Gents Mag 1848 part 2 p.33

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1848 part 2 p.33 [Hep]tarchy is pretty well borne out, independently of the pedigree, by the name mentioned by Horsley as a Saxon compound, - burgh and ham, - designating the family, the parish, the castle, the manor, and the hall, and in addition having an echo of the much older Roman name of Brovocum. Stukeley, in his Itinerary, 1725, says, "I saw many fragments of altars and inscriptions at the Hall near the bridge, all exposed in the courtyard to weather and injuries of every sort." Your veracious critics deny the existence of both Roman station and courtyard, particularly of the latter, as only being an erection of the present century. Mistakes such as these ought to have been avoided by writers who have used the lash with an unsparing hand, because they induce a very natural suspicion either of indifference as to statement of carelessness in research when facts are concerned; neither do I think that the periodical literature of the day is improved by the pungent acrimony of criticism, or the carping or sneers of anonymous correspondents. Yours, &c. GEO. SHAW.
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