3. In one of Alfred's engagements against the Danes the vessels are said to have been "shapen neither like the Frisian nor the Danish," and that there were killed in the engagement "Wulfheard the Frisian, and Æbbe the Frisian, and Æthelhere the Frisian--and of all the men, Frisians and English, seventy-two."--Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, A.D. 897. In Mr. Kemble's "Saxons in England," a fresh instrument of criticism is exhibited. A local name like that of the present town of _Kettering_ is in Anglo-Saxon _Cytringas_. Here the -_as_ is the sign of the plural number, and the -_ing_- a sort of Anglo-Saxon patronymic, or, (if this expression be exceptional) a Gentile form. Hence, _Cytr-ing-as_ means the _Cytrings_, and is the name of a _community_--_i.e._, it is a political or social rather than a geographical term. Now nearly two hundred such terms occur in the Anglo-Saxon Chartas as names of places. But besides the simple form in -_ing_ (Anglo-Saxon -_ing-as_) there is a series of compounds in -_wíc_, -_ham_, -_weorð_, -_tun_, -_hurst_, &c., as Bill-_ing_, Billing-_ham_, Billing-_hay_, Billing-_borough_, Billing-_ford_, Billing-_ton_, Billing-_ley_, Billings-_gate_, Billing-_hurst_, &c., most of which it is safe to say mean the -_hurst_, the -_town_, &c., of the _Billings_. Now-- 1. The distribution of these forms, either simple or compound, over the counties of England is as follows. There are in-- York, 127; Norfolk, 97; Lincolnshire, 76; Sussex, 68; Kent, 60; Suffolk, 56; Essex, 48; Northumberland, 48; Gloucester, 46; Somerset, 45; Northampton, 35; Shropshire, 34; Hants, 33; Oxford, 31; Warwick, 31; Lancashire, 26; Cheshire, 25; Wilts, 25; Devon, 24; Bedford, 22; Berks, 22; Nottingham, 22; Cambridge, 21; Leicester, 19; Durham, 19; Stafford, 19; Surrey, 18; Bucks, 17; Huntingdon, 16; Hereford, 15; Derby, 14; Worcester, 13; Middlesex, 12; Hertford, 10; Cumberland, 6; Rutland, 4; Westmoreland, 2; Cornwall, 2; Monmouth, 0. In valuing this list the size of the county must be borne in mind. Subject to this qualification, the proportion of the forms in -_ing_, is a measure of the Germanism of the population. It is at the _maximum_ in Kent and Norfolk, and at the _minimum_ in Cornwall and Monmouth. 2. The simple forms (_e.g._, _Billings_) as opposed to the compounds (Billing-_hay_) bear the following proportions:--