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1406 e.g., we find a placia " in vico boreali .... qui 

 ducit versus Glydepath." So this is our Shireliall Lane. I must 

 name this street under another head. There seem to have been 

 two Glyde Lanes, too. F. Ixxxi., 2 Henry VI., 1423, says that 

 a tenement in Durne Lane is bounded by Glide Lane. The lane 

 connecting the rival North Streets, Pease Lane, is often named 

 under various spellings Pise Lane, Puse Lane for instance ; but 

 it had a totally different name, Ulven Lane, in varied spelling. 

 Thus in f. Ixxxvi., 6 Hen. VI., 1427, there is " Iluenlane alias 

 diet Puselane." In f. cxx., 5 Ed. VI., 1551, there is another 

 puzzle about another thoroughfare. I am credibly assured that 

 formerly there was a path or lane from Shirehall Lane to the Walks 

 close to Colliton Gate, and that this thoroughfare had the curious 

 name of Twelve Men's Way. Of course it was in Trinity parish. 

 Now, in the folio above mentioned we find two burgages described 

 as being in St. Peter's parish, and bounded north and south by 

 other burgages, east by a Vicus Regius, and with " Vicus Ville 

 . . . . Vocatus the Twelve Men Way " on the west. I can 

 throw no light on the apparent existence formerly of two lanes, 

 and leading, too, in different directions, both with the same strange 

 name. We will note only one other name of a thoroughfare. In 

 old times there appears to have been several houses on the west 

 side of Glyde Path where now there is only one, and they were 

 called Colliton Row. This name would seem to have been 

 euphemised from one spelt in various ways e.g., f. cxx., 37 Hen. 

 VIII., 1545, " Colyncolrow," and f. cxl., 3 Eliz., 1560, " Collyn- 

 colrewe Streate," and f. cxxiv., 37 Hen. VIII., 1545, " Collynool 

 Row." Of names of individual houses and other minor bits of 

 inner topography I may just name a few, almost as they come. In 

 South Street (f. viii., 20 Ric. II. 1396) there was " placea vocata 

 la dayne." This designation occurs repeatedly about different 

 localities. On the south side of High Street, in 21 Ric. II., 1397, 

 (f. xi.), was " la Nywehyn." This was doubtless the New Inn, a 

 more modern re-building of which is Nos. 32 and 33, High West 

 Street, formerly a hostelry under that sign. But here, again, there 



