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 APPENDIX C 607 freedom and apprentices' was admitted a freeman by that name on October 26, 13 70, and he requested to have 'Andreas' changed to 'Drugo.'" Evidently the clerk who took down his name from dictation thought he said Andrew when he said Drew, and so wrongly entered the Latin equiva- lent of the former. (*) Francis was decidedly rarer than James or George, and beyond Francis. Frank C") de Bohun, who is mentioned in Complete Peerage as dying 1273, his grandfather of the same name who died 11 92, Frank Tyas, who was sum. 29 Edw. 1 (1301), and Frank de Aldham or Aldenham, who was executed in 1321 {Patent Roll, 1321-24, and Flores Hist., vol. iii, p. 208, Rolls Sen), the Editor can name no others, but he cannot claim to have made an exhaustive search. Ric. fil. Frank, who occurs in a twelfth century document, was probably not the son of Frank, but son of the freeman or of the Frenchman, though V. Paley Baildon states that Franco, as a Christian name, is common in the Yorkshire family of Tyas in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. J. Maitland Thomson expresses his belief that this name is not to be found in Scotland before 1 500. Joh. fil. Frether[ic] (') was clerk to Simon Bishop of Worcester 1 139-47 Frederick. (Campb. Ch. xviii, 2). Fredericus clericus de Bureford was Canon of Bromfield Priory, Salop, in 1155 (Cotton Ch. xxvii, 4); Frederic was a witness in twelfth-thirteenth century (Harl. MS. 21 10), a summons issued Friderico de Tilneye de Sancto Botulfo 8 June 30 Edw. Ill (1356), and another of the name has been found in 1370. George and James seem to be commoner than most of the preceding George, names. We have George Grim late twelfth century (Harl. Ch. 48 C. 10), "Georgius hujus carte scriptor" 1203-04 (Add. Ch. 7513), George de (^) The Editor is reminded here of confusion caused by his own name. He had occasion to write to Mons. Maurice de Vilmorin, a member of the world-known firm of seedsmen, and being under the impression that he was a nursery gardener, so addressed him. His correspondent repHed that that was not his position in life and addressed his letter to the Revd. Monsieur le Vicaire. When the Editor pointed out that he was no more a clergyman than the other a nurseryman, Monsieur de Vilmorin informed him of a similar case in his own family, where a young naval officer named I'Eveque de Vilmorin on his arrival on a French man of war at Malta, found all the clergy of the island drawn up on the quay to pay him honour! C") Franko is an old Germanic name; Francis is from St. Franciscus ("the Frenchman," Francese), and came into common use after Francis I of France. Franca is the O.E. name corresponding to Franco, {ex inform. W. H. Stevenson). (') This seems to be O.E. Freoduric. Our Frederick is of course a later importation from Germany. The name in this case may be O.E. FreoSuhere, which would be Frethere in the 1 2th century, {ex inform. W. H. Stevenson). J. H. Round points out tiiat, according to the Liber de Hyda, Frederic, who was own brother to William de Warenne, was slain by Hereward early in the Conqueror's reign ("Fredericum germanum Comitis Willelmi de Warennia, gencre et possessionibus insignitum occidit"), and that Frederic's existence is proved by several references in Domesday under the Warenne^fief, to the feodum Frederic! (or " Fretherici ").