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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    Town and Borough of WAREHAM 29 N. Mills is a mill fitUated a little N. from the walls of Wareham, but deemed part of the borough. I11 36 H. VIII. two water-mills called N. Mills, and a marfh, parcel of the priory of Shene, and in-, te¬ nure of Rich. Morton of Milborn S. Andrew, gent, granted to John Southcot and John Tregonwell. In 3 Philip and Mary, Sir George Delalind poflefled them; thence they came to the Moretons and Pley- dels of Milborn. Keysworth, anciently a manor, though it does not occur in Domefday-book, is now only a farm, lying about two N. E. of Wareham; it is a member of the hundred of Cranborn. Mr. Thoroton gives this etymology of a place of the fame name in the county of Nottingham, olim Cavord, i. Coits-Hall or village. Colt, in Britifli, is alfo a wood, which feems to be the nature of the foil. It belonged to the Lawrences of Grange, 7 Eliz. and was fold by . . . Lawrence, efq; to Sir James Long, in 16 ... . It is (tiled, in the Court Rolls, the Manor of Keyf- worth mul Holton. In 39 Eliz. in a court roll, this manor and Holton feeiii to have been divided into three parts, belonging to Lawrence, Lewejlon, and Kitfon, of Ocford Fitzpaine. Holton. Formerly a manor, or part of that of Keyfworth, now reduced to two farm-houfes; it feems to- be the Holtone of Domefday Rook, which was held by Will, dc Braiofe. The land was half a caru- cate, and was worth ] o s. The manor and wade has palled through many private and unknown hands; Mrs. Lora Pitt bought it, 1743, .Bart¬ lett. There is another little farm, a little S. of the former, belonging to Mr. Thomas Phippard, or heirs. Organ-Ford. A few cottages, a little N. W. of Holton, belonging to Mr. Phippard's farm. The Church of St. Martin Rands at the higher end of N. Street, near the walls. It is a fmall and ancient fabric, but more neat than mod of the reft. It confifts of a very fmall chancel, perhaps the remains of a larger, divided from the body by a neat circular arch, a body and a N. ifle, almoft equal in length to the body. On the fouth is a high porch ferving for a tower, built 1712, in which is one fmall bell. In 1550 two bells belonged to this church. Here are no monuments or antique remains. Since the union of the churches it was, in winter time, officiated in every Sunday morning, afterwards only once a-month, and about 1736 difufed, except for marriages, chriftenings, and churching of women; and, indeed, it cannot even now contain all the parifhioners that would or ought to frequent it, much lefs when they were more nu¬ merous, as it appeared from the regifter they were, from 1540 till about 1700, the out-parilh being for¬ merly, in all probability, fuller of houfes than (ince feveral manors and hamlets were extinguiffied and de¬ populated. There does not feem ever to have been any church-yard. There is, indeed, on the E. a glebe- garden, convenient for fuch purpofe; but, as no bones have been dug up in it, we may conclude it never was a church-yard. Formerly there were fome buried in the church. The regifters began 1540, but were loft from 1639 to 1664, and the reft de- ftroyed by the late fire. Marriages. Alicia Clavel and Thomas Wedon, t5ol Robert Bond and Alice Bond, i6i3 John Young, rettor, and Mrs. Sufan. Clavel, Widow, - 1634 Burials. Joanna Turbervil, - 1601 Henry Clavel, - 1587 Matt. Turbervil, gent, 1624 John Dodwell, re&or, -- 1602 Thomas Turbervil, gent. - 1616' George, fon of Ralph Thornhill, gent, bap- tifed and buried, 1622 John Young, recfor, Nov. 23, 1636 In this parifli was a fmall chapel dedicated to All Saints, known by the name of Mhallows. It ftands about the middle of N. Street, on the W. fide at the corner of Cow Lane, but has been long defecrated, and ufed as a Warehoufe or barn, and feems to have been fo much altered or repaired, that it preferves little appearance of an ecclefiaftical building. Whe¬ ther it was a free chapel or chantry, is uncertain. 21 Eliz. it Was granted, inter alia, to Edmund Downing and John Walker, and 2 Car. I. to Sir Thomas Freke. It lately belonged to the Giggers of this town. The Rectory. The ancient patrons Were the abbots of Lyra, after¬ wards the prior of Shene; and fince the diflolution, the crown, whence the advowfon came to Will. Pitt, whofe fuccelfor, Henry Pitt, is the prefent patron. The glebe confifts of a meadow near N. Port, con¬ taining an acre, and fome glebe gardens; a fmall houfe, or part of an houfe, garden, and a common in N. Street, a little below the church, belongs to it; but whether it was the ancient reftorial houfe is un¬ certain. In 1291 a penfion to the abbot of Lyra of 6 s. 8 d. was paid out of the rettory. Value 1291, 6 marks and i 1. s. d. Prefent value, 8 2 6 Tenth, 0 16 3 Bilhop’s procurat. Archdeacon’s procurat. 0 1 4 , 0 3 4 Crown rents, 6 6 1 The return to the eommiffion was that in 1650, the parfonage, with the glebe, worth 3 1. per an¬ num, was worth 401. per annum, George Pitt, efq; patron. Tho. Chaplyn, incumbent, preached once every Sunday, the church not fit to be annexed to any other in the town, becaufe moft convenient for the parifhioners in the country, who defire an al¬ lowance for a conftant preaching minifter. Vol. I. H Patrons.