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English Surnames

Note 289 — Chapter IV · SURNAMES OF OCCUPATION (COUNTRY).

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Mr. Riley, in his interesting Memorials of London, quotes from the Rolls of Gaol Delivery, temp. Edward I., the name of ‘Richard Witbred, hodere,’ who had been slain in one of the city streets. (Introduction, p. xi.)

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