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23. Thereafon, ifuppole, why this way was not raifed, is, 

 becaufe it lies along under the Chiltern hills on a firm faft ground, 

 having the Hills themfelves as a fufficient dire&ion : Which is all 

 worth notice of it, but that it paffes through no Town or Village 

 in the County, but only Goreing ; nor does it (as 1 hear) fcarce 

 any where elfe, for which reafon 'tis much ufed by ftealers of 

 Cattle : and fecondly, that it feems by its pointing to come from 

 Norfolk and Suffolk, formerly the Kingdom of the Iceni, from 

 whom moft agree (and perhaps rightly enough) it received its 

 name lcenild> or Ikenild; and to tend the other way Weft-ward, 

 perhaps into Devon-Jhire and Cornwall, to the Lands end. So 

 much miftaken is Mr. Holinfied in his defcription of this way 7 , 

 who fanfied it began fomwhere in the South, and fo held on to- 

 ward Cirnecefter, and thence to Worcester, Wicomb, Brimicbam, 

 Lichfield, Darby, Chefterfield, and crofling Watling-slreet fom- 

 where in Torkrjhire, ftretched forth in the end to the mouth of 

 the Tine at the main Sea. Yet the Learned Mr. Vugdale z feem- 

 ing to favor this opinion in his defcription of Ickje-ftreet that 

 paffes through Warwick-fiire, I fufpend my judgement till I have 

 feenmoreof both. 



24. Amongftthe many Vicinal ways, or Chemini minores, we 

 have but one neither here, of all thofe mentioned by Antoninus in 

 his Itinerary, and that is part of the Gual-Hen, which fignifies in 

 Brittilh antiquum Vallum, that went between Pontes, now Cole- 

 brook? and the old City Caleva, or rather as it was written in 

 the ancienteft Books, Gallena* ; to which our Fore-fathers ad- 

 ding the word, Ford, by reafon of the ftiallownefs of the Ri- 

 ver there, and changing the letter G into W (a thing frequently 

 done by the Saxons b ) it was at length called j>aUcn5apop&, now more 

 contraftedly Wallengford. 



25. Which 'tis plain flood not formerly where it now doth, 

 this old Vallum, or high ridged way, pointing down from be- 

 tween Mungewell and Nune ham -Warren on. Oxford-Jbire fide the Ri- 

 ver, as defcribed in the Map, near a mile below the Town as it is 

 now feated ; whereabout, in all likely hood, on the other fide the 

 River ftood that part of the City containing the 1 2 Parities, laid 

 defolate by a great Plague that reigned there, temp.Edw.%. Which 



t Raph. Holm/bed's defcriptionof Britan,lil>. i. cap. 19. z Antiquities of Warwick-fare in Barlick- 

 umy Hundred, pag. 568. See Burton's Commentary on Antoninus hk Itinerary. Itinere -j . a Regno 

 Londiniitm. * See Rich. F<rr/?rg#yAntiquities of the E nglifh Nation, cap- 5 . frb finem. 



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