Chapelnj of Etchilhampton. 177 



[De Heading] et ibi habet 1 it of Ernulf [de Heading] and he 

 carucatam ; et 7 bordarii, cum 1 has there 1 carucate ; and there 

 cotario. Ibi 12 acrtc prati, et 12 are 7 bordars, with 1 cottar, 

 acrae paaturaa. Valuit, et valet, There are 12 acres of meadow, 

 40 solidos. and 12 acres of paature. It was 



and is worth 40 shillings. 



The third entry is found under estates held as Thane-land.^ 



Eeleching tenet unam virga- Erleching holds one virgate 



tarn terrae et dimidium in EcE- and a half of land in Ecesating- 



SATiNGETONE. Terra cst 2 bovatsB. etone. The land is 2 bovates. 



Valet 7 solidos et 6 denarios. It is worth 7 shillings and 6 pence. 



It will thus appear, that, at the time of Domesday, what is now 

 included in Etchilhampton comprised three distinct eatates, under 

 different owners and occupiera. The first, or principal Manor, 

 which was assessed at seven hides, — or, as it was afterwards reckoned, 

 at Ig Knight's fee, — formed at least three fourths of the pariah, and 

 belonged to Edward of Salisbury. The second holding, assessed at 

 two hides, or half a Knight's fee, belonged to Ernulf de Hesding, 

 and was held under him as chief Lord by the wife of Edric, who 

 had been the tenant in the days of the Confessor, and whose name, 

 according to the Exon Domesday, was Estrit. The third was a 

 very small estate, held by a tenure which possibly lasted only for 

 the life-time of the Domesday owner, and afterwards lapsed to the 

 Crown, or was merged into the larger Manor. It may perhaps be 

 what is now called Fullaway. 



The history of the two former estates, which, it is not unlikely, 

 corresponded in the main with the two farms in the parish, one 

 being of large and the other of smaller extent, can be traced with- 

 out much difficulty for some centuries after the Conquest. We are 

 warranted in this conjecture, of the probable identity of these 

 estates with the existing farms, from a knowledge of the tenacity 

 with which our countrymen have always clung to old territorial 

 divisions, and the jealousy with which they have ever guarded 



1 Domesday for Wiltshire, p. 137. 



