1. 1. For the manner in which I. R. rewrites this section, see the [Preface].
2. 5. Chylturne. As to the sense, we find, in the Book of Surveying, c. 37, the following. “Chylturne grounde and flyntye grounde be light groundes and drye, and full of small stones, and chalke grounde is moche of the same nature, and they wyll weare and washe awaye with water.”
6. Meane erthe, earth of ordinary character. Mean is moderate, ordinary. I. R. alters it to ‘maine earth,’ which was probably not intended. After marle, he inserts—“some neither Sand nor Clay, but like a mixture of both, yet neither, which is called a Hassell ground.”
9. I. R. has—“In Sommerset-shiere, Dawset-shiere, and Gloster-shiere.”
Zelcester. The old character Ʒ, which had the force of y at the beginning of a word,[36] was often printed as Z, by confusion. Bishop Percy used to print such ludicrous forms as zow, zour, instead of yow, your. I conclude that Zelcester = Yelcester, i.e. Ilchester. The form occurs again in sect. 27, l. 17.
16. many other places. J. R. says—“in some parte of Hartford-shiere, Sussex, and Cornwall.”
24. aslope] I. R. has a flote, gyue out, i.e. spread out, are too obtuse.