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name of Wyrrall, which the hill seems to have borne at 
an early period. In the general survey of the temporal- 
ities of this monastery, as given in Dugdale’s Monasticon, 
we find, among others, “WYRRALL park, which con- 
teyneth in cireuite one myle and one quarter.” This 
WYRRALL is evidently the WEARY-ALL-hill of the present 
day, and itself, I believe, a corruption of an ancient 
British name—YR ALLT— “the wood.” We havea curious 
confirmation of this view in another entry of the Survey: 
“ Within the Park of Wirrall, Ix acres of fayre tymbre ;” 
and likewise in the Charta or Epistle of St. Patrick, in 
which he desceribes himself and his “ brother of Wells” 
as toiling to the summit of tbe hill through a “dense 
wood.” “Post multum vero temporis, assumpto mecum 
Wellia confratre meo, per condensitatem silve, cum magna 
dificeultate, conscendimus cacumen montis, qui eminet in 
eadem Insula.” * 
Another corruption of like character presents itself in 
the name of the site of-an ancient earthwork known as 
BLAcKEr’S hill, overlooking Nettle-bridge Valley. It 
has been described by the Rev. W. Phelps as a British 
encampment “protecting the pass of the defile” I do 
not know the locality myself, but this description clearly 
eorresponds with the Celtic Bwrcn, literally “the pass 
of the defile;” and BLACKER becomes the Saxon cor- 
ruption of a fme old British name—BWLcH-Y-GAER, the 
“pass of the defile below the camp.” 
In some cases the ancient British names have utterly 
* The whole Epistle is given in the Appendix to Hearne’s Glastonbury, 
p. 114. Its authentieity has been doubted. Indeed, the internal 
evidence alone is sufficient to prove it to have been a forgery, executed 
no doubt by one of tie monks of Glastonbury. This, however, does 
not necessarily affeet the value of its testimony in regard to the 
physical characteristics of the neighbourhood, 
