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APPEND I X. IX Gale Canterbury Lenham Rochefter London Shenley near Brockley Hills Verulam Hertford . Dunftable. Stony Stratford HoRSELEY< Canterbury Milton . Rochefter. London Brockley Hills «  Verulam Dunftablc Fenny Stratford Towcefter

StUKELEW Canterbury Sittingburne Rochefter London Edgeware near Brockley Hills Verulam Market-ftreiet near Dunftable Dunftable Stony Stratford

  • Durocobrivis, a name which has been long wrefted by the antiquarians into Duro-

coc-brivis v and to fignify the Ford of the Red Water, and which has therefore been idly fixed at Redburne and Hertford (fuppofed to be He-rud-ford), is really nothing more than Duroc-o-brivis and fignifies nothing more than a watery town, juftas Dur-o-brjvia and Ebur-ac urn. And Redburne is abfolutely Red Bourne, or the brook Read,

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