Place record MDO30122 - Holnest

Holnest is one of three manors discussed by Katherine Barker and Dennis Seaward in a paper on the Tudor manors of the Blackmoor Vale (Barker and Seaward 1990). Pottery production is documented in Holnest during the late 16th century and early 17th century. The sources include a potter's will dated to 1617 (Spoerry 1988).

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 124-125 (Monograph). SDO97.

Barker, Katherine, and Seaward, Dennis R, 1990, Boundaries and Landscape in Blackmoor: the Tudor Manors of Holnest, Hilfield and Hermitage. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 5-22 (Article in serial). SDO20706.

<1> Spoerry, P, 1988, Documentary and other evidence for medieval and post-medieval ceramic production in Dorset. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 32 (Article in serial). SWX809.

’19. Holnest. The records of the consistory court for 1617 state that Thomas Vincent, a potter at Holnest, was granted fuel gathering rights. Furthermore in Pope's translations of Dorset suits of law (Pope n.d., vol. I, 249), four potters from Holnest are mentioned in the year 1635; Beere Pollard, aged 26, Thomas Dober, aged 55 and John and Methusaleth Miller, both aged 40. In 1677 another case is recorded (Pope n.d., vol. 5, 298) involving potters from Holnest. It concerns a debt they owed for £20. The names are Thomas Dober and his son John Dober, and John Miller and his son William Miller.'

<2> McCarthy, M R, and Brooks, C M, 1988, Medieval pottery in Britain AD 900-1600, 461 (Monograph). SDO17397.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1300900 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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