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East Holme seems to be identical with the one hide at Holne 

 held at the Domesday survey by Edric, one of the King's Thanes 

 who also held the adjoining lands of Rushton and Stoke. Not 

 very long after this Holme became the property of a certain 

 " Grimaldus Medicus," who sold it to Alured de Lincoln. The 

 first of the following charters is a license from King Henry I. to 

 the purchaser to hold the same ("Terra de Holna") in fee. 

 Amongst the witnesses, besides Roger, Bishop of Salisbury, who 

 obtained that see in 1102, are Ranulph the Chancellor and William 

 de Tancer villa. The former was Chancellor in 1112, and he again 

 occurs as such between 1109 and 1111, and also in 1121. The 

 latter was witness to a Royal charter in 1121. The date of this 

 charter was probably, therefore, about that time. 



The second instrument hereafter given is the charter of foundation 

 of Holme Priory by Robert de Lincoln, son of Alured above mentioned. 

 It states that he had been moved by Divine instinct to found a 

 house of religion in honour of God ; and with the concurrence of 

 Beuza, his wife, and Alured, his son, for the souls of King Henry 

 and of himself, his father, mother, wife, children, relations, and 

 friends, he gave to the monks of Montacute the land called Holna 

 for the support of 13 monks at the latter place. He also gave 

 them three virgates of land with the tithe thereof at Wrde (Weston 

 Worth in Purbeck) and the tithe of all the bread, meat, and fish 

 of the buttery (dispensa), of the house, of himself, his heirs, and 

 successors (meaning all provisions of the kind mentioned provided 

 for the use of his household) ; also one of the salt pans of the salt 

 works adjacent to the Manor of Langton.* The tithe of the 

 demesne at Acford (Okeford Fitzpaine), and of Winterburne 

 Gurewambe (Winterbourne Whitchurch), and of Langton juxta 

 Abotesberie (Langton Herring), and of Corfton (Gorton, in 

 Portesham). At the same time Bardulphus, his knight, with the 

 consent of himself and of Alured his son, gave the tithe of the 

 demesne of Chiselburnford and Watercumhe. 



* These salt works were at Middlebere on the Poole estuary, but were 

 within the Manor of Lanalon Wallis. 



