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The National Archives DORSET RECORD OFFICE
N10 Deposited by the Shaftesbury and Sherborne Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends, 28 February, "!!5T?^
Bundle No. Date Description of Documents No. of Documents
Records of the Society of Friends:
DORSET QUARTERLY MEETING (1668-1804. In 1804 combined with Hants. Q.M. to form Dorset and Hants Q.M.).
A 1 1668-1786 Minutes. 1 vol. At back: schedule of gifts, trusts and meeting houses, 1724-1732.
A 2 1786- 1804 Minutes. 1 vol.
A 3 1730- 1751 Draft minutes. 1 vol,
A 4 1751- 1755 Draft minutes. 1 vol. At back: list of charity lands, meeting houses etc; memoranda of Quarterly and Yearly Meeting queries; memorandum on bequest cf Daniel Taylor.
A 5 1764- 1771 Draft minutes. 1 vol.
A 6 1772- 1774 Draft minutes. 1 vcl.
A 7 1773- 1777 Draft minutes. 1 vol.
A 8 1778- 1786 Draft minutes. 1 vol.
A 9 1787- 1792 Draft minutes. 1 vol.
A 10 1793- 1798 Draft minutes. 1 vol.
A 11 1798- 1804 Draft minutes. 1 vol.
A 12 1727- 1786 Copy minutes, 1727-1763, 1773-1786. 1 bundle
A 13 1754- 1783 Copy minutes. 1 vol.
A 14 1773- 1797 Minutes of Quarterly Meeting of Women Friends. 1 vol.
A 15 1659- 1741 Account of sufferings. 1 vol.
A 16 1742- 1757 Sufferings. ,/Found loose in A 157- 16
A 17 1793- 1804 l Account of sufferings. I vol.
A 18 1648- 1703/4J "Propositions by way of Advise" from Cerne General I vol. I Meeting to Friends in Dorset, 1659.. with names of Cerne Friends; register of births, 1648-1703/4 and deaths, I068-I698, both at Hawkchurch.
A 19 1669-1727 Copy letters to be read at Quarterly and Monthly 1 vol. Meetings, signed G.F./George Fox/, I.669-I67O/I; queries respecting County Courts, with precedents; "testimonies against such as have professed Friends principles but have departed therefrom", 1673-1727 DORSET RECORD OFFICE
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DORSET QUARTERLY MEETING contd
A 20 1691-1728 Certificates of enrolment of meeting houses at Quarter 14 Sessions.
A 21 1694 Epistle on religious matters from George Khipe. 1
A 22 1729-1802 Copy minutes and advices with some epistles of Yearly 57 Meeting and Meeting for Sufferings, 1729, 1731* 1744 1745, 1752-1784, 1798-1802, including rules and directions relating to removals and settlements among Friends, 1729 and methods to be observed in recording marriages, birth and deaths and directions for registering title deeds, 1774. /Some printed/.
A 23 N.D. Advices by Yearly Meetings, alphabetically digested, 1 vol. undated but covering dates in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
A 24 N.D. Minutes to be inserted in book of extracts by direction 2 of Meeting for Sufferings, alphabetically arranged.
HAMPSHIRE QUARTERLY MEETING -I754, B 1 I7II Page of minutes or copy minutes, 1754; letter about 4 N.D. account of sufferings, 1711; letter from Friends in Jersey asking advice, 1742; memorandum on legacies to Alton Monthly Meeting, undated.
DORSET AND HANTS QUARTERLY MEETING (Formed in 1804 from Dorset Q.M. and Hampshire Q.M. In 1855 the area was divided between Bristol and Somerset Q.M. and Sussex, Surrey and Hants. Q.M.)
I804 C 1 -I839 Minutes. 1 vol.
C 2 1804-1812 Draft minutes. 1 vol.
C 3 1819-1825 Draft minutes. 1 vol.
C 4 1825-1830 Draft minutes. ^Defective/7- 1 vol.
C 5 1830-1834 Draft minutes. 1 vol.
C 6 I839-I855 Copy minutes. 1 bundle
C 7 1851-1863 Certificates of registration of meeting houses. 8
BRIDPORT MONTHLY MEETING (I668-I783. Included Sherborne until I69O; re-combined to form Bridport and Sherborne M.M. in 1783).
D 1 1690-1783 Minutes. 1 vol.
D 2 1776-1782 I Copy minutes of Yearly and Quarterly Meetings. 7
i D 3 1776-1782 I Register of births. /Copy/7. 5 D 4 1780-1783 Register of burials. ^Ccpy/. 6 DORSET RECORD OFFICE
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BRIDPORT MONTHLY MEETING (contd)
D 5 1782-1783 Register of marriages (Many names of witnesses). /popyf. 1 file
WEYMOUTH AND DORCHESTER MONTHLY MEETING
(1668-1753; joined to Bridport M.M. in 1753).
E 1 1735-1753 Minutes. 1 .voI.
