Smndon and its Neighbourhood. 



by Mrs. Rollcston ; but the nomination to this Vicarage in some 

 way passed to the Crown. 



The Monks of Wallingford used to have a small pension from 

 the tithes. In the list of Vicars, are three peculiar names : Milo 

 King, Aristotle Webbe, and Narcissus Marsh. 



Swindon was the birth-place of Mr. Robert Sadler, who died in 

 1839, a person of whom the late Mr. Britton has preserved some 

 particulars in his Autobiography. 



Chiseldon. 



An Anglo-Saxon document mentions the boundaries of the parish 

 of Chiseldon ; and among the marks by which they are described 

 are a stone kist or grave at Holcomb, and Blackman's barrow. Two 

 things are to observed from this : — 1st. That the village must be 

 a very ancient one when its boundaries in Anglo-Saxon days are 

 denned by the burial-places of an older people ; and next, that such 

 older people did very often bury their dead upon the borders of 

 their several districts, of which there are many instances. 



The Manor of Chiseldon was for a very long time the property 

 of the Abbey of Hyde, near Winchester. Sir Thomas Bridges, 

 of Keynsham, ancestor of the Chandos family, then purchased it. 

 About 1600 it was bought by the Stephens family, of Burderop, 

 and the lordship now belongs, I believe, to their successors in that 

 place. 



In the church there is a brass effigy to one Francis Rutland, 

 who married into the family of Stephens and who died whilst he 

 was attending Queen Elizabeth on one of her Progresses. 



Burderop. 



The proper name is Bury-thorp. Thorp is one of the commonest 

 Danish words for village, and is still one of the most frequent 

 terminations of village names in those parts of England where the 

 Danes chiefly established themselves. In Denmark to this day, 

 Mr. Worsaae tells us in his book, they clip its name just in the 

 same manner. North-thorp they call Norrop, Mill- thorp is Mill- 

 drop. Stain- (i.e. Stone) thorp becomes Staindrop, which, by the 



