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A-Z by surname Author & Title Place & Date of Publication ABBOT OF SHERBORNE, THE Sherborne, Weekly newspaper printed at the County Printing Works, Cheap Street, Sherborne. 1886-1887 Vol.1, no.1, 24 June 1886-Vol.2, no.31, 13 January 1887. (Bound volume)

[Written and produced by staff of Sherborne School: Alfred Charles Clapin (1826-1924), Alexander Davidson Longmuir (c.1838-1891), Louis Napoleon Parker (1852-1944), Walter Raymond (1852-1931), William Beauchamp Wildman (1852-1922), Edward Mallet Young (1839-1900)]

ANON 1642 The Newest and Truest and most unpartiall Relation of all the late occurrence which hath happened at Sherbourne-Castle, and thereabouts. Being the extract of divers severall letters, sent from worthy persons of good credit and qualitie, to a speciall friend in London. Printed 14 September 1642.

Contains: The Latest Relation from Sherburn-Castle by A.W. Another Letter from Sherborn-Castle.

Bookplate: Ernest E. Baker, F.S.A.

Donated to Sherborne School by E.E. Baker, 8 April 1920. With a covering letter from E.E. Baker, 8 April 1920. [Euston Edward Francis Baker (1895-1981), attended Sherborne School (Abbeylands) 1908-1914]

ANON London, Propositions propounded by the Marquesse of Hartford, to the Earle of Bedford, 1642 concerning the delivering up of Sherbourne-Castle. Also declaring how the Earle of Bedford, after his arrival at Yeavel, within three miles of Sherbourne, surprised Squire Rogers, as he was going to relieve the Marquesse of Hartford, with 7 other Cavaliers, which are known to be notorious Papists, who had under their command neere three hundred men well horsed. Likewise how the Lord Marquesse of Hartford sallied out of the Castle, and made up to their rescue, but was repulst by the troops of the E. of Bedford. Also a true information how the Earle of Bedford tooke eight hundred pounds, which Squire Rogers did intend for the relief of the said Marquesse. London, printed for Henry Fowler, 17 September 1642.

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ANON Sherborne, Happy Newes from Sherborn, and Sherborne Castle: relating the death of Colonel 1891 Lunsford, the Lord Paulet, and divers other persons of quality, the taking of divers prisoners, and great store of armes from the Cavaliers. Written in a letter from [J.W.] Dorchester to Master Nicholas Skinner a merchant of London, declaring the happy successe of the Parliaments Forces, against the Cavaliers betwixt Sherborne and Yeavell. Also a true copy of the last petition sent by both Houses of Parliament to His Majestie. Originally printed in London for F. Cowles, 1642. Reprinted Sherborne by J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, 1891. (2 copies)

Given to Sherborne School by Messrs Sawtell of Sherborne, n.d. [c.1891]

ANON London & Dorsetshire. Manchester, London & Manchester, Pigot & Co., 1839. 1839

ANON Sherborne, Restoration of the Lady Chapel at Sherborne Abbey. Appeal, November 1922. 1922 Sherborne, F. Bennett & Co. Ltd., 1922.

ANON Hereford, Who’s Who in Dorset. 1934 Hereford, Wilson & Phillips, 1934.

ANON Marnhull, The Church of St. Gregory, Marnhull, Dorset. c.1960 Marnhull, Sharp & Saunders, c.1960.

Bequeathed to Sherborne School Library by M.E.K. Westlake, c.1987. [Max Edward Kenneth Westlake (1895-1987), attended Sherborne School (Abbey House) 1910-1914; Assistant Master at Sherborne School 1923-1962].

ANON Sherborne, Sandford Orcas and the Parish Church of St. Nicholas. 1962 Sherborne, The Abbey Press, 1962.

ANON Portesham, The Church of Saint Peter, Portesham, Dorset. Illustrated Guide by H.J. 1963 Portesham, 1963.

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ANON Weymouth, The History of St. Mary’s Church, Stratton. 1963 Midsummer Festival 21-24 June 1963. Weymouth, Jeffery Bros. Ltd., 1963.

ANON Swanage, The Church of St. James, Kingston, Dorset. c.1965 Swanage, Bartlett & son., c.1965.

ANON Weymouth, St. Laurence’s Church, Affpuddle. 1965 Weymouth, Jeffery Bros. Ltd., 1965.

ANON Verwood, Cranborne with Boveridge. 1966 Verwood Printery Ltd., 1966.

ANON Sherborne, St. Andrew’s Church, Trent. 1967 Sherborne, Sawtells, 1967.

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ANON Dorchester, Notes on St. Mary’s Church, Cerne Abbas, Dorset. c.1970 Dorchester, Wm. Pitfield & Co., c.1970.

ANON 1970 Portland Castle, Dorset. Ministry of Public Building and Works, Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1970.

ANON Dorchester, Short History of Saint Nicholas Church, Moreton. Concluding with a notes on the apse c.1975 windows. Dorchester, Henry Ling Ltd., The Dorset Press, c.1975.

ANON n.d. St. Peter’s Church, Purse Caundle. n.d.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, THE London, Memoirs illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Bristol, and the Western Counties of 1853 Great Britain, with some other communications, made to the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, held at Bristol, July 29 to August 5, 1851. London, 1853.

