Wessex . have a good sword and dagger. It was about this time Sandsfoot Castle was builtby the King, on the southern shore of the spit of landforming the Nothe, and Leyland mentions it as being a right goodlie Castel havyng one open fragments which remain go far to prove that it wasa place, if not of great size, of considerable strength. For many centuries—in fact, until the reign ofElizabeth—what is now known as Weymouth consistedof two distinct towns, one having the name of MelcombeRegis, and the other being known by the present nameof the town. These two places had two distinc
Wessex . have a good sword and dagger. It was about this time Sandsfoot Castle was builtby the King, on the southern shore of the spit of landforming the Nothe, and Leyland mentions it as being a right goodlie Castel havyng one open fragments which remain go far to prove that it wasa place, if not of great size, of considerable strength. For many centuries—in fact, until the reign ofElizabeth—what is now known as Weymouth consistedof two distinct towns, one having the name of MelcombeRegis, and the other being known by the present nameof the town. These two places had two distinctcharters of incorporation ; but, as there was only oneharbour to be divided between them, it is not to bewondered at that many hot disputes arose in mediaevaland even later times between the inhabitants of the twoboroughs. Indeed, so great a rivalry and hatred seemto have existed between their respective townsfolk that 78 COTfAGES AT STOKE > • > t >> •-• » • >• > • •. Attacks by French Privateers the records contain several accounts of bloodshed whichoccurred in disputes arising upon such subjects as thecustoms dues and the use of the harbour. How-ever, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth the two portswere incorporated into one, and the causes of thesefrequent disputes were thus happily removed. A few years after the granting of this charter ofthe united borough and town of Weymouth andMelcombe Regis, some of the French privateers, whowere indeed little better than pirates, infesting theChannel and the home seas at that time made a descentupon the roadstead of Weymouth, and, after damaginga large number of the ships which lay at anchor there,succeeded in cutting out and carrying off a vesselnamed The iAngel of La T{ochelle^ of some sixty tonsburden. An attempt to enter the harbour properand seize another ship was, however, frustrated bythe bravery of the townsfolk, who, training somepieces of ordnance upon them, repulsed the pirates,killing sev
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