Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey].

  • John Aubrey
Date:
1784
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Credit: Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    _ The family of.Gawen, have been long at Norington, in the parifh of Alvidefton in Wiitfhire. It was fold by Gawen, Efq. to Sir Wadham Wyndham, one of the Judges of the King’s Bench, about 1665. They con- tinued in this place four hundred fifty and odd years. Then alfo was fold their eftate in Broad-Chalk, which they had as long, or per- haps longer. On the fouth down of the farm of Broad-Chalk, is a little barrow, called ‘Gawen’s Barrow. (which muft be before ec- clefiaftical canons were conftituted; for fince, burials are only in confecrated ground) King Edgar gave the manor and farm of Broad- Chalk to the nuns of Wilton-Abby, which is goo years ago. | | Mr. Thinne, in his explanation of ‘the hard words in.Chaucer,. writes thus, Gawen, fol. 23, p. 1. This Gawyn was fitters fon to Arthur the Great, King of the Britains, a famous man in war, and in all manner of civility ; as in the acts of the Britains we may read. In the year 1082, ina province of Wales, called Rofe, was his fepulchre found. Chaucer, in the Squire’s Tale, | This
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