine Regine pro j tenemento in alto vico Glastonie 
nuper Johannis Montegewe et postea Ricardi Watkyns ij t. 



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Adlam, W., Esq., Manor House, Chew Magna, Bristol. 

Alford, Miss, Heale, Curry Rivel, Taunton. 

Alford, H., Esq., Mountlands, Taunton. 

Allan, Rev. G., Pucldngton Rectory, Ilminster. 

Allen, Professor, Mason College, Birmingham. 

Allen, Mr. E. G., 28, Henrietta St., Covent Garden, W.C. (For Philadelphia 

Library). 
Anderson, A., Esq., 30, Oxford Square, W. 
Ashley, Hon. Evelyn, 61, Cadogan Place. S.W. 
Atkinson, Rev. Canon, Danby Parsonage, Grosmont, York. 
Austen, Rev. E. G., Penselwood Rectory, Bath. 
Bailward, H.. Esq., Horsington Manor, Templecombe, Bath. 
Baker, Rev. Canon Sir Talbot, Ranston, Blandford.* 
Baker, E. E., Esq., Queen's Road, Weston-super-Mare. 
Baker, John C, Esq., Bay House, Ilminster. 

Baker, Rev. S. O., Muchelney Vicarage, Langport, R.S.O., Somerset. 
Baker, T. H., Esq., Mere Down, Mere, Bath. 
Bankes, Albenrt, Esq., Wolfeton House, Dorchester. 
Bankes, E. R., Esq., The Rectory, Corfe Castle, Wareham. 
Barnes, Rev. W. MUes, Monkton Rectory, Dorchester. 
Barrett, W. Bowles, Em., Weymouth. 
Barrow, Rev. Preb. J. S., Rogate Vicarage, Petersfield. 
Bartlett, Rev. R. G., Thurloxton Rectoiy, Taunton. 
Baskett, S. K., Esq., Evershot, Dorchester. 
Bates, Rev. E. H., Great Claybrook, Lutterworth, Leicestershire. 
Bath, E., Esq., St. Dunstans, Glastonbury. 

Bath and Wells, Rt. Rev. the Lord Bishop of. Palace, Wells (Two Copies.) 
Batten, Henry B., Esq., Aldon, Yeovil. 
Batten, Herbert B., Esq.. Hollands, Yeovil. 
Batten, H. Cary., Esq., Abbots Leigh, Bristol. 
Batten, John, Esq., Aldon, Yeovil.* 
Batten, Col. J. Mount, Upceme, Dorchester. 
Batten-PooU, Mrs., Road Manor, Bath. 
Beadon, Miss C. a'C, Heronslade, Warminster. 
Bennett, Rev. Canon, The Rectory, Shrewton, S.O., Wilts. 
Bennett, Mr. P., Parade, Sherborne. 

Bennett, G., Esq., 4, Hampton Terrace. Surbiton, Kingston-on-Thames. 
Bennett, H., Esq., Kock House, Bedminster, Bristol. 
Berkelev. Rev. G. W., Butleigh Vicarage, Glastonbury. 
Bernard, Rev. Canon T. D., High Hall, l^mbome. 
Blake, E. J., Esq.. The Old House, Crewkeme. 
Blake. W., Esq.. Bridge House. South Petherton. S.O., Somerset 
Blathwayt, Lt.-Col. Lmley, Eagle House. Batheaston, Bath. 
Blathwayt. Rev. W. T.. Dyrham Rectory. Chippenham. 
Bond, E. A., Esq., 64, Prince's Square, Bayswater, W. 
Bond. Mrs. Henry, Harberton, Swanage. \ .^ . . 

Bond, H. P., Esq., Lytchett Minster. Poole. ? ^^^° copies.) 
Bond. N., Esq.. Creech Grange, Wareham. 

Boswell-Stone, W. G., Esq.. 22. Fox Grove Road. Beckenham, S.E. 
Bourdillon. E. D.. Esq.. The Grove. Wrinffton. R.S.O., Somerset. 
Bower. H. S., Esq., Fontmell Parva, Shillmgstone, Blandford. 
* Member of the Committee. 



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Braikenridge* J* W., Bsq^ 16, Royal Cceioent. Bath. 

Bramble, Col. J. R., Cleeve House. Yatton, R.S.O.. Somerset. 

