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only, without any furname; and it is left totally 

 unnoticed as a parifh in Bacon's new as well as every 

 other edition of E5lorC% Thefaurus. 



I am the more convinced the flat country I am 

 dcfcribing was once overflown by the fea, from the 

 names given to certain places in it. Jofeph of 

 Arimathea and his followers, according to Treculas^ 

 lib. ii. cap. 4, had as much land given him as could 

 be furrounded by twelve ox-hides cut intc fmall 

 thongs, which he at firft: called Ynijytriny but "''ter : 

 wards the Ifland oi Avalon-y at prefent it is callel 

 Glafton twelve Hides, The high hill called Brent- 

 knoll (on the top of which was a Roman garrifon*) 

 was ftiled by the monks of Glaftonbury, in an an- 

 cient grant of theirs, the Little IJland cf Frogs y\ and 

 became famous for giving birth to the noted Adam 

 de Marijco^ i. e. Adam of the Marjhy an author of 

 great piety and learning, who flouriflied in 1257, 

 Befides the above iflands, there are a great number 

 of villages, farms, and places, called IJlandsy IJle-portSy 

 Hills, Mounts, Batches, Warfs, Warths, and JVaths, 

 with the epithets great, little, long, floor t, high, low, 



• The top of this hill contains about ten acres, having been furw 

 rounded by a thick wall, the traces of which are now vifible; and 

 within my own remembrance there was a l^ge quantity of Roman 

 coins found upon it, fo that I cannot doubt of its having been a 

 Roman ftation. 



t Sec John Roufe. 



hither^ 



