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stores, or whatever buildings may have been there situate ; there 

 was, moreover, a small lake, or inlet, there. On examining some 

 of the old maps I find the lower part of Fish Street called Pluddie 

 Lane. This name is now unknown in the neighbourhood, or 

 amongst the oldest inhabitants, but it is to be found in Hutchins' 

 map (1774), also in Sir Peter Thompson's map (1741). As this 

 seems to be the only attack on the town from the sea, and there is 

 in this name of the street the legend of great slaughter, I think it 

 fair to infer that a storehouse, one of those used by Edward III., 

 1327-1377, or by Henry IV., in 1399, during their wars against 

 France, stood somewhere by the end of Fish Street, and was that 

 attacked and burnt by Pero Nino : the inhabitants of Poole of that 

 day commemorating the slaughter by calling the street Pluddie, or 

 Bloody Lane. 



I now ask your attention to the history of the Manor of Canf ord, 

 or Cheneford, of which the town of Poole formed a part, and from 

 which we can gain some assistance towards solving the mystery of 

 the Town Cellars and its various uses. In Domesday Book is 

 stated " Edward de Sarisberie holds Canf ord of the King. Ulwen 

 held it temp. Edward Confessor." Edward of Sarisberie was a 

 Norman knight, whose name was Edward de Bureaux, second son 

 of Walter le Eurus, or de Evreux, or L'heureux, Earl of Rosmar. 

 Of Ulwen I can give you no information. In 1142 Walter, son of 

 Edward de Sarisberie, founded the Priory of Bradenstoke (co. 

 Wilts) of the order of Augustine, or black canons. He took the 

 habit of a canon and was buried in the Priory. His great grand- 

 daughter, Ela, in 1198, at ten years of age (two years after her 

 father's, Wm. de Sarisberie's, death), was, under romantic circum- 

 stances, affianced to and placed in the power of her sovereign lord, 

 William Longespee (a natural son of Henry II. by fair Rosamund 

 Clifford, and half brother to Richard I.) At her father's death she 

 was only eight years of age, an orphan possessed of immense 

 property ; her relations carried her off from Canf ord into Normandy, 

 and there brought her up in close and secret custody. Sir William 

 Talbot, hearing of her beauty and wealth, in the garb of a pilgrim 



