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| am indebted to Mr W. G. Hutchison for the next reference, which 
also arrived after the paper had been read. 
[168-.] Aubrey. “ The north part of Wilts adjoyning 
to Stonebrush Coteswold, and is part of Coteswold, the 
arable gretton-grounds beare an abundance of wyld 
tansie.” Halliwell, ‘ Dict.,’ sé ‘Gratten,’ citing Aubrey’s 
‘Wilts, MS., p. 121. 
1597-8. Shakespeare. II. Henry LV Act alls, Se. 2: 
“There was I and little John Doit of Staffordshire and 
black George Bare, and Francis Pickbone, and Will 
Squele, a Cotswold man; you had not four such swinge- 
bucklers in all the inns o’ court again.” 
1600. [William Camden.] Guilielmus Camdenus, 
‘Britannia ... sive florentissimorum regnorum, Angliae, 
Scotiae, Hiberniae,’ etc. 
“Orientalior pars collibus exsurgens Cotteswold 
vocatur.” (p. 311). (B) 
“A primaria civitate regio Vallis Glocestriae dicitur.” 
(p. 311). 
“ Hactenus qu trans Sabrinam, et ad Sabrinam sita sunt 
‘cursim perstrinximus, nunc ad orientalem partem pro- 
erediamur quam collibus attolli diximus, COTSWOLD 
scilicet quae a collibus et ouilibus sic dicta. Montes enim 
et colles WOULDS olim dixerunt Angli, unde Glossarium 
antiquum Alpes Italiae THE WOULDS OF ITALIE inter- 
pretatur.” (p. 319). 
1613-1622, Drayton, ° Polyolbion. ‘But Cotswold 
wisely fills her with whitest kind.” (B) 
“to tell 
How Ev’sham’s fertile vale at first in liking fell 
With Cotswold, that great King of Shepherds; 
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T’whom Sarum’s plain gives place, tho’ famous for 
her flocks, 
Yet hardly doth she tythe our Cotswold wealthy locks : 
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Nor any other wold like Cotswold ever shed 
So fair and rich a vale by fortuning to wed. 
‘Polyolbion,’ 14th Song, cited by Rudder. 
