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many such entries in the Dorset survey which cannot be checked against Exon. Domes- 

 day, because the relevant portion has not survived. At Cheselbourne (no. 138) a space 

 has been left for the teamlands, at Pulham (no. 146) for the number of ploughs in 

 demesne, at Lulworth (no. 198) for the ploughs belonging to the men, at Wimborne 

 St. Giles (no. 499) for the account of the mill, at Stalbridge (no. 42) for the former value 

 of the manor, and at Knighton (no. 298) there is a space between the bordars and the 

 men's ploughs where one would normally expect to find cotsets or cottars. The entry 

 concerning Kingcombe (no. 485) is unfinished with room left to complete it, and Herston 

 (no. 512), the last manor entered in the Dorset survey, is not completed. The account 

 of Blackmanston (no. 476) is unfinished, since the value is omitted, but, instead of 

 inserting the value in the space provided, the scribe has repeated the whole entry, 

 with the value, later in the text (no. 489). Cases like this seem to indicate haste in the 

 compilation of the Exchequer Domesday. This is borne out by the marginal additions, 

 one of which, the knight with 2 hides of land at Nettlecombe, has already been men- 

 tioned. The other instances are a virgate of land which did not pay geld at Catsley (no. 

 229), the name of the T.R.E. owner (Burde) at Rushton (no. 292), a burgess at Ware- 

 ham, rendering 2S., attached to Povington (no. 242), and a virgate at Kington Magna 

 (no. 245). The account of the woodland at Iwerne Minster (no. 131) was omitted and 

 entered at the end of the following entry, and the T.R.E. tenure of Bricsrid at Frome 

 Billet (no. 491) was added by interlineation. Apart from these the interlineations are few 

 and confined mostly to titles, like Heraldus {comes), surnames, and the words et dimidia. 



Not only small items of information but whole manors, and in some cases groups of 

 manors, have been omitted from their correct position in the Exchequer text, and added 

 in other places. A group of eight manors belonging to William of Moyon was left out 

 and is recorded on the lower part of the dorse of a folio inserted (f. 8ib). In Exon. 

 Domesday Poleham (nos. 276 and Ixxxvi), the first of the manors misplaced in the 

 Exchequer text, is entered on the page which begins with part of the account of 

 Winterborne Houghton (nos. 275 and Ixxxv). Winterborne is entered in the correct 

 place in the Exchequer text, and it cannot be argued that the Exchequer scribe mislaid a 

 sheet or series of sheets of the Exon. Domesday and found them later. The land of the 

 Countess of Boulogne is entered almost as an afterthought in the Exchequer text, after 

 the land of the king's Serjeants. In Exon. Domesday the three manors of the countess are 

 entered on one sheet only (f. 33), the other side of which is blank, and they follow the 

 king's land and immediately precede the land of Cerne Abbey. It is possible that the 

 misplacing of this leaf caused the omission of the countess's manors from the places 

 where it would be more appropriate to find them, that is, with the lands of the Count of 

 Mortain and Earl Hugh, or with the lands of the wife of Hugh fitz Grip. Other dis- 

 placed manors are Iwerne Courtney (no. 316), the single Dorset manor of Baldwin of 

 Exeter which appears on folio 81 inserted in the Exchequer volume and having William 

 of Moyon's manors on the dorse; the king's manor of Hinton Martell (no. 31), inserted 

 on a special sheet (f. 76); Compton Valence (no. 357), the manor of Hugh de Port, 

 entered at the foot of folio 83 ; Kingston (no. 134) and Farnham (no. 135), belonging to 

 Shaftesbury Abbey, added at the foot of folio 78b; North Poorton (no. 249), belonging 

 to Ernulf of Hesdin, added at the foot of folio 80b, and three manors (nos. 510-12), 

 belonging to the king's Serjeants, which were omitted and added after the land of the 

 Countess of Boulogne. 



It is noticeable in the Dorset survey, as in other parts of the Exchequer Domesday, 

 that the index given on the first folio of the survey, after the account of the boroughs, 

 does not tally with the headings in the text either in arrangement or in terminology. 



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