TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION E. 1023 



kind tenants in Kent, especially the rare one of freedom from the common law 

 of distress. 



(6) Devon : The name Kenn and others (written in Domesday Book, like Kent 

 itself, as Chent), near Exeter, and partible inheritance of the Kentish kind in the 

 City of Exeter. 



(7) Somerset : Kentish and Jutish names along the coast, especially the 

 Hengest place names. 



(8) Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire : Hengest place names in 

 the valley of the Severn, groups of other Kentish and Jutish place names. 



(9) The Thcanes Valley, as a channel for migration from Kent. Kentish gavel- 

 kind among the old manors, which bounded ancient London on the north, and 

 the survival of IBorovgh English, which was closely allied to it, in most of the 

 manors which bounded London on the south and west ; the Hundred names of 

 (Kintbury, in) the Kennet Valley ; names such as Kentish Town, and Gatenesheale 

 (for Vauxhall), Kennington, Kensington, Twicanham (Twickenham), Kent Town 

 near Molesey, Kenton (Kempton) ; Hinksey, near Abingdon, the Heugestsie of 

 Saxon charters, and two other Hengest names with Gode, Ken and Geat, or Yeat; 

 names occur near the river above Oxford, the highest being Kempsford, the Chene- 

 meresford of Domesday Book ; partible inheritance (in Domesday) at Hochenarton, 

 a place with a Kentish name (Hook Norton) in Oxfordshire. 



9. On the Folk-lore of Guernsey, By the late Mrs. Murray Aynsley. 



The prevalent belief in witchcraft and demoniacal possession was illustrated by 

 the stories of Belier Boeuf and the Eoussels ; of the resuscitation of one Jean 

 Robin, and of another case of exorcism by D'Orlean ; and a local legend of 

 St. George and St. Patrick was given. 



10. On some Myths and Fancies of Insect Life, 

 By S. Clement Southam. 



The author discussed and illustrated the traditions and cults attaching to 

 bees as messengers of the gods, spiders in folklore and folk medicine, ants, crickets, 

 ladybirds, and beetles. 



IL On the Exploration of Two Caves at TJfhill, Weston-super-Mare, con- 

 taining liemains of Pleistocene Mammalia. By the late Edward Wilson, 

 F.G.S. See p. 867. 



[Communicated by Heebeet Bolton, F.E.S.E.] 



