A HISTORY OF DORSET 



in the neighbourhood of Weymouth.' She landed at Weymouth in 1471, 

 and was joined there by Somerset. It is said that many Dorset men took 

 part in the succeeding campaign of Tewkesbury. - 



The title of marquis of Dorset was granted by Edward IV to Thomas 

 Grey of Ruthyn (son of his queen, Elizabeth Wydville) in 1475, and he 

 intrigued for the absent Henry Tudor.' On his accession Henry granted 

 Corfe Castle and manor to his mother ; on her death Henry VIII granted 

 them, together with the Isle of Purbeck, to the Duke of Richmond and 

 Somerset. On his death they once more reverted to the crown,* and later 

 were again granted to the Duke of Somerset, this time to the Protector. On 

 his attainder they again reverted to the crown, Elizabeth finally granting 

 them to Sir Christopher Hatton.' 



Dorset was associated with the rebellion of Perkin Warbeck in two 

 different manners, answering to the two phases of that rebellion. The under- 

 lying motive of the first stage of the rising was protest against extortionate 

 taxation. This ended, in June (1497), with the defeat of the Cornishmen at 

 Blackheath. A purely personal sentiment for Warbeck began in the west 

 country with his landing in Cornwall that September. It crumbled 

 away on his flight. 



The first rising found sympathizers all over the shire. The fines after- 

 wards levied extend pretty generally throughout it. But the names of the 

 more important families are absent from the Exchequer Roll of Accounts for 

 the twelfth year of the reign (ending 21 August, 1497, ^•^- before the 

 second rising began), which gives the list of fines levied. The Horseys, 

 Strangways, Binghams, Trenchards, Martins of Athelhampton, Delalyndes, 

 Mortons, and Rogers of Bryanston apparently held aloof.* The boroughs of 

 Dorchester and Bridport, and seven hundreds are implicated. The famous 

 merchant, John Williams of Dorchester, was among the fined. A Turberville 

 was fined in the hundred of Bere Regis. The monasteries sided generally 

 with the commonalty in their disloyalty. The inhabitants of Abbot's Fee 

 in Sherborne were fined nearly ;!^40, the abbot of Bindon ^^20, and the 

 tithings of Cerne Abbas and Milton Abbas respectively £1^ and >Ci°- John 

 Okey, 'chaplain' of Buckland Newton, paid £10, and John Mabbe, vicar of 

 Netherbury, £1. The king treated the rebels with great leniency,' pro- 

 claiming a general pardon in the western counties on their submission to 

 his mercy.* But the collection of the fine was accompanied by much 

 unfairness, extortion, and embezzlement ; Harry Uvedale, bailiff of Pur- 

 beck, was the chief offender, while the complaints were voiced by one 

 of the Claviles, and brought before Sir John Turberville (whose name 

 occurs in Warbeck's Northumberland Proclamation), one of the king's 

 council. The Dorset commissioners were Sir Amyas Paulet and Robert 

 Sherborne.* 



' IVey mouth Chart, i, lo. 'Bankes, Corfe Castle, 29. 



' Memorials of Hen. I'll (Rolls Ser. lo), xxxix, 24. 



* Cal L. and P. Hen. Fill, i, 334, 563. ' Pat. 14 Eliz. pt. xii. 



^MS. Reg. 14 B. vii, B.M. is a list of the fines exacted. L. and P. Ric. Ill and Hen. VII (Rolls Ser.), 

 App. B. vol. ii. 



' Cal. Venet. State Papers, i 202-1 509, p. 260. 



* Cal. of Pat. R. 24-25 July, 1497, m. 4 ; Pat. 13 Hen. VII, m. 6 d. 



^Letters of Ric. Ill and Hen. VII (Rolls. Ser.), ii, 75-6. See also Notes and Queries for Som and 

 Dors. VII, Win, 102. 



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