A HISTORY OF DORSET 



destroyed. The abbeyof St. Wandrille also held a church inWareham (no. 124). A church 

 and i; houses in Wareham belonged to the abbey of Horton (no. 117). This church was 

 probably that of St. Martin, which dates from the nth centur}\^ A house in Wareham 

 was attached to the manor of Creech (no. 202), held by the Count of Mortain, and 

 a house in Wareham belonged to the manor of Broadmayne (no. 223) held by Earl 

 Hugh. Two burgesses and 12 acres belonging to the Bishop of Salisbur}', and a burgess 

 in Wareham, were attached to the manor of Povington (no. 242) held by Robert fitz 

 Ceroid. William of Eu had a bordar and two gardens in Wareham attached to his 

 manor of Ljtchett Matravers (no. 260) and William of Moyon had a garden in Ware- 

 ham attached to his manor of Polehatn (nos. 276 and Ixxxvi). At Hurpston (nos. 413 and 

 cxlvi), belonging to the wife of Hugh fitz Grip, there was a burgess rendering 8^. In 

 view of the proximity of Hurpston to Wareham, it seems not unlikely that he was in 

 Wareham ."^ 



Although some burgesses are said to render money, there is nothing to throw light 

 on their form of tenure, or the rate at which they paid rent. The burgess attached to 

 Povington rendered 2S., the one at Hurpston 8d. The Abbess of Shaftesbury had 65^. 

 from 151 burgesses, 20 empty tnansiones, and a garden. Assuming the empty mansiones 

 to be unproductive and discounting the garden, the burgesses may have paid about 2^. 

 each. The values of property in the boroughs are only incidentally mentioned. The 

 church and five houses attached to Horton rendered b^d., about i^d. a house. The house 

 attached to Broadmayne rendered ^d. The Bishop of Salisbury had a house at Lyme 

 rendering 6d., and his \ acre in Bridport rendered the same amount. William of 

 IMoyon's garden in Wareham rendered 3^. 



Each of the four boroughs was assessed for geld. Bridport was assessed at 5 hides, 

 Dorchester and Wareham at 10 hides each, and Shaftesbury at twenty. They all dis- 

 charged this obligation by contributing to the support of the king's housecarls. Bridport 

 rendered \ mark of silver {bs. 8d.), Dorchester and Wareham i mark (135. 4^.) each, 

 and Shaftesbur}' 2 marks (265. 8^.). The boroughs of Devon and the Wiltshire borough 

 of Malmesbury did a similar service. In Devon the borough of Exeter paid geld only 

 when London, York, and Winchester paid et hoc erat dimidia marka argenti ad opus 

 militum. Exeter was assessed at five hides: quando expeditio ibat per terram aut per 

 maretn serviebat hec civitas quantum v hide terre.^ Bridport, assessed at 5 hides, also 

 rendered \ mark ad opus hiiscarlium. The three other Devon boroughs — Barnstaple, 

 Lydford, and Totnes — did jointly the same service as Exeter. Totnes paid geld when 

 Exeter did, and then it rendered 3^. 4^.^ At Malmesburj' (Wilts.) quando rex ibat in 

 expeditionem vel terra vel mari habebat de hoc burgo aut xx solidos ad pascendos suos 

 buzecarlos aut unum honiineni ducebat secum pro honore v hidarum. By analogy with the 

 Dorset and Devon boroughs 205. (li mark) was the amount one would expect a borough 

 of 15 hides to pay.'' 



All four boroughs had moneyers in 1066 but none of these was said to be there in 

 1086. There had been one at Bridport, two each at Dorchester and Wareham, and three 

 at Shaftesbur\'. Each rendered one mark of silver to the king and 20^. quando moneta 

 zertebatur, that is when fresh dies were issued. The mints of Wareham and Shaftesburj- 

 are mentioned by name in Athelstan's mint Law^ when there were two mints at each 

 borough. Coins struck at Dorchester and Wareham under Athelstan have survived,' 



' G. Baldwin Brown, Arts in Early Eng. (1925), ii. 484. ' F. L. Attenborough, Latcs of the Earliest Etig. Kings, 



* For this burgess, see also M. Bateson, 'The Burgesses 134. The I2th-cent. Quadripartitus version lists a mint at 



of Domesday and the Malmesburj' Wall', E.H.R. xxi. 710. Dorchester. 



5 Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i, f. 100. " G. C. Brooke, Eng. Coins from the yth Cent, to the 



' Ibid. f. io8b. ' V.C.H. Wilts, ii. 23. Present Day (1955), 59. 



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