A HISTORY OF DORSET 



I ^2) the Count of Mortain had half of two mills {medietas ii moUnorum) rendering 10s. 

 Part of Child Okeford (nos. 7 and i) was held by the king, who held there two mills 

 rendering 205. of which, according to Exon. Domesday, medietatem partu (sic) habet rex. 

 At Tarrant Crawford (no. 436) Alvric had a \ mill rendering 30^. Three quarters of a 

 mill rendering 95. were recorded at the unnamed manor (no. 494) belonging to William 

 de Dalmar, which is presumably why Eyton identified this manor as part of Tarrant 

 Crawford.**^ Both Alvric's manor of Tarrant Crawford and William de Dalmar's 

 unnamed manor can with some confidence be assigned to the hundred of Celeberge^^ so 

 that Eyton may well have been correct. One third of a mill is recorded at Winbiirne 

 (nos. 388 and cxx) belonging to the wife of Hugh fitz Grip. It is possible that this was 

 part of the mill recorded at Hervey the chamberlain's manor of Wimborne St. Giles (no. 

 499) where the entry reads in molino ville xxii et dimidia and then breaks off leaving a 

 space. At Morden (no. 473) Ulvric had \id. de parte molini, perhaps part of the mill at 

 Morden (no. 172) held by the Count of Mortain. There was also h mill at Watercombe 

 (no. 29) and another J mill at Ringstead (no. 359), each rendering 45. The other halves 

 cannot be traced. The mill of Stoborough (no. 201), belonging to the Count of Mortain, 

 had h hide of land and 3 bordars attached to it. The mill at Povington (no. 242), 

 belonging to Robert fitz Gerold, was claimed ad opus regis. The renders from mills 

 varied considerably. At Sherborne, where there were 12 mills, four rendered jointly 

 18^. 6d., three rendered jointly 30^., three others 22^., one 105., and one 55. Where the 

 composite render from a number of mills is given, it is not possible to deduce how much 

 each one was worth since there is no guarantee that the money was divided equally. At 

 Waia (nos. 380 and cxii) there were 3 mills which rendered 355. and Exon. Domesday 

 shows that while one of them rendered 10^. the other two rendered 25^. Of 131 mills for 

 which individual values are given 45 rendered less than 55., 43 rendered from 55. to 10s., 

 and 43 rendered 10^. and over. Renders in kind are mentioned once only, at Tarrant 

 Keyneston (no. 60), where two mills rendered 30^. and 1,000 eels. 



The largest numbers of mills were on the upper reaches of the Stour. Mills are 

 sometimes mentioned in the 12th-century surveys of the land of Shaftesbury Abbey. 

 At Compton Abbas, in the earlier survey, the abbess supplied the timber of the mill, 

 the miller himself the mill-stones, and the villani transported the mill-stones to the 

 mill. 85 At Bradford-on-Avon (Wilts.), in the same survey, the miller had timber from 

 the wood yearly, the villani helped in the repair of the mill and the transportation of the 

 mill-stones, and in return the miller did not receive toll from the lord's malt.^*' The mill 

 at Compton was worth 45. 2.d. at the time of Domesday (no. 129) and according to the 

 earlier survey, the miller still rendered 45. 2d. in the 12th century, but this is the only 

 such correspondence between Domesday and the Shaftesbury surveys. 



Salt-pans and salt-workers are occasionally m^entioned in Dorset, although the 

 county was not an important centre of the salt industry. The Count of Mortain had 32 

 salt-pans {saline) at Studland (no. 209) which rendered 405. and 12 at Wai (no. 163), 

 and 16 salt-workers {salinarii) at Charmouth (no. 215). Glastonbury Abbey had 13 

 salt-workers rendering 13^. at Colway in Lyme Regis (no. 68), Milton Abbey had 13 

 rendering 20^. at Ower in Purbeck (nos. 105 and Ixxix), and William Belet had 14 at 

 Lyme (no. 504). The production of salt seems to have been confined to three areas, the 

 Isle of Purbeck (Studland and Ower), the mouth of the Wey {Wai), and Lyme Regis 



*' R. W. V.yton, Key to Dotnesday : Dorset . 1 17-18. miller debet habere i trunctiim et i pomarium sHrestrem 



*■• See p. 136. unoquoque anno ad molendimim facienduni : ibid. f. 75V. At 



*' B.M. Had. MS. 61, f. 49V. Hinton at the same date the miller debet habere . . . i 



*' Ibid. f. 38: habebit singulis annis i lignum in silva et quercum singulis annis ad reficiendum molendinum (ibid. f. 



auxitium de hominibus et carros ad fractum (sic) molendinum 65V), and at Tisburv' debent omnes reparare molendinum sua 



et motas adducendas. At Bradford in the second sur\ey the (sic) de bosco domine: ibid. f. 71. 



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