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be admitted in the former instances, no less reasonably than to be 

 left out in the latter. The Pipe Roll suggests to us the etymology 

 of Edlingeham, for we find therein Edclingham and Edelwingham. 

 Now Edelwing would mean the son of Edelwin or Ethelwin. 



In like manner Ec>-lin2:eliam must have received its name from 

 a family or race of Eglings, whose ancestor may have borne the 

 appellation of Egulf, Egwald, or, perhaps, of Ecga ; all of which 

 were common amongst our Saxon forefathers, and the last perhaps 

 identical with the name of Ocga, who was a prince of Northum- 

 bria. Distinct from both of these must have been the race of 

 the Ellinojs at iJlino'eham. 



Mere contraction, which prevails so extensively in all tongues, 

 is not necessarily a process of corruption, though it is too often 

 but the first step towards it. As an inoffensive contraction we 

 may adduce Ingram, of old Angerham or Hangreham, probably 

 from the personal name Ingwar or Hingvvar : Koddam, less elegant 

 than the earlier Rodeham, (or Rodham,) of the Pipe Roll : Bolam, 

 formerly Bolham or Boleham. To this analogy belongs, if I 

 mistake not, Mindrum, though it has been hastily referred to a 

 Gaelic term, of which there are no probable traces in our neigh- 

 bourhood. 



As we have been led to refer to the subject of Anglo-Saxon 

 patronymics, it may not be out of place to observe that they 

 frequently stand without any addition, to designate the settlements 

 of families or kinships; as Horning, Dorking, Stelling, Rising, 

 Eelling, Hawking. 



Thorp: A.S. thorp (es, masc.,) (Germ, dorf. Low Germ, dorp. 

 Old Norse thorp, Dan. Swed. torp,) a village. It prevails chiefly 

 in Yorkshire and the North Midland Counties, and is liable 

 to a transposition of letters which somewhat disguises it, being 

 sometimes pronounced and written throp and droi^. In the north 

 we have Thorpe, near Easington,Thropton, and Throphill, (vulgarly 

 Thropple and Thrapple;) Staindrop, and perhaps some other 

 examples. Thorp, in the Anglo-Saxon Glossary of Q^lfric is 

 rendered by compitum, vicus, a meeting of cross ways, a country 

 village. Adelung considered the word to be allied to the Germ. 

 trupp, a troop or assemblage, to the Old-Norse thyrping, congre- 



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