Braughing

in 1746

Braughing, which gives Name to the Hundred, was anciently, next to Verulam, the moft confiderable Place in the County, and is thought to have been the Roman Cæfaromagum, fituated 28 Miles from London, as by Antoninus's Itintray. It still has fome Ruins of its ancient Eminence, giving Name to the Deanry as well as Hundred.

Near the Church-Yard is an old Houfe; at prefent inhabited by poor Families, which was given, with all Sorts of Furniture, for Weddings. They brought hither their Provisions, and had a large Kitchen, with a Caldron., large Spits, and a Dripping pan, a large Room for Merriment, a Lodging-Room, with a Bride-Bed, and good Linnen; fome of which Furniture was in Being a few Years ago.

Puckeridge, is an Hamlet fituated upon Ermine-Street. in this Parifh and Standon, and lies in the Manors of Standon and Milky; it is a confiderable Thorough-fare, and has feveral good Houfes for the Entertainment of Travellers: It is called by Leland, whom Mr. Camden follows, Pulcher-Church; put it doth not appear that there ever was a Church here, only a Chapel is mention'd in an old Survey of the Manor of Gatefbury.

The Agreeable Historian, 1746