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contain much that required further correction and confirmation : 
much also that would have been omitted in the process of expan- 
sion into careful history. Still, the Itinerary is a very curidus 
book, and though it includes many things that are trivial, it has 
preserved to us a great deal of local information, which it would 
now be impossible to obtain from any other source. Towards a 
new edition of the work, great assistance might be rendered by the 
various Archeological Societies of England, if they would publish 
in their respective Proceedings such portions of it as relate to their 
own counties, with notes by those of their members who may have 
turned their attention to local history. 
LELAND’S JOURNEY THROUGH WILTSHIRE! 
[He entered it the first time at the N. E. corner of the county, 
coming from Lechlade in Gloucestershire ]. 
From Lechelade to Eiton Castle in Whileshire, where great ruines 
of a building in Wyleshir, as in ulteriori ripa (on the farther bank) 
remayne yet, a 2 miles upper on the Jsis. 
From Liton Castelle to Nunne-Eiton, a mile. To Grekelade or 
rather Crikelade,2 a 2 miles. 
Eiton,® the Lord Zouche’s castle. Mount-penson (Mompesson), of 
Wileshire, married one of the Lord Zouche’s daughters, that is now. 
(vi. 14). Nuwnne-Eaton belonged to Godstow. Crekelade is on the 
1 Itinerary, vol. ii. p. 48. 
2 “Or rather Cricklade.” The fable of Greek philosophers having ‘‘flourished’’ 
at this place, and of its having been an university before the foundation of 
learning at Oxford, is evidently too ridiculous for Leland, who, however, in his 
life of Alfred, as well as in other passages of his works, alludes to it without 
any apparent disbelief. There were, probably, never more Greek philosophers 
at Cricklade than there are at present, whatever that number may be. The 
name of the place is derived from two Saxon words, signifying ‘‘ brook” and 
“to empty: a derivation which is abundantly sustained by the number of 
small streams that in this neighbourhood fall into the Isis.” 
3 “*Kiton:” now Castle Eaton. The older name was Eaton Meysey: from a 
family to whom it belonged temp. Henry III. 
