Harling abode by Harling, and Billing by Billing; and each "wick" or "ham" or "stead" or "tun" took its name from the kinsmen who dwelled together in it.

In this way the home or "ham" of the Billings was Billingham, and the "tun" or township of the Harlings was Harlington.

But in such settlements the tie of blood was widened into the larger tie of land.

Land with the German race seems at a very early time to have become everywhere the accompaniment of full freedom.

The freeman was strictly the free-holder, and the exercise of his full rights as a free member of the community to which he belonged became inseparable from the possession of his "holding" in it.