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by the names Winterbourne Earls, Winterbourne Dauntsey, Win- 

 U terbourne Grunner and Winterbourne Stoke, all in the same valley. 



I The theory, then, which Hoare and Daniell put forward, has very 

 1 respectable support. There is also a discussion by Canon Jackson 

 ; | (TFilts Arch. Mag., xvii., 283). 



But another view is possible, namely, that it is a place-name, not 

 1 a river-name. As to the second derivation (from diving) , this seems 

 : | to be a mere popular etymology copied by writer from writer. 



. Thus Drayton speaks of the Dyver ; but that is not the name of 



i the stream, and names are not mutilated like this in local language. 



i Nor is Dever its name. The form in Domesday is Devrel, and such 

 la form as Dyver seems a fanciful etymology. Assuming that 



j Deverill is the name of the place, not of the stream, and following 



1 up the hint which the double name gives, that it possibly contains 

 j the name of an original Norman family, what do we find ? That 



• Walter cVEvereux was given by William the Conqueror possessions 

 || in this county, which he left to Edward surnamed de Salisbury, his 

 B] younger son (Camden, i., 133) ; that "Edward de Salisbury holds 



• Devrel " (Domesday : identified by Hoare with part of Hill Deverill) ; 



• and that " Adelelmus holds of Edward of Salisbury Ballochelie," 

 " Bay cliff, a tithing in Hill Deverill (Domesday, quoted by Hoare, 

 [jp. 32) . Evreux is in Normandy, but, says the Duchess of Cleveland, 

 ilin her edition of the Roll of Battle Abbey, it is not known why the 

 : i Earls of Salisbury, who are descended from a younger son of Count 

 4ide Eoumare, are called D 'Evreux; this, however, does not concern 

 >lus. The difficulty of the theory is this :— that only one Deverill 



|.| can be shown to be connected with Edward de Salisbury, son of 



Walter D 'Evreux, and yet by the time Domesday was drawn up, 

 :jiin 1086 — about twenty years after — -it has spread to all the other 

 : t parishes, and in such a way as to conceal their English names. For, 

 [tin Domesday, the Abbey of Glastonbury holds Longbridge and 

 i Monkton, both of which it apparently held in the time of Edward 



2 jthe Confessor, 1042 — 1066 ; the Abbey of Bee holds Brixton ; and 

 jthe Canons of Lisieux, in Normandy, hold part of Kingston (these 

 | two latter being held in the time of Edward the Confessor by 



i Brictric and Eddeva respectively) ; and Edward d'Evereux, or dc 



