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by the names Winterboume Earls, Winterboume Dauntsey, Win- 

 terboume Grunner and Winterbourne Stoke, all in the same valley. 

 The theory, then, which Hoare and Daniell put forward, has very 

 respectable support. There is also a discussion by Canon Jackson 

 {Wilts Arch. Mag., xvii., 283). 



But another view is possible, namely, that it is a place-name, not 

 a river-name. As to the second derivation (from diviiKj) , this seems 

 to be a mere popular etymology copied by writer from writer. 

 Thus Drayton speaks of the Dyver ; but that is not the name of 

 the stream, and names are not mutilated like this in local language. 

 Nor is Dever its name. The form in Domesday is Devrel, and such 

 a form as Dyver seems a fanciful etjonology. Assuming that 

 Deverill is the name of the place, not of the stream, and foUowang 

 up the hint which the double name gives, that it possibly contains 

 the name of an original Norman family, what do we find? That 

 "Walter d'Uvereux was given by WiUiam the Conqueror possessions 

 in this coimty, which he left to Edward surnamed de Salisbury, his 

 younger son {Camden, i., 133) ; that "Edward de Salisbiu-y holds 

 Devrel" {Domesdaij : identified by Hoare with part of Hill Deverill) ; 

 and that " Adelelmus holds of Edward of SaHsbmy Balloehelie," 

 Baycliff, a tithing in Hill Deverill {Domesdai/, quoted by Hoare, 

 p. 32) . Evreiix is in Normandy, but, says the Duchess of Cleveland, 

 in her editi(ftL of the EoU of Battle Abbey, it is not kno^vn why the 

 Earls of Salisbury, who are descended 'from a younger son of Count 

 de E/Oumare, are called D'Evreux ; this, however, does not concern 

 us. The difficulty of the theory is this : — that only one DeveriU 

 can be shown to be connected with Edward de Salisbury, son of 

 Walter D'Evreux, and yet by the time Domesday was di-awn up, 

 in 1086 — about twenty years after — it has spread to all the other 

 parishes, and in such a way as to conceal their English names. For, 

 in Domesday, the Abbey of G-lastonbmy holds Longbridge and 

 Monkton, both of which it apparently held in the time of Edward 

 the Confessor, 1042 — 1066 ; the Abbey of Bee holds Brixton ; and 

 the Canons of Lisieux, in Normandy, hold part of Kingston (these 

 two latter being held in the time of Edward the Confessor by 

 Briotric and Eddeva respectively) ; and Edward d'Eyereux, or de 