Includes articles by Thomas Garrard, Samuel Lucas, William Tyson, George Ormerod, John Gough Nichols, Joseph Burtt, James Yates, J.H. Markland, John Bindon, E.W. Godwin, Charles Winston, J.A. Clark, E.W. Godwin, Rev John Louis Petit FSA (Sherborne, Dorset, read by Rev. J.L. Petit at Oxford in 1850, with illustrations by J.L. Petit), Rev. H.T. Ellacombe, Lewis Way, James Lee Warner.

Donated to Sherborne School Library, 1935.

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, THE London, The Archaeological Journal. 1857 Volume XIV. London, 1857.

Includes articles by Rev. John Collingwood Bruce, William Burges, Hon., Lord Neaves, John Hill Burton, Weston S. Walford & Albert Way, Edwin Guest, John Mitchell Kemble, Rev. Edward Trollope, Weston S. Walford, Alexander Nesbitt, Charles Winston, Mark Napier, Rev. J.G. Cumming, John Hobson Hinde, John Robson, W. Hylton-Dyer Longstaff.

Also includes the Proceedings at the meetings of the Archaeological Institute, December 1856-June 1857 (inc. account by J.H. Le Keux of recent discoveries in Sherborne, illustrated by the Rev. John Louis Petit FSA).

AYRES, Joseph (-1823) London, The Young Ladies’ Practical Arithmetic; Containing Such Rules Only As Are Really Necessary 1824 to be Learned by Females; Exemplified by Appropriate Questions on Each; and Containing Various Forms of Bills of Parcels, Receipts, Promissory Notes. London, George B. Whittaker, 1824 (3rd ed.)

[Joseph Ayres was a draughtsman and printer. He was employed as a writing master and teacher of mathematics at Sherborne School, c.1800; and was Headmaster of Foster’s School, Sherborne]

Presented to Sherborne School by William Elton, 1 July 1895. [William Elton (1865-1931) attended Sherborne School (Abbey House) 1879-1885]

[Formerly MISC.4/28]

BACKHOUSE, Janet London, The Sherborne Missal. 1999 The British Library, London, 1999.

BARKER, Katherine Sherborne, Sherborne: St. Aldhelm and Before. An illustrated guide to the early growth of a Dorset 1982 country town. Sherborne, The Abbey Press, 1982.

BARKER, Katherine Stanbridge, Sherborne Camera. 1990 Stanbridge, The Dovecote Press Ltd., 1990.

BARKER, Katherine. Sherborne, William Charles Macready, The Sherborne Literary Institution and Charles Dickens. 2012 Friends of Sherborne House, Centenary Facsimile edition, 2012.

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BOSWELL, Edward (1760-1842) Sherborne, The Civil Division of the County of Dorset, methodically digested and arranged. 1795 Sherborne, W. Cruttwell, 1795 (1st ed.)

[The author a Sherborne solicitor. Contains varied factual information: lists of JPs, details of all charities; statistical tables of rates; lists of bridges].

Inscribed ‘Penny’.

Donated to Sherborne School Library by W.J. Bensly, 1928. [William James Bensly (1874- 1943) attended Sherborne School (School House) 1888-1893, and returned as an assistant master 1905-1913, 1919-1934]

BOSWELL, Edward (1760-1842) Dorchester, The Civil Division of the County of Dorset… also an appendix, containing abstracts of 1833 returns of charitable donations, corrected to the present time. Dorchester, Weston, Simonds, and Sydenham, 1833 (2nd ed.)

BUTT, George Medd (1797-1860) Sherborne, Sherborne Castle. A descriptive poem, in two cantos, with other pieces of Verse. 1815 Printed by Cruttwell, Sherborne, and published by Penny and Hodges, October 1815.

Also includes the following poems: ‘Henry and Anna, A Ballad’, ‘To a Gentleman, on his presenting the author with the poems of Cowper’, ‘Sorrow, Pity, and the Muse’, ‘Lines occasioned by H.R.H. the Princess Charlotte’s visit to Earl Digby, at Sherborne Castle, November 9, 1814’, ‘The Tear of the Brave’, ‘Strephon and Love’, ‘Lines on the Conclusion of Peace with America, December, 1814’, ‘Waterloo’, ‘The Celestial Decree’. With a list of subscribers.

[G.M. Butt was bound as an apprentice at Cruttwell’s Journal in Sherborne, during which time he wrote and published this volume of poetry (aged 18), raising £100 by subscription. Later, he established himself in the legal profession and was appointed a QC. He also served as MP for Weymouth. Following his death on 11 November 1860, a memorial window was installed in the south aisle of Sherborne Abbey]

CHESTERMAN, Lawrence James Gloucester, The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Bradford Abbas, Dorset. c.1963 Gloucester, The British Publishing Co. Ltd., c.1963.

CLARK, Ann (ed.) Dorchester, Sherborne Almshouse Register. 2013 Dorset Record Society, vol. 17, 2013.

