Volume 1

The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset / Compiled from the best and most ancient historians, inquisitions post mortem, and other valuable records and mss. in the public offices, and libraries, and in private hands. With a copy of Domesday book and the Inquisitio Gheldi for the county: interspersed with some remarkable particulars of natural history; and adorned with a correct map of the county, and views of antiquities, seats of the nobility and gentry, &c. By John Hutchins, M.A.

  • John Hutchins
Date:
1774
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Credit: The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset / Compiled from the best and most ancient historians, inquisitions post mortem, and other valuable records and mss. in the public offices, and libraries, and in private hands. With a copy of Domesday book and the Inquisitio Gheldi for the county: interspersed with some remarkable particulars of natural history; and adorned with a correct map of the county, and views of antiquities, seats of the nobility and gentry, &c. By John Hutchins, M.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C « 1 And, for the good lie Pool was one of Thetis’ traine, ' “Who fcorn’d a nymph of hers her virgin band fhould ftaine, Great Albyon (that forethought the angtie goddefie would Both on the dam and bratts take what revenge fhee could) I’th’ bolome of the Foole his little children plac’t: Fir ft Bruhkfey; Furfey next; and little Hellen laft; Then with his- mightie arms doth clip the Poole about. To keepe the angrie queene, fierce Amphitrke out. Againft whofe lordlie might (hee mufters up her waves; And ftrongly thence repulft (with madnefs) fcoulds and raves. When now, from1 Poole, the mufe (up to her pitch to get) Her felfe in fueh a place from fight doth almoft fet. As by the aftive power of her commanding wings. She (falcon like) from farre doth fetch thole plenteous fprings. Where Stour receives her ftrength from fixe cleere fountaines ted, Which gathering to one ftreame from every feverall head. Her new-beginning banke her water fcarcely weelds; And fairlie entreth firft on the Dorfetian fields: Where Gillngham with gifts that for a god were meet (Enameled p°aths, rich wreaths, and every foveraine fweet The earth and ayre can yeeld, with many a pleafure mixt) Receives her, Whilft there paft great kindnefs them betwixt, The Forreft here befpoke j “ How happie, Floods, are yee “ From our predeftin’d plagues that priviledged be, « Which onlie with the filh which in your banks doe ** breed, « And dailie there increafe, man’s gurmendize can “ feed ? “ But had this wretched age fuch ufes to employ “ Your waters, as the woods, we latelie did enjoy, “ Your chanels they would leave as barren by their “ fpoil, “ As they of all our trees have latelie left our foil. “ Infatiable Time thus all things doth devour: _ “ Whatever faw the funne that is not in Time’s “ power? “ Ye fleeting ftreames laft long, out-living manie a iS day: “ But, on more ftedfaft things Time makes the ftrongeft “ prey.” Now towards the Solent-fea h as Stour her way doth ply, On Shaftefbury (by chance) fhee caft her cryftal eye. From whole foundation firft, fuch ftrange reports arife As brought into her mind the eagle’s prophecies1; Of that fo dreadful! plague, which all great Britain© iwept, From that which liigheft flew, to that which loweft crept, Before the Saxon thence the Britaine fhould expell. And all that thereupon fucceffively befell. How then the bloodie Dane fubdued the Saxon raee^ And, next, the Norman took poffeflion of the place ; Thofe ages, once expir’d, the fates to bring about. The Britiih line reftor’d ; the Norman linage out. Then, thofe prodigious figns to ponder fhe began, Which afterwards againe the Britans wrack fore-ran ; Flow here the owle at noon in public ftreets was leen. As tho’ the peopled towns had way-lefs deferts been. And whilft the loathy toad out of his hole doth craft. And makes his fuifome ftooll amid the princes hall. The cryftall fountaine turn’d into a gory wound, And bloodie ifiues brake (like ulcers) from-the ground; The feas againft their courfe with double tides returne. And oft were ieene by night like boyling pitch to burne. Thus thinking, livelie Stour beftirres her tow’rds the maine; WhichLidden leadeth out: thenDulas k beares her train From Blackmore, that at once their watry tribute bring : When, like fome childifh wench, flic loofelie wanton¬ ing* With tricks and giddie turnes feems to in-rle the fhorc Betwixt her fifhfull b.nks, that forward fliee doth fcour, Untill fhee laftlie reach clear Alen in her race. Which calmlie commeth down from her dear mother chace, Of Cranburn that is call’d ; who greatly joyes to fee A riveret borne of her for Stour’s lhould reck’ned bee. Of that renowned flood, a favourite highlie grac’t. Whilft Cranburn for her child fo fortunatelie plac’t. With ecchoes everie way applauds her Alcn’s ftatc, A fudden noife from Holt1 feems to congratulate With Cranburn for her brooke fo happily bellow’d: Where, to her neighboring chafe, the curteous forreft fhow’d So juft conceived joy, that from each rrfing hurft mi Where many a goodlie oake had carefullie been nurft. The fylvans in their fongs their mirthfull meetings .tell, Andfatires, that in Hades and gloomy dimbles dwell, Runne whooting to the hills to clappe their ruder hands. As Holt had done before, fo Canford's goodlie launds (Which leane upon the Poole) enricht with coppras vaines, Rejoice to fee them join’d. When downe from Sarum plaines Cleare Avon comming in her After Stour doth call. And at New Forreft’s foote into the fea doe fall. * The flrait between the ifle of Wight and Hampfhire. Pelagus latltudinis trium millirm quod vccalur Solents< Beda, Ecclef. Hill. 1, iv. C. XVI. * “ Cair Paladottr that now is Shaftefbury, “ Where an angel fpake fitting on the wall, “ While it was in working over all.” Harding. freaking of Rudhudibras his fabdous building of it: Mr. Drayton would read Algle for angel. This Eagle, whofe prophecies were as famous among the Britons as the Sibylline among the Romans, foretold of a reverting ot the crown, after the Britons, Saxons, and J]fORomans to the firtt again, which was fultilled in Henry VII, Ion of Owen Tudor. This is peremptorily allirmed by that Count Pala¬ tine of Bafingftoke. “ Et aperte dixit tempus aliquando fore ut Britannicum imperlum denuo fit ad veteres Britanno3 pofl; Saxones Sc “ Normannos redditurum.” This was promifed by an angel to Cadwallader, whom fome call Cadwallo, 700 years after Chrifi:. Selden. k DevjliJb. 1 Holt Forrjt. m A wood in Englifh. THf