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Scotch Book, "The Complaynt of Scotland," 1549, but the 

 plant is Scotch — the first English writer that names it is Byron, 

 in 1818.* From all this I conclude that Clote does not mean 

 Water Lily, and that Claverton does not owe its name to that 

 grand flower. If I were asked what the name does mean, I 

 should say that I do not know — but in lack of a better derivation 

 I should think that we might adopt the well-known rule of 

 rejecting or paying no attention to initials (consonants), in 

 names, and should say that Ulatfordtun is simply At ford tun, 

 the farm at the ford, which exactly describes the place. But 

 this is a mere guess to be taken qua/dtim valeat. 



I have only in conclusion to say that I offer this paper to the 

 Club not as an exhaustive account of the names of places in the 

 neighbourhood, but as a slight sketch which others can fill in at 

 their leisure.f 



water weeds, as water lillies, candocks, reate, and bull-rushes that 

 breed there."^c. xx. Bat this chapter was not in the first edition, 

 and is coufessedly not original, but a compiled translation from 

 Dubravius and Lebault. The words of Lebault are : — " On si tu 

 veux avoir proffit de son estang ou de la fosse, tu dois prendre soing 

 a la curer de trois en trois ans oster les roseaux, ioncs, et larges fuelles 

 que I'o appelle nymphee de fleurs d'eau," &c. If the "Water Lily was 

 as abundant in the streams round London in Isaac "Walton's time as 

 it is LOW, it seems impossible that he could have overlooked them, both 

 as a keen observer of natural objects and as an angler. 



Since writing this I have found that Cowper's Poem on the Dog 

 and the Water Lily was published in 1799. 



t I have found in the " Synonoma Bartholomei," 1387, a strong 

 confirmation of my opinion that the old writers did not confuse Clote 

 and "Water Lily, he says : — Ungula caballina est duplex, videlicet 

 terrestris quae coufert ptisicis et ethicis, et aquatica, cujus flos dicitur 

 nenufar. Ungula caballina campestris, i. clote." 



