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By Mr. WELD BLUNDBLL. 



JTJHE oldest records of the ownership of extensive property 

 in the neighbourhood of Lulworth, Winfritli, and 



Coombe give the name of the ancient family of 

 Newburgh, who were created Earls of Warwick 

 by William the Conqueror. They received their 

 name of Newburgh from a Castle in Normandy. 

 A descendant, Roger de Newburgh, founded in 

 Henry II. 'a time (1172) Bindon Abbey. 



In the reign of Henry VII. Sir Roger Newburgh seems to have 

 held very extensive properties in various parts of South Dorset. 



His two daughters, co-heiresses, married Thomas Poynings, after- 

 wards Lords Poynings and Thomas Howard, afterwards Lord 

 Howard of Bindon. The properties were re-united in the person of 

 a descendant of the latter (the Earl of Suffolk), and the bulk of 

 it was purchased in 1641 by Humphrey Weld, of Hoi worth, Co. 

 Hertford, whose brother, Sir John Weld, of Arnold's Court and 

 Compton Bassett, is the direct ancestor of the present owners. 

 There seems to be some uncertainty as to the exact situation of the 

 seat or castle of the family of Newburgh, but Leland, who describes 

 it as a "goodly place," stated that it was situated near the church. 

 Hutchins' Dorset also says that Tyrrel speaks, in his history of 

 England, of the taking of Lullwarde by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, 



