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A PAPER READ ON THE LAWN AT MINTERNE 

 28TH JUNE, 1888, 



By Rev. H. E. RAVENHILL, R.D., Vicar of 

 Buckland Newton cum Plush. 



INTERNE was anciently in the parish of Cerne 

 Abhas. In Domesday Book it seems to have 

 been surveyed under the general name of Cernel. 

 The Manor very anciently belonged to the 

 Monastery of Cerne. Minterne Parva, in the 

 Parish of Buckland Newton, adjoining, belonged 

 to the Abbey of Glastonbury. 



The boundary stone is in the ornamental water in Lord Digby's 

 park. Whether the Abbots of Cerne and Glastonbury ever met 

 in this beautiful dale, whether they fought over their respective 

 rights, whether they feasted together, or hunted together, our great 

 Dorset historian does not record, though he tells us the Abbot of 

 Glastonbury had a park, and, we suppose, with it a hunting seat, 

 on what is now the Castle Hill Estate. 



The Manor of Minterne Magna belonged to Cerne Abbey till 

 the dissolution of Monasteries, when it passed to the Crown. 



