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to keep back the tide; but it was not till the rei^n 

 of Queen Elizabeth, that the no lefs famous than 

 ijfeful dam called Highbridge was built, having three 

 l^rge arches fufHcient to drain the country, with 

 flood-gates of fuch ftrength as to keep back the 

 tidej fo that we frequently fee the water on the 

 Weft fide of the bridge lying againft the fea from 

 twenty to thirty feet higher than it is on the Eaft 



or land fide. 

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s this draining the land gave rife to fome 

 I ^ -.• n:esj their very names feem to indicate as 

 iniif^hj^i '.. Chad Seay i. e. the land late a fea, de- 

 dicated ici 6"/, Chadi Middle Sea, lying between 

 th(; parifh of AH Bry^ (now Audry or Othery) and 

 Wefi-town Sea and handy (now IVeJlonzoyland) Badge-" 

 war thy that is, the warth (or warf as anciently 

 fpelt) of Badge-, Hunt's Pill, that is, the Pill of Hunt^ 

 ^nd fo of others. It feems as though Lympjhamy 

 together with Burnhaniy BerroWy and Brean, whofe 

 churches fland within a few yards of high water- 

 mark, are ftill more new 3 nay, the two parifhes of 

 Biddes-ham and Aller-town were, long fincc the 

 Revoliition, adlually chapels of eafe to JVedmorei 

 and the flourilhing pariih whofe church is dedicated 

 to Saint Marky is a fpurious iffue of that ancient 

 place; for although it has 800 fouls in' it at this 

 time, the publick knows it by the name of Mark 



only 



