170 Gleanings from the Wiltshire Domesday. 



same family most probably as one of the Wiltshire tenants already 

 mentioned) to the church of St. Mary, Winchester, when his 

 daughter became a nun in the convent there established. Subse- 

 quent enquiry resulted in my ascertaining as a fact, that a small por- 

 tion of the estate of Coleshill (which is now the property of Lord 

 Radnor), containing rather more than 200 acres, is on the western 

 side of the stream which bounds the counties, and therefore now, 

 as at the time of Domesday, in Wiltshire. 



Similar examples may be produced from the western side of our 

 county. Thus, there was at the time of Domesday an estate in 

 Wiltshire called Berrelege, 1 which was in the Hundred of Brad- 

 ford. The name is now lost, and with it also all trace of the exact 

 locality of the manor. This is strange, since there was a church 

 there, and the names of the Incumbents from the beginning to 

 the close of the fourteenth century are still preserved to us. It 

 was probably a portion of what is now included in Monkton 

 Farleigh parish, the Prior of that Religious House being the 

 patron, and so upon the borders of the county. It was held at the 

 time of Domesday by Azor, as a King's Thane. Now in the 

 Somersetshire Domesday we find a tenant of this same name (most 

 probably the same person,) recorded as holding the estate of Herlei, 2 

 (no doubt the present Warleigh,) a manor immediately adjoining 

 it, on the Somersetshire side of the border. 



But the interest of this last example does not end here. Another 

 estate, at but a short distance from Warleigh, is the Domesday 

 manor of Ponberie 3 (Pomeroy), which was held by Osmund 

 Latimar. The meaning of this last term is interpreter, originally 

 Latin-arius i.e. Latin-er, one whose skill in Latin was presumed to 

 enable him to understand other languages. Singularly enough 

 the Domesday owner of Herlei (Warleigh) was Hugolin the 

 interpreter. Is it possible that these lands on the borders were 



1 Fol. 736. 



2 Domesday for Somerset, fol. 99. Herlei is named in immediate connexion 

 with Estone (Bath- Easton) and Claetert;one (Claverton), which are adjoining 

 parishes, and therefore is no doubt the present Warleigh. 



3 Fol. 736. 



