Note 2 — THE ANTIQUITIES OF BRIDGNORTH. PART I.
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“Aliâ excursione celeriter factâ in occiduas Angliæ partes in oppido ad Sabrinam, nomine Quatbrigia (forte Quatfordia prope Bridgnortham) quantâ poterant celeritate maximâ vallum sibi conficiunt.”—Spelman’s Life of Alfred the Great, B. 1, 94.
“In great haste they departed their fortress, leaving their wives and children to the mercy of the English, neither stayed they till they came into the borders of Wales, where at Quatbridge upon Severn, they built another castle.”—Speed, B. VII., c. 34.