SHERBORNE MONTHLY MEETING (Separated from Bridport M.M. in 1690, combined to form Bridport and Sherborne M.M. I783. Shaftesburyj M.M. detached ?1743).
F 1 1728-1738 Minutes. 1 vol.
F 2 1739-1754 Minutes. 1 vol.
F 3 1754-1766 Minutes. 1 vol.
F 4- 1766-1783 Minutes. 1 vol.
F 5 1730-1783 Draft minutes. 1 vol.
F 6 1762-1786 Minutes of Monthly Meeting of Women Friends. 1 vol.
F 7 17/4-1792 Account of sufferings. 1 vol.
F 8 1741-1783 Copy minutes of Dorset Quarterly Meeting, with letter, 4 1741; letters forwarding copy minutes of Yearly Meeting about disorderly marriages, 1743 and oaths, 1780; advice relating to stamp duty on registers, 1783 /printed/.
F 9 1756-1786 Certificates on removal, including one for William 28 Master from Burlington in New Jersey, 1762, and four letters of William Master, 1764. The certificate of 1762 is signed by (inter alia) John Woolman /T720-1772, anti-slavery propagandist/.
P 10 1759-1786, Certificates of character before marriage and consents 20 N.D. to marriage.
p 11 1761,1771 Testimonies of denial. 2
F 12 1772 List of books belonging to the Meeting. 1 vol,
SHAFTESBURY MONTHLY MEETING (Separated from Sherborne M.M. in ?1743; became part of Shaftesbury, Bridport and Sherborne M.M. in 1804).
G 1 ! 1743-1765 Minutes. x VOJ
G 2 1766-1779 Minutes. 1 vex.
G 3 1779-1787 Minutes.
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1 No. Bundle No. Date Description of Documents of Documents i SHAFTESEURY MONTHLY MEETING contd
G 4 1788-1791 Minutes. 1 vol.
G 5 1792-1804 Minutes. 1 vol.
G 6 1777-1785 Minutes of Monthly Meeting of Women Friends. 1 vol.
G 7 1785-1793 Minutes of Monthly Meeting of Women Friends. 1 vol.
G 8 1793-1802 Minutes of Monthly Meeting of Women Friends. 1 vol.
G 9 1802-1815 Minutes of Monthly Meeting of Women Friends, l802-l804. 1 vol. Minutes of Shaftesbury Preparative Meeting of Women Friends, 1804-1815.
G 10 1776-1794 Birth notes. ^/Contemporary copy/. 1 vol.
G 11 1776-1794 Burial notes, with death dates. Contemporary copy/. 1 vol.
N.B. For sufferings, 1793-1803, see under Shaftesbury and Sherborne M.M.
BRIDPORT AND SHERBORNE MONTHLY MEETING (Formed 1783 from Brldport M.M. and Sherbome M.M.; became part of Shaftesbury, Bridport and Sherborne M.M. in 1804)
H l 1783-1796 Minutes. n vol. JL H 2 1796-1804 Minutes. 1 vol.
H 1783-1798 Minutes of Monthly Meeting of Women Friends. 1 vol.
SHAFTESBURY, BRIDPORT AND SHERBORNE later SHAFTESBURY AND SHERBORNE MONTHLY MEETING (Formed 1804 from Shaftesbury M.M. and Bridport and Sherborne M.M.) "i J 1 1804-I8l8. Minutes. X vol.
J 2 1819-1837 Minutes. 1 vol.
J 1838-1841 Minutes. I vol.
J ii. 1842-1844 Minutes. 1 vol.
J 5 1844-1846 Minutes. 1 vol.
J 6 1846-1850 Minutes. J. vol.
J 7 1850-1852 Minutes. 1 vol.
T 8 1852-1854 Minutes. T vol. U
J 9 1854-1858 Minutes. vol. DORSET RECORD OFFICE
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No. Bundle No. Date Description of Documents of Documents
SHAFTESBURY, BRTDPORT AMD SHERBORNE, later SHAFTESBURY AND SHERBORNE MONTHLY MEETING contd
J 10 1858-1862 Minutes. 1 vol.
J 11 1862-1866 Minutes. 1 vol.
J 12 1866-1881 Minutes. 1 vol.
J 13 1881-1889 Minutes. 1 vol.
J 14 I889-I898 Minutes. 1 vol.
J 15 1899-1906 Minutes. 1 vol.
J 16 1906-1912 Minutes. 1 vol.
J 17 1913-1919 Minutes. 1 vol.
J 18 1819-1821 Draft minutes. 1 vol.
J 19 1821-1824 Draft minutes. 1 vol.
J 20 1824-1826 Draft minutes. ^Defeetive/. 1 vol.
J 21 1826-1828 Draft minutes. 1 vol.
J 22 1828-1832 Draft minutes. 1 vol.
J 23 1832-1838 Draft minutes. 1 vol.
J 24 1839-1856 Draft and copy minutes. 66
J 25 1884-1897 Draft minutes. 1 vol. 1 J 26 1804-1815 Minutes of Monthly Meeting of Women Friends. vol. JL J 27 1826-1846 Minutes of Monthly Meeting of Women Friends. 1 vol.
