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abbess abbey abbey of Bec acres Alcestre allotments ancient appears Bagber beautiful belonged Benett Bengerville Brickell's Cliff Bridge brook built called Catherine Howard Catherine Parr Chaldecots church close cottages Cowherd Shute Cowridge Cramburne Lake Cranborne Chase Croke Dorset Duncliffe Dunedge Lodge Earls of Castlehaven East East Stour Edward Enmore-Green Ferngore field Fonthill forest of Gillingham Frog Lane garden gate Gawens granted Hatch Hatts hedge heiress Henry hill Horsington inhabitants John John Croke King Kingsettle land Lord Westminster Lydden lying miles Motcombe House neighbourhood Nicholas orchard parish Park Farm passed Payne's Place Pensbury perambulation piece of ground possessed probably Queen residence Richard Rigg Rigg Saxon Semley Shaftesbury Shaston Sherborne Causeway Short's Green Shoscombe side Soulescombe spelt spot spring Stalbridge stands steep stone stood Stour Stourhead thence tion Tisbury Tower town Walk Wermeswell Whittaker William Wilts Wiltshire Wincombe wood yard
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Page 82 - To that place he retired with his wife, on whom he doated, with a resolution to bid adieu to all the follies and intemperances to which he had addicted himself in the career of a town life.
Page 3 - ... its ruins. This Nunnery, which was of the Benedictine order, was the richest and best endowed in England, occupied a great extent of ground, and possessed a vast number of offices and apartments within its precincts. The Abbess was one of the four that held of the King a whole Barony, in consequence of which she was liable to be called to Parliament, but was excused on account of her sex : she had writs, however, directed to her, to send her quota of men into the field, according VOL. .IV. F...
Page 80 - ... thence called King-stag Bridge, in the parish of Pulham. The King, highly offended at it, not only punished them with imprisonment, and grievous fine, but severely taxed all their lands which they then held, the owners of which yearly, ever since to this day, pay a sum of money, by way of fine, or amercement, into the Exchequer, called White Hart Silver, in memory of which, this county necdeth no better remembrance than this annual payment.
Page 82 - Stower, in Dorsetshire, of somewhat better than two hundred pounds per annum, came into his possession. With this fortune, which, had it been conducted with prudence and economy, might have secured to him a state of independence for life, and with the...
Page 83 - Not discouraged, however, he determined to exert his talents •vigorously, applied himself closely to the study of the law, and, after the customary time of probation at the Temple, was called to the bar, and made no inconsiderable figure in Westminster- hall.
Page 51 - ... and his men shall stop the water of the wells of Enmore from the borough of Palladour.
Page 51 - Greene, at one of the clocke at afternoon, with their mynstralls and myrth of game; and in the same Greene of Enmore, from one of the clocke till too of the clocke, by the space of one hole hower, theire they shall daunce, and the mayer of Shaston shall see the quene's bayliffe have a penny loffe, a gallon of ale, and a...
Page 80 - ... from thence called Kingstag Bridge, in the parish of Pulham. The king, highly offended at it, not only punished them with imprisonment and grievous fine, but severely taxed all their lands which they then held. The owners of which yearly, ever since to this day, pay a sum of money by way of fine, or amercement into the Exchequer, called Whitehart Silver, in memory of which this county needeth no better remembrance than this annual payment.
Page 82 - ... he incumbered himself with a large retinue of servants, and his natural turn leading him to a fondness for the delights of society and convivial mirth ; he threw wide open the gates of hospitality, and suffered his whole" patrimony to be devoured up by hounds, horses, and entertainments. In short, in less than...