Now the theory that _ing_ implies a clan, that is, a community united by blood or by the belief in a common descent,[28] may be tested in two distinct ways. We may either trace its actual use as applied to individuals or communities; or we may examine the localities in the names of which it occurs. I propose to do both. The passage usually adduced to prove the ‘clan’ meaning is the well-known genealogy in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: “Cerdic was Elesing, Elesa was Esling, Esla was Gewising,”[29] etc. Even Mr. Seebohm reluctantly admits, on this “evidence of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,” that _ing_ was used as alleged. But it always seemed obvious to me that this passage, so far from proving the ‘clan’ meaning, actually proved the opposite, namely, that the patronymic changed with every generation. Again, if we turn from the Chronicle to the Anglo-Saxon charters, we find _inga_ normally used to denote the dwellers at a certain place, not the descendants of a certain man. It is singular that Kemble, although he was the first to make an exhaustive study of these charters, classed such names with the other _ings_, from which they were quite distinct.[30] His enthusiasm for the ‘mark’ carried him away. In Sussex, we have, as it seems to me, a very excellent illustration; the name of Angmering, the present form, occupies, as it were, a medial position between the “Angemare” of Domesday and the “Angmeringatun” of Alfred’s will. Here, surely, the Angmeringas were those who dwelt at Angmer, not a ‘clan’ descended from a man bearing that name.