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instances supplied by Yen. Baeda are — In Berecingum (Bark- 
ing), In Cuneningum (Cunningliam), In Feppingum (probably 
for In Heppingiim, Repton), In Hryjoum (Ripon, Latinised 
by Eddi In JSrypis), In Undaliim (Oundle). The analogy of 
In Cunemngiim, Cnnmnghsim. {Cmieningahatn, "tbehomeof 
the Cuneningas"), shows how In Gcetlingum might be also 
called Gcetlingaham ; and the natural tendency of a consonant 
to assimilate itself to, or be absorbed by, a consonant follow- 
ing,* and the occasional interchange of consonants of the 
same class, f explain the transition of this name to Collin gham. 
The place is not noticed in the Domesday Survey. Destroyed, 
as were all the northern monasteries at the time of the Danish 
invasion, this probably remained waste until after the Nor- 
man conquest. The church is dedicated to the memory of 
S. Oswald, the elder brother of Oswiu. 
In Domesday Book, Gilling near Richmond, and Gilling 
near Helmsley, appear as Ghellinge. The former has been 
identified with In Gcetlingum^ on account of its vicinity to 
Catterick. As Yen. Baeda was indebted for the materials of 
his precious " Ecclesiastical History " to the oral or epistolary 
communications of others, and as the former would be in 
English usually, I have thought that he may have mistaken 
Catterick for Kettering, in Northamptonshire, as there is no 
place bearing a name at all resembling Wilarcesdun in the 
neighbourhood of the former, whilst there is a Wilbarston to 
the north-north-west of the latter, distant seven miles in a 
direct line, and about nine miles by the nearest road. 
Northamptonshire was a part of the dominions of Oswini, 
* Take the following examples of names of places in Domesday, compared 
witli their modern names : — Bardulbi, Barlby ; Bodelton, Bolton ; Gedlinges- 
more, Gillamoor ; Middeltun, Melton ; Nadf artun, Nafferton ; Redlintun, Ril- 
lington, &c. 
+ Thus Gherisintun and Godegrave of the Domesday Eecord are now Carsing- 
tou and Cotgrave. 
