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supposed there was to know, aud certainly got a livelier concep- 

 tion of my own shortcomings than had ever been suggested before. 

 And what I have learned has affected matters and conclusions 

 of a much wider scope than merely the past of one great 

 parochial district. In fact, I am obliged to modify conclueions 

 which have been accepted as valid by Freeman, Green, Pitt 

 Rivers, Earle, and others among my friends and correspondents. 

 I am afraid I am too old to do what wants to be done, and which 

 I could do now." 



Acknowledging a list of field-names occurring in the Parish 

 of Ingleby, he said, December 28th, 1889, "Although there are 

 fewer — and by many — significant field-names in your list than 

 I had supposed would be the case, even with so low a date as 

 that given, still there are a few well worthy of note ; and one 

 among the chief of them is one I have some time since been 

 inclined to claim as, perhaps, of great ethnological importance. 

 I do not venture to say I am right. My theory will have to be 

 tested by the scrutiny and criticism of the actual scholar. The 

 word I refer to is Wandales, spelt in your list ' Whandales,' and 

 •occurring in Greenhow. As far as I can attain at present that term 

 may, probably does, indicate no colonist-cultivating settlement 

 in the place where it occurs earlier than a Scandinavian one. The 

 word is essentially an agi-icultural term, and it is neither English 

 (Anglian), nor Saxon (Germanic, in that application). But it in 

 old Danish, and exists in the same form and sense in my old 

 friend Dean Rietz' admirable Swedish Glossary. Bare scope 

 disguises a good old Cleveland word, viz., ' Scaup ' Toft Hill, 

 Tofts, Kirk Close, Kirk Bank, How Hill, Burton Hill, all pro- 

 voke enquiry ; so also do Chapel Field, Chapel Garth — unless 

 they clearly connect themselves with some Dissenting Chapel, 

 which I hardly anticipate as likely. ' Two Days' Mowing,' 

 •Four Days' Work,' and all that class of names, are full of 

 interest." 



The first list of Ingleby field names, which I submitted to 

 Atkinson, was from a Field-book of the date of 1847. Sub- 

 sequently the late Lord de L'Isle and Dudley very kindly lent 

 me a Field-book of the date of 1764, and I was able to submit 

 to Atkinson a few further names. Respecting one of these — 

 Watelands — he remarks : " There are two places in this Parish 

 which were distinguished by that name from about the year 

 ] 200 (as I know — how much before I can't say). One of them 

 is still called Wedlands or Wetlands Head. Besides, I know of 

 the occurrence of the same name in, I suppose, a dozen (may be 

 twenty) other cases, all going back to from the thirteenth to the 



