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.
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.
Labels: Manor Court, Perambulation of Bounds
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