Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature

Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

PREFACE.

By the same Author.

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OUR ENGLISH SURNAMES: their Sources and Significations.

“Mr. Bardsley has faithfully consulted the original mediÆval documents and works from which the origin and development of surnames can alone be satisfactorily traced. He has furnished a valuable contribution to the literature of surnames, and we hope to hear more of him in this field.”—Times.

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CURIOSITIES
OF
PURITAN NOMENCLATURE

BY
CHARLES W. BARDSLEY
AUTHOR OF “ENGLISH SURNAMES, THEIR SOURCES AND SIGNIFICATIONS”

“O my lord,
The times and titles now are alter’d strangely”
King Henry VIII.

London
CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1880

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