56 



Gleanings from the Wiltshire Domesday. 



in the three hides held in Chelche (Chalk) by Girard, 

 under the Abbess of Wilton. From an entry in the Test 

 de Nev. (141. 157.) it seems clear enough that Guston is a 

 contracted form of Girardes-ton, and so the name a 

 memorial of its old occupier. W. Domesd. 47. 204. 



Langley ") The name of the principal tenant at Domesday was 

 Burrel J Borel, and hence the distinctive name. (W. Domesd. 71. 



222.) The family of Bur el continued to hold the name till 

 commencement of the fourteenth century. Aubrey p. 95. 



Langley One of the subordinate tenants of Langhele 

 Fitz-urse J (=Kington Langley) at the time of Domesday was 

 Urso. There can be little doubt that in the name called 

 Langley Fitz- JJrse, we have a memorial of his descend- 

 ants. W. Domesd. 32. 221. Aubrey 146. 



Littleton This estate is accounted for in Domesday under 

 Drew j Ltteltone (p. 27). At that time it was held by one 

 Robert, under the Bishop of Coutance. By referring to 

 the Devonshire Domesday, we find no less than seventy- 

 three estates in that county held under the same Bishop, 

 by Drogo (or Dru) Fitz-Ponz. Now this same Drogo 

 Fitz-Ponz is entered in the Wilts Domesday (p. 119) as 

 the Tenant in Chief of Aldrintone (Alderton) a manor 

 immediately adjoining Littleton Drew. Coupling this 

 with the fact, that Walter Dru was Lord of the Manor in 

 1290 (see Test de Nev. 142. 158), and that Walter Drew 

 (probably the same person) occurs as such, in 1316, in 

 the Nomina Villarum, we cannot help the conclusion that 

 in this name we have a memorial of a Norman owner or 

 occupier. Wilts Arch, Mag., xii., 22. 



Rodbourn The tenant of this estate at the time of Domesday 

 Cheney j was Reginald, whose surname, as we learn from an 

 entry in the Exon Domesday was Canut. (Exon Domesday 

 /. 163). According to the Test de Nev. (p. 138.) it was 

 held in the 13th century by Badulf de Chanu. W. 

 Domesd. 92. Aubrey 147. 



