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Davy. — Her Cozen, Ap Pace, Ap Evan, Ap Morrice, Ap Morgan, Ap 

 Llewellyn, Ap Meredith, Ap Griffin, Ap Davis, Ap Owen, Ap 

 Thenkin Jones. 



Judge. — Two of the most efficient are enow. 



Sheriff. — And please your honour they are all but one. 



As we have seen in the case of the Manx Mac, the Welsh Ap became 

 in process of time abbreviated, indeed we may say almost lost, by casting 

 off the initial a and incorporating the p in the personal name, and thus 

 we have the common Welsh surnames of Probert, Probyn, Prichard, 

 Prodgers, Penry, Penrice, Parry, Preece, Prossei", Pugh, Powell 

 Pumphrey, Bevan, Bowen, Bethell — of course Probert is Ap Robert or 

 Robertson, Probyn Robinson, Pi'itchard Richardson, Prodgers Rogerson, 

 Pariy is Harrison, and Penry is the son of Henry, and so on through the 

 whole list of names of this class. 



Of Cornish names, too, want of time forbids me to speak ; many of 

 them will be readily detected by remembering the old distich : — 



"In Tre, Pol, and Pen, 



You may know the Cornish men " 



The next class of names I have to deal with are of a different kind 

 altogether. There is nothing more natural than that some individual should 

 have been known among his neighbours by the name of the occupation he 

 followed, and it is not too much to say that in our modern directories 

 every kind of occupation known to our forefathers of five or six centuries 

 ago has its representative surname — we have Butcher and Bewsher, Baker 

 and its feminines Bagster and Baxter, Webb with its feminines Webster 

 and Weaver, Dyer, Fuller, Tucker, and Walker which last is derived 

 from any superior pedestrianic powers, as some might suppose, but to a 

 veritable and highly useful occupation, in the days of home-spinning and 

 home manufacturing, viz. : that of the Walker or Treadei of the cloth. 

 Wickliffe's Version of the Transfiguration on the Mount renders the pas- 

 sage thus " His clothes became shining so as no fullere or Walker of 

 Cloth may make white upon earth." Our Sharman, Sherman, and 

 Shearman were shearers or croppers of the manufactured Cloth — then we 



