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7 æt ambresbyrig.[1] 7 æt deone.[2] 7 æt sturnemyster.[3] 7 æt gifle.[4] 7 æt cruærn.[5] 7 æt hwitan cyrican.[6] 7 æt axanmuðan. 7 æt branecescumbe. 7 æt columtune.[7] 7 æt twyfyrde.[8] 7 æt mylenburnan.[9] 7 æt exanmynster.[10] 7 æt suðeswyrðe.[11] 7 æt liwtune[12] 7 þa land þe þær to hyran. ꝥ synd ealle þe ic on wealcynne[13] hæbbe butan twiconscire.[14]
7 minne yldstan dehter[15] þæne ham æt welewe.[16]
- ↑ Ambresbury, Co. Wilt.
- ↑ Down, Co. Dors. or Devon.
- ↑ Sturminster, Co. Dors.
- ↑ Gidley, Co. Devon.
- ↑ Crewkern, Co. Som.
- ↑ Whitchurch, Co. Hant.
- ↑ Axmouth, Branscomb, Columbton, Co. Devon.
- ↑ Twiford, Co. Hant.
- ↑ Milbourn, Co. Dors. or Som.
- ↑ Axminster, Co. Devon.
- ↑ Of this I find nothing.
- ↑ Litten, of which there is one in Dors. and one in Som.
- ↑ "On wealcynne." The author of the printed Translation hath rendered this "sub cœlo," as if Alfred had meant to say, under the Welkin. But beside that this Word is always written, in the Saxon language, weolcen, wolcen or welcn, the very termination, cynne naturally refers us to some district. The only Question is, What that district was? - Now the Britons, who retired into the West of England, were called, by our Saxon ancestors, wealas, and their Tribes, weala cynne, i.e. Britannorum gentes. The word indeed, is, at present, retained in the name of those only who retired to the extremity of the island; who are to this day called Corn-wealas. But this does not hinder that it might foremerly extend farther. Nay, the prefix, Corn, applied to one seat of the wealas, seems to imply that there were other wealas beside these, and bordering upon them. Accordingly, I do suppose that, by a latitude peculiar to common speech, the inhabitants of Devon, or even of Somersetshire, might be called wealas also: And that, therefore, when Alfred had bequeathed his Estates in these parts, he finished with saying, ꝥ synd ealle þe ic on weal-cynne hæbbe butan triconscire, i.e. as we should express it now, "Which are all that I have in the West of England, except in Cornwall." And, as a proof of this, it is observable, that none of the Lands hereafter bequeathed are farther West than Wiltshire.
- ↑ This hath been explained already in Note q p. 10.
- ↑ His eldest daughter was Ethelfleda, who married Ethelred, D. of Mercia; after whose death, A°. 912, she governed that Province till her own decease, 15 Jun. A°. 919.
- ↑ Wellow, Co. Hant.
