54 Short Notes. 
Court shall award And humbly prayeth to be hence dismissed with}his 
reasonable costs and charges in this behalfe wrongfully susteyned. 
“ J. THARLETT.”’ 
(To be continued.) 
Short ates. 
Additional Notes on Mere, by T. H. Baker. 
FieLp NoMENCLATURE. 
Many names of fields and localities are handed down from generation to 
generation; whilst some can be traced to remote ages, others perpetuate the 
names of owners in more recent times. Localities retain their original nomen- 
clature more generally than fields, the latter no doubt ofttimes discarding the 
names of former proprietors for those of more recent date. Of ancient names 
in Mere are retained :—‘ Chadenwyche,”’ which in Domesday Book is styled 
**Chedelwich,” from Coed el wych, or the wood village; ‘‘Conwich’”’=the 
habitation of the conies, or (?) the corn village; Swincombe, Sweyncombe= 
the combe of Sweyn; Chetcombe, originally Chatecombe=the combe of little 
bushes (chats); Holeombe=the hollow combe; Smarcombe ? Mawrecombe= 
great combe ; (query, Smarcombe=small combe); Whurr=Oare, a boundary ; 
Gannage=gangway, or the roadway to the fields from the homestead; Hayes 
=Haie, a hedge, i.e., an enclosure (of this appellation we have several, viz., 
Apshay, Bush Hayes, Cocker Hayes, Sharp Haye, Worm Hayes, Broad Haye, 
Fisher's Hayes, Green Hayes, North Haye, Hay Croft, Washer Hayes) ; 
Holwell=Holywell (there is no tradition as to the virtues of this particular 
well, but the name is often found); Penend (pen is the extreme end of an 
eminence) ; Stedham, the enclosure for horses (ham=home, sted=steed) ; Horse 
crate, or Horse croft—croft is a home enclosure, or a small common field—the 
second would be the meaning in this case, as it consisted of horse leases ; 
Widnam=Widenham, the wide or large field enclosed ; Deverlingwood, Deverill 
Long Wood—the wood of the Deverlings, or the family of the dwellers by 
the water valley ; Hurdles hearn—this word is corrupted into Hurle Seene, 
but ancient documents give the former—Hearn=horn, or a point of land (we 
find land also called Hurdles, therefore this strip or point of land probably be- 
longed to the Hurdle family) ; Shoreland=the border land (shore=boundary) ; 
