DORSET GELD ROLLS 



Roger Arundel had 3I hides and J virgate in demesne at Worth Matravers (nos. 330 and cii), assessed 

 at 16 hides and zl virgates. He held another manor in the same vill (nos. 332 and civ), assessed at i hide. 

 Ralph held 3 virgates in the same vill of the wife of Hugh (nos. 418 and cli). The Abbess of Shaftesbury held 

 Kingston (no. 134), assessed at 16 hides, with 3 hides and 3 virgates in demesne. The king held i hide there, 

 in which he had built Corfe Castle [castellum Warliam), and William of Briouze held i virgate. It belonged 

 to the hundred of Rowbarrow in the 14th century.^" Roger de Beaumont held 2 manors at Afflington (nos. 

 236, 237), assessed at 2 hides and i hide respectively, the amount of his exempt demesne in this hundred. 

 The manor of Milton Abbey is probably Ower (Farm) (nos. 105 and Ixxix). Neither Exon. Domesday nor the 

 Exchequer text gives the demesne of Ower, but it lay in the hundred in 13 16.'" It was assessed at 3 hides 

 T.R.E. Serle of Burcy's manor must be Whitecliff (nos. 335 and cvii), assessed at 3 hides, with 2I hides in 

 demesne. Count Eustace (Count of Boulogne) does not appear in the Dorset survey, but his wife, the 

 countess, held 3 manors, i of which, Swanage (nos. 515 and xxxviii), was assessed at i hide and J virgate. 

 According to Exon. Domesday the countess had no demesne in this manor which was held by a villanus, but 

 rex Willelmus nunquam habuit gelduni de hac mansione. Walter Tonitruus held i' hide in Swanage (nos. 417 

 and cl) of the wife of Hugh. Alvric the huntsman held Coombe (no. 481), the only one of his manors, apart 

 from Bovington in Bere hundred (no. 483), which is large enough to cover his exempt demesne. It was 

 assessed at 5 hides and i virgate. Durand the carpenter held the manor oi Moleham (no. 511), assessed at i 

 hide, the amount of his exempt demesne in this hundred. The only manor which he held of the wife of 

 Hugh was Wilkswood (nos. 423 and clvi), assessed at I hide. She herself held part of Wilkswood (nos. 415 

 and cxlviii), assessed at 3! hides and f virgate, with 2.1 hides in demesne. She also had 2 hides in demesne 

 at Acton (nos. 416 and cxlix), assessed at 2.1 hides. There was il hide in Purbeck hundred attached to 

 Earl Harold's manor of Puddletown (nos. 8 and ii), which is probably the 1 \ hide held by the villani of 

 Earl Harold. Six hides and 2.1 virgates in Purbeck hundred (no. 296) were held of William of Briouze by 

 Richard and the wife of Hugh. The hide held by St. Stephen, Caen, seems also to have laid in Purbeck, 

 although the Domesday survey does not mention it. In Henry I's confirmation charter, however, Pubich is 

 mentioned as a member of the abbey's manor of Bincombe in Cullifordtree hundred. '^ These manors add 

 up to 66 hides and i virgate, with in addition i hide in Purbeck, belonging to St. Stephen, Caen. Studland 

 and Rollington lay in this hundred at a later date. Studland (no. 209), assessed at 3. I hides, was held by 

 Haimo of the Count of Mortain in 1086 and lay in the hundred of Rowbarrow in 1275,'^ and Rollington 

 (nos. 331 and ciii), assessed at 2 hides and if virgate, was held by Robert of Roger Arundel in 1086 and 

 lay in the hundred in i303.'"t In 1431 Herston lay in Rowbarrow hundred. 's In 1086 2 virgates in Herston 

 (nos. 333 and cv) belonged to Roger Arundel, and i virgate in the same vill (no. 512) belonged to Godfrey 

 the scullion. Fagersten linked the hundred name of Aileveswode with the manor of Ailwood (Aleoude) 

 (no. 482), held of Swain by the wife of Hugh.«^ It must therefore lie in this hundred. It was assessed at 4 

 hides and 3 virgates. This brings the total hidage to 78.1 hides and f virgate. The Geld Roll gives the hidage 

 as 73 hides, but in fact the details of the account add up to 78 hides and if virgate.'' 



XX. HANDLEY HUNDRED 



In Hanglege hundret sunt xx hide et pro xvi hidis et i In Handley hundred there are 20 hides and for 16 



virga quas homines abbatisse habent in hoc hundreto hides and i virgate which the men of the abbess 



et pro vi hidis et dimidia quas ipsi habent in alio have in this hundred and for 6.\ hides which they 



hundreto habet rex vi libras et xvi solidos et vi have in another hundred the king has ^^6 16^. bd. 



denarios et abbatissa habet inde in dominio iii hidas and the abbess has thence in demesne 3 hides and 3 



et iii virgas. virgates. 



This hundred consists only of the Abbess of Shaftesbury's manor of Sixpenny Handley (no. 125), 

 assessed at 20 hides with 3 hides and 3 virgates in demesne. 



XXI. NEWTON HUNDRED 



In Newentone hundret sunt xl et vii hide. Inde In Newton hundred there are 47 hides. Thence the 



habet rex x libras et vii solidos et vi denarios pro king has £10 js. bd for 340 hides and \ virgate. 



xxxiiii hidis et dimidia et tercia parte unius virge. And for b\ hides which the men of the abbess hold 



Et pro vi hidis et dimidia quas tenent homines the king had 39^. in another hundred. And the 



abbatisse habuit rex in alio hundreto xxx et ix abbess has thence in demesne i» hide, and Chetel 4J 



solidos. Et abbatissa habet inde in dominio i hidam hides and | virgate. 

 et dimidiam et Chetellus iiii hidas et dimidiam et ii 

 partes unius virge. 



The hundred takes its name from the manor of Sturminster Newton (no. 63), held by the Abbot of 

 Glastonbury. The abbot's demesne in this manor consisted of 14 carucates. It was assessed at 22 hides. 

 The Abbess of Shaftesbury's manor must be Hinton St. Mary (no. 126) which lay in the hundred in 1212,'^ 



""> Feud. Aids, ii. 44, no. '"' Fagersten, Place-Names of Dorset, 121. 



°' Ibid. 44. " Eyton added Brenscombe (nos. 421 and cliv), the 



" Dugdale, Mon. vi (2), 1071. 2 manors of Tome (nos. 419 and clii, 420 and cliii), and 



" Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), i. 101. Woolgarston (no. 297) to this hundred. 



"* Feud. Aids, ii. 37, 44. « Ibid. 109. «* Bk. of Fees, 87. 



