Waltham Past And Present And Its Industries With An Historical Sketch of Wate
Waltham Past And Present And Its Industries With An Historical Sketch of Wate
Charles Alexander Nelson
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" It is a large, irregular town, situated near the Lea, which is here separated into divers streams, and skirted by low meadows, which have been long celebrated for the succulent and nourishing qualities of the grass. " The Convent of Waltham was originally founded about A. D. 1020, by Tovi, {StaUere or Standard-bearer to Canute the Dane, King of England), who built a hunting-seat in the forest, ^ near which he established a village of "threescore and six dwellers. " After completing this settl...ement he founded the church. The place was named Waltham, from the Saxon Wealdham, a dwelling or home on the forest or wild. It afterwards received the adjunct name of Holy Cross, from a cross with a figure of our Saviour upon it, said to have been found at Montacute, and brought to Waltham, where, in the hands of the priests, it manifested miraculous powers. It is said to have cured Harold, son of Earl Godwin, of the palsy, I. The original great forest which extended, in a desultory manner, over the largest part of the County of Essex, and of which what now remains of Epping or Waltham Forest is but a remnant.
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