Slaughter Hundred (Lower Division)
Hundred in the County of Gloucestershire
Historical Forms
- Berni(n)ton(e) hd' 1086 DB
- Sal(e)manesberie h(vn)d', Sal(e)monesberie h(vn)d', Salesmanesberie h(vn)d' 1086 DB
- Salemones hd' 1086 DB
- Salemannes hdr' 1169 P
- Salmanesburi, Salmanesbury c.1232 ADiii 1303 FA
- Salmanesbury in libertate de Fiscampo 1346 FA
- Salemanesbury 1247 Ch
- Salemansbury 1416 Pat
- Salemanebur(e), Salemanebury 1246 Cl c.1275 For36d 1366 Pat
- Salemannebur' 1248 Cl
- Salemanbiry, Salemanbury 1290 Pat 1364,1379 Cl
- Salomundresbur' 1247 Cl
- Salmondebir' 1248 Ass
- Salmundesbur' Fiscampo 1346 FA
- Salmondesbury 1444,1461 Pat
- Salomonebir' 1251 Cl
- Salomonsbury 1406 Pat
- Salemonesbury, Salemonesbiri Hy3 Misc 1274 RH
- Salmonesbury 1316 FA Hy6 AddCh
- Sloctreshdr' 1189 P
- Hundr' de S(c)lochtres 1221 Ass
- Scloctrehundredo 1190 P
- hundredo de Slohtre 13 WinchLB
- Sloghtr' 1221 Ass
- Sloctr' 1233 Cl
- Slochtre 1236 Theok 1247 Ch
- hundredum de Slottr' 1220 Fees
- hundr' de Sloutr(e)', Sloustr' 1274 RH
- lib' de Slouhtre 1277 Cl
- hund' de Sloughtre 1327 SR 1328 Banco
- hund' de Slaughter 1535 VE 1542 LP 1584 Comm
Etymology
The hundred takes its alternative name from Lower Slaughter (206infra ), since the latter was the chief manor, and the hundred was already annexed to it in DB (fol. 163a, Taylor 149); in 1247 the king granted the manor of Slaughter with the hundred of Salmonsbury to the abbey of Fécamp (1246 Cl, 1247 Ch).