A HISTORY OF DORSET 



although the Domesday survey gives the demesne as 3 hides. Chetel's manor must be Lower Fifehead or 

 Fifehead St. Quintin (no. 133) which he held of the abbey. It was assessed at 5 hides with 3.V hides in 

 demesne, and Hinton St. Mary was assessed at 8 hides. These manors amount to 35 hides only, but the rest 

 of this hundred has not been reconstructed. 



XXII. LANGEBERGE HUNDRED 



In Langeberge hundret sunt Ixxx et iiii hide. Inde 

 habet rex xii libras et ii solidos et v denarios 

 [f. 2 lb] 



pro xl hidis et i virga et viii agris et barones habent 

 inde in dominio xxx et iiii hidas et i virgam. De 

 isto dominicatu habet abbatissa Sancti Edwardi ii 

 hidas et dimidiam et Aiulfus ii hidas et dimidiam et 

 filius Eureboldi ii hidas iiii agros minus. Edwinus 

 venator ii hidas et iii virgatas (et rex habet viii 

 hidas et iii virgas de terra regine Mathildis). Radulfus 

 de Creneborna i hidam et i virgam. Episcopus 

 Luxoviensis v hidas et dimidiam et abbas Crene- 

 burnensis iiii hidas et dimidiam et Cadomensis abba- 

 tissa iiii hidas iiii agros minus et uxor Hugonis 

 dimidiam hidam. Et pro iii hidis et dimidia quas 

 tenet Willelmus Caisnellus de uxore Hugonis non 

 habuit rex geldum et de vi hidis et iiii agris quas 

 tenent villani abbatisse Cadomensis non habuit rex 

 geldum et pro iiii hidis de terra regine non habuit 

 rex geldum. 



In Langeberge hundred there are 84 hides.'' Thence 

 the king has £12 zs. ^d.' for 40 hides and i virgate 

 and 8 acres and the barons have thence in demesne 

 34 hides and i virgate. Of this demesne the Abbess 

 of Shaftesbury has 2J hides, and Aiulf 2.\ hides, and 

 the son of Eurebold 2 hides less 4 acres. Edwin the 

 huntsman 2 hides and 3 virgates, and the king has 8 

 hides and 3 virgates of Queen Maud's land. Ralph 

 of Cranborne 1 hide and i virgate. The Bishop of 

 Lisieux 5?, hides, and the Abbot of Cranborne 4I 

 hides, and the Abbess of Caen 4 hides less 4 acres, 

 and the wife of Hugh .\ hide. And from ^l hides 

 which William Caisnell holds of the wife of Hugh 

 the king did not have geld and from 6 hides and 4 

 acres which the villeins of the Abbess of Caen hold 

 the king did not have geld and from 4 hides of the 

 queen's land the king did not have geld. 



The Abbess of Shaftesbury had 2I hides in demesne at Tarrant Hinton (no. 132), assessed at 10 hides. 

 Odo fitz Eurebold's manor must be Farnham (no. 372), assessed at 2 hides, his only remaining manor, and 

 Aiulf's 2 manors of Farnham (nos. 343, 352), assessed at 2 hides and .1 hide respectively, probably represent 

 his exempt demesne in this hundred. The i-hide manor had belonged to Shaftesbury Abbey, as had the | 

 hide in Farnham held by the wife of Hugh (nos. 396 and cxxix). Edwin the huntsman held 2 manors called 

 Bleneford{e), 1 of which must belong here, since Langton Long Blandford lay in this hundred in 1212.2 The 

 other lay in Combsditch hundred. ^ One (no. 438) was assessed at 5 hides, 1 1 virgate, and the other (no. 455) 

 at 5 hides. The manors of Queen Maud in this hundred must be Ashmore (nos. 17 and xxiii), assessed at 8 

 hides with 4 hides in demesne, and the 3 manors of Tarente: (nos. 24 and xxx), assessed at 30 hides with 2 

 hides in demesne; (nos. 25 and xxxi), assessed at I hide, held by the bordars; (nos. 26 and xxxv), assessed 

 at 3 hides, i virgate, with 2 hides, 3 virgates, in demesne. This brings her exempt demesne to 8 hides, 3 

 virgates, as in the Geld Roll. Ralph, probably identical with Ralph of Cranborne, held the manor of Tarente 

 (no. 370) as a. francus. The Bishop of Lisieux had 5. I hides in demesne at Tarrant Keyneston (no. 60), 

 assessed at 10 hides and § virgate, and the Abbot of Cranborne had 4., hides in demesne at Tarrant Monkton 

 (no. 75), assessed at 10 hides. The Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen, had only i manor in Dorset, Tarrant 

 Launceston (no. 141), assessed at 10 hides with 4 hides less 4 acres in demesne. The wife of Hugh held | 

 hide at Tarente (nos. 400 and cxxxiii). Ralph held Tarrant Rawston (nos. 404 and cxxxvii), assessed at 5 

 hides, of the wife of Hugh, and Berold held i hide and 3 virgates in Tarente (nos. 405 and cxxxviii) of her. 

 Aiulf held Terente (no. 340), assessed at 2 hides, and William held Terente (no. 267), assessed at 3.^ hides, 

 of William of Eu. This brings the total hidage to 79 hides, 33 virgates. Eyton added Chettle (no. 342), 

 assessed at i hide and held by Airard of Aiulf, Stubhampton (no. 341), assessed at i hide and held by 

 Aiulf, and 2 manors in Langton Long Blandford, assessed at i hide and 5 hides respectively and held by 

 Ulviet (no. 458) and by Robert Attlet of Roger Arundel (nos. 325 and xcvii), to bring the total hidage to 87 

 hides, 35- virgates.'' 



XXIII. KNOW^LTON HUNDRED 



In Chenoltune hundret sunt xxxvi hide et dimidia. 

 Inde habet rex iiii libras et vii solidos pro xiiii hidis 

 et dimidia et barones habent in dominio xx et i hidas 

 et dimidiam. De isto dominicatu habet mater 

 Willelmi de Ou vii hidas et dimidiam et comes' 

 Moritonio xi hidas et dimidiam et de dimidia (hida) 

 quam quidam mulier habet de comite de Moritonio 

 nunquam habuit rex geldum et abbatissa Wiltonis 

 habet ii hidas et dimidiam in dominio. 



" In fact the details of the account amount to 88J hides 

 and 4 acres. 



' The geld on 40 hides and i virgate is jCi2 is. bd. The 

 8 acres therefore paid lid. 



In Knowlton hundred there are 360 hides. Thence 

 the king has £.{ js. for 14.1 hides and the barons have 

 in demesne 21 J hides. Of this demesne William of 

 Eu's mother has yl hides and the Count of Mortain 

 1 1 1 hides, and from i hide which a certain woman 

 has of the Count of Mortain the king never had geld 

 and the Abbess of Wilton has 2.\ hides in demesne. 



Bk. of Fees, 87. 



See p. 135. 



Eyton, Key to Domesday: Dorset, 131-2. 



Supply 'de' after comes. 



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