Crossword-Solution: LEAG 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The Saxons at once fought the natives "and offslew many Welsh, and drove some in flight into the wood that is named Andredes-leag," now the Weald of Kent and Sussex.

OCTOBER Ye strangers, banished from your native glades, Where tyrant frost with famine leag'd proclaims "Who lingers dies"; with many a risk ye win The privilege to breathe our softer air And glean our sylvan berries.

Under the Saxon dynasty it obtained the name of LEICESTER, compounded of _castrum_, or _cester_, from its having been a Roman military station, and _leag_, or _lea_, a pasture surrounded by woods, for such was antiently the scite of the town.

But lest the bird should refuse to reply to your queries, take this precious stone (_leag lorgmhar_), and present it to him, and then little danger and doubt exist but that he will give you a ready answer." The prince returned heartfelt thanks to the Druid, and, having saddled and mounted the little shaggy horse without much delay, received the precious stone from the Druid, and, after having taken his leave of him, set out on his journey.

Another space is filled with a half erased second-hand "Botóny" followed by the word in original "_bay_." In a tracing I took some years ago, under head of May 6, I read: "appeared to be safe anchorage which I called" (in original hand); but in the space adjoining, in the second hand I read: "_Port Jackson_." Then, as usual, the first resumed: "it lies 3 Leag^s to the Northw^d of." After a space, or, rather, within the space, is a bungling "_Bottony_" Bay.