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Andrew Colle
Collins, Colley
For Nicolas (Chapter V).
William Neuman
Newman, Newcomb.
A man recently settled in the village (Chapter XII).
Adam ate Dene
Dean, Denne, Adeane.
The separate at survives in A'Court and A'Beckett, at the beck head; cf. Allan a' Dale (Chapter XII).
Ralph Mydevynter.
Midwinter.
An old name for Christmas (Chapter IX).
William ate Hull.
Athill, Hill, Hull.
The form hul for hil occurs in Mid. English (Chapter XII).
Hundred Rolls
Modern Form
Gilbert Sutor.
Sutor, Soutar.
On the poor representation of the shoemaker see Chapter XV.
Walter Maraud.
It is easy to understand the disappearance of this name--
"A rogue, beggar, vagabond; a varlet, rascall, scoundrell, base knave"
(Cotgrave); but it may be represented by Marratt, Marrott, unless these are from Mary (Chapter X).
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 p.r.o.nunciation 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 Devons.h.i.+re (Chapter XI).
Hundred Rolls
Modern Form
