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example will have especial interest for us:—under WzELEWE (Wel- 
low) in the Domesday for Hampshire, at fo/. 50, we have a some- 
what extraordinary proceeding attributed to Waleran the hunts- 
man, no less in short than the transferring a virgate and a half 
of land from Hants to Wilts. The words of the Record are,— 
“De isto manerio (Welewe) abstulit Walerannus unam virga- 
tam et dimidium, et misi¢ foras comitatus et misit in Wiltescire,” 
that is literally, “turned it out of the county of Hants, and sent it 
into Wilts.” Whether Waleran made the change by his own 
authority, or under superior direction, does not appear. Some 
expressions in the Exon Domesday! make it possible that part of 
Wellow may have been assigned to Wiltshire, in exchange for 
some lands at Downton which had been thrown into the forest. 
The transaction, however, still stands good to this day, for though 
by far the greater part of the parish is in Hants, the tything of 
West Wellow is reckoned as part of Wiltshire. 
Examples of this correspondence in minute particulars, evidenced 
by a close comparison of the Domesday Record for adjoining 
counties, are tolerably numerous; the following are a few of them. 
On the south-eastern extremity of our county is BramsHaw, a 
parish situated partly in Wiltshire and partly in Hampshire. The 
church is said to be in both counties, the nave in the former, and 
the chancel in the latter. Under the name of BramzssaGE, an 
evident compound of the Anglo-Saxon ‘bremele-scaga,’ which 
means simply ‘ bramble-wood,’ it is only mentioned in the Wilts 
Domesday, two small holdings amounting in the whole to little 
more than half a hide, or perhaps some 100 acres, being entered as 
possessed by Edmund and Ulnod as King’s Thanes.? For the rest 
of the present parish, including the two tythings of Brook and 
Fritham, we must look to the Domesday for Hants, where they 
seem clearly to be accounted for amongst a number of entries under 
the small Hundred of Truham, comprising some half dozen parcels 
of land in the New Forest, and represented as having been held by 
various possessors as King’s Thanes.® 
' Domesday for Wiltshire, edited by the Rey. W. H. Jones, p. 190. 
*Domesday for Wiltshire, fol, 74a, 740. * Domesday for Hampshire, fol. 516, 
