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 6i6 APPENDIX C shipping circles, just as Iseult or Isolt (Welsh Esyll, lat. Isolda) is preserved in the surnames Issot, Isitt, and in the place near Dublin, Chapel Izod. The natural impression of anyone approaching the subject without previous study would be that names like Idoineand Joyce were corruptions of the Latin Idonea and Jocosa, whereas it is more likely that the former are the originals and the latter copies or fanciful translations. The following occur in Harl., Sempringham, and Egerton charters in the twelfth century: Hyngeleis, Sabe- line,Goldeburg(O.E. Goldburh, taken no doubt from Romance of Havelock, Lincolnshire), Asceline, Fluria, Ivet, Elviva otherwise Alviva (O.E. ^Ifgifu, latinized Alviva), Eularia otherwise Eulalia, Eililda (O.E. ^delhild), Wenne, Mahald (otherwise Maud), Gumild (Gunnild, surname Gunnel, from Old Norse Gunhildr). Aunfelisa or Amfelisa (Cott. xvi, 40), though strange in sound, was not then uncommon. Gunware, Gunnor (Old Norse Gunnvor, the name of the wife of Richard II of Normandy, and as Gunnor the name of the sister of Walter de Huntercombe who d. 13 13), fairly common, and Quenild, wife of Grip, occur in the twelfth century (Egerton Ch. 428). Wensiliana or Wenthliana is a latinization of the Welsh Gwenllian, and Athelina of Athelyn, which was a woman's name in 1441, and Ele occurs latinized as Elia in 1471; the Countess of Salis- bury {d. 1 261) was named Ele or Ela, which W. H. Stevenson believes to be the same as Adela. Violet, which many would imagine to be quite modern, was the name of the wife of Sir John Chaundos in 1363. Floria occurs in Close Roll 1243, Guernilla in idem 1380, Massilia Godde in idem Edw. Ill, vol. xii, and Stephanetta in Patent Roll 1373. Among other out- of-the-way names for women are Almodis, wife of Robert, Count of Mortain, c. 1080, Basilic, sister of Walter de Ridelesford, c. 1200; Alda:=Aude {e.g. Aude Maubank), Leiarda (which has given the surname Legard), and Roberga, are Latin forms of women's names found on the Close Roll oi 1244; Amygdonia, da. and h. of William de I'lsle, 1294, Merouda Pygot 1296, Mazera, da. of Philip Marmion and wife of Ralph de Cromwell. Perina, a feminine form of Piers, Jacoba (vol. xii. Close Rolls, Edw. Ill), and Jacomina {Cal. Inq. p. m., vol. iv); Tangustilla, wife of Payn Hergast {Close Rolls, I Ric. II), Tangwistel is common in Welsh charters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; Huwet, wife of T. Portman {Close Roll, 2 Ric. II): Laderine, da. of Piers de Brus, Egeline (Egeline was da. of Robert de Courtenay, and the Inq. p. m. of Egeline mother of Philip de Columbers is dated 5 Edw. I), Engelise, are also thirteenth and four- teenth century names. Goldcorn, wife of Michael the clerk, granted lands temp. Ric. I or John (Add. Chs. 28349, 28350). Sabine occurs also early in the thirteenth century. The latinized Geva or Jeva (O.E. Geofu) is a name for which no certain modern French or English equivalent can be given. Some have thought it to be Joan, regarding Jeva as a misreading of Jena, but Eve seems more probable (Geva was wife of William de Falaise soon after the Conquest; the wife of Sir Thomas Hungerford, Speaker of the House of Commons who d. 1398, is variously described as Jeva or Joan). Agnes and its French form Annes, though the latter comes very close in