[31] Of course we take no account of urban parishes.

[32] Eyton’s laborious studies have made this plain as regards some counties widely removed from each other; still, e.g. in his book on Somerset, he has now and again to note that names which appear in D. B. are obsolete.

[33] Inq. Com. Cant. 60–1.

[34] D. B. i. 31.

[35] D. B. i. 41. We shall return to this matter hereafter.

[36] A good many cases will be found in Essex and Suffolk.

[37] Inq. Com. Cantab. 51, 53.

[38] Ibid. 47.

[39] Ibid. 29.

[40] Maitland, Surnames of English Villages, Archaeological Review, iv. 233.