DORSET GELD ROLLS 



de iiii hidis quas tenent homines Willelmi de not render the pence which they received they gave 

 Falesia de eo non habuit rex gildum. Et quia iiii pledges (being) in (the king's) mercy for rendering 

 congregatores huius pecunie non reddiderunt the pence and for future good conduct, 

 denarios quos receperunt dederunt vadimonium in 

 misericordia ad reddendos denarios et ad emendan- 

 dum forisfacturam. 



William of Falaise held only 2 manors in Dorset, Silton (no. 271) and Milton on Stour in Gillingham 

 (no. 272). Silton was assessed at 8 hides, and attached to it were a hide and i virgate which Wulfweard White, 

 William's predecessor, had in pledge and i hide which Wulfweard had bought from the Bishop of Exeter. 

 Milton on Stour was assessed at 3 hides. Gudmund's only manor was Milton on Stour (no. 425), assessed at 

 42 hides. Godric the huntsman held i virgate in Gillingham (no. 428), and according to the Domesday 

 survey of Wiltshire Fulcred held 3 virgates in Gillingham, which must be his manor in this hundred. ^^ 

 Bernard held part of Gillingham (no. 250), assessed at 3! hides, of Turstin fitz Rolf. Edwin held i virgate 

 in Gillingham (no. 427), Ulwin li virgate (no. 429), and Edward the huntsman .' virgate (no. 490). Chetel 

 held 3 hides and 3 virgates in Kington Magna (no. 426), his only manor in Dorset. Part of Kington Magna 

 (no. 245), assessed at 6 hides and i virgate, was held by Urse of Ernulf of Hesdin, and Ranulf held Little 

 Kington (Farm), in Kington Magna (no. 303), assessed at 3 hides, of Waleran. The Abbess of Shaftesbury 

 had 9 hides, 2.I virgates, in demesne at East and West Stour (no. 127), assessed at 17 hides. The Abbess of 

 St. Leger, Preaux, is not recorded in the Domesday survey either as a tenant-in-chief or a mesne tenant. 

 The abbey, with its companion house of St. Pierre, for monks, was founded by Humphrey de Vieilles, 

 father of Roger de Beaumont, the Domesday tenant-in-chief.^'' Roger had the manor of Stour Provost 

 (no. 23 1 ) in 1 086, which in 1 285 was held by the Abbess of Preaux of the Earl of Leicester. ^^ Jt was assessed 

 at 7 hides in 1086, and the Domesday survey gives the demesne as 4.1 not 3?i hides, but this must have 

 been the manor held by the Abbess of Preaux. It is possible that the abbess was Roger's daughter. It is 

 known that Roger gave land to the abbey when his daughter became a nun there. Roger's son Robert, 

 Count of Meulan, makes reference to his sister, Abbess Aubrey, in a charter to St. Mary de Pre, Leicester, 

 and the name of the fourth abbess of Preaux is recorded as Alberee. She died in 1112.^^ Other manors 

 which can be assigned to this hundred are Buckhorn Weston (no. 149), assessed at 7 hides and held by 

 Haimo of the Count of Mortain, and Thorton (no. 256), assessed at 2 hides and held by William of William 

 of Eu. Both manors lay in the hundred in 1212." In 1285 Wyndlam, Fifehead Magdalen, and Todber lay in 

 this hundred.^* Wyndlam (nos. 322 and xciv), assessed at 2 hides, was held by Roger de margella of Roger 

 Arundel; Fifehead Magdalen (no. 220), assessed at 5 hides, was held by Gilbert of Earl Hugh; and Todber 

 (nos. 273 and Ixxxiii), assessed at 2 hides, by Geoffrey Maloret of William of Moyon. In 1303 Nyland lay 

 in the hundred.^' It was a divided vill in 1086, 2 hides being held by Drew of the Count of Mortain (no. 

 150), 2 hides by Ranulf of Turstin fitz Rolf (no. 251), and i hide by Bernard of Turstin fitz Rolf (no. 252). 

 This brings the total hidage to 82 hides, 3! virgates, 4 hides more than the Geld Roll figure. 



XXVin. BROWNSHALL HUNDRED 



In Bruneselle hundret sunt Hi hide et dimidia. Inde In Brownshall hundred there are 52! hides. Thence 



habet rex x libras et xiii solidos pro xxx(v hidis) et the king has £10 13^. for 35.' hides and the barons 



dimidia et barones habent in dominio x et vii hidas have in demesne 17 hides. s" Of this demesne the 



— {blank\. De isto dominicatu habent monachi monks of Sherborne have 11 hides and Godric i 



Scireburnenses xi hidas et Godricius i hidam et hide and William of Ecouis 35 hides less \ virgate 



Willelmus de Scoeia iii hidas et dimidiam dimidiam and Hugh silvestris il virgate and the Count of 



virgam minus et Hugo silvestris virgam et dimidiam Mortain i hide. And from 3 virgates which Manasses 



et comes de Moritonio i hidam. Et de iii virgis quas the cook holds of the land of the monks of Sherborne 



tenet Manases quocus de terra Sireburnensium the king did not have geld, 

 monachorum non habuit rex geldum. 



Manasses held 3 virgates at Stalbridge (no. 42), belonging to the monks of Sherborne, quas Willelmus 

 filiiis regis tulit ab ecclesia sine consensu episcopi et tnonachorum. The monks had 6 hides in demesne at Stal- 

 bridge, assessed at 20 hides, and 5 hides at Stalbridge Weston (no. 43), assessed at 8 hides. William of 

 Ecouis had 3' hides in demesne at Stourton Caundle (no. 299), assessed at 5 hides. The only manor of 

 Hugh silvestris was Stourton Caundle (no. 363), assessed at i hide, which Leverone (Leofrun) held T.R.E. 

 She had also held Stourton Caundle (no. 478), held in 1086 by Godric and assessed at i hide. The Count 

 of Mortain held i hide in Stourton Caundle (no. 218), and Alwin held 3 hides there of him (no. 219). The 

 count had given Purse Caundle (nos. 118 and Ixiv) to Athelney Abbey, in exchange for Bishopston 

 (Montacute) in Somerset. Purse Caundle was assessed at 4 hides, and Alvred pincerna held 1 1 virgate of the 

 abbey. Hugh held Stourton Caundle (no. 270), assessed at 3?. hides, of William of Eu and Wimer held 

 Stourton Caundle (no. 301), assessed at 3 hides, of Walscin of Douai. In 1316 Stoke, in Caundle Haddon 



" Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i, f. 73b. Charpillon et Caresme, Dictionnaire de VHistoire de 



'* See p. 49 n. I'Eiire, ii. 686. 



Earl of Leicester, Roger's grandson, Roger was the " Bk. of Fees, gj. 



^5 Feud. Aids, ii. 22. According to a charter of Robert, ^* Feud. Aids, ii. 22. 



original grantor: Neustria Pia, 524. ^' Ibid. 33. 



^'' Neustria Pia, 552; Dugdale, Mon. vi (i), 467; 3° There are in fact 16 hides and 3 virgates in demesne. 



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