A HISTORY OF DORSET 



given in the Geld Roll. Fulcred held only 2 manors, Waia (no. 364), which probably belongs to Cullifordtree 

 hundred, and Moorbath (no. 365), assessed at 2 hides, which is presumably in Whitchurch hundred. 

 Bollo the priest is not recorded in the Domesdav survey as a tenant of the Abbot of Cerne in Dorset. It is 

 possible that he held part of Symondsbury. Hugh is not recorded as a tenant of Aiulf, but Aiulf 's manor in 

 this hundred is likely to have been Wootton Fitzpaine (no. 347),'" assessed at 12 hides, with 4 carucates in 

 demesne. Bretel held 2 manors in Wootton Fitzpaine of the Count of Mortain (nos. 211, 217), assessed at 

 2 hides and i, hide respectively. William, who is probably identical with William de estra, held Cerneli 

 (no. 212), identified by Eyton as Catherston Leweston, where there was .' hide que fuit de dominica firma 

 CERNE T.R.E. The king had no land at Cerne in 1086, but there seems to be no other manor of the 

 Count of Mortain where there was \ hide de firma regis. The manor was assessed at 3?. hides. William 'the 

 Goat' is not recorded as a tenant-in-chief in Dorset in 1086, although he appears elsewhere in the Geld 

 Rolls as a tenant of Roger Arundel. According to Exon. Domesday Alsemiiiistre, in Devon, was held of 

 William 'the Goat' by Ulf ; the Exchequer text gives the man's name as Eddulf, and tiie manor was assessed 

 at I virgate." This piece of land can scarcely be identical with the i J hide mentioned in the Geld Roll for 

 Whitchurch, and the matter must remain unsolved. 



This hundred cannot be properly reconstructed. The manors enumerated above as likelv to belong here 

 amount to 74^ hides. Later evidence suggests that some other manors lay in Whitchurch hundred at this 

 date. In 1212 the hundred included Charmouth'^ which in 1086 was held by Robert of the Count of Mortain 

 (no. 215) and was assessed at 3 hides. In 1316 Stockland, belonging to Milton Abbey, Brigstoke, and 

 Stanton belonged to the hundred. '■' In 1086 Hervey fitz Ansger held Stockland (Devon) (nos. 106 and Ixxx) 

 of the abbey and it was assessed at 10 hides. Brigstoke is probably Burstock (no. 230) which William 

 (.Malbank) held of Earl Hugh in 1086, when it was assessed at 3 hides. Stantone (no. 210)''' was held in 1086 

 by MxTtd. pincerna of the Count of Mortain. It was assessed at I hide with land for 6 ploughs. This brings 

 the hidage of the hundred up to 91 hides, instead of 84 hides, 3 virgates. 



III. UGGESCOMBE HUNDRED 



In Oglescumbe hundret sunt c hide et iiii. De his In Uggescombe hundred there are 104 hides. Of 



habent barones regis in dominio xl hidas et (ii these the king's barons have in demesne 40 hides 



partes i virge). De isto dominicatu habet abbas and | virgate. Of this demesne the Abbot of Abbots- 



Abodesberie xiii hidas et abbas Cerneliensis iiii bury has 13 hides, and the Abbot of Cerne 4 hides, 



hidas et Hugo de Xemore Herberti v hidas et and Hugh de Boscherbert 5 hides, and the Abbess of 



abbatissa de Monasterio Villari habet v hidas et Montevilliers has 5.1 hides, and Brictuin the reeve 



dimidiam et Bristuinus prepositus i hidam et iii i hide and 3 \ virgates, and the wife of Hugh 2 hides 



virgas et dimidiam et uxor Hugonis ii hidas et i and i| virgate, and the king i.\ hide of Queen 



virgam et ii partes unius virge et rex i hidam et Maud's land, and Edwin the huntsman 2 hides and \ 



dimidiam de terra regine INIathildis et Edwinus virgate, and the Count of Mortain 5 virgates, and the 



venator ii hidas et dimidiam virgam et comes de king 3 hides of Harold's land, and Bollo the priest \ 



Moritonio v virgas et rex iii hidas — [blank] de terra hide on which he gave pledge to the king for 



Heroldi et Bollo presbiter dimidiam hidam de qua warranty. And from 64 hides the king has 



vadiavit regem adguarant. Et de Ix et iiii hidis habet £\() js. 6d.^' The Abbot of Abbotsbury was quit in 



rex X et ix libras et vii solidos et vi denarios S (sic), this hundred for 4 hides of land which are in another 



Abbas Abodesberiensis adquietavit in hoc hundreto hundred. And from 2.1 hides which i thegn has of 



iiii hidas terre que sunt in alio hundreto. Et de ii Aiulf the king does not have geld and from il hide 



hidis et dimidia quas habet i tagnus de Aiulfo non of Harold's land Fulcred paid geld in another 



habet rex geldum et de hida et dimidia (de terra hundred. And because the collectors of this money 



Heroldi) dedit Fulcredus geldum in alio hundreto et received 24.?. of the pence which they ought not to 



quia congregatores huius pecunie receperunt xxiiii have received, and because 35. 6d. was found in their 



solidos denariorum quos recipere non deberent et list above the number (of hides), they gave pledges, 



quia iii solidi et vi denarii inventi sunt indicis eorum being in the king's mercy, 

 super numerum dederunt vadimonium in miseri- 

 cordia regis. 



The Abbot of Abbotsbury's 13 hides in this hundred must be the combined demesnes of Abbotsbury 

 (nos. 109 and Iviii) and Portesham (nos. 112 and lix), assessed at 22 hides and 13 hides respectively. The 

 manor of Cerne Abbey in this hundred is probably Littlebredy (nos. 85 and xlviii), which lay in this 

 hundred in 1285,'* although Exon. Domesday and the Exchequer text give the demesne as 5 hides, not 4 

 hides. It was assessed at 11 hides. Hugh de Boscherbert had only 2 manors, and since Ceriiel (no. 360) is too 

 small to account for his exempt demesne the unnamed manor held by 2 brothers T.R.E. (no. 361) must 

 belong here. It was assessed at 10 hides. The Abbess of Montevilliers had only i manor. Friar Waddon 

 (no. 143), assessed at 6 hides, which was the gift of Hugh fitz Grip. Brictuin the reeve's manor is probably 

 Little Waddon (no. 460), given him by Hugh fitz Grip in exchange for a manor worth twice as much. 

 Langton Herring (nos. 23 and xxix), belonging to Queen Maud, was assessed at i.\ hide, and probably 



'" R. W. Eyton (Key to Domesday: Dorset, 142) identifies St. Gabriel, 



this manor as Marshwood, but Fa^ersten (op. cit. 298) '^ The geld on 64 hides is £19 4s.. with in addition the 



identifies it as Wootton Fitzpaine. 3J. 6d. super numerum. The 24s. which the collectors should 



" Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i, f. m ; iv. 378. not have received represents the geld on the Abbot of 



'^ Bk. of Fees, 94. " Feud. Aids, ii. 45. Abbotsbury's 4 hides in another hundred. 



'■•The site is marked by St. Gabriel's House in Stanton " Feud. Aids, ii. 6. 



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