A new guide to Cheltenham : being a complete history and description of that celebrated watering place, embracing a minute account of the virtues and qualities of its mineral waters, and a summary of the disorders in which they are recommended, together with a sketch of the surrounding country, and an account of Gloucester and its cathedral, as well as other places worth of notice / by G. A. Williams.
- Williams, G. A. (George Arthur)
- Date:
- [1823-1825]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A new guide to Cheltenham : being a complete history and description of that celebrated watering place, embracing a minute account of the virtues and qualities of its mineral waters, and a summary of the disorders in which they are recommended, together with a sketch of the surrounding country, and an account of Gloucester and its cathedral, as well as other places worth of notice / by G. A. Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![that the etymology of Cheltenham is derived from the Saxon words Chilt and Mam ; the former signifying an elevated place, the latter a farm or village. These opinions, however, are merely speculative ; we shall therefore leave the disquisition of such trifles, and hasten to present the reader with a concise historical account of the town. In giving the ancient history of this justly-cele- brated place, we shall, in a great measure, overlook the accounts of Sir Robert Atkyns, and other historians of former times, which abound with erroneous conjec- tures, and give some extracts from original charters, grants, and other authentic records and documents, which furnish a more accurate account of the town. The town, borough, and hundred of Cheltenham, appear by Doomsday book, to have been, previous to the conquest, “ parcel of the possessions of King Ed- ward the Confessor and which, upon the conquest, became “parcel of the possessions of King AVilliam.” The following is a translation of an extract from that curious record :— “ King Edward held Chinteneham. There were eight hides and an half. Reinbald holds one hide and an half, which belongs to the church. There were three plough tillages in demesne, and twenty villeins, and ten bordars, and seven servi, with eighteen plough tillages. The priests [have] two plough tillages.— There are two mills of 11s. 8d. King AVilliam’s stew- ard added to this manor, two bordars, and four vil- leins, and three mills, of which two are the king’s; the third is the steward’s ; and there is one plough tillage more. In the time of King Edward, it paid 91. 5s. and three thousand loaves for the dogs. It now pays 201. and twenty cows, and twenty hogs, and 16s. in- stead of the bread.”* Doomsday-book was begun in 1081, by Commissioners ap- pointed for that purpose; and completed, after a labour of six yean, from the verdicts of juries.—It is necessary, in explana- tion, to observe that “ SERVI” were servants attached to the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21440530_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
