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vestiges of the ancient customs will have disappeared. 

 With these changes certain local words will also drop out 

 of use and be lost — balks, nieers, and Hayivard will 

 no longer be needed — we shall no longer speak of a 

 gore, i.e. a small triangle of land ; (cp. garlick — the leek 

 with triangular or gore-shaped leaf), or of a langet, i.e. a 

 longer piece like a tongue ; although tongue-like pieces of 

 land not in Common Fields are named langet. Nor shall 

 we hear of a piece of ground described as butts because 

 "abutting" on, or projecting towards another. Nor shall 

 we hear of Lammas roads, i.e. field tracks to be used after 

 Lammas Day — August I — a day taking its name from the 

 Thanksgiving Service for the safe supply for the hlaf* or 

 loaf ; or of dole, a boundary mark in an open field. These 

 will be meaningless terms — archaeological — out of date. 



Although such changes have become necessary, it is 

 with some regret that the link with the archaic past is 

 severed, and the system adopted for centuries by the 

 makers of England, abandoned. 



This, however, is one of the processes at work by which 



"The old order changeth, yielding place to new." 



* Cp. "lady," loafkiieader, supposed to be from hlaf &nA Anglo-Saxon i/u~^ec — a 

 kneader (Skeat). 



