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Gleanings from the Wiltshire Domesday, 
II. 
On tHE Names oF Owners oR OCCUPIERS STILL PRESERVED IN 
THOSE OF PERSONS OR PLACES IN WILTSHIRE. 
By the Rev. W. H. Jonzs, M.A., F.S.A., 
Vicar of Bradford on Avon, 
WEN a paper published in a previous number of this Magazine! 
an attempt was made to shew from the Wiltshire Domesday 
that the Boundaries of the County of Wilts were the same now as in 
the eleventh century. We hope to be able to prove in this essay that 
in the Names of Persons and Places still preserved, we have 
numerous memorials of those, who, whether in the time of the 
Confessor or of William the Conqueror, are entered in the Record as 
owners or occupiers of lands in our County. 
In the Domesday Book for Wiltshire we have given to us, not 
only the names of the Tenants 7 capite, and the subordinate holders 
of land, after the Conquest, but those also of the persons who 
possessed the same estates in the days of Edward the Confessor. 
To materials supplied by these lists we confine ourselves. Much 
additional matter may be found in the ancient charters published by 
Kemble, in his Codex Diplomaticus, or by Thorpe in his Diploma- 
tarium Anglicum, or in some of the publications of the Rolls 
Series, such as the Lider de Hyda, &c., in all of which books many 
charters relating to Wiltshire are to be found, but to touch on these 
would carry us into a very wide field. We shall find, in the limited 
portion of the subject to which we confine ourselves, much, it is 
hoped, not merely of local but also of general interest. 
Note.—-The references given in this paper under the headings of ‘‘ Aubrey” 
and ‘‘ W. Domesd.” are respectively to Canon Jackson’s edition of Aubrey’s 
Collections, and the Rey. W. H. Jones’ Domesday for Wilts. 
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