68 THOMAS GEEARD OF TRENT. 



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Under Compton Pauncefoot the author writes : " Compton 

 passed unto Humphrey Keynes heire male of that ancient 

 and notable family of Keynes which I have spoken of at 

 large in my Survey of Dorset." (P. 188.) In the account of 

 Stogursey : " It became the possession of Robert de Fitzpaine, 

 a noble Baron of whom I have spoken elsewhere." The 

 marginal note is : " See at Aukland in Dorsetshire." Also 

 under Luxborough (p. 17) : The family of Everard " by the 

 heire of Bellott Lord of Frome Bellott in Dorset they removed 

 thither, where if it you please you may finde more of them." 

 Under : " South Parrett, North Parrett. The first of these 

 is in Dorsetshire, but, because as I remember I have over- 

 passed it there I will only lett you know that it belonged to 

 the knightly family of Malbancke." (P. 64.) 



It is plain that the author of the Somerset Survey had 

 already composed a similar Survey of Dorset, to which he was 

 able to refer his readers, as if they would be found close 

 together. It is quite probable that the two works were 

 originally intended to form part of the series of county 

 histories projected by John Norden in the reign of James I.* 



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It is only natural that these references to family history 

 should also be found in Coker's Survey ; but an examination 

 of the two books brings out such a close correspondence as 

 would be possible only in the case of the work of a single mind. 

 Coker's Survey was printed in 1732 from a manuscript which 

 had no title page, and this defect was common to the other 

 copies then in existence. For a full account of the parallelisms 

 between these two anonymous works I must refer to Mr. 

 Batten's article, which can only be summarized here. They 



* Diet. Nat. Biog., XLL, 105. Som. Rec. Soc., XV., intro. 



