By the Rev. J. Wilkinson. 



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Saxon root Rene strong. The derivations of the rest may not be 

 uninteresting as a specimen of the origin of English surnames. 

 Cantelo is written in the old registers Cantle, and such also is the 

 existing pronunciation. Cantle or Cantel is one of our oldest 

 words, meaning a corner or piece of anything. 1 Now a portion of 

 our common is to this day called the corner. There is the original 

 seat of the Cantelos. They are the Cantles of that ilk. Gore 

 signifies in old deeds a narrow slip of ground, so that, as a surname, 

 this word also comes from the locality. Weakley is from a personal 

 quality, just as Long, Longman, Thynne, Little, &c. Harding is 

 to be similarly accounted for, ing being simply an affix denoting a 

 patronymic. Harding is the son of Hard, as Birmingham is the 

 residence of the descendants of Beorm (Beorm-inga-ham). Bull 

 requires no more explanation than Walter le bouf, Bartholomew 

 le swan, and Peter le cuckoo, which occur in the inquisitions about 

 1340. Collett is from the Eastern Saint, Nicholas, who in a 

 French form has given names to many families since the Crusades, 

 Mcol, Nicolet, Collet, Collette. Thus, in this small parish, we 

 exemplify Camden's comprehensive remark, that "we have bor- 

 rowed names from every thing, both good and bad." 



There have been 122 marriages celebrated in the parish church 

 during the 20 years ending Christinas 1857. Of these 76 belong to 

 the first ten years, 46 to the second. The 6 and 7 of William IV. 

 c. 85 evidently began to tell on the number of church marriages 

 during the latter period. During the first ten years, 12 males 

 were under age, and 21 females; or 31'58 and 55'56 percent. 



masculine personal pronoun, the King's palace — the King his palace, forgetting 

 that the Queen's palace could not be thus accounted for, and ignorant of the 

 good old Saxon inflection. Heralds too have many such after-thoughts. One 

 of the most curious is the derivation of Arundel from the swallows (hirondelles) 

 in the arms of that family, which, however, unquestionably took its name from 

 the town in Sussex. So our Mortimers had their name from a place in Normandy, 

 and are so described as early as the Conquest. Camden says there is not a 

 single village in Normandy, which has not surnamed some family in England. 



1 "No part, ne cantel of a thing." Chaucer. And the well known passage 

 in Shakespeare (1 Henry IV. Act. 3. Sc.. 1). 



" See, how this river comes me cranking in, 

 And cuts me, from the best of all my land, 

 A large half-moon, a monstrous cantle out." 



