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not easily solved, since the usage has long survived the 

 knowledge of the intention thereof. We can only suppose 

 that as the prior, besides tliurset and pillory, had also J ureas, 

 a power of life and death, that he might have reserved 

 this little eminence as the place of execution for delinquents. 

 And there is the more reason to suppose so, since a spot 

 just by is called Gaily (Gallows) Hill. 



The lower part of the village next the Grange, in which 

 is a pond and a stream, is well known by the name of 



WAY LEADING TO GRACIOUS STREET. 



Gracious Street, an appellation not at all understood. 

 There is a lake in Surrey, near Chobham, called also 

 Gracious Pond ; and another, if we mistake not, near Hed- 

 leigh, in the county of Hants. This strange denomination 

 we do not at all comprehend, and conclude that it may be a 

 corruption from some Saxon word, itself perhaps forgotten. 

 It has been observed already, that Bishop Tanner was 

 mistaken when he refers to an evidence of Dodsworth, " DC 

 mercatu et FERIA de Seleburne." Selborne never had a 

 chartered fair ; the present fair was set up since the year 

 1681, by a set of jovial fellows, who had found in an old 



