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is a double nomenclature, as there was in regard to lanes. In (f. 

 cxiv.) 16 Hen. VIII., 1524, we find a burgage and shop between 

 " hospicium vocatum le New Inne " on the east and Holy Trinity 

 Church on the west. That is it was the George, on the spot where 

 we are assembled.* But the other New Inn is mentioned more 

 1 than once in English and Latin e.g., " novum hospitiuni " in 

 1 Hen. IV., 1399 (f. xvii). The Market Place was in its present 

 locality. In 1 Hen. IV., 1399 (f. xviii.) we find named a street 

 leading " a foro mercati versus fratres minores." The " ffyshe 

 shammelles" were in High Street (f. cxvii) 18 Hen. VII., 1502. 

 I do not know of any exact account of the date of the disappear- 

 ance of Dorchester Castle. It may, then, be of interest to observe 

 that it seems to have existed down to 2 Hen. IV., 1400, and to 

 have belonged to the Friary. Then (ff. xxii. and xxxiii.) and in 

 7 Hen. IV., 1 405 " castrmn fratrum minorum " is mentioned. In 

 South Street there was " Capella Sancti Kowaldi" (f. xxxi., 

 6 Hen. IV., 1404). Names of a few more " placese," burgages, &c., 

 may be mentioned shortly =as " Ponnt," " le Stenenhous," 

 " Crabellyfbern," " Le Pentys," " Gurnard," " Gaol," which was 

 at least the third tenement or building from the foot of High 

 Street. Before passing from this class of notes I may add a short 

 one about the word " solar." Chaucer hath it that at Cambridge 

 there was in his day " a grete college cleped Solar Hall." His 

 meaning could hardly be that of the clerk who (f. xcii.) in 10 Hen. 

 VI., 1436, writes about " stabula . . , . cum solario super 

 edificato pro equis suis et fenis . . . ." 



I must now hasten to mention the disappointingly meagre 

 information which I have gleaned from Domesday about the gates 

 and walls of Dorchester. In Hutchins, 3rd ed., ii., 343, we find 

 that in 1642 "H. Bushrode is appointed to kepe the keys, and to 

 see the two east gates and that on Gallows Hill shut at night. . 



They are to open all the gates at break of day, 



and to shut all the back gates at candle lighting, and the east, west, 



* This paper was read in the Dorset County Museum, which is built 

 on the site of the George. 



