The History of the County of Norfolk, (a county of a really great ex- tent,) being left unfinished by the Reverend Mr. Blomefield, at his death, who had handled chiefly on the southern parts of it, and no particular person since that time proposing, or inclining to finish the same: as I used to be identified to have made, for many years previous, appreciable col- lections on that topic, and had assisted Mr. Blomefield, current- ing him with the entire history of the lots of of Grimshow, and South Greenhow, a number of gentlemen solicited me to undertake this work, which I complied with, in hopes of its being acceptable, not only to the gentlemen of Norfolk, but to all lovers of antiquity in general. Nor do the notes give any indication of a deep spiritual wrestle, which Luther in later years associated with this interval in his life. I can not forbear taking discover of a comment made by Fuller:- “Mount Libanus, so known as (as some say) from the Greek word, sig- nifying frankincense, of which there is plenty right here produced; but, as dad and mom give names to their kids, not children to their mother and father, so I conclude it referred to as from the Hebrew word, libanus, from its whiteness; the faithfull snow forsakes not the highest of it, but remains there all the year lengthy,” -and that his conclusion is simply, could also be proved by the Alps, so called for the same cause;-Ab albis rupibus.
Give me depart also to say that worthwhile collection of the an- tiquities of this county, which Peter le Neve, Esq. Also of the historical and present nobility and gentry of this county, with their arms, quarterings, and many pedigrees, in a extra full method than has ever yet appeared in publick. However, in contrast to the previous casts, they did not meet in any particular setting; as an alternative, they appeared in various taped and filmed segments. Stow says, that Hunstanton in Norfolk takes its name from sweet- ness, (I presume he means honey,) but it’s more cheap to imagine from just a little rivulet here, the Hun; and we meet with Hunworth in Norfolk, Hunwick, within the county of Durham, and Hunstede, a town in Denmark, seated on the river Hun. Derham is interpreted to be a spot for deer, however its true derivation is from the British word dur, (water,) as in Durham, Derby, Dort, or Dortrect, a city in Holland, is a ford over the water or river.-God- slow is (as some could have it ) a stow, or dwelling dedicated to God; whereas it expresses solely a dwelling by good water, as Godstow in Oxfordshire,-Godeston in Norfolk, and in Surrey.
Bo, or bu, denotes the winding of any stream; thus, Bow (by Stratford) in Middlesex;-Bows in Yorkshire (the historical Roman Levatre;)- Boethorp by Norwich.-Ken is the British name of rivers in lots of counties, Lancashire, Wiltshire, and Berkshire; from this proceed Ken- ford and Kenet, towns in Cambridgeshire; and Leland calls Kenlet a pretty brook, in the vale of Montgomery; and Aken a famous city in Germany, called by the French, Aix-la-Chapelle.-Buckworth or Bu- cheworth, in Huntingdonshire, is seated at the confluence of two rivers, as worth at all times implies, (thus Keyserwart in Germany;) and Buxton. The famous metropolis of Utrecht, in the Netherlands, is of the same unique, and is named in Latin, Tra- jectus ad Rhenum. Whereas Apple- dore is derived (as the city of Appleby in Westmoreland is, the place a well-known Roman station was, referred to as by Antoninus, in his Itinerary, Abal- laba) from the British word ab, or av, which word signifies a river, or water; le and by are Saxon further words, expressing a dwelling by the water: thus we discover the towns of Appleton, Appleford, and the hundred of Appletree in Derbyshire.-Barham is a ham or dwelling on a hill, from Bergh; thus, Barley and Barkway, (a manner over the hills,) in Hertfordshire, and Barton, a city on, or by a hill, and Barrow, a tumulus.
The reign which began with this unwonted quietness was maybe crucial epoch of all English medieval history in the way of the definition and settlement of the constitution. British History on-line’s transcription of the amount. Cambden, in his historical past of Northumberland, calls Risingham a city of venerable antiquity, standing on the river Rhead; and that it signifies, within the old English, and high Dutch languages, a town of giants, from riese, a word for a large; however rie and rey, are well known to be names of rivers, giving names to towns adjoining to them;-as Ryegate in Surrey, Rydale in Yorkshire, Riburgh, and Rising, in Norfolk. Norfolk is wrote in the grand survey, Buchestuna and Bukestun. A fashionable creator asserts, that Snestesham in Norfolk is so corruptly referred to as, for Netesham, its historic name, being fambus for herds of cows, whereas, in Domesday Book, it’s wrote Snetesham, from a rivulet, known as Snet.-Snetterton can be a town in this county; Snet or Snyte, is a river in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, and Snetre, one in Northumberland. Having a weakened immune system appears to be one such issue.