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termination “wish” is the Anglo Saxon “ hiwise,”! 
which signifies a family property, and which occasionally 
is used as an equivalent to a hide of land. Our word hive 
(whence, through an intermediate form /iven-ig, comes 
hunig=honey) is etymologically connected with it. There 
is no such tenant as Harpine named in Domesday, but, 
on referrmg to the entry concerning TxEDELINTONE 
(Titherington Lucas, W. Domesd. 84), a neighbouring 
estate, you find the record describing the tenant at that 
time as Willelmus “ Durus.” Is it just possible that this 
word Durus is an attempt to translate the English name 
Hard-ing ? If so, it is interesting to see that the name 
existed in the neighbourhood of which we are speaking. 
RusuMerz ;—this is an estate on the borders of Dorset, forming 
part of the present parish of Tollard Royal. Under 
TortarD in Domesday Book we have one Rozo (W. 
Domesd. 73), the tenant in the days of the Confessor of 
two hides and a half. I submit, as a possible etymology 
for the present name, Rozo-murz. the latter portion of the 
4 word meaning “ lowndary.” 
| Sanisperte ;—this is the Domesday Name for what we call Op 
; Sarum (W. Domesd. 23). The Romans called this place 
i Sorpiopunum. I cannot bring myself to believe that 
Sarum is simply the contraction of the Latin name. 
Indeed, I have never yet seen an etymology suggested 
that was satisfactory. The oldest spelling is found in the 
Saxon Chronicle, where, in describing a battle in the 
neighbourhood in the middle of the sixth century, it is 
called Szaro-Byrig (Chron. Sax. A®. 552). But as no 
portion of the Saxon Chronicle was compiled till the end 
of the ninth century, this entry simply proves that, 
about A.D. 900, such spelling represented the pronuncia- 
tion of the word at that time. Till the time of Bishop 
1The Iwss of the Wilts Domesd. (p, 144) is the modern Huish Doignel. 
In like manner the Hiwis of the Somerset Domesday is the modern Huish 
Champflower. ‘‘ Collinson,” iii., 509, 530. 
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