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was abandoned, and fell into ruin, which ruin was probably assisted 

 by the Lollard Earl of Salisbury, between 1398 and 1400. In 

 1405 Poole was attacked from the harbour side by Pero Mno's 

 expedition, but the landing was made at the end of Fish Street, 

 and a storehouse there was burnt, the street being afterwards 

 called Bloody Lane, and at this time the Town Cellar was not 

 attacked or set on fire, as is evidenced by the Early English roof 

 still standing ; but it is quite possible, as Edward III. made Poole 

 a magazine for war stores in 1365, and at some time in the reigns 

 Henry IV., V., or VI., that is between 1399 and 1461 (the period 

 of Perpendicular architecture being from 1377 to 1461), that this 

 Church of St. Clement's was converted into a storehouse, and 

 repaired in Perpendicular style for that purpose, or possibly when 

 Poole was made a Port of the Staple, 1433, into a woolhouse, 

 though of this I have no corroborative evidence to offer. Between 

 1483 and 1485 Richard III. caused to be built a water gate at the 

 end of Paradise Row, and spanning it ; with probably a short wall 

 to the edge of the Quay adjoining it, the wall of the Church of St. 

 Clement's being cut down for the introduction of the large corbel 

 still there, and which has supported a greater weight than the 

 internal corbelling could resist, the wall being driven in, and the 

 large corbel pressed downwards, so that the wall of the building is 

 no longer perpendicular, or the upper surface of the corbel at right 

 angles to it, or horizontal. With regard to the title given to The 

 Town Cellar of King's Hall, there is a legend (which I have not 

 yet been able to corroborate), that Henry VI. visited Poole and 

 stayed in it. It may have been so called, either from its reversion 

 to the Crown, and Henry's claiming it by right of inheritance from 

 Thomas of Lancaster, or from the Montacute Kings of Man, but 

 probably from its reversion to the Crown, which happened constantly 

 until 1553. 



This paper was written for and intended to be read at the 

 meeting of the D.N.H. and A. Field Club at Poole, on September 

 13th, 1887, but from want of time on that day was deferred until 



