The English Village Community / Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)

by Frederic Seebohm

[533.] Origins of English History, pp. 197–98.

[534.] Arnold's Ansiedelungen, p. 89.

[535.] Palacky's Geschichte von Böhmen, Buch ii. c. 6, p. 169.

[536.] 'Ing' also meant a low meadow by a river bank, as 'Clifton Ings,' near York, &c. Also it was sometimes used like 'ers,', as 'Ochringen,' dwellers on the river 'Ohra.' In Denmark the individual strip in a meadow was an 'ing,' and so the whole meadow would be 'the ings.'

[537.] See Anglo-Saxon Chronicle sub anno 522. 'Cordic was Elesing, Elesa was Esling, Esla was Gewising,' and so on. See also Bede's statement that the Kentish kings were called Oiscings, after their ancestor Oisc. Bede, bk. ii. c. 5.

[538.] Palacky, pp. 168–9. Compare the word with the Welsh tyddyn, and the Irish tate or tath.

[539.] See Meitzen's Ausbreitung der Deutschen, p. 17. Jena, 1879.

[540.] See Taylor's Words and Places, p. 131.

[541.] It is curious to observe that, taking all the names in the Cartulary (including many of later date), only 2 per cent. end in ing or inga, 6 per cent. in inghem or ingahem: making 8 per cent. in all.

[542.] Taylor's Words and Places, pp. 496 et seq.