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" The Leasehold estate called Barryetts and Layes 108 00 00 



" The Tenein 1 called Maishes Tenem' 018 00 00 



" One Silver Tankard, one Silver Cupp, Three Silver Salts, \ qqq qq 



Six silver Spoons i 



" Table Linen Bedd Linen &c 010 00 00 



" Bonds and Notes 106 00 00 



" Book Debts due 100 00 00 



" Total of the whole Inventory 1008 06 08 

 " Appraised by us W m . 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. — Ed.] 



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~Kemb\e' a Codex Diplomatics s, xi., 

 p. 328, that " the King was at Worgemynster." This document is given in 

 Earle's Zand 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 as far. 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 their house. 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 alao Isaac Taylor, 

 Words and Places, p. 209). So at Orchestou is preserved the name of Oeric, 

 a sou of Hengest ; at Ebbesborno the name of Ebissa, a nephew ; at Swan- 

 borough and Swanage, the name of Swane, a sister. Waermund survives 

 at Warmwell, in Dorset ; and Waermuudstrew 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 placo.) Now this name 

 " Waermuudstrew " occurs in a document in Kemble's Cod. Dip., vol. 3, 



