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A.
Edgcombe and Edgmond.—(page vi. line 15). Prom the circumstance that the Barnfields were originally of Devonshire, and from the thoroughly Devonian word 'combe' (in Edgcombe), some may be disposed to question the possibility of such a mistake as writing Edgmond for Edgcomhe. But that Edgmond, and not the Devon Mount Edgcumbe near Plymouth, was intended, appears unquestionably from the ascertained facts that the whole of the marriages of the Barnfield family point to Edgmond in Shropshire, not to Devonshire. Our many entries show that for centuries the Barnfields were settled at Edgmond. Moreover, in the Barnfield pedigree among the Morris MSS. at Eyton Hall the mistake of Edgcombe does not occur, nor in the Salt Library MSS.—G.
