36 UNRECORDED DEANS OF WIMBORNE MINSTER. 



Christmas, 1086. Meantime, that is at Easter, 1086, the Domesday 

 Survey had been completed ; and Domesday styles Maurice a Bishop. 

 It folio vrs that, both before and after nomination to the See of London, 

 the Chaplain Maurice was Dean of Wimborne. 28 



Odeham is one of the two estates in Wimborne which have 

 since lost their names and distinctiveness, and have been 

 incorporated in the once Royal estate. Its Saxon owner 

 in the time of King Edward was Aluric Dod. According 

 to the Inquisitio Gheldi (1080-1084) it was exempted from 

 Gheld. 



De his . . . habet Episcopue Londoniensis i hidam et dimidiam. 2 * 



The Bishop of London at this time was Hugh de Orivalle. 

 Eyton, commenting on this, remarks that it is rendered 

 probable that " both Bishops,having, in their time, been Deans 

 of Wimborne, had held Odeham in virtue of their Deanery." K 



That this was the case is conjecture ; but at the same time 

 it is very probable. And, if so, it is possible that 



Hugh de Orivalle may have been the first Dean of Wimborne 

 appointed to that office by Edward the Confessor, ten 

 years or more before he was consecrated Bishop of London. 

 Of his Episcopate (1075-1085) little is known, saving that 

 during his tenure of the see, and presumably of the Deanery 

 of Wimborne, he became a leper and suffered from that 

 loathsome and distressing malady until his death. 26 He was 

 succeeded as Bishop, and apparently as Dean of Wimborne, by 



Maurice, who was consecrated Bishop of London by 

 Lanfranc at Winchester, on the 5th of April, 1085, about 

 a fortnight after his ordination to the priesthood. He was 

 Chaplain and Chancellor to the Conqueror, and crowned 

 Henry I. at Westminster on the 5th of August, 1100. He 

 had not long been Bishop of London when St. Paul's Cathedral 

 was destroyed by fire. Maurice commenced its restoration 



23. A Key to Domesday (Dorset)by Rev. R. W. Eyton, London, Taylor, 



1878, pp. 44-6, 



24. Hutchins's Dorset, VOL IV., p. Ivi. 



25. Key to Domesday, p. 113 and note. 



26. Milman't Annals of St. Paul's, pp. 21, 22. 



