Much, caution, too, is required in any attempt to identify parishes, villes, and manors. There is often nothing but the name to guide us, and on this alone no secure dependence can be placed. In Kent there are instances of four and even five parishes of the same name. There are manors in one part of the county bearing the same name as parishes at its opposite extremity; and we have often nothing in the context to lead us even to a safe conjecture.
   The Fine for a messuage in EWELL, No. XXXV. p. 265, is a case in point. There is a parish named EWELL, and a manor of the same name in MALLING, but, in the Fine itself, there is nothing to determine to which, of the two it relates. For the reasons, however, given in the note, we may hazard a conjecture that the latter of the two places is the subject of the Fine.
   So with regard to No. XXIII., p. 225, the manor of GODINTON being partly in STROOD and partly in the next adjoining parish, FRINDSBURY, first impressions might lead to the supposition that the FERNIBERGE and FRENIBERGE of our Fine are to be identified with the modern Frindsbury; its terms being, "the two knight's-fees which John de Godinton holds of the fee of Simon de Chelesfeld, half in FERNIBERGE and half in STROBES. But, besides the evidence contained in the Book of Knights'-fees, cited in the "Addenda," p. 288, the following circumstances almost necessarily lead to the conclusion that FARNBOROUGH, and not Frindsbury, is the place designated by FERNIBERGE and FRENIBERGE.
   1.—In the twelfth century, the boundaries of parishes were not so strictly defined as to necessitate the actual mention of FRINDSBURY in describing the knight's-fee, even though part of it may have extended from Strood into that parish.
   2.—In the Book of Fees cited in the "Addenda," p. 288, the two half-knight's-fees of GODINTON are entered