J 28 1846-1869 Minutes of Monthly Meeting of Women Friends. 1 vol.
J 29 1811-1818 Draft minutes of Monthly Meeting of Women Friends. 1 vol.
J 30 1818-1833 Minutes of meetings of Ministers and Elders. 1 vol.
J 31 1877-1901 Minutes of1 meetings of Ministry and Oversight. 1 vol.
J 32 1901-1913 Minutes of meetings of Ministry and Oversight. i vol.
J 33 1911 . Agendas. /Printed duplicates/7 . 8
J 34 1793-1836 Account of sufferings of Shaftesbury Monthly Meeting, 1 vol. 1793-1803* and Shaftesbury and Sherborne Monthly 2 dOCS . Meeting, 1804-1836; two copies, 1834-1835.
J 35 1850-1853 Account of sufferings. 1 vol.
J 36 1857.1B58 Account of distraints (two entries only) with printed i vol. letter forwarding volume, 1857' 1 dOC.
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SHAFTESBURY AND SHERBORNE MONTHLY MEETING contd
J 37 1812-1837 List of members, alphabetically grouped. 1 vol.
J 38 1851-1912 Certificates of removal into the compass of the Meeting 1 bundle and acceptances of certificates by Clerks of other Meetings, I85I-I859, 1877, 1885-1912.
J 39 1851-1915 Papers concerning attendance at meetings for worship, 18 1851, 1893, 1904, 1914, 1915.
J 40 1857-1887 Correspondence about lapsed or removed members, 1857* . 24 1863; correspondence about disownment, I886-I887.
J 41 1860-1906 Membership statistics extracted from Quarterly Meeting 1 vol. records.
J 42 1876-1919 Preliminary notices of removal, I876-I892; notices of 2 vols. removal not involving transfer of membership, 1919-
J 43 1899-1912, Papers concerning admissions to membership. 10 N.D.
J 44 I838-I86I Burial notes. 2 vols.
J 45 :.879-1915 Burial notes. 1 vol.
J 46 1910-1947 Birth notes. 1 vol.
J 47 I9IO-I950 Burial notes. 1 vol.
j 48 1853-1900 Papers relating to burials and registry of death. 4
J 49 1853-1902 Papers relating to marriages. 17
J 50 1890-1907 Cash book. 1 vol.
J 51 1892-1908 Accounts. 1 vol.
J 52 1904-1928 Bills and receipts. 1 bundle
J 53 K1690)-1832 "Loose papers? copy testimonies, prayers, letters, 1 vol. extracts from Dorset Quarterly Meeting and Yearly Meeting minutes, answers to queries, certificates, sufferings etc, pasted into album.
J 54 1827-1850 "Loose papers:" extracts from Dorset and Hants. Quarterljj 1 vox. Meeting and Yearly Meeting minutes, answers to queries, Acts of Parliament, sufferings, certificates and letter;
J 55 1870-1880 "Loose papers:" extracts from Bristol and Somerset 1 vol. I Quarterly Meeting and Yearly Meeting minutes, answers to queries, printed matter concerning welfare work etc; original letters to J F Ratter. DORSET RECORD OFFICE
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SHAFTESBURY AND SHERBORNE MONTHLY MEETING contd
J 56 1817-1922 Copy minutes, epistles and circulars of Yearly Meeting 39 and Meeting for Sufferings, 1817, 1819, 1854-1922, including constitution of meetings for Ministry and Oversight, 1876. /Mainly printed; some probably intended for Dorset and Hants. Quarterly Meeting/.
J 57 1866,1923 Circular letter appealing for funds for meeting house 2 at Sydney, N.S.W., 1866; circular letter about American Friend, 1923.
J 58 1869,1870 Copy minutes of Bristol and Somerset Quarterly Meeting. 2
J 59 1887-1892 Yearly Meeting circulars, copy return and correspondence 6 relating to education of children of the wage-earning class. /Some printed/-
J 60 1889-1930 Birth note of Dorothy, daughter of C.E. and R.M. Rutter, 1 bundle 1889; letters concerning Rachel Mary Rutter's visits to Scarborough, Scotland, Canada, United States of America and Luho in China, 1925-1930.
j 61 1897-1961, Catalogues of documents at Mere, 1897* 1936; catalogue 1 bundle N.D. of books belonging to Meeting, 1899 /printed/; article on care of records from the Journal of the Friends' Historical Society, 1943 /printed/; correspondence about records, 1954-1961 and undated.
J 62 1932 Memorials of Dr Francis B Rutter of Mere, with letters. 1 bundle
MARNHULL PREPARATIVE MEETING
K 1 1802-1817 Minutes of meeting of Women Friends. 1 vol.
SHAFTESBURY PREPARATIVE MEETING
L 1 1804-1847 Minutes of meeting of Men Friends. 1 vol.
L 2 1818-1826 Minutes of meeting of Women Friends. /For minutes 1 vol. 1804-1815 see under Shaftesbury
L 3 1827-1837 Minutes cf meeting of Women Friends. 1 vol.
