Note 249 — Chapter IV · SURNAMES OF OCCUPATION (COUNTRY).

‘Digger’ also exists, and is found in an epitaph in St. Sepulchre’s, Middlesex.

‘Here lyes Robert Diggs and William Digger,

There’s no living soule knew which was the bigger,

They fared well and lived easy,

And now they’re both dead, an ’t shall please ye.’

Dingley’s History from Marble (Cam. Soc.).