8o Charles G. Osgood, 



This general description of the Ouse is illustrated by any map. 

 The tributaries, however, offer some difficulty. The Cle, or Clee 

 in Holinshed, is the modern Ouzel or Lovat, as appears by his 

 description (i. 173) ". 'This river riseth in the verie confines be- 

 tweene Buckingham and Bedfordshires, not farre from Whip- 

 pesnade [modern Whipsnade on the heights three miles south of 

 Dunstable], and going on toward the northwest, by Eaton [Eaton 

 Bray?] and Laiton [Leighton Buzzard], it commeth to Linchlade 

 [Linslade], where it entreth whollie into Buckinghamshire, and 

 so goeth on by Hammond [Stoke Hammond], Brickie [Brickhill, 

 Great and Little], Fennie Stratford, Simpson, Walton, and 

 Middleton [Milton Keynes], . . . and so goeth on till it meet 

 with the Ouze neere unto Newport [Newport Pagnell].' 



The Were is the modern Tove, which joins the Ouze from the 

 northwest, near Stony Stratford and Wolverton, some five or 

 six miles above the Ouzel. 'Here,' says Holinshed (i. 173), 'the 

 Ouze meeteth with a water (called, as Leland conjectureth, the 

 Vere or Were) on the left hand, as you go downewards, that 

 commeth betweene Wedon [Weedon Lois] and Wexenham [Wap- 

 penham?] in Northamptonshire, and goeth by Towcester, and 

 Alderton, and not farre from Wolverton and Haversham into 

 the foresaid Ouze, which goeth also from hence to Newport- 

 paganell.' Then follows the account of the Clee. 



The Grant is, of course, the modern Granta or Cam, flowing 

 through Cambridge. As you go upstream, about three miles 

 south of Cambridge, and nearly a mile above Grantchester, the 

 river is divided: one branch (a) comes from Ashwell and the 

 southwest, and on modern maps is named the Cam or Rhee; 

 another comes from the southeast, which two or three miles 

 above, near Stapleford, is again divided, one branch (b) flowing 

 from Great Chesterford and the south, and now named on some 

 maps Cam, on others Granta; the other branch (c) flowing from 

 Linton and the southeast, and now named Granta. Below the 

 junction where all these streams are united in one, the river is 

 the Cam or Granta until after passing Cambridge, when it is 

 simply the Cam. In Holinshed (i. 173-5) the name Cam does 

 not occur; (a) is called the Rhee or Barrington. Water, (b) the 

 Granta, and (c) the Babren. As Harrison, author of the 

 description in Holinshed, had studied at Cambridge, and by his 

 own statement (i. 174) had viewed this region at least in part, 



