NOTE 



The following translation has been made from the texts printed in volume I of Domesday Book seu Liber 

 Censualis Willelmi Primi Regis Anglie (1783) and in Libri Censualis vocati Domesday Book: Additamenta ex 

 codicibus antiquissimis, ed. H. Ellis (Record Commission, 1816), both of which are referred to in the footnotes 

 as 'the printed version'. These printed texts have been checked, in the case of the Exchequer text, against 

 Domesday Book, or the Great Survey of England . . . Facsimile of the Part relating to Dorsetshire, photozinco- 

 graphed at the Ordnance Survey office, 1862 (referred to in the footnotes as 'the facsimile'), and, in the case 

 of Exon. Domesday (and the Geld Rolls), against a photocopy of the manuscript preserved in Exeter 

 cathedral library (referred to in the footnotes as 'the MS.'). The text of the Dorset Domesday was first 

 published in 1774 in volume i of John Hutchins's History and Antiquities of Dorset, together with the 

 text of the Dorset Geld Rolls and two extracts from Exon. Domesday. Volume 4 of the second edition of 

 Hutchins's work, which appeared in 1815, also contained a translation of the Dorset Domesday by the 

 Revd. William Bawdwen. 



In accordance with the practice of the V.C.H., identifications of place-names in the Exchequer text of 

 Domesday have been inserted in square brackets after the original forms. Where the Domesday place-name 

 is that of a hamlet, farm, house, or similar site the name of the parish in which the site is or was situated 

 has been added. The parish boundaries and spelling of place-names are taken from the Ordnance Survey 

 2-0" sheets. 



Quotations from the Latin text of both versions of the survey have been placed in round brackets and 

 printed in italic type. Interpolations in the English translation are also indicated by round brackets. The 

 expression 'T.R.E.' has been used throughout as a rendering of the phrases t[empore] r[egis] E[dzvardi] or 

 tempore E[dwardi] regis in the original texts. 



In order to simplify cross-reference, each item in the Exchequer text (except the four borough entries at 

 the beginning) has been given an arable number. Each item in Exon. Domesday (with the same exception) 

 has similarly been given a small roman number and is printed after the corresponding entry in the Exchequer 

 text and marked by a vertical line. The arrangement of items throughout the translation is that of the 

 Exchequer text, from which (as explained above at pp. 2-3, 5) Exon. differs in several places. The following 

 key is designed to show the original order of the fiefs covered by Exon. 



Exon. folios 25-28b Dominicatus regis in Dorseta (nos. 1-14 and i-xii, xiv-xv)* 



Exon. folios 29-3ob Terra regine Mathildis in Dorseta (nos. 15-21 and xxi-xxvii) 



Exon. folios 31-32 Terre quas tenebant milites de regina in Dorseta (nos. 22-29 and xxviii-xxxv) 



Exon. folio 33 Terra Boloniensis comitisse in Dorseta (nos. 513-15 and xxxvi-xxxviii) 



Exon. folios 36-38b Terra sancti Petri Cerneliensis ecclesie in Dorseta (nos. 76-92 and xxxix-lv) 



Exon. folios 39-4ob Terra sancti Petri Abbodesberiensis ecclesie in Dorseta (nos. 109-16 and Ivi-lxiii) 



Exon. folio 41 Terra abbatis Adiliniensis in Dorseta (nos. 118 and Ixiv) 



Exon. folio 42 Terra abbatis Tavestochensis in Dorseta Gaufridi nomine (nos. 119-20 and 



Ixv-lxvi) 



Exon. folios 43-45 Terra sancti Petri Mideltonensis ecclesie in Dorseta (nos. 93-108 and Ixvii-lxxxii) 



Exon. folios 47-49b Terra Willelmi de Moione in Dorseta (nos. 273-83 and Ixxxiii-xciii)'' 



Exon. folios 50-52 Terra Rogerii Arundelli de Dorseta (nos. 322-33 and xciv-cv) 



Exon. folio 53 Terram (sic) Serlonis de Burceio de Dorseta (nos. 334-5 and cvi-cvii) 



Exon. folios 54-6ib Terra uxoris Hugonis (filii Gripi) in Dorseta (nos. 376-423 and cviii-clvi) 



Exon. folios 62-62b Terra Walterii de Clayilla in Dorseta (nos. 311-15 and clvii-clxi) 



* Of the following entries, which are all inserted among the king's lands in Exon. Domesday, nos. xiii, 

 xvi, and xix refer to land of the king's almsmen (Exchequer nos. 144, 145a, and 145b) and nos. xviii and xx 

 to land of the abbey of St. Wandrille (Exchequer nos. 123 and 124). No. xvii, which describes land in 

 Wintreborna held by Aiulf the sheriff, has no corresponding entry in the Exchequer text: see p. loi n. 



^ William of Moyon's manor of Little Sutton in Sutton Veny (Wilts.) is entered on folio 47 before 

 no. Ixxxiii under the heading Terra Willelmi de Moione in Wiltesira: see V.C.H. Wilts, ii. 43-44. 



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DORSETE 



In DoRECESTRE [Dorchester] T.R.E. there were 172 houses. They were assessed for all 

 the king's service and paid geld for 10 hides, that is, i silver mark for the use of the 

 housecarls excepting the customs which belong to the night's farm. There were 2 

 moneyers, each of them rendering to the king' i silver mark and 20.y. when the coinage 



■ 'regi' interlined. 

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