Item 6 - Letter from T. Smith Woolley to W. Aldis Wright

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Add. MS b/74/5/6

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Letter from T. Smith Woolley to W. Aldis Wright

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  • 16 Feb. 1881 (Creation)

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Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar
(1831-1914)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Collingham.—Has not met with the word ‘Cristinge’ before, but there is a tract of lands called the Criftings near Hoveringham.

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Collingham
Feb. 16 1881

My dear Sir

Hoveringham

I have considered your question {1} as to “Cristinge” {2} with great interest. I have never met with that word before, but I conjecture that it is a miswriting (or reading) for “Crifting”. There is a tract of Inclosed Lands called the “Criftings”, adjoining the Dover Beck about 5 miles North of Hoveringham. I know no other instance however of that name, and do not know the derivation of the first syllable unless it is from the same root as “Croft”. “Crofting” I think would be the exact equivalent of “Little Close”.

I remain | my dear Sir
Yours most truly
T Smith Woolley

W. Aldis Wright Esq
Bursar

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Letter-head of Smith-Woolleys & Wigram, surveyors, South Collingham, Newark, and Silver Street, Lincoln. The direction is at the foot of the first page.

{1} The question was probably communicated privately. It does not appear to have been raised in Notes and Queries.

{2} Closing inverted commas supplied.

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      This description was created by A. C. Green in 2022.

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