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mam after &im : from whom (alas) we have not the lead 
fpark of light to fucha difcovery : rather indeed the con- 
trary; both the Sea-coaft, and In-land parts, by his, and 
their relation 5 bearing in a manner one and the lame face- 
and figure then as now. However, that the Level we 
are upon, was fomxtime an JEJluary, or Arm of the Sea 5 ^ 
feveral Criteria^ or tokens, are not wanting. For exam- 
ple 5 bendes what may be argued and interred from this 
parcel of ftrange Teeth and Bones now under confiderati- 
on 5 much (as I conceive) there is ot probability for it, re- 
fulting from our Rivers name of iS^^^/zr^jmore anciently,not 
feidcm both called and v^^ritten JEftur^ Ejiure, &c. which I 
doubt not to proceed and come from the Latin JEfiuarlum, 
and in procefs of time to have been corrupted and contraded 
into Sture ^.nAStoure ^ giving name in part to StourmoHth^ 
a, place fa PariQi) about fix miles Eaft ward from 
yy 5 fo called from the Rivers difemboguing there into the 
Sea, or Salt-water, flowing up thither, as alfo giving 
name to that Mannor of the Archbifhop s, at this day^ and^ 
for feme ages paft called Weflgate-Ccnrt^ at Camerburj ^ but 
more ancienily, as in the Conquerors time (witnefs Domef- 
daybook ) called,the Mannor of Eiiure and E/iurefate, from 
its fituation by the Stnre or Stonre, From which occafion 
doubtlefs, the late Lord Finch's Seat in — — about five or 
fix miles nearer to the Spring head, at this day vulgarly 
mifcalled Eajl-St'<ward is of old fometime called Ejiwe^ 
fometirae Et-fiure. From Saxon Monuments and Records 
I could eafily trace the nam.e up to a very high date, by 
many examples. 
But to leave that, and proceed to other Criteria'^ as by 
the Teeth and Bones now under confideration, we have 
an inftance on that fide of the Valley for the probability 
of the Seas quondam occupation of it 5 fo I fhall give' you 
here another no lefs remarkable frorr; the other, or oppo- 
fite fide of it. By credible relation and afiurance then you 
may know, thara place called IVeftbere, an obfcure Village 
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