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Aristocracy & gentry
Anne Fitch, wife of Henry William Berkeley Portman of Bryanston: portrait by Gainsborough 18 253
Beatrix Digby 33 139
Cecile of the Hay, Manor of Huntspill 34 344
Countess of Cork & Orrery, Lady Emily, 9th: furniture at Marston House 36 53
Countess of Ilchester, Lady Mary 5th: letters to Thomas Hardy concerning the journal of Lady Susan O’Brien 34 385
Countess of Lincoln, lady Alesia: property in Kingston Lacey 23 185
Countess of Richmond and Derby, Lady Margaret: and Wimborne Minster 21 221
Dame Joan Young and the Will of Sir Giles Strangways, 1562 34 101
Duchess of Richmond, Lady Frances: portrait by William Passe 4 217
Duchess of Somerset, Lady Margaret: buried at Wimborne Minster 20 155
Duchess of York, Lady Cecily Neville: images of Richard Duke of York and Cecily Neville at Cranborne church 37 295
Lady Agnes de Bohun 9 114
Lady Alice de Moels of North Cadbury 7 49
Lady Anne Strode of Parnham, death of, 1654 35 48
Lady Burcetur 15 132
Lady Chatham hatchment for at Curry Rivel 23 143
Lady Chatham’s letters from Burton Pynsent, 1792-1796 23 159
Lady Hoghton, Tryphena Grove 31 325, 429, 404
Lady Mary Scroggs 16 171
Lady Matilda, Heiress of Batheaston, c.1300 18 28
Lady O’Looney/Mrs Jane Molony’s burial place at Pewsey 3 175, 229, 276
Lady Orford’s garden at Piddletown (Puddletown) mentioned by Horace Walpole 1 78
Lady Rachel Hopton’s iron works at Whitham Friary 31 351-353, 402-403
Lady Susan O’Brien 35 11-21, 59-66, 144, 146
Lady Susan O’Brien 36 393, 394
Lady Susan O’Brien: operation for cancer, 1799 34 321
Lady Susan O’Brien: and Stinsford house 34 392
Lady Susan O’Brien: at Stinsford church 34 387
Lady Susan O’Brien: visits London and Holland House 34 389
Lady Susan O’Brien: with Sir Walter Scott 34 389
Lady Susan O’Brien: writes to Thomas Hardy 34 386-391
Lady Susan O’Brien: friendship with the Pitt family 35 11-21
Lady Susan O’Brien: and the Dukes of Gloucester 35 59-66
Lady Susan O’Brien, letter from William Thomas Horner Fox-Strangways, January 1819 37 258-60
Marchioness of Lansdowne, Lady Louisa, 3rd: early life 35 185
Margaret Beaufort’s daisy badge device in Sherborne Abbey 22 17
Margaret de Botreaux’s seal 31 405
Margaret Harbin (née Mervyn) of Newton Surmaville: portrait, c.1590 21 237
Margaret Luttrell and Frances Fownes Luttrell of Dunster 37 78
Mr and Mrs Silver: portrait, c.1564 22 25
Mrs Coke of Langton and Mrs Williams of Herringston: portraits of 22 22
Rhoda Phelips of Montacute: portraits by Sir Thomas Lawrence 32 830
Children, Illegitimacy, pregnancy (see also Education & Schools and Health & Medicine)
Adoption rite in Somerset for illegitimate children 36 333
Alias: the use of in the surnames of illegitimate children 2 290-293
Bastards, marriage and suffragettes: the Rev. William Hunt’s views on, 1913 36 433-434
Birth mark: snake birth mark caused by mother being alarmed by a snake during pregnancy 29 293
Emigration Home for Little Girls 33 47
Fertility rattles and the ‘womb’ tree 33 139
Foundling names in Dorset 32 684
Illegitimate child born in Combe St Nicholas in 1690 23 84
