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 6o8 APPENDIX C Thorpe in 1304-05, and George de Thorpe, Miles in 1321 (Cotton Ch. xxviii, 75), and other Georges have been found in 1306, 13 12, 1323, 135 1, 137 1, and 1425, whom it is not necessary to specify more particu- larly; two are enshrined in Complete Peerage, viz. George de Cantelou, feudal Lord of Abergavenny, b. 29 Mar. 1252, and George, Earl of Dunbar or March, who was born about 1336. The earliest instance that has been found of George as a surname is in 14 14, "Rich. George et Will. Doune cives et aurifabri London" (Harl. Ch. 1 1 1 F. 50). The name Gregory, which was not nearly so rare in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries as George, is sometimes confused with it. James Q de Houdernes occurs temp. John (Add. Ch. 21 150), and James (") de Bakepuz in the twelfth-thirteenth century. James Blund was Mayor of London 12 16, and James Blund, perhaps his son, but quite possibly the same person, was Alderman thereof for some years before 1230. James de Paunton was summoned cum equis et armis 18 Oct. (1261) 45 Hen. Ill, James de Pipre is to be found in 1339 (Add. Ch. 19842), and James d'Audley, b. about 1220, and James de Bohun, b. 1281, appear in Complete Peerage. It may be mentioned here that James, when not latinized as Jacobus, is always so written of Englishmen, and never Jacques; in the same way William and Walter, or Willelmus, Walterus, are commoner than Guillaume, Gulielmus, Gautier, or Gualterus. Among the hundreds of Williams summoned for one purpose or another only once has the form Guillelmus (de Lung) been found in the lists of Summons in the Lords' Reports on the Dignity of a Peer, namely in the year 22 Edw. I, and in the same list occurs Willelmus de Mortuo Mari and many another Willelmus. The G form, however, is not very uncommon in twelfth century charters. Joseph was Abbot of Reading 1173-80 (Add. Chs. 19601, 19602). Joseph Gerard is found in 1302 (^Chancery Warrants), and Joseph occurs as a witness to a charter dated 1321 (Harl. Ch. 112, F. 59). Lancelot, an uncommon name at all times, occurs in a privy seal warrant of 3 Ric. II, "Lancelot Catewy." Patrick occurs in the twelfth century but was a rare name among Englishmen in Edwardian times. It appears to have been intro- duced by Patrick de Sourches, founder of the Chaworth family in England tetnp. William Rufus, whose daughter's son was Patrick, Earl of Salisbury temp. Henry II, and whose descendant, another Patrick de Chaurces, was living, as also was Patrick de Malvelle, temp. Edward I. Patrick fil. Serle was also of Westwick, co. York, in 1252. (^) In these two cases the name James actually occurs in the charters, in the others the assumption is made that Jacobus stands for James. The Northern French form of the name was James, as in Saint James (de Beuvron) in the extreme south- west of Normandy (La Manche). As to Jacobus being sometimes rendered Jacob, W. Paley Baildon points out that on a Denization Roll of late fourteenth century two foreign merchants occur, named Jacobus Giles and Giles Jacob.