230 Deed of Gift of 'North Nyicantiine to ilie Monastery of Wilton, 



called Stintesford ; from thence along the road to tlie ford called Teoltonford 

 and so up the river to the ford called Wifelesford : from thence by the open 

 military road to the sandy hill ; from the hill to the brook or fountain called 

 Botanwylle : from thence near the river to the black lake ; and fi-om thence 

 along the lake to the Aven, and so along the river again to the ford called 

 Stintesford. 



" (2)* These are the limits of the estate near Ore. In the first place starting 

 towards the fountain called Hseselwylle ; from thence along the road towards 

 Beorhdic (a trench of the hill ;) from thence along the trench to Scirpetum ; 

 and so towards the west to Bradanstane ; (that is to say, a broad stone :) 

 from this stone to the trench of the mound ; from thence to the hill of Lusa ; 

 from thence along the road to a ditch full of red mud {i.e., a stagnant pool) 

 and so to Woden's dike ; thence from the dike to the mouth of the cave ; 

 from thence to Dragstane (a stone so called) and so on to Meosleaga (a 

 marshy plain ;) from the plain along the cattle road to Haeselwylle again.] 



The writing of this deed was done in the year of Our Lord 933 ; with 

 the consent and in the presence of those whose names are undersigned, I, 

 Aethelstan, King of the English, grant, without the power of recal, the 

 fore-mentioned gift. I, Wulfhelm, Archbishop of Dover, have set my seal 

 thereto. I, ^lfeah. Bishop of Winchester, have consented. Fobbed, 

 Bishop. Cenwald, Bishop. Wulfhun, Bishop. Odo, Bishop. .Slfeah, 

 Bishop. BuEHEic, Bishop. .^lfwold. General. Uhteed, General. 

 Odo, Minister. Wulfgae, Minister. Sigeeed, Minister. Eadmund, Min- 

 ister. .3ELFEIC, Minister. Wulfsige, Minister. .^lfheee, Minister. 

 Whitgae, Minister, ^thelwold. Minister, ^lfheah, Minister, ^lfeed, 

 Minister. Wulfm^e, Minister. Wulfgae, Minister." 



I desire to offer the following remarks on the preceding paper :— 



(1) We may recognize some of the existing names of places in 

 the foregoing deed. Firsts Ore bears exactly the same narne. By 

 Stintesford I imagine that Stanton^s ford of the river Avon is 

 meant. Wiflesford, again, is evidently the ford of the river at 

 Wilsford. By the "open military road" from Wilsford to the 

 " sandy hill " is still more evidently meant the road from Wilsford 

 to Newnton called " Catsbrain ' ; " which is an open road, and one 



' A part of the parish of North Newnton is still designated " Catsbrain : " the 

 meaning of which strange term is at once seen by the mention of the camp of 

 Brennus, " Castra Brenni ; " which immediately becomes " Cats-Bren," and this 

 naturally degenerates into " Catsbrain." [P.A.R.] 



Canon Jones, however, gives a different interpretation in Mag., xiv., p. 159, 

 wherein he says the origin of the word is to be found in the compound coed- (or 

 coi() hryn, which would mean simply wood-hill. [Ed.] 



• This second (2) land-limit relates, as I understand, to Baimcomb, which is still included in the 

 parish of North Newnton, though some miles away from it, [Ed.] 



