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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    The return to the commlffion, 1650, was, that the impropriation was worth 100 1. per annum, and belonged to hr Walter Erie. The parfonage of Charborough, worth 301. per annum, was annexed to this vicarage, which was worth 5° h P*-** snnurn. Both enjoyed by Mr. Nevil Drant. Thomas Erie, patron pkno jure. Patrons. The abbefs Leigh. of Canon- The abbefs Leigh. Henry Drax, efc|. Vicars. Nicholas Hele, exchanged Awnlham Churchill, &c. with William de Tayngne- muth, chaplain of the chantry of St. Thomas the Martyr, of Can¬ terbury, in the monaf- tery of Canon-Leigh, pr. to this vicarage, inft. 5 id. April, 1,43 *. Nicholas de Stokton, cl. pr. on the death of Tayngnemotit, inft:. iS Nov. 1348 l. John le Couk, pbr. on the refig. of Stoketon, inft. 3 Nov. 1349 *. Raymund Peytefin, pbr. inft. 18 Feb. 1382, exchanged with John Sampfon, reftor of St. Peter’s, iii Ware- ham, inftit. 15 Feb. 1394 x* John Uphill, chap, on the refig. of Sampfon, inft. 4 Dec. 1425 A John Drynkwater, chap John Elford, reftor of Charborough, 1586 c. Nevil Drant, ob. 1454. Edward Bennet occurs , 1655—1657. . , ..... RoW, ip ft. 1663 d. He occurs 1667 c. Robert Swain, inft. 1678 ; alfo reftor of Charbo¬ rough. John Conant, inft. 1695 A Thomas Kellow, M. A. inft. Jan. 23, 1.719; alfo reftor of Langton in Purbeck, John Loop, B. A. on the death of Kellow, inft. Nov. 2, 1737* He was afterwards vicar of Sherborn.. ; John Tomkinfon, M. A. afterwards vicar of Win- terborn-Stoke, c. Wilts, on die retig. of Loop, • inft 2 June, 1744- William . Becket, B. A. rettor of Ryme, on th? refignation of Toinkin- fon. SPETTISBURY, Speftejbury, Spetcebury, Speightjbury. of Canon- This large parilh, confifting of three divifions, Spettilbury, Middleftreet, and Great-Craford, be- fides the chapelry of Charlton-Marthal, Hands on the on the refig. of Uphill, banks of the river Stour, three miles S. W. from inft. 18 May, 1435 z. Blanford-Forum. In Domefday Book f Spejleberie Robert Burfy, chap, on was held by the earl of Monton. It confifted of half the death of Drynk- a carucate, worth 18 s. There is another parcel water, inft. 13 March, furveyed under the name of Spchtejberic, which be* 145 5 a. longed to William de Mown. It confifted of fix caru- William Holcomb, pbr. cates, and had been worth 100 s. but then 7I. 10 s.., M. A. on the death of After this time it came to the earls of Mcllent and Burfy, inft. 16 Sept. Leicejler, of which family Robert, t. H. I. gave it to 1475 a. the monks of St. Peter de Pratellis, or Preaux, in Richard Fulbroke, pbr. Normandy, an abbey of the Benedittine order, where on the refignation of Flumphry de Vetullis built two monafteries, one for Holcomb, inftit. 12 monks, the other for nuns s. In 1293 the lands of Sept. 1478 a. the abbot of Pratel here and in Charleton, valued ac John Hooper. 12 1. of the abbefs of Tarent 53 s. 9 d.; of the Thomas Lyneham, pbr. abbot of Befkerlewyue, 16 s.; of the prior of Chrift- on the refignation of church 8 s.; and of the abbot of Letteley 100 s. h. Afterwards it feems to have more immediately be¬ longed to their priory of Monks-Tofts in Norfolk, a cell to that monaftery, and was confirmed to it by a charter of E. 1.1 13 E. Ill, the (hcriff is charged with the iffues of the manor, belonging to the abbey of Pratel, and of the parfonage belonging to Peter Malet. They feem to have been feizetl into the king’s hands on the war with France k. On the fup- preflion of alien houfes, 2 H. V, it was given to the Carthufian monaftery of Witham, or the Charter- Hooper, inft. Dec. . 1506 b. John Hooper, pbr. on the death of Lyneham, inftit. penult. Feb. 1508 b. Robert Winter, inftit. .I547* . Nicholas Wiltftiire, ad¬ mitted 1579* * Reg. Wyvil. « Glouceft. Bullingham. Dugd. Monaft. t. II. 250. Vol. .|L» u Ergham. * Waltham. T Chandler. * Nevil. a Beauchamp. b Audeley. d Firft Fruits. 'Regift. 1 Tit. 26, 36. 6 Tanner, Not. Mon. 106. See Srour Provolt. h Taxat. Temporalit, • Dugd. Monad. 1.1. 599. K Dodi, v.XV1L 4159. Mag. Rot. B b b houf?