^{page 258 note a} As some misapprehension exists as to the term hide, no apology will be required for the following remarks on its real signification, taken from Mr. Kemble's “Saxons in England, ” book i. ch. iv.

“The ordinary Anglo-Saxon words are, higid (in its contracted and almost universal form, hid) and hiwisc. The Latin equivalents which we find in the chronicles and charters are, familia, cassatus, mansus, mansa, mansio, manens, and terra tributarii. The words hid and hiwisc are similar, if not identical, in meaning; they stand in close etymological relation to higan, hiwan, the family, the man and wife, and thus perfectly justify the Latin terms familia and cassatus, by which they are translated. The hid then, or hide of land, is the estate of one household, the amount of land sufficient for the support of one family. It is clear, however, that this could not be an invariable quantity, if the households were to be subsisted on an equal scale; it must depend upon the original quality and condition of the soil, as well as upon manifold contingencies of situation, climate, aspect, accessibility of water and roads, abundance of natural manures, proximity of marshes and forests—in short, an endless catalogue of varying details.”

Those who will take the trouble to compare some of the land-limits recited in the following pages with the accompanying map will not fail to subscribe to the soundness of the writer's views on the subject of the hide.

^{page 259 note a} In Dugdale, as well as in Tanner, we find this town called Wudecim. In the former it is given as the name of an individual!

^{page 260 note a} The state of this district is described in the Cartulary of the Abbey of Malmesbury, MS. Cott. Faustina, B. fol. 202, “De Campo vocato Mordone.”

^{page 260 note b} This name is corrupted to Empirigeam in Dugdale and Tanner.

^{page 261 note a} “—etpro requie animas patris mei Offan, quam ille vivens abstulit eis.”

^{page 261 note a} “—et pro requie animæ patris mei Offan, quam ille vivens abstulit eis.”

^{page 261 note b} In Add. MS. No. 15, 667 “teothes.”

^{page 261 note c} In Add. MS. No. 15, 667 “Lawestapele.”

^{page 262 note a} The more ancient name of Wilton.

^{page 262 note b} “The Idover at Dauntesey, of good note in Smithfield, which sends as fatt cattle to Smythfield as any place in the nation.” Aubrey, Nat. Hist, of Wiltshire, 4to. Lond. 1847, p. 37.

^{page 264 note a} Walter Camme, who succeeded Simon de Aumeny, who died in A.D. 1360.

^{page 264 note b} From the cartulary in the Stone Tower of Westminster, fol. Cxlvij.

^{page 265 note a} The Elder stub, or trunk, is an object often mentioned in A. S. boundaries. It gives the name to the hundred of Elstub and Everley, in Wilts.

^{page 266 note a} The Acman Street is, in the Cartularies, often called Bathway—“strata publica que appellatur Batheweye.” Carta Johis Bubbe fca Abbati et Conventum de Malm'. MS. Lansd. 417, fol. 182 b.

^{page 269 note a} The grant was originally 100 hides. (See the Grant of Edwig, No. 22.)

^{page 269 note b} Sutton Benger. “This land was heretofore the Vineyard belonging to the abbey of Malmsbury; of which there is a recitall in the grant of the mannor by K. Henry VIII. to Sir Long.” Aubrey, Nat. Hist, of Wiltshire, ch. iv.

^{page 270 note a} Sic.

^{page 270 note b} Sic.

^{page 271 note a} Cod. Dipl. Ævi Saxon. Intr. vol. i. p. 12.

^{page 272 note a} “An Introduction to the Survey and Natural History of the North Division of the county of “Wiltshire, ” by J. Aubrey, Esq. Miscellanies, edit. 1857.

^{page 272 note b} Mr. J. M. Kemble. Alas for human hopes and expectations! While these sheets were passing through the press, the hand of death has quenched for ever the light that has so often illumed our path in these and kindred researches!

^{page 272 note c} Emerson, English Traits, p. 101. 8vo. Lond. 1856.