COADE, Thorold Francis (1896-1963) London, The Burning Bow. T.F. Coade of Bryanston. A Selection of his Papers. 1966 London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1966. 6

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COCKBURN, Elizabeth O. Sherborne, Sherborne Silk Mills and Marglass. 1984 Sherborne Historical Society Fowler Lecture, 29 March 1984. Sherborne, 1984.

COCKBURN, Elizabeth O. Sherborne, Sherborne Silk Mills and Marglass. 1991 Sherborne, 1991 (2nd ed.)

COCKBURN, Elizabeth O. & GORDON, J. Elise Sherborne, The Story of the Yeatman Hospital 1866-1966. 1966 Friends of the Yeatman Hospital. Sherborne, Sawtells of Sherborne Ltd., 1966.

COKER, Rev. John London, A Survey of Dorsetshire. Containing the Antiquities and Natural History of that County, 1732 with a … description of all the places of note... and a genealogical account of three hundred of the principal families. Written by the Reverend Mr Coker of Mapowder. London, J. Wilcox, 1732

Acquired by Sherborne School, c.1896.

COLLINSON, John (1757-1793) Bath, 1791 The History and antiquities of the county of Somerset. Bath, R. Cruttwell, 1791. Taunton, 3 volumes. 1898

Index to Collinson’s History of Somerset. Taunton, Barnicott & Pearce, Athenaeum Press, 1898.

COOKE, Robert Athelhampto Athelhampton. n, 1970 Athelhampton, 1970 (7th ed.)

COX, Eric H. Yeovil, 1970 Corscombe. Yeovil, 1970.

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DALE, Charles William (1851-1906) London, The History of Glanville’s Wootton, in the County of Dorset, including its zoology and 1878 botany. London, Hatchards, 1878.

Annotated.

Signed by the author.

Presented to Sherborne School Library by C.W. Dale.

DENSHAM, William and OGLE, Joseph Bournemout The Story of the Congregational Churches of Dorset, from their foundation to the present h, 1899 time. Bournemouth, W. Mate & Sons, Ltd., 1899.

Pasted into the back of the volume is a letter from Joseph Ogle at the Manse, Sherborne, Dorset, to Mr Ffooks, dated 7 August 1896.

DORCHESTER AND SHERBORNE JOURNAL AND TAUNTON AND SOMERSETSHIRE HERALD, 1801-1804 THE Printed by Cruttwell & Son, Sherborne, and published in Dorchester, and by T. Norris, in Taunton. Vol.37, no.1973 (2 January 1801)-Vol.40, no.2173 (28 December 1804).

Donated to Sherborne School, April 1910.

EVERED, Guy (ed.) Norwich, Milton Abbey, Dorset. An Illustrated Guide. 1968 Norwich, Jarrold & Sons Ltd., 1968.

Bequeathed to Sherborne School Library by Mrs I.A.H. Rogers, wife of Michael James Rogers (Harper House, 1923) and mother of Jonathan Digby Rogers (Abbey House 1962- 1966).

EVERETT, C.R. Devizes, Notes on the Prebendal Mansion of Sherborne Monastery commonly called The King’s 1936 House in the Close of Sarum (1220-1850). Reprinted from the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, no.clxiv (1936). Printed by C.H. Woodward, Devizes.

Bequeathed to Sherborne School Library by Mrs Louisa Bow, September 1988.

EYTON, Robert William (1815-1881) London, A key to Domesday, showing the method and exactitude of its mensuration, and the 1878 precise meaning of its more usual formulæ. The subject being specially exemplified by an analysis and digest of the Dorset survey. London, Taylor & Co., 1878.

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FFOOKS, Edward Cambridge (1896-1956) Welwyn The Family of Ffooks of Sherborne in the County of Dorset. Garden City, Privately Printed. 1958 Welwyn Garden City, The Alcuin Press, 1958.

Donated to Sherborne School Library by A.B. Gourlay, 1971.

FOOKES, C.H.R. Dorchester, Milton Abbas, Dorset. c.1970 Dorchester, c.1970.

FOWLER, Joseph (1872-1958) Sherborne, The Stones of Sherborne Abbey. c.1938 Friend of Sherborne Abbey, Sawtells of Sherborne, c.1938.

FOWLER, Joseph (1872-1958) Sherborne, Sherborne Behind the Seen. A Description of Sherborne Scenery, its nature and history in 1936 its relation to the underlying rocks. Illustrated by Hubert Jones, Sherborne, J.C. & A.T. Sawtell, Ltd., 1936.

FOWLER, Joseph (1872-1958) Dorchester, Mediaeval Sherborne. 1951 Dorchester, Longmans Ltd., 1951.

FOWLER, Joseph (1872-1958) Sherborne, Saint Aldhelm: First Abbot of Malmesbury, First Bishop of Sherborne/ St Aldhelm: Scholar, 1947 Minstrel, Abbot and Bishop. Sherborne, Sawtells, 1947.

FOWLER, Joseph (1872-1958) London, The Oldest Extant Minutes of a meeting of the Governors of Sherborne School. 1943 Reprinted from The Archaeological Journal, Vol. XCIX, London, 1943.

Inscribed: ‘With compliments from Joseph Fowler’.

