A HISTORY OF DORSET 



cannot be traced among his other manors. Two of Brictuin's manors were held of him 

 by others. Stinsford (no. 464) was held by Aiulf and six men {homines) held Ringstead 

 (no. 463) at farm. Brictuin is probabty to be identified with the man called in the Geld 

 Rolls Brictuin the reeve, since the land held by this man can be identified with some of 

 Brictuin's Domesday manors. Swain held four manors, three of which were assessed at 

 a total of 20 hides. The hidage of Milborne Stileham (no. 477) is not given. Three of his 

 manors were held by his father T.R.E. and the fourth, Ailwood (no. 482), by a man 

 called Azor. All four manors were subinfeudated in 1086. Hugh's wife held Ailwood, 

 Osmund held Milborne, Ralph held Plumber (no. 453), and Robert held Wintreburne 

 (no. 452). This suggests that Swain held land elsewhere. He may be identical with the 

 Swain who held Stapleford (Wilts.) which his father had held T.R.E.^i It is also possible 

 that Azor, the T.R.E. holder of Ailwood, was in fact the father of Swain, which would 

 identify him as Swain son of Azor, who held Stoke Bruern (Northants.) and 22 houses 

 in Northampton. 7- In 1095 Suege?i filiiis Azor contributed 205. to the Worcester relief. 

 A man called Swain had held Colesbonie (Glos.) of the church of Worcester T.R.E. but 

 does not appear to have held it in 1086.''^ 



Some of the less prosperous thegns held lands which they had held T.R.E. as did 

 Godmund at Milton on Stour (no. 425) and Saward at Stourton Caundle (no. 479). The 

 ten thegns who held Kingcombe (no. 485) had held it T.R.E. as one manor, and the 

 two bordars who held j virgate (no. 480) in an unspecified localitj^ had held it freely 

 T.R.E.7-* Godwin the reeve held a virgate in Wintreburne (no. 450) and Alward the reeve 

 held Wool (no. 486) both of which they had held T.R.E. Almar held one virgate in 

 Wool, which had belonged T.R.E. to Alward, presumably Alward the reeve (no. 487). 

 Alward Colinc held Thorncombe (no. 439) which he also held T.R.E. He had been the 

 pre-Conquest holder of Langton Herring, which Hugh fitz Grip had held of the queen 

 (nos. 23 and xxix), and had held several other manors w'hich Hugh's wife held in 1086.75 

 Thorncombe was the only manor which he had retained. 



Some of the Englishmen who had retained or had been given lands evidently held 

 them as a result of some service which they performed for the king. The number of 

 huntsmen (vaiatores) recorded among the thegns of Dorset and neighbouring counties 

 suggests that some of these men held their lands by serjeanty. Several men are called 

 tenator in the Geld Rolls, and can usually be identified with one or other of the king's 

 thegns. Ulvric the huntsman held a hide in an unspecified locality (no. 454) which his 

 father had held T.R.E. Ulvric the huntsman is mentioned in the Geld Roll for Celeberge 

 hundred, holding land which can be identified with Morden (no. 437). According to 

 Domesday it was held partly by Ulvric and partly by his brother's wife, who is probably 

 the lady named Ulveva in the Geld Roll. The manor was held by Ulvric's father T.R.E. 

 In Canendotie hundred Ulvric the huntsman held land which can be identified with 

 Ulvric's manor of Thornhill (no. 442), also held by his father T.R.E. Ulvric may be 

 identified with the man of the same name who held a manor in Hampshire which his 

 father held T.R.E.'''^ Ulvric the huntsman also occurs as a king's thegn in Wiltshire." 

 In Albretesberge hundred Ulviet the huntsman had i hide, which is probably to be 

 identified with the manor of Wimborne (no. 440) held by Ulviet. A man called Ulviet 

 also held Blandford (no. 458), and may be identical with Ulviet the huntsman. Ulviet 

 the huntsman held land in Hampshire and Wiltshire also as a king's thegn.^s Alvric the 



'> Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i, f. 74; V.C.H. Wilts, ii. 71. '•• See p. 18. 



■'^ Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i, ff. 219, 228; V.C.H. " See p. 32. 



Northants. i. 292-3. " Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i, f. 50b. 



" HemingiChartularium, ed. T. Heame (1723), i. 79-80, " V.C.H. Wilts, ii. 174. 



printed also in Round, Feudal Eng. 309 ; see also p. 59. '* Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i, ff. 50b, 74. 



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