A HISTORY OF DORSET 



(nos. 19 and xxv) of the queen, possibly at farm. William de Dalmar held two manors, 

 Walditch (no. 501) and the land of three thegns (no. 494). The location of this land is 

 unspecified, but it may be part of Tarrant Crawford.^' He was a tenant of the wife of 

 Hugh fitz Grip.*- Hervey the chamberlain {ciibicidarhis) is identified by Eyton as 

 Hervey of Wilton, a minister in Wiltshire.*-' John, who held Wititrebiirne (no. 500), can 

 be identified as John the usher (hostiarius) who is mentioned in the Geld Roll for 

 Combsditch hundred. He held six manors in Somerset and two in Wiltshire. Osmund 

 the baker (pistor) held Woodstreet (no. 507) and Galton (no. 508). Hugh Gosbert held 

 four manors totalling i hide, 3 virgates. Durand the carpenter {carpentarius) held 

 Afflington (no. 510) and Moleham (no. 511) and was a tenant of the wife of Hugh fitz 

 Grip. Godfrey the scullion [scuiulariiis) held a virgate in Herston (no. 512) which his 

 father held T.R.E. Roger Arundel held J hide in Herston (no. 333) which Her held 

 T.R.E. Her is not found outside Dorset and it is tempting to identify him with Godfrey's 

 father. Apart from the men entered as king's Serjeants, two serjeanties appear to have 

 been provided for out of ecclesiastical land. Goscelm the cook (cocas) held 4 hides of 

 land of the king at Sturminster Newton (no. 63) belonging to Glastonbury Abbey, and 

 Manasses, who held 3 virgates at Stalbridge (no. 42) belonging to the Bishop of Salis- 

 burv guas WiUehinis filiits regis tiilit ab ecclesia sine consensu episcopi et monachorum, is 

 identified by the Geld Roll for Brownshall hundred as Manasses the cook. 



Some of the serjeanties mentioned in Domesday can still be traced in the 13th 

 century. In 1086 Osmund the baker held Galton. In 121 2 Robert de Welles held 2 

 hides in Wool and i hide in Galton a conquestu AngUe per serriciiim pistor is. ^* In 1219 

 William de Welles, presumably his son, held 40^. of land in Wool per serianteriam 

 faciendi panem domini regis^= and still held it in 1 244 tit sit pistor domini regis. Hunger fitz 

 Odin's manor of Broadwindsor was held in 121 2 by Thomas of Windsor de conquestu 

 et de dono Willelmi Bastardi regis Anglie per seriantiam but the serjeanty is not specified. 

 In 1219 the manor was held by John of Windsor, presumably Thomas's son, by the 

 ser\eant\ fiindatoris scaccarii, and was worth /'15.*'' In 1244 Thomas, son of John, was 

 ponder ator denariorum ad scaccarium domini regis de recepta apud Westmonasterium.^'' 

 The holder of the manor of Broadwindsor was in fact the pesour or miles argentarius 

 of the Dialogus de Scaccario.^^ 



Land held in 1086 by the king's thegns can sometimes be connected with later 

 serjeanties. In the case of the baker serjeanty held by Robert de Welles, Galton was 

 held in 1086 by Osmund the baker and Wool, the other manor involved, was held partly 

 by Alward and partly by Almar, both king's thegns (nos. 486, 487). This seems to be 

 an instance of an already existing serjeanty augmented by a grant of thegn's land. 

 Edward the huntsman held h virgate in Gillingham (no. 490) as a thegn. In 1212 

 William de Hanton held \ virgate in Gillingham hundred of the gift of Henry I per 

 servicium seriancie de luverez,^^ a serjeanty connected with wolfhounds. This is possibly 

 identical with Edward the huntsman's | virgate. Ulvric the huntsman in 1086 held 

 Thorn Hill (no. 442) and Morden (no. 437) as a thegn. In 1212 Godfrey de Pourton held 

 Thorn Hill, part of Church Knowle, and Morden, et tenet terras istas per servicium unius 

 haubergelli.'>° In 1219 the same land was held per seizicium zenandi.^^ 



" See p. 22. '- See p. 50. *' Bk. of Fees, gi. William also held J virgate of land 



^' Eyton, Domesday .Studies: Soni. i. 149-50. que solebat reddere manerio de Cillingeham it solidos per 



*■* Bk. of Fees, 89. annum by the same serjeanty : ibid. 



«5 Ibid. 260. «" Ibid. 88. 



** Ibid. 94, 260, 1387; see also Round, King's Sergeants, " Ibid. 260. In 1244 Roger de Langeford held the land 



232-3. per seriantiam imeniendi unum hominem cum una hauber- 



*' Bk. of Fees, 1387. gello, and in 1250 he had to find unum servientem equitem 



" Z)ja/og»S(^f5caccnn'o, ed. C. Johnson, pp. xxviii-xxix. artnatum: (bid. 1182, 1388. 



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