[8] Names of places, as Heavitree, Langtree, Plymtree, take the "tree" from the Welsh "tref," a farm or habitation. Heavitree is Tre-hafod, the summer farm.
[9] In my Lives of the Saints, written in 1874, I accepted M. Barthélemy's view, that Virgilius held that there were underground folk, gnomes; but I do not hold this now, knowing more than I then did of the learning of the great Irish scholars, and of the voyages made by the Irish. The earliest gloss on the Senchus Mor says, "God formed the firmament around the earth; and the earth, in the form of a perfectly round ball, was fixed in the midst of the firmament."—I. p. 27.
[10] Ffin—limit, gal—the level land, i.e. in comparison with the Dartmoor highlands.
[11] The same in Loch Lomond and in Lake Leman, in the Lyme in Dorsetshire, and the Leam by Leamington.
[12] Condensed from "The Exmoor Ponies," by "Druid," in The Sporting Magazine, October, 1860.
[13] The ford gave its distinctive appellation to the river above it.
[14] Observe the Goidelic for Cen for the Brythonic Pen. Kenwith is "The Head of the Wood."
[15] Granville (R.), History of Bideford, n.d.
[16] Grenvilles of Stowe, by "A Bidefordian."
[17] Forgotten Worthies.