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Farm). To rawuwe (the zigzags in Shipslade ; see rauus, lupa 
rauua, Du Cange ; the Wolfslade of the 5 hides) From the 
rawuwe to Stony way (I take this to be the Via Julia) From 
the Stony way along by Edge till you come to the spring (just 
under Weston Wood). From the spring so northward till you 
come to the springs of the horn. 
From the horn along by the spring till you come to Ellborough 
(see the 5 hides) From Ellborough into Stanclude, (I suppose 
now called Azzard) along by the hedge to the Old wic, to the 
spring. From the spring along by the hedge (hedge seems to 
- mean boundary) back into the 13 fields of Locksbrook extending 
by the byri (either a burgh; or a burying place where Partis 
College now is) near the Abbot’s boundary. 
I am grateful to Mr. Shickle who has helped me in the 
Langbridge .bounds, and lent me valuable papers about the 
- Weston Manor. 
All Eyton’s difficulties about the area of the Bath Hundred 
(see pp. 105, 154, Vol. 1) will be cleared up, if we assume, as. 
Tables I, II, III almost drive us to assume, that the Conqueror, 
either before the death of Queen Edith in 1074, or afterwards, 
bestowed the 20 hides of the Borough of Bath, representing its 
possessions outside the Borough, on the Abbess of Shaftesbury 
and the Abbey of Bath. These 20 hides probably did, as Eyton 
“suggests, include the Manor of Wellow, but they included also 
the larger proe Domesday Manor of Weston, of which Kelston 
and Northstoke formed a part, and I think also they included 
Southstoke and St. Catherines. The Geld List confirms the fact 
of the gift to the Abbess (Table I), and Domesday (Table IT) 
-114b, passing the Geld List in review, says of the 20 hides that 
the hidage was only paid when the vicecomitatus* gelded (the 

_ * The Norman Scribe of the Exon book writes ‘‘scira,”’ the Saxon Scribe of 
the Exchequer book writes ‘‘ comitatus,” i.e. ‘‘scira’’ is the Saxon equivalent 
for the Norman ‘‘ comitatus.” The comitatus or county was the bailia of the 
Comes or Earl, the scira was under the jurisdiction of the Gerefa or Sheriff, 
who was the Earl’s officer. Somerset was in Domesday commonly written 
Summerseta, but sometimes Summersete scyra. It was a shire, a. county, 
and had its Comes and its Sheriff. Dorseta is never written Dorsete scyra, 
because it was annexed to Somerset and depended on it for Comes and Gerefa. 
This continued long after Domesday. 
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