In his account of a great and triumphant jousting held in London on May Day, 1540, on which occasion all the horses were trapped in _white_ velvet, Stow several times alludes to an Ivy Bridge by St. Martin's in the Fields, and this Ivy Bridge must have been closely adjacent to what is now Coventry Street and Cranbrook Street. _Crene_ is Greek for _brook_,[452] the Hippocrene or the _horse brook_ was the fountain struck by the hoof of the divine Pegasus: _Cran_brook Street is a continuation of Coventry Street, and I rather suspect that the neighbouring Covent Garden is not, as popularly supposed, a corruption of Convent Garden, but was from time immemorial a grove or garden of Good Coven. The Maiden Lane here situated probably derived its title from a sign or tablet of the Maiden similar to the Coventina pictures, and it is not improbable that Coven or Goodiva once reigned from Covent Garden _via_ Coventry Street to St. Govan's Well in Kensington. Near Ripon is an earthwork _abri_ known seemingly as Givendale,[453] and on Hambleton Hill in this neighbourhood used to be a White Horse carved on the down side.[454] The primal Coventrys were not improbably a tribal oak or other sacred _tree_, such as the Braintree in Essex near Bradwell,[455] and the Pick_tree_ previously noted. At Coveney, in Cambridgeshire--query, _Coven ea_ or Coven's island?--bronze bucklers have been found which in design "bear a close resemblance to the ribbon pattern seen on several Mycenæan works of art, and the inference is that even as far north as Britain, the Mycenæan civilisation found its way, the intermediaries being possibly Phoenician traders".[456] But the Phoenicians having now been evicted from the court it is manifestly needful to find some other explanation. Coveney is not many miles from St. Ives, Huntingdon, named supposedly after Ivo, a Persian bishop, who wandered through Europe in the seventh century. Possibly this same episcopal Persian founded Effingham near Bookham and Boxhill, for at the foot of the Buckland Hills is Givon's Grove, once forming part of a Manor named Pachevesham. On the downs above is Epsom, which certainly for some centuries has been _Ep's home_,[457] and the Pacheve of Pachevesham was possibly the same _Big Hipha_: there is second Evesham in the same neighbourhood. Speaking of the British inscription EPPILOS, Sir John Rhys observes that it is very probably a derivation from _epo_, a horse; and of the town of _Ep_eiacon, now _Eb_chester, the same authority states: "The name seems to signify a place for horses or cavalry".[458] Near Pachevesham, below Epsom, is an old inn named "The Running Mare". [Illustration: FIG. 258.--British. From _A New Description of England and Wales_ (Anon, 1724).]