Illegitimate children: payment for nursing a bastard child in Blandford, 1599 30 120
Illegitimate children: public penance performed by mothers of illegitimate children in Somerset in 18th century 18 222
Pregnancy of Lady Winchelsea and the Duchess of Portland, referred to in a letter from Rev. George Harbin, 1739 25 265
Pregnancy superstitions in Somerset relating to pig salting 24 277
Christian names
Rabage as a girls’ Christian name: examples 31 472
Crime and punishment
Body snatching in Somerset: body of Sophia Bryer disturbed at Cannington by a resurrection man, 1830 36 314
Body snatching in Somerset: Mrs Watkins of Bridgwater 36 230
Case against a woman for throwing a dish of furmity and a sickle at a man from Chedzoy who had indecently exposed himself to her during the grain harvest, 1603 37 308
Inditement of Mary Mynefye of Stockland for killing her husband by throwing a stone at him 11 310
Murder of Betty Trump on Buckland Hill, 1823 8 34, 61, 217, 36 51
Murder of Sarah Pope at Toller Whelme, 1786 30 242
Murder of Eleanor Sydenham of Chilworthy, 1539 16 190
Murder: young ladies of Taunton who put their aunt to death 5 220
Runaway wives and husbands 35 457
Scolds: Cucking or Ducking Stool in Weymouth, 1620 5 233
Scolds: treatment of in Lyme Regis, 1635 36 75
Scolds: treatment of Anne White of Motcombe, 1603 5 121
Scolds: treatment of Betty Dennett of Pimperne, 1785 5 122
Suicide: Comber’s grave – the burial place of an old woman who drowned herself 7 26
Suicide of Mistress Oake of Clifton, Dorset, c.1661 5 9
Trial of Mrs Leigh Perrot for stealing a card of lace, 1800 18 58, 79, 135, 222
Education and schools
Alphabet book: Bowden’s Indestructible Battledore, 19th century 23 178
Education and clothing of Betty Morris, daughter of Dr Claver Morris, 1697 & c.1708 22 79, 147
Emigration Home for Little Girls 33 47
Girls’ Schools, 1750-1800 24 195
Literacy in Dorset, 1750-1800, including Dame Schools 33 21-28
Netherbury School: Deanes Churchill founder of, 1564 10 2
Truro: Training Institute for Schoolmistresses 38 225
Weston Zoyland and Huntspill: Rachel Stuckey licensed to teach at, 1682 36 88
Female suffrage
Francis Newman in Somerset and the suffrage movement 35 353-358
Bastards, marriage and suffragettes: the Rev. William Hunt’s views on, 1913 36 433-434
Sherborne & the fight for women’s suffrage 39 13
The Hon. Evelina Haverfield of Marsh Court (suffragette): query re. history of Haverfield family 4 73
Health & medicine
Bath Leper’s Hospital: bequests by Mrs Rice, Lady Moyer, Mrs Court 34 141-147
Cured by the Glastonbury Waters in 1751: Mrs Lovegrove of Bristol & Eleanor Rogers of Street 19 228
Doctress Ann Pounsberry of North Curry 16 104
Fertility rattles and the ‘womb’ tree 33 139
Inoculated against smallpox: Miss Molly Tregonwell, 1743 3 267
Old Age: Dorset Centenarian Mrs Ellen Bragge of Thorncombe 17 121
Old Age: Dorset Centenarian Mrs St Alban of Elworthy, 1751 17 173
Old Age: Dorset Centenarian Betty Acland of Taunton 17 279
Old Age: Somerset Centenarians: Mrs Sarah Thring of Alford, Miss E. Ritso of Bath, Sibila Hore of Nettlecombe, Elizabeth Broadway of Wilton, Mrs Gillard of Yeovil, Mrs Russell of Weston-super-Mare 16 85
