A HISTORY OF DORSET 



twenty-one years; Edward VI, in the first year 

 of his reign, bestowed the reversion of the 

 property on the duke of Somerset and his 

 heirs. By the attainder of the duke the estate 

 reverted again to the crown, by whom it was 

 granted to John Hannam of Wimborne Min- 

 ster, in whose family it remained till the reign 

 of William and Mary, when it came into the 

 Bond family." 



Priors of Holme ■* 



Hada, occurs 121 7-1 8'' 



Geoffrey, occurs 1262'" 



Walter de Welham, occurs 1330" 



Gerard de Noiale, occurs 1344^" 



William Pope, occurs 1444" 



John Wales, or Wallis, occurs 1535 and 



1539"* 



HOUSE OF CISTERCIAN MONKS 



9. THE ABBEY OF BINDON » 



A Cistercian abbey was built here in 11 72" 

 by Roger de Newburgh and Maud his wife, who 

 transferred to Great Bindon the earlier monas- 

 tery which William de Glastonia and Maud his 

 wife iiad begun to build at a spot now identified 

 with Little Bindon. King John, by his charter, 

 confirmed to the monks the site of the abbey, 

 2 acres of land the gift of William de Glastonia, 

 2 virgates in Lulworth, the manor of 'Borton,' 

 the land of Nottington, the land of Wood Street 

 with the meadows adjoining, and half a hide of 

 land with pasture for 300 sheep in the manor of 

 Chaldon (Herring) the gift of Thomas Harang.' 

 The founder himself bestowed on the abbey his 

 manor of Woolaston (Northants) with all its 

 appurtenances, to be held by the monks in free 

 alms quit of all secular suits and exaction.* 



A charter of Henry III, dated 4 April, 1234, 

 confirmed to the church of St. Mary of Bindon ' 

 and the monks serving God there the site of 

 their abbey, the gift of Roger de Newburgh and 

 Maud his wife, together with the place in which 

 the first monastery had been commenced, the gift 

 of William de Glastonia, the manor of Bexington, 

 given by Maud de Arundel by leave of King 

 Henry,* the land of Nottington and Luca, pur- 

 cliased by Gilbert de Percy from the monksof Ford 

 and bestowed on Bindon, the land of Hethfelton 

 according to the agreement between the monks 

 and Simon de Eneford, the land of Wood Street 

 which the abbey and convent held of William de 



" Hutchins, Hht. of Dorset, i, 552. 



" Hutchins, in his account of the priory, gives the 

 names of three ; Hist, of Dorset, i, 553. 



" Hada, prior of Holme, is mentioned in a fine 

 respecting the church of Warmwell, 2 Henry III. Ibid, 

 i, 434, note. 



■"' Duckett, Chart, and Rec. ofCltiny, ii, 123. 



" Pat. 22 Edw. Ill, pt. 2, m. 40. 



" Close, 18 Edw. Ill, pt. I, m. 13. 



" Hutchins, Hist, of Dorset, i, 553. 



" ralor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), i, 196 ; L. and P. 

 Hen. Vlll, xiv (l), 575. 



' A ground plan of the abbey, which was visited 

 by the British Archaeological Associ.ition, 26 August, 

 1 8" I, may be seen in their Journ. xxviii, 392. 



■ Cott. MS. ' Chron. S. Werburgae Cest.' Faust. 

 B. viii, 4 ; Hutchins, Dorset, i, 349. 



Wodestert as his charter testifies, and half a hide 

 of land with pasturage for 300 sheep as confirmed 

 by the charter of Thomas Harang.' By another 

 charter in June of the same year, the king 

 further confirmed to the abbey the wood of 

 Stotwode, part of Hamsted wood with common 

 pasture, the whole land of Pulham, 150 acres of 

 waste, the mill of Lulworth with the land per- 

 taining to it and the moltura of the men of 

 Lulworth given by Robert de Newburgh, with 

 certain houses in Dorchester and all the arable 

 land which the monks held under the walls of 

 Dorchester, the gift of William Lock of Dor- 

 chester.* 



A charter of Edward II inspecting all previous 

 grants confirmed to the abbot and convent lands 

 and rents in Lulworth, Bexington, Nottington, 

 Hethfelton, Chaldon, Winfrith Newburgh, 

 mills at Fordington, Cranborne, and outside 

 Dorchester, the churches of Chaldon Herring 

 and Fossil, and the right to hold a market and 

 fair at Wool, with the right of free warren in all 

 their demesne lands at Stockford, Wood Street, 

 Wool, Bovington, Lulworth, Bindon, and 

 Hethfelton.' 



In the Taxatio of 1291 the spiritualities of the 

 abbey are not given ; the temporalities amount to 

 ^^107 6;., of which j^9i 45. was reckoned from 

 possessions in the deanery of Dorchester,"* 

 £12 2s. from the manor of Bexington in the 

 Bridport deanery,*' and £4. from Pulham and 

 Winterborne Monkton in the deanery of Whit- 

 church.*^ 



' H.irl. MS. 6748, fol. 7. * Ibid. 



' Bindon, like all Cistercian houses, was dedicited 

 to the honour of the B. V. Marj*. Dugdale cites a 

 charter of the reign of Henry III wherein it is styled 

 St. Salvator of Bindon, Alon. v, 556. 



° Coker, citing ' an olde manuscript,' states ' that 

 Maud,' countess of Sarum, afterwards the wife of 

 William de Newburgh, ' was so great a benefictour 

 to this abbie that she was reckoned a foundress.' 

 Paitie. Surv. of Dorset, 76 ; Leland, Coll. i, 82. 



' By inspex. of Edward I. Chart. R. 9 Edw. I, 

 No. 90, m. 13 ; see Cart. Antiq. Q. 18. 



« Ch,irt. R. 9 Edw. I, m. 13. 



' Ibid. 6 Edw. II, No3. 12-15. 



"• Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 183^, 184. 



" Ibid. 183. 



"Ibid. 184. 



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