A HISTORY OF DORSET 



oxen. Woodstreet (no. 508), assessed at 3 virgates, had land for 6 oxen. Brige or Brigam 

 (nos. 348, 393 and cxxvi, 465) was divided into three manors of i virgate each, each of 

 which had land for 2 oxen. But Lewell (no. 492), assessed at 3 virgates, had land for 

 only 2 oxen, and Gillingham (no. 490), assessed at only \ virgate, also had land for 2 

 oxen. Apart from these two cases the evidence suggests that a manor assessed at i hide 

 would be likely to have land for 8 oxen or i plough. 



The value of each manor is generally given twice ; the first value being what it was 

 worth at some time before 1086, the second what it was worth in 1086. In three cases the 

 Exchequer text states that the earlier value relates to the time when the manor was 

 received by the man who held it in 1086 {qtiando recepit). Exon. Domesday shows that 

 this was the case in most entries, since it nearly always says that the manor was worth so 

 much when its present owner received it. Sometimes Exon. departs from this practice. 

 In the case of the manor of Puddletown Exon. in effect gives three values: Ex tempore 

 regis Edzcardi hec mansio cum omnibus appendiciis suis reddidit per annum Ixxiii libras et 

 quando Aiidfus {recepit) reddebat tantundem. In the cases of two manors belonging to the 

 queen the previous values were the values in her lifetime; Cranborne (nos. 16 and xxii) 

 and Ashmore (nos. 17 and xxiii) rendered respectively ;^24 and £1^ vivente regina. 

 Similarly Chaldon (nos. 408 and cxli) valet per annum viii libras et quando Hugo recepit 

 eam zalebat x libras et in zita Hugonis reddidit xi libras. For most of the manors of 

 Cerne Abbey the previous value relates to the time quando abbas recepit, but at Rens- 

 combe (nos. 91 and liv) this was defined as quando abbas W. recepit, and at Littlebredy 

 (nos. 85 and xlviii) the former value was that tempore E. abbatis. 



Exon. Domesday reveals that some manors were being held at farm, such as Child 

 Okeford (nos. 7 and i) by Fulcred, and Loders (nos. 13 and ix) by Roger. Both manors 

 had belonged to Earl Harold and were held by the king in 1086. Woodsford (nos. 82 and 

 xlv) was held by Bristuard at farm of Cerne Abbey. The Exchequer text omits these 

 farmers, although it records that 6 men held Ringstead (no. 463) at farm of Brictuin. 

 It is also plain that Osmund the baker's manor of Galton (no. 507) was held for rent by 

 the four men there, who paid 12^. 6d., since no 1086 value is recorded for the manor. 

 Similarly Lyme (no. 36), belonging to the Bishop of Salisbury, was held by fishermen 

 who paid 15*. ad pisces, but no 1086 value is recorded, and Ower (nos. 105 and Ixxix) 

 was held by 13 salt-workers who paid 20^. In all three cases the money paid by the 

 tenants is the only recorded income from the manor, and they must have held the 

 manors at a money rent. The value of the Count of Mortain's manor of Nyland (no. 

 150) was omitted because it was waste {rasta est) and no value is given for Odo fitz 

 Eurebold's manor of Petersham (no. 375). The values of about one-fifth of the manors 

 seem to have been based on a figure of ^i a hide, and in a few other cases the previous 

 value had been based on this figure, but had changed. The tendency was for values to 

 rise rather than fall. 



The effect of the teamlands on this valuation has already been shown. Other con- 

 siderations also seem to have affected the value. In the case of Puddletown (nos. 8 and 

 ii), assessed at i hide and with land for 15 ploughs, the value of £^2 must have taken 

 into account the income derived from the third penny of the shire which was attached 

 to this manor. Some of the manors which may be supposed to have been heads of 

 hundreds were worth considerably more than one would expect, and it is possible that 

 their values were affected by the profits from the hundred courts. At Sherborne (no. 

 37) the Bishop of Salisbur\''s demesne, consisting of 12 hides and 16 carucates which 

 never paid geld, was worth £s'^- The bishop's demesne at Beaminster (no. 46) consisted 

 of 6 hides and 2 carucates, and was worth ;Ci6. Loders (nos. 13 and ix), assessed at 18 



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