Short Notes. 191 
“The Leasehold estate called Barryetts and Layes 108 00 00 
“The Tenemt called Maishes Tenem' 018 00 00 
“One Silver Tankard, one Silver Cupp, Three Silver atten) 009 10 00 
Six silver Spoons 
“Table Linen Bedd Linen &c 010 OO 00 
“ Bonds and Notes 106 00 OO 
“Book Debts due 100 00 00 
“Total of the whole Inventory 1008 06 08 
“ Appraised by us W™. Lewis. John Brown. John Little.” 
[The above is interesting as showing in detail the furniture and appurtenances 
of a country inn at the beginning of the eighteenth century.—Ep. | 
The Derivation of the name Warminster. Mr. Daniell, in his History of 
Warminster (p. 12—14), inclines to the view that there is preserved in the 
name that of a British chief, Worgemyn, or Guermin, who is otherwise un- 
known, and this view was accepted by Canon Jones. Mr. Daniell, however, 
says, in a letter to me, that he never felt quite satisfied with it. It is based 
upon the statement in a document given in Kemble’s Codex Diplomaticus, xi., 
p. 328, that ‘the King was at Worgemynster.” This document is given in 
Earle’s Land Charters, p.165. He dates it about 907, and this is the earliest 
date at which any place is named which might be identified with Warminster. 
Birch, in his edition of Codex Diplomaticus, has not yet got asfar. I 
venture to suggest another derivation, viz., that the original form of the 
name was ‘‘ Waermund’s-tre.” The evidence is as follows :—D.H. Haigh, 
in his Anglo-Saxon Conquest of Britain, p. 151—3, notices that the name 
of Waermund, an ancestor of the Kings of Mercia, is often preserved in 
names of places, especially in Mercia—i.e., roughly, the Midlands north of 
the Thames valley —as at Warmley, in Warwickshire; Warmlow, in 
Worcestershire; Warmscomb, in Oxfordshire; and many other possible 
examples. He finds the name also in other districts connected with the 
memory of Hengist and Horsa and theirhouse. These two names are found 
in various parts of England, and there are many instances in the southern 
and western counties. In this neighbourhood, for instance, are to be found 
Henstridge, in Dorset (Hengesteshricg) ; Hengestbury Head, on the coast 
of Hants; perhaps Hursley (Horsanleah), in Hants. (See also Isaac Taylor, — 
Words and Places, p. 209). So at Orcheston is preserved the name of Oeric, 
a son of Hengest ; at Ebbesborne the name of Ebissa, a nephew; at Swan- 
borough and Swanage, the name of Swane, a sister. Waermund survives 
at Warmwell, in Dorset ; and Waermundstrew in Wilts. (These are some 
of Haigh’s examples. Kemble, in his index to Cod. Dip., mentions “ Warm- 
stree”” in Wilts, but I have never heard of this place.) Now this name 
“ Waermundstrew ” occurs in a document in Kemble’s Cod. Dip., vol. 3, 
