Plan of ground floor of Canford Manor
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Coloured plan to show when different bits were built (Medieval, Blore, Barry)
See EL02689
Plan of ground floor of Canford Manor
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From unidentifed book. Chapter heading: 'Poole'
Report on Searches on Descent of Canford Manor
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Made for Lord Wimborne by Hardy and Page (Record Agents of Lincoln's Inn)
Canford Entry in Domesday Book
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Photocopy of original entry. Translation.
Booklet on William Longespee
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William Longespee Earl of Salisbury by G. Drury. The Anniversary Address 1954 to the Festival of the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral. Inserted are 3 postcards
Canford History Notes
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By Chancellor? Contained in small ring-binder folder
47 Owners of the Manor
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Handwritten on card (by Benson?)
Public Record Office notes on early Manor House
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Transcript sent by Mr Strain and passed on to the Archive (RWW) in March 1982
Names of nuns at Canford
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Letter form Sister Mary Joseph of Carmelite Convent in Chichester to Nicholas (?) detailing some of the names of the 8 nuns who joined the community at Canford -mostly they came from the North
Canford Resurgent: William Ponsonby as Lord of the Manor
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Account of William Ponsonby. Author unknown
Arms in the Lights of John o' Gaunt's
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Copy of the article that appeared in the Canfordian
Webb family tree
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John of Gaunt's Kitchen
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Engraving which shows Blore manor house in background.
Catalogue of Documents Canford Magna held at Dorchester.
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Catalogue of Documents / Parish Records of Canford Magna held at Dorchester. Compiled by Robin Whicker June 1976
A Brief Guide to John of Gaunt's Kitchen
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A laminated two-sided account of John of Gaunt's, originally written by DWRW and updated by CMSR
Bills in name of Ponsonby
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Drinks bill from Royal Oak Millbourn to Hon W Ponsonby (1838) Cheque (The Dorsetshire Bank) written by Mr Easton for Hon W Ponsonby to Mr Clarke (1838) Coal Merchant bill (James Webb) to Hon Ponsonby
Canford and Crown
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Single page article by EC Chancellor
Canford Hall, The Seat of Sir Ivor Bertie Guest, Bart.
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Pager from unidentified publication. Some mention of Lord Mountjoy's making of coperas.
Great Canford
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Pages 305-308 (of Hutchins' Dorset?) - incomplete account of Great Canford. It seems that these pages have been selected for information about the Willetts of Merly
Enclosure Awards
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Appendix from unknown publication. Common of Great Canford, parish Canford Magna has award dated 27th April, 1822
Mediaeval Deer-Parks of Dorset
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By J.D, Wilson. Chapter XV, with entries on Canford Great Park, Canford Little Park and Knighton Park
Article and Illustrations on John of Gaunt's
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From Sydenham's History of the Town and County of Poole 1839
A Bowke consernying Canfforde
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Written by Robert C Hairsine. Off-printed from the proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Vol 108 for 1986. Conjectural sketch of the Manor House in the time of the Webbs. (3 copies)
Proclamation to the people of Poole
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'To the Free and Independent Burgesses & Inhabitants of the Town and County of Poole'. (Found, in the late 20s, in the Bournemouth Public Library at the Landsdowne in a drawer full of maps.) Complains about 'the many Attempts the Lords of Canford have made to destroy the privileges and enslave the this Town.'
Queen Adelaide
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Chapter heading (from unidentified book): rPassage Pénsible à Port Plaisant. Describes her visit to Canford in 1824
Letters from General Ponsonby
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Book from which extracts are taken is unidentified. The Chapter heading appears to be 'Ireland' - Dates of letters
A Brief Guide to John of Gaunt's Kitchen at Canford
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Written by Robin Whicker and Mark Rathbone (as teaching hand-out?) + earlier version from 1988
The Friends of Salisbury Cathedral - 24th Annual Rport
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Longspee
Research Materials on Canford's History
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File of DWRW's researched into John o' Gaunt's: Reconstruction of ground plan as it might have been in 1547; floor plan of John o' Gaunt's; chapter from The Mediaeval Deer-Parks of Dorset, XV by JD Wilson; public record office citation of the house and manor of Canford, 1541; article 'Canford Manor, Old and New; brief biographical entry on Ralph Willett
Sculpture in John o' Gaunt's
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Handwritten account by Robin Noscoe of the sculptures (William Longspee, Earl of Salisbury and Ela done by him and pupils (notably R Newton) for the niches in John o' Gaunt's. Also handwritten captions (author unknown) for pictures that were to appear in the Illustrated London News (March 11, 1961 edition?)
Lords of the Manor of Canford Magna
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list of Lords of the Manor, with dates
Extract from The Cartulary of Bradenstoke
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Showing 12th century relationship between Bradenstoke Priory and Canford Church.
[The Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory - ed. Vera CM London, ISBN 0 901333 12 3. 1979
Tomb of William Longspee
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Postcard showing Longspee's tomb in Salisbury Cathedral.
See EL02688 for scan
Canford Manor 1830
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Print of watercolour of building from south
See EL01299
Early documents found in the Canford muniment room
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Includes a list of Lords of the Manor drawn up in 1766 up to and including Sir John Webb; and some parish documents from 1789 such as a presentment.
Letter from Dorset History Centre
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Letter acknowledging the donation of a Canford Magna Minute book (1824-1834) which must have been left behind in 1923. It has no real connection to the Manor and included no references to it, so was better housed in the County Records.