A HISTORY OF DORSET 



This brings the hidage of the hundred to 50 hides. Later evidence suggests that Hooke (no. 207), 

 Askerswell (nos. 1 19 and Ixv), and Kingcombe (nos. 247, 485) lay in this hundred in 1086. They certainly lay 

 herein 1285.^' In 1086 Hooke, assessed at 2 hides, was held by William of the Count of Mortain ; Askerswell, 

 assessed at 3 hides, belonged to Tavistock Abbey, and Kingcombe was a divided vill, 3|- virgates being held 

 by Ernulf of Hesdin and i hide and | virgate by lothegns. There remain lol hides to complete the hundred. 

 Eyton supplied the deficiency in his table by postulating that the manor of Stapleford, which lay in the 

 hundred in 1285,-^ when it was held by the heirs of Roger Arundel, was omitted from the Domesday 

 survey and is to be identified as the manor held of Roger by William 'the Goat'.-'' He calculated its size as 6 

 hides, I virgate, and 3 acres, the amount necessary in his table to produce a total of 66' hides. This is 

 certainly a convenient way out of the difficulty. 



V. ALBRETESBERGE HUNDRED 



In Albretesberge hundret sunt xl(v)ii hide. De his In ^/6re?«6CT'|'e hundred there are 47 hides. Of these 



habent barones in dominio xiii hidas et virgam the barons have in demesne 13 hides and i virgate. 



unam. De isto dominicatu habet rex v hidas et Of this demesne the king has 5! hides of Queen 



dimidiam de terra regine JNIathildis et abbas Crene- Maud's land, and the Abbot of Cranborne 2 hides 



burnensis ii hidas et iii virgas et Herveius camerarius and 3 virgates, and Hervev the chamberlain i .V 



hidam et dimidiam et comes de IXIoritonio hidam et hide, and the Count of IMortain i.l hide, and Ulviet 



dimidiam et Ulvietus venator i hidam et Eschelinus i the huntsman i hide, and Schelin i hide. And from 



hidam. Et pro reliqua terra habet rex vii libras et xiii the rest of the land the king has £■] ly. And from i 



solidos.^" Et de i hida quam tenet i anglus ad firmam hide which i Englishman holds at farm of Humphrey 



de Hunfrido camerario non habet rex geldum et de i the chamberlain the king does not have geld and 



hida quam tenet quidam vidua de Hunfrido camer- from i hide which a certain widow holds at farm of 



ario ad firmam non habuit rex geldum quia Aiulfus Humphrey the chamberlain the king did not have 



dicit reginam perdonasse pro anima Ricardi filii sui geld because Aiulf says that the queen remitted (it) 



et de i hida et iii virgis quas tenuit^' Ulwardus albus for the soul of her son Richard, and from i hide 



de ecclesia Glastiniensi non habuit rex geldum et pro and 3 virgates which Ulward White held of the 



iiii hidis et dimidia de terra regine iXIathildis non church of Glastonbury the king did not have geld, 



habuit rex geldum. and from 4J hides of Queen Maud's land the king 



did not have geld. 



The manor of Queen Maud in this hundred is probably Cranborne (nos. 16 and xxii), assessed at 10 

 hides, since Albretesberge was later absorbed into Cranborne hundred. Both Exon. Domesday and the 

 Exchequer text give the demesne as 3! hides, and state that 3 thegns held 3 hides. The Abbot of Cranborne 

 had 20 hides in demesne at Boveridge (no. 71), assessed at 5 hides. Hervey the chamberlain's only manor in 

 Dorset was Wimborne St. Giles (no. 499), assessed at 2' hides. The Count of Mortain had a manor, 

 assessed at i\ hide, called Brochemtiine (no. 195), which Eyton identified with Brockhampton Green, now in 

 Buckland Newton. Fiigersten, however, identified it with Brockington Farm, in Knowlton hundred. ^- 

 Ulviet the huntsman's manor is probably Wimborne St. Giles (no. 440), assessed at i hide, the amount of 

 his exempt demesne. Schelin held Edmondsham (nos. 18 and xxiv) of the queen. There was i hide in 

 demesne. Part of Edmondsham (no. 353) was held by Humphrey the chamberlain. Dodo held it T.R.E. and 

 is presumably identical with the Dodo who held Schelin's manor also. He may be the thegn mentioned in the 

 Geld Roll as holding of Humphrey at farm. The other portion of Edmondsham (no. 354) was held of 

 Humphrey by Eddeva, who is probably to be identified as the widow holding of Humphrey in the Geld 

 Rolls. Schelin's manor was assessed at 2 hides; Humphrey's manors were each assessed at li hide. The 

 manor which Wulfweard White held of Glastonbury x\bbey was Pentridge (no. 67) which King William 

 held in 1086. It was assessed at 6 hides. Woodyates (no. 66), another manor of the abbey, assessed at 4 

 hides, probably lay in this hundred in 1086. In the 13th century it was part of Upwimborne hundred, which 

 was formed from part of Albretesberge hundred.'-' Eyton added to this hundred the manors of Leftisford and 

 Langford (nos. 73, 74) belonging to Cranborne Abbey. Fiigersten identified Leftisford as a place, now lost, in 

 Cranborne, but Langford as Langford Farm in Stratton, in the hundred of St. George.-'^ Of the many 

 manors called Winburne, those belonging to Cranborne Abbey (no. 72) and held by William of the wife of 

 Hugh (nos. 388 and cxx) were placed here by Eyton. Leftisford and Langford were assessed at i hide each, 

 and the manors of Winburne were assessed at 5 hides (no. 72) and i hide (nos. 388 and cxx). Five hides 

 remain. Eyton placed the land in 3 places held by Hugh de Lure (no. 362) in this hundred, but gave no 

 authority for so doing.-is It was assessed at 5 hides. 



VI. BADBURY HUNDRED 



In Bedeberie hundret sunt xxx et ii hide et i virga. In Badbury hundred there are 32 hides and i virgate. 

 Inde habent barones regis in dominio vi hidas et Thence the king's barons have in demesne 6i hides 

 dimidiam (et i virgam). De his habet Aiulfus ii hidas and i virgate. Of these Aiulf has 2 hides and 3 



" Feud. Aids, ii. 2-3. " Eyton, Key to Domesday: Dorset, 111-12; Fagersten, 



2' Ibid. 2. Place-Names of Dorset. 93. 



" Eyton, Key to Domesday: Dorset, 127-8. " Inq. Non. (Rec. Com.), 55; Fagersten, op. cit. 99. 



'" The geld on 25 hides and 2 virgates. '■* Fagersten, op. cit. 101, 186. 



•" The printed text has tenent (sic). " Eyton, op. cit. 111-12. 



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