Of OXFO %'D^SHiTiE. jip 
erat principalis Ecdefia totius Cleri^ Ecckfia San6ii /Egidii extra ean- 
demfortam Which two put together, perhaps may make as 
much for the of this place, as need be brought for it. 
31. Befide, this branch out of the way 'twixt Alce/kr and 
^T/i/Z^w^/Wpointing toward Oxford^ I muft not forget there is 
another that feems defignedly made for a paiTage hither imniedi- 
atly from Alcejier^ whereof there is a part ftill remaining about 
Nohi^ whence it paffes through the fidds to the purlue grounds, 
where it cuts the WorctHer road, and fo into Drun[hiU formerly 
a part of the Forreft of Stovp-wood^ v\^here about fourteen years 
fincc there were feveral Roman Vrns and Coins dug up ; beyond 
which place I could not trace it, it being ploughed down in the 
following grounds, which yet is the beft conje8:ure I can make of 
it, unlefs we (liall rather fay it was only laid this way to avoid 
Otmoor in the winter feafon, when it is ufually under water ; and 
that it turned about again (as indeed it feems to point) and joyn- 
cd with theforementionM to f^alkngfordmd Oxford. 
32. Nor muft it be omitted, that the people hereabout call 
that part of this way that lies through Otmoor', by the name of 
Ak^man-flreet^ fuppofing it to have come from Wallengford^ and 
to have pafled on by Alcefter to Banbury ; to which name of theirs, 
and courfe of the way, Mr. Camden feems to afford his tacit con- 
fent ^ : wherein I v^onder they, but more that he, (hould be fo 
much or'e-feen, fincehe could not but know, that neither end of 
fuch a way could tend toward Bathe^ the old Sce-manner-cearrep, or 
Drbs /Egroiorum hominum ; nor they, that the true Kce manner -rrpsec, 
comes near indeed to AIceHer^ but pafiing through the County 
quite another way, both the City and way leading to it, having 
their names from the/ickp^rfons^ or/z/^z^ with acbes^ travelling on it 
thither, 
33. The true Akemanftreet then, or as fome call it Ahshamftreet^ 
and others Ak^rmanjireet^ coming out of Buckingham-JInre^ en° 
ters this County at a Village called B lack- tborn ^whence itpaffes on 
without any raifed bank, clofe by Alcejler as far as Cheftcrton^ as 
defcribed by the (liaded or pointed lines in the Map : whence it 
goes to Kirkjington Towns end, and fo over the River C hermit 
near 7'^c^/e;',and thence in a ftraight line to WoodllockjFark^w\\\ch. 
it enters near fToo/o/z-gdE/e, and paffes out 2igz\mt Maple ton -well 
* Ckronicon Hjdenfe MS. inter KtifAM^t* Oxomenf. Vid- Camd. Erifa?i. in Comt. O:ton, 
near 
