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TO CHERTSEY ABBEY.
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described as going from Weybridge southward, up midstream, to "Boggesley,"[1] from "Boggesley" to "Wudham"[2] suðrihte (southward) into "Halewick,"[3] and so forth, between the land of Halewick and the land of "Wintredeshulle,"[4] westerly, to "Fullbrook,"[5] it goeth between "Fecingelye"[6] and the "uergðe;[7] and so forthright to the "hore-stone;"[8]
- ↑ I should take this to be Bowsley; but we are now going up the Wey, and Bowsley is too far off.
- ↑ This should be Woodham, but the situation does not agree, if the next is right.
- ↑ Halewick, is Holywick or Hollick farm.
- ↑ "Wintredeshulle is Wintred's-hill (whoever he might have been). There is a house in Byfleet called "Wintersell," which was part of the Oatlands estate sold in 1846, and a farm in the parish of Byfleet called "Wintersells." There was a William de Wintreshulle, who was steward of the King's house, regn. Henry III.—(Pat. Rolls, 55 Henry III.)
- ↑ Fullbrook I take to be the "Fullingadich" mentioned in the Charter of Friðuwald, near to which was his town, or tun, that is, his inclosed dwelling, or homestead. Mr. Clark informs me that there is now a bridge called "Fullbridge" at a spot where the Shere water-pond became contracted; and it would seem that what was anciently called Fullbrook, was afterwards called Shere water. This pond was drained and planted about 40 years ago.
- ↑ Fecingelye, Mr. Clark thinks, may be Aningsley; but he has since informed me that there is a name of a place something like Fecingelye not far from the Hermitage in Horsell.
- ↑ The tilled land.
- ↑ A Hoar-stone is generally an ancient erect stone pillar, rude, unsculptured, and rough as from the quarry, and called a hoar-stone from its age and whiteness; the adjective being the same that we apply to a gray or hoary head,—a hoar-frost, &c. They were usually set up as memorials of some remarkable event (as Jacob set up a stone in Bethel as a memorial of his dream), or to mark the burial-place of some famous chieftain. In the 25th vol. of "Archæologia" there is a long and interesting paper on hoar-stones by Mr. Hamper, who has employed a great deal of research on the subject, and gives a long list of hoar-stones in various parts of this kingdom; among which he notices that which is referred to in the charter before its. He considers them nothing more
