At the
Domesday survey “ Beastewelle” was held in
demesne by the
Earl of Moreton, who was Robert, a Norman nobleman and the half-brother of King
William the Conqueror, and it was taxed for three hides. In after times it formed part of a manor called the manor of By-est-wall and Stoborgh or Stowborough. The Stoborough Liberty and manor is the area south of Wareham and South of the river Frome. In the Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office By Great Britain, Stoborough or Stowborough is granted by the Crown by King
Richard III in 1484. A Grant by King Richard, 1484, March 25 at Nottingham - "By p.s. Grant to the king's servant William Claxton, esquire, and the heirs male of his body, for his good service against the rebels, of the manors or lordships of Godmanston, Wareham and Stoweborough, co. Dorset, late of John Trenchard, traitor, of the yearly value of 401. 6s. 11d., and Meriot, Bukland St. Mary and Long Sutton in the said county (sic), late of John Bevyn, traitor, of the yearly value of 261. 8s. 21., to hold with knights' fees, wards, marriages, reliefs, escheats, advowsons, lands, waters, woods, underwoods, stews, fisheries, stanks, mills, meadows, warrens, parks, courts, views of frank-pledge, fines, amercements, heriots, rents, services, reversions, liberties and commodities by knight-service and a rent of 100s. yearly." ==References==