DORSET GELD ROLLS 



appear in the Wiltshire section of Domesday. In Sherborne hundred the king had no 

 geld from a hide and a virgate which Ansger the cook held de dono regis. Xo land an- 

 swering this description is recorded in the Dorset Domesday in 1086, but Ansger the 

 cook held i hide and i virgate in Somerset, attached to the royal manor of Martock. 

 It is not uncommon to find persons mentioned in the Geld Rolls who do not appear in 

 Domesday. In Hasilor hundred Robert fitz Ralph had 2 hides of exempt demesne. He 

 is presumably to be identified with Robert fitz Ralph who held i hide, 2\ virgates, at 

 Grafton (Wilts.) in 1086.^' but he does not appear in the Dorset Domesday. In Whit- 

 church hundred Ulf held i hide and i virgate of William 'the Goat'. William does not 

 appear as a tenant-in-chief in Dorset in 1086, although in Glochresdone hundred he is 

 named as a tenant of Roger Arundel. He had extensive estates in Somerset, where Ulf 

 was his Saxon predecessor on two small manors, but this holding of a hide and a virgate 

 cannot be traced. In Cullifordtree hundred a priest held i hide of Bishop Peter's land, 

 which cannot be traced in the Exchequer text, and there is \ hide of thegnland in the 

 king's farm in Bere hundred which cannot be identified in Domesday. 



Like Exon. Domesday, the Geld Rolls supply a considerable amount of infor- 

 mation not recorded in the Exchequer text. In Gillingham hundred the Abbess of 

 Preaux had 3^ hides in demesne. She is not mentioned in the Domesday texts, but it 

 seems that Roger de Beaumont gave his manor of Stour Provost (no. 231) to the abbey 

 of St. Leger, Preaux.^- In Puddletown hundred the abbey of Marmoutier had in 

 demesne 5 hides and 3 virgates de terra comitisse de Moritonio. This land was at Piddle- 

 hinton (no. 168) which, according to the Exchequer text, the abbey held of the Count 

 of Mortain. But the charter by which the count gave this land to the abbey shows that 

 the land had belonged to the countess and was given to the abbey on her death. ^^ In 

 Pimperne hundred Humphrey the chamberlain had 5 hides in demesne, of which 

 he had given \ hide to the church. His manor must be Stourpaine (no. 356), but the 

 Exchequer text does not record any gift to the church. In Pimperne hundred, also, the 

 Abbess of Shaftesbun,- is said to have i hide and \ virgate of land. The Exchequer text 

 does not mention this land, but the 1 2th-centur}- survey of the estates of Shaftesburj' 

 Abbey shows that i hide of the manor of Tarrant Hinton (no. 132) lay in Pimperne 

 hundred.3+ In AUezesuode hundred the abbey of St. Stephen, Caen, had i hide which 

 paid geld in another hundred. The Exchequer text does not record any land in Purbeck 

 belonging to this abbey, but the confirmation charter of Henr}- I includes Purbeck as a 

 member of the abbey's manors of Frampton and Bincombe.^s Several persons holding 

 land at farm are mentioned in the Geld Rolls but do not appear in the Domesday text. 

 It is noticeable that Exon. Domesday on three occasions records people holding land 

 at farm who are not mentioned in the Exchequer text and it seems almost as if the Ex- 

 chequer scribe omitted such information as a matter of course, although he included 

 the six men holding Ringstead (no. 463) at farm of Brictuin. All but one of the manors of 

 Humphrey the chamberlain were at farm in the Geld Rolls. The widow holding i hide 

 at farm of Humphrey in Albretesberge hundred is presumably Eddeva, who held 

 Edmondsham (no. 354) of him in 1086, although the Exchequer text does not say she 

 held at farm. In the same hundred an Englishman held i hide at farm of Humphrey, 

 and in Badbun" hundred another Englishman held 3 virgates at farm of him. The 

 manors concerned must be Edmondsham (no. 353) and Hemsworth (no. 355) but no 

 tenants are recorded in Domesday. In Combsditch hundred an Englishman held J.\ 

 hide at farm of Aiulf the chamberlain. This was the hidage of his manor of Blandford 



" V.CJH. Wilts. 166. » See p. 14111. H. A. Cronne, i, no. 204. 



" Cal. Doc. France, ed. Round, 435 (dated 1082-4); " B-M- Harl. MS. 61, f. 58. 

 Regesta Regum AngloSomuotnorum, ed. C. Johnson and " Dugdale, .Von. vi (2), 1071. 



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