Old Age: Somerset Centenarian Honor Coleman of Cleeve 16 147, 149
Old Age: Somerset Centenarian Elizabeth Bushen of Minehead 16 147, 150
Old Age: Somerset Centenarian Sarah Thring of Alford House 16 147
Old Age: Somerset Centenarian Elizabeth Miles of Bishop Lydiard 16 147
Old Age: Somerset Centenarian Elizabeth Broadmead of Wilton, Taunton 16 151
Old Age: Somerset Centenarians: Ann Dudderidge of Norton Fitzwarren 16 170
Operation for cancer: Lady Susan O’Brien of Stinsford, 1799 34 321
Queen Anne: the Healing Service and touching for the King’s Evil 20 273
Wise Woman of Holwell: Bethia War 17 8-10
Images & portraits
Images of Richard Duke of York and Lady Cecily Neville at Cranborne church 37 295
Madame Tussaud’s touring exhibition in Somerset, 1823-24 25 163
Plaque representing Anne Boleyn at Poxwell Manor 32 635
Portraits of Rhoda Phelips of Montacute by Sir Thomas Lawrence 32 830
Portraits of Mrs Coke of Langton and Mrs Williams of Herringston 22 22
Portrait of Mr and Mrs Silver, c.1564 22 25
Portrait of Margaret Harbin (née Mervyn) of Newton Surmaville, c.1590 21 237
Portrait by Gainsborough of Anne Fitch (wife of Henry William Berkeley Portman of Bryanston) 18 253
Portrait by J.S. Jones of Helen Stephens, 1710 14 78
Portrait by William Passe of Frances, Duchess of Richmond 4 217
Law and legal documents
Charter of Clemencia de Erleigh 14 68
Defamation cases: woman called ‘Old Bart’s whore’ and a wronged husband a ‘sea-buck’ 33 9
Johanne Kympe v. Johan Wood 15 117, 163, 211, 252, 282, 16 18, 47, 109, 152, 188, 217, 50417 12, 54
Margaret Cheeke alias Lawrence of Dorchester, in High Court of Chancery, 1655 22 128
Petition to King George I by Elizabeth Pitt of Blandford Forum, widow, 1726 16 10
Marriage and weddings
Bastards, marriage and suffragettes: the Rev. William Hunt’s views on, 1913 36 433-434
Betrothal ceremonies in 16th century Somerset 30 379
Elopement of Winifred Chaffey with John Gill, 1807 25 87
Hasty re-marriage at Crowcombe to preserve a copyhold estate, 1890 33 8-9
Marriage Act, Lord Hardwick’s 33 121
Marriage at Melbury of Rachel Panchard, 1749 13 279
Marriage of New Englander 5 73
Marriage of Somerset and Dorset people in other counties 7 315, 316
Marriage Licences (Wells), 23 39, 64, 73
Marriage Lines (Phillimore) 23 46
Marriages at Cossington 27 99
Runaway wives and husbands 35 457
Terms used to describe women in Wells marriage licences, 1606-72 23 39
‘The Bridewoman’s Counsellor, a sermon’ by J. Sprint of Sherborne, 1709 23 21
Wedding customs: bride led with a rope to church at Lydeard St Lawrence, 1737 8 217
Wedding customs: display of baby shoes at Bratton St Maur, 1896 5 169
Wedding customs: 20 56
Wedding presents: letter from Mary Beadon to Mrs Mary Squire, 1728 23 20
Memorials, graves and obituaries
Dorset: burial of Margaret, Duchess of Somerset, 20 155
Dorset: death of Lane Anne Strode of Parnham, 1654 35 48
Dorset: Dorothy Chapman killed by a storm at Purse Caundle, 1662 5 9
Dorset: headstone at Netherbury of Betty Symes 14 74
