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menced during my Incumbency as Re&or there, for above 
Thirty Years together ; they have but one way to the Town 
and Parifi, the reft they hire from Lords ol the adjacent 
Manours. The Morajfes or Moors -3 re of a great extent, 
and the Pari(h was furrounded- with them, the Village 
was called ZC ■ - ardfey or Kinnardus his Ijla/td ; ei, ca, ey, 
aii thefe are Watry Terminations: Thus the next Pariflx 
was Eyton, the Town upon the Waters, Edney , or Edwy- 
ney, Edwin Ifland, Buttery , or Butterey, the Ifland of 
Butter, being a iong Grazing Trad of Land, with Lome 
others of the like ending. Alt that vaft Morals was called, 
the Weald-Moor, or the Wild Moor, that is, the Woody 
Moor: Thus the Wood- Lands of Kent are called the 
Weald of Kent ; the Wolds of Torkjhire moft probably have 
been Woody formerly, and called the Wealds, for the 
Word Weald or Wold is by our Saxon Mafters render’d 
Woody 5 and I have been a fluted from Aged people, that all 
the Wild Moors were formerly fo far overgrown by Pvub- 
bifii Wood, fuch as Alders, Willoughs, Salleys, Thorns, 
and the like, that the Inhabitants commonly bang’d Bells 
about the Necks of their Cows, that they might the more 
eafily find them. Thefe Moors feem to be nothing el fe 
but a Compofition of fuch Sludge, and Refufe as the 
Floods left upon the Surface of the Ground, when they 
drain’d away, and yet this Sediment is full three or four 
Foot thick ; for I have often obferved, that the Black 
Soil caft up by Moles, or digged out of the Ditches, was 
a meer Compofition of Roots, Leaves, Fibres, Spray of 
Wood, fuch as the Water had brought and left behind 
it; in Digging they often find Roots and Stumps of Oaks 
three or four Foot under the Surface, and they are very 
common in the bottom of their Ditches and Drains : The 
Soil is peaty, and cut up for Fewel in forne part of the 
Lordihip ; in the bottom of thefe Peat Pits, they find 
Clay, Sand, and other forts of Earth. Thefe Grounds 
have 
