By the Rev. W. H. Jones. 47 
Bishopston) in the parish of Cliff Pipard, so-called because 
it was held by the Bishop of Winchester as “ Custos” ot 
the religious house of St. Swithin, Winchester. 
BrisMARTONE ;—this is the Domesday name for a place near 
Brixton 
Draycor 
Amesbury that is now ordinarily called Bricmitstonz, 
though still also termed BricgmeErston in official docu- 
ments. There can be no doubt, I think, that it derived 
its name from BrismaR, its owner in the days of Edward 
the Confessor (W. Domesd. 112). The same person held 
the immediately adjoiming estate of Mitston (the birth- 
place, by the way, of Addison, the poet), and from the 
two being thus connected the corruption in the other name 
probably arose ;—1in fact, in course of years, they came to 
be called Mizston and Bricmitston. 
DEvVEREL ;—without doubt this Drveren derives its 
distinctive name from the well-known Brictric, the am- 
bassador of King Edward to the Court of Flanders, and 
who is entered in the Record as having held the estates 
in the days of the Confessor. Not only is the name, in 
the Testa de Nevil, (p. 154) called Brichtrices-ton, which can 
admit but of one interpretation, but the history of this 
manor is distinctly traceable from Brictrie to the present 
owners. W. Domesd. 55. 212. Like many other estates 
belonging to the same English nobleman, it was first 
of all confiscated and given to the Queen Matilda, then 
bestowed by her on the Abbey of Bec in Normandy, 
and ultimately, as part of the possessions of an alien 
monastery, given by the Crown to the Dean and Canons 
of Windsor. The famous spot called Hybert’s Stone (of 
which many have thought Briz-ton a contraction), where 
Alfred collected his forces for an attack on the Danes, was 
possibly not far from this place, but was certainly not the 
origin of the name. 
CrrneE ;—this manor is mentioned because it was held by 
a peculiar tenure, which, from an entry in the Exon 
Domesday Book, would seem to have dated from early 