Bridport, Rt. Hon. Viacoont, Cricket St. Thomas, Chard. 

Britton, Philip, Esq., Bitton House, Bycnllah Avenue, Enfield. 

Broadmead, W. B., Esq., Enmore Park, Bridgwater. ' 

Brooks, Mr. C. S., Town's End House, Ilminster. 

Brushfield, T. N., Esq., The Cliff, Budleigh Salterton, S.O., Devon. 

Buckle, E.. Esq., 23. Bedford Row, W.C. 

Bulleid, J. G., Esq., Glastonbury. 

Bulley, Mrs., Marston Hil^ Fairford, S.O., Gloucestershire. 

Burt, G., Esq., Purbeck House, Swanage. 

Carey, Major J. H. Carteret, Castle Carey, Guernsey. 

Cartwright, Rev. H. A., Whitestaunton Rectory, Chard. 

Chaffee, W. H., Esq., P.O. Box 3068, New York, U.S. A 

Chaffey-Chaffey, R., Esq., East Stoke House, Stoke-under-Haro. S.O., Somerset. 

Cbisholm-Batten, E., Esa., Thorn Falcon, Taunton.* 

Church, Rev. Canon, Wdls, Somerset. 

Clark, C. J., Esq., 4, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. 

Clark, W. S., Esq., Street, S.O., Somerset. 

Clements, H. J., Esq., Killadoon, Celbridge, Ireland. 

Cloete, Mrs. Dundas, Churchill Court, Congresbury, R.S.O., Somerset 

Colby, Rev. Dr., xa, Hillsborough Terrace, Ilfracombe. 

Coleman, Rev. Preb., Cheddar Vicarage, Weston-super-mare.* 

Coleman, Rev. J. J., Holcombe Rectory, Bath. 

Coleman, Mr. T , 9, Tottenham Terrace, Whitehart Lane, Tottenham, N. 

Coles, Mrs., Snq>ton Beauchamp, Ilmixister. 

Coles, Rev. V. S., Pusey House, Oxford. 

Coif ox, T. A, Esq., Coneygar, Bridport. 

Colfox, W., Esq., Westmead, Bridport.* 

Collett, Rev. E., 37, Cantlowes Road, Camden Square, N.W. 

Compton, T., Esq., Winscombe, Weston-super-Mare. 

Conner, F.S.P., Esq.. Octorara, Rowlandsville. Maryland, U.S.A. 

Conway, T. Cogan, Esq., Brooklands, Ringwood, Hants. 

Cornish, Sfiss H. M., Lesboume House, Reigate. 

Cottell, W. H., Esq., Yeolmbridge. Woodvale. S.E. 

Coward, Lieut. Blanchard. Salcombe, Kingsbridge. 

Cox, Herbert, Esq., The Avenue, Minehead, R.S.O., Somerset. 

Cox, Mrs., Manor House, Beaminster, R.S.O., Dorset. 

Crespi, Dr. Cooma, Poole Road, Wimbome. 

Crisp, F. A., Esq., Grove Park, Denmark Hill, S.E. 

Cross, Rev. J., Bsiilie House, Wimbome. 

Dale, E. R., Esq., Sherborne. 

Dalison, I^. R. W. H., Swyre Rectory. Dorchester. 

Daniel, Rev. W. E., East Pennard Vicarage, Shepton Mallet.* 

Daubeney, W., Esq., i. Cavendish Crescent, Bath. 

Daubeny, Capt., D.S.O., South Staffordshire Regiment, Aldershot. 

Davis, Mr. T. D., The Hazels, Horsington, Bath. 

Deacon, Edw., Esq.. P.O. Box 1712, Bridgeport. Conn., U.S.A. 

Dethick, Miss A. C.. Chesterfield. 

Dicker, Mr. W., Winsford, Dulverton, R.S.O.. Somerset. 

Dickinson, E. H., Esq., Chapmanslade, Westbury, Wilts. 

Digby, Col. the Hon. Everard, Melbury Bubb, Dorchester 

Digby, Honble. Miss, Minteme, Ceme Abbas. 

Dredge, Rev. J. Ingle, Buckland Brewer, Bideford. 

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

Dunster, Mr. F., Lyme R^s, 

Earle, Rev. Professor, 15, Norham Road, Oxford. 

* Monber of the Committee. 



m. 

Earle. Rev. C. S., Little Langford Rectory, Bath. 

