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And by the way I rode over Fresheford Bridge of 2 or 3 faire new 
arches of stone, and this was a 3 miles from Throughbridge; and a 
2 myles beyonde that in the very piche of the botom of a very 
stepe hill I passyd a wylde brooket rennynge on stones. Thens a 
mile of in the way was a notable quarrey, and thens a playne, and 
then by a stepe botom onto Bathe about a myle. 
MARSHFIELD TO TROWBRIDGE AND FROME. [vir. 98]. 
{Leland went on to Bristol and Gloucestershire : and returned 
“by playne ground unto Maschefeld, a lordship that belonged unto 
the Canons of Cainesham.”} 
Thens a 4 miles farther I passyd by hilly ground, and went 
over a stone bridge, under the whiche ran a broke that a litle 
lower went in sight into Avon ryver by the right ripe of it.? 
Thens by hilly, stony, and wooddy ground a 3 miles unto 
Bradeford on the right ripe of Avon. Thens on to Throughbridge. 
Thens on to Broke by wooddy ground. 
From Broke onto Frome Celwood in Somersetshire a 4 miles, 
muche by woody ground and pasture on tyll I cam within a myle 
of it, wher it is champaine. Thence to Vunney Delamere, and back 
to Frome. Thens onto Philippe’s Northetoune, where is a meane 
market kepte in a small toune, most mayntayned by clothyng). 
From Northeton to Farley Castle a 2 miles. 
Thens to Bradeford 2 miles. 
BRADFORD. [vu. 100]. 
The lordshipe was gyven with the personage by Kyng thelred 
onto the nunry of Shaftesbyri for a recompence of the murderinge 
1 The Abbey of Black Canons at Keynsham (co. Som.) between Bath and 
Bristol, founded a.p. 1170, by Wm. 2nd Earl of Gloucester (grandson, illegiti- 
mately, of King Henry I.) who endowed it with (inter alia) the Manor Farm of 
Marshfield. 
2 He passed from Marshfield to Bathford, where he crossed the Box brook just 
at its junction with the Avon: and so on to Bradford. 
