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[ iv ] How far the Editor has ucceeded in his attempt to apply the modern names to the antient, mut be left to the judgment of his readers. He, by no means, coniders the cheme perfect, though he has pared neither pains nor enquiries to render it o. The difficulties of forming an Index, of this kind, were greatly enhanced by the circumtance of the Hundreds of this County being omitted in Domeday. For, unfortunately, the Manors and Etates in Wilthire are not therein arranged under their repective Hundreds, as they are in many other Counties, and, therefore, it was ometimes neceary for the Editor, to earch the county at large, for a ynonymous appellation, when, if the place had been allotted to it's proper Hundred, the decription alone might have immediately led him to it's certain dicovery.

The names of Winterbourn, Clive, Langford, &c. &c. o frequently occur in Domeday, and are till o frequently found in various parts of this County, that it would be incumbent on an Editor to be intimately acquainted with the actual urvey of every parih, and even of it's partial diviions, before he could pretend to apply uch names, with preciion, to their repective ituations. But this difficulty may, in a great meaure, be remedied with the aitance of the preent pro-