I fear that it will be impossible to identify any more of these names, and it does not appear probable that they supply us with anything like a complete catalogue of the English Gás. Setting aside the fact, that no notice seems to be taken of Northumberland, save the mention of the little principality of Elmet, and that the local divisions of Eastanglia, Kent, Essex, Sussex and Wessex are passed over in the general names of the kingdoms, we look in vain among them for names known to us from other sources, and which can hardly have been other than those of Gás. Thus we have no mention of the Tonsetan, whose district lay apparently upon the banks of the Severn[140]; of the Meanware, or land of the Jutes, in Hampshire; of the Mægsetan, or West Hecan, in Herefordshire; of the Merscware in West Kent; or of the Gedingas, who occupied a tract in the province of Middlesex[141]. Although it is possible that these divisions are included in some of the larger units mentioned in our list, they still furnish an argument that the names of the Gás were much more numerous than they would appear from the list itself, and that this marks only a period of transition. ----- Footnote 140: Cod. Dipl. No. 261. Footnote 141: Cod. Dipl. No. 101. ----- It is clear that when William of Malmesbury mentions thirty-two shires as making up the whole of England, he intends only England south of the Humber. The list we have been examining contains thirty-four entries; of all the names therein recorded, one only can be shown to lie to the north of that river: from this however it is not unreasonable to suppose that the whole of England is intended to be comprised in the catalogue. Even admitting this, we cannot but conclude that these divisions were more numerous than our shires, seeing that large districts, such as Mercia, Wessex and Eastanglia, are entered only under one general head respectively.