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The Names of Places in Wiltshire. 



is clearly the modern form of an implied Ceanningas. In a charter 

 from the Codex. Winton. (Cod. Dipl., 1193), we have, in the land- 

 limits of Heyling, in Hants, the expression Canning a-mcer, which 

 can only mean the boundary of the tribe, or clan, of the " Cannings/'' 

 At no great distance from Cannings is a name, Cane Hill, which 

 perchance may be a memorial of the chief from whom they took 

 their name. In the name Ken, well-known and remembered in the 

 West of England, we seem to have the name in something like its 

 primitive form. 



Under this head may be placed also a number of names which have 

 the form of genuine patronymics, but denote, not so much the clan 

 descended from any particular chief, as that residing within a certain 

 district. Thus JEfeningas, now Avening, means, as has already been 

 shown, the " dwellers on the Avon ; 33 in like manner Teofuntinga- 

 gemcere (Cod. Dipl., 284) means the boundary of the "men of 

 TefPont," and Lamhurninga-mcerc (Cod. Dipl., 792), in like manner 

 means the " mark 33 or district of those who belonged to Lambourne. 

 So Collin gbourn, spelt in the charters Colinga-hurn (Cod. Dipl., 336) 

 may mean the " bourn 33 or " stream 33 of those who lived on the 

 banks of the river Cole, though that name, at all events in that 

 particular part of Wilts, is not now known. I admit, however, that 

 it is as likely that the Co ling as derived their name from some old 

 leader or chieftain. We certainly meet in the charters with such 

 expressions as Colan-tredw ( = Cole's tree) (Cod. Dipl., 712), and 

 Colan-ham (Cod. Dipl., 227) ( = Cole's homestead), which show 

 that a personal name existed which may well explain the former 

 portion of the name Collingbourn. Moreover, in the Wilts Domes- 

 day we have Cola holding a small estate, as one of the King's 

 Thanes (W. Domesd., 136). 



59. It is right however to add that in dealing with this class of 

 names much caution is necessary, for it is by no means enough that a 

 word should end in -ing to make it a patronymic. On the contrary, as 

 Kemble remarks, 1 " it is a power of that termination to denote the 

 genitive or possessive, which is also the generative case, and in some 



Faxons in EDgland, i., 60. Note, 



