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A History of the County of Worcester
… 1550), fol. 1. Langland, Piers the Plowman(ed. W. W. Skeat: Clarendon Press 1886), ii, p. xxxii. For account see …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… VI); cf. Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, lines 1436 (in Works, ed. Skeat, iv. 118). B.L. Add. MS. 5861, f. 13v. e.g. C.R.O., R …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Dipl. v, 136; Stenton, Early Hist. of Abingdon Abbey, 13. Skeat ( Berks. Place-names, 33) wrongly identifies Moreton …
A History of the County of Bedford
… Monday. 149 There are no endowed charities in this parish. Skeat declares the original meaning of this name to be the Woad Hill (Skeat, Place Names of Bedfordshire). Statistics from Bd. of …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… 1438. The spellings have thrown doubt on Edgar's charter (Skeat, Hunts Place Names (Camb. Antiq. Soc.), 320), but the …
A History of the County of Bedford
… with the official trustees, producing yearly 6 12 s. 8 d. Skeat derives the name of this parish from the Anglo-Saxon … a dung-beetle is still called a sharn-beetle in Hampshire; Skeat, Place Names of Bedfordshire, 7. Statistics from Bd. of …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Field Club, iv, 205. V.C.H. Berks. i, 213. See, however, Skeat, Place-names in Berkshire, 112. Money, Battles of …
A History of the County of Bedford
… that it was from it that Stagsden derived its name. Skeat discredits it, saying that stag is a Norse word, and is … by the fact that Count Eustace held here in Domesday (Skeat, Place Names of Bedfordshire, 11). Local Act, 52 Geo. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… ii. 548; P.R.O., C 133/53, no. 10. Cf. Chaucer, Works, ed. Skeat, iv. 114 sqq.; v. 116. Trin. Coll. Mun., acct. 489 Edw. …