FOWLER, Joseph (1872-1958) Dorchester, Highmores Hill Outlier, Sherborne. 1944 Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1943, Vol. 65, 1944, pages 157-162.

Inscribed ‘With the writer’s compliments’.

FRANCIS, Patrick Simon London & Vivat Shirburnia. Sherborne School and the Great War, 1914-1918. Oxford, 2014 London & Oxford, Impress, 2014. 9

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FRANCIS-JONES, R.C. (ed.) [c.2000] Downside and the War 1939-1945. Containing memoirs of Old Gregorians who lost their lives during the Second World War. St Gregory’s Society, [c.2000]

GIBB, James Hamilton Percival (1919-2005) 1975 The Anglo-Saxon Cathedral at Sherborne. With an appendix on documentary evidence by R.D.H. Gem. Reprinted from The Archaeological Journal, Vol. 132, 1975. The Royal Archaeological Institute.

GIBB, James Hamilton Percival (1919-2005) Sherborne, The Battle of the Fonts and the Great Fire of Sherborne Abbey. c.1985 Sherborne, c.1985.

GIBB, James Hamilton Percival (1919-2005) Sherborne, The Book of Sherborne. 1981 Buckingham, Barracuda Books Ltd., 1981.

GIBB, James Hamilton Percival (1919-2005) Sherborne, Fan Vaults and Medieval Sculpture of Sherborne Abbey. Photographs by John Keeling. c.1980 Friends of Sherborne Abbey, c.1980.

GIBB, James Hamilton Percival (1919-2005) c.1990 The Almshouse of SS. John, Sherborne. Beric Tempest, Great Britain, c.1990.

GIBB, James Hamilton Percival (1919-2005) Sherborne, The Saxon Cathedral at Sherborne. An Account of Excavations carried out by Sherborne c.1969 School Archaeological Society 1964-1968. Reprinted from ‘The Shirburnian’, 1969. Sherborne, c.1969.

GIBB, James Hamilton Percival (1919-2005) Sherborne, Sherborne Abbey. Walk Round Guide. 1985 Friends of Sherborne Abbey, 1985.

GIBB, James Hamilton Percival (1919-2005) Sherborne, The Sherborne Conduit. c.2003 Sherborne, Shelleys, c.2003.

GIBB, James Hamilton Percival (1919-2005) & HAYWARD, John Sherborne, The Stained Glass of Sherborne Abbey. c.1998 Friends of Sherborne Abbey, c.1998.

GOOD, Ronald. Wimborne, The Lost Villages of Dorset. 1979 The Dovecote Press, Wimborne, 1979.

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GOODDEN, Cecil Phelips (1879-1969) Sherborne, The Story of the Sherborne Pageant. 1905 Sherborne, F. Bennett, 1905.

GOURLAY, Arthur Bellyse (1907-1976) Winchester, History of Sherborne School . 1951 Winchester, Warren & Son Ltd., 1951.

GOURLAY, Arthur Bellyse (1907-1976) Sherborne, History of Sherborne School. 1971 Sherborne, Sawtells of Sherborne Ltd., 1971.

GRAHAM, Edward Dorchester, Memorials of Wessex. 1933 Dorchester, F.G. Longman, The Friary Press, 1933.

Inscribed: ‘D.B. Eperson’. Stamped: ‘Sherborne School History Faculty Library’

GRAY, Harold St. George (1872-1966) Taunton, Index to "Excavations in Cranborne Chase" and "King John's House, Tollard Royal." Also a 1905 memoir of General Pitt-Rivers ... and a bibliographical list of his works, 1858-1900. Volume V of the "Excavation series". Published by the author at Taunton Castle, Somerset, 1905.

GREEN, Emanuel Taunton, Bibliotheca Somersetensis: a catalogue of books, pamphlets (&c.) connected with 1902 Somerset. Taunton, 1902. 3 volumes.

[An inventory of all books, deeds, documents and articles concerning Somerset]

Acquired c.1902.

HARSTON, Edward (1812-1873) London, A Handbook to the Abbey Church of S. Mary, Sherborne. 1858. London, John Henry & James Parker, 1858.

Inscribed: ‘J.E. Moor. From Mrs Knight’, ‘William Hammond, Liskeard’. Donated to Sherborne School Library by W. Hammond, 1916. [William Hammond (1848- 1924) attended Sherborne School (Foundationer & School House) 1857-1866. Librarian and Curator at the Grand Lodge Library and Museum]

[HARSTON, Edward (1812-1873)] Sherborne, Some account of Wolsey’s Great Bell, in Sherborne Abbey Church, by the Vicar [Edward 1866 Harston, Vicar of Sherborne 1854-1868], with the sermon preached by the Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of Salisbury, on the occasion of the dedication of the bell, which has been re- cast, to the service of God, on Tuesday, the 2nd of January, 1866. Sherborne, James Ellis, 1866. 11

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HILL, Shelagh M. Dorchester, Sherborne House and its people. 1996 Dorchester, 1996.

HOARE, Richard Colt Sir (1758-1838) London, Auncient Wiltescire. 1810 London, William Miller, January 1810.