L 4 1837-1860 Minutes of meeting of Women Friends. I vol.
SHERBORNE AND MARNHULL PREPARATIVE MEETING (including Wincanton, Somerset).
M 1 1827-1859 Minutes. 1 vol,
M 2 .1859-1878 Minutes. 1 vol,
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WINCANTON PREPARATIVE MEETING
N 1 I896-I9O3 Minutes. 1 vol.
N 2 1907-1940 Accounts. 1 vol.
N 3 1884-1899 Certificates of registry of death, 1884-1899; counter 8 foils of burial notes and orders, with one note, I89O, 1892; plan of graves, undated.
N 4 1904-1907 Counterfoils of notices of removal. 1 vol.
N 5 1908,1909 Receipt and letter from Friends' Foreign Mission 14 Association, 1908; letter v/ith supply of forms for travel"ltijig expenses of representatives, 1909.
WILTON PREPARATIVE MEETING
0 1 1892-1899 Minutes. 1 vol.
MERE PREPARATIVE MEETING
P 1 I898-I9I4 Minutes. 1 vol.
REGISTERS (See also under Bridport, Shaftesbury and Shaftestur and Sherborne Monthly Meetings)
Q 1 1647- 1811 Births, marriages, deaths and burials for Painswick 1 vol. meeting, Gloucestershire. /Copy/'.
Q 2 1648- 1836 Births (i) Wiltshire (ii) Dorset and Hants. /Copy, 1 vol. alphabetically arranged^/7
Q 3 1659-1836 Burials (i) Wiltshire (ii) Dorset and Hants. /Copy, 1 vol. alphabetically arranged/.
Q 4 I668-I836 Marriages (i) Wiltshire, I668-I836, (ii) Dorset and 1 vol. Hants, I685-I836. ^/Copy, alphabetically arranged/7 .
DEEDS BRADFORD ABBAS
R i 1775 Messuage called New Leaze. (Gundry, Westley). 1 /interesting detail^ of husbandry. Connection with Quakers not obvious/. BRIDPORT R 2 1696,1725 Daniel Taylor's almshouse on east side of South Street. (Taylor, Trustees).
BRIDPORT, MARSHWOOD WHITCHURCH CANONICORUM
R 3 1648-1801 Messuage, barn and plot of land, later meeting house 63 and burial! ground on east side of South Street, Bridport, 1665-1715* with agreement relating to Porch House, l801; messuage and closes /field names/ at Dunster in Marshwood, 1665-I77T. with Pitfold marriage settlement, I665? Tenacres, Court Orchard and Bluntshay or Bluncey Mead,, part of Blunt shay farm in Whitchurch Canonicorum, j DORSET RECORD OFFICE
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1648-1745, including Knap, 1716, 1745; tenement and lands at Wildstoke, Whitchurch Canonicorum, 1659-1714; letters of administration for Robert Forsey of Knap, I698 and Edward Goodland of Wootton Fitzpaine, 1700, (How, Williams, Bragg, Eliot, Balston, Little, Davies, Stephens, Hardy, Hood, Samways, Quarks, Crocker, Lush, Studley, Gray, Nicholls, Pit-fold, Style, Hussey, Turner, Cross, Fossey, Pigot, Bull, Taylor, Trustees).
CORFE CASTLE
R 4 1690-1951 Will and codicil of William Keynell of Ailwood, 1689/90, 3 proved I69O; last appointment of new trustees of Ailwood estate (farmhouse and land), 1886; letter, 1951-
CORFE CASTLE, POOLS
R 5 1804,1850 Ailwood estate in Corfe Castle and Poole meeting house 11 1851 and burial ground: draft deeds and papers. (Trustees).
DORCHESTER
R 6 1840-184? Messuage on north side of Pease Lane ^/Colliton Stree^t/: 25 draft deeds and papers. (Trustees, Read, Weston).
DORCHESTER, LYME REGIS MARNHULL, WEYMOUTH
R 7 1833-1834 Messuage with burial place on north side of Pease Lane 5 /Colliton Street/, Dorchester; Quakers Burying Plot i n Pound Street, Lyme Regis, bounded by Stile Lane on west and north-west; meeting house and stable and land on north of street in Marnhuli; Quakers Burying Ground on Weymouth side and meeting house in St Thomas Street, Melcombe Regis. (Trustees).
LODERS
R 8 1704-1913 Pymore estate: Stratford Mead, Long Cross, Sweets Mow 25 or Sweet Mowers, Mill Mead or Pyemore Mead, Arrundeils, with papers, L704-1886: Charity Commissioners' scheme /copy/, 1913. (Plukenett, Toup, Gibbes, Taylor, Templer, Hounsell, Trustees),
LYME REGIS
R 9 1688-1828 Burial ground in Pound Street, I688-I789: will of John 11 Hutchings of Lyme Regis, 1823; copy letters about bequest towards upkeep of burial ground, 1820, 1828, (Trustees).
