28 The Neiv Forest : its History and its Scenery. 



Again, in other ways, Domesday still more clearly contra- 

 dicts the Chroniclers, as to the inhabitants being driven out 

 of their homes. Canterton was held by Chenna of Edward, 

 and still in Domesday, in part, remains in his possession. 

 Ulviet, the huntsman, who had rented Eipley manor under 

 Edward, still rents the unaiforested portion. His son, Cola, 

 also a huntsman, holds, as his sub-tenant, land at Langley, 

 which he had rented of Edward ; whilst his other son, Alwin, 

 holds land at Marchwood, which, also, he had rented. Saulf, 

 a West-Saxon thane, who had held land at Durley of Edward, 

 now holds it at Batramsley, and his wife at Hubborn, which 

 he had also rented of Edward.* 



Ulgar, a West- Saxon, holds the fourth of a hyde at Milford, 

 just as he had held it of Edward ; with this difference, that it 

 was now assessed at three-fourths of a rood, on account of the 

 loss sustained by the woods being taken into the Forest. The 

 sons of Godric Malf, another West- Saxon thane, hold the same 

 lands which their father had held of Edward, at Ashley 

 and Crow, as also the manors of Bisterne and Minstead, these 

 last being rated considerably less than their real values, on 

 account of the afforestations, and what we should now call 

 severance. The West- Saxon Aluric rents property at Oxley, 

 Efford, and Brockenhurst, which his father and uncle rented 

 under Edward, and not only receives lands at Milford in 

 exchange for some taken into the Forest, but actually buys 

 estates at Whitefields from other West-Saxons. f 



* It is possible that whilst the survey was being taken Saulf died. If 

 this be so, we find an instance of feeling in allowing his widow to still 

 rent the lands at Hubborn, which could little have been expected. The 

 name seems to have been misspelt in various entries. See Domesday, 

 p. xxix. b, under Sanhest and Melleford. 



t Aluric is probably the physician of that name mentioned in Domesday, 