Dorset: memorial at Wimborne Minster to Camilla Eliza Ann Peacock of Fifehead House 18 248
Dorset: memorial to Miss Mary Blandy of Dorchester, d.1844 21 228
Dorset: monument at Yetminster to Bridget Minterne 14 24
Devon: monument at Ottery St Mary to Rebecca Bailey 13 132
Dorset: monument at Gillingham church to Rebecca, Frances and Rachel Dirdoe 14 97
Dorset: obituary for Margaret Elizabeth Holmes (1923-2015): Dorset’s first County Archivist 38 47
Jamaica: memorial to Mrs Sarah Bennett, 1733 5 237
Leicestershire: epitaph by Hannah More to Anna and Emma Dixey at Claybrooke Church 2 205
London: memorials at St James’s church, Piccadilly, to Mary Elizabeth Brydges, Jane Wadham, Amy Williams, Louisa Maria Denison 11 129
London: monument at St Margaret’s church, Westminster to Frances Couth of Sherborne 16 15
Somerset: body of Sophia Bryer disturbed at Cannington by a resurrection man, 1830 36 314
Somerset: Body snatching in Somerset: Mrs Watkins of Bridgwater 36 230
Somerset: Comber’s grave – burial place of an old woman who drowned herself 7 26
Somerset: grave of Betty Hoight at Winsham 31 220
Somerset: hatchment at Curry Rivel for Lady Chatham 23 143
Somerset: monument to Frances Alford of Curry Rivel 14 343
Somerset: monument to the wife of John Still, Bishop of Bath and Wells 16 83
Somerset: Obituary for Sophia Wyndham Rawlins (née Bates-Harbin) (1908-2006) 36 89 263
Somerset: Obituary for Hilda Geraldine Bates Harbin (née Fry) (1874-1962) 28 73
Somerset: Wadham monument in Ilchester church to an unidentified woman 34 202
USA, Massachusetts: death in 1654 of Elizabeth Pole of Shute, Devon & Taunton, Massachusetts 23 17
Wiltshire: burial place at Pewsey of Lady O’Looney/Mrs Jane Molony 3 175, 229, 276
Wiltshire: memorials at Salisbury Cathedral to Anne Seymour, Ann Long and Rachel Poore 12 183
Occupations, crafts, professions, trades, guilds (see also Education & Schools)
Book trade: Sarah Chaulkin of Taunton, book seller, paper merchant and printer, 18th century 37 311
Brickmaker: Sarah Hazelwood of Canford Magna, 1861 36 388-390
Doctress and healer: Ann Pounsberry of North Curry, d.1813 16 104
Dorset industries and where carried on 22 44
Fairground attraction: Miss Beffin, a limbless lady, on display in Poole, 1806 12 64
Lace industry 29 273
Lace making 22 43
Fish Shop Keeper: funeral at Charlton Musgrove of Charlotte Creed of The Strand, 1834 10 303
Geologists: William Buckland, Mary Cole, Mary Anning, Lady Susan O’Brien 36 393
Geologist: Mary Anning’s discovery of a fossil ink bag near Watchet 34 206
Gloving 30 139-142
Goldsmiths & Silversmiths in Dorset: Mary Barrett of Blandford Forum, c.1830; Mary Chaffey of Sherborne, c.1823 33 235
Housekeeper: Mary Hucklebridge, East Coker Manor, 1851 36 135
Housekeeper: widow who kept the vicarage at Netherbury in 18th century 30 388
Iron works: Lady Rachel Hopton’s iron works at Whitham Friary 31 351-353, 402-403
Nurse: at Waterloo 20 65, 92
Peasantry: Jemima Field of Weston Zoyland, 1846 35 258
Public office: women holding public office in 15th century Bridport – the Fraternity of St Katherine & the Fraterity of the Light Hanging Before the Cross 38 313
