44 NOTES ON A BOOK CALLED DOMESDAY. 



" de Vpwey," which, of course, is the same place. In 1421, J. Lups ; 

 in 1423, J. ffauntleroy ; in 1424, Edward Goulde ; in 1425, J. 

 Jurdan, of Wolveton ; in 1437, Robert Rempston, " de Purbyk ;" 

 in the same year, J. Wydford, of "Weymouth ; in 1441 two names 

 honourably known here now, Bryer and "Waryn, the same as 

 Warren I take it ; in 1482, J. Mone, armiger, doubtless Mohun ; 

 in 1483, Robert Coker, armiger ; in 1542, J. Wylliams, armiger ; 

 in 1556, T. Trenchard, "de Wolveton;" in the same year, Thomas 

 Seymour Knight, Lord Seymour, of Sudeley, as having possessed 

 a tenement formerly belonging to the Preceptory of Mayne ; in 

 the same year, Morgan Hayne ; in 1557, Comes de Bedford, domi- 

 nus Russell ; in 1565, Robert Williams, armiger, of Winterbourne 

 Herringstone ; in 1574, John Hennyng. In the 17th century we 

 find, among others, Denys Bond, James Gould, W. Whiteway, 

 Matthew Chubbe, J. Whetstone. Also I cannot refrain from 

 recording the persistence of the uncommon name Alner, atDewlish 

 People of that name are, or very lately were, living there, and in 

 the 17th century I find that one Alner, of Dewlish, compounded 

 for tolls on his wheat brought to Dorchester market. 



Such are the gleanings of gleanings, my notes on my notes on 

 Dorchester Domesday. My feeling in poring over this interesting 

 old book must be taken for what it is worth ; but, well or ill 

 founded, it amounts to a pleasant conviction that our little borough 

 was not doing badly in Domesday times. It must have made a 

 good recovery from the frightful depopulation and depression 

 caused by Odo or some * one soon after the conquest. But it was a 

 little borough truly. The great grey wall of the pomoerium of 

 Durnovaria was all too large for Dorchester. Prince's Street and 

 Trinity Street were not. The square then enclosed between those 

 modern street ways and parts of the west and south reaches of the 

 wall, and repeatedly named as Les Westwalles, seems to have been 

 all arable land, as, indeed, a good part of it was a nursery in my 

 time. And in Les Estwalles, where now, even, there is an acre or 

 two of pasture in All Saints' glebe, there was in the 15th century 

 * Such as Sheriff Hugh Fitzgiip. 