R 10 I85] Burial ground; draft deeds and papers. (Trustees, 14 Waring). DORSET RECORD OFFICE
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R 11 1744,1745 Articles of agreement for conveyance of messuage in 2 St James' parish, 1744; memorandum on titl e to house and lands, 1745. (Cary, Nickleson).
R 12 1830-1900 Cottage on east side of meeting house in St James' parish, I83O-I887; agreement for letting meeting house to Salvation Army, 1900. (Dowland, Bennett, Trustees, 12 Wright, Booth).
SHERBORNE
R 13 1678-1937, George Inn, part of which became meeting house, and N.D. burial ground, with plan in copy deed of l86l; deed of I678 also refers to messuages and named lands in Frome 33 Vauchurch and Maiden Newton and inn called Angel i n Yeovil, Somerset. Wills and inventories of William and John Scott of Sherborne, yeomen, 1700; plan of Mr Allen's house in Sherborne, undated. (Lockett, Chettle, Pitt, Chaffin, Scott, Butt, Trustees, Allen, Wesleyan Methodist Church).
R 14 1839-1846 Messuage in Cheap Street, meeting house and parts of 23 George Inn: draft deeds, 1839 and correspondence, 1839-1846. (Trustees).
WEYMOUTH
R 15 1670-1789, Messuage on east side of St Thomas Street, Melcombe 17 1902 Regis, on south side of White Hart Inn, from I762 called Quaker Meeting House, I7OI-I789; bonds, I67O, 1677, 1703; probate copy of will of Dorothy Burrod, made 1718, proved 1721;letter, 1902. (Pitt, Wyer. Burrard, Payne, Rawse, Norman, Trustees, Morris).
R 16 1702-1789, Burial ground on Weymouth side and adjacent land, 1702 14 1925 1789; part of sheet LIII.10 of O.S. 1/2500 map of Weymouth, undated /Tst edition7 (Laurence, Langrish, Percy, Herbert, Trustees).
HAMPSHIRE
R 17 1794-1802 Probate copy of will of John Poynter late of Guildford 1 Surrey, subsequently of Alton, Plants, 1794, proved 1801, leaving £99 for poor of Guildford Monthly Meeting and leasehold messuage in Lenton Lane, Alton for benefit of poor of Alton Monthly Meeting; Stamp Office receipt, l802.
R 18 I835, N.D. Meeting houses and. burial grounds at Alton, Banghurst, 5 Basingstoke, Bramshott, Whitchurch: draft deeds and abstracts. (Trustees).
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HAMPSHIRE, WILTSHIRE
R 19 1830-1846 Meeting houses and burial grounds at Fordingbridge, 11 Southampton and Swanmore, Hants; Carisbrooke, I.O.W.; Salisbury, Wilts: draft deeds and abstracts. (Trustees).
SOMERSET
R 20 1680/1-1933 Bristowe s Hayes on south side of High Street, Wincanton, 46 1680/1-1792; adjacent messuage, from 1791 described as adjoining Dolphin Inn, I768-I827; both properties, 1827, I83I; agreement about doorway, 1866. Copywills of George Ccnway of Wincanton, alehouse keeper, with inventory, 1698, Thomas Brooks of Wincanton, gentleman, 1782-3, Robert Bessant of Wincanton, maltster, 1815 and Revd J Radford of Wincanton, 1828, proved 1829. Grant of chattels (Jewell), 1754. Charity Commission's schemes for Bracher charity, 1933- (Conway, Vining, Ivey, Sheppard, Wadman, Henbury, Goldsbrough, Jefferies, Jewell, Herman, Hallet, Way, Joie, Brooks, Harris, Smith, Ellis , Bessant, Kenaston, Pitman, Webb, Sweatman, Lapham, Howes, Radford, Deane, Bracher, White, Gapper).
WILTSHIRE
R 21 1705 Copy wills of Elizabeth Dunn of Fovant, leaving land 2 for burial ground.
CHANNEL ISLANDS
R 22 1810-1836 Letter of attorney to Friends to buy ground in Guernsey 10 and build meeting house, 1810; records of ground at top of La Rue Berthsot in St Peter Port, l8ll, 1820, with judgement on right of way to burial ground, 1836; conveyance of burial ground in East Wellington Street, St Helier, Jersey, 1833 /copy/, with letters. /Some French, with translations/.
PROPERTY AND CHARITIES Accounts S 1 1701-1721 Account of mortgage on Joseph Goulding's estate: totals 2 of disbursements, 1705-1720.
