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 APPENDIX C 619 though the best known, the only ones of the kind, for Phippen is certainly FitzPaine, and Fidgen, Fitzjohn, while in Scotland " Colin " is said not to come from Nicholas but from Mac Aileen, = Alwin, hence M'calein, the "c" of Mac adhering to the latter word and forming as Mc Cailean Mor the name of the descendants of the great progenitor of the Campbell Dukes of Argyll. Again in the case of "Tennant," the initial "T" is said to be only the adhesive tail of a preceding Saint, and the name should really be St. Adamnan=Ewnan or Enan, which derivation may remind some of the French distych : cheval vient d'equus sans doute, mais il faut admettre qu'il a bien chang^ sur la route, an amusing remark, however faulty the etymology.(^) Dr. Maitland Thomson writes that it is curious how many old Scottish names. Scottish Christian names [and the same remark applies to England] exist now only in place names or in surnames taken therefrom, e.g. Elphinstone, town of Alpin=Aelfwin or Alwin; Livingston, town of Leving, which name is frequent in Domesday; while Macus, Orm, Dolphin, Edulf, and Colban are preserved in Maxwell and Maxtone, Ormiston, Dolphinston, Eddleston, Covington; and many others are to be found. Doubtless a good many of the strange forms which occur in old Scribal errors, writings are due to scribal errors or mis-readings, but the following names may be instanced as curious, and some of them, by the Editor at any rate, inexplicable: — Terric {lat. Theodoricus, /r. Thierri) occurs as a name among London Curious names, citizens In early and late twelfth century, and Thetheric Ebryan was sum. 30 Edw. L Litil Doge is to be found in vol. xii of Close Rolls, Edw. IIL Freemund or Fromund (Harl. Ch. 84 H. 31) which occurs in London Charters, twelfth century, has no relation to Freeman, and represents two Germanic names which became regularly in French, Fr6mond and Fromond, which are liable to be confused owing to the and e being graphically indistinguishable in mediaeval writing. Hoger or Oger (Frankish Audger, Fr. Ogier, = Eng. Edgar), cf the modern surname Odgers, occurs 1163-70 (Harl. Ch, 50 B. 24), and one of this name was a Breton, and a Domesday tenant in chief. C') Costethinus fil. Ailof was a well known London citizen (Egerton Ch. 510) circa 1200. The name is a variant of, or error for, Constantine, by which name he is elsewhere described. Ouguin, which occurs in Sempringham Charters, twelfth century, is a scribal error for Ougrim (from O.N. Au'Sgrimr, a fairly common name in the eastern counties). (*) W. Paley Baildon draws the Editor's attention to a modern example of name corruption. A French family named L'Eglise, setded in London towards the end of the seventeenth century, became involved in lengthy Chancery proceedings. By 1 701 their name was changed to " Le Glyse," and in 1709 it appeared as "Legless"! C') Feudal England, by J. H. Round, pp. 216, 220.