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From: Brian Tompkins <>
Subject: Re: WORTHE
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 18:19:21 -0400

At 05:50 PM 8/7/98 -0400, Stephen Moon wrote:
>In my John Speed Tudor Atlas it is down in the extreme SE corner of
>Dorset right above what Speed calls the "British Sea". It was called
>Worth Matuavers in the Domesday Book.
>
>Jocelyn P. McBride wrote:
>>
>> In Edward FELTAM's Will of 1786 he mentions a Bond for 100 Pounds owed to
>> him by James RYMAN of Worth, near Cranborn. Does any one know where
Worth is
>> and if it is, or was, a house or a village? I cannot find it on any map,
old
>> or new.

Worth Matravers is unlikely to have been described as 'near Cranborn',
being in distinctly separate part of the county. Could it be that the
original will actually said, 'or worth', meaning goods to the value of 100
pounds.

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