194 The History of the Parish of All Canmngs. 



He might have had a better, but the solicitations of his wife in- 

 duced him to give Stoke Fleming the preference, as a place overrun 

 with ignorance and profanity, and therefore in all the more need 

 of his services. He lived for ten years after his ejectment, but 

 was affected in his last days by melancholy and an attack of palsy, 

 under the combined effect of which he sunk in 1672. He was a 

 grave divine, and eminent for his meekness. Mrs. Burnegham, 

 his aunt by his mother's side, had been at the expense of educating 

 the famous Archbishop Laud, a service which the Prelate gratefully 

 acknowledged when at the top of his preferment." 



Clje pamlet of ^Iliugton. 



^j^nOUGH ecclesiastically connected with All Cannings, and 

 ^§fl under the spiritual charge of its Rector, Allington has 

 always been, as it still continues to be, a perfectly distinct Manor, and 

 has a history of its own. What that history is we must now en- 

 deavour to set before our readers. 



Allington is a narrow strip of land, about three miles long and, 

 on the average, half-a-mile broad, running along the western border 

 of All Cannings. It contains some 1157 acres; of these 100 are 

 meadow land, 400 pasture and down-land, and 657 are arable. 

 Like All Cannings it was originally in the Hundred of Stodfald ; 

 it is now with it merged in the Hundred of Swanborough. 



Without doubt Allington is to be identified with the Adelintone, 

 of the Domesday Record, which belonged in the 11th century to 

 Alured of Marlborough. The entry respecting it is as follows* : — 



AluredusdeMerleberg tenet Alured of Marlborough 



Adelingtone. Tempore Regis holds Adelingtone. In the time 



Edwardi geldabat pro xi hidis et of King Edward it paid geld for 



dimidio, et 5 acris terrsB. Terra llj hides, and 5 acres of land, 



est 7 carucatae. De ea sunt in The land is 7 carucates. Of this 



dominio 7 hidse et dimidium, et there are in demesne 7^ hides, 



ibi 4 carucatae, et 7 servi ; et 6 and there are 4 carucates, and 7 



^ Domesday for Wiltsliii-e, p. 79. 



