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foundation culminated in the 10th century; by the 11th decay had 
set in. Out of the enormous mass of Glastonbury papers at 
Longleat, the most important of which have been examined by Canon 
_ Jackson, the Somerset Record Society have printed (1891) the 
“Rentalia et Custumaria” of Michael de Ambresbury, with a 
 yaluable aud succinct preface by Bishop Hobhouse and notes by 
_ Mr. C. Elton. Michael de Ambresbury was Abbot of Glastonbury 
from 1235 to 1260, and caused a survey to be made of all the 
_ Abbey estates, and it is in this survey that a full account of Long- 
bridge is given (p. 133). As the work is rather inaccessible, it will 
be well to give some extracts from it, for the account presents 
_ several features of interest. The local names which this list gives 
are the following :— 
The Pottery and a mill (both at Crockerton). Lustiggesbrom, 
Benchacre, Sandvei, Werescumbe, or Worscombe, Wdeleise 
(Woodleas), Blankland, Gareshurthe, Wexingaker, Tonfurlong, 
Reeve hammes (that is, large riverside meadows), Sulstiche, 
Lord’s Hill; the name Pudel-en-ham may be found in Piddewell-mede 
_ (probably not the same as Potley on the top of Lord’s Hill, because a 
“ham” seems always to be a flat pasture near a stream); the via patria 
would be the local road leading thither; Eferbeorh might well be derived 
from Eofor, a wild boar, and be seen now in the farm called Long Ivor; 
(compare Eversley, which is Eofors-ley) ; Henlega and Peocesham have left 
_ no traces, but as there is ‘‘ pucksey ” mead in Crockerton, meaning ‘‘ marshy,” 
there may have been one in the more marshy Longbridge. But the difficulty 
is, that if the ‘‘ via militaris” is that which runs along the ridge, it runs too 
far south of the hill of Long Ivor farm, and does not quite touch it; Peocesham 
must be looked for by some spring, in some hollow of the high ground, 

w the village. The other difficulty is, that Wulfhelm, Archbishop of 
nterbury from 924 to 934, is said to have given the manor of Longbridge 
ee onbury ; yet here we find Edgar giving what appears to be a ork 
forgery, whence comes this familiarity with what are apparently Deverill 
_ names and with places which may more or less be identified still ? 
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