[No text. A collection of engraved plates (by the author) to illustrate archaeological sites, finds, etc. A presentation copy, signed by the author]

Inscribed: ‘To the Revd. John Skinner, with Sir Richard Colt Hoare’s compliments A.D. 1816’.

Acquired c.1909.

HUGHES, Henry Castree (1893-1976) Sherborne, A Guide to the Neighbourhood of Sherborne and Yeovil. Written by masters and boys of 1911 Sherborne School. Edited by H.C. Hughes under the supervision of Mr W.B. Wildman. Sherborne School Archaeological Society, Sherborne, 1911. Printed by F. Bennett, Sherborne.

HUNT, Frederick George (1862-1989) Yeovil, 1972 The Lady Chapel of the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Sherborne. Yeovil, Variprint Yeovil Ltd., 1972.

Bequeathed to Sherborne School Library by M.E.K. Westlake, 1987. [Max Edward Kenneth Westlake (1895-1987), attended Sherborne School (Abbey House) 1910-1914. Assistant Master at Sherborne School 1923-1962]

HUTCHINS, John (1693-1773) London, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 1774 London, W. Bowyer & J. Nichols, 1774 (1st ed.). Volumes 1 & 2.

A5/14: Ex Libris E: Col: Reg: Oxon.

Donated to Sherborne School Library by William Heitland Blake, 3 April 1905. [William Heitland Blake (1853-1916), attended Jesus College, Cambridge. Headmaster of Sherborne Preparatory School 1880-1905]

HUTCHINS, John (1693-1773) London, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 1813, 1814 London, W. Bowyer & J. Nichols, 1813, 1814 (2nd ed.) Volumes 1 & 2.

A5/15: Bookplates: Moor Park, Charles A.W. Troyte. A5/16: Bookplate: Bridehead.

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HUTCHINS, John (1693-1773) London, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 1813, 1815 Corrected, augmented and improved by Richard Gough. London, Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1813, 1815 (2nd ed.) Volumes 3 & 4.

A5/18: Bookplate: Bridehead.

HUTCHINS, John (1693-1773) Westminster The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. , 1861-1870 Corrected, augmented, and improved by William Shipp and James Whitworth Hodson. Westminster, John Bowyer Nichols and Sons, 1861-1870 (3rd ed.) Volumes 1, 2, 3 & 4.

A5/22: inscribed ‘Dr Williams’

Donated to Sherborne School Library by H.H. House and E.H. House, c.1893. [Harry Hammond House (1863-), attended Sherborne School (School House) 1878-1882; Edward Hector House (1864-1904), attended Sherborne school (School House) 1878-1882]

HUTCHINS, John (1693-1773) London, The History and Antiquities of Sherbourne in the County of Dorset. 1815 Augmented, and continued to the present time by Richard Gough and John-Bower Nichols. Adorned with a plan of the town and other plates. London, printed by Nichols, Son, and Bentley, and sold by Mr Penny and Mr Hodges, booksellers, Sherborne, 1815.

Interleaved copy.

Inscribed: ‘R. Lyon’ [Ralph Lyon (1795-1856), Headmaster of Sherborne School 1823-1845] Annotated [by Ralph Lyon?]

Purchased by Judge F.A. Philbrick KC at Sotheby’s Auction Rooms, London, December 1907.

Donated to Sherborne School Library by Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, April 1908.

Annotated.

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KEEN, Laurence & ELLIS, Peter Dorchester, Sherborne Abbey and School. Excavations 1972-76 and 1990. 2005 Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 2005. Monograph Series: number 16.

KERR, Barbara London, Bound to the Soil: A Social History of Dorset 1750-1918. 1968 London, John Baker, 1968.

LANG, W.D. (ed.) Charmouth, A Short History of St. Andrew’s Church, Charmouth. 1958 Charmouth, 1958.

LATHAM, Agnes and YOUINGS, Joyce Exeter, 1999 The Letters of Sir Walter Ralegh, edited by Agnes Latham and Joyce Youings. University of Exeter Press, 1999.

LEACH, Arthur Francis (1851-1915) London, Sherborne School before, under, and after Edward VI. 1898 Reprinted from the Archaeological Journal, March 1898. London, 1898.

LEADER SCOTT pseud (Lucy E. BAXTER) (1837-1902) London, The Life of William Barnes: poet and philologist. 1887 London and New York, Macmillan and Co., 1887.

Donated to Sherborne School Library by A.B. Gourlay, 1971.

LEGG, Rodney (1947-2011) Milborne Ghosts of Dorset, Devon and Somerset. Port, 1974 By Rodney Legg, Mary Collier and Tom Perrott. Milborne Port, Dorset Publishing Co. [1974]

LEGG, Rodney (1947-2011) Bath, 2004 Sherborne and Castleton. Abbey, Town and School. Bath, CPI Bath Press, 2004.

LESTER, Lester Vallis, afterwards LESTER-GARLAND (1860-1944) London, A Memoir of Hugo Daniel Harper, D.D. Late Principal of Jesus College, Oxford and for many 1896 years Head-Master of Sherborne School, Dorset. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1896.

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LONG, E.T. Gloucester, The Parish Churches of Cattistock (St Peter & St Paul) and Chilfrome (Holy Trinity). c.1970 Gloucester, The British Publishing Co. Ltd., c.1970.

