The latest issue of SDNQ (vol. 39, part 397) contains the following articles, notes and queries:
- East Somerset maltsters in 1647 by Steve Hobbs.
- Establishing the date of document M179 in two cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton and the Cluniac Priory of Montacute by Allan Sheppard.
- The Great Plague in Dorset 1665-1666: an order made at the Quarter Sessions to preserve public health by Barry Brock.
- Two Catholic families: the Keynes family of Compton Pauncefoot and the Ewens family of Wincanton by Stuart Raymond.
- Disputes over the supply of Portland stone for St Paul’s Cathedral from the Tucker family papers in the Bodleian Library by Joseph Bettey.
- Canons of Bruton 1408-1539 by R.W. Dunning.
- A 16th century blacksmith’s workshop in Cranborne by Mark Forrest.
- James Buglar alias Buckler of Thornford: an old soldier from Waterloo by Ann Smith.
- An unidentified sketch by Somerset artist Harry Frier (1849-1921) by Adrian Webb.
- Tracing the Talbot family of Dorset by Daniel Talbot.
- Paddy Thompson queries the use of amusing illuminated initial letters on documents in the Somerset Archives relating to Low Ham (ref. DD/MKG/14).
- Steve Hobbs replies to Todd Gray’s article about bribery in the election of MPs for the borough of Ilchester, with evidence from the 1818 parish register against Sir William Manner’s manipulation of the voting system.
- Roger Guttridge replies to Roger Ottewill’s article on Pokesdown Congregational church during the Edwardian era with photographs of and information about earlier Congregational churches in Pokesdown.
- Adrian Webb reviews Ian Coleby’s West Somerset Railway Guide Book and Paul Upton’s James Date, Watchet Photographer 1807-1895.
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