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own birth : " Qui natus in territorio ejusdem mo- 

 nasterii." In King Alfred's translation, the Saxon 

 words substituted for " in territorio " are " of Sun- 

 dorlande." Both the Latin territorium and the 

 Saxon Sundorlande are, if we are to judge merely 

 from their formation, words of a very wide mean- 

 ing. Varro says of territorium — " Terra dicta ab 

 60, ut ^lius scribit, quod teritur; itaque terra in 

 Augurum libris scripta cum R uno. Ab eo co- 

 lonis locus comumnis, qui prope oppidum relin- 

 quitur, Territorium, quod maxime teritur." And 

 with regard to Sundorlande, it means obviously 

 "land-sundered," but by and from what? is the 

 question. Is it the idea that Bede was born on 

 the lands-proper of the monastery, or on the lauds 

 appropriated, in feudal subjection, to the lay set- 

 tlers outside of the ecclesiastical lands, but within 

 the abbot's jurisdiction ? On lands sundered from 

 the waste and vested in the church as its own 

 freehold, or on lands sundered by water or other- 

 wise from the church's freehold, and used, with the 

 church's permission, by its dependents and ser- 

 vants. To refer to Webster, are we to under- 

 stand by the " territory " in question, " the seat 

 of government," or " a tract of land belonging to 

 and under the dominion of a prince or state lying 

 at a distance from the seat of government ? " 



Lye quotes two passages from an ancient glos- 

 sary in the Cottonian MS. (Julius A. II. fols. 5 

 and 152), in which Sunderland is rendered by 

 "separalis terra, praedium, fundus, territorium." 

 Besides these and the passage already quoted from 

 Alfred, no instance is known of its use, except in 

 the names of several English towns ; from the facts 

 connected with which some principle of construc- 

 tion might possibly be elicited. 



Ex, gr. In the county of Durham there is a 

 place called Sunderland Bi-idge, described by 

 Surtees to be the extreme southern and outlying 

 portion of the lands of St. Oswald, being sundered 

 from the bulk of those lands by the Brun on the one 

 side, and by the Wear on the other. This, if cor- 

 rect, favours the hypothesis that Sunderland means 

 outlying land. 



Then there is Sunderland-near-the-sea, also in 

 the county of Durham, lying on the south side of 

 the river Wear, directly opposite to the site of the 

 Wearmouth monastery, and separated from the 

 monastic lands only by that stream. Some have 

 thought this to be the Sundorlande referred to by 

 Alfred ; but against such opinion there is the 

 strong fact that its tenures are ancient freehold, 

 and not, as are the monastic lands, — Dean and 

 Chapter ; and there is no historical record of their 

 ever having been other than what they now are. 

 This case, therefore, is adverse to the theory of 

 feudal subjection, unless we assume that the lands 

 now freehold were, when granted by the Crown 

 to the Church, immediately regranted in fee to the 

 original settlors (foreign artisans brought over to 



build the monastery), without such lands having 

 ever been permanently considered as Church pro* 

 perty, although vaguely said to be within its ter- 

 ritory because of having been its gift, and under 

 its juridical control. 



Again, there is a Sunderland in Northumber- 

 land, which was formerly part of the domain of 

 Bamburgh Castle, and stands on a jutting point of 

 land at a distance from the privileged territory. 

 This also favours the idea of Sundorlande meaning 

 outlying land. The castle lands, in this instance, 

 are freehold ; and the townskip of Sunderland 

 copyhold. 



Then tiiere is a Sunderlandwick in the East 

 Riding of Yorkshire, within a short distance from 

 the ancient priory of Wetadun or Wettown ; but 

 I have been unable to ascertain whether it ever 

 had any relations with the priory. And there is a 

 Sunderland in Allerdale, and another in Craven 

 (see Domesday"). Communications respecting these 

 localities, such as I have furnished relative to the 

 others, might probably, when all the facts are put 

 together, lay the foundation of a hypothesis that 

 would decide an interesting historical fact — viz., 

 Bede's birth-place. R. B. 



Andrew Wood, a native of Shropshire, was of 

 St. John's College, Cambridge, B.A. 1605-6., 

 M.A. 1609, Fellow of his college 1610, B.D. 1616, 

 and D.D. 1639. He is author of "The Litany" In 

 Latin hexameters, dedicated to Henry Lord Hol- 

 land, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge ; 

 and of a petition to Charles I., also in Latin hex- 

 ameters (MS. Univ. Libr. Cambr. Dd. iii. 78.). 

 He also contributed to the University collections 

 of verses on the following occasions : death of 

 Henry Prince of Wales, 1612 ; death of Queen 

 Anne, 16«I9 ; death of James I., 1625 ; and mar- 

 riage of Charles I., 1625. We shall be glad of any 

 farther particulars respecting him. One of the 

 same name, but probably a different person, was, 

 in the reign of Charles II., bishop successively of 

 Sodor and Man [of the Isles ?], and of Caithness. 

 C. H. & Thojmpson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Family of Sir Humphrey Winch. — In the year 

 1624 died Sir Humphrey Winch, Kt., of Everton, 

 Beds., one of the Justices of the Court of Common 

 Pleas, who had previously filled the office of 

 Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and who appears to 

 have been celebrated for his learning and upright- 

 ness. In an account of his career and sudden 

 death while putting on his robes to attend the 

 court in Hilary Term of the above year, it is 

 stated that he had theretofore been styled " De La 

 Winch." Of his descendants down to the present 

 time pretty clear information is obtained ; but, in 



