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 APPENDIX C 605 Piers and Harry) were about as common then as now, while Adam, Andrew, Baldwin, Bartholomew (hence the surnames Barthelot and Bartlctt), Fulk,(^j Giles, Guy, Miles, Nicholas, Osbert, Ralph, Roger, Simon, Stephen,Theobald, and Thurston, seem to have declined in popularity, Giles being as a woman's name, Gille, practically extinct, except in the nursery rhyme above mentioned. Amaury, Aymer or Emery, all three distinct names according to W. H. Steven- son, of which the older forms were respectively Amalric, Hadomar, (H)aimarik (whence America), are latinized both as Almericus and Adomarus (hence probably the surname Merry; the surname Meyrick and the Christian name Merric are Welsh forms of Maurice); Ailwaker (O.E. ^|>elwaccer), Anke- tell, Anketin, Aucher, Bevis, the Scots name Bryce, Conan, Dige {temp. Ric. II), Drew, Ebles {lat. Ebulo or Eubulus), Ellis, Engelard, Engenulf, Engerolf, Eudes, Otes, Fremund {temp. Ric. II), Godric, Gudred, Gun- celin, Hamond, Harsculph, Hervey, Howell, Inge, Ingold, Ingram, Jordan, Lambert, Litwin, Mahon or Mahoun {rectius probably Mahou (Mayhew) from the O.Fr. form of Matthew), Mauger (from the Frankish Malger), Meiler, Menaud {temp. Edw. Ill), Morgan, Otewell, Payn {lat. Paganus), Reiric, Reynold, Robylard, Saher or Sayer, Sampson, Savara (hence the surname Savory — Savara le Corvisere occurs c. 1200 in the Totness Guild Roll), Serle, Talbot, Tori, the "Welsh name Urian, Villes (latinized as Vitalis), the Frankish Wace, Waleran, Walkelin or Waukelyn, Warin, and Wassail, except in the latinized forms of Reynold, Otes, and Amory, viz. Reginald, Otho, and Almeric, may be said to be practically disused, at least as Christian names, with the exception of Hamon, which has continued in the family of Le Strange of Hunstanton, Norfolk, till the present day, and of Harvey or Hervey which is still found in the north. Arthur witnessed charters of his brother Ebrard, Bishop of Norwich, Arthur, a West countryman by birth, circa 1 135-40 (Cotton Ch. ii, i, and ii, 21, 8), Nigell. fil. Arturi, the ancestor of the Kingscote family, witnessed a charter of Will, de Braiosa circa 1 1 50-60 (Berkeley Chs. S. 9). Arthur also occurs in a Glasgow Charter circa 11 50, but never seems to have been common in any part of the British Isles, though more so in the west than elsewhere. Arthur's spring is given as a boundary in a grant to Cwmhyr Abbey by Roger de Mortimer circa 1 1 50-60. Bevis, of which there is a French form Beuves, and which has given Bevis. birth to the existing surname Beaves, has by some been supposed, on the authority of mediaeval glosses, to be represented by the Latin (Frankish) Bogo, whereas W. H. Stevenson asserts that it comes from the Frankish Bobo-C") In two French lists of writs of 26 and 27 Edw. I, the man who in (^) W. H. Stevenson says that Fulk comes from the Frankish Fulko (whence Modern Fr. Foulques, O.Fr. Fulkes nom., Fulkon accus.), and that it is correctly represented by the surname Fowkes. W. Paley Baildon writes that the Yorkshire family of Fawkes of Farnley {ex quo Guy Fawkes) can be traced to an ancestor whose name is given as Falcasius, which is not related to Fulk. (^) With regard to these two names Stevenson writes: — "Accent influenced powerfully the vowels in Old French. This can be seen conveniently in the names