Here I need to not omit the most historical manuscript of England, Domesday Book, deposited within the Exchequer, the spring and fountain of all English chorography, composed in the reign of William the Conqueror: by the assistance of those, the reader will observe, and discover a series, and succession of the lords of each manor and city on this historical past, brought down from the reign of Edward the Confessor, to this present time, and without the help of this ever-useful manu- script, vain, weak, and imperfect, must every try be in a historical past of this nature. As every reader will observe, that I differ in my derivation of the names of the towns herein mentioned, from the generality of historians, I look upon myself obliged, and in duty certain, to assign my causes for thus doing, and should say, that our ancient historians were bad ety- mologists, and that some trendy ones could also be ranked in the same class. Within the course of 1862 indeed, when the Confederate armies had secured many victories, Gladstone, speaking at Newcastle, used the well-known expression that President Jefferson Davis had “made a nation”; and Lord Palmerston’s language in the House of Commons-whereas opposing a motion for the recognition of the South-induced the impression that his thoughts were tending in the same path as Mr Gladstone’s.
He enters the night time-shrouded house in quest of the Yellow Sign, all bolts and bars rotting at his touch. The sixty nine place, for these of you might have been living underneath a rock, is the sexual act in which two folks concurrently give and receive oral intercourse with one another. Bo, or bu, denotes the winding of any stream; thus, Bow (by Stratford) in Middlesex;-Bows in Yorkshire (the ancient Roman Levatre;)- Boethorp by Norwich.-Ken is the British name of rivers in many counties, Lancashire, Wiltshire, and Berkshire; from this proceed Ken- ford and Kenet, towns in Cambridgeshire; and Leland calls Kenlet a reasonably brook, within the vale of Montgomery; and Aken a famous city in Germany, known as by the French, Aix-la-Chapelle.-Buckworth or Bu- cheworth, in Huntingdonshire, is seated on the confluence of two rivers, as price at all times implies, (thus Keyserwart in Germany;) and Buxton. Erith is a city (within the parish of Bluntsham) in Huntingdonshire, the place was the grand ford or passage out of that county into the Isle of Ely, over the river Ouse; so that, to make the aforesaid rebus full, the hart ought to have been at the least passant, or trippant, to set forth the ford. The said creator thinks, that Buckinghamshire has its title from beech-timber, and some suppose from its plenty of bucks.-There are four towns in this county of Norfolk, called Buckenham, or Buckingham; all these have their site by some stream of water, or river, and are wrote within the grand survey, Bokenham, Bukenham, and Bucham.
Norfolk is wrote in the grand survey, Buchestuna and Bukestun. Norroy, King at Arms, was employed in about forty years, being, for probably the most part, extracts out of historic records and manuscripts referring to temporal tenures; and though wrote in very minute pieces and fragments of paper, and undigested, were of singular and eminent service; for the favour, and assist of those, I’m obliged to Thomas Martin, Gent. To this it could also be replied, that the true, true, and outdated names of towns are to be taken from the Book of Domesday, which being com- posed in the reign of the Conqueror, remain there, as they were in the time of Edward the Confessor, and within the Saxon age; since that point they’re much corrupted, and falsely spelt.-Ashwell, in that guide, is wrote Escewell, (seated on the river Read,)-Ashill in Nor- folk, Escelea, seated on wet, spongy meadows; the hundred being known as Weyland. Whereas Apple- dore is derived (because the town of Appleby in Westmoreland is, the place a well-known Roman station was, referred to as by Antoninus, in his Itinerary, Abal- laba) from the British phrase ab, or av, which phrase signifies a river, or water; le and by are Saxon extra words, expressing a dwelling by the water: thus we find the towns of Appleton, Appleford, and the hundred of Appletree in Derbyshire.-Barham is a ham or dwelling on a hill, from Bergh; thus, Barley and Barkway, (a method over the hills,) in Hertfordshire, and Barton, a town on, or by a hill, and Barrow, a tumulus.
He marched from Calais to Bordeaux, inflicted nice misery on Picardy, Champagne and Berry, and left half his army useless by the way. The History of the County of Norfolk, (a county of a really nice ex- tent,) being left unfinished by the Reverend Mr. Blomefield, at his loss of life, who had handled mainly on the southern elements of it, and no individual since that time proposing, or inclining to complete the same: as I was identified to have made, for many years previous, appreciable col- lections on that subject, and had assisted Mr. Blomefield, present- ing him with all the history of the lots of of Grimshow, and South Greenhow, a number of gentlemen solicited me to undertake this work, which I complied with, in hopes of its being acceptable, not only to the gentlemen of Norfolk, but to all lovers of antiquity basically. To the comment above made, it may be objected, that there are various towns that take their names from timber of different varieties, that are subject to decay, and not from any pure, durable site; as Ashwell in Hertfordshire; Ashill in Norfolk; Ashsted in Surry, from ash bushes.