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while lands at Blandford St. Mary passed into the hands of the nuns 

 of St. Mary, Clerkenwell. As regards William's gifts to favourites, 

 a certain knight named Hugh Fitzgrip frequently appears in old 

 records as a landowner in the county, and his wife had considerable 

 property in her own right, but neither has left behind a place-name 

 to mark his or her connection with either of their manors. Amongst 

 those who came from Normandy were the Heryngs and from them 

 we derive Chaldon Herring, Langton Herring and Herringston. 

 De Caieneto gave names to Tarrant Keyneston and Coombe Keynes, 

 the Mautravers to Lytchett Matravers, Langton Matravers and 

 Worth Matravers, Waleran, the king's huntsman, to Sutton 

 Walrond, and Baldwin the Sheriff, to Shroton, an abbreviated form 

 of Sheriffstown. Wynford Eagle formed in Norman times a part of 

 the barony of Aquila, in Sussex. Kingston Russell was given to 

 the Russells who are supposed to have come from Rosel, in Nor- 

 mandy. It has been held at various times for curious services. 

 Edward I granted it for the service of cupbearer, while a charter 

 of Edward III is in existence which states that "the Manor of 

 Kingston Russell is held of us by service of counting our chessmen 

 in our chamber and putting them in place when we have done 

 playing." 



Few names given in Post-Norman times are of great historical 

 interest. The Knights Hospitallers owned Toller Fratrum, Friar 

 Mayne and West Knighton, and at the last-named place there was a 

 preceptory. Bryanston was held by Brian de Lisle, who became 

 Sheriff of Yorkshire, Turner's Puddle (Toner's Puddle) by the 

 Toneres who on many occasions represented Dorset in Parliament 

 as knights of the shire, Bradford Peverel by the Peverils, and Hinton 

 Martel by the Martels. Bryan's Puddle received its name from 

 Brian de Turbervil who was lord of the manor there in the reign of 

 Henry III, about the same time Robert Bingham came into 

 possession of Bingham's Melcombe, Sturminster Marshall belonged 

 to the Marshalls, Earls of Pembroke, the Fitzpaines held Okeford 

 Fitzpaine and Wootton Fitzpaine, while Melbury Sandford came 

 into the hands of the Sanfords from whom it passed by marriage to 

 the Strangways, to whose descendants, the Earls of Ilchester, it 

 still belongs. 



