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)
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
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.'
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.