The Quest for a Lost Race

by Thomas Edward Pickett

Bole, or Boels.

Boles, a form of Boels. Vide Boyle.

Boleyn. Queen Anna Boleyn was great-granddaughter of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, Lord Mayor of London, temp. Henry VI. The family had formerly been of great consequence. There were two branches of it in England. William de Bolein held one fee in York and one in Lincoln. In the preceding generation Easton and Simon de Bologne, brothers of Pharamus de B., are mentioned in a charter of the latter. The familiar pronunciation is "Bullen."

Bolland. Richard de la Boillante, Normandy, 1198.

Bollen, armorially identified with Boleyn.

Bolleng, for Boulogne, or Boleyne.

Bollowe, for Bellewe or Bellew.

Bolster, for Bolster or Balistar. Vide Alabaster or Arbalister (Norman), a general of crossbowmen.

Bolt, from Bolt, or Bout, near Bayeux. Tascelinus de Boalt, Normandy, 1180. Reginald and Richard Bolt, Oxford, 1272. "Ben Bolt" at all times and everywhere. Composed by an American; cosmopolitanized by an Englishman. An "Anglo-Norman" song.