and, beside the lands actually held by the monastery, it formally details the state of those which were granted out as thainlands as well as of those of which the abbat had the soke only.' This manuscript seems to have been first noticed by Selden, who pube lished extracts from it, comprising the Inquisition and the names of the jurors, in the preface to his edition of Eadmer (Lond. fol. 1623, pref. p. xv.)

"The Winton Domesday,' which is the third record published in the volume now under consideration, is preserved in the library of the Society of Antiquaries of London. It consists of two distinct parts, or Surveys of Winchester, taken at two dif ferent periods; the one in the reign of Henry I. and between the years 1107 and 1128; the other in the reign of Stephen and A.D. 1148. The first is entitled 'A Book of the King's Lands in Winton rendering Landgable and Burgage as they were accustomed to render the same in the time of King Edward;' and its history is detailed in a prefatory paragraph to the following effect:

"King Henry wishing to know what King Edward in any way held in Winchester, as of his own demesne, ordered this Inquisition to be taken upon the oaths of his burgesses. This Inquisition was therefore taken upon the oath of eighty-six of the superior burgesses of Winton, in the presence of William the Bishop, and Herbert the Chamberlain, and Ralph Basset, and Geoffrey Ridel, and William de Pontearchar."

This record contains a minute description of the city, with an enumeration of its principal streets, its palaces, mints, almshouses, and religious establishments, besides many particulars as to house-rent, public burthens, &c. The second Survey is said to have been taken by direction of Henry the Bishop, that is, Henry de Blois, Cardinal Abbat of Glastonbury, and brother to the King. It is entitled, 'An Inquisition

of lands in Winton, of every tenant, and how much he holds, and of whom they are held, and what rent is paid therefore.' It has the same peculiarities as the other record, but is additionally interesting, as exhibiting the changes which had taken place in the short period which intervened between the two surveys.

• The Boldon Book' concludes the volume of Records supplementary to Domesday. This valuable record consists of a survey of the Bishopric of Durham, made in the year 1183 by Hugh Pudsey, nephew to King Stephen. The original is not known to be in existence, but its place is supplied by three ancient copies, one in the Bishop's Auditor's office, Durham; another in the library of the Dean and Chapter of that Cathedral, and the third and most valuable copy, amongst the Laud MSS. at Oxford. From this latter copy, which is entitled, An Inquisition of the Customs and Rents of the whole Bishopric of Durham, made by Bishop Hugh, anno 1183,' the publication of the Record Commissioners was taken. This volume is entitled 'Boldon Buke,' or ' Book,' in all the three copies, the origin of which name is thus explained by Sir H. Ellis :

"It probably had its name from Boldon, a village and parish near Sunderland, in the same diocese, where either it was compiled, or according to the census of whose inhabitants the other manors, &c. in that bishopric were regulated. This latter is the more probable origin of the name; for, in the account of rents and services required of other places, reference is frequently made to those rendered by the people of Boldon."-(Introd. to Boldon Book.)

One of the greatest uses of this record is that with respect to Durham, and as far as can be done by a posterior supplementary volume, it supplies an important omission in Domesday. Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Durham, are not described in the great Survey. Various reasons have been assigned for this omission. Brady suggested that they might be in the hands of the Scots, which was

probably the case as to some part of them; Durham, it is said, was a county palatine in which the Bishop had a separate and independent jurisdiction; and as to the other counties, the most probable reason is that the country was in a state of total devastation, which could yield nothing to the Exchequer, and was therefore not thought worth the trouble of a survey. Sir H. Ellis has pointed out 'that at p. 301 b. of the first volume of Domesday, after the enumeration of the names of no less than sixtyone places in Agemundreness, now Amounderness in Lancashire, it is said, All these vills lie at Prestune, and three churches. Sixteen of them have very few inhabitants. But it is unknown how many inhabitants there are. The rest are waste. Roger Poitou held them." The Chroniclers all agree in representing the north country as having been the scene of the most terrible and disastrous devastation. The inhabitants were indiscriminately massacred; their flocks butchered; their dwellings and the fruits of the earth consumed by fire; no thing over which man had power escaped the fury of the Conqueror. William of Malmesbury, who wrote probably about seventy years afterwards, states that for more than sixty miles, the ground, totally uncultivated and unproductive, remained bare in his time. What particular tract of country is here alluded to, is not clear; but it was probably along the line of the eastern coast, as one pretext for this barbarous policy was that it would hinder the landing of the Danes; at any event, Malmesbury could not refer generally to the county of Durham, as is shown by the evidence of the Boldon Book, compiled no very long time afterwards. Indeed, Boldon Book may be taken to prove that total devastation was not the occasion of the omission of Durham from Domesday. Had that county been subjected to the hard measure' which the Conqueror inflicted upon other districts, the time which intervened between the Survey and Boldon Book, would not have sufficed to restore it to the condition in which it is represented by the latter authority. The cause must therefore be sought in the Palatinate jurisdiction of the Bishop, or in some other reason. The importance of Boldon Book is thus explained in Sir Henry Ellis's Introduction :

