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 6i4 APPENDIX C enico. Diminutives. Bewes, Doone, Doun, or Down, Drew, Hamon, Hugh, Ives, Miles,(^) Otes, Guy, if we are to give them what at any rate may have been their names. Oui (O.E. Ufig) occurs as a man's name 1172-80 (Egerton 433). Jenico, always a rare name (and best known as borne by the family of Preston, Viscounts Gormanston, into which it came through the marriage about 1430 of Christopher Preston with a daughter of Sir Jenico d'Artois), is an exception, being of Gascon origin and not a latinized form of name. It may conceivably be the same as the equally rare Inigo, but this is mere guesswork. Diminutives of Christian names are a fruitful source of existing surnames, whose origin is not always instantly apparent. To these belong Alcock and Saunders from Alexander, Alcock sometimes (according to W. H. Stevenson, a very careful authority) standing for Alan; Hancock, Janekin and Janquin from John (Jankyn Lloyd of Llanstephan was living as late as 27 Nov. 1531); Hal and Halkin from Harry; HankynjC") Hawkins and Rawlins from Ralph; Dawkins from David; Simkin from Simon; Rankin and Randekin from Randolph; Hamlet probably from Hamond, Hamlett Hancock was in Kent 1538-39 (Harl. 51 C. 48 and 46 I. 18, 19), and Hamlett Warburton was of MinshuU Vernon, co. Chester, in 1660 (Add. Ch. 43818); Bibby, Wilkin (Will. Wilekin was an Alderman early in the thirteenth century (Harl. 54 H. 40)), Wilme and Wilmot (generally as a woman's name) from William, just as Emma gives Emmot; Filken, Filcock, and Philpot from Philip; Ridelot from Ridel (Sempring- ham Ch., 11 60); Tomlin and Tomkin from Thomas; Perkin (whence come Perks and Parkins, i^c), e.g. Perkin Warbeck, and Perot (the name by which Piers de Gavaston was known to his friends) from Piers; Colin, giving the surname Collins (except in Scotland as mentioned later), from Nicholas; Hodge (Mid. Eng. Hogge) and Hodgkin from Roger; Hulkoc, Hutchins, and Huggin, from Hugh; and Watequin from Walter; Robin and Robinel from Robert. Robinellus Carnifex was a witness 1238 (Harl. Ch. 46 A. 22). Of the same type, but of very early use in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, are the names Gocelin, Jocelin, i^c. Gascelyn, though a similar name, is, teste W. H. Stevenson, quite distinct, coming from the Prankish Wazelin, as the other does from the Prankish Gauzelin, of which Jocelin is a more southern French form. Gascelin was a fourteenth century surname, for Edward Gascelin was sum. cum equis etarmis 21 Mar. 7 Edw. III. Other abbreviations with the termination "son" are (*) This name gives tempting occasion for an irrelevant anecdote of a family of this name having bought a house, lock, stock and barrel, family pictures included, and the fact that the portraits usually bore the inscription Sir John or Sir Ralph So-and-so Miles, rendered them particularly desirable as presentments of their ancestors ! {'') This has all the appearance of being a diminutive of Henry, but that some- times at any rate it equals Ralph is proved by the fact that Ralph de la Naperie (as Radulphus) in Close Roll (35 Edw. Ill, m. 13 d) is called Hankyn in the correspond- ing privy seal warrant (25505). See CaL Close Rolls Edw. Ill, vol. xi, p. 290. [ex inform. W. H. B. Bird). But query, should Ha«kyn be read for Ha«kyn?