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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
Arbour-Lows are an ancient monument, so well known in the country, that supposing a stranger desirous of visiting it (and indeed it is well worth visiting by the curious antiquary), and once arrived at Bakewell about five miles distant from it, he will not fail of meeting with a competent direction to the place.
page 131 note [a] Junius in voce.
page 131 note [b] Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Devonshire, as below. Camden, col. 424.
page 131 note [c] Hearne, in Spelman's Life of Alfred, p. 61, from Dugdale's Warwickshire, p. 4.
page 132 note [d] Hearne, ibid.
page 132 note [e] Lye, Dict. v. Hlap. Dugd. Warw. p. 5. Gawin. Douglas, p. 394, lin. 12.
page 132 note [f] Hearne, l. c.
page 132 note [g] Brompton, col. 809. This, in an old MS. Chronicle of mine, p. 131, is called Logge, the same in pronunciation, as is plain from the name that there follows, viz. Hubbeslowe. Another MS. Chron. p. 37, has Hubbclow. So Leland in Collect. I. p. 213, from Brompton, has ‘Hublow, tumulus Hubbæ, in Devonia.’
page 133 note [h] In Derbyshire they call this complaint a wickflaw, very expressively. The last member is clearly a corruption of low, or hlap, and as to the former part of the word, wick in the dialect of that country is the same as quick, and denotes consequently the beating of throbbing which always attends those painful tumours.
page 133 note [i] Highlow, Blakelow, Ellocklow, Gallowlow, Hakeslow, Mininglow, Pidallow, Roundlow, Snipperlow, Stanhoplow, Whitelow, &c.
page 133 note [k] I know but one exception to this (others may recollect more), viz. that Earthen low was in the field on the left hand of the turnpike road leading from Mitham Bridge to Hope, at the N. W. corner of which the lane turns down to Brough. The field is in the liberty of Aston, and the estate of Thomas Eyre of Hassop, Esq. It is thirty yards in circumference, and is evidently a barrow. The top has been much higher in the memory of man, but the ground being here in tillage, the plough has lowered the summit considerably.
page 134 note [l] This is apparently a pleonasm, whence one may infer that the common people, though they lived among the lows, and even had a right notion of them, as stated above, did not perfectly understand the meaning of the word.
page 134 note [m] The British word for eagle is crgr; wherefore eagle here is probably a corruption of some British word of like sound, perhaps hyglod, famous, renowned. It is said there are two rock basons on the top of it.
page 134 note [n] Hearne, in Spelm. Life of Alfred, p. 4. See the passage from Brompton before cited, p. 132.
page 135 note [o] Weever's Fun. Mon. p. 519.
page 135 note [p] Harris's Hist. of Kent, p. 137. Wormii, Mon. Dan. p. 33.
page 135 note [q] Harris's Hist. of Kent, p. 76.
page 135 note [r] See also Wormius, p. 37.
page 136 note [s] Wormii Mon. Dan. p. 39.
page 136 note [t] Wormius, ibid.
page 136 note [u] Wormius, p. 43.
page 136 note [w] Such there were very anciently. Virgil, Æn. XI. 550. Tacitus, Annal. I. cap. 62. Dugd. Warw. p. 4.
page 136 note [x] See Wormius, p. 41.
page 136 note [y] There are a great number of small ones on Leam-Moor, besides eight large ones.
page 136 note [z] See Dugd. Warw. p. 5. Plott, Oxfordsh. c. x. and Staffordsh. c. x.
page 137 note [a] A gentleman assured me, he himself had taken one entirely away, for that purpose, from Leam-Moor.
page 137 note [b] Sir H. Spelman's Gloss. v. Bergium.
page 137 note [c] Four urns were found in Robin Hood's Prick abovementioned, one in a low on Leam-Moor. See Camden, col. 763. 425. note g below.
page 137 note [d] As in Aldwark-Moor. See Camden, col. 425.
page 138 note [e] Dr. Borlase's Antiq. of Cornwall, p. 211.
page 138 note [f] See above, art. 7.
page 138 note [g] In a stone low on Stanton Moor, which has been much rifled, not only bones were found, but a large bead of blue glass with Orifices not larger than the tip of a tobacco-pipe. Some rings and beads were found in a low on Leam-Moor by Mr. Jonathan Oxley.
page 139 note [h] Hearne, in Sir John Spelman's Life of Alfred, p. 61. See also Wormii Mon. Dan. p. 33, alibi.
page 139 note [i] Wormii Mon. Dan. p. 35.
page 140 note [k] Arar would be easily converted, or corrupted, to arbour; the insertion of b, euphoniœ gratiâ, does it at once.
page 140 note [l] It may be objected to this etymon, that by this means it is made an hybridous word, part British and part Saxon; but this is of little weight, as such kinds of compounds are common. Durosiponte, the Roman name of Godmanchester, is interpreted by Mr. Camden, a Bridge over Ouse. Britannia, col. 503. Besides, Arbour-Lows was not, as we have reason to think the original name, but was imposed afterwards by the Saxons or Danes; it being natural for either of these people, if they conceived Arar to be a proper name, as probably they did, to join it with an appellation of their own.
page 140 note [m] Dugdale, Warw, p. 5.
page 140 note [n] Dr. Plott, Nat. Hist. of Staffordshire, p. 404.
page 141 note [o] Essay on the Coins of Cunobelin, p. 57, seq.
page 141 note [p] See above, p. 5.
page 141 note [p] See the plate.
page 143 note [r] The ground here would have admitted of any figure; and the Romans, it is well known, made their camps either square or oblong, where they could.
page 143 note [s] Assemblage of Metrop. Coins of Canterb. p. 40.
page 144 note [t] Dr. Borlase, p. 157.
page 146 note [u] For an account of the kong stolen, see Worm. Mon. Dan. I., cap. 12,. Dr. Plott, Nat. Hist. of Oxf. p. 330 seq.
page 146 note [w] For the fora, or tings, see Worm. Mon. Dan. I. cap. 10. Dr. Plott, loc. cit.
page 147 note [x] Mr. Cordiner indeed thinks such a sence would be improper about a forum (Antiq. and Scenery in N. Scotland, p. 84); and therefore, you may say, about a temple. But it should be considered, that as this holy place was not separated or secured by a wall, a rampire would be a natural enclosure, both to prevent profanation by cattle, and vulgar people.
page 148 note [y] Worm. Mon. Dan. p. 22.
page 148 note [z] See Wormius.