Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variationsin hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all otherspelling and punctuation remains unchanged.
The repetition of the title immediately before the title page has beenremoved.
Ringstead and Holworth.
“Where one may walk along the undulatingdowns that skirt the Channel, held in placeby parapets of cliff that break down straightinto the sea; where one may walk mile aftermile on natural lawn and not meet a soul—justone’s self, the birds, the glorious scenery,and God.” (See page 109.)
From a water-colour sketch by Mr. William Pye.
Memorials of the Counties of England
General Editor: Rev. P. H. Ditchfield, M.A., F.S.A.
MEMORIALS
OF OLD DORSET
EDITED BY
THOMAS PERKINS, M.A.
Late Rector of Turnworth, Dorset
Author of
“Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory”
“Bath and Malmesbury Abbeys” “Romsey Abbey” &c.
AND
HERBERT PENTIN, M.A.
Vicar of Milton Abbey, Dorset
Vice-President, Hon. Secretary, and Editor
of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club
With many Illustrations
LONDON
BEMROSE & SONS LIMITED, 4 SNOW HILL, E.C.
AND DERBY
1907
[All Rights Reserved]
TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD EUSTACE CECIL, F.R.G.S.
PAST PRESIDENT OF THE DORSET NATURAL
HISTORY AND ANTIQUARIAN FIELD CLUB
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
BY HIS LORDSHIP’S
KIND
PERMISSION
PREFACE
he editing of this Dorset volume was originallyundertaken by the Rev. Thomas Perkins, thescholarly Rector of Turnworth. But he, havingformulated its plan and written four papers therefor,besides gathering material for most of the other chapters,was laid aside by a very painful illness, which culminatedin his unexpected death. This is a great loss to his manyfriends, to the present volume, and to the county ofDorset as a whole; for Mr. Perkins knew the county asfew men know it, his literary ability was of no