The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-19

Earl Marischal. The title Earl Marshal
OF England was vested heredltarlly
with the Earls OF Pembroke in tho
twelfth century and passed thence by
female descent to the Earls Of Nor
folk. It continues with the latter.
assumed the surname Marshall.
The Old High German marah horse,
steed,' corresponds to the Old Morse
MARI. Anglo-saxon mearh.
This masculine has been displaced
by the Old High German hros. Old
Morse hross, Old Saxon and Anglo
Saxon hors The Old High German
feminine merihha survives In the Ger
man 1naehre, represented also by the
Dutch merle, Swedish maerr. Danish
smaer and English mare. The Old Morse
used both merr and the compound
mer-hross to Indicate the mare.
Cognate with maraSl are the Irish
ind Gaelic marc, Cymric and Cornish
march and the Gallo marca, reported
by the Greek Pausanias in X 10. These
are all masculine meaning horse.
The deuterothemepis the old High
German. scalch, Gothic iskalks. Old
Morse skaIkr Anglo Saxon soealc g
SERVANT" This has been an element
In name making among the Bavarians
and Alamanni since the eleventh CEN
fury. It survives in English in the
final syllable OF Marshal and senl schal.
It passed into italian at All enrly
period, and scalco in that language
now signifies steward, head-carver,
chef. The Norsemen carried their
skaIkrHto Ireland. where It became tho
Early irish scologa, Middle Irishgscoloc,
Servant: Irish sgolog, "husbandincn,
rustic and Gaelic sgalag. "servant."s
by a change OF meaning. for which tho
English word "knnve" affords q close
pa rallel, The word schnlk has In Ger!
man. Dutch, Irelandic and i. Swedish
gained the slgHificatlon OF .knaYe.
rogue. otc.
Hunt is an occupatlve and official
surname, derived from the Ang Saxon
hunta, Il hunter, huntsman.'
Except In the surname hulata has
hunter" AS a surname, however. Hunt
las in England four times as frequent
as Hunter. I'd
The latter. is found chiefly in the
North. while Hunt Is strongest In tho
South, especially In Dorsetshire and
also In Wiltshire and Somerset and In
some OF the midland copntios.S espe-5
cially in Worcestershire. Derby, Not,
tinghamshire and Leicester.
The old word lasted through the
Middle English period, and as an ON =
DIAL term died only about q century
In 1850 Chaucer. N tThes ID ethe az
Blaunche tho D ucli esse. - $50. 81.
has: .;ti'ss ss
'.rher overtok u g crete route
OF huntes and exc OF foresterys ii.
|s9 IN 1875 Thurberville, In his "Booke
of Venerl e.. Ii I, has :s"Th en- the gchiefe
llhuhte shall take Ills knyfe and cut
Off the deare's right foo te.'' In o.
we learn that the common hunt was
one OF the four officers regularly att
3tendant upon the Lord Mayor OF Lou
don, and was $requ ired to keep O. good
kennel Of hounds for tho Lord Mayors
recreation abroad. =. hi is' Il
of the City Of London, under date Of
December II, 1907. informs us TINT q
mo ton to aboliall "the office Of COM
mon hunt. was finally carried
The surname le Hunte is quite tre-
|squent on the Hundred Rolls (1273>.
Lie Hunt and 10 Homie also occur. But
nicholas Hunter, Of orkshlre, -
lthoughtato be8the only Hunter In this
Fold record. The, earlier DE- mcsday has
only Hunta.g NJ. e, 3i3 g Il
The noun huntn Is susua lily associated
with the nouns hand and hind (pre-
eminently the animal OF the chase In
England), and with the verb hant, and
Ian those derived from an Old Teutonio
verb represented by the Gothic hint than,
"to seize. capture. etc" Kluge and 9
flew others would add "hound" to the the
Hist.
Fletcher.-This occupative surname
signifies zone who makes or q cal p N
!nrrows,,' occasionally, howeYer, Y
Enrcher, q bowman B. s87s
When arrows " ere "a co mmon In stru-
ment Of Warfare several crafts Were
I)yconnected with their mar tacture. II
lchapter TX sect ion I n IA cts 5 81 3oi
King Henry VIII. 1871 & mention u
made OF 1.-THE bow ers, Il cheers, string
ers ana arrow-h cad mn Is ers, From
this we sec that one mad 10 the bow
whence the surname Bower Bosyyer
|Bow,nalser, etc.. nnot Their tnad the ar,
4 rows, whence the 4 surname & II etcher
another ma 10 tlie bow str ms :. w hence
\ 1.-The surname 4 Stringer3 and stringtel,
5|tlow. and nnot Their made the arrow,
4 heads, he iron ins, sN hence The + sur,
4 name ArroWsnith ssSs
Ins Ratne,a I'll Tory and II ntiquittes
OF, North Ill., p N ss;i ag6 29B, We fiIld
AN er,trySSy for 642 sreatli II 81 sayt N
tina her foTs Ngs aftsi
lIot shay ly ss
tllaA IsoW M