The omission of Speen from PN Bucks was discussed twice before in this list:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0511&L=EPNL&P=R2&D=0&H=0&I=-3&O=T&T=1
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0706&L=EPNL&P=R2&D=0&H=0&I=-3&O=T&T=1
John Briggs wrote on 2007 June 15: "PN Bucks was the first county survey to be published by the EPNS. The
criteria for inclusion are not stated explicitly, so have to be deduced."
I have now found the answer. In a letter to the journal History (v.11, issue 42, pp.142-3, July 1926), Mawer & Stenton write that they do not discuss any name for which they have no evidence before 1500, and that this rule therefore excludes Speen and Coldharbour.
Keith
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