"I. It is a valuable supplement to Domesday Book, supplying a material defect in that Record. II. It is of great importance to the see and palatinate of Durham, as it is frequently appealed to, and has been admitted as evidence in trials at law, on the part of succeeding Bishops, to ascertain their property and seignorial rights. III. It serves to cast lights on ancient tenures, customs, manners, and services. IV. It contains many words which are not found in Ducange, nor any of his continuators; the meaning of which from their connection with others, well understood in the Boldon Book, may in general be easily ascertained. V. It contains several curious references to the mode of living among our ancestors in the twelfth century, their amusements, diet, coin, the price of labour, &c. &c. which may furnish the antiquary and historian with valuable materials, either for a more improved topographical history of the palatinate in particular, or for a more accurate account of English customs and manners in the twelfth century in general. As a supplement to Domesday Book it is peculiarly valuable." (Introd. to Boldon Book.)

! The Introductions to the four minor Records contained in the supplementary volume, as well as the General Introduction to Domesday, proceeded from the pen of Sir Henry Ellis. The smaller Introductions are slight matters; but the other is of a more important character, and worthy of its author's antiquarian reputation. It was first written in the year 1813, but since that time Sir Henry Ellis states that he has not ceased to amass every kind of information calculated to throw light upon the subject. These labours coming to the knowledge of the present Record Commissioners, they directed that the Introduction should be reprinted, with such improvements as had occurred to the author, and accompanied by the Indexes we have before noticed. (Gentleman's Magazine, New Series, vol. I. 510.) With the exception of the seventh section of the second division, which is materially improved, the addi

tions are not very frequent, and perhaps would not of themselves furnish reason for a reprint of the Introduction. The difference in the size of the publication, however, will have a tendency to make it more generally known, and suffici ently justifies the reprint. The Introduction is divided into five parts, which treat of the following particulars. I. The formation of the Record. II. The principal matters noticed in it. III. The original uses and consequences of the Survey. IV. Its conservation and authority in Courts of Law; and V. Its publication. The second of these divisions gave opportunity for the introduction of a great deal of miscellaneous matter relative to-the classes of persons mentioned in the Survey; the different descriptions and admeasurements of land, forests, vineyards, mills, salt-works, iron and lead-works, the different denominations of money and mints; territorial jurisdiction, and the franchises of cities and burghs; tenures and services; civil and criminal jurisdictions; ecclesiastical matters; historical events noticed in the record, and illustrations of ancient manners. Such a variety of topics furnished many opportunities for the display of Sir Henry Ellis's acquaintance with our antiquarian literature. Many facts had been before collected by Kelham, Russell, (in Nichols's History of Leicestershire,) and other commentators upon Domesday; of these Sir H. Ellis availed himself, and added to them the results of a very careful examination of the Record itself. We cannot, however, think that the illustration of Domesday is yet complete. Many points have been omitted, many but cursorily investigated, and there are many that might be further illustrated by a comparison with the ancient institutions of other countries; without, however, anticipating what may be done hereafter, we acknowledge our thankfulness for the labours of Sir H. Ellis, and cordially recommend his work to general attention as one that is more creditable to this branch of our literature than any other similar work that has proceeded from the Record Commission. For the benefit of our friends the topographers we shall conclude with a note inserted at page 41, vol. I. of the reprint of the Introduction, which contains a hint that may be useful to them.

"It may be of service to County Historians to state here that local inquiries will often ascertain the sites of places mentioned in Domesday, of which all memory is supposed to be lost; and that the names of places in this Survey are not in every instance those of villages, but frequently of manors, and sometimes of very small and insignificant portions of land. Instances from two or three counties will be sufficient to put the topographical antiquary upon the alert in his search. In Surrey, for instance, Waletone, tom. 1, fol. 30, now Wallington, and, Cisedeun, fol. 36 b, are places in the vill of Beddington: the former known at this time, the latter unknown: Hackeham, fol. 31 b, is a manor in Camberwell; Belgeham, fol. 36, is Balham in the parish of Streatham. Witford, twice mentioned, foll. 31 b, 35 b, was a hamlet of Mitcham, the only memorial of which is now preserved in the name of a lane between Upper and Lower Mitcham. Aplestede in Hampshire, tom. 1, fol. 45 b, was in Southwick; its site is alone designated in a charter of the time of Edward I. entered in the Register of Southwick Priory. In Berkshire, tom. 1, fol. 61 b, Elentone, is Ealingtone, or South Elington, where now stands the town of Maidenhead. In Middlesex, tom. 1, fol. 129, Hatone will be found in the parish of Bedfont; Ticheham and Coleham in Hillingdon; and Cheneton is Hempton in Sunbury; Hergotestane, fol. 130, is Haggerston in the parish of Shoreditch, and Lilestone is Lisson green in Paddington.

