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7 þære medemestan[1] æt [2]clearan. 7 æt [3]

7 þære gingestan [4]þone ham æt [5]welig. 7 æt [6]æsctune. 7 æt [7]cippan hamme.

7 æðelme[8] mines broðer suna þone ham æt ealdingburnan.[9] 7 æt cumtune.[10] 7 æt crundellan.[11] 7 æt beadingum.[12] 7 beadinga hamme.[13] 7 æt burnham.[14] 7 æt þunresfelda.[15] 7 æð æscengum.[16]

7 aþelwolde[17] mines broðor suna þone ham æt godelmingum. 7 æt gyldeforda.[18] 7 æt stæningum.[19]

  1. His middlemost daughter, as he calls her, was Ethelgeda, a Nun, and afterwards Abbess of Shaftsbury, where she died and was buried.
  2. King's Clere, Co. Hant.
  3. Probably one of those places in Hampshire which still bear this addition to their Name, viz. Preston-Candever, Chilton-Candever.
  4. The youngest daughter of Alfred was Elfrida, who married Baldwin. II. Earl of Flanders; and dying, 7 Jun. A°. 929, was buried in the Monastery of St. Peter at Ghent.
  5. Willey, Co. Wilt.
  6. Ashton, Co. Wilt.
  7. Chippenham, Co. Wilt.
  8. Æthelm, the eldest son of K. Ethelbert elder brother of Alfred.
  9. Aldingbourn, Co. Sussex.
  10. Compton, Co. Sussex.
  11. Crundal, Co. Hant.
  12. Beden, Co. Sussex.
  13. Bedingham, Co. Sussex.
  14. Barnham, Co. Sussex.
  15. I take this to have been the Manor of Thundersfield in the parish of Horsey, near Reygate in Surrey, where was formerly a Castle of considerable strength.
  16. Probably Eashing in the parish of Godelming in Surrey, the Manor of which also belonged to Alfred.
  17. Ethelwold, the youngest son of K. Ethelbert elder brother of Alfred; who died in arms against Edward his cousin, the son and successor of Alfred, A°. 905.
  18. Godelming and Gildford, both in Surrey.
  19. Steyning in Sussex.