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end of the north side of the Town Cellar. The stocks were 

 kept in it, but when they were used they were taken out and 

 stood up against the north wall of the Town Cellar, and there is 

 in the nearest buttress to the Salisbury a square hole, which 

 apparently supported the beam used as seat. 



I will now describe the Ship Inn, so far as I am able, for, though 

 I recollect it as an inn, yet I remember but few of its peculiarities. 

 It was a house with very low dark rooms ; I think with ceilings 

 panelled with beaded wood, but the upper rooms were so divided 

 by partitions that none of its original characters appeared until 

 Messrs. Oakley caused it to be pulled down, which was done by 

 Mr. Morris ; and to Messrs. Oakley and Mr. Morris I am indebted 

 for my information with regard to the Ship, as also for those 

 particular features which stamp this building and the cellars with 

 their ecclesiastical character. A.D. 1692 in a transfer from William 

 Cleeves this building is spoken of as " the Paradice Cellar, situate 

 on the chief key of Poole, bounded on the north and south by two 

 of its streets, viz., Salisbury-street and Paradice-street, and on the 

 west by the Town Cellar." A.D. 1787 there is a transfer of 

 the White Hart Inn, formerly Paradice Cellar. A.D. 1820 a 

 transfer of the Coal Exchange public house, late White Hart, 

 formerly Paradice Cellar. It afterwards became the Ship Inn. In 

 all these transfers Paradice Cellar is referred to as next the Town 

 Cellar, and probably both buildings were converted into stores or 

 cellars at the same time, and most likely were previously devoted 

 to one and the same purpose, which I hold to have been a monastic 

 use. I wish here to draw your attention to the spelling of Paradice 

 in these transfers ; it has suggested to me that the origin of the 

 name of Paradise-street, or rather Paradise-row, as it was called 

 when I first knew it, might be "route par Adieux," Farewell- 

 street, as leading to the Quay. Par Adieux is used in Chaucer. 

 When the Ship Inn came to be pulled down in 1871 there was 

 found to be a large room upstairs extending the whole width of 

 the building, from Salisbury-street to Paradise-row, and which was 

 termed the banquetting-room, why I know not, but for convenience 



