302 On some Ancient Charters relating to North Newenton. 



brief description, as the last record of this remnant of Roman do- 

 minion. It is to be wished that some effort could have been made 

 to rescue the remaining portion of the pavements, at any rate, from 

 the sure destruction which awaits them. The claims of Dame Ceres 

 and John Barleycorn are paramount in these days ; and the pick 

 and ploughshare of the Anglo-Saxon have no tenderness for the 

 massive handiwork of the once masters of the world. And, as it is 

 believed that the next work on this interesting site will be the re- 

 moval of the foundations lately exposed ; it is feared that it must 

 be said of this slight monument, as of the Power to which it 

 testifies — "fuit." 



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Vicarage, 



IBradford-on-Avon, 



January, 1881. 

 Deae Sie, 



As you refer rather pointedly to me, in some notes appended by 

 yourself to a paper in your last number, on an ancient charter relating to 

 North Newnton, you will not think me, I hope, presuming too much, if I 

 make a few additional observations upon it. 



I make these remarks in no spirit of captious criticism, but simply because, 

 for reasons that I will give, I am able to throw a little additional light upon 

 the matter. 



Your correspondent, by not referring to the original Anglo-Saxon charters, 

 but working only from an obscure Latin translation, made evidently by some 

 mediaeval scribe who must have had but an imperfect knowledge of the original 

 language, has had but a poor chance at best. 



I venture to give the charters themselves, with a translation. I will not 

 attempt to translate the proper names ; not a few of them are, I am persuaded, 

 the corrupt forms of some personal name, the memory of which has long since 



