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by southe out of the towne, over Kenet (on the right hand), where 
now dwellythe one Mastar Danie//. There was a house of friers in 
the south syde of the toune.! [A market house new made. v1. 71. ] 
Kenet ryver cummethe doun by the weste end of the toune from 
the northe, and so by the botom of the toune and vale lyinge 
sowthe, leving it on the left ripe, and so reneth thens by flatte est. 
SILBURY HILL AND AVEBURY. [vil 85]. 
Kenet risithe north north-west at Se/biri hille botom,? wherby 
hath ben camps and sepultures of men of warre, as at Aibyri3 a 
myle of, and in dyvers places of the playne. This Se/byri hille is 
about a 5 myles from Marlebyri. 
LUDGERSHALL. [Vu. It]. 
Inggershaull sumtyme’a castle in Wileshire 10 miles from 
Marleborow, and a 4 miles from Andover almoste in the waye 
betwixt. The castell stoode in a parke, now clene doune. There 
is of late times a pratie lodge made by the ruines of it, and 
longgithe to the King. 
MARLBOROUGH TO DEVIZES. [vuI. 85]. 
From Varlebyri over Kenet, and so into Sauernake (the swete oke) 
forest, and a 4 myles or more to Peusey a good village, and there 
1 Tanner (p. 610) quotes Leland in this passage for ‘‘ Wiute,” as against 
another author’s ‘‘ Grey,” friars in Marlborough. Leland has just said that 
‘St. Margaret’s’” was a house of White Canons, but he does not mention any 
particular colour for these friars. The Friary was founded by John Goodwinand 
William Remesbesch, merchants, A.D. 1316, and was granted, 34 H. VIII., to 
John Pye and Robert Brown. 
2 There is certainly near Silbury a source called ‘‘ Swallow Head Spring :” 
but Kennet is fed by ‘‘The Bourn” which riseth near Winterbourne Basset and 
Ufcote. 
3 Such is Leland’s solitary notice of this once remarkable place. It is elear 
what Ais opinion of Avebury was (and probably also of Stonehenge—from the 
story of the massacre given above), viz., that they were not temples, but 
cemeteries of ‘‘men of warre.” 
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