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English Surnames

Note 258 — Chapter IV · SURNAMES OF OCCUPATION (COUNTRY).

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This spelling lasted till the seventeenth century. Henry Best, in his Farming Book, 1641, says: ‘The noutheard wages were, for every beast, 2d.’ (P. 119, Sur. Soc.)

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