28 PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 



In Gloucestershire we have Puckle Church Hundred 

 and Parish Puckmere in Dymock, and Puck pit in Maise- 

 more. 



Will d the Wisp, a personification from the Saxon 

 Wile, meaning deceit, and Wisp a small bundle of straw 

 ignited. The Will o' the Wisp or Ignis Fatims has been 

 seen in the Leadon Meadows at Lassington. There is 

 Will's Field in Gloucestershire, and Wilkin's Field in 

 Pendock. 



Mab, Tom Thumb, Patch, Grim Tib, Pin, Trip, Tick, 

 etc., are all names of Fairies. 



In Herefordshire there is Mabbled Plock, that is a field 

 in which one would be liable to be Mab — led. I have 

 myself heard country people say of a man who was 

 stupified that he was Mambled or Mombled — clearly from 

 Mab — led. 



In Gloucestershire there is Pinswell Camp,- and Trip- 

 hurst. In Madresfield there is Drypshill. And in Handley 

 Castle, Tickridge. 



A Short Account of Thirteen Parishes 

 IN Gloucestershire by way of illustration 



Lassington, formerly Lassingdon and Lessedune or 

 Lesser Down, or elevated spot in opposition to Church- 

 down, which was the greater Down, both of which were 

 at one time held by the same proprietor. 



In the reign of Edward the Confessor, Ulchatel held 

 Lessedune in Langebridge Hundred, a manor of two hides. 

 Roger held it of Thomas, Archbishop of York, in the 

 time of the Conqueror. The family of Musgros, was 

 possessed of two-thirds of it for many generations, one of 

 whom, (Walter) gave to the Hospital of St. Bartholomew, 

 in Gloucester, two cranocs (eight bushels) of oats, payable 

 out of his barn at Lessedune, on Michaelmas Day, for 

 ever. 



