PURSE CAUNDLE HISTORY - CONTENTS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TERMS AND EXPRESSIONS USED
CHAPTER 1: TOPOGRAPHY
1. Boundaries: County, Parish, and Manor
2. Geology
3. Rivers, Streams, Ponds, and Wells
4. Woodland, and Orchards
5. Roads, Lanes, Bridleways, Footpaths, and Bridges
6. Fields
CHAPTER 2: PURSE CAUNDLE BEFORE THE CONQUEST
CHAPTER 3: ANGLO-NORMAN PURSE CAUNDLE
CHAPTER 4: MEDIEVAL PURSE CAUNDLE
CHAPTER 5: TUDOE PURSE CAUNDLE
CHAPTER 6: STUART & COMMONWEALTH PURSE CAUNDLE
CHAPTER 7: GEORGIAN PURSE CAUNDLE
CHAPTER 8: VICTORIAN PURSE CAUNDLE
CHAPTER 9: MODERN PURSE CAUNDLE
APPENDIX A: THE MANOR OF PURSE CAUNDLE
1. Lords of the Manor
2. Manor Courts and Court Records; Copyholds and Freeholds; Leases, etc.
APPENDIX B: BUILDINGS & STRUCTURES
1. The Church; Parochial Library; Parochial Church Council
2. Churchyard and Cemetery
3. The Manor House
4. Farms, Old Houses, School, etc.
APPENDIX C: PERSONALIA
1. Manor House owners
2. Clergy, Parish Clerk, and Churchwardens
3. Village Families
4. War Memorial
5. Parish Registers
APPENDIX D: LAND & BUILDINGS IDENTIFICATION, AND THEIR HISTORIES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX: PERSONAL NAMES; LOCATIONS

PURSE CAUNDLE: A DORSET VILLAGE AND MANOR

This History is dedicated to my wife Iris, who has eventually become reconciled to being joint-Lord of the Manor of Purse Caundle.

Publications by the Author:

THOMAS HARDY O.M. AND SIR EDMUND GOSSE LITT.D.

(First edition 1968; second revised edition 1978)

HAMBLEDON'S CRICKET GLORY Series: Volumes 2-19, 26-28.

(1974-2001 discontinued)

THE KNIGHT FAMILY 'JOURNAL' (Quarterly)

(1979-1986 discontinued)

COLONEL T.E.LAWRENCE (Lawrence of Arabia) VISITS MR. & MRS. THOMAS HARDY

(1985)

T.E.LAWRENCE AND THE MAX GATE CIRCLE

(First edition 1988; second revised edition 1995)

T.E.LAWRENCE:HIS ORDERS, DECORATIONS AND MEDALS

(First edition 1989; second revised edition 2006)

THE HOME FRONT Life in Dorset 1939-1944 (An Evacuee's Experience)

(1999)

T.E.LAWRENCE'S IRISH ANCESTRY AND RELATIONSHIP TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH

(2000)

FROM HUSSAR TO MAYOR: JOHN THOMAS GODDARD O.B.E., M.C., J.P. A Biography

(2007)

LADY VICTORIA HERBERT'S SCHEME FOR BRITISH EX-PRISONERS OF WAR

Just after the start of the Great War, Lady Victoria Herbert started this Scheme, and she began to send parcels of food, tobacco and other comforts to military prisoners in Germany. She also managed to get many individuals 'adopted' by benevolent persons at home. After the war, in recognition of this charitable work, she was to be appointed to the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England as a Lady of Grace; and awarded a C.B.E. from Buckingham Palace.
Thereafter, until the time of her death in 1957 at Purse Caundle, she continually wrote letters to newspapers canvassing money and practical help for ex-prisoners of war.
As part of the general revision of Purse Caundle's history, I should be interested in hearing from anyone who was helped by this Scheme, or had beneficiary family members.

HISTORY OF PURSE CAUNDLE - ITS DYNAMIC FUTURE

Now that the Purse Caundle History Day has passed, as well as taking cognisance of what was passed to me before and during the event, I now need to do a sweep of online and repository sources for material not yet downloaded, which will then have to be appropriately inserted into the existing History. The whole will then be re-edited, cross-referenced, and indexed, before being uploaded as a new updated History, whilst the old one will be deleted. Even so, one will obviously never be able to say that it is the definitive edition.

PURSE CAUNDLE HISTORY: BIBLIOGRAPHY