DOMESDAY SURVEY 

 It is remarkable that out of 88 manors where pigs were kept, only 48 had associated 

 woodland, and at Renscombe (nos. 91 and Iv), where there were 12 pigs, the wood 

 nullum fnictum fert. In such cases they must have grazed on the pasture, or perhaps in 

 the forests if they were near enough, or on the stubble of the fields. At Cheselbourne, in 

 the 1 2th century, Wulfric the priest hzd pascua suis porcis in stiplam cum porcis abba- 

 tissey^ Cart or pack-horses (runcini) are recorded quite frequently, but in small numbers, 

 usually only one or two to a manor. There were 122 in all. Mares (eque) are rare, being 

 mentioned only three times, and numbering 25 in all. Roger Arundel had 12 unbroken 

 mares {indomite eque) at Chelborough (nos. 324 and xcvi) and a mare at North Poorton 

 (nos. 329 and ci), and at Turners Puddle (nos. 391 and cxxiv) the wife of Hugh fitz Grip 

 had 12 mares with their foals {eque cum suis pullis). A single ass (asinus) is recorded at 

 her manor of Frome Whitfield (nos. 377 and cix). 



The four Dorset boroughs, Dorchester, Wareham, Bridport, and Shaftesbury, con- 

 form to the usual type of borough found in south-western England in 1086, small and 

 not fully developed, but clearly distinguished from their agricultural surroundings. Of 

 the boroughs three (Dorchester, Wareham, and Bridport) contributed to the firma 

 unius noctis. Dorchester the borough was presumably connected with the group of 

 manors headed by Dorchester (nos. 4 and xii) and Bridport with the group headed by 

 Burton Bradstock (nos. 2 and x). Wareham was probably associated with Winfrith 

 Newburgh (nos. 6 and xv), which is geographically nearest. A fourth group of royal 

 manors, the Wimborne Minster group, seems to have had burgesses at its centre in 

 1086, although it was not at that time classed as a borough. A priest with land at 

 Hinton Martell (no. 31) had 11 houses in Wimborne, and at Hinton also the church of 

 Wimborne had li hide and | virgate, and 8 burgesses. It is not impossible that the 

 burgesses were at Hinton, but they may equally well have been at Wimborne.' The 

 abbey of Horton (no. 117) had a chapel (ecclesiola) and the land of two houses {terra 

 duabus domibus) at Wimborne. The two best hides of the manor of Horton lay in the 

 forest of Wimborne, and it is possible that the chapel and the land were given to the 

 abbey by the king in exchange for these two hides just as the church of Gillingham was 

 given to Shaftesbury Abbey in exchange for a hide at Kingston (no. 134). Edward of 

 Salisbury had two bordars and a house in Wimborne attached to his manor of Canford 

 Magna (no. 243), and also a league of marshland. The fact that four persons had land in 

 Wimborne provides one characteristic (though not invariable) feature of a borough, 

 'tenurial heterogeneity'. ^ This characteristic is exhibited in varying degrees by the four 

 boroughs. In Dorchester in 1086 there were 88 houses standing and 100 destroyed, but 

 the account does not state to whom they belonged. One house in Dorchester belonged 

 to the abbey of Horton (no. 117) and the Bishop of Salisbury had one burgess and 10 

 acres of land in Dorchester attached to his manor of Charminster (no. 32). The same 

 bishop had J acre of land in Bridport (no. 48), where in 1086 there were 100 houses 

 standing and 20 ruined but still inhabited. Their owners are not specified. Shaftesbury 

 was divided between the king and the Abbess of Shaftesbury. In 1066 the king had held 

 104 houses and the abbess 153 houses. In 1086 the king had 66 houses standing and 38 

 destroyed and the abbess 1 1 1 houses standing and 43 destroyed. She had there 151 bur- 

 gesses, 20 empty mansiones, and a garden, which together were worth ;^3 55. od. In Ware- 

 ham T.R.E. there were 143 houses in dominio regis. In 1086 the king had 70 houses 

 standing and 73 destroyed, the abbey of St. Wandrille had 45 houses standing and 17 

 destroyed, and de partibus aliorum baronum there were 20 houses standing and 60 



»' B.M. Had. MS. 61, f. 44V. Hinton entry. 



' Ellis (Gen. Introd. to Dom. Bk. ii. 438) lists 8 burgesses ^ F. W. Maitland, Dom. Bk. and Beyond, 178. 



in Wimborne who are presumably those mentioned in the 



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