By the Rev. W. H. Jones. 



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man, (a name then as common as Crook is now), and the neigh- 

 bouring estate of Bedesdene 1 (Biddesden) was held by Robert 

 Fitz-Girold. Crossing now to the Hampshire side of the border, 

 we find in Domesday three entries under the names of Tedorde 

 and Tedeorde, 2 which together constitute the present parish of 

 South Tidworth, the whole of which is in Hants, and which were 

 held in the eleventh century by Croc the huntsman, and Robert 

 Fitz-Girold. That lands lying in Tidworth were in two counties 

 has lately been impressed upon us by the litigation, caused by the 

 wording of the will of the late proprietor of the Tidworth estate. 

 Lands so designated were in both Hants and Wilts at the time of 

 Domesday, — they continue to be so to this day. 



There are three entries in the Wilts Domesday under the name 

 Staninges. 3 Two of them are clearly to be identified as small 

 holdings at Stanlinch (now called Trafalgar.) We may fairly con- 

 clude that the third entry refers also to land in the same locality, 

 from the fact that its owner Alwi, son of Turber (or as we should 

 say Alwi Fitz- Turber) held also small manors in the imme- 

 diate vicinity, on the Hampshire side of the border, 4 namely at 

 Cerdiford (Chardford), and Rocheborne (Rockbourn). 



Going now to the north-eastern border of our county, there is, 

 in the Wilts Domesday a small estate mentioned under the name 

 Coleselle. 5 It was held under Drogo Fitz-Ponz by three subor- 

 dinate tenants, Roger de Laci, Turstin Fitz-Rolf, and William 

 Leurfc. For a long time I was puzzled to identify this small 

 manor, which was assessed at only one hide, with any place in 

 Wiltshire. The only place at all like it was Coleshill, the whole 

 of which I believed to be in Berkshire. An examination of the 

 Berkshire Domesday {fol. 63) shewed, under the same name Cole- 

 selle, proof that the Wiltshire manor must have been a portion of 

 the same estate, since a principal owner was Turstin Fitz-Rolf, 

 whilst another portion had been given by Walter de Lacy (of the 



1 Fol. 725. 



2 Hants Domesday, fol. 466., 49a. 3 Fol. 72, 735. 



1 Hants Domesday, Jol. 50. They are entered as in the Hundred of Fording- 

 bridge. * FoL m 



