166 Gleanings from the Wiltshire Domesday. 
aries of manors remain undisturbed from century to century. To 
this day you may trace out the boundaries of many a Wiltshire 
manor by means of the land-limits preserved to us in an Anglo- 
Saxon charter of the ninth or tenth century. When therefore in 
the Hundreds which are themselves on the borders of our county, 
we find those manors included, the boundaries of which we know 
to be co-terminous with its limits, we are justified in concluding 
that the boundaries of the county itself are the same now as at the 
timeof Domesday. The manors,—or, as for the most part we call 
them now, the parishes which are alluded to are the following :— 
Castle Eaton,—Long Newenton,—Sherston,—Bradford,—Horn- 
ingsham,— Maiden Bradley, —Mere,—Zeals,—Tollard,—Damer- 
ham,—Downton,— Land ford,— W interslow,—Biddesden,—Ludgar- 
shall,—Tidworth,—Shalbourn,—and Ramsbury. In this list, it 
will be observed, are included by far the greater number of what 
are now the border-parishes of the county. 
But whilst on these general grounds we have ample reason for 
the conclusion, that our county boundaries now are in the main 
identical with the limits at the time of Domesday, we are able, by 
a comparison of the Domesday Record for adjoining counties with 
that for Wiltshire, to shew that there is a correspondence even in 
minute particulars. Without doubt, before the time of Domesday, 
and perhaps even till the period of its compilation, the boundaries 
of counties seem hardly to have been quite defined. There are 
instances in which entries which belong to one county, either for 
convenience or the juxta-position of the estates of some particular 
land-owner, or for some other reason ‘not explained, have been 
confessedly placed in another. In some cases, we have examples 
of what looks like a capricious and arbitrary shifting from one 
county to another. Thus in the Domesday for Huntingdonshire, 
at fol. 207 b., of a small holding at a place called Catssor it is said, 
—‘‘jacet in Bedefordscire sed dat geldum in Huntedunscire,” é.e. 
“it lies in Bedfordshire but pays geld (or ¢ax) in Huntingdonshire.” 
So too in the Domesday for Herefordshire, at fo/. 181, of certain 
smaller manors, registered under the name of Nrwarg, we are told, 
—‘“Rogerus de Pirtes divertit illas ad Glowecestre.” A third 
