Indeed, in my experience, the charters of the 12th century prove that Domesday nomenclature is thoroughly deserving of trust. The climax of Kemble’s derivations is reached perhaps in Shillingstone, from which Dorset village he duly deduces the ‘Scyllingas.’ For, as Eyton has shown, its name was ‘Acford,’ but, from its Domesday tenant, Schelin, it became known as Ockford Eskelling, Shilling Ockford, and finally, by a yet bolder corruption, Shillingstone.[42] As if to make matters worse, Kemble treats ‘Shilling-Okeford’ and ‘Shillingstone’ as two distinct places. Could anything, one asks, be more unfortunate than this? Alas, one must answer Yes. The great clan of the ‘Cypingas’ is found in eight counties: at least so Kemble says. I have tested his list and discovered that the names which prove the existence of his clan are Chipping Ongar, Chipping Barnet, Chipping Sodbury, Chipping Campden, Chipping Wycombe, Chipping Warden, and Chipping Norton. Even the historical tyro would avoid this wild blunder; he would know that Chipping was about as much of a clan name as is Cheapside. After this final example, it can hardly be disputed that Kemble’s lists are merely a pitfall for the unwary. Yet we still follow in his footsteps. Take such a case as that of Faringdon, which Mr. Grant Allen, we have seen, selected as a typical instance of the _ing_ patronymic in place-names.[43] If we turn to Domesday, we find in Berks a ‘Ferendone,’ in Northants a ‘Ferendone’ or ‘Faredone,’ in Notts a ‘Ferendone’ or ‘Farendune,’ in Hants a ‘Ferendone.’ These names were all the same; and yet they have become ‘Farndon’ in Notts and Northants, ‘Faringdon’ in Berks, and ‘Farringdon’ in Hants. Farringdon, therefore, is no more a clan name than is the Essex Parndon, the ‘Perenduna’ of Domesday. But, indeed, in Essex itself, there is an even better illustration. We learn from Canon Taylor that “the Thurings, a Visigothic clan, mentioned by Marcellinus ... are found ... at Thorrington in Essex.” Kemble had previously described them as “likely to be offshoots of the great Hermunduric race, the Thyringi or Thoringi, now Thuringians, always neighbours of the Saxons,[44] and claims the Essex Thorrington” as their settlement.[45] Now Thorington in the first place was not a _ton_, and in the second place had not an _ing_. Both these forms are corruptions. In Domesday it occurs twice, and both times as ‘Tor_induna_.’ With this we may compare ‘Horn_induna_,’ which is the Domesday form of Horndon, and occurs frequently. Therefore Thorington and Thorndon, like Farringdon and Farndon, were both originally the same name and destitute alike of _ing_.