DOMESDAY SURVEY 



manors of Earl Harold and Little Puddle, belonging originally to Earl Harold's mother. 

 In the Exon. Domesday Earl Harold's manors come first, with no heading to distinguish 

 them from the land of King Edward, which follows. Countess Gytha's manor of Little 

 Puddle is included among her son's manors, next to Puddletown, and Portland is 

 placed between the manors of Ibberton and Fleet, both belonging to Earl Harold. In 

 addition the lands of BoUo the priest, Bristuard the priest, and the abbey of St. Wand- 

 rille are interspersed with the king's manors, whereas in the Exchequer text they are 

 entered separately. A virgate of reeveland, held by Aiulf the sheriff, is also entered 

 among the king's manors, but it does not appear at all in the Exchequer text. The 

 manors of Queen Maud are entered in almost the same order in both texts except that 

 one of the manors of Tarente (nos. 26 and xxxv), which in the Exchequer text lies fifth 

 among the manors held by Hugh fitz Grip of the queen, lies eighth in Exon. Domesday. 

 Abbotsbury, the chief manor of the abbey of that name, comes third in the Exon. 

 arrangement of the abbey's fief, and first in the Exchequer arrangement, and Milton 

 Abbas, the caput abbatie of Milton Abbey, lies eighth among the abbey's manors in Exon. 

 Domesday and second in the Exchequer text.'^ 



Of the discrepancies in actual content the most serious relates to the wood of 

 Hauocumbe, attached to the manor of Burton Bradstock (nos. 2 and x). According to the 

 Exchequer text one-third of the wood was held by Earl Edwin, which Exon. Domesday 

 says belonged to Earl Godwin. The Exon. version is probably correct, since this 

 portion of the wood was appurtenant to Frampton (no. 121) which was held T.R.E. by 

 Countess Gytha, Earl Godwin's widow. The value of Nettlecombe (nos. 88 and li) is 

 also a matter of disagreement between the two texts. According to Exon. Domesday the 

 manor reddit abbati viii libras et prefato militi I solidos et v et quando abbas recepit valebat 

 XX solidos plus. The former value of the manor must therefore have been ^Tii 15^. od. 

 The Exchequer text, however, gives the former value of the manor as j/^12 o^. od. There 

 are numerous other small discrepancies, which could have been due to mistakes in 

 copying. At Child Okeford (nos. 7 and i) the king had 9 (viiii) bordars according to 

 Exon. Domesday but 8 (viii) bordars according to the Exchequer text. At Creech (nos. 

 412 and cxlv) the pasture measured 7 furlongs by 4 (iiii) furlongs according to Exon. 

 Domesday and 7 furlongs by 3 (iii) furlongs according to the Exchequer text. In all these 

 cases it is easy to see how a misreading may have occurred. Similarly at Hampreston 

 (nos. 19 and xxv) there were 2 villani according to Exon. and 5 villani in the Exchequer 

 text, which could be explained by a misreading of ii as v. At another manor in the same 

 vill of Hampreston (nos. 389 and cxxi) the wife of Hugh had i villanus and i bordar 

 according to Exon. Domesday, but i villanus and 2 bordars according to the Exchequer 

 text. At Cerne (nos. 108 and Ixxxii) 7 bordars in Exon. have become 5 bordars in the 

 Exchequer text. At Winterborne Stickland (nos. 403 and cxxxvi) the former and present 

 values of the manor have become transposed. A mistake like this could arise through 

 the difference in arrangement between the two texts, since Exon. always places the 

 1086 value first, whereas the Exchequer text gives the former value first. 



There are frequent instances of omissions in the Exchequer text. Exon. Domesday 

 records that William of Moyon's manor of Hammoon (nos. 277 and Ixxxvii) was held of 

 him by Torstin, but the Exchequer text omits this and treats the manor as if William 



'5 The rearrangement of the lands of Abbotsbury Puddle, in Puddletown hundred, follows the manor of 



Abbey and Milton Abbey in the Exch. text has disarranged Puddletown in Exon. Domesday, but is isolated from it in 



the hundredal order. Abbotsbury lay in Uggescombe the Exchequer text. This is not the case with the queen's 



hundred, along with Portesham and Shihinghampton, manor of Tarente, where the position is reversed; it is in 



which it immediately precedes in Exon. Domesday, and the Exon. arrangement that the hundredal order is upset, 



Milton lay in //a/tone hundred, with Lyscombe and Wool- and it is rectified in the Exchequer text, 

 land, its neighbours in Exon. Domesday. Similarly Little 