S 2 1756-1788 William Howard's charity for apprenticing poor boys 9 and girls at Poole: accounts, 1763-88, with notes from 1756; apprenticeship indenture of Ralph Norman to James Norman of Poole, clock and watchmaker, 1760; receipts, certificates and letters, 1778-86. /One letter concerns tobacco; no apparent connection with charity/.
s 3 1809-1879 Accounts for property in Bridport and Bluncey /5luntshay/j . vol. Dunster and Wildstoke in Marshwood and Whitchurch . doc . Canonicorum. Loose: notice of letting Dunster farm, l86l. DORSET RECORD OFFICE
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PROPERTY AND CHARITIES contd Accounts contd S 4 1818-1878 Committee of Dorset Friends: trust accounts for Ailwood 1 vol. estate (Corfe Castle), 1855-I878, (East) Chelborough annuities, I869-I878, Dorchester late meeting house, I818-I83O, Marnhull meeting house, I877-I878, Pymore estate (Loders), I827-I878, Sherborne meeting house, cottage in George Yard and house in Cheap Street, I868-I878, Weymouth meeting house, I828-I858, Wincanton meeting house, 1869-I878; accounts with Wilts and Dorset Bank, I863-I868, Bridport Savings Bank, 1872-1877 and Bridport Railway Co, 1868-1877; poor and discretionary cash accounts, 1849-1878; some memoranda on properties.
S 5 1840-1851 Dorset Cash Committee: accounts. 1 vol.
S 6 1855-1881 Dorset Cash Committee: minutes and accounts. 1 vol.
S 7 1873-1881 Dorset Cash Committee: vouchers. 1 bundle
S 8 1855-1859 Accounts for Dorset Charities: Ailwood estate (in 1 vol. Corfe Castle), Bridport meeting house and Dunster estate (in Marshwood), Pymore estate (in Loders), Shaftesbury meeting house, George Inn, Sherborne, Weymouth meeting house and burial ground. At front: questions and replies on above charities with Marnhull meeting house and Fry1 s, Sherborne.
S 9 1853-1884 Tenants' accounts for Dorset charities. 1 vol. Loose: insurance receipts and correspondence, 1880-1. 6 docs.
S 10 I883, Statements of account of charities under care of 16 1894-1902 Shaftesbury and Sherborne Monthly Meeting, with blank and specimen forms: Ailwood estate, Bridport meeting house and Dunster estate, East Chelborough rent charge (Steele's fund), Marnhull meeting house, Pymore estate, Shaftesbury meeting house, Fry's and George Inn, Sherborne; blank form of statement for charities under care of Poole and Southampton Monthly Meeting, undated.
Schedules S 11 1689-1862) Copy deeds of Ailwood estate, I689-I85O; Bridport 1 vol. Almshouse, I696-I833; Bridport meeting house and Dunster estate, 1720-1862; Pymore estate, 1704-1862; Shaftesbury meeting house and burial ground, 1745-1829; Sherborne meeting house, 1693-1839; house called Pry's in Cheap Street, Sherborne, I706-I839.
12 1822-1823, Account of estates, meeting houses, burial grounds etc 5 vols, N.D. belonging to Dorset Quakers: Ailwood estate, Ashgrove burial ground, Bridport meeting house and tenements, burial ground, Bull Inn, Bridport Almshouse, Chelborough estate, Corfe meeting house, Dorchester meeting house and burial ground, Dunster, Bluncey /pluntshay/7 and Wildstoke estates (in Marshwood and Whitchurch Canoni corum) j Lyme Regis burial ground, Marnhull meeting house,! Foole meeting house;, Poole apprentice and other monies; Pymore estate, Shaftesbury meeting house, Sherborne meeting house, Fry's and George Inn, Sherborne, Weymouth meeting house and tenements, burial ground.
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Schedules contd
s 13 1824 Notes of properties in Dorset, Hants and Wilts, compiled 1 vol. for Poole and Southampton Monthly Meeting: Ailwood estate, Bristowe and Gyes legacies, Chelborough estate, Dorchester meeting house and burial ground, Dunster, Bluncey and Wildstoke estates, Fordingbridge meeting house, Howard legacy, Newport house, Poole meeting house, Pymore estate, Ringwood meeting house, Salisbury meeting house, house and burial ground, Sherborne meeting house, George Inn and house, Southampton meeting house and burial ground, Weymouth meeting house, White and Nickleson's gift, White's legacy, burial grounds i n Guernsey and Jersey.
S 14 1848 Schedule of deeds and records deposited in iron chest 2 vols, at Shaftesbury relating to properties of General Meeting of Dorset and Hants: Ailwood, Alresford, Alton, Andover, Ashgrove, Banghurst, Basingstoke, Bramshott, Carisbrooke, Chelborough, Dunster, Bluncey and Wildstoke, Fordingbridge, Fovant, Guernsey, Jersey, Lyme Regis, Marnhull, Newport, Poole, Pymore, Ringwood, Salisbury, Shaftesbury, Sherborne, Southampton, Swanmore, Weyrnouth, Whaddon, Whitchurch and legacies; lis t of minute books, sufferings and other records.
s 15 1849 Schedule of deeds relating to properties within the 1 vol, compass of Shaftesbury and Sherbome Monthly Meeting: Ashgrove burial ground, Bridport meeting house and burial ground, Chelborough rents, Dunstree, Blu0.003 and Wildstoke estates, Fovant burial ground, Lyme Rfegis burial ground, Marnhull meeting house and burial ground, Pymore estate, Shaftesbury freeholds, meeting house and burial ground, Shaftesbury copyholds, cottage and garden, Weymouth meeting house.
