of Edinhurgli, Session 1883-84. 263 
compared with the vague conclusions that have been hitherto 
adopted. 
We will now briefly notice the miles of the IST.W. counties and of 
Wales. That a longer mile was in use in Lancashire, Cheshire, and 
Shropshire is certain both from the various authorities that we 
have just discussed agreeing in it, and also from the fact of a longer 
perch surviving in those parts.* On taking out the distances in 
Cheshire and Shropshire, they yield the following mile : — 
Bodleian. 
1540±100 
Speed. 
1340±50 
Wm. Worcester. 
1570±70 
Ogilby. 
1400±15 
Saxton. 
1420±10 
Gibson. 
1385 ±60 
Lancashire is 1400 in Saxton, but comes down to the usual old mile 
in Speed and Ogilby. Thus it seems that the old iST.W. mile was 
about 1560 ±80, and was somewhat assimilated, as time went on, 
to the usual old mile of England, 1300 ±10. There are not suf- 
ficient accurate data to allow of a complete disentanglement of local 
miles ; but the Bodleian map distances in the eastern counties are 
not over the average, while later on they are higher. The southern 
and S.W. counties generally have a lower mile than the northern. 
But there is nothing necessarily to show more than accidental varia- 
tion in the unit, except in the IST.W. counties, considered above, 
and in Wales, which we will now notice. The Welsh distances 
give mile values of — 
Bodleian. Saxton. Speed. Ogilby. Gibson. 
1465 ±45 1410 ±20 1360 ± 20 1383 ±20 ]N^o great mile. 
Here there appears to have been an old mile of about 1460 i 50, 
probably identical with the Cheshire mile ; and, like that, gradually 
approximating to the usual old English standard. 
The origin of the old English mile, which we have seen to be 
L265 statute miles, now remains to be considered. 
* Lancashire perch 7| yards, therefore mile=l‘360 statute miles. 
Cheshire ,, 8 ,, ,, ,, 
— Notes and Queries, vi. i. 264. 
Herefordshire perch 7 yards, therefore mile = 1 "270 statute miles. 
Staffordshire ,, 8 ,, ,, =i"460 ,, 
— Ency. Brit, 3d edit, art ‘‘ Perch.” 
