DEVIZFS: PRINTED BY H. F. & E. BULL, ST. JOHN STREET. STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES TACKI AUG 28 1907 CONTENTS OF VOL XI. On Leaf and Lozenge-shaped Flint Javelin Heads, from an Oval Bar- row near Stonehenge: by JOHN THURNAM, M.D., F.S.A. Facts and Observations relating to the Ancient State of the Town of Wokingham, in the Counties of Berks and Wilts: By the late F. A. Diary of Thomas Smith, Esq., of Shaw (continued) The Flora of Wilts: By T. B. FLOWER, Esq. (continued) On the Ancient Earthwork Enclosures on the Downs of North Wilts, supposed to be Cattle Pens: By the Rev. A. C. SMITH, M.A............... 1 Fittleton and Hackleston: Notes of Manorial Descent The Downs: By the Rev. EDWARD PEACOCK, M.A. A Geological Sketch of the Valley of the Kennet: By the Rev. JOHN 268-286 Another Guess at the Name of Tan Hill: By the Rev. H. T. KINGDON 287-289 Ancient Statutes of Heytesbury Almshouse: Communicated by the Inventory of Chantry Furniture, A.D. 1472, Hungerford Chapel, Salisbury Cathedral: From the Rev. CANON JACKSON, F.S.A. Goddard Brass in Aldbourn Church... Extracts from a Common-place Book of Dr. Stukeley Illustrations. Ancient Houses at Potterne, Wilts, (Photograph) 1. Ground plan of the Parish Plan of Church, and Figure of the Angel Gabriel, 183. West Window, 184. 322. THE WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS,"-Ovid. THE History of the Parish of All Cannings.' Compiled from materials furnished principally by the Rev. H. H. METHUEN, By the Rev. W. H. JONES, M.A., F.S,A., Vicar of Bradford on Avon, HE parish of ALL CANNINGS is situated in North Wilts, though close upon the border-line that separates the two divisions of the county. It comprises not only ALL CANNINGS proper, but also the hamlet of ALLINGTON, and the chapelry of ETCHILHAMPTON. Each of these places is separately accounted for in Domesday Book; and, though component parts of one and the same ecclesiastical benefice, they still continue to be distinct manors. In the following pages we will endeavour to keep the accounts of each of these parochial divisions separate the one from the other; but in some few respects their histories are so intermixed that we can hardly avoid in the first section which relates specially to ALL CANNINGS, anticipating one or two matters which would more strictly belong to the accounts of ALLINGTON, or ETCHILHAMPTON. All the three portions of All Cannings are in the Hundred of 'The materials from which this account of the parish of All Cannings has been prepared, were furnished some time ago by the Rev. H. H. Methuen, in reply to the questions circulated, under the sanction of the Bishop of Salisbury, with the view of encouraging the compilation of Parochial Histories for Wilts and Dorset. The Secretaries, with the consent of the Rev. H. H. Methuen, placed his manuscript in the hands of the Rev. W. H. Jones, Vicar of Bradford on Avon, and their thanks are due to that gentleman for the trouble he has taken in revising and arranging the materials, and preparing them, with considerable additions, for publication in this Magazine. VOL. XI.-NO. XXXI. B SWANBOROUGH.1 This Hundred comprises no less than three of the ancient hundreds of Wilts. Thus, in the Hundred of RUGEBERG were Tilshead, Potterne, and the two Lavingtons:--in that of STODFALD were All Cannings, Erch font, Etchilhampton, Allington, Stert, and Chirton :-in that of SWANBOROUGH were Rushall, Alton Barnes, Alton Priors, Stanton, North Newnton, Marden, and the Manningfords. All these, with the exception of Potterne, which, as belonging to the Bishop of Sarum, was afterwards joined to the Hundred of Cannings Episcopi, are now merged in the large Hundred of SWANBOROUGH. Originally, no doubt, the whole of what is now comprised in the two parishes of All Cannings and Bishops Cannings formed but one estate, belonging most probably to the King of Wessex. An early grant assigned the latter to the Bishops of Wiltshire, and by one or other of them it was at some period previous to Domesday, severed from its own hundred, (most likely that of Stodfald,) and formed into an independent and "free hundred" belonging to their see. At a later date probably, what we now call All Cannings was bestowed by some royal benefactor on the Abbey of St. Mary, at Winchester. Unfortunately there is no chartulary or register of this abbey known at present, so that our information on this point is defective. The Abbey, which was also called Nunna-Minster, was founded by Alfred the Great and his Queen Ethelswitha, and completed by their son Edward the Elder. It was subsequently refounded and restored by Bishop Ethelwold in 932. The estate at 1 These names of the Hundreds, pointing as they do to remote times when there were no towns or even villages of note from which they might take their appellations, show us incidentally the antiquity of their institution. RUGEBERG means the rough, (or hoar,) barrow; a modern form of the name exists in RY-BURY, and in Andrews and Dury's map of Wilts we have the form ROUGHBRIDGE, a nearer approach to the original. STODFALD (the Anglo-Saxon Stódfald), means the fold for horses (or steeds); we still have the expression a stud of horses. SWAN-BOROUGH is possibly a corruption of Sand-beorg, that is literally Sand-hill, from a large tumulus bearing that name, which is mentioned in an Anglo-Saxon charter relating to North Newnton. Cod. Dipl. 1109. 2 a free "" In the Hundred Rolls, II., 231, Cannings Episcopi, is described as hundred of the Bishop of Sarum, appertaining to the Church of Sarum, from an ancient grant," (de veteri feoffamento). |