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ice. I'^atton and Winjcomhe were added at the Con- 

 qiieft to pleafe Bifhop Gifo, from whom King 

 Harold had taken part of his lands, and gave them 

 to the monaftery of Gloucefter. Bifhop Jocehne,* 

 who founded xhe Prebends and Chapter of Wells, 

 added to his fee the pariflies of Chedder and Ax- 

 bridge^ the lad gives narne to the deanery, in which 

 the chief part of thefe marfh lands arefituated. 



iVmongfl: other parlfhes of great antiquity is one 

 cal d Hleadon^ a corruption of Bloody-Down^ fo 

 ca'ied ^t<om the great Daughter of the Danes by 

 Ernulph, the fuppofed fon of Hun fecond earl of 

 Somerfet, anno 845. Indeed, if we, examine anti- 

 quity, we fhail find that in the names of all places 

 io tnd'Wigy don is only a corruption of the word 

 down, juft the fame as ton, at the end of other places, 

 is a corruption of the word town-, from whence we 

 may conclude, that the parifh of Lockfton was ori- 

 ginally the dwelling or town of Locke perhaps long 

 before the Conqueft. Lock/end (now corrupted to 



• This Bilhop is faid to have given an eftate in Bath, called Saint 

 jfohn^s Farm, valued at 6ol. per annum, for the fupport of fix wi- 

 dower men,, fix widow women, and a purveyor; which farm I was 

 employed to furvey in the year 1774, and it was then fo much im-» 

 proved by buildings as to be worth little lefs than io,oool. per annum. 

 It is at prefcnt called xht Blue Alms Charity \ and notwithftanding 

 tTie marvellous increafe of rents, it is flill appropriated to the mainte- 

 j^nce of /y&ir^^tf^ people, only ! 



Locking:, 



