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I wish I could feel the same confidence in the accuracy of the 

 following record that I can in the other, but I have been unable 

 hitherto to identify the names of the places, except in a few cases, 

 and it is to be feared, if some of these are not invented, or the 

 perambulation spurious, yet the scribes in copying may have 

 mistaken the names and spelling, but time will probably unravel 

 the mystery. In the meanwhile I must accept the document as 

 genuine. 



Boundaries of Wkington. 



Taken from the Bath and Glastonbury Register, p. 341. In the 

 Marquis of Bath's Library, at Longleat. 

 Erest on preosteselwe, of preostselwyn on Wrythwey, of Wryth- 

 weye on Wryoborne, of Wryoborne on Egelescombe, of Egelescombe 

 on Ethecome, of Ethecombe on Wulfcome, Enlanges Wulfcomb mide- 

 wardes than on Styfecleye, northward of than legh on Wynteracres 

 est ward, thanen on Swynhage thanen thur acclegh to Farnhamme, of 

 Farnhamme on histlyngdene estward, than on thaneBerg, of thane- 

 Berg to likelan, of likelan on Credelinghales, of Credelinghale on 

 Suwardyuglegh estward to Whetelegh Broke, and Enlanges Broke to 

 Merewellen, of Merewellen on Estmedewen, of Estmedewen on 

 Welbikanbull, of Welbikanhulle on the hegh rewe bi Southen Suddoun 

 of there heghrewe on Mererige, of Mererigge on Hagenmedewe, of 

 of Hagenmedewe enlang Stremes on Wryng to Wyrdford, of Wyrtford 

 on the hegh rewe est to Schirebourun elne, of than elme on to Eastie (?) 

 on tlia hegh rewe est enlang than heghrewe on Wythescomb, of than 

 Combe on brokenanbrugg, of thanbrugg to Stanbrugg, of Stanbnigg 

 ^0 Weemedewen, of Weemedewen to Watercomb, of Watercomb to 

 Ethecomb, of Etliecombe to Elkanlegh, on Hylisbroke, on thanen 

 helm thanne endlanges these brokes est in on Wryng thanen enlang 

 Wryng est on the mede westward thanen on preostwellwe. 



In the proceedings of the Som. Archaeol. and N. H. Soc. for 

 1877, appears a paper upon the Banwell charters by Mr. F. H. 

 Dickinson. These charters go back to the 12th Century and 

 earlier, and contain a statement of the boundaries of the parish 

 of Banwell. The places mentioned in this are equally difficult to 



