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for diverse good causes and in consideration. . . . and especially for per- 

 formance of the trusts imposed upon them have demised graunted, assigned and 

 sett over. . . All that the Castle Manors Lordships, Lands, Tenements and 

 hereditaments. . . advowsons patronage ffranchises, liberties, royalties, 

 situate within the Hundreds of Sherborne and Yetminster in the County of 

 Dorset. To have and to hold all and singular the Premises with their 

 appurtenances unto the sd Sir Walter Ralegh his executors and assigns for all the 

 tyme and tearme yett to come and unexpired which sometyme was graunted by 

 John Couldwell late Byshoppe of Salisbury unto the Queen's most excellent 

 majestie." The Deed is signed, "George Carew, and Thomas Herriote" and 

 sealed with their respective seals. This Deed is interesting as it states in 

 Encyclopaedia Britanuica, infra "Raleigh," as follows: "In 1591 Raleigh 

 obtained through the Queen's intervention, a lease for 99 years of the Manor of 

 Sherborne from the Bishop of Salisbury. In 1593 the See was vacant. Aspirants 

 to the Mitre were informed that only by converting the Lease into a perpetual 

 Estate in Raleigh's favour could the object of their wishes be obtained. On 

 these terms Dr. Cotton became Bishop of Salisbury, and Raleigh possessor of 

 Sherborne in full ownership." 



(c) A Deed dated the 14th June in the 12th year of James I. signed and 

 sealed, "W. Ralegh." This deed is an extremely interesting one as, when Sir 

 Walter was attainted, he made over all his Estates to his son in the hope of 

 saving them, but the King compelled him before his execution to sign this deed 

 nullifying the one in favour of his son. It was when Lady Raleigh was plead- 

 ing with the King not to insist on this, that he replied, " I maun ha' it for Carr." 

 The Deed was probably passed on with the re -grant of the Estates as a pro- 

 tection against any claim by the descendants of Raleigh under the original Deed. 

 The Deed is extremely pathetic. He describes himself as " late of Sherborne, 

 and then Knight," and recites that whereas by a Deed made in the 45th year of 

 Elizabeth, he limited the Estate and Manors of Sherborne, Newland, Castle- 

 towne, Wootton, Whitfi?ld, Yetminster, and Caundle Bishop, and a moiety of the 

 Manor of Pinford, and of Prymsley, also Primsley, and proceeds, " Knowe yee 

 that the said Walter Raleigh doe att this time intend and am fully minded and 

 willingly to revoke, adnull, frustrate and make voide all and every those 

 use and uses estate and estates in and by the said indenture limited or appointed 

 of and in the said Castle Manors lands tenements and hereditaments and every 

 or any of them and of and in every or any part or parts of them or any of them 

 which lye or consist in my power to revoke, adnull, &c., &c. 



4. Recently in quarrying stone in a field above the Almshouse Copse, which 

 lies under Honeycombe Wood on the north side of the road between Thornford 

 and Sherborne, the workmen came across some human remains obviously of 

 considerable antiquity. The first skeleton was the most perfect. It was at a 

 depth of about three feet, lying east and west, and had slabs of the local rock 

 lying over it. The other remains were in a rough trench running north and 

 south at right angles to the first body. These remains were very much decayed, 



