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He gives much detail concerning the hills, and enumerates the 
principal promontories by name; but some of his topographical 
remarks are not so clear as they might be. 
He was long resident near Stroud, and yet he makes no mention of 
Stroudwater Hills. 
1859. ([T. Hughes.|] ‘The Scouring of the White 
Horse.’ “The Hill has been called ‘White Horse Hill,’ 
and the Vale, the ‘ Vale of White Horse’ ever since the 
time of Henry the First; for there are cartularies of the 
Abbey of Abingdon in the British Museum, which prove 
it... 102. 
He gives extracts from the Cartularies in his Appendix, p. 231; one 
Cartulary is dated 1171, another Reign Richard I., and there is an 
entry in the Close Rolls, 42, Ed. III., 1368-9, which he quotes. He 
gives further references to the name in p. 232. 
The extent of the Vale is not stated exactly, but the following 
extracts give some indication. The author quotes (p. 232) from the 
writer of a ‘ Tour through England.’ Between this town of Marlborow 
and Abingdon is the ‘ Vale of White Horse’; and ‘‘ The Hill is called 
in our maps White Horse Hill, and the low flat country under it Vale 
of White Horse.’” Further in p. 112, a rustic is reported as saying: 
* About Clay Hill twixt Fairford and Ziziter, I’ve many a time looked at 
‘un [The White Horse], and ’a looks as nat’ral as a pictur,’ which 
indicates that the White Horse dominates the country between. 
1868. §. 0. Beeton. ‘ Dictionary of Geography.’ 
“Cotswold Hills are in the county of Gloucester, extend- 
ing 50 miles in length and about 20 in breadth, and 
separating the basins of the Thames and the Severn.” 
1869. G. F. Playne. ‘On the Physical Geography of 
the District drained: by the River Frome and its Tribu- 
taries.’ Proc. Cotteswold Club, Vol. v., p. 21. 
He speaks of ‘‘ that portion of the Cotteswold Hills which is drained 
by the River Frome and its tributary streams.”” He makes no mention 
of Stroudwater Hills, although he was an inhabitant of the district. 
1869. T. E. Dillon, F.8.A. ‘Cotswold and its Popular 
Customs’ pamphlet, pp. 7, separately paged. [Journ. 
B.A.A., Vol. xxv., pp. 113-119.] 
“The large part of downs in the vicinity of Cirencester, 
popularly known as the Cotswold Hills, extends for fifty 
miles,” -—p. 1: 
He quotes Shakespeare as spelling the word ‘ Cotsale.’ 
