270 Broughion Gifford. 
Shaftesbury, in order that the nuns might have a safe retreat 
from the ravages of the Danes. In King Ethelred’s charter the 
boundaries of his grant are thus laid: ‘Off those boundaries to 
the boundaries of the Alderman at Witley [to the north of 
Broughton], forth by those boundaries so as to come to Elfwig’s 
boundaries at Broctun, to that wood that runs into Broctun, after 
at the seven pear trees, forth by Alnoth’s boundaries within the 
boundaries of Athelwin at Chaldfelde, off his boundaries within 
the boundaries of Alfwin the borderer, forth by his boundaries 
within the boundaries of Alphwin at Broctune, after into the pear 
trees.”! This is clearly the northern boundary of the Parish; for, 
though the pear trees are gone, Whitley and Chalfield remain. It 
will be seen, in the account of the Church, that the Abbess of 
Shaftesbury obtained a lodgement within the Parish through the 
gift, to the monastery, of the Chapel of Broctune with its lands 
and tithes, by Gundreda with her kinswoman Albreda de Bosco 
Roaldee. 
Domespay Notice, AND ANTIQUITIES. 
The following are the notices given of this Parish in Domesday 
book, that most remarkable cadastre, whether considered in relation 
to its date, or the historical, local, and personal information which 
it contains. 
“ Hunrripus DE Insuta tenet de rege Broctone. Tres taini in 
paragio tenuerunt T. R. E. et geldabat pro xii hidis. Terra est 
viii carucate. De e& sunt in dominio iii hide et dimidium, 
et ibi iii carucate et ii servi, et xvii. villani, et iii bordarii cum 
vii carucatis. Ibi ii molini reddunt ix solidos, et xii acre prati 
et villi acre pasture. Silva i leucam longa, et ii quarantinas 
lata. Valuit xiii libras, modo x libras.” 
(Amongst lands held by Royal Thanes under the King). ““Sawarp 
1 Dugdale’s Monasticon (Shaftesbury): where, however, the original Anglo- 
Saxon form is not given, but a copy by some scribe in the Semi-Saxon period 
about the beginning of the 13th century. In Kemble’s Codex there is also a 
copy, which I have compared. I cannot but think that ‘‘ pear trees” ought to 
be ‘‘ Withy trees.” The Saxon forms of the letters would be’not dissimilar. Of 
the latter there are, and always were, plenty: of the former there are few now, 
and were fewer still in Ethelred’s time. 
