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therefore have been made between 1741 and 1771, and its 

 use, as may be seen in the deeds, has been maintained 

 ever since. Why the appendage to Edwardley was made is 

 not our task to trace, sufficient is it for us to point out 

 that while the name of the adjoining town has, on account 

 of the frequency of its usage, gone through nearly one 

 hundred different modes of spelling,* Edwardley, now Long 

 Edwardley, having been much less frequently used, has 

 seen far fewer fluctuations in orthography, and, unless for 

 the perhaps unnecessary appendage "Long," it has practically 

 the same arrangement of letters as it had eight hundred 

 years ago. 



Origines Parochiales Scotise 



