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birds of the night) to feed in the brooks and meadows; returning 
again with the dawn of the morning. Had this lake an arm or 
two more, and were it planted round with thick covert (for now 
it is perfedly naked), it might make a valuable decoy. 
Yet neither it's extent, nor the clearnefs of it's water, nor the 
refort of various and curious fowls, nor it's pidlurefque groups of 
cattle, can render this meer fo remarkable as the great quantity of 
coins that were found in it's bed about forty years ago. But, as fuch 
difcoveries more properly belong to the antiquities of this place, I 
Iball fupprefs all particulars for the prefent, till I enter profeffedly 
on my feries of letters refpefting the more remote hiflory of this 
village and diftrift. 
LETTER IX. 
TO THE SAME. 
3y way of fupplement, I fliall trouble you once more on this 
fubjeft, to infoi m you that Wolmer, with her fifter foreft Ayles Holt, 
alias Alice Holf^, as it is called in old records, is held by grant 
from the crown for a term of years. 
The grantees that the author remembers are Brigadier-General 
Emanuel Scroope Hozve, and his lady, Ruperta, who was a natural 
daughter of Prince Rupert by Margaret Hi'ghs; a Mr. Mor daunt , of 
n " In Rot. Tnquifit. d ftatu foreft. in Scaccar. 36. Ed. 3. it is called Aiflioli" 
In the fame, "Tit. mdmer and ^z/2.o// Hantifc. Dcminus Rex habet unam capel- 
" lam in Ijala fua de Kingefle." " Haia, fepes, fepimentum, farcus: a Gall, haie and 
" l^aje.''^ Spelman's Gloflary. 
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