By the Rev. W. H. Jones. 



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pared with the Exon Domesday, on the gradual changes introduced 

 as regards the Hundreds, The notes appended to the record will 

 explain the former : those who are curious in such matters, may, 

 by comparing the list of Hundreds in Domesday, first of all with 

 those given for the reigns of Henry III. and Edward I. in the 

 Hundred Rolls, and then with those furnished for the reign of 

 Edward II. in the Nomina Villarum, — see the changes that had 

 taken place. One point they will not fail to observe, — the way in 

 which the Ecclesiastical Lords of manors had formed for them- 

 selves distinct Hundreds, at the court of which they required the 

 tenants of their manors, scattered though they might be in various 

 parts of the country, to do suit and service. The Bishop of Win- 

 chester, for instance, has a separate Hundred called that of Knowel 

 Episcopi (§ 6) ; — the Abbot of Glastonbury in like manner holds 

 that of Damerham (§ 10), — and the Prior of St. Swithin that of 

 Elstub (§ 11), — under each of which were included manors situated 

 in various parts of the country. 



To make the document more generally useful to students of 

 "Wiltshire topography, there has been added an " Index Locorum," 

 containing also the Domesday names, and the modern names of all 

 the Wiltshire vills mentioned in the text. The Nomina Villarum 

 contains a tolerably complete list of all such manors, a few omissions 

 only, — such as Whaddon, (near Melksham,) Norton, (near Malmes- 

 bury,) Langford Parva, Baverstock, Fisherton Anger, — having been 

 observed. It is a testimony, moreover, to the completeness of the 

 Domesday for Wiltshire, to observe how we are able almost in- 

 variably to identify the names with entries in that Record ; inso- 

 much that when, as in a rare instance, we may be in a little doubt, 

 we may fairly conclude that it arises, not necessarily from its being 

 omitted, but from our not being able to recognise the precise form 

 in which the entry we seek is made. 



W. H. Jones. 



Bradford on Avon, 



January, 1869. 



