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in the two last editions of Dngdale'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) oranem consuetudinem. Modo tenent monachi et fac[it]^ similiter consuetudinem et redd[it] eis 30r/. de Sapalanda.' " Lowricus presbyter de Sapalanda monaeonan tenuit i. domum T. R. E. et reddit omnem consuetudinem et 30f/." " Hunbric tenuit quandam terrain de Sapalanda T. R. E. et facit omnem consuetudinem, Modo tenet earn 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.e 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 jMonasticon on the authority of the same record ; for, on fol. 7, we have " inter illam terram et monasterium Sancti TFalarici 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 local name as Sapland, Sopland, or Shap- here, and in other places in the record, re- land, in the neighbourhood ; hut I am not presented as doing or owing the service aware that there is such. We have Chil- and rents. land, Milland, Boysland, &c. " One would expect to find some such