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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...of Driffield, in Yorkshire; in which he adduces strong reasons for identifying the site of iEthelstan's great victory with a spot, called by the rustics of the neighbourhood, " Heeads," (the "Vin-heidi" of Egill) situated, as I understand him, between the villages of Kirkburn and Battleburn, by Driffield, close to the river Hull, where it empties itself into the Humber. Somerset Editor. 199. Heraldic Visitation Of Dorset, 1623: Uvedale Family.--I trust that one of the main features of our new 3". & D. N. & Q. will be the study of heraldic and genealogical subjects; and that,incidentally to that study, it will keep a watchful eye upon those publications that issue from time to time from the public or private press, and which affect the local interests of the two counties. The Harleian Society has recently (.1885) published the above Dorset Visitation from the Harl. MS. 1166, fo: 26, under the editorship of Mr. J. P. Rylands, F.S.A. In that publication a pedigree is headed as Vidal, which is referred to in the index as " The Battle of Brunanburh: an attempt to identify the site." London: W. Kent & Co., is. Vidall, and which in the original MS. is unquestionably Vuidall. It is perhaps unavoidable that sometimes mistakes will occur in transcribing from the crabbed and cramped handwriting of so many of the heraldic MS. Visitation books; more especially is this the case when a north-countryman, (as I believe I am correct in saying that Mr. Rylands is,) deals with uncommon west-country names. Othenvise, the editor would not have confounded the name of Vidal, (an existing Devonshire family,) with that of Uvedale, (for which the pedigree is undoubtedly intended,) by allowing himself to be misled by the interchangeable &...
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