A DORSET ROYAL PECULIAR. 95 



3. Canford Magna and Poole. This was apparently an 

 exempt jurisdiction belonging to the Priory of Augus- 

 tinian Canons at Bradenstoke, Wilts. The Priory 

 was founded by John of Salisbury in 1139, and the 

 churches of Canford and of St. James', Poole, were 

 given by the founder to that Priory. Canford having 

 passed into the hands of the Crown this jurisdiction 

 was called Royal, although in the first instance it was 

 Monastic. 



4. Sturminster Marshal was a possession of the alien 

 Priory of Pont Audemar in Normandy. When, in the 

 second year of King Henry V., the lands of the alien 

 monasteries were given to the Crown, it would become 

 a Royal Peculiar. 



5. Gillingham. 



One of the Tanner MSS.* gives a list of no less than 52 

 churches in the county of Dorset, which for some reason or 

 other were Peculiars, and consequently exempted from 

 Episcopal control : 



(This number includes, of course, the 37 churches belonging 

 to the Dean of Salisbury alluded to above.) 



A note of the Peculiars in Dorset who p';end to (and at p'sent) be 

 clearly exempt from Episcopal Jurisdiction or Discipline. 



Being the fourth part of the best part of the County and the com'on 

 seats for Schismaticks : 



Lyme Regis Pool 



Maperton Canford 



Netherbury Stowpaine 



Beaminster Beer Hackett 



Mongerton Long Burton 



Wambrook Hollnest 



Halstocke Caundle Marsh 



Kimridge Clifton Maybauke 



Corfe Castle Folke 



Charmister Gillingham 



Fordington Moxcomb 



* Bodleian Lib., Tanner MSS. 129, No. 18. 



