[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.