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which Hugh fitz Grip had given to the abbey of MontevilUers, the Abbot of Abbotsbury 

 had been entitled to vi acras messis et Hi circscez de consuetudine sed Hugo nunquam dedit. 

 Two hides in Tatton (nos. 398 and cxxxi), which were de dominio abbatie de Cernel 

 T.R.E., were held by the wife of Hugh fitz Grip in 1086. Hugh is said to have taken 

 them from the church {has Hugo super abbatem accepit)?° Farnham (no. 135), belonging 

 to the Abbess of Shaftesbury, was held in 1086 by the wife of Hugh fitz Grip and Aiulf 

 the chamberlain, and is recorded again among their manors.-' Little Cheselbourne (nos. 

 378 and ex), held by the wife of Hugh in 1086, had apparently belonged formerly to 

 the Abbot of Abbotsbury. It was claimed that Hugh had held this land of the abbot ut 

 homines eius dicunt sed abbas negat. The inference is that Hugh fitz Grip had taken 

 possession of the property and then alleged that he had been enfeoff'ed by the abbot. At 

 Abbotsbury itself (nos. 109 and Iviii) Hugh held one hide which T.R.E. ad victum 

 monachorum erat and at Portesham (nos. 112 and Ixix) one virgate which erat in victu 

 monachorum T.R.E. Both pieces of land were held by his wife in 1086. At Winterborne 

 Houghton, a divided vill held partly by the wife of Hugh and partly by William of 

 Moyon, the wife of Hugh held one virgate iniuste que pertinet ad Willelmum de Moione 

 (nos. 392 and cxxv). William Rufus {filius regis) had taken 3 virgates at Stalbridge (no. 

 42) sine consensu episcopi et monachorum and had given them to Manasses. 



At Swyre (no. 263) there was a piece of land which did not pay geld sed erat in 

 dominio et infirma regis. The land had been let to Toxus T.R.E. by a king's reeve who 

 later took it back into the king's hand. Toxus vero per regem Edzvardum iterum fuit 

 saisitus sicut dicit et ita tenuit earn in vita et in morte regis Edwardi et tempore Heraldi.^^ 

 A similar entry concerns a piece of land in Gillingham, which Hugh fitz Grip received 

 from the king's farm and gave to Cranborne Abbey. ^-^ This land also was not assessed in 

 hides. Half a hide at Cerneli (no. 212) belonging to the Count of Mortain was de 

 dominica firma Cerne T.R.E.--^ Land held in pledge (vadimonium) is occasionally 

 recorded. At Tarente (nos. 24 and xxx), a manor of Queen Maud, there was a virgate 

 which Alvric, who held the land T.R.E., had in pledge for i mark of gold and necdum 

 est redempta. At Blandford St. Mary (no. 261) William of Eu had i hide which Toli his 

 predecessor had in pledge ef/z/zf adquietata, but Ralph de Limesi had taken it cum ista 

 alia terra. Stock Gaylard (no. 269), another of William of Eu's manors, had been held in 

 pledge by Toli de terra Scireburne. At Silton (no. 271), belonging to William of Falaise, 

 there was a hide and i- virgate which Wulfweard White, the previous holder, had in 

 pledge from one of his reeves, and attached to the same manor was a hide which Wulf- 

 weard had bought from the Bishop of Exeter sed non pertinebat ad ipsum manerium. 

 Eadnoth the staller, the predecessor of Hugh, Earl of Chester, had bought two manors, 

 Catsley (no. 229) and South Perrott (no. 228), from Aelfwold, Bishop of Sherborne, on 

 condition that at his death they should revert to the church, but Earl Hugh held them 

 in 1086. Exchanges of land had also taken place. Five of the Bishop of Salisbury's 

 manors in Dorset and one in Wiltshire were held in exchange for Scipeleia, which cannot 

 be identified. The king had given the church of Gillingham to the Abbess of Shaftesbury 

 in exchange for one hide of Kingston (no. 134) in which to build Corfe Castle. Hugh 

 fitz Grip had given Little Waddon (no. 460) to Brictuin, a thegn, in exchange for a 

 manor worth twice as much {ipsum scambium valet duplum). Although this manor is 



^° Another part of Tatton (no. 345) was held by Aiulf he who gave evidence, he presumably held of William of 



the chamberlain. T.R.E. i thegn had held it of Cerne Eu in 1086. 



Abbey et non poterat ah ea separari. " See no. 70: Hanc terram accepit Hugo de firma regis et 



^' See nos. 352 and 396. dedit ecclesie. 



'^ The phrase sicut dicit appears to imply that Toxus ■=•» In the Geld Roll for Whitchurch hundred the Count 



gave evidence. This seems unlikely, but it is difficult to see of Mortain had 1 hide which was de firma regis, which 



who other than Toxus can be the subject of dicit. If it was seems to be this J hide in Cerneli: see pp. 125, 126. 



