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l/icking, as if a participle) was one end of the pof- 

 felTions of Locke^ as alfo Lock/end- tkady Lock's Weft^ 

 ^owtiy now called Wefton above the Jea^ and nnany 

 others of like innport. Adjoining Lock*s-Town 

 on the Eaft is a parifh lying between two hills 

 called Comb-^owTti which in all probability the pro- 

 prietor of Lock's-Town beftowed as a gift wpon 

 one of our ancierit Bifhops, being at.prefent called 

 Compon-Bijhopy and dignified with having a -(^e- 

 bend's flail in the cathedral church of Wells^^^l he 

 fame obfervations may be made on the l^iidi^ >ad- 

 joining called Winterton^ JVinter/combe^ W, uerb'ad^ 

 JVinterbill^ &c* all which names feeim^rto jignify'to 

 us that the villages thus called were one time or 

 other the property of one V/intery unLefs we caa 

 fuppofe them to have been called thus from the 

 feafon pf the year. 



It may be obferved, that nwft of thefe parifhes, 

 which have the appearance of antiquity, have a 

 fmall portion of land higher than the marfhy parts^ 

 and the churches are built upon fuch places as were 

 not likely to be overflown bys.the fea. Indeed the 

 whole of thefe marfli lands, which comprehend 

 the quantity of acres contained in twenty miles 

 fquare, were one part conftantly, and the other fre- 

 quently, overflown either by the fea or land floods, 

 until the reign of Henry II. when banks were made 



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