[20]For the sake of brevity, let me add that William of Malmesbury (_Gesta Regum Anglorum_, vol. ii. p. 455, published by the English Historical Society, 1840), Henry of Huntingdon (_Historiarum_, lib. vi., in Savile’s _Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores_, p. 371), Simon of Durham (_De Gestis Regum Anglorum_, in the _Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores Decem_, p. 225), copying word for word from Florence, Roger Hoveden (_Annalium Pars Prior, Willielmus Junior_, in the _Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores_, p. 468), Roger of Wendover (_Flores Historiarum_, vol. ii. pp. 25, 26, published by the English Historical Society), Walter Hemingburgh (_De Gestis Regum Angliæ_, vol. i. p. 33, published by the English Historical Society), and John Ross (_Historia Regum Angliæ_, pp. 112, 113. Ed. Hearne. Oxford, 1716), repeat, according to their different degrees of accuracy, the general story of the Conqueror destroying villages and exterminating the inhabitants. [21]_The Chronicle._ Ed. Thorpe, as before quoted. Nor does the writer, when another opportunity presents itself at Rufus’s death, mention the matter, but passes it over in significant silence. The same volume, p. 364. [22]See _Domesday_ (the photo-zincographed fac-simile of the part relating to Hampshire; published at the Ordnance Survey Office, 1861), p. xxix. b, under Bertramelei, Pistelslai, Odetune, Oxelei, &c. [23]See in _Domesday_, as before, p. xxvii. b, the entry under Langelei—“Aluric Petit tenet unam virgatam in Forestâ.” See, too, p. iii. b, under Edlinges. [24]See in _Domesday_, under Thuinam, Holeest, Slacham, Rinwede, p. iv. a; and Herdel, p. xxviii. b. [25]See in _Domesday_, out of many instances, Esselei and Suei, p. xxix. b; Bailocheslei, p. xiv. b; Wolnetune and Bedeslei, p. xxviii. a; Hentune, p. xxviii. b; and Linhest, p. iv. a. [26]It is possible that whilst the survey was being taken Saulf died. If this be so, we find an instance of feeling in allowing his widow to still rent the lands at Hubborn, which could little have been expected. The name seems to have been misspelt in various entries. See _Domesday_, p. xxix. b, under Sanhest and Melleford. [27]Aluric is probably the physician of that name mentioned in _Domesday_, p. xxix. a, as holding land in the hundred of Egheiete. Not to take up further space, let me here only notice some few out of the many Old-English names of persons in _Domesday_ holding lands in places which had been more or less afforested, such as Godric (probably Godric Malf) at Wootton, Willac in the hundred of Egheiete, Uluric at Godshill, in the actual Forest, and Wislac at Oxley. See _Domesday_ under the words Odetune, Godes-manes-camp, and Oxelei, p. xxix. b. See, also, under Totintone, p. xxvii. a, where Agemund and Alric hold lands which the former, and the latter’s father, had held of Edward.