As to the names ending in _ing_, with no other suffix, I prefer, for the present, to reserve my opinion. Kemble’s hypothesis, however, that they were the parent settlements, and the _hams_ and _tons_ their filial developments, seems to me to have little support in the facts of their actual distribution. If in that distribution there is a feature to be detected, it is, perhaps, that the _ings_ are found along the foot of the downs. This, at least, is often observable. Another point deserving of attention is that, in its French form, _igny_, this suffix seems as distinctive of the ‘Saxon’ settlement about Bayeux as it is absent in that which is found in the Boulogne district. But these are only, as it were, sidelights upon the problem; and this, as I said, is nothing more than a ‘pioneer’ paper. I close with a point that appears to me of no small importance. To the east of Sussex and the south of Sussex there lay that so-called Jutish land, the county of Kent. As I pointed out years ago, in my ‘Domesday Studies,’ the land system of Kent is found in the Great Survey to be essentially distinct from that which prevailed in other counties. It was not assessed in ‘hides,’ but in ‘solins,’ that is, the _sulungs_ of the natives, the land of a _suhl_ or plough. The yokes, or subdivisions, of this unit are also directly connected with the plough. But the hide and virgate of other counties are, as I pointed out, not connected in name with the plough.[46] Now if we work through the land charters printed by Professor Earle, we find that this Domesday distinction can be traced back, clear and sharp, to the earliest times within their ken. We read in an Anglo-Saxon charter of “xx swuluncga,” while in Latin charters the normal phrase is the land of so many ploughs (‘terra trium aratrorum,’ ‘terra decem aratrorum,’ etc.); we even meet with the phrase, “decem aratrorum juxta æstimationem provinciæ ejusdem.”[47] In another charter “v aratra” equates “fifsulung landes.” But in other counties the normal terms, in these charters, for the land units are “manentes” and “cassati,”[48] which occur with similar regularity. A cleavage so ancient and so clear as this, in the vital sphere of land division, points to more than a separate rule and confirms the tradition of a distinct origin. II Ingelric the Priest and Albert of Lotharingia