[1680] After seeing Oxford and Wallingford together, we should naturally expect Bedford with Buckingham. See A.-S. Chron. ann. 918–9. Or we might look for Hertford. Ibid. ann. 913.
[1681] Eashing is a tithing in the parish of Godalming. See King Alfred’s will (K. 314): ‘æt Æscengum.’ Eashing may have been supplanted by Guildford.
[1682] Taking in the particulars the figures which seem the more probable, we make a larger total.
[1683] If Essex is meant this figure seems impossibly small. Gale gives ‘Ast Saxhum et Wygeaceastrum 1200 hidas.’ This may give Essex and Worcester 1200 hides apiece.
[1684] Mr Stevenson tells me that, though the document is very corrupt, some of the verbal forms seem to speak of this date.
[1685] Such a document is apt to be tampered with. Some bits of it may be older than other bits, but the reign of Edward the Elder seems the latest to which we could ascribe its core. If we compare it with the list of Domesday boroughs we shall be struck by the absence of Dorchester, Bridport, Ilchester, Totness, Hertford, Bedford and Guildford, as well as by the appearance of Burpham, Tisbury, Bredy, Halwell, Watchet, Lyng and Eashing.
[1686] See above, [p. 189, note 747].
[1687] ‘Heorepeburan,’ Hastings, Lewes, Burpham, Chichester.
[1688] Eashing, Southwark.
[1689] Porchester, Southampton, Winchester, Twyneham.