Easton, R., Esq., Ram well Hill, Taunton. 

Eliot, G. E.y Esq.. Bincleaves, Weymouth. 

Elliott. Professor E. B.. F.K.S.. 4. Bardwell Road, Oxford. 

Elworthy, F. T., Esq., Foxdown, Wellington, Somerset.* 

Erle-Drax, W. E. S., Esq., Holnest Park, Sherborne. 

Estens, Mr. J. G., 8, Gt. Stanhope St., Bath. 

Evans. W. H., Esq., Forde Abbey. Chard. 

Fane, Hon. Sir Spencer Ponsonby, Brympton. Yeovil. 

Farley. Rev. H., Lytchett Minster. Poole. 

Famham, W. B.. Esq., Hawthorne Cottage, Hotel Rd., St. Austell. 

Farrer, O. C, Esq., Binnegar Hall,'Wareham. 

Filliter. Edw., Esq., 3. Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, K.W. 

Fisher, E., Esq., Abbotsburv, Newton Abbot. 

Fletcher, W. J., Esq., Wimbome Minster. 

Floyd, W., Esq.. 39, Russell Square, W.C. 

Floyer. G. W., Esq., Stafford. Dorchester. 

Ffooks, T , Esq., Totnel, Sherborne. 

Fox, Dr., 16, Gay St., Bath. 

Fox, Rev. T., Kectory, Templecombe. Bath. 

Foxcroft, E. T. D., Esq., Hmton Charterhouse, Bath. 

Franks, A. W., Esq.. British Museum, W.C. 

Fry, E. A., Esq., 172, Edmund St., Birmingham. 

Fry, G. S., Esq., Inglewood, Upper Walthamstow Road, Walthamstow. 

Fry, Mrs. Thomas, Baglake. Litton Cheney, Dorchester. 

Fumess W. E.. No. 56, 107. Dearborn St., Chicago, U.S.A. 

Galloupe, C. W., Esq., 35, Devonshire St., Boston, Mass.. U.S.A. 

George, Rev. P. E., St. Winifred's, Sion Hill, Bath. 

George, W., Esq., St. Wulfstans, Durdham Park, Redland, Bristol.' 

Gibbs, H. M., Esq., Barrow Court, Flax Bourton, R. S. O., Somerset. 

Gillett. A., Esq., Overleigh, Stieet. S.O., Somerset. 

Goddard, W. C. G., Esq., Brentwood, Salisburv. 

Goodwyn, C, Esq., 23. Boundary Road, St. John's Wood, N.W. 

Gould, A. W., Esq.. Staverton, 10, Cleve Road, West Hampstead, N.W. 

Grafton, Rev. Preb. A. W., Vicarage, Castle Cary, S.O., Somerset. 

Green, Miss, Canford Manor, Wimbome. 

Greenfield, B. W.. Esq., 4, Cranbury Terrace. Southampton. 

Griffith. F. G., Esq., Llansannor House, Cowbridge, Glamorgan. 

Groves, T. B. Es^., Weymouth. 

Guest, Hon. Elaine, Canford Manor, Wimbome. 

Guest, Montague, Esq., 3. Savile Row, W. (Two copies.) 

Hall, Rev. H. F., Leasbrook. Dixton, Monmouth. 

Hallett, T. G. P., Esq., Claverton Lodge, Bath. 

Hancock, Rev. F., Selworthy Rectory, Taunton. 

Hansford, C, Esq.. Dorchester. 

Hardcastle, J. A., Esq., Woodlands, Beaminster. R.S.O., Dorset. 

Hawkesbury, Rt. Hon. Lord, Cockglode, Ollerton, Newark. 

Hare, Rd.. Esq., Cockermouth, Cum))erland. 

Harris-Burland, J. B., Esq.. 50. Kingsholm Road, Gloucester. 

Hayward, Rev. Douglas Li., Pitney Kectory, Langport. R.S.O.. Somerset. 

Heathcote, C. D.. Esq., 4, Bradninch Place, Exeter. 

Henning, Rev. G. S., Long Sutton Vicarage. Langport, R.S.O., Somerset. 

