The D^atural Hiftory 
23. Thereafon, ifuppofe, why this n^^?; was not raifed, 
becaufe it lies along under the Chiltern hills on a firm faft ground, 
having the Hills themfelvesas a fufficient difeftion : Which is all 
worth notke of it, but that it paflfes through no Town or Village 
in the County^ but only Goreing ; nor does it (as 1 hear) fcarce 
any where elfe, for which reafon 'tis much ufed by ftealers of 
Cattle : and fecondly, that it fecms by its pointing to come from 
Norfolk ^ndSufoIky formerly the Kingdom of the Iceni^ from 
whom moft agree (and perhaps rightly enough) it received its 
name Icenild^ ox Ik^nild ; and to tend the other way Weft- ward, 
perhaps into Devon-fiire and Cornwall^ to t\^t Lands tnd. So 
much miftaken is Kr, Holinfied'm his defcription of this way ^, 
who fanfied it began fomwhere in the Souths and fo held on to- 
ward Cirnecefter^ and thence to IForcefier, Wicomb^ Brimicbam, 
Lichfield^ Varby^ Chefterfield^ and croffing WatUng-rtreet fom- 
where in Torkrpire^ ftretched forth in the end to the mouth of 
the Tine at the main Sea. Yet the Learned Mr. Dugdale ^ feem- 
ingto favor this opinion in his defcription of Ickje-fireet that 
paffes through Warmckrfi 'iTe^ 1 fufpend my judgement till I have 
feenmoreof both. 
24. Amongft the many Vicinal ways^ or Chemini minores, we 
have but one neither here, of all thofe mentioned by Antoninus in 
his Itinerary^ and that is part of the G«<j/-//ew, which fignifles in 
Brittidi antiquum Vallum^ that went between Pontes^ now Cole- 
brook.-, and the old City Caleva^ or rather as it was written in 
the ancienteft Books, Gallena^ ; to which our Fore-fathers ad- 
ding the word, Ford^ by reafon of the ftiallownefs of the Ri- 
ver there, and changing the letter G into W (a thing frequently 
done by the Saocons^) it was at length called palienj;apop5, now more 
contradedly Wallengford, 
25. Which 'tis plain ftood not formerly where it now doth, 
this old Vallum., or high ridged way, pointing down from be- 
tween Mungmell and Nuneham-Warten on Oxford-J/nre fide the 
ver^ asdefcribed in the M^^, near a mile below the 7ow« as it is 
now feated ; whereabout, in all likelyhood, on the other fide the 
River ftood that part of the City containing the 1 2 Parifties, laid 
defolate by a great Plague that reigned there, temp.Edw.'^. Which 
Paph.Ho/ivJhed's defcription of Britanylii i cap. 19. ^ Antiquities of Warwick-f^'re in 'Barlkh- 
mayWn'ndtei, pag. 568. * See B«r?(?»'s Commentary on (LAntoyiinus his Itifierary. Itmere-j. d Regno 
'Londijihm. & See i?/VA. rf?y?f?^^*3w's Antiqiufief of the EngliiTi Narionj<-<?/'- $. /Ki/fnew. 
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