220 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1903 
He quotes ‘ Harrington, Epigrams’ (1622). 
***Lo then the mystery from whence the name 
Of Cotsold lyons first to England came.’ ” 
He refers to the ‘‘ Cotswold Games” and to works noticing the 
** Cotswolds.” 
1874. Ritter. ‘Geograph: Statisch: Lexikon” “‘ Cots- 
wold. A range of hills in England, in the county of 
Gloucester ; six miles long [?] and four miles broad [?], 
but only 1130 feet high.” [Translation.] 
These statements are very incorrect. They are a sample ot 
Gazetteer work. 
1878. Taylor. ‘Words and Places.’ “Cotswold. This 
name contains two synonymous elements. The second. 
syllable is the Anglo-Saxon Wea/d, a wood which we find 
in the now treeless wolds of Yorkshire; and the first 
portion is the Celtic coed a wood, which we find in Chat 
Moss, Catlow, Coitmore, Goodgrave and Cadbeeston.” 
(Ed-vi.p. 246). 
1879. ‘Encyclopedia Britannica, 9th Ed., Vol. x., 
p. 687d., swb Gloucester. 
“The county has three natural divisions, the hill, the 
vale, and the forest. (1.) The hill country, which except 
the high ground of the Forest of Dean, consists wholly of 
the Coteswolds, a range extending from Broadway, near 
Chipping Campden on the north to Bath on the south, 
-and from Birdlip Hills on the west to Burford on the 
east, and traversing the eastern side of the county at an 
average elevation of 700 feet, though in parts, as at Cleeve 
Hill, near Prestbury, it is 1134 feet [?] above the level of 
the sea. It covers nearly 300,000 acres of undulating 
tableland, locally sub-divided into the Southwolds, betwixt 
Bath and Badminton, the Stroudwater Hills betwixt 
Tetbury and Woodchester, and the Coteswolds proper, or 
the rest of the hill country northward. (2.) The Vale, or 
that level tract extending from the base of the Coteswolds 
to the east bank of the Severn, the upper or northern part 
tebe is known as the Vale of Gloucester, and embraces 
