57 
This hundred got its name froma stone at the meeting place of the eight manors composing it. 
Pennarministra (166b) gelded T.R.E. for only 10 hides, it is assumed that the additional 10 hides 
of the items came to light in 1086. 
Alhampton and Lamyatt get their names from the Alham. Dicesget is the gate of the dyke 
or fosse road. West Pennard very likely contained the 1a hides now hidated, perhaps lately 
reclaimed by draining. West Bradley (Eyton 197) was formerly a chapelry of East Pennard, and not 
in Glastonbury 12 hides (Vol. III., p. 34). 
Downhead (171b) included (tax roll 1303) Stoke Lare and Whitehole Farm. Eyton (II., 33) is 
wrong in identifying Stoca (277) with Stoke Lane. 
The adjoining hundreds of Huuitestan, Ciuuetona, and Froma are full of difficulty, because the 
King was alienating the thegn lands of Glastonbury. Taking the three together the hidage only 
exceeds the geld list by a virgate. Collinson tells us that East and West Cranmore were chapelries 
-of Doltin, so they must have been part of the manor. The geld list for Froma shows that the King 
had 5 hides in demesne in Crenemere, i.e., 5 hides at least of Doltin were in Cranmore and in the 
hundred of Froma, and the identification of Crenemella (170) as Cranmore falls through. But the 
same geld list gives to Hardin de Viltona 9 hides in demesne. Harding held Crenemella for 12 hides, 
‘but with only 6 hides in demesne. We may easily suppose he held in capite, for Crenemella was 
thegnland of Glastonbury. Again 13 hides of Dicesget did not account for geld in the hundred of 
Huitestan, they were held de rege, and so would not be under its jurisdiction. May they not have 
paid in Froma or Ciuuetona? Probably the 2 virgates of Lamieta are a Domesday oversight. But 
where was Crenemella? Crannel Farms and Cranelmore N. of Glastonbury sound like it, but there 
is no mill, and the hundred is wrong. Can it be Leigh in the Liberty of Melles with a new name? 
, Mr. J. Vacy Lyle, of the Record Office, has kindly referred me to Dugdale I. 62 showing that 
William rst conceded to Harding de Wilton the land of Cranemere for 3 hides. Probably, then, 
_ Crenemella of Domesday, contained the N. part of Cranmore bounded by the road on the §., and. 
-g hides in Melles. 
39 Betministra. Geld List 5. Cainesham. 
104h. 
Eyton I., 119; II., 17. 
Vol. III. Somerset Records, 48, 68, 89. 
Hidage. Ploughs. 
Name. hy va fe Scribe. Plough Lands. Demesne. Villa. 
... Cainessam 50 cy EE eee" | OO) 2 aes) TO) on trae ona 
s Herenberga ... 5 ee 1 oy kercote ae tas 2 
+Ferenberga ... 5 Baas Sip geen! Mey seas 
... Sanfort ... sca 4 B , Grito VQ Oe 4 
... Comtuna << AG B ? fe Wee eh TRS ese 6 
..- Mercesberia ... 10 oo OB Sea 3 
... Prisctona tO seey, a Bite sees Su ac sepey Tie eae 6 
... Stantona Rh ik: B Seat hres. z 
.. Wimmadona ... 3 erle aRL sce Ae asc Zin lac I 
wee cele Worta. ... 3 5 13 eee Bee eates ER hice I 
.-- Celleuuert rat ek rage Ls) Were Richa’ eee I 
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Against Sanfort in the Exon book is a mark in form of a cross, the Exchequer omits the word 
Witen, also 13 hides, also R witen holds this for 1 manor. The Roger of the next manor is Roger 
fitz Ralph, Again at Esttuna 143b the tenant is Roger dispensator. 
The hundred changed its name at 1086 to Betministra. 
e Exon book has z hides and 2 plough lands for the first Ferenberga, clearly a mistake of the 
yist. The figure in the original is Y meant for V; the Exchequer copied it correctly. Celle 
orda was long afterwards so called (Vol. III., 48, 69, 93), but it becomes Chelwood (p. 291). In 
Bowens map it is Chelworth. Nempnett Thrubwell (Eyton p. 148) was a hamlet of Stanton Drewe. 
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