[1670] This we can not find. If Kent were included in the scheme, we should read of Canterbury, Rochester etc. Therefore we probably start in Sussex, but at some point east of Hastings. In any case, unless a name has dropped out, we can not make the five Sussex burgs correspond to the six rapes of a later day, which, going from east to west, are Hastings, Pevensey, Lewes, Bramber, Arundel, Chichester.
[1671] See the Læwe, Læwes of K. 499, 1237.
[1672] A confusion of P and W is common.
[1673] Tisbury lies between Wilton and Shaftesbury. See K. 104, 641. Mr Stevenson suggests that the word may be Cysanbyrig, thereby being meant Chiselbury Camp. This also lies in the right quarter.
[1674] Tweoxneam, A.-S. Chron. ann. 901.
[1675] See Bridian in K. 656. Bredy lies about eight miles west of Dorchester. It seems to contain a ‘Kingston.’
[1676] There is a Halwell a little to the south of Totness. Already in 1018 (Crawford Charters, pp. 9, 79) the Devonshire burgs are Exeter, Lidford, Totness and Barnstaple.
[1677] Pilton lies close to Barnstaple.
[1678] A.-S. Chron. ann. 915: ‘be eastan Weced.’
[1679] A little to the west of Langport; close to Athelney. A.-S. Chron. ann. 878: ‘And þæs on Eastron worhte Ælfred cyning lytle werede geweorc æt Æþelinga eigge.’ Green, Conquest of England, 110. Observe that a very small district is assigned to Lyng.