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NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF WROUGHTON. 

 By Thereza Story Maskelyne. 



Weoughton. 



At the time of the compilation of Domesday Book, the present 

 village of "Wroughton consisted of four manors, namely : — Wertune, 

 held by Humphrey de ITsle: Ellendune, by the Bishop of Win- 

 chester ; Wervetone, by Aldred, from the King, and Elcome, by 

 Alberic ; ^ all at that time in the ancient Hundred of Blachengrave. 



Wroughton is now (1912) a very large village with over two 

 thousand inhabitants, but in the year 1676 only two hundred and 

 sixty people lived there, of whom only one was a non-conformist, 

 all the rest being conformists.^ 



It was not until about the year 1493 that Wroughton was the 

 recognised name of the Church, for it is under that date that the 

 name is first given as "Wroughton, alias Elyndon " in Sir Thomas 

 tPhilipps' Wilts Institutions. Before that time, from the first entry 

 in 1304 A.D. the name is invariably given as Elyndon, and 

 even as late as the year 1875 the Eev. J. R. Turner, on making 

 enquiries at Gloucester about the living, was told that there was 

 no place of the name o£ Wroughton on the ecclesiastical registers, 

 and it was under the name of Elyndon that it was eventually found. 



Elyndon is another form of Ellendune, one of the manors des- 

 cribed in Domesday as held by the Bishop of Winchester " for the 

 support of the monks." 



^ Canon Jones' Domesday for Wilts. 



" Lambeth MS. 639, lias, among various documents bound together, an 

 account of the number and proportions of Roman Recusants, obstinate 

 Separatists, Conformists, and Inhabitants, in Wiltshire and. Berkshire — 

 Bishopric Sarum ; by Seth Ward. May 10, 1676. 



Decanatus Cricklade. v. Elingdon alias Wroughton. J. Goldingham cur. 

 Conformists 259 



Papists 



Nonconformists 1 



Inhabitants 260 



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