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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    r>- ov 39-John Frankland, Sampfon HufTey, gents. 43-John Stafford, kt. Edmund Scot, gent. i Wejim. Robert Napier, kt. Franc. James, L. L. D. 12 - Francis James, L.L.D. Will. Pit, ' 18-Will. Pit, kt. John Trenchard, efq; 91 -Ditto. Ditto. CHARLES I. 1 —— Ditto. Ditto. 1-Nath. Napier, kt. Edward Lawrence, elq; 3-John Miller, kt. Gerard Napier, efq. 15 -John Trenchard, efq. Gilbert Jones, L. L. D. 16 -John Trenchard, efq. Thomas Erie, efq. CHARLES II. 5, 6, 8, None. 11 Wejim. Elias Bond, James Dewey, efqs. 12 -George Pitt, Rob. Culliford, efqs. 13 -Ditto. Ditto. Robert Lawrence, George Pitt, efq. A double return, the two lafl taken off. 31 —— Tho. Erie, George Savage, efqs. 31 -Ditto, Ditto. 32 Oxford, Ditto. Ditto. JAMES II. i Wejim. Tho. Erie, Geo. Ryves, efqs. WILLIAM and MARY. 1 Wejim. Tho. Erie, Tho. Skinner, efqs. 2 -Tho. Erie, Will. Okedon, efqs. WILLIAM III. 7 Wejim. Tho. Erie, Tho. Trenchard,. efqs. 10-Geo. Pitt, efq. Ditto. 12 -Hon. Tho. Erie. In his place chofen for Portfmouth, Edward Ernely, bart. George Pitt, efq. 13 -Tho. Erie, Geo. Pitt, efqs. ANNE. 1 Wejim. George Pitt. In his room chofen for Hamp- fhire, Jofiah Child, bart. Tho. Erie, efq. In his place, deceafed, Edw. Ernely, bart. Hon. Tho. Erie, George Pitt, efqs. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. In place of Pitt, chofen for Hampfhire, Edw. Ernely, bart. 12 - Tho. Erie, Geo. Pitt, efqs. GEORGE I. 1 Wejim. Tho. Erie, efq. In his place, accepting of a penfion, Henry Drax, efq. s -George Pitt, efq. In his place, chofen for Hampfhire, George Pitt, jun. efq. 8 -Edward Ernly, bart. Jof. Gafcoigne, efq. GEORGE II. 1-Edward Ernely, bart. In his place, deceafed, 1728, Thomas Towers, efq. —— Jofeph Gafcoigne, efq. In his place, de¬ ceafed, 1728, Nathaniel Gould, efq. director of the Bank. 14 _— Ditto. Ditto. 2.0-Ditto. Thomas Erie Drax. In their room, voted unduly elefted, Robert Banks Hodgkinfon. ——• John Pitt. In his room, elefted for Dor- chefter, 1751, Henry Drax, efq. 27-John Pitt, Henry Drax, efqs. -William Auguflus Pitt, Tho. Erie Drax, efqs. A double return, the election made void. --Henry Drax, William Auguflus Pitt, efqs. re-chofen. GEORGE III. 1-John Pitt, Tho. Erie Drax, efqs. 8-Colonel Ralph Burton. In his room, de¬ ceafed, Whitfhead Keen, Robert Falk, efqs. The Priory Is fituated near St. Mary’s church, and the river. There are fome fmall remains of the old building on one fide ; but it has been long converted into a dwel¬ ling houfe and malt houfe. The cloifters feem to have been on the N. of it, adjoining to the church. For about 1720, on making a cellar, near a cart¬ load of bones was dug up, and reinftated in the church-yard. Some of them were found between two ftones fet edgeways. A thigh-bone twenty inches long had the marks of two or three fraftures. A Rone coffin, in which was a ikeleton, with the face downward, and the head to the Eaft. This houfe was one of the moft ancient in the county, and feems to have been founded by Aldhelm, bifhop of Sherborne, who died in 709, and is faid to have built a monaftery [ca?iobium~] at the mouth of the river Frome, from which it is not far diftant. It appears to have been a nunnery before 876, when, together with the town, it was deftroyed by the Danes b. It after was changed into a convent for monks; for Robert Bellomont, earl of Leicefter, gave feveral churches here, and fome lands to the Benedi&ine abby of Lyra in Normandy, t. H. I. On which they fixed here a cell of monks of their own order, dedi¬ cated to St. Mary c. H. II. by charter, fans date, confirms to that abby, under the title of the priory of Carefbrook, in the Ifle of Wight, a cell to that houfe, inter alia, in the bifhopric of Sarefberie, of the gift of the earl of Leicefter, the churches of Waram, the church of Guereft, and 100 folidatre of land ; the church of Binehord, cum appendicis fuis: one hide of land in Warham, of the gift of William de Waimuta: one ounce of gold in proepofitura de Warham d. During the wars with France, it underwent the common fate of alien houfes, being feized into the king’s hands; particularly 13 E. III. and 22 R. II. at the requeft of Thomas Holland, duke of Surry, he granted it to Edmund Prior of Montgrace, an b Tanner, Bibliothec. Brit, p. 25. Leland. Colled, r. ii. p. 388. Crefly’s Church Hift. 1. xxxviii. c. 9. G. Malmfb. Vit. Aldhelmi, p. 2. apud Wharton, Ang. Sacra, v. ii. p. 9. « Pat. 18 Ed. I. Lincoln, taxat. d Dugd. Monaft. t. ii, 906. inter Additamenta'in t. i, & t. 2, 985. 9c Regiltr. Ccsnob. de Lira penes And. de Chefne. Tanner, Notit. Monaft. p. 102. abby