March 2021 issue of SDNQ

Spring is here and so is the March 2021 issue of SDNQ (vol. 39, part 393). The issue contains the following articles and notes:

• ‘The Augustinian communities at Bruton and Taunton, 1400-1539 (part 1)’ by Robert W. Dunning.  This first part looks at the Augustinian house of St Mary at Bruton.
• ‘Dring’s Catalogue: an analysis of Royalists in Dorset and the south-west compared to the rest of England and Wales’ by T. Goodwin.  Insights provided by Thomas Dring’s 1655 Catalogue into the numbers of royalist compounders and the amount of money they contributed (£28, 728 15s 5d in Dorset, £53, 740 2s 3d in Somerset), the demographic of royalist support in the south-west, the number of women listed in the Catalogue (4 in Dorset, 3 in Somerset, 78 in total) and what it reveals about the part women played in the economic life of Dorset.
• ‘Catholic families of south-east Somerset and their connection to the Stourton (and Bonham) Mission, c.1550-1650 (part 1)’ by Stuart Raymond. With particular reference to the Cottington family of Godminster and Discove and the Byfleet family of Bratton Seymour.
• ‘Tudor piracy in the English Channel’ by Colin J. Brett.  How case papers produced following the capture in May 1566 of the Sunday of Wexford by the pirate Captain Pickery reveal a trade in Somerset coal from Wexford in Ireland to La Rochell in France.
• ‘The Fall of the Stawell Family’ by David Victor.  Investigates the connection between the Stawell’s of Cothelstone and the Hext family of Low Ham.
• ‘A glimpse into the later history of Melcombe Regis Friary’ by Mark Forrest. How a chance discovery in the Chafin Grove family papers reveals the 17th century development of Melcombe Regis Friary to provide high quality housing, a school, and an almshouse.
• ‘Early coal mines in Stoke St. Michael’ by Colin J. Brett. Reveals evidence of coal mining in Stoke St. Michael dating back to 1335.
• ‘French émigré clergy in Somerset (part 1): Henri Gaudemetz’ by Dominic Aidan Bellenger.  How, thanks to his benefactor Thomas Meade, the French priest Henri Gaudemetz (1740-c.1826) served practising Catholics in Somerset from 1792 to 1801.
• ‘The uncertain end of Archdeacon Shakerley’ – additional information provided by Richard Higgins into the life of Archdeacon George Shakerley.

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  ‘Motoring Book of E.A. Ffooks, 1905-1906’ by Ann Smith. Provides interesting insights into the perils and thrills of early motoring in Dorset as revealed through the motoring diary of Sherborne solicitor, Edwin Archdall Ffooks, who owned the seventh car to be registered in Dorset (registration FX 7),

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