DOMESDAY SURVEY 



Several chamberlains are mentioned in the Dorset survey but in most cases they 

 cannot be connected with later serjeanties. It has been suggested that Aiulf the 

 chamberlain was Robert Malet's deputy, since he held land in Lulworth, which was 

 later connected with the deputy chamberlainship.''^ Lulworth, with the hundred of 

 Winfrith and part of the hundred of Hasilor, was held in 1 212 by Robert de Neuburgh, 

 per servicinm camerarii, and his ancestors' tenure by this service was said to go back to 

 Henry I's time. In 1219 it was further defined as the service dandi aquam domino regi 

 in diebus Natalis, Pasche, Pentecostey^ Robert was one of the co-heirs of Gerbert de 

 Percy and Maud Arundel, who had held land in Lulworth at one time.94 Maud in turn 

 was the heir of Roger Arundel, who, however, held no land in Lulworth in 1086. 

 Aiulf's manor of Lulworth was held T.R.E. by Alfred, the Saxon Sheriff of Dorset, 

 and Aiulf was himself sheriff in 1086. Gerbert de Percy, Maud's husband, was also 

 Sheriff of Dorset. It was possibly Gerbert who received the manor of Lulworth and 

 transmitted it to Robert de Neuburgh with the land which Maud Arundel received as 

 heir to Roger Arundel. Aiulf may have been alive in 1130, since he appears in the Pipe 

 Roll for that year, but he was not sheriff at that time.^s 



Land held by a serjeant in 1086 was sometimes held by knight service later. William 

 Belet was classed as a serjeant in the Dorset survey, but in 1212 Robert Belet, pre- 

 sumably a descendant of his, held his manors in Dorset as one knight's fee.^'' On the 

 other hand, it is probable that though Matthew de Moretania was not classed as a 

 serjeant in 1086, but entered as a baron as he was in Wiltshire and elsewhere, part (or 

 all) of his lands was held by serjeanty as they were from the late 12th century by the 

 Moyne family.^^ Jt was asserted that the serjeanty which William de Morville held at 

 Bradpole in 121 2 had existed dt conquestii Atiglie'^^ but in 1086 Bradpole was among the 

 group of royal manors headed by Dorchester (nos. 2 and xii). In 1212 also John 

 Russell held Kingston Russell in Long Bredy per serianciam essendi marescallus buteilerie 

 domini regis ad Natale Domini et ad Pentecosten and this serjeanty too is said to date from 

 the time of William I, but the evidence of Domesday does not support this.^^ 



The later history of the lands of the tenants-in-chief can sometimes be traced down 

 to the 13th century. Roger de Beaumont's land passed to his son Robert, Count of 

 Meulan, and thence to Waleran, Count of Meulan.' Waleran's son, Robert, resigned his 

 lands to his daughter Mabel, wife of William de Rivers, Earl of Devon.^ She and her 

 husband were involved in a dispute in 1204 with William the Marshall over the 

 ownership of Sturminster, which William the Marshall claimed had been given to him 

 by Count Robert. ^ He was apparently successful, since in 121 2 he was holding Stur- 

 minster of the Count of Meulan^ and gave it the name of Sturminster Marshall. 



Most of the manors of the wife of Hugh fitz Grip are later found in the possession of 

 Alvred of Lincoln (not the Domesday tenant-in-chief) and his heirs. It is possible that 

 Alvred was her second husband. ^ He seems to have been justiciar of Dorset in the reign 

 of Henry P and appears in the 1130 Pipe Roll paying 60 marks to have Regenbald's 



'^ Regesta Regiim Avglo-Normannorum, i, p. xxv. For ^ Complete Peerage, iv. 315 n. 



this and other basin and towel serjeanties, see Round, ^ Cur. Reg. R. iii. 124. 



King's Sergeants, 123-32. ■* Bk. nf Fees, 90. 



" Bk. of Fees, 89, 260. ' Eyton, Key to Domesday: Dorset, 78. 



'•* See p. 57 and n. ' Regesta Regum Anglo-Xortnannorum, ii, p. x\iii and 



'5 Pipe R. 1 1 30 (Rec. Com.), 14. no- 754 (dated 1106); cf. precept of Henry to Richard de 



'"' Bk. of Fees, 88. Rivers to give to the monks of St. Peter, Winchester, the 



" Ibid. 89; see V.C.H. Wilts, ii. 73. land in the Isle of Wight as William Il's writs ordered. If 



" Bk. of Fees, 92. he did not, .Alvred of Lincoln was to do it (quod si nan 



" Ibid. feceris Aheraldus de Lincol(nie) faciat ecclesie et episcopo 



' G. H. White, 'The Career of Waleran, Count of /laAere) : ibid. no. 603 (dated i lOi-Mich. 1102), calendared 



Meulan and Earl of Wore' TraKS. i?. //. 5. N.s. xvii. 20; in V. H. Galbraith, 'Royal Charters to Winchester', 



Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, ii, no. 843. E.H.R. xxxv. 390 (dated 1101-3). 



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