LYSONS, Rev. Daniel (1762-1834) London, Magna Britannia: a topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain. Volume 1822 6: Devonshire. London, 1822 (1st ed.)

Inscribed: ‘A Hamilton Bampton, January ‘44’; ‘M.EA. Byon’.

Donated by G. Pring, March 1978. [Geoffrey Pring (1905-), attended Sherborne School (Lyon House) 1919-1924]

MARSDEN, Frederick Sherborne, A Short History of Sherborne Silk Mill from 1753 onwards. 1971 Journal of the Sherborne Historical Society, vol.8, 1971.

MARSDEN, Frederick Sherborne, Sherborne Mill from Silks to Glass. 1980 Sherborne, The Abbey Press, 1980.

MAYO, Charles Herbert (1845-1929) Oxford, 1933 A Historic Guide to The Almshouse of St. John Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, Sherborne. Oxford University Press, 1933.

MAYO, Charles Herbert (1845-1929) Sherborne, The Official Guide to the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Sherborne, with a sufficient 1925 historical setting. Sherborne, F. Bennett & Co., 1925.

Includes: Appendix 1: chronological table of some chief events; Bishops of Sherborne; Abbots of Sherborne; Vicars of Sherborne; Four Curates. Appendix 2: heraldry of Sherborne Abbey Church; arms in the nave; rebuses in the nave; arms on monuments – Horsey tomb, Leweston tomb, Walcot tablet, Digby monuments, Mildmay monument, on the exterior of the Chapel of St Mary at Bow, among modern decorations on the choir vaulting, arms now placed within the Lady Chapel. Appendix 3: church goods and ornaments. Appendix 4: St Mary’s Church plate now existing. Appendix 5: the Church Bells. Appendix 6: the organ. Appendix 7: the choir of singers. Appendix 8: ceremonial at the Paschal and Corpus Christi Observances. Appendix 9: the parish registers. 15

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Appendix 10: visitations of the plaque; small pox. Appendix 11: fires in Sherborne (Mrs Boucher’s, c.1736; in Hound Street, 1784; at Mr Scott’s Castle Mill, 1807). Appendix 12: some church orders.

Inscribed: ‘Presented to the Rev. Canon C.H. Mayo, D.Litt. by the Sherborne and Castleton Parochial Council in grateful recognition of the thought and time which he has so freely given to the writing of this book which they feel confident will be the standard work of reference for the Abbey for many years to come. August, 1925.’

Donated to Sherborne School Library by Joseph Fowler, 1945.

MCKAY, Stanley George (1916-1997) Dorchester, Foster’s. The Story of a Dorset School. 1975 Dorchester, Friary Press Ltd., 1975.

MILLS, Anthony David Cambridge, The Place-Names of Dorset. 1977, 1980, Parts 1-3. 1989 English Place-Name Society. Cambridge University Press, 1977, 1980, 1989.

MONRO, James & WOOLLEY, T.G. Dorchester, The Parish Church of St. Mary and St. James, Hazelbury Bryan, Dorset. 1968 Dorchester, 1968.

MORSHEAD, Sir Owen. Gloucester, The Story of the Parish Church of St. Mary, Sturminster Newton. 1971 Gloucester, The British Publishing Co. Ltd., 1971.

MORRIS, Claver (1659?-1727) London, The Diary of a West Country Physician, A.D. 1684-1726, edited by Edmund Hobhouse. 1935 London, Simpkin Marshall, Ltd., 1935 (2nd ed.)

OXFORD, Alec Sherborne, The known history of the shops in Cheap Street, Sherborne. 2005 Published by the Somerset & Dorset Family History Society on behalf of the Sherborne Museum, 2005.

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PAGE, William London, A History of Somerset, edited by William Page. 1906, 1911 The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Volume 1: London, James Street, Haymarket, 1906. Volume 2: London, Constable & Co., Ltd., 1911.

PAGE, William London, The Victoria History of the County of Dorset, edited by William Page. 1908 Volume 2. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Volume 2: London, Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., 1908.

PENN, Susan & Ray Sherborne, A History of Long Street, Sherborne. 2008 Published by the Somerset & Dorset Family History Society on behalf of the Sherborne Museum, 2008.

PENTIN, Herbert Milton Milton Abbey. Abbey, 1964 Milton Abbey Church Standing Committee, 1964.

PERKINS, Thomas & PENTIN, Herbert London, Memorials of Old Dorset. 1907 London, Bemrose & Sons Ltd., 1907.

Includes articles by Rev. Thomas Perkins (Historic Dorset), C.S. Prideaux (Barrows of Dorset), J.E. Acland (Roman Occupation of Dorset), Rev. Thomas Perkins (Churches of Dorset), W. de C. Prideaux (Memorial Brasses of Dorset), W.B. Wildman (Sherborne), Rev. Herbert Pentin (Milton Abbey), Rev. Thomas Perkins (Wimborne Minster), Sidney Heath (Ford Abbey), Bishop of Durham (Dorchester), Sidney Heath (Weymouth), Mrs King Warry (Isle of Portland), A.D. Moullin (Isle of Purbeck), Albert Bankes (Corfe Castle), W.K. Gill (Poole), Rev. R. Grosvenor Bartelot (Bridport), Rev. Thomas Perkins (Shaftesbury), Miss Wood Homer (Piddletown & Athelhampton), Albert Bankes (Wolfeton House), Miss M. Jourdain (Literary Associations of Dorset), Hermann Lea (Dorset Superstitions).