Herringham. Rev. Preb. W. W.. Old Cleeve Rectory, Washford. R.S.O., 

Somerset. 
Hervey, Rev. S. H. A., Wedmore Vicarage, Weston-super-Mare. 
Havmield. Hon. Mrs.. Bishop's Caundle. Sherborne. 
Hickes, Rev. T H. F., Dravcol Vicarage. Cheddar, Weston-super-Mare. 
Highmore, A. J., Esq., Harbybrowe. Worcester Park, Surrey. 
* Member of the Committee. 



IV. 

Highton, Rev. E., Tarrant Kayaston Rectory, Blandford. 

Hoohoase, Rt. Rev. Bishop, Wells, Somerset. 

Hobhoose, H., Esq., M.P., Hadspen House, Castle Gary, S.O., Somerset. 

Hobhouse, Rt. Hon. Lord, 15. Bmton St., W. 

Hodder, R. E., Esq.. Norcott Villa, Wavlen St.. Reading. 

Holmes, Rev. T. S^, Wookey Vicarage. Wells. Somerset « 

Hook, Rev. Prtb. Walter, Porlock Rectory, Taunton. 

Hooper, His Hon. Judge, Thome, Yeovil. 

Home, Rev. E., DownSnde Monastery, Bath. 

Homer. J. F. F., Esq., Mell Park. Frome. 

Hoskins, Col. A. R., King Ina's Palace, South Petherton S.O.. Somerset. 

Hoskins. H. W., Esq., North Perrott Manor, Crewkerae. 

Honnsdl. W., Esq., Mountfield, Bridport. 

Howard, J. J.. Esq., Dartmouth Row. Blackheath, Kent. 

Hudd. A. E., Esq., 94, Pembroke Road, Clifton. 

Hughes, W. H., Esq.. 65, Clarendon Road, Holland Park. W. 

Humphreys, A. L., Esq., 26. Eccleston Road, Ealing Dean, W. 

HutcninA H., Esq., 31, Chester St., Grosvenor Place, S.W. 

Hylton , Rt. Hon. Lord, Ammerdown Park, Radstock, Bath. 

Ilchflster, Rt. Hon. the Earl of, Melbory, Dorchester. 

Ingham, F., Esq., Redl^ch House, Braton, S.O., Somerset. 

Irdand, J. C. Esq., Bnslington, Bristol. 

Isgar. Robt., Esq., The Bank, Wells, Somerset. 

Jewers. A., ]., Esq., 19, Chamberlain St., Wells, Somerset. 

jollifie, W. A., Esq., Park House, Lennox St., Weymouth. 

Jones, Winslow, Esq., Imperial Hotel, Exmouth. 

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Messrs., Charing Cross Road, W.C. 

Kemeys-Tvnte, St. D., Esq., Sherwood. Goathurst, Bridgwater. 

King, Rums, Esq., 22a, N. Broadway, Yonkers, Westchester Co.. New York. 

U.S.A. 
Langdon, Rev. F. E. W., Clayhidon Rectory, Wellington, Somerset. 
Langdon, Mrs., Parrocks Lodge, Chard. 
Laurie, Macpherson, Esq., m!d., Greenhill, Weymouth. 
Lea, J. Henry, Esq., Ceoarhurst. Fairhaven, Mass., U.S.A. 
Leigh, R. L., Esq., Himlev, Dudley. Worcestershire. 
Leir, Rev. L. R. M.. Charlton Musgrove Rectory, Wincanton, Bath. 
Library of the City of London, Guildhall, E.C. 
Lister, A., Esq., Leytonstone, Essex. 

Lock, B. Fossett, Esq.. 5, New Square, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. (Two copies.) 
Lock, Rev. W., 16, Crick Road, Oxford. 
Long, Col.. Congresbury, Yatton, R.S.O., Somerset. 
Longden, Rev. H. Isham, Shanghton Rectory, Leicester. 
Macmillan, W., Esq., Castle Cary, S.O., Somerset. 
Maitland-Dyer, Miss, Pembury Lodge. Shomcliffe Road, Folkestone. 
Mansel-Pleydell, J. C, Esq., Whatcombe, Blandford. 
Master, Rev. G. S.. Bourton Grange, Flax Bourton, R.S.O., Somerset. 
May, S. P., Esq., 272, Centre St., Newton, Mass., U.S.A. 
Majrnard, A., Esq., Henley Lodge. Taunton. 
Mayo, Rev. C. H., Long burton Vicarage, Sherborne (Editor).* 
Mayo, Rev. £., M<^erhanger Vicarage, Sandy, Beds. 
Mayo, Mrs., 247, Fifth Avenue, New York, U.S.A. 
Maxwell-Lyte, H., Esq.. C.B., 3. Portman Square, W. 
Medley, Rev. J. B., Tyntesfield. Bristol.* 
Mellor, Rt. Hon. J. W., Q.C., M.P.. Culmhead, Taunton. 
Middleton, H. B., Esq., Bradford Peverell, Dorchester. (Two copies.) 
Milner-Gibson-Cullum. G., Esq., Hardwick House, Bury St. Edmunds. 
Mitchell, F., Esq., The Distillery, Chard. 

