As yet I have been dealing with those ‘clan names’ in which the presence of the _ing_ is genuine; and I have been urging that it is not _proof_, as alleged, of settlement by a clan. I now pass to those place-names in which the _ing_ is not genuine, but is merely a corruption. That such names exist has always, of course, been admitted,[38] but their prevalence has not been sufficiently recognised. And not only are there large deductions, in consequence, to be made from the so-called clan names, but even in cases where the _ing_ is genuine the prefix is often so corrupt that the name of the clan deduced from it is altogether wrong. Let us take some instances in point. Kemble deduced the existence of the Brightlings (‘Brightlingas’) from Brightling in Sussex and Brightlingsea in Essex. Nothing, at first sight, could seem clearer. And yet, on turning to Domesday, we find that the Sussex Brightling is there entered as Brislinga--suggesting that Somerset Brislington from which Kemble deduced the Brislings--while Brightlingsea appears in the Essex Domesday as ‘Brictriceseia,’ and in that of Suffolk as ‘Brictesceseia,’ from which forms is clearly derived the local pronunciation ‘Bricklesea.’ So much for the Brightlings. Yet more striking is the case of an Essex village, Wormingford. Kemble, of course, detects in it the name ‘Wyrmingas.’ Yet its Domesday name is Widemondefort,’ obviously derived from ‘Widemond,’ the name of an individual.[39] Here the corruption is so startling that it is well to record the transition form ‘Wiremundeford,’ which I find in the 13th century.[40] Now, as I have often to point out in the course of my historical researches, however unpopular it may be to correct the errors of others, those errors, if uncorrected, lead too often to fresh ones. Thus, in this case, the ‘Wyrmingas,’ wrongly deduced from Wormingford, have been claimed by scholars as sons of the ‘worm,’ and, therefore, as evidence that ‘Totemism’ prevailed among the Anglo-Saxons. It would take me, I fear, too far afield to discuss the alleged traces of Totemism; but when we find Mr. Grant Allen asserting that “the oak has left traces of his descendants at Oakington in Cambridge” (shire), one has to point out that this place figures in Domesday as ‘Hochinton(e)’[41] in no fewer than five entries, although Kemble derives from it _more suo_ the ‘Æcingas.’ But a few more instances of erroneous derivation must be given in order to establish clearly the worthlessness of Kemble’s lists. How simple it seems to derive, with him, the ‘Storringas’ and ‘Teorringas’ from Storrington, Sussex, and Tarrington, Herefordshire, respectively. Yet the former, in Domesday, is ‘Storgetune’ or ‘Storchestune,’ while the latter is ‘Tatintune’ in both its entries. It might be suggested that the error is that of the Domesday scribe, but in this case I have found the place entered in several documents of the next century as Tadinton or Tatinton, thus establishing the accuracy of Domesday.