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Cow esFIeD, > at Bursace (Buberge) ,CowLesrieLp (Cuvlestone) and 
GRaFTon. Grarron (Grastone), belonged at the time of Domes- 
day to Richard Stwrmid, as one of the “ Ministri Regis,” or 
King’s Officers (W. Domesd. 144, 127,145). The second 
of them was called Cowlesfield Lsturmy, in memory of its 
Norman owner. The other two are in, or close by, Saver- 
nake Forest, and were held in the time of the Confessor by 
one Aluric the Huntsman (Venator). The common 
BursaGe, } These three are mentioned together because estates 
badge of such a tenure was a horn, as may be seen at 
Great and Little Langford, where there are sculptured 
stones with this emblem; memorials there, it may be, of 
some of the descendants of Waleran, the Huntsman (See 
W.. Domesd. 105, 106). In lke manner, the Lsturmy 
Horn, now in the possession of the Marquis of Ailesbury, 
is the traditional memorial of the original tenure of por- 
tions of Savernake Forest, which, in the time of the 
Conqueror, were held by Richard Sturmid (or Esturmy) 
See Wilts Arch. Mag., vi., 265. 
Eston ;—this is a tithing in the parish of Orcheston St. George 
and accounted for in Domesday under OrcHESTONE (p. 
117). It belonged then to Osbern Gifard. In the 
thirteenth century (Test de Nev. 142) it was held by 
Elias Giffard, one, no doubt, of the same family. Hence, 
most probably, the name, which is sometimes spelt H/ys- 
ton, z.¢. the town or village, of A/ias (Giffard). 
FonTHILi This estate accounted for under the name of Fonte 
GirroRD (W. Domesd. 115) belonged, at the Conquest, to 
Berenger Gifard, and still preserves the memory of its 
Norman owner. 
Guston ;—this is an estate in the western part of the present parish 
of Broad Chalk. It seems to be accounted for in Domesday 
1In an Esturmy seal described by Canon Jackson in Wilts Arch. Mag. ii., 
_ 388, there is, in a roundel at the top, a bugle horn, in allusion to their office as 
Rangers of Savernake Forest. 