• Member of the Committee. 



Montague, Col. Horace, 123, Pall Mall, S.W. 

Moorse, Mr. F. A., 65, Parma Crescent, Lavender Hill. CU^ham, S.W. 

Morgan, W.. Esq.. c/o Gale & Co., 15, Bouverie St.. Fleet St., E.C. 

Moule, C. W., Esq.. Corpus Christi College. Cambridge. 

Moule, H. J., Esq., Dorchester.* * 

Moysey, H. G., Esq., Bathealton Court, Wiveliscombe R. S. O., Somerset. i 

Myers, Rev. C, Lyme Regis. 

Napper, H. F., Esq., Loxwood, Billinghurst, R.S.O., Sussex. 

New England Historical Society, 18, Somerset St.. Boston, Mass., U.S.A. 

Newell, Rev. Preb. C. F., Chiselborough Rectory, Stoke-under-Ham. S.O. 

Somerset. 
Newman, Mrs., The Cedars, Twyford, R.S.O., Berks. 

Newton-Robinson, C. E., Esq., 18, Kensington Square, W. , 

Norris, Col., 6. Oak Hill Park, Hampstead, N.W. 
Norris. F. B , Esq., Soulhborough, Tunbridge Wells. 

Norris. Rev. H., St. John's. Tamworth, Staffordshire. , 

Norris, Hugh, Esq.. South Petherton, S.O.. Somerset (Late Editor).* 
Norris, Mrs. H. E. 14, Silverdale, Sydenham, S.E. 
Norton, Rev. D. E., Pitcombe Vicarage, Bruton, S.O., Somerset. 
Norton, D. E.. Esq., King's School, Bruton, S.O., Somerset. 
Oliver, V. L., Esq., Whitmore Lodge, Sunninghill, Ascot. 

Paget. Sir R. H.. Bart., M.P., Cranmore Hall, Shepton Mallet. , 

Palgrave. F. M.. Esq., 26, Victoria Place, Stoke. Devonport. J 

Paul, W. B., Esq., Weame Wvche, Langport, R.S.O., Somerset. 

Paynter, J. B., Esq., Hendford Manor. Yeovil. l 

Peach, R. E., Esq., 46, Pulteney St., Bath. ! 

Peacock. Rev. E . Rockfield House. Frome. 
Pearce, Mr. Edwin. Fore St., Taunton. 
Pearce-Edgcombe. E. R., Esq., Somerleigh, Dorchester. 
Penny, Rev. C. W., Shute End House, Wokingham. 
Penny. Rev. Dr., Coryton. Pentillie Road, Plymouth. 
Penny, Rev. Frank, Chaplain, Bangalore. South India. 
Penny, Rev. J. A., Stixwould Vicarage, Lincoln. 
Penruddocke, Chas., Esq., Compton Park, Salisbury. 
Perceval, C. H. Sp., Esq , Henbury, Bristol. 
Phelips. Rev. James. Cucklington Rectory. Wincanton, Bath. 
Phelips, W. R , Esq., Montacute House. Ilminster. 
Philp. Capt.. Pendoggett, Timsbury, Bath. 
I^ou, Rev. H. C, Wyke Holm, Bournemouth. 
Pink, W. D.. Esq.. Leigh. Lancashire. 
Pinney. Col.. Somerton Erleigh, Somerton, S.O., .Somerset. 
Pitfield. T. J., Esq., 41, Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park. W. 
Ponting. C. E.. Esq., F.S.A., Lockeridge. Marlborough. 
Poole, H. R., Esq., The Old House. South Petherton, S.O , Somerset 
Poole, Rev. R. B., Ilton Vicarage, Ilminster. 
Poole, Rev. H. J.. Stowell Rectory, Sherborne (Hon. Member) 
Pope, Alfred, Esq., Wrackleford House. Dorchester. 
Powell, Rev. C, East Coker Vicarage, Yeovil. 
Poynton, Rev. F. J.. Kelston Rectory, Bath. 
Prankerd, J., Esq., Briarfield. Torquay. 
Prankerd, P. D., Esq., The Knoll, Sneyd Park, Bristol. 
Pratt. Dr J. F., 63, Washington Avenue. Chelsea, Mass.. U.S.A. 
Radford, .Mrs. E. L , Chiswick House, Ditton Hill. Surbiton. 
Ravenhill, Rev. Canon, Buckland Newton Vicarage, Dorchester. 
Ravenhill, W. W., Esq., 50, Temple, E.C. 
Rawle, E. J., Esq., 10. Colville Terrace, Bayswater. W. 
Reed, P. O. H., Esq., Town Clerk's Oflfice, Bridgwater. 

