

NOTES ON A BOOK CALLED DOMESDAY. 43 



and to his son John a black girdle embroidered (harnizatam) with 

 silver. 



It only remains to say a word about one or two isolated entries 

 which seem to demand notice, and to enumerate some of the old 

 Dorset names occurring in Domesday. 



In 19 Edward IV., 1479, (f. cvii.) a curious enrolment occurs, 

 wholly unconnected with borough property. Robert Syred, of 

 London, mercer, gives an English receipt to Abery Cornborough, 

 Esq., and Richard Rimeson, mercer and alderman, of London, for 

 200, price of " 3 skore pipes of * ode." They have procured " hit 

 to be enrolled in .... Dorchester yn a boke ther that is 

 called Domesday." Here, again, we have the name of the book. 

 I may here note that when cataloguing the Dorchester Corporation 

 archives I found two parchments of A.D. 1501, endorsed as being 

 enrolled " in Domysday " on ff. cvii. and cviii. respectively (which, 

 by the bye, I find was really done), so this is a third evidence of 

 the oddly concise name of the volume. 



A portentous place name occurring here and in Weymouth must 

 not be passed over. Near Weymouth Harbour is Helen Lane. 

 Now this is softened from Hell Lane, so called from a house the 

 name of which was Hell, neither more nor less. A portion of it is 

 now extant at the east end of the lane. I hear some one saying 

 that it was a gambling house. Not at all. It was at one time, in 

 the 17th century, the abode of Master Green, M.P. for Weymouth. 

 And here at Dorchester, on the north side of Pease Lane, was, in 

 1400, a placia " Vocata Helle." I can offer no explanation.! 



It would leave this paper altogether incomplete, even in its 

 slight way, if some of the family names were not noticed. It is 

 difficult to choose among those in my notes ; however, I take them 

 in order of occurrrence. In 1409, J. Gould, de Weymouth; in 

 1415, J. Frampton, de Waye Bayous. In 141 6 he is designated as 



* Probably wood. 



t As a mere guess I may add that it is thereabouts in Pease Lane that 

 an ancient covered way was struck ; and that just possibly this may have 

 given the name Hell. This word means " the covered place " according 

 to some authorities. 



