By the Rev, IF. H. Jones 



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given, under the form of Budbury, to a small portion of the 

 upper part of the town, but formerly applicable to a larger 

 extent of land and certainty including a portion of what now 

 is comprised in Woolley. Now in the Testa de Nevil, this 

 last place in an enumeration of the dependencies of Bradford 

 is called Wlf-lege. Can we doubt its being a memorial of 

 the Anglo-Saxon Thane, who held lands here, as it would 

 appear, both in the time of the Confessor and also in that 

 of the Conqueror ? 



II. Memorials of those who lived in the days of William the 



Conqueror. 

 (a) Names of Persons. 



Such names as the following are still preserved in a form, little, 

 if at all, altered from the original : — 



Albemarle, — Crispin, — Drew (from Drogo or Dru) ; — Fitz- 

 Gerold, — Fitz-Gilbert, — Gifford, — Humfrey ; — Lacy, — ■ 

 Mortimer — Mohun, — Moreton (the name Maci de 

 Moretania is possibly its origin), — Rivers (perhaps from 

 Gozelin de Riviere), — Thurstan, or Turstin, — Waleran, 

 (or Waldron), the latter, it may be, only another way of 

 spelling the name of the well-known huntsman of 

 Domesday. 



In those which are subjoined, in alphabetical order, the connection 

 is not at first sight so apparent : — 



Aubrey ; — derived probably from Albericus. 



Blunt; — in the Wilts Domesday under Laventone (p. 126), we 

 have " Robertus Flavus " entered as a land-holder ; — that 

 is literally Robert " the fair/'' or " le blond." 1 Hence the 

 family name Blount (or Blunt). In the Test, de Nev. 

 pp. 141, 153, we have one knight's fee held by Roger 

 Gernon at Laventon (West Lavington) of William Blunt 

 (de Willelmo Blundo). In the Iuq. Non. (13 10) we have 



1 In like manner Ul ward us Albus in the Exchequer Domesday for Somerset 

 (fol. 87 J, is the Ulward Wite (=white) of the Exon Domesday for the same 

 county. (See fol. 106.) 



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