Dear Abby,
I got Sally-Beth's message about sending each section in
electronically. I do not know how to do it, but will try.
First--here is a clean copy of the last of my end note responses to
Sally-Beth's queries and incorporating the queries raised by Samway's
report. I am still missing a definitive version of note 84, but
otherwise I think they're done. I have to go through Q Eliz Letters
and Papers. That takes a library, etc.
Second--I will attach the same file twice, first in in Wordperfect 5.1
or 2 and in ASCII. The problem with both is that I'm never quite sure
what I'm actually sending--my machines won't read an ASCII text into
wordperfect and both promptly convert files either to 6.0 or 7.0--so
I've been working with files that are not quite what you sent and I'm
sending you a file that isn't quite what I designed. I'm guessing
that ASCII does not preserve the bold, etc. and that
Anyway, please let me know what works better and I'll send a complete
file for the endnotes (already sent in pieces in readable email) and
for the document descriptions, the latter based on the revised version
you sent me last week.
Roz
Here's the stuff in clear:
The last Record endnotes
Add new endnote for new Poole entry--(the new entry would come
AFTER)the letter from Henry Ashley in 1586--7???
@E\93a\DRO: DC/PL: CLAPA15 f 24v
For an earlier reference to the damage `domyneck' did to the drum see
p 000, l 000.
Samway's report on note 139: Wimborne's shelfmarks changed some years
ago and I must have converted incorrectly from the old reference to
the new. I am guessing that the incorrect reference should be
PE/WM/CP2/11 item 23 so it should read:
@E\139\ DRO: PE/WM/CP2/10, item 8 single sheet
The pencilled date, probably added by Canon Fletcher, is confirmed by
the name of the churchman, Richard Russell, who was one of the
churchwardens for the year 11 December 1591-- 11 December 1592
(PE/WM/CW41 p 43). William Lucas, alias Bright, occurs several times
in the Wimborne documents. References to him as `Britt' or `bryght'
occur in 1609--10, 1610--11, and 1620--1 below. He seems to have been
the head of a family of disreputable entertainers: it was porbably his
boy and his daughter who were the `Nicholum Lucas alias Bright' and
`Elionorum Bright alias Lucas alias Haiter' excommunicated for
contumacy some time in the 1620s (DRO: PE//WM/CP2/9, item 173).
Eleanor was also excommunicated for incontinence with Henry Hayter in
1629 (DRO: PE/WM/CP2/11, item 23). Holt was a village, within the
large parish of Wimborne Minster, lying to the northeast of the town.
@E\140\ DRO: PE/WM/CP2/10, item 55 single sheet
Although Canon Fletcher ascribes this document to 1603, 9 May fell on
a Sunday in 1602, not 1603; the accusations in the presentment are
repeated in the Acts of the Peculiar Court for 1601-- 2 (DRO:
PE/WM/CP1/1 pp 64, 72, and 73). `Lye' ( l 00) is the parish village
of Leigh, to the south and east of the town of Wimborne Minster.
Add note 141a for PC 94 (1609--10)
@E\141a\ DRO: PE/WM/CP2/10, item 94 single sheet
The document records presentments of several different fives players
and a player at bowls. The entry is included in the records because
it is ambiguous: although Joan's apprentices may have played fives or
bowls during the sermon, it is possible their play was dramatic.
April 1 fell on a Sunday in 1604 and 1610. The names of the
sidesmen, who also sign item 93 (p 000 and note, p 000) make it
likely that this presentment is for 1609--10.
@E\142\ DRO: PE/WM/CP2/10, item 99 single sheet
[Unchanged]
@E\143\DRO: PE/WM/CP2/10 item 100 single sheet
There is no reason to question the pencilled date, 1610; many of the
same sidesmen who make their marks at the bottom of item 95 (p 000)
are also sidesmen in this document (Richard Habgood, William
Wilkyinges, Robart Mackrell, Iohn Ellet, Richard Ellet, Iames Doll).
@E\144\DRO: PE/WM/CP2/10, item 95, single sheet
The pencilled date 1610--11 appears at the head of the document; this
is almost certainly the same year as item 100 (p 000 and note, p 000).
@E\145\DRO: PE/WM/CP2/10 item 93 f 1
This document presents some dating problems. The churchwardens are
not mentioned; listed sidesmen also occur in item 94. Item 93 refers
to 14 April as a Sunday, and it also refers to morning prayer time and
sermon time on 13 May. In 1611 14 April was a Sunday and 13 May was
Whit Monday, when there would have been church services. The two
dates would have fallen in different churchwardens' years, since the
1610-11 wardens rendered their final account on 16 April.
Confirmation that 1611 is correct may also be found in the fact that
Elizabeth Pitman and probably Margaret White were cited, probably for
dancing, on another occasion in 1610--11 (item 99).
Now, I'll attach a version saved in wp 5.0 and one saved in ASCII.
Roz
