[187.] Record Office, Chancery Inquisitions post mortem, Anno 35 Edw. I. No. 46b. Gloucestria, § Manerium de Tudenham.
[188.] Mr. Kemble identifies this place with Stoke near Hurstbourne Priors, near Whitechurch; but it may possibly be one of the Stokes on the Itchin River near Winchester.
That the upper part of the Itchin was called 'Hysseburne' and 'Ticceburne,' see Cod. Dip. MLXXVII., CCCXLII., MXXXIX. & CLVIII. The boundaries in MLXXVII. of 'Hysseburna' (beginning at Twyford) correspond at a few points with those of 'Hisseburne' in Abingdon, i. p. 318, and of Eastune appended thereto, and of Eastune in Cod. Dip. MCCXXX. The position of Twyford and Easton seems to fix this locality on the Itchin. The parishes of Itchin Stoke and Titchbourne ('æt Hisseburne') still nearly adjoin those of Twyford and Easton, but the parishes here are intermixed, and the 'Hysseburne' of the charters may have been a district with different boundaries, and may not be the Hysseburne of King Alfred's will. Compare Domesday Survey, i. 40, where Twyford, Eastune, and Stoches occur together among the 'Terra Wintonensis Episcopi.'
[189.] See Liber de Hyda, Mr. Edwards' Introduction.
[190.] Codex Dip. MLXXVII.; and Dugdale, Winchester Monastery, Num. X. This charter is preserved in a copy of the twelfth century in the Winchester Cartulary (St. Swithin's) now in the British Museum. Add. MSS. 15350, f. 69b.
[191.] Saxons in England, pp. 319 et seq.
[192.] H. Leo, Rectitudines. Halle, 1842, p. 231. 'Wenigstens weisz ich "on his gyrde landes" (auf seiner rute des gutes, oder des landes) an dieser stelle nicht anders zu erklären.'
[193.] See Kemble's Saxons in England, i. p. 196.
[194.] British Museum Cotton MS. Tib. A. III. f. 58b. For the text of this passage I am indebted to Mr. Thompson of the British Museum.
[195.] Bede's letter to Bishop Egbert. Smith, p. 309. 'Quod enim turpe est dicere, tot sub nomine monasteriorum loca hi qui monachicæ vitæ prorsus sunt expertes in suam ditionem acceperunt, sicut ipsi melius nostis, ut omnino desit locus, ubi filii nobilium aut emeritorum militum possessionem accipere possint,' &c.