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for its sign peas and beans. ‘ Plane,’ ‘ Poppy,’ often spelt Popy, 
•wliich suggests a diminutive of Pope ; in the ‘ Paston Letters ’ we 
read of Mr. P. Popy, “a cunning and crafty man.” ‘Popple,’ an 
old name for the poplar, still in use in America. ‘ Plumtree ’ and 
‘ Peartrec.’ 
‘ Pice,’ ‘ Peed,’ ‘ Push,’ ‘ Pose,’ and ‘ Pye.’ This last. Lower sa^'s, 
is from rye, a shore, or it may be from the town. Painsey is given 
in the ‘Promptorum Parvulorum’ as the English name of Allium 
nrsinnm. I believe the word is now Pamson, neither of which 
is likely to have originated the surname. ‘Poster’ (rose bush), 
and ‘ Drosier ’ may be a contraction of de rosier. 
‘ Sorrell,’ ‘ Savin,’ from the savyne tree, are old as well as 
modern surnames here. Thos. Savyn was vicar of Wiggenhall, 
A.n. 1439. ‘Sallows.’ We find the name of ‘de Salicibus’ at 
Clippesby in the reign of Henry II. ‘ Samphire,’ ‘ Savory,’ 
‘Skerrett,’ ‘Sedges.’ ‘Suckling,’ ‘Sage,’ and ‘Spruce,’ the two 
latter, perhaps, descriptive of character and appearance. ‘ Sweeting ’ 
is the name of an apple, and ‘Pearmain’ may be a corrujfiion of 
permain. Most likely one is a term of endearment, and the other 
put for perriman, a vendor of perry. 
It is surely more pleasant to connect the name ‘ Stocks ’ with 
the plant, rather than that useful instrument wliich was formerly 
a picturesque object on the village green ; but probably it is from 
the stock of a tree, and is identical with the Norman name Zouch; 
we have the same word in the Norfolk names ‘Bostock’ and 
‘Ilolstock.’ The name ‘Stubbs’ has a similar meaning; thus 
we read in the ‘Paerie Queene’: — 
‘‘And all about old stockes and stubs of trees 
“ Whereon nor fruit nor leaf was ever seen.” 
‘Thorn,’ ‘Thistle,’ ‘Teasel!.’ ‘Vine.’ Henry ‘Vilet’ was 
mayor of Lynn, a.d. 1590; his grandson was Thomas ‘Violet’ 
of Pinkney. ‘ Winn,’ ‘ Willows,’ ‘Weeds,’ ‘Woodbine,’ ‘Woodruff’ 
(a perverted form of wood-reeve), ‘Wildgrass,’ ‘Worts,’ the personal 
name which is commemorated in Wortwell, and Zouche. 
I have pointed out the uncertain derivation of some of the 
foregoing names, but giving the beasts the benefit of the doubt, wo 
have in this list 315 surnames, of which 195 are from the animal 
and 120 from the vegetable kingdom, some of which aroHrequontly 
