mile-ftone; from that stone to the hoar apple-tree; from that apple-tree within Doferie; after Doferie to Severn, and along the Severn to the Thames mouth".

In one of the boundaries a wolf-pit occurs'.

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Some Particulars of the Names of Places in M fex and London, in the Saxon Times.

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T appears from Doomsday-book that in Saxon times, the county of Middlefex had divided into hundreds, which were distinguish the names that they now bear, with small varia of pronunciation or orthography.

AMONG the places mentioned in the coun Doomsday-book, we may eafily difcern the fo

ing ancient and modern names to correspond:

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Toteham,
Hefa,

Tottenham.
Hayes.

THE local denominations by which the various places in England are now known seem to have been principally imposed by our Anglo-Saxon ancestors. Most of them, in their compofition, betray their Saxon origin; and whoever will take the trouble to compare the names in Doomsday-book, which prevailed in the island during the time of the Confeffor, with the prefent appellations of the fame places, will find that the greateft number of them correfpond. The hundreds in the county of Suf fex were fixty-three, and ftill remain fo of thefe, thirty-eight bore the fame names as now, and of the villæ or maneria, which are about three hundred and forty-five, there are two hundred and thirty with appellations like their present.

THE following lift will fhew the correspondencies between the ancient and modern names of the counties which occur in Doomsday-book;

LONDON is mentioned in Bede as the metropolis of the East Saxons in the year 604, lying on the banks of the Thames, "the emporium of many "people coming by fea and land '."

In a grant, dated 889, a court in London is conveyed at the ancient ftony edifice called by "the citizens hwæt mundes ftone, from the public "ftreet to the wall of the fame city 2." From this we learn that fo early as 889 the walls of London existed.

IN 857 we find a conveyance of a place in London called Ceolmundinge haga, not far from the Weft Gate 3. This Weft Gate may have been either Temple Bar or Holborn Bars.

ETHELBALD, the Mercian king, gave a court in London, between two streets called Tiddbertiftreet and Savin-street 4.

SNORRE, the Icelander, mentions the battle in Southwark in the time of Ethelred II. He fays the Danes took London. On the other fide of the Thames was a great market, called Sudrvirki (Southwark), which the Danes fortified with many defences; with a high and broad ditch, and a ram