Wiwarlet (Wi-wara-lest), the lest of the people of Wye, together with Middletune, became later part of the Lathe of Sherwinhope (Scrawynghop, temp. Hen. 3, and Shewynghope 1347). This name was later changed into that of Scray. What is the meaning of Sherwinhope? Hope in Saxon denotes a river valley, and Sands, in his _Memorials of Old Kent_, speaks of the brook Sherway, which falls into the Beult. But what of Scray? Limowart, or Limea, denotes the people of Lymne, the old Roman Portus Lemanis, called Limene in 1291, then Lymene, Lymen 1396, Limne 1475, and Lymne 1480. I do not find the intrusive and erroneous p in the name earlier than 1504. The name was changed to Shippeway or Shipway, temp. Henry III., and a place in Lymne is still called Shipway Cross. Sudtone, _i.e._, the town south of Dartford, distinguished from other Suttons by the later addition of “at Hone,” which is said to mean low in the valley. Elesford, our Aylesford, is so spelled in Domesday, but in the _Saxon Chronicle_ it is Egelsford, and in Nennius Egisford. It may very well have been named by the Saxons after the Teutonic hero-archer or demigod Eigil, though the Celtic Eglwys, a church, has been suggested. It also appears as Ægelesthrep, and for this a personal name (_e.g._, Ecglaf), with threp or thorp for town has been suggested. But thorp we get from the Danes, and find chiefly in the N.E. There are none in Kent. The place-name difficulty, however, is intensified when we find, according to Lambarde in 1570, 13 Hundreds in S. Augustine’s, 14 in Shepway, 18 in Scray, 14 in Aylesford, and 8 in Sutton-at-Hone, many of them being long obsolete names, such as Cornilo in S. Augustine’s, Franchesse in Shepway, Calehill in Scray, Eythorde in Aylesford, and Coddeshethe in Sutton-at-Hone. And then in some places there are Half-Hundreds, which, however, did not exist before the reign of Edward II. As a matter of nearer local interest I may quote the divisions and assessments in the time of the Black Prince of the boroughs of the Hundred of Maydstone. £ s. d. Borough of Maydestone was assessed at 19 9 2 Westre (now West Borough) at 44 2 Stone (now Stone St. Ward) at 78 2 Loose at 34 4 Detlinge at 58 4 (These two villages were attached to Maidstone ecclesiastically until the reign of Elizabeth). £ s. d. Lynton and Crookherst at 50 8 East Farleyghe at 45 1 Boxley at 4 3 4 Sum £38 18 3 I do not understand the omission of the borough of Week or Wyke—whence Week Street—of which the old manor house still remains in Week Street, unless it was then included in Boxley.