A HISTORY OF DORSET 



cariicaruni que mmquam geldavit T.R.E. which the Bishop of Salisbury had in demesne 

 at Yetminster (no. 35). In Sherborne hundred there were Ixxv hide et dimidia {et xxv 

 carucate) . . . Inde habent episcopus et sui tnonachi in dominio xxv carrucatas. This land 

 was at Sherborne itself (no. 37) where the bishop had 16 carucates in demesne and the 

 monks had gi carucates. There is, however, no reference in Buckland hundred to the 

 land for 8 ploughs que minqiiam geldavit which the Abbot of Glastonbury had in 

 demesne at Buckland Newton (no. 65), or in the hundred of Newton to the land for 14 

 ploughs que mmquam gildavit which the same abbot had in demesne at Sturminster 

 Newton (no. 63). The Bishop of Salisbury had land for 2 ploughs which never paid 

 geld at Charminster (no. 32) in Dorchester hundred, but it is not recorded in the Geld 

 Roll for that hundred; he also had two such carucates at Stoke Abbott (no. 45), two at 

 Beaminster (no. 46), and two at Netherbury (no. 47), all in Beaminster hundred, which 

 are not recorded in the Geld Roll for Beaminster. There is only one, indirect, reference 

 in the Dorset rolls to the manors of King Edward; in Whitchurch hundred, which 

 must have included Burton Bradstock (nos. 2 and x), there were 84 hides and 3 virgates 

 preter firmam regis. Otherwise the manors which rendered the night's farm are not 

 mentioned at all. 



It was only the tenants-in-chief whose demesnes were exempt from geld. Their 

 mesne tenants were liable to the whole geld, on both demesne and the land of the 

 viUa7iiP The exemption of the baronial demesnes from geld seems to have been 

 exceptional. It is obvious from the language of the Exchequer text and of Exon. 

 Domesday that the usual practice had been for the whole manor to pay geld, and such 

 seems to have been the custom in the 12th centun,' also. On the occasion of this levy, 

 however, the baronial demesnes were exempt, perhaps because the geld itself was levied 

 at the unusually heavy rate of 6^. on the hide.^ Other land was exempt in special 

 instances, as appears from the Geld Rolls, although it is difficult at times to distinguish 

 between exemptions and defaults. It is likely that when the text uses the phrase 

 mmquam habidt rex geldum it is recording an exemption and that the phrase non habet 

 (or habuit) rex geldum {hoc anno) indicated a default. This is not always true. In 

 Albretesberge hundred the king did not have geld {non habuit rex geldum) from i hide 

 which a widow had at farm of Humphrey the chamberlain, but the context shows that 

 this was an exemption, not a default; the king had no geld because it had been remitted. 

 Sometimes geld had been paid after the stated terms laid down for its collection. From 

 Frampton hundred the king had £2 ^ 2^. o^. from the land of Caen Ahhey post constitutos 

 terminos.'^ There are several references to these terms. The account of Badbury hundred 

 makes it clear that there were two terms : habuit rex Ixiiii solidos {pro x hidis et dimidia et 

 dimidia virga) intra ii terminos. It is likely that the money was paid in two equal instal- 

 ments, one at each term. Sometimes money which should have been paid at the first 

 term was withheld until the second; sums of 125. had been so withheld in Yetminster 

 and Whitchurch hundreds. '° One of the terms was Easter, as the Dorset rolls show. 

 In Canendone hundred de v hidis de terra Gode qiiam tenet Rotbertus de Oilleio ad firmam 

 de rege habuit rex geldum post Pascha ; in Puddletown hundred pro x hidis quas habet 

 comes Alanus habidt rex Ix et ii solidos et vi denarios post Pascha; and in Haltone hundred 

 Rotbertus de Oilleio retinuit inde xv solidos usque post Pascha {quos nundum habet rex). 



' There is an exception to this in the case of Fifehead ' Cf. Cadworth hundred (Wilts.) where I'lVi denarios 



St. Quintin (no. 133) in Newton hundred. Chetel held this retinuerunt illi qui colligenint geldum in constilutis terminis. 



manor of the Abbess of Shaftesbury, but nevertheless was ■» Cf. Thornhill hundred {\\\\ts.) where de his denariis 



credited with 4! hides and 5 virgate of exempt demesne retinuerunt illi qui colligerunt geldum xi- solidos et ii denarios 



in the account of Newton hundred. According to the usque ad istum lerminum. The phrases istum ultimum 



Exchequer text he had 3} hides in demesne. terminum in the Devon rolls and in ultimo gildo in Som. 



' J. H. Round, 'Danegeld and the Finance of Domes- probably refer to these terms also, 

 day', Domesday Studies, ed. P. E. Dove, 97-98. 



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