walda

1 walda [ME wold, wald, weld < AS weald, wald], wooded region, wood, forest, (also spec.) forested area in South East England, the Weald. 1167 walda episcopi reddit compotum de dim. m. Pipe 186; 1176 Passefeld, et ad illud pertinentem ~am MGL II 658; 1255 accedatis ad boscos nostros de castanariis in comitatu Kanc' et de ~is in comitatu predicto Pat 69 m. 11d.; c1268 ad pacem vestram servandam ‥ in partibus ~e, Huntingdonie, Essexie RL II 335; 1285 tenentes de ~is habent communam cum omnibus bestiis suis ubique excepto uno bosco domini incluso (Slyndon) Cust. Suss II 5; 1300 fabri de ~is ‥ deferentes ferruras rotarum ad carettas ad civitatem Londoniarum MGL II 85 (= Cal. LBLond. C 88); s1264 rex cum exercitu suo versus Rouecestre iter arripuit et per Waldias transiens regius exercitus fere ccc viros occidit Ann. Worc. 450; s1364 debent pro qualibet swollinga xiv d. per annum pro schippeshere, timberlade, et bordlade, vel cariare extra waldam per mare vel terram ad manerium predictum Thorne 2140; waldum, wode WW; 1535 tenentes terrarum denne de Hokrige ‥ in Wilda Kancie Rutland MSS MinAc 24–7 Hen. VIII p. 98.

2 walda v. walla

3 walda v. welda