DORSET GELD ROLLS 



XXXIIL MODBURY HUNDRED 



In Morberge hundret sunt Ixiii hide. Inde habet rex 

 xii libras et ix solidos et ix denarios pro xl et i hidis 

 et dimidia et dimidia virga. Inde habent rex et sui 

 barones in dominio xx et i hidas et virgam et dimi- 

 diam. De isto dominicatu habet rex xi hidas de terra 

 regine Mathildis et abbas Midehonensis x hidas et i 

 virgam et dimidiam. 



In Modbury hundred there are 63 hides. Thence the 

 king has ^12 9^. ()d. for 41! hides and J virgate. 

 Thence the king and his barons have in demesne 21 

 hides and i i virgate. Of this demesne the king has 1 1 

 hides of Queen Maud's land and the Abbot of 

 Milton 10 hides and li virgate. 



The queen had loi hides in demesne at Frome St. Quintin (nos. 15 and xxi), assessed at 13 hides. It later 

 lay in the hundred of Tollerford,s3 but since the hundreds adjoin and the queen had no demesne in Toller- 

 ford at this date the manor may then have lain in Modbury. Cattistock and Compton Abbas (West) lay in 

 the hundred of Modbury in the 13th century. s-" Both manors belonged to Milton Abbey in 1086. Cattistock 

 (nos. 96 and Ixix) was assessed at 10 hides with 3 hides in demesne and Compton Abbas (West) (nos. 95 

 and Ixviii) at 5 hides with 3 hides in demesne. In 1303 the hundred of Cerne, Totcombe, and Modbury, 

 which consisted of the Domesday hundreds of Stane and Modbury, included Sydling St. Nicholas. =5 

 In 1086 this manor also was held by Milton Abbey (nos. 93 and Ixvii), and was assessed at 29 hides with 

 6 hides in demesne. This gives the abbey a total demesne of 12 hides, not 10 hides, i.^ virgate. Ansger held 

 5 hides in Sydling of the Count of Mortain (no. 174) and Amund held i hide in the same place of the 

 count (no. 175). This brings the total hidage of the hundred to 63 hides, the Geld Roll figure. 



XXXIV. SHERBORNE HUNDRED 



In Sireburne hundret sunt Ixxv hide et dimidia (et 

 XXV carucate). Inde habet rex x et viii libras et xii 

 solidos et iiii denarios pro Ixii hidis. Inde habent 

 episcopus et sui monachi in dominio xxv carrucatas 

 que nunquam reddiderunt gildum et monachi 

 habent in dominio ix hidas et i virgam et de i hida 

 et i virga quas tenet Ansgerus quocus de dono regis 

 non habuit rex geldum et de ii hidis et virga et 

 dimidia quas tenent villani Osmundi episcopi non 

 habuit rex geldum et de dimidia hida et dimidia 

 virga quas tenet Sawarus de rege et habet eas in 

 dominio non habuit rex gildum. 



In Sherborne hundred there are 75 J hides and 25 

 carucates. Thence the king has ;£i8 12^. 4(^.56 for 62 

 hides. Thence the bishop and his monks have in 

 demesne 25 carucates which never paid geld and the 

 monks have in demesne 9 hides and i virgate. And 

 from I hide and i virgate which Ansger the cook 

 holds of the king's gift the king did not have geld 

 and from 2 hides and i.^ virgate which the villeins of 

 Bishop Osmund hold the king did not have geld 

 and from 1 hide and \ virgate which Saward holds 

 of the king, and he has them in demesne, the king 

 did not have geld. 



The demesne of the bishop and his monks was at the manor of Sherborne (no. 37), the head of the 

 hundred, assessed at 43 hides, where the bishop held 16 and the monks 9.' carucates, making a total of 25' 

 carucates. The rest of the monks' demesne lay at their 4 manors of Oborne, Thornford, Bradford Abbas, and 

 Over Compton (nos. 38-41), all of which lay in this hundred in 1285." At Oborne, assessed at 5 hides, there 

 were 2 hides in demesne, at Thornford, assessed at 7 hides, 3 hides in demesne, at Bradford Abbas, assessed 

 at 10 hides, i.' hide in demesne, and at Over Compton, assessed at 6 hides, 3 virgates, i hide and 3 virgates 

 in demesne, a total of 8 hides and 3 virgates, not 9 hides and i virgate as in the Geld Roll. Saward's only 

 manor was Candele, possibly Stourton Caundle (no. 479), assessed at 2 J virgates. In 1212 Hervey de 

 Candel had i hide in Sherborne hundred from which he paid id. a year aput Gellingeham, by the gift of 

 King William. 58 The land of Ansger the cook presents difficulties. He does not appear in the Dorset i^urvey, 

 but according to the Somerset survey he held i hide and i virgate in Compton, attached to the king's 

 manor of Martock.s' Round identified this manor as Compton Durville and Eyton as Stapleton.*" Two 

 vills called Compton lay in Sherborne hundred. Over Compton and Nether Compton. It is possible that 

 Ansger's manor of Compton did in fact lie in Sherborne hundred, and was attached to the manor of Martock 

 in Somerset, just as i \ hide in Purbeck was attached to the manor of Puddletown (nos. 8 and ii). Sinod 

 held I hide at Sherborne (no. 37) which Alward had held of King Edward T.R.E. but which had previously 

 belonged to the bishopric. This brings the total hidage of the hundred to 74 hides, 2! virgates, 3! virgates 

 less than the total given in the Geld Roll. 



XXXV. FERENDONE HUNDRED 



In Ferendone hundret sunt xxx et vii hide. Inde 

 habet rex iiii libras et xi solidos pro xv hidis et 

 duabus partibus unius virge et rex et sui barones 

 habent inde in dominio xx hidas (et) dimidiam (et 



5' Inq. Non. (Rec. Com.), 45. 



5* Ibid. 48. ss Feud. Aids, ii. 39. 



5' The geld on 62 hides is £18 12s. 



" Feud. Aids, ii. 5. 



5' Bk. of Fees, 90. 



In Ferendone hundred there are 37 hides. Thence the 

 king has ^4 lis. for 15 hides and f virgate and the 

 king and his barons have thence in demesne 2oi 

 hides and i virgate. Of this demesne the king has 



" Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i, f. 87: De hoc manerio 

 [Martock] est ablata i hida et una virgata terre in CON- 

 TONE. Ansgerus (cocus) tenet, 



''" V.C.H. Sam. il 440; Eyton, Domesday Studies: Som. 

 i. 213. 



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