WalterPoletar. | Pointer. | ||
A dealer in poults, i.e.fowls. For the lengthened form poulterer, cf.fruiterer for fruiter, and see ChapterXV. | |||
ReginaldAurifaber. | Goldsmith. | ||
The French formorfévre may have given the nameOffer. | |||
HenryDeubeneye. | Daubeney,Dabney. | ||
Fr. d'Aubigny. One ofthe many cases in which the French preposition has beenincorporated in the name. Cf. Danvers, ford'Anvers, Antwerp, and see Chapter XI. | |||
HundredRolls | ModernForm | ||
RichardKnotte | Knott | ||
From Scandinavian Cnut, Canute.This name is also local, from knot, a hillock, and has ofcourse become confused (Variant Spellings, Chapter III)with the nickname Nott, with cropped hair (ChapterXXII)— "Thou nott-pated fool." (1 Henry IV, ii. 4.) | |||
Walter leWyte. | White | ||
The large number ofWhites is partly to be accounted for by theirhaving absorbed the name Wight (Chapter XXII) from Mid.Eng. wiht, valiant. | |||
Adam leSutel. | Suttle. | ||
Both Eng. subtle and Fr.subtil are restored spellings, which do not appear innomenclature (Chapter III). | |||
Fulk deSancto Edmundo. | Tedman. | ||
The older form would beTednam. Bury St. Edmund's is sometimes referred to asTednambury. For the mutilation of the word saint inplace-names, see Chapter III. | |||
William leBoteler. | Butler. | ||
More probably a bottle-makerthan what we understand by a butler, the origin being of coursethe same. | |||
GilbertLupus | Wolf. | ||
Wolf, and the Scandinavian Ulf,are both common as personal names before the Conquest, but a goodmany Modern bearers of the name are German Jews (Chapter IV). OldFr. lou (loup) is one source ofLow. | |||