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“The words Berry, Bury, Borow, 
N, a T is often added; and hence the 
mames Burnt, and Brent. Walls, in 
Saxon, is an inelosure or ruins. — 
Tsannevuria, the interpretation of 
which is at present unknown, as well as. 
the foregoing, is derived from Is, water, 
sinz'a diminutive, and Varia, from Bar, 
or Var, a head or hill. Much has been 
said by authors on the word Varia; but 
nothing which I have seen to the purpose, 
Daventry may be a translation of Isan-\ 
navaria, from Dav, a stream, en a dimi- 
nutive; and Zrzaih or Traithe, derived 
from Aithe, a hill, and now proneunced 
Trt: Fri, or Try, may however mean 
habitation. or town. This land seems to 
have taken its name partly from the. 
spring on Burrow Lill. - Bennaventa, 
and this station, have been accounted the 
‘same place: but of this hereafter. The 
original site of Isannavaria is on Burrow 
Hill, which I shall now explain. Bur- 
row is a name which we have every 
day in our mouths; we hare indeed 
swallowed, but we have ‘never digested it. 
Be- 
rough, and Burrow, have been unknown 
mn their original and various SenibC ibe ds 
to all our writers, I, or Y, is Gaelic 
for little; and the diminutives of Hear, 
Ber, Ber, and Bur, border, head. &c. 
in general use, are Rerry, and Bury. 
Berry, when referred to the tops of hills, 
may ‘be derived from Bearradh. Bir , or 
Ber, water; and Bar, or Ber, a head, 
&c.; may also, in prt eh of names, 
be found with diminatir endings. 
Berry, taken for granted as implying 
tep, and being found in names situated 
in bottoms, has been supposed by Ken- 
nett and Spelman, to imply tops and bot- 
toms: but neither of these is implied_in 
this word, further than as it means /iftle 
top, little border, little bising little 
bottom, &c. 
The words Berry, Bury, Borow, Bo- 
rough, and Burrow, are said to have 
originally meant hili; but how to account 
for tis, as etymologists have been unac- 
quainted with the roots of words, is 
unknown. Ber, Bor, and Bur, are then 
derived, in their roots, from A, a hill, 
or rising ground ; pronounced We By 
change ed to ar, er, and ur. These roots 
are from the Gaelic, and imply border, 
rising ground, or hill; and with B pre- 
fixed, the shlsiies as bef Fe mentioned’ of 
Band P: to these if we add the diminu- 
uve J, or Y, we have the word Berry, or 
Bury. Bor, or Bur, in Borow, Burrow, 
er Borough, is derived as~before; but 
Qu, or Ow, is an augment, ag in the 
Derr re of Nantes in Antoninus. 
river named by’ the Romans Deno, 
which we usuaily write Danube; and 
the difference between our Berrys and 
Burrows, is, that the first are small hills, 
or hills with smali tops; and the second | 
are larger ones, or hills with large tops. 
These, of old, were fortified, or walled, 
were places of safety ; were bedasmicd 
castles and camps, from camps of old 
having been ‘formed upon them; and, in 
process of time, ad{ fortified, or walled 
towns, from being pluces of safety, 
bic named Borougis. . Lastly, bo- 
roughs being plaves af-sufety, the name 
was tt ansferred from the places to the in- 
habitants, who became safeguards of 
each other; and bodies of ten families, 
who became such safeguards, were at 
length called boroughs. se have now 
expiained these terms. 
Tripontiun comes next in this route. 
Tt has been accounted a Roman name 
for three bridges. ** But it is not to be 
imagined,” says Dr. Stukeley, “that the 
Romans would make a bridge over this 
riil, or one so eminently large as to 
desaminaté the town.” Tri then may 
be derived from Yriath, aid this from 
Aithe, or Ai, a hill, as mentioned be- 
fore: Pont is an old Celtic name for 
point. Ragby is accounted this station 
by Lforseley: it was ‘formerly written’ 
Rocheberrie ; but the distance of this ~ 
place from Benonis is too great by the 
joint. concurrence of Antoninus and 
Richard. Its namestoo are neitherofthem 
a translation of Tripontiam. Lilborn is 
aiso Said, by various authors, to be the 
place; and here castles, trenches, pave- 
ments, &c. are still to be seen: the 
distance here, indeed, is. not so wide 
as at Rugby, but the present name 
agrees not with Tripontium. Shaugh- 
well, Showel, or Shovel, is likewise stated 
to havé fea this station, and this name. 
might perhaps agree with Tripontiom : 
bile the distance here seems .too little. 
At 
remains; and this place, and Lilborn, — 
might originally have been one territory: 
be this however as it may, we must now_ 
attend to’ Cathorpe only. In Composi= 
hoch roots of w ie for Land take many 
consonants as prefixes. As On, Land, 
epee. takes Dia Don? so OF, tor 
er or point, takes D in Appledore, and | 
iho names: of Abies on borders. 
Moreover, Ham, border, has a P post= ie 
fixed in Hamp. shire; 1 
in like manner, 
Dor, used as border or point, has a 2 a 
postfixed in Dusseldorp: but Dorp, and 
Th horp, are the same; and each meant _ 
p. 
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