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Chapter VIII

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Hundred Rolls

Modern Form

Thomas le Clerc.

Clark.

One of our commonest names. We now spell the common noun clerk by etymological reaction, but educated people pronounce the word as it was generally written up to the eighteenth century ( Chapter III ).

Stephen le Hatter

Hatter

The great rarity of this name is a curious problem (