[17] Hursley ceased to be a Peculiar about the year 1840.
[25] Hurstleigh, as it was originally spelt, is derived from Hurst, a wood, Legh or Lea, a meadow or open place in a wood.
[28] The General Biographer’s Dictionary says 51 in all.
[32] So says the Register, but I suspect erroneously. Ardington was the place in which the family of Clarkes was settled. Sir Edward Clarke, probably the son of Sir Thomas, was High Sheriff of Berks in 1626 (Marsh).
[34] Halliwell’s dictionary gives haydiggle (Somerset) as meaning high spirits, and once a country dance.
[36] From Father Gasquet’s essay on the Recusants in The Old English Bible.
[53] Commentaries, vol. ii. p. 83, 8vo.
[54] See Commentaries, as before. N.B. Among the Garrows, a people of Hindostan, the youngest daughter inherits the property of her family. See Asiatic Researches, vol. iii. p. 34, 8vo.
[56] Blackstone’s Commentaries, vol. ii. chap. v.
[57a] Blackstone’s Commentaries, vol. ii. pp. 81, 85.