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By T. S. ^Iaskelyne. 



SERIOUS confusion still appears to exist amongst 

 antiquaries as to whether there are two places of the 



name 'of Ellandune or not : and this in spite of the fact that 

 Canon J ackson 1 and Canon Jones 2 both expressed the opinion 

 that the Ellandune of the Chroniclers is the present "Wroughton, 

 alias Ellingdon. 



This confusion existed in Leland's mind, as he speaks of. in his 

 " Itinerary," 111., 103 : — " Elendon quod est Worston" mentioned 

 among the possessions of TVinton Eccl. [i.e., Winchester), and in 

 his " Collectanea," I., 67 : — 4; Oautarim de Elendoun id eat Wiltonice 

 primus fundator erat Wulstanus conn s de Elendune, id est Wiltonice" 

 &c. 



The Rev. E. Conybeare 3 has recently given us a most delightful 

 book, "Alfred in the Chroniclers" which should be in the hands of 

 every Englishman at the present moment, when " a thousand years 

 after 1 England's Darling ' rested from his labours, the old realm 

 is blossoming into a new Empire : and when we need all that is 

 Grodly and manly in our folk, if we are not to be one with ' Nineveh 

 and Tyre/ " 4 In the charming introduction to his book Air. 

 Conybeare, after an allusion to Egbert's victory in S23 A.D.. at 

 Ellandune over the Mercian Beorwulf. places Ellandune in S.W. 

 Hampshire: but he has since acknowledged that his ei EUingham 

 always seemed unsatisfactory, both from its situation and 

 termination " ; but added "that it is better than Wilton." 



1 Wiltshire Collections, Aubrey and Jackson, p. 367. 

 - Jones 7 Domesday for JVilts. 

 3 Alfred in the Chroniclers, by E. Conybeare. M.A. Pub. Elliot Stock, 1900. 

 4 Rev. H. G. Tomkins. 



