[27] The exceptions that he admits are too slight to affect this general statement.
[28] Stubbs, ut supra.
[29] Canon Taylor relies on the passage, “Ida was Eopping, Eoppa was Esing,” etc.
[30] Saxons in England, i. 449–456, where he treats such names as “Brytfordingas” as “patronymical.”
[31] Ed. 1888, p. 79.
[32] I do not overlook the possibility of ‘hall’ (hala) being a subsequent addition (as in post-Domesday times), but in these cases it was part of the name at least as early as the Conquest, and the presumption must be all in favour of the name being derived from an individual not from a clan.
[33] Saxons in England, i. 56.
[34] Ibid. i. 58 et seq.
[35] “Hence we perceive the value of this word [ing] as an instrument of historical research. For a great number of cases it enables us to assign to each of the great Germanic clans its precise share in the colonization of the several portions of our island.”
[36] Anglo-Saxon Britain, pp. 81–2.