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regulations respecting the seals caught near the islands by the 

 fishermen of Bambro; in a manuscript note by Thomas Lawson, 

 a monk of Durham ; and in a document written about the year 

 1690. In the following Table the names from these several 

 sources are given, along with those now in use. 



Early Metrical 

 History of 

 St. Cuthbert. 



Charter of 



Lawson's 



Document 



Names now in 



Twelfth Century. 



Manuscript Note. 



about 1690. 



use. 



Fame. 



Fame. 



Fame. 



House Lands. 



Inner Fame. 



Wedum. 



Wedum. 



West Wedoms. 



Two Wideopens. 



West Wideopen. 



Reliqua Wedum. 



Altera Wedum. 



Est Wedoms. 





EastWideopen. 



Stapheleland. 



Stapel eland. 



Stapleland. 



Stapleland. 



Staple. 



Fossheland. 



Fos eland. 



Fossland. 



Brownsman. 



Brownsman. 



Binae Wawmes. 



Wahum. 



South Walms. 



Two Wawmses. 



South Wawmses. 





Altera Wahum. 



North Walms. 





NorthWawmses. 



Harecarres. 



Harecarres. 



Hardcarres. 



Harcus. 



Big Harcar. 

 Little Harcar. 



Scarfcarres. 





Scarphcarrs. 



Two Scarcars. 



Big Scarcar. 

 Little Scarcar. 



Crumbstan. 





Cromstane. 



Crumstone. 



Crumstone. 



Langestand. 



Langstan. 



Langstane. 



Langstones. 



Longstone. 



Meggestand. 





DuseMegstanes. 



Meggstone. 



Megstone. 



Knoke. 





Knokys. 



Noxes. 



Noxes. 



Kumestand. 





Knyfestane. 



Knivestone. 



Nivestone. 



Clovenstan. 



Cloven Carres. 



Clofyncarre. 



J Clove Car. 

 \ Blue Caps. 



r Clove Car. 

 \ Blue Caps. 







Oxcarres. 



Ox car. 



Oxscar. 







Merecarres. 



Swedman. 



Swedman. 







Uttcarres. 



Nameless Rock. 



Outcarres. 

 ["Nameless Rock. 

 < Roddam and 

 t Green. 

 Northern Hares. 











Most of these names are of Anglo-Saxon origin, and are 

 formed, as was usual with our forefathers, when giving names to 

 places, of a substantive and a definitive term ; carr and stan, 

 the Anglo-Saxon for ' rock/ and eland for ( island/ occur in not 

 a few ; with these are combined the definitive terms staphel, sig- 

 nifying a pile or heap, descriptive of the piled- up rocks forming 

 the pinnacles or pillars on the south side of the Staphel ; cloven 

 or clofyn, indicating the cleft condition of the rocks forming that 

 island ; lang, crumb, and meg are archaic forms of l long/ 

 c crooked/ and ' strong/ Scarph Car, now corrupted into Scar 

 Car, comes from an old German word signifying sharp or acute. 

 The Mere Carres, now called Swedman, are sea rocks covered 

 by the tides, and the Utt Carres are modernized into Out Carres, 

 which are not far from Monkshouse. The Wedums, now cor- 

 rupted into Wideopens, are near to .the Fame ; and the name 

 may have come from wedan, to rage, and may be descriptive of 



