RYME-INTRINSICA, a parish and liberty, in the
Sherborne division of the county of DORSET, 6 miles
(S. W.) from Sherborne, containing 159 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged rectory, united with the vicarage
of Hermitage, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of
Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £6. 5. 8. The
church is dedicated to St. Hyppolite. A market and fair
were granted to be held here in the 26th of Edward I.,
both which have been long disused. Within this liberty
there was anciently a royal mansion and park; the site
of the former, which was standing in the reign of James I.,
is still called Court Hill, and commands a fine view
over the park, of which the boundary or terrace is yet
distinguishable, being called the Keeper's walk. It borders
upon Somersetshire, and was termed White Hart
Forest, from a white deer, celebrated for its size and
beauty, chased in it by Henry III. Buckshead, Bucksland,
Buckshaw, Stagford, and several other places in
the neighbourhood, derive their names from this deer,
which was hunted and slain, contrary to the king's command,
by Thomas de Liude and other gentlemen of
Dorset, whose lands for this were laid under a pecuniary
mulct, paid into the Exchequer by the name of
White Hart Silver.