along the Thames abutting on "Oxlake Ford;"[1] and along the Thames to "Boresborough;"[2] and so forth along the Thames to "Hamenege;"[3] and so forth along the stream by "Northenhamenyge;"[3] and so forth along the Thames, by mid-stream again to "Waiemouth."
The boundaries, as described in the charters of Friðwald and Ælfred, correspond with each other from the Hore thorn to Weymouth. But Friðwald's charter goes on to say:—
Thus there are many of the islets which belong to Chertsey and to Thorpe; that is to say, there are eight, more or less, and seven pastures, which are all between Weales Hyth and Weymouth.
[Another landmark we shall find hereafterward, that was in Ælfred the wise king's day, to Cherte.][4]
These be the land marks of the fifteen-hide land in Egeham. This beeth the land mark at Egeham; that is, first at the Shigtren above Halsham,[5] and so forthright to the threm burghen;[5] from the Burghs to Eccantriwe;[5] forthright extending to the south end of
- ↑ Oxlake is found in the old map of the abbey domain in Manning and Bray's Surrey.
- ↑ Near Chertsey bridge is a piece of land called "Boseyte," which is part of Chertsey parish, and in Surrey, although on the Middlesex side of the river. Mr. Bray mentions it as an instance of the river having, in some places, altered its current. It is shown on the old plan of the abbey lands, in Manning and Bray's Surrey, and is there on the same side of the river as Mixtenham. Boseyte was probably the Boresborough of the charter.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 There are two islands in the Thames, opposite to Ham (in Chertsey), which are called the Ham eyots, and are doubtless the eyots indicated in the charter as Hameneye and Northenhameneye, one of which is in a bend of the river running north and south, and above stream from the other island, which is in a bend running from west to east.
- ↑ This appears to have been a subsequent interpolation in the copy of the charter.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 The Shigtren or Siohtren, the Threm Burghen, and the Eccantriwe, are all on the boundary of Chertsey.
