DORSET GELD ROLLS 



belonging to Aiulf the chamberlain, lay in the hundred in 1285,-" and Eyton also placed in it Smedmore 

 (House) (no. 295), assessed at i hide and held by Richard of William of Briouze.t^ It lay in Kimmeridge. 

 This brings the hidage to 62 hides, but the hundred cannot be properly reconstructed because of the 

 difficulties over the land of the Abbess of Shaftesbury and Robert fitz Ralph. 



XXX. WINFRITH HUNDRED 



In Winfrode hundret sunt xlix hide et i virga. Inde In Winfrith hundred there are 49 hides and i 



habet rex c et vii solidos et iii denarios pro x et viii virgate. Thence the king has 107s. ^d. for 18 hides 



hidis dimidia virga minus et rex et sui barones less i virgate, and the king and his barons have 



habent inde in dominio xxvi hidas. De isto domini- thence in demesne 26 hides. Of this demesne the 



catu habet rex viii hidas et dimidiam (de terra king has 8J hides of Harold's land. The Bishop of 



Heroldi). Episcopus Luxoviensis vi hidas et i Lisieux 6 hides and i virgate, and Aiulf 7 hides and i 



virgam et Aiulfus vii hidas (et) i virgam et comes de virgate, and the Count of iMortain 2 hides less I 



Moritonio ii hidas dimidiam virgam minus, virgate. Walter de Claville I hide. Osmund the 



Walterus de Clavilla dimidiam hidam. Osmundus baker 3 virgates. Alward the reeve i hide, and a 



pistor iii virgas. Alwardus prepositus i hidam et beadle i virgate. And from 1 hide which Robert 



i bedellus i virgam. Et de dimidia hida quam tenet holds of the Count of Mortain the king never had 



Rotbertus de comite de Moritonio nunquam habuit geld. From 45 hides of Harold's land the king did not 



rex geldum. De iiii hidis et dimidia de terra Heroldi have geld, 

 non habuit rex geldum. 



Harold's manor in this hundred must be Chaldon Herring or East Chaldon (nos. 12 and viii), assessed at 

 13 hides, which lay in this hundred in 1 275,1' but both Exon. Domesday and the Exchequer text give the 

 hidage in demesne as 6 hides. The Bishop of Lisieux had 6 hides and i virgate in demesne at Coombe 

 Keynes (no. 61), assessed at 10 hides. Walter de Claville held part of Coombe Keynes (nos. 314 and clx), 

 assessed at 3 hides, but Exon. Domesday gives his demesne as 2 hides. The Count of Mortain held 2 

 manors in Lulworth (nos. 198, 199), assessed at 3 J hides and 2 hides, respectively, which probably represent 

 his demesne in this hundred, since Lulworth lay in Winfrith hundred in i2i2.-'i Aiulf the chamberlain 

 held a manor in Lulworth (no. 350), assessed at 8 hides and 3 virgates. W^ool lay in the hundred at the same 

 date. Alward held i i hide in Wool (no. 486) in 1086, and had held a virgate in the same vill T.R.E. which in 

 1086 was held by Almar (no. 487) who may be the beadle mentioned in the Geld Roll. One hide and 3 

 virgates in W'ool (no. 208) were held of the Count of Mortain by Bretel and Malger in 1086. This may be 

 the land held of the count by Robert in the Geld Roll, but no part of the land seems to have been exempt 

 from geld. Osmund the baker held 3 virgates at Woodstreet (no. 508) in Wool. Hugh held 5 hides at Chaldon 

 Herring (nos. 408 and cxli) of the wife of Hugh. This brings the total hidage to 495 hides, i virgate more 

 than the Geld Roll total. 



XXXL CELBERGE HUNDRED 



In Celberge hundret sunt 1 et i hide et dimidia. Inde In Celberge hundred there are 51 i hides. Thence the 



habet rex x libras et xii denarios pro xxx et iii hidis king has £10 os. izd. for 33.' hides. Thence the king 



et dimidia. Inde habent rex et sui barones in dominio and his barons have in demesne i8.j hides. Of this 



X et viii hidas et dimidiam. De isto dominicatu demesne the king has i hide of Queen Maud's land, 



habet rex i hidam de terra regine Mathildis et abbas and the Abbot of Cerne i hide, and Hugh de St. 



Cerneliensis i hidam et Hugo de Sancto Quintino Quintin i ?> hide and i virgate, and William Relet 



hidam et dimidiam et dimidiam virgam et Willelmus i?i hide. Matthew de Moretania 6 hides and i 



Belet i hidam et dimidiam. Matheus de Mauritania virgate. Brictuin the reeve 3 hides and i virgate, and 



vi hidas et dimidiam virgam. Bristuinus prepositus Osmund the baker i hide and i virgate, and the 



iii hidas (et i virgam) et Osmundus pistor i hidam et Abbot of Milton 3 hides less \ virgate. 

 dimidiam virgam et abbas Mideltonensis iii hidas 

 dimidiam virgam minus. 



Queen Maud's manor of Watercombe (nos. 29 and xxxiv) was assessed at i hide. The Abbot of Cerne's 

 manor is probably Poxwell (nos. 81 and xliv) assessed at 6 hides, although both Exon. Domesday and the 

 Exchequer text give the demesne as i ' hide. It lay in the hundred of Winfrith in 1285. ■♦5 Celberge had been 

 amalgamated with Winfrith hundred by that date, and since the Abbot of Cerne had no exempt demesne in 

 Winfrith hundred in 1084 Poxwell was presumably then part of Celberge. Holworth, Ringstead (now 

 deserted), Woodsford, Warmwell, and Morton also lay in Winfrith hundred in 1285. Ringstead in 1086 

 was a divided vill. Hugh de St. Quintin had 2 hides there (no. 359) and Brictuin the reeve i hide (no. 463). 

 This cannot be part of the latter's demesne in this hundred, since 6 men held it of him at farm. Hugh held i 

 hide in Ringstead (nos. 409 and cxlii) of the wife of Hugh and Ralph the steward i\ hide there of the same 

 woman (nos. 411 and cxliv). William Belet held 2* hides at Woodsford (no. 503) and Bristuin held 2.\ 

 hides in the same vill (nos. 82 and xlv) at farm of Cerne Abbey. Matthew de Moretania's manor in this 

 hundred must be Owermoigne (no. 321), assessed at 9 hides and 3 virgates. Brictuin the reeve held i hide at 



«' Feud. Aids, ii. 23-24. " Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), i. 103. 



" Eyton, op. cit. 129-30; Fagersten, op. cit. 135. ** Bk. of Fees, 89. « Pettd. Aids, ii. 9. 



