DORSET GELD ROLLS 



offshoot of Beaminster, contained South Perrott, then held by Joan Maubank, and North and South 

 Mapperton.*^ In 1086 WilHam (Malbank) held South Perrott (no. 228) of Earl Hugh; it was assessed at 

 5 hides. Part of Mapperton (no. 248) was held by Ernulf of Hesdin and another part by William of Moyon 

 (nos. 283 and xciii). William of Moyon had 3 hides in demesne, which the Geld Rolls do not mention. His 

 portion of the vill was assessed at 5 hides and i virgate, and that of Ernulf at 3 hides and 3 virgates. This 

 brings the total hidage of the hundred to 104 hides and 3 virgates. Eyton suggested that the hide in Wool 

 attached to the manor of Buckham (no. 54) may have been counted as an outlying portion of Beaminster 

 hundred,** which, if correct, would bring the total hidage to the Geld Roll figure of 105 hides and 3 virgates. 



XIIL REDHONE HUNDRED 



In Redehane hundret sunt vii hide. Pro iiii hidis et In Redhone hundred there are 7 hides. For 4 hides 



virga et dimidia habet rex xxvi solidos et vi denarios and 1 1 virgate the king has 26s. 6(/.*5 And for 2* 



et de ii hidis et dimidia reddidit abbas de Tavestot hides the Abbot of Tavistock paid geld in another 



geldum in alio hundreto. Similiter abbas Abodes- hundred. Likewise the Abbot of Abbotsbury for i 



beriensis de dimidia hida. Et pro dimidia virga hide. And for I virgate which i Englishman holds of 



quam tenet i anglus de Rogero Arundello non Roger Arundel the king did not have geld and for h 



habuit rex geldum et pro dimidia virga quam tenet i virgate which i Englishman holds of Ernulf of 



anglus de Arnulfo de Hesdinc non habuit rex gel- Hesdin the king did not have geld, 

 dum. 



The abbey of Tavistock had 2 manors in Dorset in 1086, Askerswell (nos. 119 and Ixv) and North 

 Poorton (nos. 120 and Ixvi). Askerswell was assessed at 3 hides, and North Poorton at 2 hides. In 1285 

 Askerswell lay in the hundred of Eggardon (formerly Glochresdone). In the Geld Roll for that hundred it is 

 stated that the collectors received 12s. pro terra alterius hundreti, that is, the geld on 2 hides. This must be the 

 land of the abbey of Tavistock which paid geld in another hundred, but, according to the account of 

 Redhone, the amount of land in question was z\ not 2 hides. North Poorton, assessed at 2 hides, must lie in 

 Redhone, but is not large enough to account for all the abbot's land in this hundred, amounting to 2.' hides. 



The Abbot of Abbotsbury's manor is probably Bourtone (nos. 115 and Ixii), assessed at j hide and held 

 by 2 villani. It paid geld in Uggescombe hundred, with Atrim, which the abbot had in Whitchurch hundred. 

 Eyton identified Bourtone as Burcombe in North Poorton, but Fiigersten regarded it as another form of 

 Poorton.** Both Roger Arundel and Ernulf of Hesdin held manors in North Poorton in 1086. Roger's 

 manor (nos. 329 and ci), assessed at 2 hides, was held of him by Wido, and Ernulf's manor (no. 249), 

 assessed at \ hide, was apparently held by Ernulf himself. Another part of North Poorton (no. 368), assessed 

 at I hide and 2| virgates, was held by Godeschal of David the interpreter. This hundred cannot be satis- 

 factorily reconstructed. 



XIV. TOLLERFORD HUNDRED 



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In Tolreforde hundret sunt lix hide. De his habent In ToUerford hundred there are 59 hides. Of these 



barones regis in dominio xvii hidas et dimidiam et the king's barons have in demesne 17' hides and J 



dimidiam virgam. De isto dominicatu habet Willel- virgate. Of this demesne W'illiam of Eu has 8 hides 



mus de Ou viii hidas (dimidiam virgam minus) et less J virgate, and Hugh de Port 6 hides and i 



Hugo de Portu vi hidas et i virgam et Rogerus virgate, and Roger Arundel 3' hides. And for 43 



Arondellus iii hidas et dimidiam. Et pro xliii (hidis) hides and .' virgate and 3 hides and 3 virgates which 



et dimidia virga et iii hidis et iii virgis quas Hugo de Hugh de Port has in another hundred but (which) 



Portu habet in alio hundreto sed adquietavit in isto were quit in this, the king has £,iJf is. 4;/.*' And for 



habet rex xiiii libras et xvi denarios. Et pro iii hidis et 3?, hides which Wadard holds the king did not have 



dimidia quas tenet Waardus non habuit rex geldum geld and for i hide which Ranulf holds of William of 



et pro i hida quam tenet Rannulfus de Willelmo de Moyon the king did not have geld. 

 Moione non habuit rex geldum. 



William of Eu's manor of Wynford Eagle (no. 264) lay in this hundred in 1303*^ and must therefore 

 represent his demesne although, according to the Exchequer text, there were 6 hides in demesne, not 7 

 hides and 3.' virgates. It was assessed at 14 hides. Hugh de Port had only i manor in Dorset, Compton 

 Valence (no. 357) in Frampton hundred. The exempt demesne credited to him in this hundred must be that 

 of Compton Valence, and is the same as that credited to him in Frampton hundred. Ranulf held the manor of 

 Chelborough (nos. 280 and xc) of William of Moyon. It was assessed at 3 hides, i of which non dedit geldum. 

 Roger Arundel also held a manor called Chelborough (nos. 324 and xcvi), but Exon. Domesday gives the 

 demesne as 3 not 3! hides. Wadard held Rampisham (no. 55) of the Bishop of Bayeux. It was assessed at 6 

 hides. In 1303 the manors of Chilfrome and Cruxton lay in this hundred. They belonged to the fief of John 

 de Mohun of Dunster. Maiden Newton, Toller Porcorum, and Frome Vauchurch also lay in the hundred at 

 that date.*' Chilfrome and Cruxton are identified by Eyton as Frame (nos. 278 and Ixxxviii), assessed at 10 



<" Ibid. 60. Place-Names of Dorset, 281 n. 



^' Eyton, Key to Domesday: Dorset, 114 n. *' The geld on 46 hides, 3! virgates, is £14 is. ^d. 



*' The geld on 4 hides, i\ virgate, is £1 6s. jd. ''* Feud. Aids, ii. 35. 



" Eyton, Key to Domesday: Dorset, 137-8; Fagersten, *' Ibid. 



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