The name is absent

478

APPENDIX A.

The total number of the names thus assumed from local deno-
minations amounts to 627, but as several occur once only, while
others are found repeated in various counties, I find the whole
number reaches to 1329, which are distributed through the coun-
ties in a very striking manner, as the following table will show.

THE MARK.

There are two slight causes of inaccuracy to be borne in mind
in using the foregoing tables : the first arises from the insertion of
names which probably do not, the other from the omission of
names which probably do, belong to this class. But I think these
two errors may nearly balance one another, and that they do not
interfere with the general correctness of the results.

It is remarkable how many of these names still stand alone,
without any addition of-wɪe, -ham, -wor<5ig, or similar words. The
total number of patronymical names thus found (in the nominative
plural) is 190, or very nearly one-seventh of the whole ; they are
thus distributed : in Kent, 25 ; Norfolk and Sussex each 24 ;
Essex 21 ; Suffolk 15 ; Yorkshire 13 ; Lincoln 7 ; Southampton
6 ; Berks and Surrey, 5 each ; Bedfordshire, Lancashire, Middle-
sex and Northampton, 4 each ; Hertford, Huntingdon, Northum-
berland and Nottingham, 3 each; Cambridge, Derby, Dorset,
Gloucester and Oxford, 2 each ; Bucks, Devon, Leicester, Salop,
Somerset, Warwick, and Wilts, 1 each ; and none at all in the re-
maining ten counties. Whennow WcconsiderthatoflOOsuch
places, 140 arc found in the counties on the eastern and south-
ern coasts ; and that 22 more are in counties easily accessible
through our great navigable streams, we shall be led to admit
the possibility of these having been the original seats of the
Marks bearing these names ; and the further possibility of the
settlements distinguished by the addition of -ham, -wɪe and so forth
to these original names, having been filial settlements, or as it
w,ere colonies, from them. It also seems worthy of remark that
they are hardly found to the north of the Humber, or about
53⁰ 40' N. Lat., which renders it probable that the prevailing
mode of emigration was to take advantage of a N.E. wind to secure
a landing in the Wash, and thence coast southward and westward
as far as circumstances required. Sailors, who in the ninth cen-
tury could find their way from Norway to Iceland in sufficient
numbers to colonize that island, who in the tenth could extend
their course from Iceland to Greenland, and who had noble spirit
enough to confront the perils of the Polar ocean rather than submit
to oppression at home, were not likely to find any insurmountable

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