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 | | It is most probable, however, that the etymon of Coggeshall will be found in the Celtic language, for, from various circumstances, we are induced to believe that an old Celtic town existed on the heights overlooking the river Pant. |
 | | Virtue, 1831), also quotes Weever, but at less length than Morant, and says, "from which it has been supposed the contents of the urn were the relics of some Roman lord of this town..., and the name of Coggeshall may have been derived from this original." |
 | | Thus far we have reviewed a number of possible derivations of Coggeshall, which may be summarized into the following categories: one Latin (Weever and others); four Keltic (Dunkin and his footnoted correspondent, and Beaumont); one faulty Anglo-Saxon (Beaumont) and one partially Anglo-Saxon (Dunkin's correspondent); and one modern English (Morant). |
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