MULTI-TASKING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT!

For those who have been interested enough to read my personal Profile will have noted that I was for a time involved in Waste Management enforcement, firstly with Dorset County Council and then the Environment Agency until my ultimate retirement in 1997.
  One of my team's responsibilities was to monitor and enforce proper Waste Disposal (including of illegal fly-tipping) within Dorset, and then part of Wiltshire - which resulted in several successful prosecutions.
  On my recent frequent perambulations around the parish of Purse Caundle I have kept an eye open for any illicit fly-tipping. Dumped in woodland next to a lay-by in Goathill Road, (west of Tripps Farm) one day I saw several black plastic bags containing what felt like mixed household and kitchen wastes. From experience I suspected that included would be evidence of the address from whence it had come. I therefore passed on details of my findings to West Dorset District Council (WDDC), together with a map reference; which were in turn passed-on to the relevant Enforcemnt Officer.
  On passing that same spot a couple of weeks later I noticed that the bags were still there, with the addition of a small  motor-cycle size wheel. I took a photograph, which was in turn sent with a reminder to WDDC. A week later I noticed that all the above wastes had thankfully been been removed. To date no report of any relevant court action has been  seen in our local daily newspaper; nor any follow-up received from WDDC.
  Who said that men cannot multi-task?????????????????

BUTTON IDENTIFICATION SOLVED?

  In the previous post I requested assistance in identifying the above metal button found whilst metal-detecting in Purse Caundle.
  I have recently received an email from Howard Seymour offering the following information:
"The Lion Rampant is part of the heraldry coat of arms belonging to the Semour Family upon which Jane Seymour also had the bird rising, noted as the Phoenix. The word on the back of the button ANOYE is in fact a village in [south-west] France." The word GENT may infer that it belonged to a gentleman from that village. Mr Seymour had ancestors living in other parishes in the vicinity during the 17th century.
  A Seymer Family in these blogs is found married into the Hannam and Hoskyns Families who both were separately owners of the Purse Caundle manor house in the 16th/17th centuries, with the Seymer arms represented on memorial stones in the church's chapel - see APPENDICES C1C and C1D.
  My thanks to Howard Seymour, but any further information would be appreciated.

BUTTON IDENTIFICATION REQUESTED

The button illustrated below was found during metal-detecting on ploughed farmland in Purse Caundle during 2009. It is metal, one inch diameter, with a rampant lion and a spread-winged bird (eagle?) embossed on the obverse; whilst the reverse has an attached eye for sewing onto a garment, and what appears to be the lettering

ANOYE

GENTS

Can anyone please assist by identifying this button? It could be a huntsman's as this is fox-hunting country

LORD OF THE MANOR CONSIDERS BEING FINED!

Updated: 23rd August 2010, 7.10 p.m.

  Sunday, 9th May 2010 was Rogation Sunday, with the week following being Rogation Week. This was the time when the bounds of manors and parishes would be perambulated by the inhabitants, to check that there had not been any encroachments. Boundary stones (and sometimes young boys) would be ceremoniously beaten to impress everyone present as to their true position.
  At the Purse Caundle Manor Court meeting of 7th April 1590, the Lord of the Manor's Steward ordered:
'All the tenants of the manor, if not impotent or lame, together with servants and children, to gather during Rogation week, to walk bounds of manor, something which by their slothfulness and negligence of duty have been greatly decayed. Any absentees without good reason fined 12d (8d to Lord and 4d to informer.)'
  The present Lord of the Manor of Purse Caundle, as part of his researches into the manor/parish history, had fully intended to perambulate the bounds during 2010 Rogation Week, to determine and photograph the whole length of the boundary based on earliest known information. This would eventually have been fully uploaded as an appropriate Post on History's blog - http://pursecaundledorset.blogspot.com/ CHAPTER 1A-Boundaries.
  In the event this perambulation did not take place for the following reasons: the weather was windy and cold; the arrangment of a dental appointment; chaffeuring one's wife to alternative medical appointments; doing the weekly shopping. In the circumstances, were there thus sufficient grounds for the Lord to 'fine' himself? bearing in mind that he would be eligible to receive both parts of the fine - as Lord and informer.
  A partial perambulation did take place a few weeks later, covering the majority of the inter-county boundary - the results of which have been used to update CHAPTER 1A-Boundaries. As well as the remainder of this county boundary, there is still the substantial inter-parish boundary to traverse and explore.
  From personal experience I would hazard a guess that the 16th century parishioners would have taken something like three days to undertake their perambulation duty, with perhaps farmers along the way supplying sustenance - in addition to any they may have taken with them. No wonder this duty had not been carried out for some years - nor apparently since!

P.S. The county boundary has now more or less been perambulated and photographed. It now awaits the verdict of the Dorset County Boundary Survey Group.
The weather is too unpredictable at the moment to attempt a completion of the remaining inter-parish boundary.

AMBRIDGE AT PURSE CAUNDLE

Those following my Purse Caundle blogs will know that I am concentrating on the past histories of the parish and manor. For ongoing Ambridge-like happenings there I would suggest becoming a member of http://greentwinsmummyasimplelife.blogspot.com/
There can be found illustrated incidents of countrylife, plus introduction to links to the many of that blog's following members.

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  Since uploading this post the above blog has ceased, though still accessible.