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English Surnames

Note 544 — Chapter VI · ‘Nicknames.’

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In All Saints Church, Hertford, exists or existed a tablet with an inscription dated 1428, beginning thus—

‘Here lyeth under this stone William Wake,

And by him Joane his wife and make.’

(Clutterbuck’s Hertfordshire, vol. ii., p. 165.)

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