Public office: women holding public office in late medieval and early modern Somerset and Dorset 38 269
Reddle Woman: Mary Ann Bull (née Franklin/Franklyn) 30 453
Servant: Margaret Barnard, servant to John Smith, servant to John Digby, 3rd Earl of Bristol 36 358
Sewing: 19th century Dorset samplers by Ann Massey and Emma Corben of Shaftesbury 18 283
Place and street names
Maiden Street, Weymouth: meaning 19 79
Peggy-Leggy Steps: origin of name 23 91, 119
Probate & inquisitions post mortem
Inquisition post mortem: Amice, Countess of Devon, wife of Baldwyn de Insula, Earl of Devon, 1284 15 271, 16 33
Inquisition post mortem: Elizabeth de Clerbek, wife of Walter de Hodebovile, 1306 14 95
Inquisition post mortem: Isabella, wife of John Axeby, 1306 9 102
Inquisition post mortem: Joan, wife of Gilbert de Clare, 1307 13 295
Inquisition post mortem: Cecilia de Bello Campo, 1321 9 242
Inquisition post mortem: Isabella de Baggerigge, 1325 9 145
Inquisition post mortem: Christina, wife of Anthony de Bydek, 1326 9 337
Inquisition post mortem: Prioress & Convent of Esborne, 1331 16 193
Inquisition post mortem: Matilda de Cauntebrugg, 1332 12 238
Inquisition post mortem: Joan de Clerebek, 1332 14 96
Inquisition post mortem: Elizabeth de Burgo, 1334 & 1360 12 42-43
Inquisition post mortem: Prioress of Ambresbury, 1343 8 236
Inquisition post mortem: Isabella, wife of William Botreaux, 1347 11 45
Inquisition post mortem: Margaret Betteston of Shaftesbury, 1349 10 137
Inquisition post mortem: Joan, wife of Robert Cifrewast or Syfrewast, 1354 13 200
Inquisition post mortem: Isabel, Queen of England, 1358 16 115
Inquisition post mortem: Matilda, wife of Walter Caucy, 1359-60 12 237
Inquisition post mortem: Margaret, wife of Walter atte More, 1361 9 54
Inquisition post mortem: Joan, wife of Robert atte More, 1361 9 56
Inquisition post mortem: Margaret, wife of John de Bello Campo of Somerset, 1362 9 246
Inquisition post mortem: Cecilia, wife of John de Crukern, 1365-6 15 108
Inquisition post mortem: Joan, wife of Thomas Balon, 1367 9 193
Inquisition post mortem: Elizabeth, wife of Giles de Erdyngton, 1375 16 117
Inquisition post mortem: Elizabeth, wife of Hugh Courtenay junior, 1375 14 238
Inquisition post mortem: Lucy atte Brygge, 1384 9 51
Inquisition post mortem: Christina, wife of John Croukern, 1389 15 109
Inquisition post mortem: Elizabeth Berkeley, 1389 11 95
Inquisition post mortem: Margaret, wife of Hugh de Courtenay, Earl of Devon, 1391-2 14 283
Inquisition post mortem: Margaret, wife of Thomas de Erdyngton, 1404-5 16 116-120
Inquisition post mortem: Elizabeth, wife of Ingelram Bruyn, 1407 11 360
Inquisition post mortem: Cristina, wife of John atte Hull, 1408 9 51, 52
Inquisition post mortem: Margaret, wife of Thomas Beaupyne, 1410 9 296, 337
Inquisition post mortem: Christina, wife of Richard Clopton, 1412 14 138
Inquisition post mortem: Elizabeth Bonevill alias Stucle, 1414 10 240
Inquisition post mortem: Elizabeth, wife of Reginald Brecore, 1419 12 138
Inquisition post mortem: Isabella Barnaby, 1419 9 195
Inquisition post mortem: Avice, wife of Stephen Derby, 1420 15 190
