By the Rev. E. A. Fuller. 



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sold the land. The house called in the Langley Cartulary, Harleian 

 MS., No. 7, More's Place, passed in the 16th century as Watt at 

 More's, whence the transition to Watermoor is easy : or the name 

 Watermoor might come possibly through the common pronunciation 

 of Walter as water. (See Shakspear's Hen. VI., 2nd Part, Act 

 iv., sc. 1.) But it has nothing to do with the fact of the abundance 

 of water near the surface. 



To identify New Street there is its position in the list, and also 

 the mentiou in 1540 of a capital messuage with a close adjoining, 

 held along with certain lands in the fields of Chesterton, Spyring, 

 and Barton by Thomas Solas. 



With regard to Shoter Street, in the Terrier of the Lady Chapel 

 lands, a garden and curtilage are described with northern and southern 

 boundaries, which is the only thing to help recognition. J. George 

 in 1552 possessed a garden in Shoter Street upon which from a 

 copy of that family's halimot land in 1619 a house appears to have 

 been built, when the name is written Shotter, showing the common 

 pronunciation. The existing court rolls however do not commence 

 till seventy years later, and though through Mr. Ellett's courtesy I 

 have been able to look through the earliest volumes, I failed to find 

 any mention of Shoter-stneet. 



Gosediche appears to have been the one name for the whole line 

 of street from the foot of Cecily -hill round by the modern Black- 

 jack-street, to the end of what is now called Gosditch-strcet. The 

 bridge at the foot of Cecily -hill was Clements Bridge, the one in 

 Gosditch-street, Swyne Bridge. The stream which they cross is 

 called in the court rolls of 1692 Gunstoole River, which I 

 take to be nearer to the true name than Groom stole, which ninety 

 years later Rudder gives as the name for Clements Bridge. For, 

 whereas it would be hard to discover the origin of Groomstole it is 

 comparatively easy find a reasonable derivation for Gunstoole. The 

 Promptorium Parvulorum, or East Anglian English and Latin 

 Dictionary, compiled A.D. 1410, has lately been edited by Mr. 

 Albert Way ; and I take the following from his notes on Cukstoke 

 or Cukstolle, and Kukstole. " The following observation occurs 

 amongst Bp. Kennett's Collections, Lansdown MS., 1833. ' A 



