A HISTORY OF DORSET 



Aiulf is called vicecomes in the index and camerarius in the heading. Baldwin is Baldwin 

 de Execestre in the index but Baldwin alone in the heading, and similarly Waleran is 

 Waleran J'enator in the index but Waleran alone in the heading. Maci de Moretanie in 

 the index becomes Mathiii de Moretania in the text. The heading in the index Reinbaldus 

 presbyter et alii clerici becomes terra elemosinarioriim regis in the text. In the same way 

 Gudmimd et alii taini and Willebnus Belet et alii servientes regis in the index become 

 terra tainorum regis and terra servientium regis in the text. Alvred of Epaignes has a 

 heading and a number in the text but not in the index, with the result that the numbers 

 do not tally, and the discrepancy was solved only by omitting heading and number from 

 the entry of Iseldis's land in the text, although they appear in the index. The lands of the 

 abbey of St. Wandrille and of Hugh de Boscherbert have no headings in the text, the 

 relevant numbers being inserted in the margin. The heading Hugo de Luri et alii fraud is 

 omitted in the text, the number being inserted in the margin by the land of Hugh de 

 Lure. The index lists first the land of the king (I), then the land of the Bishop of Salis- 

 bury (H), and then the land of the monks of Sherborne (HI) but in the text the lands of 

 the monks are entered as part of the bishop's fief, with the words hec novem descripta 

 maneria sunt de zictu monachorum Scirebiirnensium at the end of the section relating to 

 the monks' land, and the number 'HI' inserted in the margin at the point where the 

 lands of the monks begin, half way through the account of Sherborne itself (no. 37). 

 The manors of the bishop both precede and follow the lands of the monks. According 

 to the index the land of the abbey of Montevilliers precedes that of the canons of 

 Coutances, but in the text the positions are reversed. 



Despite the difference in nomenclature and phraseology and the inclusion in the 

 Exchequer text of some items not in Exon. Domesday, the relationship of the two texts 

 seems to be closer than some authorities would allow. With exceptions most of the 

 discrepancies could be put down to the speed at which the Exchequer text was com- 

 piled, and the fact that the Exchequer text often leaves spaces just where the informa- 

 tion is lacking in Exon. Domesday seems to indicate that the Exchequer text was 

 compiled either from Exon. Domesday or a fair copy. 



The Domesday commissioners were required to ascertain the name of each manor 

 {mansio), who held it T.R.E., who held it in 1086, how many hides there were, how 

 manv ploughs in demesne and among the men, how many rillaiii, cottars, servi, free 

 men, and sokemen, how much wood, meadow, and pasture, how many mills and 

 fishponds, how much had been added or taken away, how much it used to be worth, 

 and how much it was worth, and how much each freeman and sokeman had. All this 

 information was to be recorded for three different times, scilicet tempore regis Aedzuardt 

 et qiiando rex Willebnus dedit et quomodo sit modo et si potest plus haberi quam habeatur.^^ 

 Where the question of tenure was concerned, the commissioners in their capacity as 

 justices heard conflicting claims. In Dorset the son of Odo the chamberlain claimed the 

 manor of Chelborough (nos. 280 and xc) held by William of Moyon. According to 

 Exon. rex vera iussit ut inde rectum habeat, but William continued to hold the manor. 

 The Abbess of Shaftesbury had been more fortunate in respect of her manors of 

 Cheselbourne and Stour (nos. 127, 138), which Earl Harold had taken T.R.E., for 

 King William eas fecit resaisiri quia in ipsa ecclesia inventus est brevis cum sigillo regis 

 Eduardi precipiens ut ecclesie restituerentur. The writ, however, also ordered the return 

 of Bingham's Melcombe (no. 30), but rex adhuc tenet. At Povington (no. 242), belonging 

 to Robert fitz Ceroid, the mill was claimed ad opus regis, and at Friar Waddon (no. 143), 



" The commissioners' terms of reference are preser\ed Com.), iv. 496 ; Inquisitio Comitatus Cantabrigiensis, ed. 

 in the preamble to the Ely Inquest : see Dom. Bk. (Rec. N. E. S. A. Hamilton, 97. 