PIKE, William Thomas Edinburgh, A Dictionary of Edwardian Biography, Dorset. 1983 Edinburgh, Peter Bell, 1983.

[A reprint of the biographical part of the Dorset section of ‘Wilts and Dorset at the Opening of the Twentieth Century: Contemporary Biographies’, first published in 1906]

PITMAN, Gerald Harold D. (1930-2002) Sherborne, Sherborne Observed. A handbook to the conservation area and its setting. 1983 Sherborne, 1983.

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PITMAN, Gerald Harold D. (1930-2002) Yeovil, 1970 S. Mary Magdalene, Castleton, Sherborne, Dorset. A short guide compiled by Gerald H.D. Pitman. Yeovil, Variprint Ltd., 1970.

PITT-RIVERS, Augustus Henry Lane-Fox (1827-1900) London, Excavations in Cranborne Chase, near Rushmore, on the borders of Dorset and Wilts. 1888 1880-1888. Excavations in Romano-British village, Rotherley; Excavations in Winkelbury camp; Excavations in British barrows and Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Winkelbury Hill. Volume II. Printed Privately, London, 1888.

PITT-RIVERS, Augustus Henry Lane-Fox (1827-1900) London, King John’s House, Tollard Royal, Wilts. 1890 Printed Privately, London, 1890.

PITT-RIVERS, Augustus Henry Lane-Fox (1827-1900) London, Excavations in Bokerly and Wansdyke, Dorset and Wilts. 1888-1891. 1892 Volume III. Printed Privately, London, 1892.

PRINCE, Rev. John (1643-1723) London, Danmonii orientales illustrate: or The Worthies of Devon. 1810 London, 1810 (2nd ed.)

[Originally published 1701. Gives biographies and other information about many Devon, notables]

Donated by G. Pring, March 1978. [Geoffrey Pring (1905-), attended Sherborne School (Lyon House) 1919-1924]

PUGH, R.B. Oxford, 1968 The Victoria History of the County of Dorset, edited by R.B. Pugh. Volume 3, with index to volume 2. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Oxford University Press, 1968.

RIDGEWAY, Huw London, Sherborne Abbey. Guide Book. 2014 London, 2014.

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ROPER, John Derby, 1968 Forde Abbey. An illustrated survey of the former Cistercian Monastery, now the Dorset home of the Roper family. History and description of the contents and gardens written by John Roper. Derby, English Life Publications Ltd., 1968.

ROYAL COMMISSION ON HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (ENGLAND) London, An Inventory of the historical monuments in Dorset. 1952-1975 Volume 1, West. 1952. Volume 2, South-East, part 2. 1970. Volume 3, Central Dorset, part 2. 1970. Volume 4, North Dorset. 1972. Volume 5, East Dorset. 1975. London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.

RUTTER, John (1796-1851) Shaftesbury, Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey. 1823 Shaftesbury, 1823 (1st ed.).

[Subscriber’s copy of this privately-published work, which was so successful that there were six editions in the same year. It provides a detailed history and description of Fonthill, with illustrative plates. Dedicated to Susannah Euphemia (née Beckford), Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon]

Inscribed ‘Emma Bingham 1823’.

Acquired by Sherborne School in 1928.

SALE, Geoffrey Dorchester, Four Hundred Years a School. A Short History of King’s School, Bruton. 1970 Dorchester, The Friary Press, c.1970.

SARKAR, Dilip Worcester, Angriff Westland. The Battle of Britain Air Raids ‘through the looking glass’. 1994 Foreword by HRH Prince Andrew, Duke of York. Worcester, Ramrod Publications, 1994.

Inscribed: ‘To Sherborne School, with many thanks for your help, Best wishes Dilip Sarkar, 25.09.94.’

SHERBORNE JOURNAL, THE Sherborne, The New Year’s Address of the men who carry the Sherborne Journal for the year 1830. 1830 Single page.

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SHERBORNE MISSAL, THE Oxford, 1920 Reproductions of full pages and details of ornament from the Missal executed between the years 1396 and 1407 for Sherborne Abbey Church and now preserved in the Library of The Duke of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle. With an introduction by J.A. Herbert. Oxford University Press, 1920. Printed for presentation to members of The Roxburghe Club.

Presented to Sherborne School Library by His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, February 1921.

SHERBORNE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Sherborne, Sherborne School for Girls 1899-1949. 1949 Sherborne, 1949.

SOMERSET AND DORSET NOTES AND QUERIES/ NOTES AND QUERIES FOR SOMERSET AND Sherborne, DORSET (journal) 1890-1923 Sherborne, J.C. Sawtell. Vol.1 (1890)-Vol.12 (1923)

STEWART ROBERTS, Mary (1856-1934) London, Sherborne, Oxford and Cambridge. Recollections of Mrs Ernest Stewart Roberts. With an 1934 introduction by Rose Macaulay. London, Martin Hopkinson Ltd., 1934.

