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him, met, and overthrew him here about Burford, winning his 

 Banner wherein there was depi&ed a golden Dragon 7 ; in memo- 

 ry of which Viftory, perhaps the custom (yet within memory) of 

 making a Dragon yearly, and carrying it up and down the Town 

 in great jollity on Midfummer Eve, to which (I know not for 

 what reafon) they added a Gyant, might likely enough be firft 

 inftituted. 



117. After the Conqueft, I find it the Town of Robert Rati of 

 Gloceiler, bafe SontoKingi&wry the Firft, to whofe Son William 

 I have feen an Original Charter granted him by King Henr. 2. gi- 

 ving to this his Town of Bureford, Gildam & omnes confuetudints 

 quas habent liberi Burgenfes de Oxeneford; moft of which it has 

 iince loft, and chiefly by the over-ruling power of Sir Lawrence 

 Tanfield, Lord chief Baron in Queen Elizabeths time : Yet it ft ill 

 retains the face of a Corporation, having a common Seal, isrc. the 

 very fame with Henley, as defcribed in the Map, if they differ not 

 in colours, which I could not learn. 



118. As for Wuduftokg, or Wudettoc, Sax. pu&ercoc (i. e. locus 

 fylveftw*) now Wood/lock, it feems to have been a feat Royal ever 



fince the days of King Mlfred, it appearing by a MS. in Sir John 

 Cotton's Library , that he tranflated Boetiut de Confolaticne 

 Philofophi<e,K.\\exe l . Nay, fo confiderable was it in the time 

 of K ing Mtheldred, that he called a Parliament there, and En- 

 acted Laws, to be i^een amongft that collection of ancient Laws fet 

 forth by Mr.Lambard*. Whence it may almoft be certainly conclu- 

 ded, that here muft have been a houfe of the Kings of England,\ong 

 before the days of King Henry the Firft ; who yet 'tis like indeed 

 was the firft that inclofed the Park, with a wall, though not for 

 Deer, but all foreign wild Beafls, fuch as Lyons, Leopards, Camels > 

 Linx's, which he procured abroad of other Princes; amongft 

 which more particularly, fays William of Malmesbury, he kept a 

 Porcupine, hifpidi* feth cooper tarn, qua* in Canes infeftantes natura- 

 liter emittunt h , i.e. cover'd over with fharp pointed Quills,which 

 they naturally frioot at the dogs that hunt them. 



119. Of the Town of Thame, anciently Tamerrop&a, I could 

 find little, till about the time of Edward Senior, An. 92 i> when 

 the Danijh Army out of Huntingdon came hither and erefted fome 



1 Camd.BritaninCom.Oxon: * MS.inBMioth.Cott<mi<ma) fubOthone A. * AfX<"<>t*i*Gu/. Lam- 

 bard, fol. 82- b Will. MalmesburienJ. dt Henr. i. lib. 5. 



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