Dorset (SBcmtries. 



By E. A. FRY. 



Read February 20th, 1908. 



PREFACE. 



N former Volumes of the Proceedings, viz., Vol. 

 XXVII., p. 214-233, and Vol. XXVIII., p. 12-29, 

 I gave a verbatim transcript of the Chantry Roll 

 for the County, and though the information 

 there given is very interesting, stating as it does 

 what were the incomes of the Chantries, the 

 value and amount ot the Plate and Vestments 

 and the names of incumbents or priests and the 

 pensions allowed them at the Dissolution, yet there is no mention 

 made of the founders or whence the incomes were derived or 

 to whom the Chantry lands were sold. 



I must first mention that none of the Chantries, obits, &c., 

 included in the Chantry Roll belonged to the larger or lesser 

 Abbeys or Monasteries in the county ; those were, no doubt, sold 

 and disposed of to the purchasers of the Abbeys or Monasteries 

 in Henry VIII. 's time. These now under consideration were the 

 smallest of the ecclesiastical establishments supporting only one, 

 or at most two or three chaplains, and were founded (where any 

 foundations are on record) by individuals for the repose of their 

 souls or other pious uses. They were for the most part Chantries in 



