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By THOMAS BOND, Esq. 



REVIOUS to the publication of the Third Edition 

 of " Hutchins's History of Dorset" nothing what- 

 ever was known of the early history of East 

 Holme,* or when or by whom the Priory there was 

 founded. Hutchins says " When or by whom 

 the Priory was founded is uncertain," and both 

 Dugdale and Tanner are equally silent. In editing the account of 

 the Isle of Purbeck in the last, edition of Hutchins, I suggested 

 that the founder of the Priory was in all probability one of the 

 family of De Lincoln, because I found in an extent of the Manor 

 of Holme in the 9th of Ed. I. that the Prior of Montacute held 

 the Church and Manor of Holn subject to the charge of maintaining 

 four monks at that place to chant for the souls of Alured de Lincoln 

 and his progenitors. 



It has lately come to my knowledge that Trinity College, Oxford, 

 is in possession of a cartulary of the Priory of Montacute contain- 

 ing charters relating to Holme. They are of the greatest interest, 

 as they give a clear account both of the early history of the Manor 

 and also of the foundation of the Priory. I have, therefore, 

 obtained transcripts of them, and they are given in extenso below. 



* This is a modem name. 

 Holne or Holn. 



Anciently the name was invariably written 



