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CHAPELRY OF ARNE. » 



This Manor and little Vill, consisting of about fourteen houses, 

 lies four measured miles east of Wareham, and is a Tything of 

 itself, in the hundred of Hasilor. Its soil is sand and Heath. 

 That part which lies near the river, is marshy. The Vill is a 

 mile distant from Poole bay, almost opposite to Poole. AmCj * 

 or Cold Potntj is a bank of gravel, or small pebbles, and ex- 

 tends north-west into the bay towards Poole ; Russel Point also 

 shoots out to the north-west; Ame Bay is included between 

 Ame and Shipstal Points. 



It does not occur in Domesday-book, being probably included 

 in the Survey of Wareham. It belonged to the monastery of 

 Shaftesbury before the time of Richard the Second ; when or by 

 whom it was given does not appear. In the rental of Shaftesbury 

 register, Ame is said to be two hides divided into fifteen parts ; 

 there were twenty-four tenants, all of which had plumbi; plum- 

 bum signifies a ticket, properly called 7nizallus, and by reason of 

 the matter of which it consisted, plwnhum; the tenants, pro- 

 ducing their tickets, were admitted upon one or more public 

 days to a dinner in the abbey. 



This Manor and Slepe were granted, 1. and 2. Philip and 

 Mary, to Edward Neville, Esq. 20 Oct. 7. Eliz: he had licence 

 to alienate it to Nicholas Cadbury and his heirs, valued at 6/. 

 145. 4d 13 Eliz. it was held by Eleanor Bruggs, late wife of 

 William Cadbury; 20 Eliz. Nicholas Cadbury, at his death, 

 6 November, was seized of it and twenty messuages, &c., and 

 a messuage aad sixty acres of land in Worgret and Westport. 

 He left three daughters his co-heirs, viz. Joan, Agnes, and 



» This account is partly extracted from Hutchins' Hiat of Dorset 

 * The name Ame is derived firom am^ the Celtic word for water. 



