Notes & queries for Somerset and Dorset Volume 10 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...his demesne as of fee of the manor of Gyssich St. Michael in co. Dorset, which he held of Humphrey de Bon, Earl of Hereford, by the service of 1 pair of white gloves, to be paid in the feast of St. Michael for all service by socage and the said manor is worth per ann., clear £30 16s. 4d. He held nothing of the King in chief in the said county. Henry de Bon eldest son of the said John is his next heir and is aged 15 years. Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. 1. n. 7. 129. St. Augustine Of Canterbury And The Dorset Fishermen.--Count de Montalembert's Monks of the West in 6 Vols., (Nimmo, King William Street, Strand), is a big Work even to dip into. To those who do not possess it, the following extract, (from Vol. 3, 226), referring to St. Augustine of Canterbury, will, no doubt, be of interest:--" On one occasion, while traversing that region of the country of the West Saxons which is now called Dorsetshire, he and his companions found themselves in the midst of a seafaring population, who heaped on them affronts and outrages. These heathen savages not only refused to hear them, but even drove them away with acts of violence, and in hunting them from their territory, with a rude derision truly Teutonic, fastened to the black robes of the poor Italian monks, as a mark of contempt, the tails of the fish which formed their livelihood. Augustine was not a man to be discouraged by such trifles. Besides, he found, in other places, crowds more attentive and more impressible. The footnote is:--" Plebs impia... tota ludibriorum et opprobriorum in sanctos debacchata... nee manu pepercisse creditur... Fama est illos effulminandos provenientes marinorum piscium caudas Sanctis appendisse. Gotselinus. c.41." A different accountof this incident appears in Hutchins'D...

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