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Atkinson had told her about his investigations respecting the 

 "mark." Commenting on lier words Atkinson says, "I was 

 talking on this subject with Professor Earle and Sir Frederick 

 Pollock when in London and Oxford early in the year, and their 

 interest was equal to Mrs. Green's. Only I cannot quite gather 

 all my clues together yet. Your ' Esby marche ' is of interest, 

 and I am not sure Aystangarth may not give up another 

 illustration. There was as much a mearc-mot there as at a place 

 near Scarborough, where in the 13th Century I know the name 

 was written markemod, markmote, mearemot, etc." In the 

 following month (June 15th, 1891), he wrote, "When at Bolton 

 Hall the week before last, while reading a variety of ancient 

 documents with Mr. H. Powlett (to ensure the accuracy of the 

 transcript), I came on a further illustration of the term marca, 

 marka, marcha, as in the ' Esby marche ' you quote, and of 

 further terms of the same nature. You would see that Mrs. 

 Green was interested in the questions involved, and I cannot 

 but think it likely that some further illustration may have existed 

 in your district, if it does not now." He sent me a drawing of 

 an enclosure of land which lay in two different townships. 

 " That enclosure had a marked name at the early date 

 named [six centuries ago] and retains a survival of it still. 

 The name in question was marke mot, marke mod, etc. It 

 "occurs in five separate deeds which I transcribed twenty 

 years ago or thereabouts. The meaning of the name, which 

 is evidently identical with Kemble's alleged mearemot, is, in 

 that case, tolerably clear. Now your Aistangarthes is, I think,- 

 beyond dispute, an enclosure of the same nature, I mean 

 part in one parish, part in another, and there ought to be, or 

 has been, a mark or march there also. Have you ever met 

 with any trace of it ?." I had before this come to the 

 conclusion that the old name Aistangarthes is represented by the 

 present day field-name " Hasty Garths." The enclosure so called 

 is situate just below the junction of May Beck with Ingleby 

 Beck, abutting on the Easby boundary, and only separated by 

 one field fi-om the boundary of Little Broughton. No doubt the 

 name would be applied originally to a larger area. Writing on 

 May 20th, 1891, Atkinson says " As to Aystangarth I have little 

 or no doubt as to its approximate position. There is one fact 

 alone which settles it to within less than half-a-mile ; another, 

 which, with the other, probably fixes it within much less than 

 that." On June 22nd he ^vrote, "Esby marche is a great fact, 

 and I wish I could actualise the possibly greater one latent 

 (perhaps) in Aystangarthes." A year later, on June 22nd, 1892, 

 he wrote " Aystangarthes was not where you put it between 



