A HISTORY OF DORSET 



whose manors in Devon and Somerset passed to the count. In the Devon survey he is 

 called Edmer Atre, and in the Exon. Domesday for Somerset, Edmeratorius. He also 

 held land in Cornwall.^' Eadnoth the staller, whose lands passed to Hugh, Earl of 

 Chester, held 25 hides in Dorset, and in King William's time had taken the manor of 

 Burstock (no. 230), assessed at three hides, from a certain thegn. He is addressed in a 

 writ of William relating to Bath Abbey.^' He was killed in 1067, leading the militia 

 against the sons of Harold. It was Harold from whom he had received the manor of 

 Ilsington (no. 221). Two of his manors, South Perrott (no. 228) and Catsley (no. 229), 

 he had bought from Bishop Aelfwold of Sherborne, on condition that at his death they 

 should return to the church, but Earl Hugh held them in 1086. Two other manors held 

 by Eadnoth had at one time belonged to Sherborne Abbey." Eadnoth's son, Harding, 

 also survived the Conquest, and became the ancestor of the Berkeleys.^* He may be 

 identical with Harding who held Bredy (Farm) (no. 317) which passed to Berenger 

 Giffard. According to the Geld Roll for Godderthorn hundred, where Bredy (Farm) lay, 

 Berenger's predecessor continued to hold of him at farm.^s Wulfwynn, a wealthy 

 English lady, with about 100 hides in six counties, held two manors in Dorset, Canford 

 Magna and Kinson (nos. 243, 244), assessed jointly at 38 hides. Like the rest of her 

 land, these two manors were held in 1086 by Edward of Salisbury. In the Middlesex 

 survey she is called IVlwene homo regis and in the Buckinghamshire survey Whven homo 

 regis Edzvardi. In Buckinghamshire she is also called Wlwene de Cresselai, which appears 

 to refer to her tenure of the manor of Creslow (Bucks. ).36 



The prevalence of names like Alvric and Ahvard makes identification uncertain, but 

 it is at least likely that the Alvric who held five of the manors belonging to the wife of 

 Hugh fitz Grip in 1086 is identical with the Alvric who T.R.E. had been the tenant of 

 three of the manors which Hugh fitz Grip held of the queen. If this is the case he had 

 24! hides. Alward Colin(c), who T.R.E. had held Langton Herring (nos. 23 and xxix), 

 another of the manors held by Hugh fitz Grip of the queen, and who still held Thorn- 

 combe (no. 439) in 1086, was probably the man who held five manors belonging to the 

 wife of Hugh fitz Grip in 1086 and also the manor of Little Waddon (no. 460) which 

 Hugh gave to Brictuin. If so, he had 16 hides. It is unsafe to identify him with the 

 Alward who held 14.I hides which passed to the Count of Mortain, or the Alward who 

 held 152 hides which passed to William of Moyon. 



Bondi is a common Scandinavian name, but it occurs only twice in Dorset and it is 

 probably safe to identify the man who held Broadwindsor (no. 505) with the man who 

 held Compton Valence (no. 357), giving him a total of 30 hides. John, who held the two 

 manors which passed to Matthew de Moretania (nos. 320 and 321), is probably to be 

 identified with John the Dane {daniis), a predecessor of Matthew in Gloucestershire 

 and Somerset." He had about 15 hides in Dorset. Godric held 12 hides as the pre- 

 decessor of William of Moyon. Alfred the sheriff held Lulworth (no. 350), assessed at 

 8 hides, 3 virgates, which in 1086 was held by Aiulf the chamberlain, then Sheriff of 

 Dorset. Since Alfred is a common Saxon name, it is unsafe to identify Alfred the 

 sheriff with the pre-Conquest holders of Stour Provost (no. 231) and Wintreburne (no. 

 305), or with the man who held two manors belonging to the Count of Mortain in 1086.38 

 Bricsi (Beorhtsige), miles regis Edwardi, held Wootton Fitzpaine (no. 347), assessed at 



'' Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i, f. 104b; iv. 190, 191. '- Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, i. no. y. 



Round (V.C.H. Som. i. 418) identifies him with Edmer " See p. 41. 



attile or atiile, who held land in Herts., Md.\., and Berks., ■'■' V.C.H. Som. i. 417-18; see also p. 57. 



■which passed to the Count of Mortain. Feilitzen {Pre- " See pp. 36, 131. 



Conquest Personal Names of Dom. Bk. 232 n.) regards this " V.C.H. Wilts, ii. 99. 



identification as no more than a possibility'. Edmer attile " See p. 49. 



■was also called teigrius Heraldi comitis and teigmis R.E. : 5* For a writ addressed to Alfred the sheriff, see F. E. 



Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i, ff. 129b, 136b, 146. Harmer, Anglo-Saxon Writs, no. i. 



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