Chapter X

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Nicholas le P.ker.

This may be expanded into Parker, a park-keeper, Packer, a wool-packer, or the medieval Porker, a swine-herd, now lost in Parker.

John Stegand

Stigand, Stiggins.

Anglo-Saxon names survived chiefly among the peasantry ( Chapter I ).

Roger Mercator.

Marchant, Chapman.

The restored modern spelling merchant has affected the pronunciation of the common noun ( Chapter III ). The more usual term Chapman is cognate with cheap, chaffer, Chipping, Copenhagen, Ger. kaufen, to buy, etc.

Adam Hoppe.

Hobbs, Hobson, Hopkins.

An example of the interchange of b and P ( Chapter III ). Hob is usually regarded as one of the rimed forms from Robert ( Chapter VI ).

Roger Crom.

Crum, Crump.

Lit. crooked, cognate with Ger. krumm. The final -p of Crump is excrescent ( Chapter III ).

Stephen Cornevaleis

Cornwallis, Cornish.

A name which would begin in Devonshire ( Chapter XI ).

Hundred Rolls

Modern Form

Walter de Ibernia

Ireland

A much more common name than Scotland, which has been squeezed out by Scott ( Chapter XI ).

Matilda filia Matildae

Mawson (for Maud-son), Till, Tilley, Tillett, Tillotson, etc.

One of the favourite girl-names during the surname period ( Chapter X ).

Ralph Vouler.

Fowler

A West-country pronunciation; cf. Vowle for Fowell, Vokes for Foakes (