Tropcndl Memorandd. 543 



it was not compiled direct from the documents themselves, but 

 that it is a copy of some antiquary's notebook ; foi- in the second 

 of the documents entered in it (a grant l)y Walter de Laci) occurs 

 the following passage: — ". . . et unam insulam prati in Wade 

 (Wade was the land where Harniiam I>ridge now stands still called 

 in old writings Earl's Wade. — H.W.) . . ."; and these initials 

 H.W. may be a clue to the compiler of the whole work. It will 

 thus be seen that the MS. is not one of first rate importance, and 

 it is as a matter of fact disfigured by very numerous misappre- 

 hensions and misreadings, besides signs of haste. It is, on the 

 other hand, a genuine attempt at a calendar of a valuable collection 

 of ancient documents, and as it turns out there is no particular 

 difficulty in ascertaining their origin. 



In Sir Kichard Colt Hoare's account of the parish f)f Ijritford, 



in his History of the Hundred of Cawden, p. 49, we find " Copy of 



two antient charters forinerly in the possession of Edward Young 



Esq. of Durnford, who died there about the year 1773, and which 



were given by him with others, to Mr. Boucher, of Salisbury. Mr. 



Young's ancestor's possessed some of the property of the Tioi)enell 



I family, who had large estates in that part of the county of Wilts, 



' and many of their antient title-deeds were in Mr. Young's pos- 



I session." The two documents, which are given in full, carefully 



i printed ai)parently from the originals (pp. 49-50) are a grant by 



! Walter de Laci to John son of Koger the baker (jnstoris) and a 



j grant by Hugh Rouet to Gerald de Wallop, both concerned with 



' land in l>iitford. On the same page (50) we find " Copy of other 



antient deeds in j\Ir. P)()ucher's possession," followed by an ex- 



j ceedinglyinterestinggrant by Godfrey Giflard, bishop o[ Worcester, 



also given in full, relating to West Harnhani, which adjoins Brit ford. 



Now all tlu^se documents are rt^presented by copies (and verv 



bad copies) in Major UeneM-Stanfoid's MS., and a lilt if furt her 



examinat^ion maizes it (niiLe (dear ihal all ihin-selse in (lie MS. 



come from the same sdiiree and that they are in fad c.'j.ies of 



deeds, \c., formerly in the pdssession of the family of N'nuiiLT. It 



also beeomes evident, by fre(|Ueiit. references t" them in the 



Histories of the Hundreds ol And«resburv, I'ruMlitdd and Mei.', 



