[67]Compare his edition of _The Chronicle_, vol. ii. p. 13, with note 1 at p. 4, vol. i., of _Florence_. [68]Early English Settlements in Great Britain—_The Proceedings of the Archæological Institute_, the Salisbury volume, pp. 56-60. It is, of course, not without much consideration that I presume to differ from Dr. Guest; but surely the passages quoted from Bede refer to nearly 200 years after the arrival of Cerdic and his nephews, Stuf and Wihtgar, when their descendants would have been sure to have crossed over, finding the east side far richer than the cold, barren district where the New Forest afterwards stood. [69]_The Early and Middle Ages of England_, p. 56, foot-note. I may, perhaps, add, that Camden also placed it at Yarmouth; Carte, at Charmouth, in Dorsetshire; and Milner, at Hengistbury Head. Gibson, with some others, in his edition of _The Chronicle_ (under _nominum locorum explicatio_, pp. 19, 20), alone seems to have fixed on this spot. Lappenburg, however, says that the site is no longer known. _England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings._ Ed. Thorpe, p. 107. [70]In a letter of Southampton’s to Cromwell, 17th September, 1539 (_State Papers_, vol. i. p. 617), it is called Calsherdes; whilst in another letter of his, also to Cromwell (_Ellis’s Letters_, second series; vol. ii. p. 87), he writes Calshorispoynte. Leland, in his _Itinerary_ (Ed. Hearne, second edition, vol. iii., p. 94, f. 78), speaks of both “Cauldshore” and “Caldshore Castelle;” and again (p. 93, f. 77), calls it Cawshot, as it is also spelt in Baptista Boazio’s Map of the Isle of Wight, 1591; whilst in the State papers of Elizabeth we find Calshord. (Record Office. Domestic Series, No. 43, f. 52. Aug. 27th, 1567.) I give these examples to show the number of variations through which the name has passed. No form is too grotesque for a corruption to assume. How names become corrupted, let me give an instance in the word Hagthorneslad (from the Old-English “hagaþorn;” a hawthorn), as it is written in the perambulation of the Forest in the twenty-ninth year of Edward I., which in Charles II.’s time is spelt Haythorneslade, thus losing its whole significance, although to this day the word “hag” is used in the Forest for a “haw,” or “berry.” [71]The simple termination “ore”—“ora,” and not “oar,” as spelt in the Ordnance Map, may be found within a stone’s-throw of Calshot, in Ore Creek. [72]See previously, chapter iv. p. 40, foot-note. [73]The derivation of Leap as given in the text is very doubtful.—_errata_