A DORSET ROYAL PECULIAR. Ill 



By " Bishop Bankes " he meant of course the Official of the 

 Peculiar of Wimborne Minster, Mr. Henry Bankes, who held 

 that office from 1806 to 1835. 



The members of one family held the office for so long a 

 period consecutively, upwards of sixty years, that the title 

 of " Lay Bishop of Wimborne Minster " came to be looked 

 upon as an hereditary one, and it is still assumed to belong 

 to later representatives of the family, even though they have 

 never held the office of Official. 



The following books, &c., may be consulted with advantage 

 by those who are interested in the subject : 



Blue Books. 



Returns Probates of Wills, 1829. 



Returns respecting Jurisdiction and Emoluments of 

 Ecclesiastical Courts, 1830. 



Reports, Ecclesiastical Courts of England and Wales, 1832. 



Dr. Stubbs' Historical Appendix I. to Report of Commission 



on Ecclesiastical Courts, 1883, I., pp. 21, &c. 

 Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 2nd Ser., Vol. V. 



(1872), pp. 238-250. Paper by Dr. C. S. Percival. 

 Consistory Courts and Consistory Places by Chancellor R. S. 



Fergusson, in The Archaeological Journal (1899), Vol. LVL, 



pp. 85-122. 

 Hutchins' Dorset, Vol. III., pp. 265-267, &c. Various Seals 



used by the Deans, Officials of the Peculiar, &c., &c., are 



figured in Hutchins', Vol. III. (opposite p. 224). 

 A Paper on the Seals of the Peculiars of Dorset by J. E. 



Nightingale is given in the Proceedings of the Society of 



Antiquaries (1890), Vol. XIII. pp. 165-8. 



