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<»«jp,K. OF Ml^CHESTlR. $53 JGfiDtuiies after thus Roman departure from the ftation, cdriftgned the qppellation of Barlow or the Boar-ground to a diftridt in the fouth-wefterly region of the parifli, and •retailed its primaeval abodes in the wilds of Blakeley to the commencement of the fourteenth rentury I6 * Such were the native beafts of our' woods •at 'this period. And with them our Mancunian Arden ipro- ducal a breed of hawks of herans and of eagles* 7 . The hawks wete-reclaimed by our Mancunian fathers from their wildnefs, anil taught to gmrfue the feathered game at the command and forthe uffe of their matters. And the beafts were rouzed by aurMaaoa- nian fathers from their dens, and were chaced;to the found of ^the horn along the ^echoing banks of rfie'Ickethe Irwell the Mcrfey or tl}e Meddock. x Monaflicon v. L p. 65-8, and copy of Records in the Britjfh Mufeum N^aoAj, E. F, p. 176.— * Kuerden iblio p. 278. an4 Spelman in L&uca from Ingulphus.— » 3 Kuerden iblio -p. 238. 4 A record in Coliins's Peersge voL vii. edit. 2. ;p. ^4.—^' See-a miftake therefore in Camden p. 616. concerning the etymology of Blackburne. The river of Blackburne has no more title tban the Thames to the appellation of Black becaufe of its wa- ters. — 6 Kuerden Folio p. 278. — 7 Ibid, — 8 Records ibid. — 'Cam- den c. 850. and Mortimer's Hufbandry Part II. p. 27. — r xo Mor- timer's Hufbandry Part II. p. 27. — " Camden p. 611. and Le r land vol. vii. p. 41. The words of the latter are very remark- able : In the very tope of Chawmoure [called before Chatdey More] where the mofie was the higheft and brake, is now a fayre playn valley as was in tymes paft, and a rill rennith in it, and peces of fmaull trees be found in the botome of it. — " H's M. S. p. 26. And Leland thus of Chatmofs : Chateley More a 6+ myles in lengthe fbme way braft within a mile of Morley Haul, and deftroyed moche grownd with moffe ther aboute, and deftroyed moche frefhe watar fifhe theraboute; firft corruptyng with ftinkyng watar GlaHbrokej and Co Glaf- broke carried ftinkyng watar, and Merfey corruptyd carried the roullyng mofle, parte "to the fhores of Wals^ parte of [to] the Z z Ifle