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a channel may survive in a hollow, name and all ; but no trace is 

 left of the crundels that once traversed the hillsides of Dorset. 



It is in this sense, of an artificial watercourse, that in the 

 following examples the boundary charters use the word : — 



. . . nor^" rihte to stan crundele, Berks, 939 (C.S.* II. 

 462), "straight north to the stone crundcl." ... Of 

 ]>am byhte on J^aes cumbes heafode on cealc crundel, Wilts, 

 943 (C.S. II. 522), "from the hollow on the combe's head 

 to the chalk crundel "... to I'an stanegan crundel, 

 Dorset, 935 (C.S. II. 415), "to the stone crundel." 



. . . J^anon on scortan dye . . . ponne to 

 scealdan crundle . . . ]^onne on iebyng crundele, 

 J^anon on Sceorran hlinc [sccaru = a division] . . . 

 I^anon to }'an wylle on Collcngaburnan, Wilts, 92 r (C.S. 

 II. 310), "thence to the short ditch . . . then to 

 Shald crundel [in connection with the stream now called 

 Shalbourn] . . . then to where the crandel ebbs [or is 

 emptied], thence to the shire lynchet [scir = a division] 

 . , . thence to the spring at Collingbourne." The 

 foregoing Anglo-Saxon has been glossed by Early 

 English, perhaps of the XIV. century, and by Latin. 

 The corresponding sentences in Early English are : — 

 . . . "fro thennys anone to the schort dyche, then to 

 Scheld-crundle . . . than to ebyng of crundele, fro 

 thennys to Scherlync . . . fro thennys to the wel of 

 CoUyngborn" : And in Latin . . . "delude procedas 

 ad illam brevissimam fossatam, ac tunc ad quendam locum 

 vocatum Scheldcrundle . . . tunc ad limitem vocatum 

 //le ebj'ng of Crimdele, ah illo loco ad Scherlinc ... ad 

 fontem de Collyngburne." 



. . . andlang streames . . . andlang die . . . 

 on \ia. fulan lace. . . . fram peardan hylle 0} crapan 

 crundel ... to pidan crundle ... to hean 

 hlincum ... on ^one broc cet ^am pyllam, Hants, 



* Cartularium Saxonicum. 



