Volume 2

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.

  • Hutchins, John, 1698-1773.
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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    18 8 Hundred of LOOSEBARROW. The C h urch The Register begins 1575. Rands at the \V. end of the parilh, and is an ancient but not large building. It con- fifts of a chancel, body refting on three pillars, and S. ifle equal with the body. The body and itles are covered with lead, the chancel with tile. The tower has four bells, is of a moderate height, embat¬ tled, and adorned with four pinnacles. Under the E. window of the chancel is a monument of free ltone, having under a circular pediment the figure of a gentleman in complete armour, kneeling on one knee, his hands eretted. Behind him are two youths, and a young lady between them, in the drefs of that age. On the wall, on two compart¬ ments, are two brafs plates, with the following in¬ scriptions in Roman capitals: 1. HERE LYETH BURIED THE BODEYE OF THOMAS EARLE, THE SONE OF WALTAR EARLE, WHOE DEPARTED FROM THIS LYFF THE 16™ DAYE OF MARCHE, IN THE YEARE OF OUR LORD GOD 1597. Marriages wanting from 1640 to 1653. Mr. Nathanael Bond, and Mrs. Mary Brown, 1675. Baptifms wanting from 1640 to 1653. John, fon of Mr. Argenton Williams, 1662 ; buried 1663. Burials wanting from 1623 to 1653 ; and front 1672 to 1678 ; and from 1693 to 1719. Walter Erie, of Charborough, efq. — 15S1 Mother Dyer, aged 100, -- 1591 Thomas, fon of Thomas Erie, efq. — 1592 John Collins, alias Baker, 100 years old, 1592 Walter Erie, of Charborough, efq. — 2597 Ault an Laurence, efq. — — 1006 John Elford, vicar and reftor of Chaibo- rough, — — — 1613 Nevil Drant, minifter, — — 1654 Sir Walter Erie, of Charborough, — 1665 Anne Erie, widow, — — 1665 The Rectory. 2. IIIS SONS WER FOUR, HIS DAUGHTERS TWO, OF WHOME JOI-IN, THOMAS, AND DORITHE AR DESEC1D, AND REMAINETH NOW LEVYNGE WALTAR, CHRYSTOPHER, AND ELIZABETH. Near this on the S. fide of the chancel, is an al¬ tar-tomb, on which are feveral blank efcotcheons, but no infcription. Tradition fays, it was for Thomas Erie before-mentioned. On a fiat (lone at the higher end of the body, op- pofite the pulpit, this infcription : Id. S. E. Thomas Kellow, A. M. Hujus parochice nuper vicarius, Nec non iftius de Langton Maltravers re&or. Vir fine fuco & fallacia, Qui pertinaci vitae integritate, Et morum fimplici caftimonia, Eruditionis academical, facri muneris, etfideiorthodoxce Exifiimationi confuluit. In decimis colligendis minime flagitans, Aut in utendis prodigus. Rem probe acquilitam, et provide audtarn, Integrant & fuis omnino fumptibus intaclam, Pofieris fruendam reliquit. Et poftquam viginti magis annorum Juftitice, manfuetudinis, concordite. Exemplar fuerat, et exhortator, Tranquille, uti vixerat, obivit . , Septemb. 1, A. D. 1737mo* iEtat. 45to. % King Henry II. by charter, confirms to the priory of Plimpton, c. Devon, of the order of St. Augufiin, the donation of Walter de Clavilla, of the fee of William earl of Gloucefier, inter alia, the church of Morduna. King John, a. r. 14, confirms by charter to the priory of Leye, i. e. Canons-Leigh, dio- cefe of Exon \ of- the order of St. Augufiin, the donation of Walter de Clavilla; which was alfo confirmed by charter by William earl of Gloucefier ; viz. inter alia, the church of Morduna, with half a virgate of land there ; the tenths of redituum de Mordona, ct in redditu Brother'uz r de Mordona [of Mordon heath~\. Canon-Leghe, near Tiverton, was an abbey of nuns, c. Devon, of the order of St. Au- guftin. Walter Clavelle firft founded a monaftery of canons regular. Matilda de Clare, countefs of Clare and Hertford, in the beginning of king Ed¬ ward Ids reign, introduced nuns. Afterwards the earl of Warwick was patron. It is mentioned only by Leland in his Colleftaneas. In 1291 this re&Ory was rated at 10 marks. 16 Eliz. the tithes of garb and grain, belonging to the priory of Canon- Leigh, were granted to Margaret Fry for 21 years. 21 Eliz. the recfiory and advowfon of the vicarage was granted to Walter Erie, paying yearly 12 1. 3 s. 4 d. The Vicarage was endowed before 1343. The ancient patrons were the priorefs and convent of Canon-Leigh, and iince the Reformation the lords of the manor. It is in Whitchurch deanry. Prefent value, - Tenths, - Bilhop’s procurations, Archdeacon’s procurations, 1. s. d. 847 1 16 54. 0x4 O 9 /T t i In the title of this charter, in Dugdale’s Monnfticon, II. 204, it is erroneously called the ifle of Gerefey, i. e. Jerfey. 1 Bruarium is a heath in Domefday Book, t. 10. Cranburn, Spelm. Gloif, in voce. s Vol. I. p. 54. Dugd. Monaft. tom. II. p.205. 362.