S 16 1850 Account of charities belonging to Friends in Somerset, 1 vol, with constitution of committee and extracts from minutes of Somerset Quarterly Meeting relating to distribution. (Includes estate at East Chelborough). printed/.
S 17 1870 Particulars of trusts and trust properties belonging 2 vols, to Bristol and Somerset Quarterly Meeting, with reports
and( extracts from minutes. /printed with ms. additions/
s 18 1872 List of properties belonging to Western Quarterly 1 vol. Meeting. /Printed/.
s 19 1772-1849, Papers relating to deeds and compilation of schedules. 1 bundle N.D.
Estate papers Dorset S 20 1801,N.D. BRIDPORT: copy covenant relating to doorway at Porch 2 House, 1801j memorandum about Bull Inn (Daniel Taylor1 s charity), undated /watermark 1824/.
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Bundle No. Date Description of Documents No. of Documents PROPERTY ANlR3JArU?riES conEa Estate papers contd Dorset contd S 21 1715-1732 CHELBOROUGH, EAST: copy will of William Steele leaving 3 estate for charitable uses, 1715, proved I715/6, with opinion, undated; survey of estate, 1732.
S 22 1771,1923, CORPE CASTLE: bill for taxes on Ailwood estate, 1771; 3 1924 correspondence, 1923-1924.
s 23 1878-1930 MARNHULL: tenancy agreement with Marnhull Temperance 11 Society for meeting house, 1878; correspondence about halls and burial ground, 1880, 1888, 1923-1930; sale particulars of small holdings, 1913.
S 24 1801-1906 MARSHWOOD, Dunster estate: papers about right of way, 11 l801-l8ll; papers about timber, I8l4-l8l8; note of timber at Dunster, Pymore estate in LODERS and Knap estate in Wildstoke, WHITCHURCH CANONICORUM, undated; letter, 1906.
s 25 I746-I928 SHAFTESBURY: bills, 1746-1850, including some for 36 building meeting house, 1746-1747 and women's meeting house, I786-I787; papers about new meeting house at Gold Hill, 1904; extinguishment of tithe, 1928.
S 26 17^7 SHAFTESBURY: letters to Thomas Nickleson of Poole 3 about his uncle Nathaniel Tilly's bequest to build a meeting house.
s 27 1863-1909 SHERBORNE: tenancy agreements for burial ground and 16 cottages, I863, 187''- 1878; plans and papers relating to alterations to George yard, 1885; other papers, 1885-1909.
S 28 1806-1906, WEYMOUTH: papers relating to burial ground,JL8o6, 10 N.D. 1873-1906 and undated, including plan /copy/, 1873'
Somerset s 29 1911-1931 WLNCANTON: papers, including plan for two cottages, 4 1931.
Wiltshire s 30 1844-1960, Papers concerning burial ground at Ashgrove /in 24 N.D. DONHEAD ST MARY/7, given by William Fry in 1655, with notes of burials, 1678-1775; notes about history and ten-yearly pilgrimages to maintain right of way: abstract of deed of settlement of 1700; draft conveyance to new Trustees, 1882; plan, undated; two photographs of Ashgrove farmhouse, 1905; A Short Account of the Family of Fry of Ashgrove, Wilts, by E A Fry, 1895; pedigree of Fry family, I89O.
General s 31 1768-1924, Bill for drawing deeds, 1776; reports and correspondence 12 N.D. concerning various properties, 1840-1915 anfl undated; bye laws of Quarterly Meeting's committee for the management of charitable trusts, 1689; Charity Commission's scheme for Howard, charity, Poole, 1924; case and opinions on application of Act for procuring returns of charitable donations, 1768 /copies7. DORSET RECORD OFFICE
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MAPS DORSET
T 1 1835 Plan of Porch House premises, BRIDPORT, showing meeting l house, dwelling houses, old and new burial grounds, spinning ways and cottages.
T 2 1821 Lands of William Steele's Trust in EAST CHELBOROUGH, 1 with survey, /copy/7 .
m 5 N.D. Ailwood estate, CORFE CASTLE, with survey and note of 1 trees.
f ii. 1829 Pymore estate i n LODERS, with survey. /Copy/. i
T 5 N.D. Dunster estate in MARSHWOOD, with survey. 1
T 6 N.D. Bluntshay estate in WHITCHURCH CANONICORUM, with survey. i
T 7 1389-1890 Ordnance Survey 1/500 maps, 1889, showing Daniel Taylor'sj 9 charity lands, BRIDPORT (Dorset sheets XXXVIII.10.7,12) and George Yard and Cheap Street, SHERBORNE (VI.13,2,7); j 1/2500 maps, I889-I89O, showing Ailwood estate, CORFE CASTLE (LVT.8), Pymore estate, LODERS (XXXVIII.2,6) and Dunster estate, MARSHWOOD (XXVTII.16).
