44. Gleanings from the Wiltshire Domesday. 
ALWIN These are two forms of the same name,—the one slightly 
Extwin/ contracted gives us AtLEN,—the other is preserved in an 
almost unaltered form, in E:wyn. 
Aperic;—hence probably comes the name, so well known to all 
Wiltshire antiquaries,—AUBREY. 
ALNOD These names, which are but different forms of one and 
Exnop § the same, seem now to be represented by that of ALLNUT. 
CueETEL ;—in almost its original form this name, as CHETTLE, 
may be seen over a respectable draper’s shop in Trowbridge. 
From the word as first pronounced, with the hard “ch” 
(kh), we may perhaps have the name KeEpp1LE; and, as 
derivatives, Kerrtery or Kurrettry, (in an abbreviated 
form, Kertry), the last three being very commonly met 
with in Wilts. 
Coturnc ;—Alward Colline (one of the very few instances in the 
Exchequer Domesday of a surname) held, CunucuE 
(Knook, a chapelry now of Heytesbury), W. Domesd. 133. 
The modern equivalent is CoLLines. 
Coxstan ;—the name Corston is known in Wiltshire as well as 
in Bristol. I presume that Ketston, and, it may be, 
Ketson, are but modified forms of the same. 
Escurt From these, which seem different forms of the same 
rll word, we have the name Scurrt. 
ELMAR From these, it may be, are derived the names AYLMER, 
een and HrLmore. 
GozE1Lin ;—this may fairly be deemed, at all events, one source of 
the name Gostine; showing us that we must not always 
jump at conclusions hastily as to the origin of names, 
and that it is not necessary to trace this one to the 
offspring of a silly bird. 
Gopwin ;—a very common Wiltshire name. Our country folk 
commonly pronounce it God’in, and, with that remarkable 
tendency that most I dare say have noticed of putting an 
“s” at the end of certain words (as, eg., Cottle-s for 
Cottle), also God-ins. From this latter form the transition. 
is easy enough to GippINGs, originally perhaps in some 
