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although the name Fletcher appears in Southgate Street. There 

 is no spicer, a strange want to us with our habits and demands 

 upon the grocer of to-day. But our great articles tea, coffee, 

 tobacco and snuff had no existence here, were all unknown, and 

 pepper was a rarity, extremely dear, hence the custom of a pepper 

 rental. Then there is no medico except the name Leche in 

 Walcot Street, no occupation being attached to it, be taken as 

 indicating the one happy man. There is no occupation noted as 

 in any way connected with the bathing or the baths. As with 

 those above, the other names having , no occupations attached 

 were apparently derivative ; thus in Stall Street there are 

 Palfryman and Plomer, in Walcot Street there are two Cissors 

 andone Webbe; in Northgate Street are two Aurifiabers, one of 

 whom has the foreign sounding Vylbo for his servant, and in 

 Brade Stret are two Follators or Fullers, a Cissor and a Faber. 

 In Brade Stret also was John Gregory, his occupation not given, 

 yet he appears perhaps the most important man in the city. 

 In Brade Stret also John Nation's servants paid their tax. It 

 would be useless to constantly write say John Fuller, fuller, yet 

 in Northgate Street occurs once this unnecessary doubling in 

 the entry John Carnifex, carnifex, as perhaps also in Walcot 

 Street, in the case of Nicholas Coobler, sutor. 



Of the personal names some are curious, either for their spell- 

 ing or derivation. Zawoher is splendid Zummerzet for Sawyer ; 

 then there is the very remarkable name of Schoylocke, and 

 the scribe does himself full justice in Jolifphe for Joliffe. The 

 Deyare of the previous roll becomes Deyher ; others on this first 

 roll do not reappear. There are no names from either vegetables 

 or flowers. Foreign influence appears twice, in the surname 

 Fleming and the Christian name Deodonay. There seems no- 

 thing remarkable in the Christian names : John of course is 

 common, as would be Joan, our Jane, for his wife ; but there is 

 no trace of any extra or ultra influence either royal or otherwise, 

 such as we have in the Georges, Georginas, and Wilhelminas of a 



