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 icen- APPENDIX C 613 The following names are extracted from an English version of the Fifteenth c... Calendar of the Saints which was made in 1450 for the benefit of the nuns tury English of Godstow who did not understand Latin. They have kindly been sup- forms of names, plied to the Editor by Oswald Barron, and are given, not so much as showing the best or most accurate forms, but as showing how a man at that time dealt with uncommon Latin words when endeavouring to English them. Prisca, Prisce; Bathildis, Batylde; Brigida, Bryde; Agatha, Agas; Scholas- tica, Scolast (Fr. Escholace); Juliana, Julian; Gregorius, Gregour; Benedic- ts, Benett (O.Fr. Beneit); Tiburtius, Tyburce; Vitalis, Vital; Pancratius, Pancrace; Augustinus, Austin; Petronilla, Petronyl [rectius Peronel]; Pra- xedes, Praxede; ApoUinaris, Appollinare; Felix, Felyce; Eusebius, Euseby; Cuthberga, Cuthburge; Hyacinthus, Jacincte; Tecla, Tecle; Fredeswitha, Fryswyde; Linus, Lyne; Lucia, Lucy. The following are instances of the same name in Latin and in French: Latin equivalents Gerardus Andegavensis, early thirteenth century (Add. Ch. 41371), Gerard of French names. Ancheuin, same date (iJ. 8335); Radulph Barba Aprilis 1 162-9 ? (Stowe Ch. 153), Roger Barbe de Averil, same date (id. 159); grant by Matheus AgodeshalfQ to Rob. Artifex in London, /^w/). John (Harl. Ch. 45 B. 18), grant by Roger Agodeshalf to Rob. Lenginnour in London, temp, early Hen. Ill {id. 45 B. 19); Alveredus Franciscus occurs in one of the Laycok charters, and Averay le Fraunceis in another. The terminal in Christian names generally indicates a latinized form. Latinized names. Many names in follow the common rule in forming a low Latin and subsequent English and French form from the accusative, e.g. Simo, Simonem, Simon. Hamo, Hamonem, Hamon. The Norman form of the Prankish Wydo and English Guy, was Wy, so that the surname Widdon cannot have sprung from Wydo, though similar in appearance. Wyatt is a more probable offspring. The surname Dudden comes from the Northumberland place Duddoe, formerly Dudden, Dudden in Cheshire, or possibly from the river of that name and not from Dodo. Modern surnames such as Bogg or Buggins cannot spring from Bogo for, as W. H. Stevenson points out, the Latin g could not have remained unchanged in English, but had become the French u before io66,('') hence Bogo gives Bewes and not Bogg. Neither can De Burgh, which presumably became Borough and Burrows, be any offspring of Bogo. Possibly the true origin of Bugg is the O.E. Bucge (fern.). Bobo,"") BogOjC) Dodo, Drogo, Hamo, Hugo, lvo,0 Milo, Otho (of which Fitzooth and Fitzwith are forms, unless indeed, the latter should be fil. Widonis), Wydo, should figure as Bevis, (^) This name is latinized as ex parte Dei on his seal. {Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. ix, p. 14). (^) See ante, p. 605, note " b." (=) Ivo alias Ivonette Bolenette of Exminster, co. Devon, appears in Patent Roll, 5 Hen. VII.