MANOR AND PRIORY COURTS OF CRANBORNE. 59 



Norman's, New Litton, OllifF s, Pole's, Purbeck, Parker's, Prat's land, 

 Pye Hay, Pie's tenement, Rebells, Rushmore, Standridge hill, Skinner's 

 field, Sell croft, Symonds, Smith's bush, Tan house, Toffets, Tannerspit, 

 Veil acre, Veil acre wood, Walden Hill, White Hill, Wimborne Lane. 



INHABITANTS. v 



Alner, Alex, and Wm. ; Acland, Tobias ; Bramble, Roger ; Barber, 

 Northover ; Bartlett, Thos. ; Browning, Robt. ; Bridport, Rich. ; 

 Baverstock, John ; Chubb, Andrew ; Chubb, Edm. and Lawrence ; 

 *Castle, Chas. ; Cull, Rich. ; Eborn, Sam. ; Floyd, John ; Hazlen, 

 Martin ; Haskell, Jos. ; Luxall, Valentine ; fMolineux, Lucia ; 

 Melledge, Euphrania ; Mew, Roger ; Melmouth, Thos. ; Needle, 

 Henry ; Osboldston, Geo. ; Rook, Rich. ; Shirley, Andrew ; Still, John ; 

 Stillingfleet, Jane ; Stillingfleet, James and Thos. ; Sweetapple, Thos. 

 and Solomon ; Udale, Thos. ; Warne, Jos. ; JWhitear, Francis. 



One 'of the most notable names in the lists of jurors and 

 officers is that of Robert Browning, who appears at the out- 

 hundreS courts from time to time in connection with the 

 little Village of Pentridge. He is presumably identical with 

 the resident of that parish who died on 25 Nov., 1746, and is 

 commemorated upon a tablet in the church as the earliest 

 known forefather of Robert Browning the poet (see S. and D. 

 N. and Q., VIII., pp. 76, 114, and 173). So little is known to 

 biographers concerning the paternal ancestry of the poet that 

 even the few and unimportant references to the R. Browning, 

 of Woodyates, who attended the Cranborne courts, may be 

 worthy of reproduction here. 



1725 22 Oct. Robert Browning is on the roll of inhabitants furnished 

 by the tithingman of Pentridge. 



1729 23 Apr. He was one of the jury of the out-hundred court, on 

 which occasion we learn that Quia Robtus Browning 

 Jokes Lovell Hencus Redman et Thomas Sanders 

 recesser a sociis suis pc ideo quiliM eor finit p. cur ad 

 XI 1 1*- IV d - 



* Son of the issuer of a XVII. Cent, token. 

 f The name also appears in 1558. 



1547. 