Inquisition post mortem: Isabella, wife of William de Beaumont, 1424 9 294
Inquisition post mortem: Michaela, wife of Robert Coker, 1424-5 15 66
Inquisition post mortem: Alice, wife of Lewis Cardigan, 1425-6 12 187
Inquisition post mortem: Alice, wife of William Bonevyle, 1426 10 281
Inquisition post mortem: Alianora, wife of Sir John Chydyok, 1433 13 150
Inquisition post mortem: Joan, wife of Sir William Cheyne, 1434 13 99
Inquisition post mortem: Alice, wife of Guy Bryan, 1434 11 363
Inquisition post mortem: Sibilla, wife of Thomas Erdyngton, 1434-5 16 120
Inquisition post mortem: Matilda, Countess of Arundell, 1436 8 288
Inquisition post mortem: Joan, wife of Sir Thomas Brook, 1437 11 292
Inquisition post mortem: Anne, wife of Hugh de Courtenay, Earl of Devon, 1440-1 14 326
Inquisition post mortem: Elizabeth, wife of John Blake, esq, 1459 10 189
Inquisition post mortem: Katherine, wife of Sir John Chydeok, 1461 13 197
Inquisition post mortem: Elizabeth, wife of John Beaumont, 1464 9 295
Inquisition post mortem: Elizabeth Darell, 1464 15 145
Inquisition post mortem: Joan, wife of John Carant, 1465 12 189
Inquisition post mortem: Elizabeth Lady Harrington, wife of William Bonville, 1472 10 286
Inquisition post mortem: Elizabeth, wife of Robert Capper, 1473 12 185
Inquisition post mortem: Margaret Well, formerly wife of Thomas Faryngdon, 1482 16 273
Inquisition post mortem: Joan, wife of Nicholas Arundell, 1482 8 332
Inquisition post mortem: Isabella, wife of Thomas Beauchamp, esq., 1484 9 289
Inquisition post mortem: Margaret Martyne, widow of Kingston Russell, 1595 15 28
Inventory of Ursula Dyer, 1696 13 22
Inventory of Jane Grove of the Close of Sarum, widow, 1665 22 176-5
Will of Margaret Russell, last Abbess of Tarrant, Dorset, 1567 5 268
Will of Joane Foyne of Corscombe, 1571 24 227
Will of Margery Markesfeld, 1572 24 206
Will of Joane Weether of West Quantox Head, 1575 15 168
Will of Edith Rose of Marston Bigot, 1587 32 627
Will of Mary Bartlett of Stourton Caundle, widow, 1654 17 30
Will and funeral at Beaminster of Frances Tucker, 1685 10 69
Will of Elizabeth Foyle of Yetminster, 1686 18 36
Will of Margaret Sagittary of Blandford, 1724 15 201
Will of Anne Marks of Yeovil, 1754 23 153
Will of Elizabeth Sagittary of Winterborne Steepleton, 1788 15 202
Will of Mrs Catherine Donisthorpe of Dorchester, 1793 25 80
Will of Frances Champ of Winterborne Steepleton, 1797 15 202
Will of Ann Francis of Compton Dando, 1895 31 433
Property
Lady Orford’s garden at Piddletown (Puddletown) mentioned by Horace Walpole 1 78
Emily, 9th Countess of Cork & Orrery’s furniture at Marston House, 1853 36 53-58
Decayed house of Agnes Cox of Norton St Philip, c.1600 35 152
Lady Rachel Hopton’s iron works at Whitham Friary 31 351, 353, 402
Alesia, Countess of Lincoln’s property at Kingston Lacey 23 185
Queen Elizabeth’s robe, owned by Frances Brice 17 66
Estates in Dorset belonging to the wife of Hugh of Wareham 4 53
Religious groups
Ambresbury: Prioress of Ambresbury, inquisition post mortem, 1343 8 236
Anchorite: Ankeret House, Sherborne Abbey 16 30
Anchorite burials: possible at St Dunstan’s Tower, Glastonbury 20 194
