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Surewton ;—this estate is accounted for in Domesday under the 
name of WriytTerBuRNE (W. Domesd. 242) and belonged 
then to Edward of Salisbury, who held the office of Sheriff 
of Wiltshire. In the Hundred Rolls (II. 254) and Test. 
de Nev. 135 we have the entry as Wintreburn Sczreve-ton. 
We can hardly avoid the conclusion that the former part 
of the present name is a corruption of Scir-gerefa i.e. Shire- 
reeve (=Sheriff) and so a memorial of the office borne by 
its Domesday owner. 
‘SoMERFORD The tenant of Sumrerorp (Somerford) under the 
Mavpuir. J Abbot of Malmsbury, as chief lord, was at the time 
of Domesday Gunfrid, who is, without doubt, to be identi- 
fied with the Gunfrid Waldoith, who held Witelie (= Wit- 
ley,) in the parish of Melksham. W. Domesd. pp. 122, 
243. The occurrence of SomErForp Maupuir, and 
Wirt ez, among the manors held by successive generations 
of the Mauduit family, seems clearly to prove the point, 
and to suggest the real interpretation of the distinctive 
name. (See W. Domesd. p. 235.) 
TockENHAM The name Pinkney has been already explained as 
PINKNEY. 
having been derived from that of William de Pin- 
chengi. He held, under Edward of Salisbury, a portion 
of Braprenstock (Bradenstoke), in which were included 
Lyneham and West Tockenham. W. Domesd. 148. 
The name Tockenham Pinkney is thus a memorial of the 
Norman tenant. 
Enough, it is hoped, has now been written, to shew that we have 
still, in 
Wiltshire Names, whether of persons or places, many 
memorials of those who well nigh a thousand years ago, were 
owners or occupiers of the land. Such an attempt must always be 
_ more or 
the assent of critics to his conclusions. Still, despite of what have 
_ been called, “ingenious examples of verbal engineering,”—(if any of 
less tentative, and no writer can hope in all cases to gain 
the instances given be deemed such)—it must freely be admitted, 
that the 
memory of men who lived in the days of the Conqueror, 
