A HISTORY OF DORSET 



XI. WHITEWAY HUNDRED 



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In Haltone hundret sunt bcxxvi hide et i virga. De In Whiteway hundred there are 86 hides and i 



his habent barones regis in dominio xxxviii hidas et virgate. Of these the king's barons have in demesne 



dimidiam et iii virgas. De isto dominicatu habet rex 38.I hides and 3 virgates.'' Of this demesne the king 



X hidas et i virgam de terra Code (et Heroldi) et has 10 hides and i virgate of Goda's and Harold's 



abbatissa (Sancti Edwardi) v hidas et iii virgas. land and the Abbess of Shaftesbury 5 hides and 3 



Abbas Abodesberiensis ix hidas et i virgam. Abbas virgates. The Abbot of Abbotsbury 9 hides and i 



Mideltonensis xiii hidas et dimidiam. Et pro xlv virgate. The Abbot of Milton 13I hides. And for 45 



hidis habet rex xii libras et x(v) solidos sed Rotbertus hides the king has ;{]i2 155. but Robert de Oilly 



de Oilleio retinuit inde xv solidos usque post retained 155. of this until after Easter which the 



Pascha (quos nundum habet rex). Exceptis supra- king does not yet have. Apart from the above- 



dictis denariis restant XV solidi de terra Heroldi que mentioned pence, there remain 15^. of Harold's 



est terra villanorum. land, which is villein land. 



The manor of Countess Goda must be Bingham's Melcombe (no. 30) since Hinton Martell is accounted 

 for. It was assessed at 10 hides with 7 hides and 3 virgates in demesne. Ibberton (nos. 10 and v), which 

 belonged to Earl Harold, had 2' hides in demesne and 2' hides held by the villani, which the Geld Roll 

 says did not pay geld. The Abbot of Abbotsbun,- had 9 hides and i virgate in demesne at Hilton (nos. i ii 

 and Ivii), assessed at 18 hides. Two manors of the Abbess of Shaftesbur\' lay in the hundred in 1285, 

 Cheselbourne and Stoke Wake.s* In 1086 Cheselbourne (no. 138) was assessed at 16 hides with 2 hides and 3 

 virgates in demesne, and Stoke Wake (no. 136) was assessed at 5 hides with 3 hides and i virgate in demesne. 

 Milton Abbas (nos. 94 and Ixxiv) belonged to this hundred in 1212, and Woolland (nos. 102 and Ixxvi) in 

 1285.5' IMilton Abbas was assessed at 24 hides with 9 hides and 3 virgates in demesne and Woolland at 5 

 hides with 2 hides in demesne. There remain i hide and 3 virgates of exempt demesne, possibly at Lyscombe 

 (nos. loi and Ixxv), assessed at 3 hides with 2 hides in demesne. This brings the total hidage to 86 hides. 



XII. BEAMINSTER HUNDRED 



In Beieministre hundret sunt c hide et vi i virgata In Beaminster hundred there are 106 hides less i 



minus. De his habent barones regis in dominio viiii virgate. Of these the king's barons have in demesne 



hidas i virgam (minus). De isto dominicatu habet 9 hides less i virgate. Of this demesne the Bishop of 



episcopus Saresberiensis habet {sic) v hidas i virga SalisbuPi' has 5 hides less i virgate which are for the 



minus que sunt de victu monacorum et Ricardus de food of the monks, and Richard de Redvers 2^ 



Reveris iii hidas et dimidiam et Godwinus dimidiam hides, and Godwin h hide. Hunger fitz Odin was 



hidam. Hungerus filius Audoeni adquietavit i hidam quit in another hundred for i hide which he has in 



in alio hundreto quam habet in isto. De i hida et iii this. From i hide and 3 virgates which Aiulf holds 



virgas quas tenet Aiulfus de Osmundo episcopo non of Bishop Osmund the king did not have geld and 



habuit rex geldum et de hida et dimidia quam tenet from li hide which Drew holds of the Count of 



Drogo de comite de Moritonio non habuit rex Mortain the king did not have geld and from i 



geldum et de i virga quam tenet Willelmus JXIalbeenc virgate which William Malbank holds of Earl Hugh 



de comite Hugone nunquam habuit rex geldum. Et the king never had geld. And for 92J hides the king 



pro Ixxxxii hidis et dimidia habet rex xxvii libras et had £2j i^s. 2dfi'^ 

 Tix soUdos et ii denarios. 



Beaminster (no. 46), belonging to the Bishop of Salisbun,-, must lie in this hundred. It was assessed at 16 

 hides, I virgate, with a demesne of 2 carucates. The 4 hides and 3 virgates of the bishop's exempt demesne 

 are at Corscombe (no. 44), assessed at 9 hides, 3 virgates. Godwin also held part of Corscombe (no. 488), 

 assessed at i hide, which must cover his exempt demesne in this hundred, and William held another manor 

 called Corscombe (no. 213) of the Count of Mortain, assessed at i hide. The only manor of Richard de 

 Rivers in Dorset was Mosterton (no. 366), assessed at 6 hides. Hunger fitz Odin's manor in this hundred 

 must be his holding of i hide (no. 506), which presumably paid geld in Whitchurch hundred, along with 

 Broadwindsor (no. 505) to which it was attached. William of Moyon held part of Little Windsor (nos. 282 

 and xcii), assessed at 4 hides. Aiulf is not recorded as a tenant of the Bishop of Salisbur\- in the Domesday 

 survey. Drew held Toller Whelme (no. 214) of the Count of Mortain; it was assessed at 3 hides. Catsley (no. 

 229), assessed at i hide and i virgate, was held by William of Earl Hugh. There was i virgate de qua 

 celatum est geldum T.R.W. In 1285 Chardstock, Netherbun,', and Buckham, belonging to the Bishop of 

 Salisbury', and Stoke Abbott, belonging to Sherborne .A.bbey, lay in this hundred.*' In 1086 Chardstock 

 (no. 49) was assessed at 12 hides and Xetherburv' (no. 47) at 20 hides with 2 carucates in demesne. Chard- 

 stock was subinfeudated, being held by Walter and William. Stoke Abbott (no. 45) was assessed at b\ 

 hides, with 2 carucates in demesne, and Buckham (no. 54) was assessed at 3 hides and was held by Walter 

 of the bishop. In 13 16 Bowood (no. 53), belonging to the Bishop of Salisburv', lay in this hundred,'- which in 

 1086 was assessed at 6 hides and held by Godfrey, Osmar, and Elfric. In 1346 the hundred of Redhone, an 



" In fact the demesnes add up to 38 hides and 3 " Bk. of Fees, 90; Feud. Aids, ii. 13. 



virgates; for a comment on this discrepancv, see p. 115 n. ''° The geld on 92 i hides is £27 i$s. 



s* Feud. Aids, ii. 13. " Feud. Aids, ii. 7. " Ibid. 41. 



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