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(Slesnittjjs from % Mtltsjiw jomeskg. 



ii. 



On the Names of Owners or Occupiers still preserved in 

 those of Persons or Places in Wiltshire. 



By the Rev. W. H. Jones, M.A., F.S.A., 



Vicar of Bradford on Avon. 



N a paper published in a previous number of this Magazine 1 

 an attempt was made to shew from the Wiltshire Domesday 

 that the Boundaries of the County of Wilts were the same now as in 

 the eleventh century. We hope to be able to prove in this essay that 

 in the Names of Persons and Places still preserved, we have I 

 numerous memorials of those, who, whether in the time of the I 

 Confessor or of William the Conqueror, are entered in the Record as 

 owners or occupiers of lands in our County. 



In the Domesday Book for Wiltshire we have given to us, not 

 only the names of the Tenants in cajoite, and the subordinate holders 

 of land, after the Conquest, but those also of the persons who 

 possessed the same estates in the days of Edward the Confessor. 

 To materials supplied by these lists we confine ourselves. Much 

 additional matter may be found in the ancient charters published by 

 Kemble, in his Codex Diplomatics , or by Thorpe in his Diploma- 

 tarium Anglicum, or in some of the publications of the Bolls 

 Series, such as the Liber de Hyda, &c, in all of which books many 

 charters relating to Wiltshire are to be found, but to touch on these 

 would carry us into a very wide field. We shall find, in the limited 

 portion of the subject to which we confine ourselves, much, it is 

 hoped, not merely of local but also of general interest. 



Note. — The references given in this paper under the headings of "Aubrey" 

 and " W. Domesd." are respectively to Canon Jackson's edition of Aubrey's 

 Collections, and the Rev. W. H. Jones' Domesday for Wilts. 



1 Yol. x., p. 165. 



