DORSET GELD ROLLS 



(no. 222) and held by William of Earl Hugh. Eyton added Ilsington (no. 221), in Puddletown, to this hun- 

 dred.-''' It was assessed at 2 hides and held by William of Earl Hugh. This would bring the total hidage to 

 90 hides, as opposed to 91 hides in the Geld Rolls, but the matter of Earl Harold's land remains unsolved. 



IX. STANE HUNDRED 



In Stane hundret sunt Ix et iii hide et dimidia. Inde In Stane hundred there are 63.1 hides. Thence the 



habent barones regis in dominio x et viii hidas king's barons have in demesne 18 hides less i\ 



(virgam et dimidiam minus). De isto dominicatu virgate. Of this demesne the Abbot of Winchester 



habet abbas Wintoniensis xvi hidas dimidiam virgam has 16 hides less I virgate and the Abbot of Cerne 2 



minus et abbas Cerneliensis ii hidas i virgam minus, hides less i virgate. And from 43 hides and i| 



Et pro xliii hidis et virga et dimidia habuit rex xiii virgate the king had £\t, is. 8d. And from 2I hides 



libras et xx denarios. Et de ii hidis et dimidia quas which Brictuin holds of the Abbot of Cerne the king 



tenet Bristuinus de abbate Cerneliensi non habuit did not have geld and from i virgate which the 



rex geldum et de i virga quam tenent villani abbatis villeins of the Abbot of Winchester hold the king 



Wintoniensis non habuit rex geldum. did not have geld. 



The abbey of Winchester, that is, the New Minster (Hyde Abbey), held only i manor in Dorset, 

 Piddletrenthide (no. 69), assessed at 30 hides with 15 hides, 2! virgates, in demesne. Brictuin held 4 hides 

 of thegnland of the abbey of Cerne at Cerne Abbas itself (nos. 76 and xxxix), assessed at 22 hides, but accord- 

 ing to both Exon. Domesday and the Exchequer text the abbot's demesne was 3 hides, not i hide, 3 virgates. 

 This hundred is very difficult to reconstruct. Eyton placed in it Alton Pancras (no. 33), assessed at 6 hides.^s 

 The manor lay in Sherborne hundred in 1285,''^ presumably because it belonged to the Bishop of Salisbury; 

 it must have been an outlying portion of the hundred, and it was later a liberty.-" Up Cerne (no. 34), held 

 by Robert of the same bishop in 1086, also lay in Sherborne hundred in 1285. Eyton also identified Cernel 

 (no. 147) as Godmanston, and placed it at this date in Modbury hundred,-*' with which Stane hundred was 

 incorporated. Up Cerne was assessed at 2'. hides and Cernel at 3 hides. If both are included in Stane 

 hundred they bring the total hidage to 63., hides, the total given in the Geld Roll. 



X. GODDERTHORN HUNDRED 



In Goderonestona hundret sunt xx et viii hide et In Godderthorn hundred there are 280 hides. Of 



dimidia. Inde habent barones regis in dominio iii this the king's barons have in demesne 3 hides and i 



hidas et i virgam. De isto dominicatu habet Willel- virgate. Of this demesne William de Dalmar has i 



mus de Dalmereio i hidam et ii partes unius virge et hide and § virgate, and Berenger Giffard i\ hide and 



Berengerius Giffardus i hidam et dimidiam et ^ virgate (Berenger's predecessor holds this of him at 



terciam partem unius virge (hanc tenet antecessor farm), and the Count of Mortain I hide. And for 



Berengerii de eo ad firmam) et comes de Moritonio 25 hides and i virgate and for 7 virgates of Turstin 



dimidiam hidam. Et pro xxv hidis et i virga et pro vii fitz Rolf which lie in another hundred the king has 



virgis Turstini filii Rolfi que iacent in alio hundreto ^8 is. 6d.*'' 

 habet rex octo libras et x et viii denarios. 



William de Dalmar's manor in this hundred must be Walditch (no. 501) which lay in this hundred in 

 1212.50 It was assessed at 2 hides. Berenger Giffard's only manor in Dorset was Bredy (Farm) (no. 317), 

 assessed at 4 hides, where his predecessor was Harding. In 1285 Loders Lutton (later called Matravers, in 

 Loders) de feudo de Mortoyne belonged to the hundred. The Count of Mortain's manor is therefore 

 presumably Lodre (no. 190), assessed at i hide, of which the count held half and Alvred half. Another manor 

 in Lodre (no. 189) was held of the count by Girard; it was assessed at i hide. Lodram (nos. 399 and cxxxii), 

 assessed at i hide, which Walter Tonitruus held of the wife of Hugh fitz Grip, may belong here also, since 

 in 1285 Giles Tonerre held part of Loders Lutton. s" All these manors must be part of Matravers. 5^ 

 Sturthill (nos. 394 and cxxvii), which William de Dalmar held of the wife of Hugh fitz Grip, belonged to the 

 hundred in 1212,5^ and Graston (nos. 395 and cxxviii), also held of the wife of Hugh by a man called 

 William, lay in the hundred in 1285.5-' It was assessed at 2\ hides. The land of Turstin fitz Rolf in another 

 hundred was his 2 manors of Stoke Wallis and Thurstanstay (nos. 254, 255) in Whitchurch hundred. 

 Turstin's manor of Allington (no. 253), assessed at 3 hides, lay in Godderthorn hundred in 1285,5s and the 

 other manors probably paid geld here because of this. This brings the total hidage of the hundred to 190 

 hides. Eyton added the manor of Swyre (no. 263), assessed at g hides. In 1275 it lay in Uggescombe hundred 

 which was at one time amalgamated with Godderthorn. 5* 



" Kyton, Key to Domesday. Dorset, 135-6. *^ See Fagersten, op. cit. 258. Eyton reversed the 



-" Ibid. 137-8. identifications, calling these 3 manors Uploders and the 2 



-" Feud. Aids, ii. 4. lying in Eggardon hundred Loders Lutton i.e. Matravers. 



-" Fagersten, Place-Names of Dorset, 193. '^ Bk. qf Fees, 93. 



-" Eyton, Key to Domesday: Dorset, 133-4. ^'' Feud. Aids, ii. lo-ii. 



-" The geld on 27 hides is £8 2S. " Ibid. 



5" Bk. of Fees, gj. s' Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), i. 102; Inq. Non. (Rec. 



5' Feud. Aids, ii. lo-ii. Com.), 46. 



