DORSET GELD ROLLS 



et iii virgas et Eschelinus i hidam et iii virgas et 

 [f. 1 8b] 



Episcopus Londoniensis i hidam et dimidiam et rex 

 dimidiam hidam et Godwinus venator i virgam. De 

 viii hidis et iii virgis et dimidia de terra geldanti 

 quas tenuit Albricus non habuit rex geldum et de iiii 

 hidis et i virga quas tenet Hugo Maminot de episcopo 

 Luxoviensi non habuit rex geldum et de tribus virgis 

 quas i anglus tenet ad firmam de Hunfrido camerario 

 non habuit rex geldum et de ii partibus unius hide 

 quas tenet Eschelinus nunquam habuit rex gelduni 

 et de tercia parte unius hide quam tenet Piccotus de 

 comite de Moritonio nunquam habuit rex geldum. 

 De prescripto hundreto habuit rex Ixiiii solidos (pro 

 X hidis et dimidia et dimidia virga) intra ii terminos. 



virgates, and Schelin i hide and 3 virgates, and the 

 Bishop of London ij hide, and the king ,\ hide, and 

 Godwin the huntsman i virgate. From 8 hides and 

 3,1 virgates of geldable land which Aubrey held the 

 king did not have geld and from 4 hides and i 

 virgate which Hugh Maminot holds of the Bishop of 

 Lisieux the king did not have geld and from 3 

 virgates which i Englishman holds at farm of 

 Humphrey the chamberlain the king did not have 

 geld and from § hide which Schelin holds the king 

 never had geld and from J hide which Picot holds of 

 the Count of Mortain the king never had geld. From 

 the aforesaid hundred the king had 64.S. for 1O2 

 hides and J virgate, at 2 terms. ^^ 



The manor of Aiulf in this hundred is probably Selavestune (no. 339), since it is the only manor large 

 enough to cover his demesne which cannot be assigned to any other hundred. It was assessed at 4 hides and 

 \\ virgate. The manor of Schelin must be Witchampton (nos. 20 and xxvi), assessed at 4 hides, 25 virgates, 

 which he held of the queen. The demesne in the Exchequer text and Exon. Domesday is 2 hides, if virgate, 

 not I hide, 3 virgates, but Exon. Domesday states that Schelin tiunquam reddebat gildum de duahus partibus 

 unius hide, the 2% virgates which never paid geld in the Geld Roll. Another part of Witchampton (no. 188) 

 was held by Hubert of the Count of Mortam. It was assessed at 2 hides, i 3 virgate, and there was \ hide (i J 

 virgate) de qua nunquam dedit geldum. This identifies Witchampton as the manor held of the Count of 

 Mortain, though in the Geld Roll Picot, and not Hubert, was his tenant. The Bishop of London's only manor 

 was Odeham (no. 62), assessed at ' hide. This is not large enough to account for his exempt demesne in this 

 hundred. The only other land which he held in Dorset in 1086 was i hide, 2\ virgates, at Hinton Martell (no. 

 31). Hinton lay in Canendone hundred, which was later amalgamated with Badbury, so it is possible that the 

 bishop's land, which belonged to the church of Wimborne Minster, was in Badbury hundred. The king held 

 I hide in Wimborne (nos. 21 and xxvii) which never paid geld, though it was not part of the farm of Wim- 

 borne. There was i virgate in demesne according to Exon. Domesday and the Exchequer text. Godwin the 

 huntsman's demesne is probably the unnamed l virgate and 4 acres (no. 451). The land of Aubrey must be 

 the manor of Gussage in Dorset, which had once belonged to Aubrey de Couci, sometime Earl of North- 

 umbria. In 1086 it was held by the king, and was entered in the Wiltshire survey with Earl Aubrey's manors 

 in that county. It was assessed at 10 hides. This is Gussage St. Michael, Gussage All Saints (no. 192) being 

 held by the Count of Mortain. Hugh Maminot is not recorded in Domesday as a tenant of the Bishop of 

 Lisieux in Dorset, but the bishop's manors of Tarrant Crawford and Preston (nos. 58, 59), assessed at 5 

 hides and i hide respectively, may belong to this hundred, since his 2 other manors of Tarrant Keyneston 

 and Coombe Keynes (nos. 60, 61), which were the dowry of Hugh Maminot's daughter, lay in Langeberge 

 and Winfrith hundreds respectively. No Englishman is recorded as the tenant of Humphrey the chamberlain 

 either, but his manor of Hemsworth (no. 355) was held T.R.E. by i free thegn. This man may still have been 

 holding of Humphrey at farm in 1084. Part of Hemsworth (no. 187) was held by Hubert of the Count of 

 Mortain. It was assessed at i hide and Humphrey's manor at i hide also. This brings the total hidage to 32 

 hides and i virgate, the Geld Roll figure. 



VII. CANENDONE HUNDRED 



In Canendone hundret sunt xlviii hide et iii virge. 

 Inde habent barones regis in dominio xxii hidas et ii 

 partes (unius virge). De isto dominicatu habet abbas 

 Hortonensis iiii hidas et abbatissa Wiltonensis ii 

 hidas et iii virgas et rex vi hidas et i virgam de terra 

 Gode. Issildis dimidiam hidam. Filius Eureboldi i 

 virgam et Ulvritius venator i virgam et Dodo i 

 hidam et dimidiam (virgam) et Goduinus venator ii 

 partes unius hide iii agros minus et Aiulfus iii hidas 

 dimidiam virgam minus et Radulfus de Creneborna 

 iii virgas ii agros minus et comes de Moritonio i 

 hidam et de ii hidis et i virga quas tenet i tagnus ad 

 firmam de rege non habuit rex geldum et de v hidis 

 de terra Gode quam tenet Rotbertus de Oilleio ad 

 firmam de rege habuit rex geldum post Pascha. De 

 prescripto hundreto habuit rex vi libras et x solidos 

 et i denarium. Exceptis v hidis de quibus habuit xxx 

 solidos post Pascha. 



'* The geld from loi hides and i virgate is 63s. gd., not 

 64s. 



" The total of exempt demesne in this hundred is given 

 as 22 hides and § virgate; in fact it amounts to 20 hides, 



In Canendone hundred there are 48 hides and 3 

 virgates. Thence the king's barons have in demesne 

 22 hides and § virgate. Of this demesne the Abbot of 

 Horton has 4 hides, and the Abbess of Wilton 2 hides 

 and 3 virgates, and the king 6 hides and i virgate 

 of Goda's land. Iseldis !, hide. The son of Eurebold 

 I virgate, and Ulvric the huntsman i virgate, and 

 Dodo I hide and l virgate, and Godwin the hunts- 

 man § hide less 3 acres, and Aiulf 3 hides less | 

 virgate, and Ralph of Cranborne 3 virgates less 2 

 acres, and the Count of Mortain i hide. And from 2 

 hides and i virgate which i thegn holds at farm of the 

 king the king did not have geld and from 5 hides of 

 Goda's land which Robert de Oilly holds at farm of 

 the king the king had geld after Easter. From the 

 aforesaid hundred the king had ^6 loj. id. Excepting 

 5 hides from which he had 30^. after Easter." 



if virgate (J hide). The amount of geld received, 

 £6 los. id., is the geld on 21 § hides; if the hundred 

 consisted of 48 hides and 3 virgates, there should be 21 

 hides and J virgate which paid geld. 



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