230 Deed of Gift of 'North Npvantune to the Monaster?/ of Wilton, 



called Stintesforcl ; from thence along the road to the ford called Teoltonford 

 and so up the river to the ford called Wifelesford : from thence by the open 

 military road to the sandy hill; from the hill to the brook or fountain called 

 Botanwylle : from thence near the river to the black lake ; and from thence 

 along the lake to the Aven, and so along the river again to the ford called 

 Stintesford. 



" (2)* These are the limits of the estate near Ore. In the first place starting 

 towards the fountain called Hseselwylle ; from thence along the road towards 

 Beorhdic (a trench of the hill ;) from thence along the trench to Scirpetnm ; 

 and so towards the west to Bradanstane ; (that is to say, a broad stone :) 

 from this stone to the trench of the mound ; from thence to the hill of Lusa ; 

 from thence along the road to a ditch full of red mud {i.e., a stagnant pool) 

 and so to Woden's dike ; thence from the dike to the mouth of the cave ; 

 from thence to Dragstane (a stone so called) and so on to Meosleaga (a 

 marshy plain ;) from the plain along the cattle road to Hseselwylle again.] 



The writing of this deed was done in the year of Our Lord 933 ; with 

 the consent and in the presence of those whose names are undersigned, I, 

 Aethelstan, King of the English, grant, without the power of recal, the 

 fore-mentioned gift. I, Wulfhelm, Archbishop of Dover, have set my seal 

 thereto. I, JElfeah, Bishop of Winchester, have consented. iEoDEED, 

 Bishop. Cenwald, Bishop. Wulfhun, Bishop. Odo, Bishop. iELFEAH, 

 Bishop. Bueheic, Bishop. iELFwoLD, General. TThteed, General. 

 Odo, Minister. Wulfgae, Minister. Sigeeed, Minister. Eadmund, Min- 

 ister. .ZElfeic, Minister. Wulfsige, Minister. JElfheee, Minister. 

 Whitgae, Minister. JEthelwqld, Minister, ^lfheah, Minister. ^Elfeed, 

 Minister. Wulfm.zee, Minister. Wulfgae, Minister." 



I desire to offer the following remarks on the preceding paper : — 



(1) We may recognize some of the existing names of places in 

 the foregoing deed. First, Ore bears exactly the same name. By 

 Stintesford I imagine that Stanton's ford of the river Avon is 

 meant. Wiflesford, again, is evidently the ford of the river at 

 Wilsford. By the "open military road" from Wilsford to the 

 " sandy hill " is still more evidently meant the road from Wilsford 

 to Newnton called " Catsbrain 1 ; 39 which is an open road, and one 



1 A part of the parish of North Newnton is still designated " Catsbrain : " the 

 meaning of which strange term is at once seen by the mention of the camp of 

 Brennus, " Castra Brenni ; " which immediately becomes " Cats-Bren," and this 

 naturally degenerates into " Catsbrain." [F.A.R.] 



Canon Jones, however, gives a different interpretation in Mag., xiv., p. 159, 

 wherein he says the origin of the word is to be found in the compound coed- (or. 

 coit) hryn, which would mean simply wood-hill. [Ed.] 



* This second (2) land-limit relates, as I understand, to Rainscomb, which is still included in the 

 parish of North Newnton, though some miles away from it, [Ed.] 



