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that part of what is now Greenhow which then comprised th& 

 district granted to Rievaulx, together with lands, already more 

 or less cleared, lying to the north of the said district. One 

 part, however, up to 1285, retains the name Kemesdayll-juxta- 

 Greneowe, and the much more than merely probable synony- 

 mousness of the names Camise and Botton — the former being, 

 doubtless, an original camas or camus — most likely indicates 

 the exact portion of the district last absorbed by the name now 

 universally applied to the whole district in question." If 

 Atkinson be right, the three carucates in Kemesdayll, on which 

 Robert de Mennell declined to pay the king's dues, were situate 

 in what is now Greenhow Botton, and as he suggests these were 

 not improbably the same three carucates which were in the fee 

 of the Earl of M or tain at the date of the Domesday Record. 

 The Botton District is not very well defined at ihe present day,, 

 but there would clearly be room for them there. 



Atkinson's conclusion that " Camise" is " doubtless an origi- 

 nal camas or camus " is possibly rather lacking in caution. He 

 puzzled long over the meaning of the name. Writing on May 

 22nd, 1891, he said, " I cannot, so far, after years of thought as 

 well as study and enquiry, arrive at anything like a satisfactory 

 philological origin of Camisedale. There is no fixed element, 

 either phonological or philological, to get a firm grasp of. It 

 may have been Cameesdale in sound, or Camtsdale. The loca- 

 tion is comparatively simple." He had written two days pre- 

 viously to enquire as to the exact local application of the name 

 May-beck (or Me-beck, as it is written in the Hexham " Black 

 Book "). At a later time he dropped upon the word Camus, for 

 the meaning of which he referred me to Joyce's Irish Place 

 Names, or Sir Herbert Maxwell's two books on Scottish Names, 

 much of them due to Joyce (Joyce, second series, p. 397). On 

 January 24th, 1896, he wrote, " I am disposed to think my iden- 

 tification of Camisedale with Greenhow Botton holds good. I 

 don't know if you are acquainted with Crunkley Gill in this 

 parish, near Lealholm Station. I have been snubbed by one or 

 two of my really learned friends for suggesting that the crombe 

 in the Domesday form of the old name was possibly Celtic. 

 Here is the Celtic camas, and Celtic of the same family. They 

 tell me that such cases are only cases of survival, as adoptions. 

 My question is, ' Whence adopted ? ' " 



Dr. Atkinson consulted me as to the status of Greenhow as 

 a constituent portion of the parish of Ingleby Greenhow now 

 and in the past. I was able to inform him that in modern 

 times it had the status of a township precisely like the other two 