Anchorite’s cell: possible at Culbone church 62 59
Colyton: request by Beatrice Colyforde, widow, to become an anchorite 1332 16 169
Esborne: Prioress & Convent of Esborne, inquisition post mortem, 1331 16 193
Prattle: Abbess of 17 94, 97
Quakeress: Dorothy White of Weymouth, author of Call to God out of Egypt, 1662, & An Alarm sounded to English Inhabitants, 1661 23 21
Shaftesbury: Abbess Edith Bonham 1 202, 2 116, 9 279, 312
Shaftesbury: Abbess Egelina 18 94
Shaftesbury: Abbess of 8 331, 9 99, 126, 280-84, 309-12, 344, 10 31, 32, 14 221, 17 33, 37, 94, 97, 20 35, 22 3, 133, 175, 30 131, 31 138
Shaftesbury Abbey: corrody in 11 287
Shaftesbury Abbey: court roll of 1 201, 2 34, 116, 244
Shaftesbury Abbey: deed 9 297, 308
Shaftesbury Abbey: estates 34 352
Shaftesbury Abbey: heraldry of 10 82
Shaftesbury: Gwen Shelford, mother of Abbess Elizabeth Shelford 10 31, 62
Shaftesbury nunnery 38 234
Tarrant: will of Margaret Russell, last Abbess of Tarrant, Dorset, 1567 5 268
Wells Conventicles: Woman preacher at, 1616/1625 8 258
Royalty
Margaret Beaufort’s daisy badge device in Sherborne Abbey 22 17
Princess Amelia 11 68
Queen Anne: the Healing Service and touching for the King’s Evil 20 273
Queen Anne: Prayer book and bible from 20 273
Queen Anne Boleyn: plaque representing Anne Boleyn at Poxwell Manor 32 635
Queen Anne Galley (ship) 20 33
Queen Catharine Parr 18 13
Queen Elizabeth 22 236
Queen Elizabeth’s cousin 21 22, 45
Queen Elizabeth’s letter 18 217
Queen Elizabeth’s robe, owned by Frances Brice 17 66
Queen Isabel of England: Inquisition post mortem: 1358 16 115
Queen Jane 18 13
Queen Joan 12 89
Queen Joan of Scotland & Tarrant Crawford 3 29
Queen Joanna of Scotland 25 95
Queen Katherine 12 320
Queen Philippa at Cerne Abbey 2 234
Queen Victoria Medal 22 270
Saints
Saint Bridget 17 206
Saint Candida: shrine of 4 360, 7 46
Saint Catharine by the tower 20 4
Saint Catherine’s chapel 17 89
St Catherine’s Chantry, Gillingham 23 69, 95
Saint Catherine of Alexandria: Prayers for a husband 37 381
St Cuthburga’s depilatory powers – ‘sluttish widow’s locks’ 38 281
Saint Elizabeth: chapel of 2 247
Saint Etheldreda 19 113
Saint Helena 36 104
Saint Juthware 26 80
Saint Katharine 14 9, 18 29, 19 113, 114
Saint Katharine’s chapel 18 129
Saint Katherine, priest of 31 9
Saint Margaret’s chapel, Tatworth 1 110, 159, [178]
Saint Margaret’s, Westminster 20 4
Saint Margaret’s chapel, Wimborne: two inventories 32 673
Saint Margaret’s, Wimborne 7 349
Saint Mary le Bow, bell at 23 256, 258
Saint Mary le Port (Bristol), rector of, see Walker, Samuel Abraham 24
Saint Mary Magdalen 19 113
Saint Mary Magdalen Hospital, Bath 7 350, 34 226-232, 396-398
Saint Mary Redcliffe 20 4
Saint Mary Redcliffe organ 32 782, 784, 785
Saint Mary the Virgin, Sherborne: churchwardens’ accounts 24 285
Saint Walburga 9 307
Travel
Account of Eleanor Clark of Street’s visit to Castle Neroche 35 332
Diary of a young lady in Bath, 1842: 33 151, 214
Diary of Elizabeth Davis in Dorset, 1790s 37 331
Diary of Anna Farmar in Bath, 1842 33 151, 214
Diary of Mrs Abbot’s holiday to Dorset, 1798 34 109
