By the Rev. IF. II. Jones. 



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Bishopston) in the parish of Cliff Pipard, so-called because 

 it was held by the Bishop of Winchester as " Custos" ot 

 the religious house of St. S within, Winchester. 



Brismartone ; — this is the Domesday name for a place near 

 Amesbury that is now ordinarily called Brigmilstoxe, 

 though still also termed Brigmerston in official docu- 

 ments. There can be no doubt, I think, that it derived 

 its name from Brismar, its owner in the days of Edward 

 the Confessor (W. Domesd. 112). The same person held 

 the immediately adjoining estate of Milston (the birth- 

 place, by the way, of Addison, the poet), and from the 

 two being thus connected the corruption in the other name 

 probably arose ; — in fact, in course of years, they came to 

 be called Milston and Brigmilston. 



Brixton Deverel; — without doubt this Deverel derives its 

 distinctive name from the well-known Brictric, the am- 

 bassador of King Edward to the Court of Elanders, and 

 who is entered in the Record as having held the estates 

 in the days of the Confessor. Not only is the name, in 

 the Testa de Nevil, (p. 154) called Brichtr ices-ton, which can 

 admit but of one interpretation, but the history of this 

 manor is distinctly traceable from Brictric to the present 

 owners. W. Domesd. 55. 212. Like many other estates 

 belonging to the same English nobleman, it was first 

 of all confiscated and given to the Queen Matilda, then 

 bestowed by her on the Abbey of Bee in Normandy, 

 and ultimately, as part of the possessions of an alien 

 monastery, given by the Crown to the Dean and Canons 

 of Windsor. The famous spot called Egbert's Stone (of 

 which many have thought Brix-ton a contraction), where 

 Alfred collected his forces for an attack on the Danes, was 

 possibly not far from this place, but was certainly not the 

 origin of the name. 



Draycot Cerne ; — this manor is mentioned because it was held by 

 a peculiar tenure, which, from an entry in the Exon 

 Domesday Book, would seem to have dated from early 



