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A knight being severely wounded, in defending a bridge sinrrle- 
handed against a host of assailants fell, exhausted, the moment\e 
had forced them to retire, among the flags and rushes of an adjacent 
swamp. Hero ho would probably have perished had not the 
aUention of his party, who in the meantime had rallied, been 
directed to the spot where he lay, by the vociferations of a flock 
of tyrwhitts or lapwings, which had been disturbed by his fall. 
Hence, says the story, the wounded Sir Hercules received his 
surname ; and his family bear on their shield three golden lapwings. 
I believe wo have but one name in Norfolk derived from that°of 
a reptile,— ‘Ormes,’ from orme, a serpent; the latter was a surname 
iicro in the fifteenth century, when wo find Hichard Ormo rector 
of littleshall. The personal name ‘Orm’ is commemorated in 
Ormsby. 
From insects wo have four names, ‘Bee,’ ‘Bugg,’ ‘ Wasp,’ and 
‘ I’apillon,’ to which, if wo go back to the fifteenth century, wo 
may add ‘ Flyo.’ !Mr. Bardsley says the name Bugg is from Burgh 
and if so, and if, as others think, Howard is but a corruption of 
fogward, ho was wrong on etymological grounds who chaufred 
his name from Bugg to Norfolk Howard. The Fapillons are°an 
Essex family, but one was rector of Wymondham. 
Wo have ne.xt ‘Grubb,’ ‘Worm,’ and ‘Leech.’ The ori<^inal 
bearers of this last were no doubt surgeons or inn-keepers. 
Ihe first name in the list of those from fishes is ‘ Bass • ’ it may 
mean base-born, or low in stature. The second, ‘ Bream,’ niay aFo 
have another derivation ; breme, an adjective, meaning rou-h or 
boisterous, thus o o 
“ Comes the breme winter with chamfred browes, 
“ Full of wrinckles and frosUe furrowes.” 
The Shepheard’s Calendar. 
If tins bo the origin of the surname, some bearers of it have in 
canting heraldry, blazoned the fish on their shields. ‘ Burt ’ ‘ Butt ’ 
nioro likely to be from success in target practice with the bow 
than resemblance to the plaice. ’ 
‘ Clomp,' ‘ Crobbe,' ‘ Cockle,' • Chad,' ‘ Codd,' and ‘ Codlin. ' Ibe 
loiter perhaps from the appla ‘ Dolphin,' this eetocean tvas often 
used os a sign. Addison's ‘ Speetator ' was published at the sien of 
the Dolphin. ‘ Fish,' ■ Fisk,' 'Haddoelc,' and ‘ Herring,' which°like 
