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ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS

ANGLO-SAXON REMAINS after the accession of Canute (1017), and it is probable he was buried in front of the altar of the church, which was rebuilt under his auspices and at his expense. Toki was perhaps the celebrated courtier of Canute, who is mentioned on several documents ranging from 1019 to 1043^[1]

It is interesting to note also that a member of the Cheping (Kypping) family is mentioned in Domesday Book^[2] as holding two of the Stratfield manors in the reign of Edward the Confessor; and the name Tuki may possibly be read on the sepulchral slab^[3] found in 1852, 20 feet deep, in St. Paul's churchyard and now preserved in the museum at the Guildhall.

1. Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires du Nord, 1945-52, pp. 246-317
2. For Cheping in connection with Ralf de Mortimer, see V.C.H. Hants, i. 428, 334
3. Society of Antiquaries, Proceedings, sær. 1, ii; ; Arch. Joun. x. 82, xlii. 251.

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