By the Rev. E, A. Fuller. 



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to commence about Goguesdich. A contemporary charter of King 

 Stephen, concerning the same land, has Grose Goggesdich, so that 

 we have here a choice, and may take the more apparent origin for 

 Gosditch from Goose if we please ; Goosacre in early deeds is spelled 

 Gosacre. I am told Gosditch is not an uncommon appellation in 

 towns by the side of a stream. To return to places mentioned, the 

 Lawegutter appears A.D. 1459 as the western boundary of a 

 curtilage in Gosdyche, and the memory of Lawditch-lane still 

 remains as having been attached to that street, where the Savings 

 Bank stands. The Court Rolls are careful to shew that the Ram was 

 not counted to be in Gosditch-street, street being scratched out and 

 ward substituted, though in the minister's accounts it seems reckoned 

 in Goseditch-street. In a series of depositions, in answer to an 

 Exchequer Inquisition concerning the government of the town 

 A.D. 1582, old Mr. Robert Strange speaks of " streets or wards." 

 I said that Blackjack-street is quite modern ; it is unknown to the 

 Court Rolls. The Inn, now the Phoenix, being always described, 

 1700 — 1800, as in Gosditch-street, a later side-note in Mr. Bevir's 

 handwriting adding Blackjack-street. In 1540 the Swan is called 

 the Dakker Gate Inn, and in 1693 a messuage in Gosditch-street, 

 called the Gatehouse, is said in the Court Rolls to be appendant to 

 the George. Are there any old memories to explain this ? Little 

 Silver-street appears in the Court Rolls of 1714. 



Battle-street, anciently Batel Strete, but written Bartle-street in 

 a list of church lands in 1619, appears in a similar list in 1639 as 

 St. Thomases-street, but the old name continues on in the Court 

 Rolls till 1717, when the earlier Battle-street, alias St. Thomas- 

 street becomes simply St. Thomas street. 



Abbot-street, too, had not given place to Coxwell-street in the 

 Court Rolls till after 1716. 



The unmeaning Dollar- street was Dolehalle-street, which appears 

 also in the early deeds in the Abbey Registers, being the old Saxon 

 name for the almsgiving place to the poor, a name I would suggest 

 for restoration. It is curious to note how while in the later Norman 

 name Almery, the original designation was continued almost to 

 these days, the meaning was so lost, that, at the end of the sixteenth 



