Furze?

I'd never really looked at them in profile before - had to go and compare them with my walking shoes, and found that all my shoes go up slightly at the toe. The Ghost 15 definitely isn't rockered, but I can't speak for the latest version.

I'm on my third pair of Brooks Ghost - plain and comfy.

I was on the South Dorset Ridgeway the other day and had never seen so many crane flies - a cloud flew up with every step I took.

Oh my goodness. I assume this is the John James who appears in the dean of Salisbury's Act Books officiating at the dean's consistory court and visitations from 1558. Very sad background to why Thomas Glasier begins to officiate in Feb 1577.

Congratulations, Ruth.

It looks like "in o[u]r terme", but I'm not sure that makes sense.

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Not sure of context, but could be badly written "yll report"??

Osborne was still there in 1650, but I've no further evidence until Thomas Samways was appointed in Aug 1662.

Ooh, bullet holes - interesting. Vicar Edward Osborne was presented to Abbotsbury in 1640 by Sir John Strangways, whose royalist garrison there caused its attack, yet in 1646 the Parliamentarian County Committee raised Osborne's pay as "an able and orthodox divine and deligent in his callinge".

Sadly, my experience is the same. I actually spend more time walking along roadsides these days, where there's less chance of being menaced by dogs, and the wildlife is more abundant because it's undisturbed.

Looks like Tobias Hensman/Henchman to me. A man of this name was vicar of Drayton Parslow, Bucks until his death in 1643.