* Member of the Committee. 



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R«e$-Mogg» W., Esq., Choi well Ho 
Reeve. Mrs, Christine, 6a, Rutlan/ 
Richards* Mrs., 1 7, Stanley Cres& 
Rid out, Mr. James, * Record ' OP 
Robinsorip Rev. C Jt The Vicft 
Robinson, Sir J. C. F.S.A,, 10 
Rocke, Mlas, Cbalicc Hill, Glr 
Roe. Rev, Preb, H.^ Yeovilto 
Rogers, W. H. H.. Esq., Be 
Rose, Rev. W. F., Wofle V 
Rumboll, C. A., Esq., 13, * 
Russell, Lady, Swallow&f 
Rutter. J. P., Esq., Merr 
Salisbury, Rt, Rev. Th^ 
Salisbury, Very Rev, T 
Salmon, Rev. Frank, 
Salter, S. 1. A,, Esq* 
Sanborn, v. C, Ear 
Schenck, J. E.. E# 
Schomberg, A,, E' 
Seaman, Kev. C^ 
Serrell D H., F 
Sessions, F., E' 
Shearmant }., 
Sheridan J Mr 
Sherston, J^ 
Simmons, C 
Simmons, 
Singer^ J, 
Skerry, f 

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Thring, J. Hiu. 



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Thurbum, C, Esq., Kiddington Hall, Woodstock. 

Tite, Charles, Esq., Shutes House, Wellington, Somerset. 

Todd, Lt.-Col., Keynston Lodge, Blandford. 

Torrens, Blrs., Somerset, Coloraine, Ireland. 

Trask, C, Esq., Norton-sub-Hamdon, Stoke-under-Ham, S.O., Somerset. 

Trenchard, H. Dillon, Esc}., Colinshays Manor, Bruton, S.O.. Somerset. 

Trevilian, E. C, Esq., Midelney Place. Curry Rivel, Taunton. 

Troup, Mrs. J. Rose, Rockbeare House, Exeter. 

Troyte-Chafyn-Grove, G., Esq., North Coker House, Yeovil. 

Tuckett, F. F., Esq., Frenchay, Bristol. 

Tyndale, J. W. W., Esq., Evercreech, Bath. 

Udal, J. S., Esq., Attomev General, Suva, Fiji. 

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Notes &; Queries 

FOR 

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EDITED BY 

FREDERIC WILLIAM WEAVER, M,A., 

(Editor of the " Visitations of the Counties of Somerset and 
Hereford^'* ^^ Somerset Incumbents^** etc) 

AND 

CHARLES HERBERT MATO, M.A., 

{Vicar of Long Burton with Holnest, Rural Dean, auttwr of 
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No. PAGE. ^ No. PAGE. 

