242 Ellandune identified. 
Wilton is the place fixed on by J. R. Green for Ellandune, and 
the two names are printed together in the map to his “‘ History of 
the English People,” p. 45. 
In ‘“ Two Saxon Chronicles Parallel” (Earle and Plummer, vol. 
u., 70, 375, in the edition of 1899) Mr. Plummer, in a note, says 
that he originally identified Ellandune with Allington (and it is 
also so identified in Bosworth and Toller’s Anglo-Saxon Dictionary), 
but he now accepts the Rev. C. Taylor’s identification of Ellandune 
with Wroughton in North Wilts. 
Thus these latest publications all ignore the source of Canon 
Jackson’s and Canon Jones’ information, the authority for which 
has not been really clearly defined by the meagre reference to 
Hoare B. & D. given by Canon Jackson. 
But after some correspondence on this subject with Mr. Taylor 
(Vicar of Banwell), he has written to me, under date Dec., 1900 :— 
“T have just obtained a copy of Sir R. C. Hoare’s ‘ Registrum 
Wiltunense,’ pub. in 1827, and on pp. 54 and 55, in a note on the 
supposed connection between Wilton and Ellandune, and after 
referring to the passage relating to the foundation of Wilton 
Monastery given in the Monasticon II., 319, he points out that 
Henry Crumpe, c. 1392, was the first person who confused 
Ellandune with Wilton, and that Ellandune is not mentioned in 
the Chartulary of Wilton. He (Sir R. C. Hoare) then proceeds :— 
“Where then shall we fix Ellandune? I will answer at a place 
in North Wiltshire, E/yngdon, to which the name of Wroughton 
has been added. The Annals of Winchester, written in 1277, 
when describing the battle between Egbert and Beornwulfus, 
King of the Mercians, says ‘ Placet tempus in estate, locus apud 
Ellendune—manerium nune Prioris Wintonensis’ . . It 
appears therefore, that Ellandune was at the time of the wate 
of Winchester, A.D. 1277, a manor belonging to the see of 
Winchester, to which it is still attached: and we know that the 
said see had never any claim to Wilton . . . But should any 
of my readers wish to investigate this matter more minutely, let 
them consult the very able account of Wilton Monastery drawn 
up by my late coadjutor, the Rev. Mr. Offer, and published in my 
