By the Rev. W. H. Jones. 19 
as the remaining parts of it, in Latin, but in Anglo-Saxon, and 
that of a very late period and consequently of an impure character. 
We append a copy of it, together with a translation, side by side. 
Kemble’s text, which has been adopted, is the nearest probably to 
the original, but even this, being a corrupt transcript of the Semi- 
Saxon period, presents so many difficulties, in addition to those usual 
in Anglo-Saxon boundaries, that the translation must be received, 
in several instances, only as a conjectural approximation to the true 
reading. 
In the accompanying map, (Plate i.) all included within the 
dotted line represents the original mandr, as described in the fol- 
lowing extract from the charter. 
ZHrest of seuen pirien on Sére 
here wai, Se schet siSward wid- 
First, from seven pear treés on 
that military way that ,shoots 
ten acceslegle wurd it wrindes 
holt and sw4 anlang Herewines 
(? here-weges) to Ailfwines hlip- 
gate; fram Sane hlipgate ford be 
is landschare inne Auene; swaé 
ford be stréme inne byssi; swa 
iippe bissy on wret ; sw4 onlong- 
southward without Acceslegle! 
farm out of Wrindes holt? and so 
along the military way to A/lf- 
win’s stile (/eap-gate) ; from the 
stile forth by his balk to the Ar- 
on; so forth by the stream to the 
iss; then up the Biss on the 
! Acces-legle farm. ‘The original meaning of this word was Oak’s-leigh. In 
our word a-corn. (A.S. de-corn i.e. the seed of the oak,) we have preserved the 
original spelling. By degrees Oak’s-leigh was corrupted into Ow-ley, and now 
into Oxen-leaze, the present name of the farm. It is situated in the Holt Tith- 
ing at the eastern extremity of the parish of Bradford, just where the road 
branches off to Melksham. These seven pear trees,—(by the way, one is tempted 
to read wivien, that is, withies, instead of pirien, pear trees, the words being easily 
mistaken for one another when written in Anglo-Saxon characters)—were planted 
as landmarks, to denote the spot where the parishes of Broughton, Melksham, 
and Bradford met. . Kemble notices the frequency with which the withy is 
mentioned in describing boundaries in A.S. charters. (Cod. Dip. iii. Introd. p, xli.) 
* Wrindes holt i.e. wood. A great part of this Tithing, as its name denotes, 
was no doubt originally wood-land. May Wrindes holt have been corrupted 
” first of all into ‘ Runt’s Holt’ and, in course of centuries, into ‘ Hunt's Hall’ ? 
The situation of the last-mentioned place sufficiently corresponds with the de- 
scription in the charter to give some colour to the supposition. 
* The Biss. This river, on which Trowbridge is situated, enters the Avon by 
Lady Down Farm. The meadow at that point is called Biss- Mouth Meadow. 
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