The Nomina Villarum for Wiltshire. 11 



Bereford Baldwin, de Stowe, et Thomas Cheyn- 



duyt. 



§9. HUNDREDUM de CHALKE. 1 . . . ( Abbatissa de Wilton.) 



Chalke 



burchalke 2 

 Bekewyck 2 

 Semeiegh .. 



Stoke 3 Theobald, de Verdoun. 



Kynserton 4 (Kynferton? ) Laurenc. de Sancto Martino. 



Fifhide 5 Rogerus de Bavent. 



Eblesburne 6 Ingelram Berenger, et "Will, de Wy- 



gelewe (Wygbere B. ?) [ham. 



Alvedeston 7 Ingelram Berenger, et Johan. de Per- 



Tollard 8 Rob. de Lucy, et Johan. Gonys. 



Abbatissa de Wilton. 



1 The Domesday name for this Hundred was Stanford. The name Stow- 

 FORD, originally Stan-ford, i.e. the "paved" or Stone-ford over the river 

 Ebele, is still given to a little place close by Fifield Bavent. 



2 Bower-Chalk and Bebwick St. John. See Jones' Domesday, under 

 Chelche, p. 204. 



3 Originally Stoke Verdoun, (corrupted gradually to Vardon and Farthing) 

 and so called from the Lords of the Manor in 1316 ; a district of some 650 acres 

 in the parish of Broad Chalk. 



* Intended I believe, for what is now called Knighton, which was held in 

 the time of Edw. I. by Joane Nevil, who afterwards married one of the St. 

 Martin family, the ancestor of the Lord of the Manor mentioned above. See 

 Hoare's Wilts, Chalke Hund. p. 143. 



6 Fifield Bavent, still having the name of the Lord of the Manor in 1316. 



6 Ebbesbotjrn Wake, granted (6 John) to Galfrid. de Wake, and held by 

 several in succession of that name. Test, de Nev., 142. Hund. R. II., 248. 



7 The name of the tenant in the time of Edward the Confessor, viz. Aileva, 

 seems here preserved: — Alvedes-txm — the town, (or village) of Aileva. Jones' 

 Domesd., p. 204. 



8 This estate was at one time held by Earl, (afterwards King,) John, in right 

 of his wife Isabella, daughter of William, Earl of Gloucester, and hence 

 called Tollakd Royal. 