SOMERSET
T 8 c 1861 Lands in GLASTONBURY, KING? S SEDGEMOOR and STREET, 1 corrected to l86l, with survey. /Copy/.
I 9 11821,1842 Land In LONG SUTTON, 1821, corrected to 1842, with 1 survey. /Copy/.
T 10 1811,1842 Land of Quarterly Meeting Trust in YATTON, 1821, 1 corrected 1842, with survey. /Copy/.
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T 11 N.D. Plan of burial ground. I
MISCELLANEOUS
V 1 1657/8 Account of debts paid by Joan Rogers on her husband's 1854,N.D. death, 1657/3; doctor's bill for William Ham, 1784; letter about committees, 1854; answers to queries, undated.
V 2 1676-1821 "Sundry Old Papers"; loose documents, mainly originals, i vol. pasted into album. Many concern Bristol and Gloucester shire, including letter /defective/ of George Whitehead to Friends i n Gloucester, l68l.
v 3 ! 1762-1821 Epistle to Friends i n Great Britain from Thomas p vols. Nicholson in North Carolina, USA, 1762; Reasons for the Necessity of Silent Waiting, by Mary Brook, London, j 1775; Cave's Epistle to Gillingham, 1787; Life of Gilbert Latey, by R Hawkins, London, 1821 (first printed 1707). /Printed7. DORSET RECORD OFFICE
Bundle No. Date Description of Documents No. of Documents MISCELLAEN6US contd
V 4 1778-1825 Minutes of Yearly Meeting and Meeting for Sufferings 4 concerning foundation of Quaker School at Ackworth, Yorkshire, I778-I78O; memoranda about letters and transactions concerning admittance of Dorset children, I782-I825; lists of Dorset children admitted to Ackworth, Croydon and Islington schools. /Some printed/.
V 1 5 1778-1924 Anti-war papers: case respecting a Friend s refusing to 34 be drawn into militia, with opinion and letter of Moses Neave, 1778; clause of Militia Act, 1779; testimonies against war, posters etc, 1852-1924 and^undated; memoranda on drill in schools, 1903- /Mainly printed/.
V 6 1778-1960 Papers relating to Friends' relief work and various 1 bundle appeals for funds needed in England, Finland, Germany, Macedonia, Russia, Jamaica, Philadelphia, Pemba and South Africa, /viainly printed/7 .
V 7 ?1795-1821 "An Account of Ministering Friends from Europe who 1 vol. visited America," (I656-I821); "Ministering Friends who went from Pennsylvania and New Jersey to visit England and Ireland," (1693-1821); notes included from 1794.
V 8 1810 "Some pious breathings and Reflections of the late 2 Hester Were," 1808-9, with note by Elizabeth Ash, l8l0.
V 9 1820 Digest of Legislative Enactments relating to the Society 1 vol. of Friends, by Joseph Davis, Bristol, 1820. /Printed/7 .
V 10 1859 Act to settle form of affirmation. /Printed/7 . 1
V 11 1885 Advertisement of two-horse omnibus to be run by William 1 Butler between Mere and Gillingham station. /Printed,/.
V 12 N.D. Collins' Railway Map of Dorset, used to show division 1 of county into two Monthly Meetings, in 1668 and four in I69O, locations of meetings in 1668 and I69O and some places where Friends lived, 1690-1855-
V 13 N.D. Extracts from minutes of Dorset Quarterly meeting, with 1 vol. index.
V 14 N.D. Extracts from minutes of Dorset and Hants Quarterly vol. Meeting, 1804-1839, with index.
V 15 N.D. Extracts from account of sufferings in Dorset, 1659 1 vol 1717; George Fox'3 advice to those attending meetings; introduction of Quakerism into Pcole, 1680; account of "crusts, gifts and. meeting houses, 1724.
V 16 N.D. Summaries of deeds relating to Wiltshire properties; 1 vol. extracts from book of sufferings concerning William Fry of Ashgrove and others; extracts from burial registers for Bromham, Chippenharn, Devizes, Fovant, Lee and Brinkworth, Marlborough, Pickwick, Purton, Stanton, Tytherton and Warminster. DORSET RECORD OFFICE
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MISCELLANEOUS contd
V 17 N.D. Extracts from burial registers for Ashgrove, Bridport, 1 vol. Cerne, Corfe and Furbeck, Hawkchurch, Lyme Regis, Marnhull, Poole, Ryme, Salisbury, Shaftesbury, Sherborne, Weymouth, Yeovil; extracts from minutes of various monthly meetings.
V 18 N.D. Historical notes and extracts, with two picture-postcards 19 Clarance family V 19 1805-1808 Journal of Richard Clarance, linendraper of London. 1 vol. V 20 1808-1820 Journal of Richard Clarance. V 21 I807-I825 Copy will of Charles Clarance of Corringham, Essex, (1804) (testator died 1807) with executors' accounts, 1 vol. 1807-1825; abstract of marriage settlement of Charles Clarance and Louisa Richardson, (1788).