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and the mor Reputation they had had the greater and higher 

 were the Turfs raised over them. 



"This some used to term Byriging, others Beorging, and some 

 Buriging, which we now call Berying, or Burying, which is 

 properly a shrouding or hiding the dead Body in the Earth. Of 

 these kinds of Puneral Monuments you have many on Salislury 

 Plain, out of which the Bones of Bodies there inhuin'd have 

 oftentimes been dug. These Places the Inhabitants thereabouts 

 call Series, Baroes, or Burroughs, which agrees with the words 

 Byrighs, Beorghs,OT Bwrglis, spoken of in the same sense. From 

 hence the !N"ames of divers Towns and Cities were originally 

 derived." NEKPOKHAEIA, or the Art of Emlalming, hy Thos. 

 Greenhill, Surgeon, Lond. 1705, p. 92. 



Examples : — 



Grreen Brough — once a station or fort on the Roman road near 

 IS'ewsham. The Boman stations and roads left unoccupied are 

 all green. 



Goldsborough — " Grullsborough=resting place of gulls." Kev. 

 "W. E. Bell. "Properly Gulesborough=:red fort, or Gallows- 

 burg." "W. J. Watson. 



Shacklesborough, properly Shacklesbury, a prison fort ? These 

 two boroughs, or broughs, are masses of detached rock on a plain 

 south of Balderdale. 



Lathbury — can this be Laithbury, i.e-. Barnbury ? or from A.-S. 

 lathian, to invite, bid, send for, assimilate, a place of meeting or 

 assembly ? 



Eoxberry, ? Eolksbury — a place for a folks thing. 



Coldberry, ? A.-S. Colburh, from its situation or climate. 

 • IN'ewberry, ? A.S. I^ewebury, E^ewbrough. 



Cockleberry, ?fr. A.-S. code or coocel, corncockle, darnel, from 

 its growing there ; or from coc, a cock, or grouse. 



IN'oTE. — Berry often denotes lury, and bury is at times pro- 

 nounced berry, thus : — Bothbury, in ]N"orthumberland, is locally 

 called Botberry or Botbarry — Bed fort. The name, however, 

 may be Boodbury, for Bothwell, near Leeds, is really Boodwell. 



