DORSET GELD ROLLS 



et comitissa Bolonie vi hidas et Willelmus Belet i i hide, and the Abbot of Mihon 7 hides and i 



hidam et abbas Mideltonensis vii hidas et dimidiam virgate, and Hugh Gosbert 3 virgates. Wilham of 



virgam et Hugo Gausbertus iii virgas. Willelmus de Ecouis 4 hides and i virgate, and a certain priest i 



Scoeia iiii hidas et i virgam et quidam presbiter i hide, which Bishop Peter held. And from 5 virgates 



hidam quam tenuit Petrus episcopus. Et de v which i thegn, to whom the land belonged, holds at 



virgis quas tenet i tagnus cuius ipsa terra fuerat de farm of William Belet the king did not have geld 



Willelmo Belet ad firmam non habuit rex geldum et and from i hide which Robert fitz Ivo holds of the 



de dimidia hida quam tenet Rotbertus filius Ivonis Count of Mortain the king did not have geld and 



de comite de Moritonio non habuit rex geldum et de from 3 hides and i virgate which the villeins of the 



iii hidis et i virga quas tenent villani de abbate Abbot of Caen hold the king did not have geld. 

 Cadomensi non habuit rex geldum. 



The manor of the king in this hundred is probably Waia (nos. 22 and xxviii), which Hugh fitz Grip had 

 held of the queen. It was assessed at 1 1 hide, the amount of his exempt demesne. The wife of Hugh held 

 2 manors called Waia (nos. 380 and cxii, 381 and cxiii),*' assessed respectively at 4 hides and i virgate, 

 with 3 hides and 3 virgates in demesne, and 6 hides, with 4 hides and i virgate in demesne. These 2 manors 

 account for 8 hides of her exempt demesne. She held 5 hides and 3 virgates in demesne at Wintreburne (nos. 

 384 and cxvi), assessed at 8 hides, and 3 hides and i virgate in demesne at Buckland Ripers (nos. 379 and 

 cxi), assessed at 4 hides. Buckland Ripers lay in this hundred in 1285.*^ This gives her a total demesne of 

 17 not 16 hides. Fulcred held Waia (no. 364), assessed at 2! hides. Brictuin held 3 small manors which 

 probably lay in this hundred, Waia (no. 433), assessed at 2 hides, Wintreburne (no. 434), assessed at i^- 

 hide, and i virgate at Lewell (no. 435). The Abbot of Cerne had li hide in demesne at Radipole (nos. 78 

 and xli), assessed at 3 hides, and Bollo the priest's manor must be Chickerell (no. 432), assessed at 3 hides 

 and I virgate, which lay in the hundred in 1285. The Abbot of St. Stephen, Caen, held the manor of 

 Bincombe (no. 122), assessed at 8 hides with 5 hides in demesne. This must be the abbot's manor in this 

 hundred, since the abbey's only other Dorset manor was Frampton, in Frampton hundred. The Geld Roll 

 for Cullifordtree, however, credits the abbot with 7 hides and i virgate in demesne and 3 hides and i virgate 

 held by his villani, a total of lol hides, which is 2i hides more than the total hidage of Bincombe. There were 

 2 hides attached to Frampton (no. 121), given by Queen Maud, which do not seem to have lain in Frampton 

 hundred; they may have lain in Cullifordtree. The Countess of Boulogne held the manor of Winterborne 

 Monkton (nos. 514 and xxxvii), assessed at 6 hides, although Exon. Domesday gives the hidage in demesne 

 as 4.\ hides. William Belet's manor in this hundred must be Winterborne Belet (no. 493), assessed at zi 

 hides, which lay in the hundred in 1285.'' It was held T.R.E. by 2 thegns, i of whom is presumably the 

 man holding of William at farm in the Geld Roll. The Abbot of Milton held Osmington (nos. 99 and Ixxii), 

 assessed at 10 hides with 4 hides in demesne, and Whitcombe (nos. 100 and Ixxiii), assessed at 6 hides with 

 4 hides in demesne. Both belonged to the hundred in 1285.'° This gives him a total demesne of 8 hides, not 

 7 hides and \ virgate. Hugh Gosbert's manor must be his 3 virgates in Lewell (no. 492). William of Ecouis's 

 manor must be West Knighton (no. 298), assessed at 6 hides, since Stourton Caundle (no. 299), his only 

 other manor, belongs to Brownshall hundred. Peter, Bishop of Chester, died before the Domesday survey, 

 and is not mentioned in the Dorset section of Domesday." The hide of land which he held cannot be identi- 

 fied. The manor which Robert fitz Ivo held of the Count of Mortain is probably Stafford (no. 155), assessed 

 at 3 hides, or Wai (no. 164), assessed at 3 hides, 3 virgates. Stafford lay in the hundred in 1385. Part of it 

 was held in 1086 by Hugh and William of the wife of Hugh fitz Grip (nos. 383 and cxv). It was assessed at 

 6 hides. Dodeman held 2 hides at Wai (no. 162) of the Count of Mortain and Amun held 4 hides at Wai 

 (no. 163) of the same. Holwell (no. 165) lay in the hundred in 1275.''- In 1086 it was assessed at 2 hides, and 

 held by Bretel of the Count of Mortain. The 3 small manors in Brigam or Brige, identified by Fiigersten as 

 the lost village of Bridge^^ near Weymouth, must have lain in this hundred. One virgate was held by Aiulf 

 (no. 348), I virgate by Hugh of the wife of Hugh fitz Grip (nos. 393 and cxxvi), and i virgate by Brictuin 

 (no. 465). This brings the total hidage to 96 hides and 2I virgates. The remaining manors in the hundred 

 must be sought for among the Winterbornes, but it is not possible to tell which manors of that name 

 should lie in Cullifordtree and which in Combsditch. 



XXXVIIL FRAMPTON HUNDRED 



In Frontone hundret sunt xxxv hide. Inde habuit In Frampton hundred there are 35 hides. Thence 



rex post constitutes terminos iii libras et xii solidos the king had, after the constituted terms, £2 i2i. 



de terra Cadomensis abbatis et Hugo de Portu from the land of the Abbot of Caen and Hugh de 



adquietavit in alio hundreto iii hidas et iii virgas Port was quit in another hundred for 3 hides and 3 



geldantis terre quas habet in hoc hundreto. Abbas virgates of geldable land which he has in this 



Cadomensis habet xiii hidas in dominio et Hugo hundred. The Abbot of Caen has 13 hides in 



de Portu vi hidas et i virgam in dominio. demesne, and Hugh de Port 6 hides and i virgate in 



demesne. 



*' It has not been possible to identify all the manors of but a Cripton Barn, in Winterborne Came, is marked on 



Wai(a) and Wintreburne. Eyton supplies identifications for O.S. Map 1/25,000 SY 78 (1958). 



all of them, but gives no authority for his decisions, and '" Feud. Aids, ii. 19. 



in the cases where his identification cannot be sub- " He is mentioned in the Somerset Domesday: see 



stantiated the names have not been used; see Eyton, Key p. 40 n. 



to Domesday: Dorset, 121-2. '^ Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), i. loi. 



">' Feud. Aids, n. 19. '^ Fagersten, Place-Names of Dorset, 161; see also 



*' Eyton (op. cit. 12 1-2) states that the manor was later p. 23 n. 

 called Cripton. Fagersten does not mention this manor, 



