The history and antiquities of Enfield, in the county of Middlesex / [William Robinson].

  • William Robinson
Date:
1823
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Credit: The history and antiquities of Enfield, in the county of Middlesex / [William Robinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    who held it, assuming from it the name of de Envilel *. In the confirmation of Magnaville’s grant by Humphrey de Bohun in the time of Henry III. it is called Enfield3, and so in Queen Elizabeth’s time, and in the exchange between Henry VIII. and Lord Audley 3. Weever4 spells it Endjield, but afterwards5 he leaves out the middle d, which seems rather a superfluity of the press. If it had any better authority, I should sup¬ pose the name of this place derived from its being the last town, place, or parcel of land on the north side of Middlesex, on the border of Hertfordshire, and the northern extremity of the county of Middlesex, End-field; so there is Egham in Surrey, Enfield, or, as Adams spells it, Engfield, which, bordering on Berkshire, may have the same signification, or perhaps be com¬ pounded of Ing and Felt>e. It is spelt Endfield * Erdeswick’s Staffordshire, 136, 13P, 140. Mag. Brit. Y. 39. * Morant, II. 226. » Ibid. 141. So also in the undated exch. ap. Madox, Formul. art. 267, p. 159. 4 Fun. Mon. 428. In the time of Weever orthography was unsettled. s Ibid. p. 702.
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