Let Uter Pendragon do what he can,

The river Eden will run as it ran.

Tradition reports, that Uter Pendragon had a design to fortify the castle of Pendragon, in this county: in order thereto, with much art and industry, he in vain attempted to make the river Eden surround it.

Entry taken from Provincial Glossary, edited by Francis Grose.

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Warwickshire.
He is the black bear of Arden

Westmoreland
Let Uter Pendragon do what he can

Wiltshire
It is done, secundum usum Sarum

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