Garrow’s 
“ History of 
Croydon,” 
1818. 
Hertfordshire 
Bourne. 
Vipsies of 
Yorkshire. 
Childrey’s 
“ Britannia 
Baconica,”’ 
1661. 
+ 
editions since, in the edition of 1695, page 159, the 
following quotation appears with reference to the 
Croydon Bourne flow : 
‘¢The Vandal* is augmented by a small river from 
the east which rises at Croydon formerly Cradiden, 
lying under the hills.” “ For the torrent that the vulgar 
affirm to rise here sometimes and to presage dearth and 
pestilence; it seems hardly worth so much as the 
mentioning, tho’ perhaps it may have something of 
truth in it.” 
The above passage from Camden appears in Garrow’s 
‘¢ History of Croydon,” which was published in 1818. 
There is also mention of the Hertfordshire Bourne 
in Camden, pages 301 and 305. 
‘A certain brook near it (Watling Street) call* 
Wenmer,{ which (as the vulgar believe) when ever it 
breaks out and swells higher than usual, always por- 
tends dearth or troublesome times.” 
‘«« North-west from hence is Markat, or more truly 
Meergate, 7.e. (says Norden) an issue or out-gule of 
water which seems to refer to the River Womer, 
mentioned by our author.{ This is said to have broke 
out in the time of Edward 4, and to have run from 
the 19th February till the 14th June following.” 
Camden also refers to the Vipsies of Yorkshire, now 
called Gipseys, another name for a Bourne flow. 
In Childrey’s ‘‘ Britannia Baconica, or the Natural 
Rarities of England, Scotland, and Wales,” published 
in 1661, there are references to Bourne flows. 
* The Vandal was the old name of the Wandle, 
+ It is also called Womer, 
t “Nord,” p. 20, 
