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Notes on Durrington. 



We know nothing of the history of this place till Domesday ; 

 which tells that among many other Wilts possessions it had belonged 

 before the Conquest to a thane named Harding, who was stripped 

 of most of his manors by his new master. Durrington was part 

 of the huge spoils which enriched Earl Alberic. Perhaps the 

 Durrington men had followed King Harold and had been slain at 

 Hastings, for only four coscets and one bordar are returned as on 

 the manor. 



Soon after, but at what date is uncertain, the East-end Manor 

 was cut off' and given to the Abbey of Bee, but whether under 

 Archbishop Lanfranc or Anselm there is nothing to show. A 

 confirmatory charter of Henry II. is given by Dugdale — Abbey of 

 Bee : Cell Okeburne, " Ex dono Kadulf filii Anketilli quicqud ipse 

 Radulphus habebat in Manerio quod vocatur Derinton in Wiltes." 



Circ. 1200. The Abbot of Bee in exchange for a prebend in Sarum 

 cathedral made over the manor, with other property. Omnibus Christi fidelibus 

 . . . Willelmus Dei Gratia abbas Beccensis ... ad venerabilem 

 patrem nostrum Herbertum [Herbert Poore] Sarum Episcopum . . . 

 totam terrain nostram de Derinton cum omnibus pertinentiis suis habendas 

 et tenendas in perpetuum libere et quiete. 



Nota pro prebenda Abbatis de Bee. (Osmund f. 28 : Jones' edn., i. 229.) 



And so the East-end Manor became for about six hundred and 

 fifty years the property of the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. 



In their Lib. Evid. c. 483, date 1215, is a copy of a deed respecting 

 a lease which had been granted of this land by the Abbot of Bee 

 to Eobert de Berners for his life at a rent of 20*. 



The West-end Manor at some unknown date, but apparently 

 before 1200, became the possession of a family De Nevill ; for in 

 1215 Hugo de Nevill resigned all rights possessed by him in the 

 chapel of Durrington to the Abbey of Amesbury ; and in his deed 

 he describes himself as the son of Hervey de Nevill : — 



" Hugo Crassus filivs Hervei de Nevill, in capitulo Sarum constitutus 

 resignavit onme jus quod habuit in capella de Durintone in manus magistri 

 T. Chelb [ure] tunc officialis, et quietum clamavit domni de Ambresbyre in 

 perpetuum possidendam, rirmiter promittens quod numquam de csetero 

 aliquid juris in ilia vendicabit." — Sa-rum Charters and Documents, xcix., p. 79. 



41 Hen. 111. The jury say that Ernisius de Nevill held in 



