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 £fc#.£. o f fa k k c : h S ste r. li$ fey riefr Mdhchefter '. And itie W8&U tfr" this Blafeefey were even feVen miles m circuit a£ laVe is the fourteelrith century '. On the eaftem fide of the riariih,' the fame .Arden remained many centuries afterward in ther #6ods of CotlyTiurit and Nuthurff and in the thicket of Bradford, th# lift being even in the reigri of Edward th6 fecond no Kfg thart £ Alite ift circumference V In the fbutherly regions of the patfflt it peculiarfy retained the name of Arden for ages, is I haVe previously (hewn," and was, latterly brokeh into the wbods that gave cfenominatibh to Operi- fliaw to Blackbrook and to Blackftakes, info AYKtdn Hurft and Heatoh Wood, and into rii6 large thicket that wirjded along the bank of the Merfey, gave the denomination of Hard-ey or Hardy to a range of meadows upon it, and (as I fliall foon (hew) af- forded a particular (helter for the wild hearts in the adjoining; diftria of Barlow Thus was the parifli of Mahchefter overfpread at this period* with woods, and was at the fame time (kirted with other woods trpon every fide, having the foreft of Werneth* on the acclivity eff Hollihwood arid' on the hills of OidBa'm to the eaft, Dry- xixtod arid Wefftfcood on the weft, and the Chefhiie Arden on' the (buth* Within the parifli, no parts feem to have been free frorti the native oaks but the'uiicultivated area arid the ex- tended mofle^. The latter wdre certainly the mofs of Failf- tforth attd afliirtedly Othfers: The mofs of Failfworth undoubtedly cxiftfctJ in the earlieft periocT of the Roman refidence among us, . as theroadto Camliodunum jiuflies boldly acrofs the breadth of Lr. And others rfiuft have equally exifted with it. The fame phyfical principles that generated the mofs of Failfworth muft have equally generated others iri the pari(h. And all our mofles, * in the juft eftimate of reafon, muft be presumed to have been t equally prior with the mofs of FailfwbrtH to the fettlement of the Romans at Mancliefter, except any of them can adduce a convincing proof to the contrary. But only one of them can- No traces of the plow, the ridgb and the furrow, have' been: dis- covered in any of them, as haVe plainly been found in one of the Yoifkffitre and many of the Irifh modes*. In' fome of the lattec