2^ On Proper Names, 



21. J3eri^ bright or famouSr^'Gilberti ^Ih^ft Hilbert, jEfy- 

 bert, ' .^ , 



22. Hurst, a meadow or pasture, as Deerhurst, Barnhursf, 

 Nairhurst. ^ , 



23. Graves, a little ward, as //ar<5rraije», therJjigh ward: 

 Cotgraves, the ward of the cottage. ^ * V . ^ 



24. Druf, a thicket, as Wardrvff, Woodruff, £endru^.'^^ 



25. Steth, the bank of a river, as Bicker steth, Toxteth, 

 Barnsfeth. 



26. Thwaite *, a pasture, as Postlethwaite, Burnth^aite, 

 Branthwaite. r ', ^ ' 



These are some of the principal terminations under this 

 class, but many others might be enumerated. A great number 

 are too well known to need explanation, as Field, Land, Hill, 

 Dale, Wood, Water, Croft, Lin ; whence, Fairfield, Buckland, 

 Barnhill, Littledale, Blackwood, Drinkwater, Bearcrofi, 

 Blacklin. 



The names of many of our nobility and higher gentry are 

 purely Norman French, but they are mostly of this class. They 

 are generally compounded in the same manner, but their com- 

 binations are not so obvious, though most of them have been 

 traced by the French antiquaries and genealogists. ; 



The SECOND of the five great sources of English sirnames, 

 are Trades, Occupations, Professions, or Employments : such 

 as Smith, Wright, Baker, Tailor. Almost every village, it 

 may be observed, however small or insignificant, contains a 

 Smith, or worker in iron ; a Wright, or worker in wood ; and 

 a Tailor. Accordingly, the names of John the smith, Thomas 

 the Wright, William the tailor, are the first that would be 

 appropriated, and they are accordingly amongst the most com- 

 mon of all our sirnames. When the village becomes a little 

 larger, it will contain a Fisher, a Weaver or Webster, a Miller 

 or Milner, a Fletcher, or maker of arrows, a Kemp or Soldier, 



a MojSon, a Porter or Carrier^ a Baker, &c. : and -th^se also 



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♦ This fermination, so common id 'th*e libHK cif ^nglai^ti,' hks'gii^eariseyj'ihiM 

 dispute. Camden, following the Saxon etymologists, derives it from the Dutdi 

 Heoit, a pasture ; but Lord Coke, whose knowledge of the Celtic dialects is far 

 more extensive, says it signifies a wood gioibbed up and turned to arable J arid as 

 this name is chiefly found in woody and mountainous districts, we have no reason 

 to doubt his correctness. 