33. Carving, Merriott Church 49 ^ 54. Haverfield Family - - 73 

34. Witham Friary • • 50 7 55* Collinson's Somerset - 73 

35. Uxor Hugonis Filii Grip - 53 ♦ 56. Wm. Bartlett, Yetminster 74 

36. Dorset Church Goods, 155a 54 ^ 57. Worle Notes - - - 76 

37. Bridport 8c Meysy Famines 57 ^ 58. Somerset M.Ps. - - 7S 

38. Dorset Administrations * 5^ J 59' Roger Hill. M.P. - - 79 

39. Marrying the Land - • 62 ^ 60. Seavington Ch. Goods - 79 

40. Wardship, Glastonbury - 63 ^ 61. Somerset Ch. Dedications 80 

41. Singing Game • - - 64 ^ 62. Causeway on Sedgemoor - 80 

42. Lyddon Family, Winsford 65 ^ 63. Merrifidd FamUy - - 81 

43. Morden Common, Dorset 68 ^ 64. Winsford Field Names - 81 

44. Uchester - ^- - - ^ ^ 6§- Somerset Ghost Story - 82 

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48. Somerset Lake Village • ' 

49. Cognitor . - - . 

50. DAnce of Country. 1588 

51. Robert Frye, Over Compton 

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^ 69. Gussage All Saints* Bells;- 87 

1 ▼ 70. Corton Chapel - - '- 88 
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87. Richard King, M.P. 

88. Monumental Inscriptions 

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01. Lawrence Whitakcr - 128 

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SOMERSET AND DORSET 

EDITED BY 

FREDERIC WILLIAM JVEAVER, M.A., 

(Editor of the " Visitations of the Counties of Somerset and 
Hereford,'* ^* Somerset Incumbents,** etc.) 

AND 

CHARLES HERBERT MATO, M.A., 

[Vicar of Long Burton with Holnest, Rural Dean, author of 
*' Bihliotheca Dorsetiensis," etc) 

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No. 

122. Monument at Uton • 

123. Dorset Administrations - 
1 24* Grants of Arms 

125. George III. at Sherborne 

126. Witchcraft in Somerset - 

127. Winterbome S. Martin - 

128. Dorset Monument - 

129. Pounsett Family 

130. Lyddon Family 

131. Cadbury Deeds 

132. George Crane, M.P. 

133. Kitum's Well 

134. Low Ham Church Seats - 

135. Public Penance 

136. Curious Advertisements - 

137. Tradesman's Token 
£38. Down-at-Pool 
139 Local Stay-at-Homes 

140. Dorset Phrases 

141. De Mandeville Arms ; Sir 

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Abp. Laud's Visitation 
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{Editor of the ** Visitations of the Counties of Somerut and 
Hereford,*' ** Somerset Incumbents,*' etc.) 

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{Vicar of Long Burton with Holnest, Rural Dean, author of 
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Kitum's Well • - • 194 
Combe Keynes Carol Books 19^ 
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Hayford Bridge 
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82. Vailes - - - - 220 

83. Ditto* - • - 221 

84. Ditto • • • •221 

85. Frightened Isaac • •221 
80. Metrical School Grace - 221 

87. Skeletons at Lillington - 222 

88. Longevity, Pitminster • 222 

89. Secret Panages • • 222 

90. Deacon Fanmy • • 223 

91. Barbor of Barnstaple • 223 

92. Dorset Clergy. Protestation, 

1641-2 • • - ^22^ 

93. Grrants of Arms • • 226 

94. Weymouth Piers and 

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Churches • • 231 
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Hereford^'* ^^ Somerset Incumbents,** etc) 

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> 202. Ancient Carvings, Thomford 241 ^ 224. Metrical School Grace - 273 