^{page 304 note a} See more especially the Constitutiones de Foresta, arts. 22–25.

^{page 304 note b} Constitutiones de Foresta, xxi.

^{page 304 note c} man minne .loc pile habban be , 81. Anc. Laws and Institutes, ed. Thorpe, vol. i. p. 420.

^{page 304 note d} Constitutiones de Foresta, xxxiv. Anc. Laws, rol. i. p. 430.

^{page 305 note a} Vide, inter alia, Leg. Æthelst. 14.

^{page 305 note b} De Suppliciorum Modo. Leg. Gulielmi Conq. vol. i. p. 494, ed. Thorpe.

^{page 305 note c} “In primis, omnes forestæ quas Rex Henricus, avus noster, afforestavit, videantur per probos et legales homines; et si boscum aliquem alium quam suum dominicum afforestaverit, ad damnnm illius cujus boscus fuerit, statim deafforestetur.”—Cart, de For. Art. I.

^{page 305 note d} “This king John, in like manner, within a while after that he came to be king, began by litle and litle to follow the examples of his father king Henry the second, and king Eichard the first his brother, in afforesting the landes of his subjects, that were any way neare adjoyning unto any of the Forrestes of the said king. So that by the new afforrestations of these three foresaid kinges, the Forrestes in every place were so much inlarged, that the greatest part of thys Kealme was become Forrest.”—Manwood; Forrest Lawes, cap. xx. fol. 127, ed. 1598.

^{page 306 note a} A meadow here still bears the name of “Langbridge Mead.”

^{page 306 note b} i. e. the divisions of the three hundreds of Kingsbridge, Highworth, and Malmesbuiy. This suggests the origin of the name of the town of Devizes, which probablj once stood at the junction of ancient boundaries obliterated in an age long past, and of which no record remains.

^{page 308 note a} Mr. T. Duffus Hardy has favoured me with a copy of another perambulation in the General Eecord Office in which “Beostock “is transformed into Bristoll!

^{page 308 note b} Mr. Burtt, of the Chapter House, Westminster, to whom my acknowledgments are due for much kind attention, gives me the following proofs from rolls of Placita in that depository:—

Placita temp. Edw. III.—Certain offenders against the venison of the Lord King took a stag at “Beneiham “ in said forest.

The like “apud La Penne; “and they stood near the pale of the park “de la Fasterne “(belonging to Hugh le Despenser).

The like “apud Stonhurst.

The like “in quodam bosco vocato Colepittesmor.”

The like “in quodam loco qui vocatur Cokstatt.”

The like “in quodam loco qui vocatur Oxeheye, ” et “in alio loco qui vocatur Wekhurst.”

The like “juxta la Horethorne.”

The like “apud Chelesworth.”

The like “in quodam loco qui vocatur le Fryth.”

The like “in grava de Haleweston.”

The like “in bosco d'ni Willi' de Granzoun in quo loco qui vocat' Troweye.” Other localities of the forest are thus mentioned:—

“Et q'd id'm Adam Fraunceys tenuit in foresta p'd'ca unu' carbon' apud Kulstokisford et alibi in foresta.”

Gilbert Basset assarted seven acres at Wootton Basset.

List of “Bosci de novo vastat', ” for which the owners were fined, including Sandrigge, Perhamstede, la Barndhulle, Horstempnelake, Huly et Sterte.

Regard. Temp. E. III.

“Cepit unu' damu' apud Bennemor.”

Do. “apud Stonyhurst.”

Do. “apud Burghslade.”

Nets taken “ad quendam locum voc' Hasle.”

Stag taken “juxta le Horethorne”

Placita. 34 E I. (?)

Stag found dead “apud Pukeburn.”

Do. “apud Burlade”

Certain Malefactors were “apud Hippingescombe”

^{page 310 note a} From the Proceedings in the Court of Exchequer, 4th Charles I. it appears that this boundary dates from the 12th Henry III., and that it was returned 28th Edward I.

^{page 312 note a} Sic.