^{page 424 note a} 17th Victoria.

^{page 424 note b} See original in Appendix, No. 1.

^{page 424 note c} It is called the Bladen in a charter of Æthelred, a.d. 1005—“andlang bróces innon Bladene; andlang Bladene intó Temese.”—Cod. Dipl. vol. iii. p. 342.

^{page 425 note a} Ross tells us that Eichard the Third disafforested a large portion of “Wychwood around Woodstock which had been annexed by Edward the Fourth.—“Rex tune a Londiniis removens usque per Oxoniam et usque Wodstoke clamore populi deforestavit magnum circuitum patriæ quem Rex Edwardus quartus frater suus contra conscientiam ad nocumentum patriæ annexerat et forestæ de Whichwood incorporaverat sub lege forestæ.” J. Rossi Hist. Reg. Ang. ed. T. Hearne. 8vo. 1745, p. 216.

^{page 426 note a} Placita de Quo Warranto, Oxon. p. 664.

^{page 428 note a} Codex Diplomat. Ævi Saxonici, tom. iv. p. 92.

^{page 428 note b} “Shilton Ham ” appears on the map of Oxfordshire in Gough's Camden, but it is not noticed in the Ordnance Survey.

^{page 428 note c} See the curious and valuable Glossary prefixed to the third volume of the Codex Dipl. Ævi Saxonici, v. Ham, pp. xxvii. xxviii.

^{page 428 note d} See original in Appendix, No. 2.

^{page 429 note a} Leafield, or, as it is called in the language of the distict, “Field Town,” is a large primitive village in the very heart of the forest. The inhabitants have always been noted for their uncouth dialect, which induced me to pay Leafield several visits. I found, however, after diligent inquiry, that it does not essentially differ, except in tone, from that of the other parts of the county. The old relative pronouns, thick (thilk) and thuck (thulk), so common in the adjoining counties of Gloucester and Berks, and in North Wilts, are not used by the denizens of Field Town. The village had once an ancient church, which has long since been demolished. The base of a stone-cross is still to be seen on the green. The shaft of this structure was a short time ago overthrown by mischievous hands, and it now protects the angle of a smithy from the shock of passing vehicles.

^{page 429 note b} Assart.

^{page 429 note c} A cross cut on the top of a boundary stone.

^{page 429 note d} A low, flat boundary stone resembling the head-stone of a grave, and inscribed—

LADIHAM

CORNOR

marks this spot.

^{page 430 note a} This ancient boundary stone (Frithwaldes stan ?) is mentioned in the Perambulation of the 28th Edward I. On my search for it I was shown the spot where, until the disafforesting, it had long lain prostrate. It has been lately broken up to make the newly-formed roads in this district ! The “Hore stone,” near this spot, is cracked in several places, and is doubtless doomed to perish in the same manner Hundreds of our ancient land-marks have in this way disappeared within the memory of man !

^{page 430 note b} i. e. the Forsaken oak of the older Perambulation.

^{page 431 note a} These stones also gave the name to the village of Stanlake, the modern orthography being obviouslycorrupt. The name is spelt without the d in the Rot. Hundr. temp. Ed. I.

^{page 432 note a} This object is now in the Ashmolean Museum.

^{page 433 note a} This pernicious practice of planting ancient tumuli with trees has destroyed their characteristic appearance in many places in England. The far-famed cromlech known as Wayland Smith's Cave (Archæologia, vol. xxxii. pi. xvii.) has long since been shrouded from view by a belt of firs; and the stone circle called Rollright is filled with a plantation of the same trees, which, as their roots expand, will infallibly dislocate the group.

^{page 433 note b} Vide Codex Dipl. Ævi Saxon, passim.

^{page 433 note c} Mr. William Taylor, of Charlbury, possesses a fragment of a cup of Samian ware, with the Potter's mark TAVRICI, and several coins of the later Roman emperors, dug up at Fawler. At Ditchley, Roman remains are frequently turned up by the plough.

^{page 438 note a} From the original in the Petty Bag Office.