[1650] K. 599 (iii. 139).
[1651] K. 698 (iii. 299).
[1652] As to the limits of Downton, see W. H. Jones, Domesday for Wiltshire, 213.
[1653] D. B. i. 31; K. 1058 (v. 114); 1093 (v. 176); 605 (iii. 149).
[1654] D. B. i. 40. Forty hides said to have been given by Cenwealla. K. 997 (v. 39); 1039 (v. 85); 1086 (v. 162); 1090 (v. 162); 601 (iii. 144).
[1655] D. B. i. 42 b. This belongs to the New Minster. In K. 336 (ii. 144) Edward the Elder is made to give ‘quendam fundum quem indigenae Myceldefer appellant cum suo hundredo et appendicibus, habens centum cassatos et aecclesiam.’ The territory has 100 hides and is a ‘hundred.’
[1656] D. B. i. 87 b. K. 1002 (v. 44); 1051–2 (v. 99, 101); 1084 (v. 157); 374 (ii. 209); 598 (iii. 136).
[1657] They are hardly the worse witnesses about this matter for having been much ‘improved.’ They do not look like late forgeries. Those which bear the earliest dates seem to be treated as genuine in charters of the tenth century which are not (if anything that comes from Winchester is not) suspected.
[1658] Kemble, Saxons, i. 487; D. B. i. 87 b.
[1659] Eyton, Somerset, ii. 34.