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 APPENDIX C 6og There can be no doubt that Randolph, in an earlier form Ranwulf (Kr. Ralph and Renouf), is distinct from Ralph, and that the former is latinized as Ranulfus Randolph, is proved by the fact that on the dorse of the Patent Rolls, where Commissions of enquiry as to trespasses are given, Ranulphus de ( — •) appears in Latin, as the leader of a band that had broken into a close, and later on in the same document, John, servant of Randolph de ( — ) is mendoned in English, as one of his abettors. As Randle the name is fairly common in Cheshire (cf. Randle Holmes, herald painter). In the list of summonses 24 Edw. I, a writ directed to Ranulpho de Freskeney, comes between writs directed Radulfo Paynell and Radulfo de Sancto Laudo, and in another list of the same year writs are directed Radulfo Wake and Ranulpho de Ry. Reynold persisted until well into the seventeenth century, for Sir Reynold. Reynold Mohun was living at Boconnoc in 1621, and his son Reynold gave a bowl to Exeter Coll. in 1622, and the name, with the spelling Rainald, has been revived of late years in the family of Knightley. The Norse form of the name is Rognvaldr, which has produced the Scottish Ronald. Vincent and Lionel were decidedly rare, but Vincent le Boteler is Vincent and found on the Close Roll for Edw. Ill (vol. xii), as is Leo, Lyonel, or Lyonet Lionel, de Bradenham. With regard to Saxon names, Edgar was King of Scotland 109 8-1 106/7, Saxon names, and the name occurs occasionally in that country in the twelfth century, but in modern times only apparently as a surname under the forms Edgar, Edzar and Adair. Alfred is not common among the gentry in the thirteenth and fourteenth Alfred, centuries, but Alfred was witness of a charter to Hurley Priory early in the reign of Henry II (Charter at Westm. Abbey), and Will. fil. Alfredi was witness to Sloane Ch. xxxii, 64, 1 157-8; and Alfred de Lincoln was living late in the reign of Henry III. The name is usually latinized as Aluredus, but Elfred et Gerard filii Alexandri de Pointun were witnesses in CO. Line. c. 1 1 50-60, and Alfridus de Sulny occurs in the Close Roll 1307 (Add. Ch. 20865). J. H. Round considers that this is one of the most difficult names to deal with, as Alfred the Breton (Brito), Alfred of Lincoln, Alfred of Malmesbury, and Alfred de Ispania, are all found as tenants in chief in Domesday, none of them apparently being English. He has found the last as "Alfred despaine" in the Hyde Abbey Register. Alfred, a Norfolk thegn in Domesday, was clearly English, but "Aluredus cognomento gigas," who is mentioned as a warrior in Normandy circa 1030, can hardly have been so, neither can Alfred (Alveredus) precentor of Coutances, under Henry II. W. Paley Baildon writes that in one or two Yorkshire families {e.g. the Manstons of Manston) the form of the name is always Alvery. Edmund has always existed in England, e.g. in the families of Edmund. Courtenay, Montagu, Mortimer, and Despenser, and in Scotland in the families of Murray and Douglas, but seems never to have been very common among the nobility after the Conquest. Edric de Buxle was a villein at Northwood in 2 Ric. II (Close Rolls), ■t-dnc. This is a late survival for a name of this type. 77