_Bernicia_.--In answer to the inquiry of "GOMER" (No. 21. p. 335.),
"P.C.S.S." begs leave to refer him to Camden's _Britannia_ (Philemon
Holland's translation, Lond. fol. 1637), where he will find, at p.
797., the following passage:--
"But these ancient names were quite worn out of use in the
English Saxon War; and all the countries lying north or the
other side of the arme of the sea called Humber, began, by
a Saxon name, to be called [Old English: Northan-Humbra-ric]
that is, the Kingdome of Northumberland; which name,
notwithstanding being now cleane gone in the rest of
the shires, remayneth still, as it were, surviving in
Northumberland onely; which, when that state of kingdome
stood, was known to be a part of the _Kingdome of Bernicia_,
which had _peculiar petty kings_, and reached from the River
Tees to Edenborough Frith."
At p. 817. Camden traces the etymology of _Berwick_ from _Bernicia_.