332 Notes on Durrington. 
We know nothing of the history of this place till Domesday ; 
which tells that among many other Wilts possessions it bad belonged 
before the Conquest to a thane named Harding, who was stripped 
of most of his manors by his new master. Durrington was part 
of the huge spoils which enriched Earl Alberic. Perhaps the 
Durrington men had followed King Harold and had been slain at 
Hastings, for only four coscets and one bordar are returned as on 
the manor. 
Soon after, but at what date is uncertain, the East-end Manor’ 
was cut off and given to the Abbey of Bec, but whether under 
Archbishop Lanfranc or Anselm there is nothing to show. A 
confirmatory charter of Henry II. is given by Dugdale—Abbey of 
Bec: Cell Okeburne, “Ex dono Radulf’ filii Anketilli quiequd ipse 
Radulphus habebat in Manerio quod vocatur Derinton in Wiltes.” 
Cire. 1200. The Abbot of Bec in exchange for a prebend in Sarum 
cathedral made over the manor, with other property, Omnibus Christi fidelibus 
Willelmus Dei Gratia abbas Beccensis . . . ad venerabilem 
patrem nostrum Herbertum [Herbert Poore] Sarum Episcopum 
totam terram nostram de Derinton cum omnibus pertinentiis suis Habuiilds 
et tenendas in perpetuum libere et quiete. 
Nota pro prebenda Abbatis de Bec. (Osmund f. 28: Jones’ edn., i. 229.) 
And so the East-end Manor became for about six hundred and 
fifty years the property of the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. 
In their Lib. Evid. c. 485, date 1215, is a copy of a deed respecting 
a lease which had been granted of this land by the Abbot of Bee 
to Robert de Berners for his life at a rent of 20s. 
The West-end Manor at some unknown date, but apparently 
before 1200, became the possession of a family De Nevill; for in 
1215 Hugo de Nevill resigned all rights possessed by him in the 
chapel of Durrington to the Abbey of Amesbury ; and in his deed 
he describes himself as the son of Hervey de Nevill :— 
“Hugo Crassus filivs Hervei de Nevill, in capitulo Sarum constitutus 
resignavit omne jus quod habuit in capella de Durintone in manus magistri © 
T. Chelb[ure] tune officialis, et quietum clamavit domni de Ambresbyre in 
perpetuum possidendam, firmiter promittens quod numquam de cetero 
aliquid juris in illa vendicabit.” —Sarum Charters and Documents, xcix., p. 79. 
41 Hen. III. The jury say that Ernisius de Nevill held in 
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