p583 Britannia sive florentissimorum regnorum, Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et ... By William Camden
http://books.google.com/books?id=PzsVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA583&dq=Scarborough&hl=en&ei=KkrpTZ_5Iqe30gGrl_XbAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Scarborough&f=false
---- Scott Catledge <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Nicolson, Nigel and Alasdair Hawkyard, eds. The Counties of Britain: A Tudor
> Atlas by John Speed (Thames and Hudson, 1989) page 199 Yorkshire: North and
> East Ridings has the spelling Scarbrough. The Atlas was prepared around 1603
> and published 1611. Johnson, Place-Names of England and Scotland, allegedly
> has the spelling Scarborough dated to 1436.
>
> Can anyone verify a 15th or 16th century date for the exact spelling
> 'Scarborough'? Watts and Ekwall have it only as a header.
>
> Scott Catledge
>
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