loud sliouting i.i our owr. Market-place on Saturday eveuiiu^s will 
give us an illustration of the procedure. The thing cried°would 
^oon be transferred as a iiicknamo to the loud-voiced vendor 
io those who know anything of the rough wit of country folk 
juany otlier methods will occur, in which these names of brutish 
.oasts were applied to men. Perhaps the animal was a fovourite 
Ush wdh the ancestor of those who now bear its name, or perhaps 
kept one as a pot. To quote Mr. Kye : “Xames were, durii^g 
louitecnth century, obviously making from day to day and 
inany a family must have owed its patronymic to a happy nickname 
ung at I S progenitor by some local wit, and uiianimou.sly adopted 
by his neighbours.” ^ <tuopica 
In cases in which trees have imposcil surnames, jirobably the 
first bearers of tlieni had their residences near remarkable Lo. 
tZVfr"" ‘‘■‘tten,* as 
e 2^ orfolk name, A^okes, from ‘ attcn oaks’, and Xash and Tash 
•om attenash and 'at ash.’ The last is an old name in xXorfolk,’ 
At e Ash, had a writ nd qnod damnum for changing a way at 
uf^Sevtiotks”''^*''^'^^ 
Ifictm-mination ‘cock’ may mislead us in searching for names 
c envcd Irom birds Cock, often changed to Co.x, comes sometimes 
om Gaelic and olsh words ending in och and og ; but Mr. 
owci, roni whoso essay on English surnames I liavo gained much 
niiormation, believes it to bo much more otten used as a diminutive 
Eanid »■»! ‘Wn,’ thus, Taneoek. little 
. nl , y ,lco.\-, httlo William; and, in further illustration, lie 
explains that when the poet wrote the words, 
“ Ride a cock horse 
To Banbury cross,” 
he simply meant, ride a small home. 
Probably may of the names which I have taken from the 
iircctory though derived from another source, have been assimi- 
lated to tho.se of well-known plants or animals, or the similarity 
may bo accidental. ^ 
It ivoilld be interesting to note speeial iiisUinecs where the cause 
ior the imposilion of the name could bo traced, but I can do little 
