A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



these are the same to-day as they were at the time of the survey, but the names 

 of several have been changed ow^ing to the place of meeting being changed. 

 ' Walchetona ' has become Roborough, ' Sulfretona ' Hairidge, ' AUeriga ' 

 Ermington, ' Dippeforda ' Stanborough, ' Cedelintona ' Colridge, ' Mertona ' 

 Shebbear, and ' Carsewilla' Hay tor. The one exception to entire identity is 

 the hundred of Bampton, which appears to have included several estates to 

 the west of the River Exe which now belong to the hundred of Witheridge. 

 The grounds for saying so are, first, that otherwise the total number of hides 

 in Witheridge hundred would exceed the total named in the GeldroU by 

 6j hides, whilst the total number in Bampton hundred would fall short of 

 the total named in the GeldroU by the same amount ; and, further, that the 

 GeldroU shows the bishop of Coutances as a landholder in Bampton hundred 

 with an allowance of i hide 3 J ferlings for his demesne in that hundred 

 (GeldroU, fol. 69, A, 3), whereas not a single one of the bishop of Coutances' 

 estates lies in the present hundred of Bampton. It is suggested ^ that six 

 of the bishop of Coutances' estates (fol. 133), as also divers estates of 

 others now forming the parishes of Oakford, Stoodleigh, and part of 

 Washfield, belonged to Bampton hundred, and were separated from it in 

 consequence of the exchange with Walter de Dowai by the crown. ' 

 Mr. Whale has accounted for the shortage in the assessment of Bampton 

 hundred by suggesting that an older hundred called ' Hertesberie ' was then 

 united with it. But apart from the fact that the older hundred next 

 Bampton was called MoUand,' and that it contained at least 15 hides, 

 which would make the united hundred err more by excess than it now does 

 by shortage, the exemption allowed to Walter de Dowai in Braunton and 

 Shirwell hundred (GeldroU, fol. 66, A, 4) requires ' Hurtesberie ' (fol. 345) 

 or Berrynarbor to be in Braunton, not in Bampton hundred. Besides, 

 his explanation leaves the difficulty of the bishop of Coutances' estates in 

 Bampton hundred untouched.* 



Although with the exception named the general outline of the hundreds 

 in Devon has remained unaltered since the time of the survey, ^ yet hundreds 

 have been in several cases grouped together, and in one case a hundred has 

 been split into two. South Tawton hundred is now united with Wonford, 

 Werrington with Black Torrington, Bampton with UfFculme, South Molton 

 with North Molton and MoUand, East and West Budleigh with Ottery, 

 Tiverton with Halberton, Axminster with Axmouth. Even before the time 

 of the GeldroU Shirwell had been combined with Braunton, and North 

 Tawton with Winkleigh. Since then Moreton and Carsewell have been 

 united to form Haytor hundred, whilst on the other hand the Domesday 

 hundred of ' Listona ' has had the new hundred of Tavistock severed from it 

 since 11 14.* 



The hundred assessments show a curious combination of minute 

 assessment on the one hand and ' a haughty treatment of small numbers ' '^ on 

 the other. Thus we have assessments recorded of Smitham (fol. 21 li), 

 ' Liteltrorilande' (fol. 212), although only J ferling each; those of 'Lidefort' 

 (fol. 235), Newton (fol. 389/^), HiU and Combe (fol. 471'^), although only 



' Trans. Devon Assoc, xxx, 454. ' See fol. 85^. ' Trans. Devon Assoc, xxxiii, 591. 



* Ibid, xxxvi, 366. " Ibid, xxxiii, 581. ' Oliver, Men. 95. 



' Maitland, Domesday and Beyond, 476. 



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