SYER, George V. Bridport, The Church of St Candida (St Wite) and Holy Cross, Whitchurch Canonicorum. 1975 Bridport, 1975.

TAYLOR, C.C. Dorchester, Wimborne Minster. 1968 Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, vol. 89, pp.168-170, 1968.

WARNE, Charles (1802-1887) Bournemout Ancient Dorset. The Celtic, Roman, Saxon, and Danish Antiquities of the County, including h, 1872 the early coinage. With an introduction to the ethnology of Dorset by Dr. T. William Wake Smart. Bournemouth, 1872.

Donated to Sherborne School Library by Charles Warne, 1873.

WARNE, Charles (1802-1887) Bournemout The Saxon, Danish and Norman Mints of Dorsetshire. h, 1872 Bournemouth, 1872.

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WARNE, Charles (1802-1887) London, The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset: an account of personal and other researches in the sepulchral 1866 mounds of the Durotriges. London, 1866.

WARNER, Rev. Richard (1763-1857) Bath, 1826 An History of the Abbey of Glaston and of the Town of Glastonbury. Bath, Richard Cruttwell, 1826.

[Includes an account of all Abbots; and lengthy description of the 20 engraved plates. This work was limited to 250 copies, priced at six guineas]

Acquired between 1861 and 1894 (c.1890).

WELLS NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Wells, 1974. The Stones of Wells Cathedral, by L.S.C. & F.S.W. c.1974 (2nd ed.)

WESTERN FLYING POST, OR SHERBORNE AND YEOVIL MERCURY, THE Sherborne, Newspaper printed at Sherborne by Robert Goadby. 1755-1782

13 January 1755 (no.307, vol.7) 10 February 1755 (no.311, vol.7) 1 September 1755 (no.340, vol.7) 8 February 1768 (supplement) 22 February 1768 (supplement) The Weekly Miscellany; or Agreeable and Instructive Entertainer… A Work formed for the entertainment of the purchasers of the Sherborne Mercury, 23 December 1782 (Printed by Rachel Goadby & Co., at Sherborne)

WHEELER, R.E. Mortimer (1890-1976) Oxford, 1943 Maiden Castle, Dorset. Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London; no. 12. Oxford, University Press for the Society of Antiquaries, 1943.

WHITAKER, Rev. John (1735-1808) London, The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall, historically surveyed. 1804 By John Whitaker, B.D., Rector of Ruan-Lanyhorne, Cornwall. London, John Stockdale, 1804 (1st ed.) 2 volumes in 1.

[Chiefly an account of the development, architecture and decoration of Cornish churches, monasteries, etc., with their relationship to other parts of England. The appendices consist of essays on The Origin of Chess; The Origin of Freemasons; A Victory of St German in Wales.

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WILDMAN, William Beauchamp (1852-1922) Sherborne, A Short History of Sherborne from 705 A.D. 1911 Sherborne, F. Bennett, 1911 (3rd ed.) No. 37 of 100.

Inscribed ‘Nowell Smith’. Stuck inside the cover is a newspaper report of the death of W.B. Wildman.

WILDMAN, William Beauchamp (1852-1922) London, Life of S. Ealdhelm. First Bishop of Sherborne. 1905 London, Chapman & Hall, 1905.

Inscribed: ‘A. Field’. [Arthur Field (1872-1960) attended Sherborne School (Wildman’s) 1885-1889. Curate of Sherborne 1898-1905. Rector of Spetisbury 1905-1924; Commissioner Diocese of Singapore 1914-1920. Lived at Greenhill House, Sherborne]

WILKINS, William (1778-1839) Sherborne, Report on the State of Repair of Sherborne Church. 1828 Ordered to be printed and circulated by the inhabitants assembled in vestry on the 8th day of October 1828. Sherborne, Harker & Penny at the Mercury Office, 1828.

At the back is pasted in a typescript copy of W.D. Caroe’s report on the proposed opening out of the Lady Chapel at Sherborne Abbey, June 1918.

Annotated (by Dr Ralph Lyon).

Bookplate: Ralph Lyon, D.D. [Ralph Lyon (1795-1856), Headmaster of Sherborne School 1823-1845]

Inscribed: ‘Given me by Canon Lyon, Vicar of Sherborne, 22 July 1907, W.B. Wildman. 6 July 1921, given by me to Sherborne School Library in memory of my dear son Arthur Henry Wildman O.S. killed in action, 14 Sept. 1915’, ‘The notes in this book are those of Dr Lyon.’

WILLIAMS, Barry London, So Many Opportunities. A Historical Portrait of Sherborne School for Girls 1899-1999. 1998 London, James & James Ltd., 1998.

WILLIS, Robert (1800-1875) London, Sherborne Minister. With illustrations by the Rev. John Louis Petit FSA. 1865 Reprinted from The Archaeological Journal, vol. 22, September 1865.

WRIGHT, Basil (ed.) Castle Cary, King’s School, Bruton, Remembered. c.1991 Castle Cary Press, c.1991.