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Ellandune identified. 



Wilton is the place fixed on by J. R. Green for Ellandune, and 

 the two names are printed together in the map to his " History of 

 the English People" p. 45. 



In " Two Saxon Chronicles Parallel 33 (Earle and Plummer, vol. 

 ii., 70, 375, in the edition of 1899) Mr. Plummer, in a note, says 

 that he originally identified Ellandune with Allington (and it is 

 also so identified in BoswOrth and Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary), 

 but he now accepts the Rev. C. Taylor's identification of Ellandune 

 with Wroughton in North Wilts. 



Thus these latest publications all ignore the source of Canon 

 Jackson's and Canon Jones' information, the authority for which 

 has not been really clearly defined by the meagre reference to 

 Hoare B. & D. given by Canon Jackson. 



But after some correspondence on this subject with Mr. Taylor 

 (Yicar of Banwell), he has written to me, under date Dec, 1900 : — 

 " I have just obtained a copy of Sir R. C. Hoare's ' Registrum 

 Wiltunense/ pub. in 1827, and on pp. 54 and 55, in a note on the 

 supposed connection between Wilton and Ellandune, and after 

 referring to the passage relating to the foundation of Wilton 

 Monastery given in the Monasticon II., 319, he points out that 

 Henry Crumpe, c. 1392, was the first person who confused 

 Ellandune with Wilton, and that Ellandune is not mentioned in 

 the Chartulary of Wilton. He (Sir R. C. Hoare) then proceeds : — 

 " Where then shall we fix Ellandune ? I will answer at a place 

 in North Wiltshire, Elyngdon, to which the name of Wroughton 

 has been added. The Annals of Winchester, written in 1277, 

 when describing the battle between Egbert and Beornwulfus, 

 King of the Mercians, says 6 Placet tempus in estate, locus apud 

 Ellendune — manerium nunc Prioris Wintonensis ' . . . It 

 appears therefore, that Ellandune was at the time of the Annals 

 of Winchester, A.D. 1277, a manor belonging to the see of 

 Winchester, to which it is still attached : and we know that the 

 said see had never any claim to Wilton . . . But should any 

 of my readers wish to investigate this matter more minutely, let 

 them consult the very able account of Wilton Monastery drawn 

 up by my late coadjutor, the Rev, Mr. Offer, and published in my 



