. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. nan Conquest through the period embraced by the Cheshire Records, the town is very frequently called in legal recordWicus-Malbanus, Wich-Malbank, or Malbanewic, a name given in honor of the Baronialfamily of Malbank. But it must not be supposed that the people called the town b\- thosenames; or that the present name, which is as old as the English language, was, afterhaving been lost for several centuries, revived again in recent times. For occasionallyeven amongst documentary rolls, the ancient
. A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester. nan Conquest through the period embraced by the Cheshire Records, the town is very frequently called in legal recordWicus-Malbanus, Wich-Malbank, or Malbanewic, a name given in honor of the Baronialfamily of Malbank. But it must not be supposed that the people called the town b\- thosenames; or that the present name, which is as old as the English language, was, afterhaving been lost for several centuries, revived again in recent times. For occasionallyeven amongst documentary rolls, the ancient name occurs, in the Calendar of FinesNo. 3. 13 Edw. I. [1284] &c., which is quoted on a subsequent page. The final e, which is often added, denotes the long vowel sound of /, for ^^•hichsometimes a y is substituted, thus :—Nant-wyche. The alteration of the first syllableto Nampt, which appears to have taken place in the sixteenth century and to havebecome common in the two following centuries, can only be considered as a grossmis-spelling of the word. t ^apn anil Jtorman ^ HE earliest account of Nantwich, relating to the laws, customs,and values of the salt-works in late Saxon times and after theConquest, is contained in the Domesday Survey of account, which is very full and interesting, is as follows:(translated)—* In King EdzoanTs time there was a Wich in Warmundestrou [Nantwich]hundred, in which there was a well for making salt, andbetween the King and Earl Edwin there were 8 salt-houses, so divided that of alltheir issues and rents the King had 2 parts and the Earl the third. But besides these, the Earl had one salt-houseadjoining his manor of Acton, which was his own. From this salt-house the Earlhad sufficient salt for his house throughout the year. But if he sold any from thence,the King had twopence, and the Earl a third penny, for the the same Wich many men from the country had salt-houses,of which this was the custom :— From ou
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