Diary of Celia Fiennes in Somerset, c.1700 6 28, 18 236
Local stay-at-homes: Women who hadn’t travelled far 4 127, 169, 208
Uplyme woman who died without ever seeing the sea 4 127
Wife selling
Sale of a wife at Farmborough near Bath, late 19th century 32 760
Sale of a wife: sale of Margaret Wadham of Marnhull & the case of Clark against Banfild, 1604 37 378
Wife selling: examples 36 214
Wife selling in Somerset 22 141, 32 715
Witches & witchcraft
Witchcraft 29 265, 32 495-97, 34 53, 160-163, 203, 256
Witchcraft and warfare at Milton Abbey 17 67
Witchcraft at Montecute in 1438: Agnes Hancok 12 33
Witchcraft in Dorset 5 308, 18 156, 28 142, 34 160-163, 203, 256
Witchcraft in Sherborne, 1660 1 225
Witchcraft in Somerset 3 1, 107, 4 76, 157, 11 328
Witchcraft in Somerset: references to ropes/feathered cords 1 92
Witched fishing boats in Dorset 10 49
Women Witches: A guide to Grand Jurymen about the trial of witches by Richard Barnard, Minister of Batcombe, Somerset, 1627 2 199
Suspected witch at Ryme Intrinseca: Katherin Pearles, c.1606 34 256
Suspected witch at Chardstock: Elizabeth Hoop, 1609/10 34 203
Women’s writing – authors, diaries and letters
Account by Mrs Voss of seeing Napoleon landing in Dorset, written by Mrs Panton 19 224
Author: Dorothy White of Weymouth, quakeress, Call to God out of Egypt, 1662, & An Alarm sounded to English Inhabitants, 1661 23 21
Author: Margaret Harkness (aka John Law) of Wimborne St Giles, author of In Darkest London, 1891 31 367
Author: Mrs Caillard, ‘A Leading Case’, 1904: the strange story of Sir James Hanham and Amy Lester 31 161
Author: Eleanor Clark of Street’s account of a visit to Castle Neroche, c.1878 35 332
Diary of a young lady in Bath, 1842: 33 151, 214
Diary of Elizabeth Davis in Dorset, 1790s 37 331
Diary of Mrs Mary Leir, 1784-1793 35 140, 36 78
Diary of Anna Farmar in Bath, 1842 33 151, 214
Diary of Mrs Abbot’s holiday to Dorset, 1798 34 109
Diary of Celia Fiennes in Somerset, c.1700 6 28, 18 236
Letters of Lady Chatham 23 159
Letters of Dowager Queens of England 26 200
Letters from Mary Ilchester, 5th Countess of Ilchester, to Thomas Hardy concerning the journal of Lady Susan O’Brien 34 385
Letters from the poet George Crabbe to Miss Elizabeth Charter, 1815-26 10 309, 355
Letter from the Rev. George Harbin to Margaret Bamfyld 25 175, 216
Letters of Lady Chatham from Burton Pynsent, 1792-1796 23 159
Letter from Sir Walter Raleigh concerning Elliner Dyer of Sherborne, c.1593/4 23 130
Letters of Hannah More and novels of Sarah More 22 236
Letter from Mary Beadon to Mrs Mary Squire re wedding presents, 1728 23 20
Letter from Katherine Dawbayne to Cromwell, 1535 2 8
Poem: ‘The Chalice Spring, A Legend of Glastonbury’, by Alice Maud Meadows 38 1-9
Poem: Clare Sheridan’s To the Four Winds and the last monk’s curse of Frampton 34 72
Poem: ‘Alphabets of Dorsetian Belles’, c.1829 23 109, 144
Poet: Miss Smith of Blandford, Songs of Granada and the Alhambra, 1829 23 21
Poet: Elizabeth Bernard’s Crowcombe Miscellany, 18th century 38 86
The Young Ladies of Dorchester and the County Magazine, 1787, 1787 8 59
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