A HISTORY OF DORSET 



The abbey of Horton had only i manor in Dorset, Horton itself (no. 1 17), assessed at 7 hides. According 

 to the Exchequer Domesday there were 2 not 4 hides in demesne. The Abbess of Wilton had 2 hides and 3 

 virgates in demesne at Didlington (no. 139), assessed at 6 hides, and the king had 6 hides and i virgate in 

 demesne at Countess Goda's manor of Hinton Martell (no. 31), assessed at 14 hides and i virgate. Iseldis 

 held only i manor. Petersham (no. 424), assessed at i hide; another manor in the same vill (no. 375) was 

 held by Odo fitz Eurebold. It was assessed at 3 virgates. Ulvric the huntsman's manor must be Thorn Hill 

 (no. 442) which lay in this hundred in 1212.''* It was assessed at .' hide. Dodo held Wilksworth (no. 445), 

 assessed at i hide, and .1 hide in an unspecified locality (no. 444), which he held in alms of the queen. It may 

 have been part of Wilksworth. Another part of Wilksworth (no. 447) was held bv Ailrun, and Alward held ^ 

 virgate (no. 446) which may lie in the same vill since it is entered between Dodo's manor of Wilksworth and 

 that of Ailrun. Ailrun's manor was assessed at i hide. Godwin held 3 manors, of which Walford (no. 448) 

 seems most likely to belong here. Corscombe (no. 488) must have lain in Beaminster hundred, and the 

 third manor (no. 451), which was unnamed, is too small to account for his exempt demesne. Aiulf's 

 manor is probably Hampreston (no. 33S), assessed at 6 hides. Part of this manor (nos. 19 and xxv) be- 

 longed to the king in succession to Queen I\Iaud. It was assessed at 2 hides, i virgate, which is the amount 

 of land held of the king at farm by a thegn, which had not paid geld. According to Exon. Domesday William 

 Belet had held it of the queen. The queen gave 3J virgates in the same vill (no. 443) to Schelin, but in 1086 

 Torchil held it of the king. One hide in the same vill (nos. 389 and cxxi) was held by William Chernet of the 

 wife of Hugh fitz Grip. Ralph of Cranborne held the manor of West Parley (no. 371), assessed at 2 hides, and 

 the Count of IMortain's manor seems to be Mannington, in Holt (no. 186), not far from Petersham. This 

 brings the total hidage to 47 hides and f virgate. E}ton placed the manor of Dudsbun,' (no. 306) in West 

 Parley in this hundred, which seems reasonable on geographical grounds, although, as usual, he gives no 

 authority. It was assessed at i hide. In 1285 Leigh lay in the hundred of Badbury^ which included CanendoneJ^ 

 It was held by Robert fitz Gerold in 1086 (no. 240) and was assessed at i hide. 



VIII. PUDDLETOWN HUNDRED 



In Pideletone hundret sunt xc et i hide. Ex his In Puddletown hundred there are 91 hides. From 



habent rex et barones sui in dominio xlvii hidas these the king and his barons have in demesne 47 



dimidia virga minus. De isto dominicatu habet rex hides less \ virgate.-*" Of this demesne the king has 



V hidas et dimidiam et i virgam (de terra Heroldi) et 5.J hides and i virgate of Harold's land, and the 



abbas de Maiore Monasterio v hidas et iii virgas de Abbot of Marmoutier 5 hides and 3 virgates of the 



terra comitisse de Moritonio et Serlo de Burceio vi Countess of Mortain's land, and Serle of Burcy 6 



hidas et i virgam et abbas Mideltonensis ii hidas et hides and i virgate, and the Abbot of Milton 2 



abbas Abodesberiensis viii hidas et IMatheus de hides, and the Abbot of Abbotsbury 8 hides, and 



Mauritania iiii hidas dimidiam virgam minus et Matthew de Moretania 4 hides less J virgate, and 



comes Alanus v hidas. Et pro xl et iii hidis et dimidia Count Alan 5 hides. And for 43' hides and J virgate 



et tercia parte unius virge habet rex xiii libras et X et the king has j^i3 i^. 6d. And for 10 hides which 



viii denarios. Et pro x hidis quas habet comes Alanus Count Alan has the king had 62*. 6d. after Easter, 



habuit rex Ix et ii solidos et vi denarios post Pascha. And from i hide of Harold's land the king did not 



Et de i hida de terra Heroldi non habuit rex geldum. have geld. 



Earl Harold's land in this hundred must include Puddletown itself (nos. 8 and ii), the head of the hundred, 

 to which was attached the third penny of the whole shire. It was assessed at I hide with land for 15 ploughs. 

 The manor of Little Puddle (nos. 14 and iii) was held bv Earl Harold's mother T.R.E. It was assessed at 5 

 hides with 2.' hides in demesne. None of his other manors can be assigned to this hundred, but according to 

 the geld account he held at least 6 hides and i virgate here. The Abbot of Marmoutier had only i manor, 

 Piddlehinton (no. 168), assessed at 10 hides. He held it of the Count of Mortain in 1086, and the demesne 

 consisted of 5 hides. A charter of King William granting Piddlehinton to the abbey gives the demesne as 6 

 hides and states that the manor had belonged to Maud, Countess of Mortain, and on her death was given 

 to the abbey by her husband and brother-in-law for the sake of her soul.'" Serle of Burcy had 6 hides and i 

 virgate in demesne at Waterston [Pidere or Pidra) (nos. 334 and cvi), assessed at 10 hides. The Abbot of 

 Milton had 2\ hides in demesne at Burleston (nos. 97 and Ixx), assessed at 3 hides, and Little Puddle (nos. 

 107 and Ixxxi), assessed at 2 hides. The abbey of Abbotsbury had 8 hides in demesne at Tolpuddle (nos. 

 no and hi). Matthew de Moretania's manor in this hundred must be Milborne St. Andrew (no. 320), 

 assessed at 5 hides, since his other manor, Owermoigne (no. 321), was in Celberge hundred. Count Alan 

 had only i manor, Dewlish (no. 148), assessed at 15 hides with 5 hides in demesne. Little Puddle (nos. 77 

 and xl), assessed at 3.2 hides, must belong to this hundred. It was held of Cerne Abbey by William de 

 monasterio. The 2 manors of Pidele (nos. 169, 170), held by Humphrey of the Count of Mortain and assessed 

 at I.' hide and 2', hides respectively, must belong here. Athelhampton (no. 52), assessed at 4 hides, and 

 Bardolfeston (no. 51), assessed at 4 hides, must also have lain in the hundred. They were held by Otbold and 

 the wife of Hugh of the Bishop of Salisbury, and belonged to the hundred in 1285.-'- In 1285, also. Little 

 Cheselbourne or Cheselbourne Ford lay in the hundred. In 1086 it was held by Roger Boissell of the wife of 

 Hugh fitz Grip (nos. 378 and ex). In 1431 Tincleton lay in the hundred ;•'■' in 1086 it was assessed at 2 hides 



5" Bk. of Fees, 88. ■" Cal. Doc. France, ed. Round, 435. 



" Feud. Aids, ii. 14. " Feud. Aids, ii. 16. 



*" In fact there are 36 hides, 2i virgates, in demesne. *^ Ibid. 16, 113. 



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