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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 Excerpt:... Ground where they have been, I think as aught not to restrain that term to our modern narrow Acceptation of the word, hut book upon it to be meant in the old sense, so as to denote an intire Field. So w/tercas by Castle Acre in Weycock field, in the Parish of Laurence-IVallham near Maidenhead in Berks, the Country people commonly understand, no more ground than what is now generally known hy the term Acre, I rather think, that 'tis to be understood of the whole Field, at least of a great many of our common Acres, and. that the Building there %oas very large, a thing which the great number of Antiquities found in the Field proves very plainly, in reference to tshich 1 shall here transcribe, what I put down in one of my MSS. a few years since, when, in my walk, I lay at Hare-Hatch, and the next day went through this Field, as I have upon occasim done several times. "Wednesd.A"pril I". 1719. Italk'dwith » See my Collection of curious Discoursts, p. 6T. Ibid. j. T8. » Vol. TO. p. 91. "an old Gentleman, who ah "to lodged as I did on Tues..«'. day Night, being Easter Tues"day, March 31. at Hare"Hatch, but said he lived at "Cookham, where he had re'» sided 21 Years. He told me, "that there was a Tradition ' at Cookham, that the Em"press Maud was some time "at Cookham, and that she "built Cookham Bridges and "tome Houses there: but, says "the Gentleman,-1 believe no"thing of j. For my own "part, I am apt to think there "is some Ground for the Tra"dition. I talk'd with him "about the Road's going over "the River in old time nearer "Cookham than it does now. "He said, he had heard Stories "about such a Road, but he "did not thin...