Editing Chideock (section)

==History==
In 1379–80 John de Chideock, a manorial lord, built Chideock Castle just north of the village.<ref name=Gant/><ref name=Hammond>{{cite book|title=Dorset Coast|author=Reginald J W Hammond|publisher=Ward Lock Ltd|pages=36–7|edition=4|isbn=0-7063-5494-X|year=1979}}</ref><ref name=Booton>{{cite web|url=http://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2012/05/booton-foot-trails-chideock-golden-cap-and-seatown/|title=Booton Foot Trails: Chideock, Golden Cap and Seatown|author=Peter Booton|access-date=22 January 2014|date=May 2012|publisher=Dorset Life Magazine}}</ref> During the [[Middle Ages]] ownership passed to the [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] Arundell family, who used it to provide refuge for priests and loyal followers during subsequent religious persecution.<ref name=Booton/> During the [[Protestant]] reign of [[Elizabeth I]] the Arundell estate became Dorset's main centre of Catholicism,<ref>{{cite book|title=Dorset|author=J.H. Bettey|publisher=David & Charles|page=99|isbn=0-7153-6371-9|year=1974}}</ref> and the locality witnessed considerable religious strife.<ref name=Gant/> Four local Catholic men—[[John Cornelius (priest)|John Cornelius]], Thomas Bosgrave, [[John Carey (martyr)|John Carey]] and  Patrick Salmon<ref name=Booton/>—were [[martyr]]ed in the late 16th century; their trial took place in the main hall of what is now Chideock House Hotel and they were executed in [[Dorchester, Dorset|Dorchester]]. The men became known as the Chideock Martyrs.<ref name=Gant/><ref name=Booton/> A fifth man, [[Hugh Green (martyr)|Hugh Green]], who became Chideock's chaplain in 1612, was tried and executed in 1642. All five were [[Beatification|beatified]] on 15 December 1929.<ref name=Booton/>

During the [[English Civil War]] Chideock was a [[royalist]] stronghold,<ref name=Booton/> and the castle changed hands more than once before it was ultimately left ruinous in 1645 by [[Roundhead|parliamentarian]] forces under the Governor of Lyme Regis, Colonel Ceeley.<ref name=Gant/><ref name=Hammond/><ref name=Booton/> Chideock House Hotel may have been the headquarters of [[General Fairfax]] as he planned the castle's overthrowing.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}} Parts of the castle remained standing until at least 1733<ref name=Hammond/> but only some of the moat can be seen today; it is in a field, accessed by Ruins Lane, and marked by a crucifix as a memorial to the martyrs.<ref name=Gant/><ref name=Hammond/>

[[File:Chideock, Catholic church of Our Lady of Martyrs and St. Ignatius - geograph.org.uk - 496533.jpg|thumb|The Roman Catholic church of Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, and St Ignatius]]
In 1802 the Arundells were succeeded by the Weld family of [[Lulworth Castle]] who in 1810 built Chideock Manor.<ref name=Gant/> The Welds were also Catholic and in 1870-2 Charles Weld designed and built the village's Roman Catholic church in an unusual [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque]] style. It is dedicated to Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, and St Ignatius and remains in trust to the Weld family.<ref name=Gant/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chideockmartyrschurch.org.uk/history/|title=History - Chideock Martyrs Church|access-date=21 August 2016}}</ref>

Among other surviving relics claimed by this location is St. [[Thomas More]]'s [[Cilice|hair shirt]], sent to Margaret Roper the day before his martyrdom and later presented for safe keeping by Margaret Clement.<ref name="r6">{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia= Catholic Encyclopaedia |title= St. Thomas More| url= http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14689c.htm}}.</ref> This was long in the custody of the community of Augustinian canonesses who, until 1983, lived at the convent at [[Abbotskerswell Priory]], Devon.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hilliam |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OpATDQAAQBAJ&dq=thomas+more+relics+hair+shirt+Chideock+castle&pg=PT56 |title=Little Book of Dorset |date=2010-12-26 |publisher=The History Press |isbn=978-0-7524-6265-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Vail |first=Anne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjyc9bPITKgC&dq=thomas+more+relics+hair+shirt+Chideock+castle&pg=PA42 |title=Shrines of Our Lady in England |date=2004 |publisher=Gracewing Publishing |isbn=978-0-85244-603-4 |pages=42 |language=en}}</ref> More recent sources, however, state that the shirt is now preserved at the Roman Catholic [[Buckfast Abbey]], part of a Benedictine monastery, in [[Devon]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2016/st-thomas-mores-hair-shirt-now-enshrined-for-public-veneration.cfm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122162939/http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2016/st-thomas-mores-hair-shirt-now-enshrined-for-public-veneration.cfm|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 November 2016|title=With public rosaries, priest prays for peace, healing after shooting|date=15 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://royalcentral.co.uk/historic/st-thomas-mores-hair-shirt-enshrined-for-public-veneration-72241 |title=St Thomas More's Hair Shirt Enshrined for Public Veneration – Royal Central |website=royalcentral.co.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127140551/http://royalcentral.co.uk/historic/st-thomas-mores-hair-shirt-enshrined-for-public-veneration-72241 |archive-date=27 November 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dioceseofshrewsbury.org/news/hair-shirt-worn-st-thomas-enshrined-public-veneration-possibly-first-time|title=Hair-shirt worn by St Thomas More is enshrined for public veneration for possibly the first time - the Diocese of Shrewsbury - the Diocese of Shrewsbury|access-date=24 July 2017|archive-date=25 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925230945/http://www.dioceseofshrewsbury.org/news/hair-shirt-worn-st-thomas-enshrined-public-veneration-possibly-first-time|url-status=dead}}</ref>