in the two last editions of Dugdale's Monasticon: yet out of the five passages in the Liber Winton where the name of Sapalanda occurs, three seem to me to negative the in- ference of Dr. Lyttleton: they are as follows:
"Borewoldus Horloc tenuit i. domum tempore Regis Edwardi, et facit (sic) omnem consuetudinem. Modo tenent monachi et fac[it][1] similiter consuetudinem et redd[it] eis 30d. de Sapalanda."
"Lowricus presbyter de Sapalanda monacorum tenuit i. domum T. R. E. et reddit omnem consuetudinem et 30d."
"Hunbric tenuit quandam terram de Sapalanda T. R. E. et facit omnem consuetudinem, Modo tenet eam Alwinus Barbitre et facit similiter."
The accidental position of the words "de Sapalanda," after the word "monachis," in the two first entries, has occasioned the ambiguity; the three last shew that Sapaland was the name or other description of some place, estate, or land, out of which some Winchester monastery derived a revenue, amounting, in the case of each tenement, (except the one occupied by Hunbric,) to 2s. 6d.[2]
The word "monachi" is used alone in several instances, as in fol. 12 (p. 541 b, of the printed copy), and probably means the monks of St. Swithun. Whatever may have given rise to the name of Sapaland, the land itself from which the Sapland rents were derived, appears from the property described in connection with it to have been on the north, or north-east side of the city, near Ovington; at least there are circumstances which lead me to conjecture that such was the fact.
It is singular that it did not occur to the bishop to make another addition to the Monasticon on the authority of the same record; for, on fol. 7, we have "inter illam terram et monasterium Sancti Walarici erat una venella," &c. It might plausibly be inferred from this that there was a monastery of St. Valery at Winchester, if we did not know that a parish church was sometimes designated as a minster, without any pretence to conventuality, and that in fact there was such a church near the Westgate at Winchester. E. Smirke.
- ↑ The tenement, and not the tenant, is here, and in other places in the record, represented as doing or owing the service and rents.
- ↑ One would expect to find some such local name as Sapland, Sopland, or Shapland, in the neighbourhood; but I am not aware that there is such. We have Chilland, Milland, Boysland, &c.
