Bij John Beddoe, M.D., LL.D., F.B.S., &c. 



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Thus Almar and Olmar may represent the same name, though of 

 course both names existed in England. On the other hand, it is 

 certain that in some cases there was more than one landowner of 

 the same name, e.g., more than one Godwin and Godric, so that 

 two hundred and ten is too small a total for the whole of the 

 proprietors. But out of these, not only the Godwinson family, 

 but some others, as Wigod and Cheping (probably the Chepingus 

 Dives of Winchester, or his father,) were non-resident. 



We will now enquire into the extent to which these native 

 proprietors survived the conquest. 



Saxon owners and mesne tenants temj). Eegis Willelmi : — 



Besides these, who amount to at least eighty English men or 

 women, and probably more, Eomald is mentioned as holding a 

 Church, and four nameless thanes, at least fourteen Anglici, one 

 priest and three women are enumerated as tenants. So that 

 altogether we have over one hundred English landholders, against 