"Among the lands of Geoffrey de Mandeville in Middlesex, in the hundred of Ossulston, we find Eia entered in Domesday, tom. 1, fol. 129 b. Our topographers have omitted to say where this property stood. From the Chartulary of Westminster Abbey, however, we learn that close upon the time when the Survey was taken, Geoffrey de Mandeville gave this manor of Eye, described as at no great distance from St. Peter's Church, to the Abbat and Convent of that place. See the Chartulary of Westminster, MS. Cotton. Faust. A. III. fol. 281 b. King William's confirmation of the grant occurs in fol. 57 b. This same manor, with various other lands, was exchanged by the name of Eyebury, with Henry VIII. in the 28th year of his reign, for the priory of Hurley and various other possessions, by the Abbat and GENT. MAG. VOL. II.

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Convent. See Stat. of the Realm, 28 Hen. VIII. 1536, cap. 49, vol. III. p. 709. It now belongs to the Marquis of Westminster, still bears the name of Eyebury, and is situated toward Chelsea, in the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, though formerly in that of St. Martin in the Fields."

Many of our readers may remember that the manor of Eia, or Eye, was amongst the subjects treated by Mr. Saunders in his communication to the Society of Antiquaries upon the boundaries of Westminster, mentioned Gent. Mag. N. S. vol. I. p. 94. Ebury-street, Square, and Chapel, now perpetuate the memory of the manor of 'Eyebury.'

ORIGINAL POETRY.

TRANSLATION OF PETRARCH'S SONNET TO THE RHONE.

BY THE REV. J. MITFORD.

GREAT River! rushing from thine Alpine hold,
With strength congenial to thy name;-by night,
By day, alike our mutual course we steer,
Where Love and Nature lead. Thy waves thou roll'st
Unwearied, unfatiguable, through vales

Of sweetest verdure, and serener air,

Till the great Ocean greet thee. There she shines,
Sun of my life! whose renovating smile

With brightest garlands gilds thy ling'ring stream.
Perchance she mourns my absence. Oh! sweet Rhone!
Bathe her white hand, and bid thy waters kiss
Her light foot on thy flowery marge, that kiss
Shall be of language eloquent :-and say

That willing is my spirit; but as weak,
Weak is my heart as is thy broken wave

That creeps, and murmurs on its pebbly shore.

IANTHE.

FAIR blooms the rose upon its stalk,
And fair the lily on its stem;
And fair on Beauty's princely neck,
Glitters the emerald gem :—

But Nature has no garland fair,

And Earth no treasure from the mine,

That can to me in aught compare
Ianthe, with one look of thine.

Thy dove-like eyes, so soft, so mild,
To me outshine the brightest gem;
And those chaste lips in fragrance pure,
What flower can rival them?

J. M.

NATHAN'S KIEVE,

The name of a beautiful waterfall, situated in a retired valley running up from the sea, between Boscastle and Tintaḍgel on the northern coast of Cornwall. The spot is so sequestered, and the fall so concealed by overhanging rocks, that a stranger following the course of the stream up the glen, and coming upon it unexpectedly, might, with small help from fancy,' imagine himself the first discoverer of a scene so solitary.

A stream, a lovely stream, eternally

Pouring wild music down the rocky dell;
A breeze, a playful breeze, that lingers nigh,
As loth to bid its ocean home farewell;
Such voices breathed for aye in Nature's ear,
Like spirits' airy whispers, greet us here.

But far within the depths of yonder nook,
Tangled with copse and matted o'er with fern,
Lo! the glad waters of the sylvan brook

Rush down the cliff, as from a Naiad's urn:
Sure, 'tis some vision rais'd by wizard's call,
The silvery crest of that lone waterfall.

Here, here to sit, and cherish many a dream

Of hours that people memory's storied cell,
The ceaseless dash of Nathan's headlong stream,
The only voice to break each witching spell,
That gathers o'er the soul in such a scene,
Musings of what may be, and what has been.

Lovely, most lovely-human tread profane
May scarce amid these unknown shades intrude,
And Nature spreads around her rude domain
A veil of deep and holy solitude;

Wild haunt of golden visions, such as fling
O'er Fancy's realm their own bright colouring.

Yes there are thousand forms of earth and sky
Hovering around, that oft at eventide,

That heavenly hour when all is poesy,

Along their lov'd untrodden valley glide;

On high they wave their joyous plumes, and weave
The mystic dance above yon foaming Kieve.

Nor unremembered be the Poet's theme,
The beauty of that legendary tale

Of those, whose lives roll'd onwards as a dream,
Those ancient two, the sisters of the dale;
Driven from their native hearth afar to roam,
Within these mouldering walls they found a home. *

A home, but not of peace-the vigil lone,
The prayer of agony, the fast severe

For deeds of former years would fain atone,

Mysterious deeds which none did ever hear;

Time passed-at length that fearful penance closed,
The awful sisters in the grave reposed.

Immediately above the fall are the remains of a small hut, which, as the legend runs, was tenanted some centuries since, by two females, who came, none could tell from whence, and spent the remainder of their lives in this lonely spot. There was a mysterious dignity about them; their very names were unknown, and their story is still related by the peasants of the country with feelings of reverential awe.