The 1539 Dorset coastal muster accompanied the commissioning of Portland Castle to guard the important roadstead at Portland Bill. Dorset had suffered heavily from French raiding throughout the Hundred Years War and the 1539 muster was the first systematic organisation of coastal defence in the county. Coastal watches were established at regular intervals from Poole to Lyme Regis.
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