203. Chewton Mendip Vicarage 241 J 225. ditto - - - 273 

204. Sherborne Head Masters • 243 ▼ 226. Dorset Christmas Carol - 274 

205. Somerset Court Rolls - 243 ^ 227. Secret Passages - - 275 

206. John Naper's Will - - 245 ^ 228. Ditto - - - - 275 

207. Prodigies in Somerset - 247 ^ 229. John Heyron. Langport - 275 

208. Burtle Prior)r - - - 249 ▼ 230. Oliver Cromwell. 1770 - 276 

209. Dorset Administrations - 250 ♦ 231. Wimbome Helme - - 276 

210. Fry FamDy - - - 253 5^ 232. Pounsett Family - - 276 

211. How Names Change - 253 ^ 233. Worle Notes - - - 277 

212. Combe Keynes Carol Books 254 ^ 234. Harbor of Barnstaple - 277 

213. Grants of Arms - " ^55 T ^35* Hugh Iw - - - 277 

214. Dorset Clergy. Protestation, ▼ 230. Francis Barnes - - 277 

1641-2 .... 260 ^ 237. Bell Inscriptions - - 278 

215. Vicars of Winsford - - 264 ^ 238. Sare, Sears, &c. - - 278 

216. Singing Game ... 265 ^T 239. Emlyn or Emyley Family- 278 
217 Col. BuUen Reymes, M.P. 266 ▼ 240. John Pym - . - 278 

218. Mock Dial - - - 271 ^ 241. Tomb of Bp. Cornish • 278 

219. Chapman Family - - 272 ^ 242. Wells Palace ... 280 

220. Crane Familv ... 272 ^ 243. Sherborne Head Masters • 280 

221. Hammet andDuncombe - 272 ^ 244. Sherborne School - • 280 

222. Black Dog of Langport • 273 ▼ 245. Glaston Churchwardens* 

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246. Manor House, Purse ▼ 264. Chapman FamDy - 324 

Caundle - - - 289 ^ 26$. Edefidd- - - - 324 

247. Chr. and Wm. Dodington 291 ^ 266. Malherbe* - • 324 

248. Church Goods, Dorset - 295 ^ 267. Robert Frye • • - 324 

249. Prodigies, Somerset and ^ 268. Dositheus Wyer • - 324 

Dorset . - - 297 ▼ 269. Oliver Cromwell - - 325 

250. Col. BullenReymes, M.P. 299 ^ 270. Curious Superstition - 325 

251. Dorset Admioistnttions - 306 ^ 271. Moatless Houses - • 326 

252. Taunton Bridewell - - 309 ^ 272. John Trenchard - • 326 

253. MLonumental Inscriptions- 310 ^ 273. Bees* Power of Scent • 326 

254. Ushers, Sherborne School 310 ^ 274. Black Dog of Langport - 326 

255. Puxton Relic ... 312 ^ 275. Jennings Family - . 326 

256. Glaston Tradition > - 312 ^ 276. Salisbury Spire • . 327 

257. Dorset Clergy, Protes- ^ 277. Good Friday Superstition 327 

tation, 1641-2 - - 313 X 278. Wedding Rmg for Styes - 327 

258. Portm an Family - - 316 ▼ 279. Somerset River Names - 327 

259. Tyneham Notes > - 316 ^ 280. Somerset Dedications . 328 

260. Sturminster Marshall - 321 ^ 28i-2Notices of Books - 328 

261. Metrical School Grace - 323 ^ 283. Glaston Churchwardens' 

262. Ditto - - - 323 J Accounts . - - 329 

263. Pounsett Family - - 323 ▼ 

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4otes& Queries 



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)MERSET AND DORSET" 

EDITED BY , 

^EDERIC IVILLIAM fTEArER, M.A., 

(Editor of the " Visitations of the Counties of Somerset and 
Hereford,'* ** Somerset Incumbents,'* etc) 

AND 

LARLES HERBERT MATO, M.A., RJX, 

{Vicar of Long Burton with Holnest, Canon Non-Res. of 
Sarum, author of *• Bihliotheca Dorsetiensis,** etc) 

* Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt, 
Nothing s so hard, but search will find it out/* 

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The Axbridge Panel 
Chr. and Wm. Dodington 
Maltravers v. Turberville - 
Prodigies, Somerset and 

Dorset - - -343 

Tyneham Notes - - 346 

North Curry Hundred - 352 

Christopher Chilcot - 354 

Dorset Subsidy Roll - 354 

Somerset Gentry, 1673 - 355 

Oliver Cromwell - - 357 

Ralegh MS. - - - 359 

Dorset Visitation. 1677 - 359 

Dorset Clergy, 1641 - 359 

Shrine of St. Candida - 360 

Dorset Administrations - 361 

John Trenchard - - 365 

Briefs, Somerset and Dorset 365 

Rectors of Thurloxton - 366 



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302. Bees' Power of Scent 

303. Metrical School Grace 

304. Ditto 

305. Penance in Churches 

306. N. Devon Superstition - 

307. Chronograms, Somerset 

and Dorset - - - 368 

308. Col. Bullen Reymes, M.P. 369 

309. Mathew Beethell - - 373 

310. Monumental Inscriptions 373 

311. Dorset Christmas Carol - 373 

312. Gillingham Forest - - 375 

313. Barbor of Barnstaple - 376 

314. Dorsetshire Dairymaid - 378 

315. Old Sayings - - - 378 

316. Parish Register Society - 379 

317. Glaston Churchwardens' 

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