At 15:33 14/10/2009, you wrote:
>This is not strictly speaking, or even perhaps laxly speaking, about
>place-names, but I thought the combined expertise of members of this
>list might be enough to answer my question, and it possibly has
>relevance to field-naming. Has anyone come across names of
>domesticated animals before, say, 1600?
No actual name given, but in the parable of the good shepherd:
"The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his
voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out" John 10:
3 (New International Version)
Trevor
Trevor Ogden
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
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