166 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1906 
printed with quite exceptional skill by the Guild of 
Handicraft at Campden, entitled “ The Last Records of a 
Cotswold community.” If the book can now be got— 
which is doubtful—I advise its purchase if only as a form 
of investment. 
In the foregoing remarks, I have used the word 
“ Cotswold” frequently and of necessity. Apart from the 
spelling, which is a thing that confessedly has no definity 
about it—wzth two “‘t’s” and an “e”—as we of this Club 
spell it—with two or one “t,” but without any “e”— 
apart I repeat from this, are we to change our views as to 
the derivation of the word? I almost feel the ground 
cleaving under me. I thought we had qi o7@ in the deri- 
vation from Coed, a wood. And though it was a bit 
staggering—despite the many other similar instances—of 
a duplication of the word “wood” in the termination Wold 
—yet one felt secure, and flew with fury at the throats of 
the sheep-fold theory men. Now it seems, if Mr Duignan 
is to be trusted, we must go to one Cod as the source of 
our word—a landowner and chieftain of fame indeed if he 
has given his name to that large district which we claim as 
our own. But please see, as to this, the author’s remarks 
in his “ Place Names of Worcestershire.” And if he will 
but extend his researches to our own County, generally, 
we shall owe him a deep debt of thanks. 
From books, to the care of them, and the places where 
to keep them. Ovzry Library is hardly the object of interest 
or use to the Club that it should be. A Catalogue was 
much needed, and this was prepared in manuscript by our 
Secretary. The Council flinched from the cost of print- 
ing it, even though their doing so might look like a slight 
upon the really admirable and painstaking work of our 
Secretary. Then came in, too, the question whether it was 
really worth while to publish a Catalogue which, if it was 
to be a complete one, would have to contain the titles and 
