By the Rev. W. H. Jones. 



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I. Memorials of those who lived in the days of the Confessor. 

 (1) Names of Persons. 



(a) Names occurring' in a form, but little, if at all, differing 

 from the original. 



Such are the following' • — 



Aldred; — Alestan (now Alston); — Bolle (=Bull); — Bondie 

 (=Bond) ; — Bristwi (=Bristow) ; — Bruning (=Browning) ; 

 — Cola (or Cole); — Cotel 1 (now Cottle); — Croc (now Crook); 

 — Done(=Dunn); — Dene (Dean); — Durand (nowDurant); 

 — Euing; — Frawin (or Frewin) ; — Godfrey; — Gode (or 

 Good); — Gest (= Guest); — Gunner; — Godeva (= Good- 

 eve); — Gunter ; — Harding; — Hervey; — Mainard 

 [= Maynard); — Osmond ; — Osborn ; — Rainer ; — Radulf 

 (Ralph, or Rolf) ; — Rainald (Reynolds) ; — Rozo (or Rose); 

 — Selwin ; — Suain (Swayne); — Saulf (= Self) ; — Tovi 

 (=Toovey) ; — Turold (Thorold) ;— Wadard (Goddard) ;— 

 "Warin (Warren). From this last, as a derivative, comes 

 perhaps the Wiltshire name, Warriner. 



(b) Names, in which the connection with their modern equivalents 

 or derivative is not so clear. 



Alwi > These are two forms of the same name, which is not an 



Elwi i infrequent one in the Wilts Domesday : from the one we 

 have the very common Wiltshire name Alloway, and per- 

 haps also the name Allies ; — from the other, a name well 

 known to the musical world, Elvey. 



Adelelm; — from this name we get Adlam, — and, I presume 

 also, by prefixing an aspirate, — Headlam. 



Athelstan ; — from this, it is said, we obtain the name Huddles- 

 tone. 



1 This name Cottle is a very common one in Wilts. The word may be a 

 contraction of Cote-setla (or Coscet, as it is sometimes written in Domesday), 

 a class of tenants who held small portions of land, generally about five acres, 

 for which they were to render certain services to their lord. This class of 

 tenants is only met with in Devonshire, Dorset, Somerset, Shropshire, and 

 Wilts. The fact that out of 1750 Cotsetlas (or Coscets) registered in Domesday, 

 more than 400 are found in the Wiltshire portion of the record, may well 

 account for the frequency of the name in our County. 



