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WHEN AND BY WHOM PLANTED 



By ALFRED POPE, F.S.A. 



(Read December 12th, 1916.) 



jORCHESTER, the Durnovaria of the Romans, was 

 during the 16th and 17th centuries surrounded 

 on the South, East and West sides, and partly 

 on the North side, by the remains of her old 

 Roman wall, flanked by deep ditches and valla 

 after the manner of many Romano -British 

 towns. The walls at that time formed part 

 of the borough of Dorchester, and were 

 claimed by the Mayor and Corporation for her 

 inhabitants. The ditches, being outside the borough, 

 formed part of the Manor of Fordington, and were claimed 

 by the Duchy of Cornwall as part of the possessions of H.R.H. 

 the Prince of Wales, Lord of the Manor of Fordington. Many 

 conflicts arose as to the respective rights of the townspeople 

 of Dorchester and the tenants of the Manor over the " ditches " 



