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Another little Chapel with piscina and sedilia is in the S.-E. 
buttress. The I. window of the Church, which is of many 
lights has been filled with coloured glass by many donors. 
Not far from the N.-W. of this Church, is another, Holy 
Trinity, now a Sunday School, which at the outbreak of the Civil 
Wars had a Rector, Rev. W. Wake, a great sufferer for his 
loyalty. He was imprisoned 19 times, and at the Restoration of 
Charles II. only lived one year to enjoy the restoration of his 
livings of Trinity and S. Michael. He died in 1661, and was 
buried in the former Church without monument. His son 
William bought the Manor of Shapwick Champayne, in Dorset, 
and was also prisoner for his loyalty 18 times and twice 
condemned to be hanged. He was the father of W. Wake, 
Archbishop of Canterbury, 1716-37. It is said there were 
originally 17 Churches in Wareham, Murray with more 
probability says eight. The Townhall and Gaol was S. Peter’s, 
but the great fire of July 25th, 1762, nearly consumed the whole 
town, so that only three now remain, and one only is used for 
Divine Service. 
The Town of Wareham is an ancient Borough by prescription, 
and returned two Members of Parliament from 13th Edward I. 
to the Reform Bill of 1832. The Mayor is ex-officio Coroner 
of the Town and the Isles of Purbeck and Brownsea. The 
peculiar custom of the Manor was that both males and females 
had a right to partition of lands. All the old Charters are lost, 
but the last Charter of Queen Anne, 1703, is still extant, by 
which the town is incorporated by the style of the Mayor, 
the Capital, and assistant Burgesses, and among other privileges, 
is empowered to have a Gaol and two fairs and a “ Court of Pie- 
powder.” <A curious old house stands in the Market Place, so 
says Britton in “The Beauties of England and Wales,” 1803, 
called ‘‘ Homo cum cane, the owner of which is always tything- 
man and obliged to attend at the Wool-Court twice a year with 
a one-eyed bitch.” The Members of the Field Club forgot during 
