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Gytha and Earl Harold respectively.54 The sister house of Holy Trinity, Caen, held the 

 manor of Tarrant Launceston (no. 141) which was the gift of Queen Maud. 55 The abbey 

 of Montevilliers held Friar Waddon (no. 143), given to it by Hugh fitz Grip; the abbey 

 of St. Wandrille held the churches of Bridport, Burton Bradstock, Whitchurch Canoni- 

 corum, and Wareham (nos. 123 and xviii, 124 and xx),^^ and the abbey of Marmoutier 

 held Piddlehinton (no. 168) of the Count of Mortain.57 According to the Geld Rolls the 

 abbey of St. Leger, Preaux, held land in Dorset, and, although Domesday does not 

 mention the fact, the land in question was probably the manor of Stour Provost (no. 

 231), held by Roger de Beaumont, whose father founded the two abbeys at Preaux. ss 



Of the losses sustained by the English houses some dated from before 1066. Earl 

 Harold had taken four manors from Shaftesbury Abbey, two of which were restored by 

 King William in accordance with a writ of King Edward. Queen Edith, Earl Harold's 

 sister, had held Sherborne (no. 37) but Bishop Aelfwold (i 045/6-1 058) had held it 

 previously, and it belonged to the Bishop of Salisbury in 1086. It is possible that Queen 

 Edith had held the manor on a life-lease. One hide at Sherborne had been held by 

 Alward of King Edward T.R.E. sed prius erat de episcopatu. In 1086 it had reverted to 

 the bishopric. Sometimes the churches had lost lands because they had been leased to 

 thegns whose estates had passed to Norman lords. Wulfweard White had held Pentridge 

 (no. 66) of Glastonbury Abbey T.R.E., but in 1086 the manor was held by the king who 

 had taken possession of most of Wulfweard's lands. Clifton and Trill (no. 225) had at 

 one time belonged to the Bishop of Sherborne, but were held T.R.E. by Eadnoth the 

 staller and passed to Hugh, Earl of Chester, with the rest of Eadnoth's lands. 59 Eadnoth 

 had also bought South Perrott (no. 228) and Catsley (no. 229) from Bishop Aelfwold for 

 his own lifetime, on condition that at his death they should revert to the church, but 

 both these manors were held by Earl Hugh in 1086. Stock Gaylard (no. 269), which 

 T.R.E. was held by Toli in pledge de terra Scireburne, had passed to William of Eu who 

 received the rest of Toll's land. Attached to the manor of Silton, belonging to William 

 of Falaise, was one hide which Wulfweard White had bought from the Bishop of Exeter. 

 Some losses, usually involving smaller amounts of land, were due to deliberate seizure 

 for which Hugh fitz Grip, the former sheriff, was largely responsible. From Abbotsbury 

 Abbey he had taken a hide at Abbotsbury (nos. 109 and Iviii) and a virgate at Portesham 

 (nos. 112 and Ixix), which his wife retained by force.^° Tatton, which had belonged to 

 Cerne Abbey T.R.E., was in 1086 held partly by Aiulf the chamberlain, then sheriff 

 (no. 345), and partly by Hugh's wife (nos. 398 and cxxxi), and according to Exon. 

 Domesday two other manors of this abbey, Bloxworth (nos. 79 and xlii) and Affpuddle 

 (nos. 80 and xliii), had been devastated by Hugh. Farnham (no. 135), which T.R.E. 

 belonged to Shaftesbury Abbey, was held in 1086 by Aiulf (no. 352) and Hugh's wife 

 (nos. 396 and cxxix) and a virgate at Kingston (no. 134), belonging to the same abbey 

 T.R.E., was held in 1086 by William of Briouze. Manasses held 3 virgates at Stalbridge 

 (no. 42), belonging to Sherborne Abbey, which William the king's son had given him 

 sine consensu episcopi et monachorum, and the two best hides of the manor of Horton (no. 

 1 17), belonging to Horton Abbey, had been taken into the king's forest of Wimborne. 



The Exchequer text gives the hides in demesne on the ecclesiastical estates, though 

 only rarely on lay estates, whereas Exon. Domesday regularly gives the hides in 

 demesne and the hides held by the villani for both lay and ecclesiastical estates. It is 



'* Regesta Regimi Anglo-Normannorum, i, no. 105. " See p. 141. 



55 Ibid. no. 149. 56 Jbid. no. no. " For Clifton and Trill, see p. 41. 



5' Piddlehinton had belonged to Countess Maud, '"' Adhuc uxor eius vi detinet. The Abbotsbury entr\' 



Count Robert's wife, and was given by him to the abbey has given rise to an error in V.C.H. Dors. ii. 49, where vi 



after her death: Cal. Doc. France, ed. Round, 435. ('by force') is translated as 'six'. 



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