A HISTORY OF DORSET 



XXVI. PIMPERNE HUNDRED 



In Pinpre hundret sunt xxx et iiii hide et dimidia. 

 Inde habet rex iii libras et x et viii solidos pro xiii 

 hidis et barones regis habent in dominio xv hidas. 

 De isto dominicatu habet rex vi hidas (et dimidiam 

 et i virgam) de terra regine Alatildis et abbatissa 

 Sancti Edwardi i hidam et dimidiam virgam quam 

 postea dedit cuidam suo servienti. Edwinus venator 

 ii hidas et i virgam iiii agros minus et Hunfridus 

 camerarius v hidas. De his v hidis dedit Hunfridus 

 et (sic) ecclesie dimidiam hidam per assensum regis. 

 Et de ii hidis et dimidia quas tenet David de Willel- 

 mo de Braiosa non habuit rex geldum et de iiii hidis 

 quas tenent villani de terra regine Mathildis non 

 habuit rex geldum. 



In Pimperne hundred there are 34' hides. Thence 

 the king has £t, iSs. for 13 hides and the king's 

 barons have in demesne 15 hides. Of this demesne 

 the king has 6' hides and i virgate of Queen Maud's 

 land and the Abbess of Shaftesburv' i hide and i 

 virgate which she afterwards gave to a certain 

 Serjeant of hers. Edwin the huntsman 2 hides and i 

 virgate less 4 acres, and Humphrey the chamberlain 

 5 hides. Of these 5 hides Humphrey gave ' hide to 

 the church with the king's consent. And from 2i 

 hides which David holds of William of Briouze the 

 king did not have geld and from 4 hides of Queen 

 ;\Iaud's land which the villeins hold the king did not 

 have geld. 



The queen's manor of Nutford (Farm) belonged to the hundred in i303'3 and can therefore be assumed to 

 be part of her land in 1086. It was, however, assessed at only 2 J hides (nos. 28 and xxxiii), whereas the queen 

 held 6 hides, 3 virgates, of exempt demesne and 4 hides of land held by villani in this hundred. The only 

 other manor of the queen which cannot be assigned to another hundred''* is Shitterton (nos. 27 and xxxii), 

 assessed at 5 hides, with 3I hides in demesne, which is still not large enough to cover her land. This problem 

 seems to be insoluble. The demesne of the Abbess of Shaftesbury also does not tally with the Domesday 

 account of the abbess's land. However, the later of the 2 surveys of the abbey's land, dating from the 12th 

 century, says that the abbess had a hide in Pimperne attached to her manor of Tarrant Hinton (no. 132) 

 in Langeberge hundred. '^ The Domesday survey mentions neither the land nor the fact that the abbess 

 gave it to a Serjeant. Steepleton Iwerne (nos. 281 and xci) lay in this hundred in 1303.'* It was then held 

 by William fitz Alexander of John de Mohun. In 1086 it was held by Geoffrey (Maloret) of William of 

 Moyon and was assessed at 3 hides. The manor of hcerne (no. 241) held by Robert of Robert fitz Ceroid 

 and also assessed at 3 hides seems to be Ranston.'' It probably belonged to Pimperne as well at this date. 

 Edwin the huntsman's manor is probably Werne (no. 456), identified as Lazerton (Farm) in Stourpaine.'^ 

 Humphrey the chamberlain's manor must be Stourpaine (no. 356), since his other manors have been 

 accounted for, and since it is the only one large enough to have 5 hides in demesne, being assessed at 6 

 hides, I.J virgate. Part of Stourpaine was held by William Belet (no. 509); it was assessed at i hide and 2^ 

 virgates. He also held Nodford (no. 502), formerly called Nutford Lockey but now France Farm in Stour- 

 paine." It was assessed at i hide and 2' virgates. The Domesday account of Humphrey's manor of Stour- 

 paine does not mention a gift to the church. The hundred cannot be completely reconstructed because of the 

 confusion over the land of the queen and the difficulty of knowing which of the manors belonging to the 

 later hundred of Pimperne lay in the Domesday hundred of Pimperne and which in the Domesday hundred 

 of Hunesberge.^" 



XXVII. GILLINGHAM HUNDRED 



In Gelingeham hundret sunt Ixxix hide dimidia 

 virga minus. Inde habet rex xi libras et x et viii 

 solidos et ix denarios pro xl hidis ii partibus unius 

 virge minus et barones regis habent inde in dominio 

 xxvii hidas et dimidiam. De isto dominicatu habet 

 Willelmus de Falesia vii hidas et dimidiam virgam et 

 Godmundus iii hidas et dimidiam et Godricius 

 venator i virgam et Fulcredus ii virgas et dimidiam 

 et Chetellus iii hidas dimidiam virgam minus 

 [f. 22b] 



et abbatissa Sancti Edwardi ix hidas et dimidiam et 

 dimidiam virgam. Abbatissa Pratellensis iii hidas et 

 dimidiam. Et de iii hidis et i virga quas tenet Urso 

 de Arnulfo de Hesdinc non habuit rex geldum et de 

 i hida quam tenet Drogo de comite de Moritonio 

 non habuit rex geldum et de iii hidis et dimidia quas 

 habet abbatissa Pratellensis non habuit " geldum et 



" Feud. Aids, ii, 28. 



'♦ Eyton placed Frome St. Quintin in this hundred, but 

 it must lie in Modburv hundred; see p. 145. 



'5 B.M. Harl. MS.'6i, f. 58: In Tarenta sunt x hidas 

 (sic) quorum una est in Pimperne. In 1212 the abbess held 

 I hyde terre in Pinpre: Bk. of Fees. 87. Eyton {Key to 

 Domesday: Dorset, 137-8) identified the land as Hyde. 



" Feud. Aids, ii. 27. 



" Fagersten, Place-Names of Dorset, 11-12. 



In Gillingham hundred there are 79 hides less \ 

 virgate. Thence the king has ^^ii lis. qY." for 40 

 hides less f virgate and the king's barons have 

 thence in demesne 27! hides. Of this demesne 

 William of Falaise has 7 hides and I virgate and 

 Gudmund 3' hides and Godric the huntsman i 

 virgate and Fulcred 2' virgates and Chetel 3 hides 

 less I virgate and the Abbess of Shaftesbury 9^ 

 hides and 1 virgate. The Abbess of Preaux 3j 

 hides. And from 3 hides and i virgate which Urse 

 holds of Ernulf of Hesdin the king did not have geld 

 and from i hide which Drew holds of the Count of 

 Mortain the king did not have geld and from 3 J 

 hides which the Abbess of Preaux has the king did 

 not have geld and from 4 hides which the men of 

 William of Falaise hold of him the king did not have 

 geld. And because the 4 collectors of this money did 



" E>ton, op. cit. 137-8; Fagersten, op. cit. 59. 



" Fagersten, op. cit. 58. 



^° Hunesberge contained 79 hides and Pimperne 34J 

 hides at the date at which the Geld Rolls were compiled, 

 making a total of 1 13 J hides. This is the total hidage of the 

 manors which can be assigned to the 2 hundreds. 



-' Supply 'rex' after habuit. 



^^ The geld on 39 hides, 3 J virgates, is £11 igs. 



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