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4. Shepton Montague; 5. Shipham (Sipeham).The first syllable in all these names is from A.-S. sceup, a sheep.

2. For Beauchamp see Marshall's Geneal. Guide. 3. Mallet, Collinson, i. 32, 90; iii. 496. 4. Montague or Montacute, Visitation of Somerset, p. 151.

Skilgate (Schilegate). This may be from A.-S. scyld, a shield; ex. scýldburh, a shield, fence, or covering; scyldweall, a wall or defence of shields, B. Cf. Skillington, T., p. 98; from Scyllingas, K., S. E., i. 473. "The hero Scyld, the godlike progenitor of the Seyldingas, the royal race of Denmark" (K., S. E., i. 413).

Sock Dennis (Socca, Soche). "Socbourn (Dur.) and Soc-lege, now Suckley (Worc.), preserve in the root-word the memory of another Old English tenure. The soc-men were freemen and tenants, but were privileged, .e. they were exempt from the jurisdiction of all courts but that of the district included in the soc."-E., p. 127.

See also T., p. 199. For the Dennys or Denys family see Marshall's Genealogist's Guide.

Somerton (Summertone).-This has already been explained under Midsomer Norton (6th S. viii. 462). Somerton Early, near Somerton, is so named from the Erlegh family.

Sparkford (Spercheford). This is the "ford of the sparrow-hawk." Bosworth has spear-hafoc, sper-hafoc, a sparhawk or sparrowhawk. See also Bardsley's English Surnames, p. 493

"Sparrowhawk' or 'sparke,' as it is now more generally spelt. So early as Chaucer, however, this last was written spar-hawk,' and that once gained, the further contraction in our nomenclature became inevitable." Spaxton (Espachestona).-A.-S. spec, speech: speech-town, town where meetings were held, E.,

p. 286.

1. Stanton Drew (Estantona); 2. Stanton Prior (Stantona).-Stone-town, sometimes a boundary stone, E., p. 288.

1. For the Drew family see Marshall's Genealogist's Guide.

"Stanton Drew-A mile from Pensford, another from Chew'-like Littleton Drew, co. Wilts, derived its name from the family of Drew, owners of the manor temp. Ed. III."-Murray, p. 386.

2. The Abbot of Bath was the Domesday "tenant in capite."

1. Staple Fitzpain (Staple); 2. Staplegrove. A.-S. stapol, a prop, a stake the site of a market fixed by law, E., p. 288. See also T., pp. 254, 334. Gráf, a grove; see K., iii. xxvi. For Fitzpain see Marshall's Genealogist's Guide.

Stawley (Staweia, Stawei). Stow, a form of stoke, E., p. 289. Cf. Morwenstow (Cornwall). Stow, a place, cotstow, No. 578; hegstow, No. 570" (K., iii. xxxviii).

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1. Stockland Bristol (Estochelanda); 2. Stocklinch Magdalen; 3. Stocklinch Ottersay; 4. Stogumber (Waverdinestoc); 5. Stoke St. Michael

(Stoca); 6. Stoke Courcy or Stogursey (Stoche); 7. Stoke-sub-Hamdon; 8. Stoke Piro; 9. Stoke St. Gregory.-Stock (from stick), a post, &c., E. The sense is a thing stuck or fixed, S.

"Stock and stoke: when a prefix, indicating the chief town of a district; when a suffix, usually pointing out a town founded by the person whose name precedes it. Ex.,, Stock-ton, eight places; Greystoke (Cumb.), Grey's stoke. Where the Saxon town became the seat of a Norman lord, his name is usually appended, thusStoke Say (Salop), Stoke D'Abernon (Surrey), Stoke Courcy, now Stogursey (Som.), &c. Stock occurs as a prefix in twenty-four places; Stoke as a prefix in sixty-five places."-E., p. 289.

1. "Stockland was surnamed Gaunts alias Bristol. It was part of the Paganel barony: given by one of the barons known as Le Gaunt (ie. of Ghent) to endow a hospital in Bristol. At the Dissolution the lands were transferred to the corporation of Bristol, in whom they remained till sold under the Municipal Reform Act, circa 1838" (Bp. Hobhouse).

2, 3. "Hlinc, a link, a rising ground. Junius is right in his Etymologicon when he says, 'agger limitanens, parcechias etc dividens'" (K., iii. xxx1). 3. Ottersay otter island.

4. Anciently Stoke-Gomer, Murray, p. 405. 6. Courcy, see Marshall's Genealogist's Guide. 7. Stoke under Ham Hill.

8. "The surname is from the Piro family, Nor mans who came in the train of the Mohuns, and held Stoke, inter alia, of the Honor of Dunster" (Bp. Hobhouse). F. W. WEAVER. Milton Vicarage, Evercreech, Bath. (To be continued.)

Huntspil (6th S. viii. 403; ix. 44). — In Gloucestershire names pill signifies "the mouth of a brook," as in Cow Pill, Horse Pill, Oldbury Pili. Cf. Archæologia, vol. xxix. p. 10.

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Norton Malreward (ante, p. 43). I shall be much obliged if MR. WEAVER will tell me whether there is any other explanation of the name Norton Malreward than that which occurs in the legend of the founding of the city of Bath. In it the old swineherd, who had been Prince Bladud's master during the time of his exile from his father's (King Lud Hudibras') court on account of leprosy, was so angered at what he considered the paltry recompense he received, that, like Hiram, King of Tyre, he gave the place an ill name for ever.

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