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Ellandune Wentitied. 
By T. 5. MAskELYNE. 
SERIOUS confusion still appears to exist amongst 
4 INI antiquaries as to whether there are two places of the 
name ‘of Ellandune or not; and this in spite of the fact that 
Canon Jackson! and Canon Jones? both expressed the opinion 
that the Ellandune of the Chroniclers is the present Wroughtoz, - 
alias Ellingdon. 
This confusion existed in Leland’s mind, as he speaks of, in his 
“Ttinerary,” III., 103 :—‘‘ Elendon quod est Worston,” mentioned 
among the possessions of Winton Kcel. (2e., Winchester), and in 
his “ Collectanea,” I., 67 :—‘ Cantariew de Elendoun id est Wiltonie 
primus fundator erat Wulstanus comes de Elendune, id est Wiltonie,” 
&e. / 
m The Rev. H. Conybeare® has recently given us a most delightful 
~ book, “ Alfred in the Chroniclers,” which should be in the hands of 
every Englishman at the present moment, when “a thousand years 
after ‘England’s Darling’ rested from his labours, the old realm 
is blossoming into a new Empire; and when we need all that is 
Godly and manly in our folk, if we are not to be one with ‘ Nineveh 
and Tyre.’”* In the charming introduction to his book Mr. 
“Conybeare, after an allusion to Egbert’s victory in 823 A.D., at 
 Bllandune over the Mercian Beorwulf, places Ellandune in 8.W. 
Hampshire; but he has since acknowledged that his ‘‘ E/dingham 
always seemed unsatisfactory, both from its situation and 
termination”; but added “that it is better than Wilton.” 
Me 
1 Wiltshire Collections, Aubrey and Jackson, p. 367. 
2 Jones’ Domesday for Wilts. 
3 Alfred in the Chroniclers, by E. Conybeare, M.A. Pub. Elliot Stock, 1900. 
4 Rey. H. G. Tomkins. 
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