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ON THE ANGLO-SAXON CHARTERS
Sire Giffrens heath de la Croix;[1] from the heath forthright almost to the further end of Herdies,[2] and so forth through the "Thorny hill"[3] to Hertleys,[4] nether end of the "Menechene Rûde;"[5] from the Rûde down right a way on the west side "Poddenhall"[6] almost to "Winebrigð;"[7] from Winebrigð westerly to a way that goeth to Winchester,[8] that is called "Shrubbestede;"[9] between the Shrubbes and Winebright; going adown northward under the Park Gate (or road), and so forth from the gate going along by the Park's hedge[10] to the
- ↑ The heath of Sir Geoffrey de la Croix! Sir Geoffrey probably held a knight's fee in Egham of the abbot. The Norman name of this knight strengthens the opinion that this description of the boundary was made subsequently to the Norman conquest.
- ↑ Herdies or Hardies.
- ↑ The Thorny Hill must have been the south part of Shrubs Hill.
- ↑ Hertleys must have been where Broomhall Hut now is.
- ↑ The Minchin's Rood, or Nun's Rood, a cross which probably stood on the hill called "Mincing Ride," near Broomhall Hut, on Chobham Heath, between an old intrenchment and the high road to Winchester. The name is doubtless derived from its having belonged to the Benedictine Nunnery of Broomhall, in Sunning Hill, Berks, which escheated to the Crown in 13th Henry VIII., and was granted by that monarch, at the instance of Bishop Fisher, to St. John's College, Cambridge, in the following year. This nunnery is said by Speed and Burton to have been founded by Edward the Black Prince; but this charter shows it to have had a much earlier foundation, if, as it seems reasonable to suppose, the place was called "The Nun's Rood" as eaidy as the date of this charter, that is, previous to A.D. 675, or even as early as the description of the boundary is supposed to have been written; viz., about the reign of Stephen. Mincing Lane, in London, was so called from tenements there, some time pertaining to the Minchins or Nuns of St. Helen's, in Bishopsgate-street.—Stow's Survey of London, p. 50.
- ↑ Potnall Warren.
- ↑ Winebridge.
- ↑ The high road to Winchester.
- ↑ Shrubs Hill.
- ↑ The park-gate and the park's hedge must, I think, have been the gate and fence of the park of Old Windsor, where the Anglo-Saxon kings had a seat until the reign of King Edward the Confessor, who gave it to St. Peter's, Westminster.
