fiz The Natural Hijlory 



they ftiould come by without the learning of the Greeks (which 

 poflibly might be brought over by fome of their Philofophers who 

 accompanyed the Merchants trading for 7/,and feated themfelves 

 here) let the Reader judge. 



67. But for the Bijhopick. of Oxon, it is but of late erection, 

 taken out of that of Lincoln by King Hen. 8. and of no longer 

 Handing than his days, notwithstanding what we meet with in 

 the Decretals of Pope Gregory ; where we find two Refcripts of 

 Pope Alexander the Third, about the year 1 1 5 8. directed to the 

 Bifhopof Oxon. and others", it being but a miftake (though to 

 be found in all the Copies, I could meet with) of Oxonienfi, for 

 Exonienfi, as plainly appears in the fourth Book, of the fame De- 

 cretals , compared with the places afore-cited. 



6$. Yet the ancienteft Town of the whole County I take to 

 be Henley, fo called from the Brittifi Hen, which fignifies old, and 

 Lley a place, and perhaps might be the head Town of the people 

 called Ancalites, that revolted to Cdtfar p : it was alfo called Han- 

 leganz^ and Hannelurg, as appears by an Infyeximu* of (^Eliza- 

 beth, granted this Corporation. And there is a place near it, ftill 

 called Ancajile (weft of the Town where the Wind-mill now 

 ftands) which is but the Norman name, importing the fame with 

 the Saxon Hanneburg. If it be objected, that Aldbury near Ricot 

 in this County (according to vulgar tradition) is the mother of 

 Henly, and confequentially older ; it may be anfwer'd, that its 

 probable indeed that Chriftian Henley may be younger than Ald- 

 bury, in refpect of a Church firft built there, but upon no other 

 account. 



69. And the Town of Watlington feems of no fmall antiquity, 

 provided its age do but anfwer its Etymologie ; for by its name it 

 feems alfo to have been an old Britijh City, which according to 

 Strabo, were nothing elfe but groves fenced about with trees cut 

 down, and laid crofs one another, within which they built them 

 Jheds both for themfelves and Cattle. Pfo*** 3 *&t9 Iwr <tyup, 



xaAu^omxBj'Tttf) $ m, ^oox)f/^c<i xa.?ttsaG|t*<A/V<H ^, are his very words .* 

 which manner offence the Saxons after called patelaj- Crates, hur- 

 dles or wattles, within which mound building them tents or co- 



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Decret de film Prei&yteror. ordin. <& non. c. Tropofuit. &de officio, ejr poteft.juft. deleg. c. Caufam. 

 Decret. <jtii fdii fint legitimi, c> Caufam. ' fulii Cf oris Comment ar. de ielloGallico, lii.y * Strabofik 

 Ceo graphite ,lib. 4.. 



T verings, 



