DOMESDAY SURVEY 



(Colway and Lyme). Later evidence records saltcotes in the same areas. Robert of 

 Lincoln, in his charter founding the priory of Holme as a cell of Montacute, gave to it 

 one tithe of salt from his saltcotes adjoining the manor of Langton Matravers, and 

 Robert's son Alvred in confirming and extending his father's grant mentions a tithe of 

 salt from his saltcotes in Purbeck.^^ in the second survey of Shaftesbury Abbey's lands 

 (dating from the later 12th century) there is an account of Arne in Purbeck, which 

 consisted of a hide of land devoted entirely to the production of salt.^s Since all the 

 places named are on the seaboard, it is evident that the salt was refined from sea water 

 and not from brine-pits, and the account of Arne mentions the plumba, leaden vessels 

 used to collect and boil the sea-water and isolate the salt.^^ 



Fishermen (piscatores) are recorded in the Lyme Regis and Weymouth areas. The 

 manor of Lyme, belonging to the Bishop of Salisbury (no. 36), was held by an unstated 

 number of fishermen who paid 155. to the monks adpisces.'^° At Brige (no. 348), belong- 

 ing to Aiulf the chamberlain, there were 2 fishermen, and 2 more in the same place 

 belonging to Brictuin (no. 465). This manor lay in the neighbourhood of Weymouth.^' 

 These were obviously sea-fishermen, and it is plain that they cannot have been the total 

 of fishermen in Dorset at this time. The second survey of Shaftesbury Abbey twice 

 refers to the herrings of Wareham, and there must have been a fishing fleet to catch 

 them.92 'Phe Qnly reference to fishing in weirs is the statement that the 2 mills at 

 Tarrant Keyneston (no. 60) rendered i ,000 eels. 



Other manorial appurtenances occasionally recorded are vineyards, orchards, 

 gardens, and honey. Two vineyards (vinee) are recorded, both belonging to Aiulf the 

 chamberlain. At Durweston (no. 346) he had ii acre vinee and at Wootton Fitzpaine 

 (no. 347) ii arpetiz vinee. One orchard (virgultiim) is recorded at the appropriately- 

 named manor of Orchard (nos. 422 and civ) belonging to the wife of Hugh fitz Grip.'^ 

 Gardens {orti) were more numerous. William of Eu had two gardens in Wareham 

 attached to his manor of Lytchett Matravers (no. 260) and the Abbess of Shaftesbury 

 had a garden in Shaftesbury itself. William of Moyon had a garden in Wareham 

 attached to his manor of Poleham (nos. 276 and Ixxxvi), which is recorded in Exon. 

 Domesday but not in the Exchequer text. Hugh's wife had a garden at Turners 

 Puddle (nos. 391 and cxxiv), which again is mentioned only by Exon. Domesday. 

 Renders of honey {mellis) are recorded twice: i sester (sextaritim) at Holworth (nos. 104 

 and Ixxviii) and 4 sesters at Rushton (no. 292). Waste land is rare in Dorset. Nyland 

 (no. 150), held by Drew of the Count of Mortain, was waste {vasta est), and according 

 to Exon. Domesday part of Hurpston (nos. 414 and cxlvii) was laid waste {hec terra 

 omnino devastata est). This manor belonged to the wife of Hugh fitz Grip, whose hus- 

 band was apparently responsible for the wasting of the Dorset boroughs^'* and the 

 diminution of the value of Bloxworth (nos. 79 and xlii) and Affpuddle (nos. 80 and 

 xliii), belonging to Cerne Abbey. At Stourton Caundle (no. 363) Hugh silvestris had a 

 little manor assessed at J hide, with land for \ plough. He had there 2 bordars and 2 

 acres of meadow and nil amplius. It is not clear why he had no income from the manor. 



Exon. Domesday's largest single addition to the Exchequer account is the information 

 about the livestock, which is entirely omitted by the Exchequer scribes. Since the 



'' Montacute Cartulary (Som. Rec. .Soc. viii), 160-2. " It is called Briige(s) iuxta Wayinue in 2 charters in 



*' B.M. Harl. MS. 61, ff. 6ov-6i. the Montacute cartulary: see p. 56. There is a Bridge 



"> A. R. Bridbury, Eng. and the Salt Trade in the Later Farm in the area which may preserve the Domesday name: 



Middle Ages, 16-17. The author says (ibid, ig) that there O.S. Map 25,000 SY 67 (1958). 



were 32salt-pans in Dorsetin 1086, whichmustbethegroup '" B.M. Harl. MS. 61, ff. 65, 67. 



at Studland, but he does not mention the 12 pans at Wai. '' This orchard is probably to be identified with the 



'° Lyme was originally given to Sherborne for the garden near Bradle, the tithe of which was given to 



taking of salt (see p. 41), but there are no salt-pans Montacute Priory by Alvred of Lincoln (II): see p. 56. 



recorded in 1086. There was a house there rendering 6d. '■• See p. 27. 



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