210 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1903 
vinearum frequentia densior, proventu uberior, sapore 
jocundior. Vina enim ipsa bibentum ora tristi non 
torquent acredine, quippe que parum debeant Gallicis 
dulcedine.” 
He notices the Severn bore as the ‘‘ Higra.” 
To Rev. Canon Bazeley my thanks are due for several 
of the following notes and quotations marked (B). 
“The Cotteswolds are not mentioned under that name 
in Registers of St. Peter’s Abbey, Gloucester.” They are 
called “Terra Montana.” (B) 
They are not mentioned in the Gloucester Corporation. 
Charters. (B) 
William of Worcester supposes the name to be derived 
from the parish of Cotes “ Villa Cotys unde mons Cotys- 
wold fortuitur nomen.” (B) 
[15--] Leland, temp. Hen. VIII. [1509-1547.] “In 
Coteswold is straw and plenty of wood.” Itin. v. 64. (B) 
[168--] John Aubrey. [1626-1697.] About 1595 all 
between Easton-Piers and Castle-Comb was a campania, like 
Coteswold, upon which it borders; and then Yatton and 
Castle-Combe did intercommon together.” Halliwell, 
‘Dict., Arch. and Prov. Words,’ sad ‘ Intercommon,’ 
citing Aubrey’s ‘ Wilts,’ MS. Soc. Reg., p. 290. 
This is important evidence that 250 years ago part of Wiltshire 
was reckoned as Cotteswolds, and Aubrey ought to know as he was 
born at Easton Piers. I found this interesting quotation by chance in 
Halliwell some months after the paper had been read, and that again 
was more than a twelvemonth after the demarcation of the Cotteswolds, 
which I made, had been sent in to the Ordnance Survey. That 
demarcation put the Cotteswolds about Badminton as bordering these 
places, but left them all out of that area. ‘ Yatton’ is Yatton Keynell. 
‘ Castle-Comb’ is about 1% miles to the west of it; but it is on the east 
side of the By Brook, which brook I judged should be taken as the 
eastern boundary of the Cotteswolds. About 2% miles east of Castle 
Combe is Lower Easton Percy Farm, near Kington St. Michael, 
which is presumably the ‘Easton Piers’ referred to. Aubrey’s state- 
ment indicates that the land in this neighbourhood was a common, and 
what Tusser calls ‘champaign country,’ shared between the two 
parishes of Castle Combe and Yatton. 
