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Gleanings from the Wiltshire Domesday, 
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EvIDENCE AS TO THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CouNTY BEING THE SAME 
Now AS AT THE TIME OF DoMEsDAY. 

By the Rev. W. H. Jones, M.A., F.S.A., 
Viear of Bradford on Avon. 
HERE are some few matters of interest on which the 
Domesday Record for our county incidentally throws much 
light, when examined minutely, and compared with those portions 
of the same Record which relate to neighbouring counties. To 
the elucidation of one of these subjects this paper is devoted,— 
namely, the evidence that can be derived from these documents 
‘as to the boundaries of Wiltshire being in all essential particulars 
the same now as in the eleventh century. 
We are possessed of two Records, each of which is designated 
the Domesday for Wiltshire,—the one, the Exchequer Domesday, 
in which we have the several manors named and classed under 
their respective owners, but with no indication of the Hundred in 
which they were situated,—the other, the Exon Domesday, in 
which we have a list of the Hundreds and of the principal pro- 
prietors of lands in them, together with a summary of the number 
of hides held by them, but no specific mention of the manors 
themselves. By a sort of exhaustive process,—by working, that 
is, one Record against the other,—we arrive at certain conclusions, 
and these are the more trustworthy from the indirect way in which 
we reach them, inasmuch as we have in our process to submit them 
to certain crucial tests of accuracy. 
One conclusion to which such an investigation leads is certainly 
this,—that nearly every one of the present border-parishes of the 
county is included in its respective Hundred. It is well known, 
that, as a general, we might almost say universal rule, the bound- 
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