Chapter XV

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Reginald Aurifaber.

Goldsmith.

The French form orfévre may have given the name Offer.

Henry Deubeneye.

Daubeney, Dabney.

Fr. d'Aubigny. One of the many cases in which the French preposition has been incorporated in the name. Cf. Danvers, for d'Anvers, Antwerp, and see Chapter XI .

Hundred Rolls

Modern Form

Richard Knotte

Knott

From Scandinavian Cnut, Canute. This name is also local, from knot, a hillock, and has of course become confused (Variant Spellings, Chapter III ) with the nickname Nott, with cropped hair ( Chapter XXII )--

"Thou nott-pated fool."

(1 Henry IV, ii. 4.)

Walter le Wyte.

White

The large number of Whites is partly to be accounted for by their having absorbed the name Wight ( Chapter XXII ) from Mid. Eng. wiht, valiant.

Adam le Sutel.

Suttle.

Both Eng. subtle and Fr. subtil are restored spellings, which do not appear in nomenclature ( Chapter III ).

Fulk de Sancto Edmundo.

Tedman.

The older form would be Tednam. Bury St. Edmund's is sometimes referred to as Tednambury. For the mutilation of the word saint in place-names, see