Sherborne

/ ˈʃɛːbɔːn /

noun

a town in S England in Dorset: noted for its medieval abbey, ruined medieval castle, and Sherborne Castle, a mansion built by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1594. Pop: 9350 (2001)

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Sherborne more than replaced Lismore as an object of affection, and as a subject of care and anxiety also.

For this Ralegh put him in the stocks in Sherborne market-place, and had him bound over to good behaviour by the county justices.

He was found to have been living for some time past at Sherborne, perhaps under his alias, on a pension granted him by Ralegh.

The mercy of the Crown extended for the present to the maintenance even of his rights over the estate of Sherborne itself.

He had to urge the Council to stay the Commissioners at Sherborne, whose rapacious activity had again awoke.

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