[133]. “Civitas Wigornia ... et tunc et nunc totius Hwicciae vel Magesetaniae metropolis extitit famosa.” App. Flor. Wigorn., Episc. Hwicciorum.
[134]. Vit. Aldh. Whart. Ang. Sacr. ii. 3, and MS. Harl. 356; but the autograph MS., Ed. Hamilton in Rolls Series, reads rightly Saxonia.
[135]. I have not adhered strictly to Spelman’s copy, the details of which are in several cases incorrect, but have collated others where it seemed necessary.
[136]. The total sum thus reckoned is 243,600 hides.
[137]. About the year 647, Wessex numbered only 9000 hides.
[138]. The twelve thousand hides counted by Beda (Hist. Eccl. iii. 24) to the South and North Mercians may however be exclusive of the Westangles and other parts of the great Mercian kingdom.
[139]. Cirencester was in the south of the Hwiccas. Gloucester, Worcester, and Pershore were all in this district. It was separated from Wiltshire in Wessex by the Thames, and the ford at Cricklade was a pass often disputed by the inhabitants of the border-lands.
[140]. Cod. Dipl. No. 261.
[141]. Cod. Dipl. No. 101.
[142]. Ini, § 8. Thorpe, i. 106.