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Bishop's Cannings. 



cause died about the same time. The three tumuli are connected 

 together by slight bands of earth, with a cross on each, the smaller 

 barrow being in the middle. 



The parish is divided into two chief portions. 1. Bishop's Can- 

 nings proper; being the part more immediately connected with the 

 mother-church: and 2. The Chapelry of St. James, Southbroom. 

 To which two divisions may be added, 3. The outlying hamlet of 

 Chittoe. 



The first division contains the following Tythings. — Cannings, 

 Bourton and Easton consolidated: Cote, and Horton. The Chapelry 

 of St. James, Southbroom, comprehends the Tythings of Round- 

 way, Wick, jNursteed, and Bedborough. Of these I propose to give 

 such particulars as I have been able to meet with. The outlying 

 hamlet of Chittoe will be mentioned subsequently. 



Tything of Cannings. 



The Dean and Canons of Salisbury had here a small manor 

 called " Cannings Canonicorum :" which they held till lately 

 together with the great tithes of the parish, by gift of Osmund, 

 first Bishop of Sarum after the Conquest, and nephew by the half 

 blood to the Conqueror. 



But the principal estate is held under the See of Salisbury, to 

 which it has belonged from time immemorial: together with the 

 whole lordship of the manor. When this manor was first given to 

 the See, we do not know. But according to the course of endow- 

 ments, it was in all probability a grant in very ancient times from 

 the Crown of Wessex. The Episcopal estate is thus described in 

 Domesday Book. (Wyndham, p. 75.) 



"The Bishop of Salisbury holds Cainingham. 1 It was assessed 



1 The name of Kainingham in this Record, included of course not only the 

 Tything of Cannings, hut the whole parish, or manor, of Bishop's Cannings: of 

 which, at the time the Domesday survey was taken, the borough, park, and castle 

 of Devizes formed a part, as will be explained. There is at least no mention of 

 Devizes, by name, in the Record, and as it was then included in the Bishop's 

 manor, it is presumed to have been included under this name of Kainingham. 

 Florence of Worcester, in a passage relating to one of the incursions made by 

 the Danes many years before the time of Edward the Confessor, mentions a local 

 name very similar to this of Kainingham: but whether ho is alluding to this 



