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was given charge of the St. Alban's Abbey property in 

 Watford after the Dissolution in 1544. Newcome's 

 'History of St. Albans Abbey,' p. 515. 



Saddler's Stile Field, 1854. 

 (0) St. Clowes or St. Cleeres, 1601 (Cuss., 'Cash. Hund.,' p. 174). 

 In Norden's Map (lfi73), Sinklees; the name of the house 

 which stood on the site of Oxhey Place. 



Salmon's Field, 1854. 



Saunder's Field, 1854. 



Scotch Ley, 1803. Probably a corruption of shot or scot. 



Shallow Croft, 1803. 



Shamble-pond Field, 1803. 



Sharats, 1803. 

 (L) Sheldon Croft, 1854. 



Shepherd's Mead, 1854. 

 (0) Sherwood's Wood. 



Shittle Croft, 1803. The Middle English schyttyl means the 

 bar of a door ; can this name mean the barred or fenced 

 croft ? 

 (0) Shoulder of Mutton Field, 1854. 



Shrowdells or Shrodells, 1854. On comparing this name with 

 Shrofdeles and Shrofdole, which occur at Bicester, Oxon, in 

 1325, it seems that the full form must be Shrove-doles, 

 perhaps a common field or meadow which was doled out 

 among the commoners at Shrove Tide ; the name Shrovedoles 

 also occurs at Window, Bucks, in 1361. 

 (0) Sidelands, 1854. Vide p. 200. 



Silver Field, 1854. 

 (0) Silvester Field, 1854. 

 (0) Simmon's Mead, 1854. 



(0) Sixpenny Hill. There is a Sixpenny Common at Stevenage ; 

 we may probably refer the name to the same source as that 

 of Penny Ham at Cote, near Bampton, Oxon, which was 

 put up to auction every year among the commoners, and 

 which sold for a penny in wet seasons {^ Archceologia^ 

 xxxiii, 269). 



Slad Field, 1803. A.S. slced, a narrow valley; "a breadth 

 of greensward in a ploughed field, or in plantations " 

 (H.P.). For the literary use of the word, cf. Drayton's 

 'Polyolbion' (1613), "satyrs that in slades and gloomy 

 dimbles dwell," vol. ii, p. 690. 



Soot House Field, 1854. 



Staggs, 1803. 

 (L) Stanboroughs, The, 1854. 



Stanes. 



Stanishot, 1803. Probably, like " Stanes," so called from the 

 boundary stones, such as may still be seen on the Common 

 Moor, near Bricket Wood. 



Stapel Field, 1803. A.S. stapel, a branch or stump. 



Starve Acre, 1854. Cf. Hungerlands. 



