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| scoioc, servant" Irish sgolog, 'hus bandman. rustic" and Gaelic sgalag
 servant" By change of meaning for which the English word '1xnave' affords close parallel the worc schalk has in German. Dutch. Ice landic. and Swedish gained the signif cation of "knave. rogue" etc.
 Hunt is an occupative and officia surname. derived from the Anglo, Saxon hunta, a hunter. huntsman.@
 Except in the surname hunta hat been entirely supplanted by the later | hunter. As surname, however Hunt Is in England four times as fire. quent as Hunter. The latter is found chiefly in the North, while Hunt is strongest in the South. especially ir Dorsetshire and also in Wiltshire and Somerset and in some of the midland counties, especially In Worcestershire Derby Nottinghamshire and Leicester
 The old word lasted through the Middle English period and as an of hciai term died only about 8 century ago.
 In 1889, chaucer, in "The Dethe oi Rlaunche the Duchesse.' l. 380 f., has: "Ther overtoke I grete route Of huntes and eke of foresterys."
 In 1875 Turberville, in his "booke of Venerie." 127. has: Then the chiefe hunte shall take his knyfe and cut off the deare's ryght foote." Tn 1707 we learn that the Common Hunt was one or the four officers regularly attend ant upon the Lord Mayor of London and was required to keep good kei- nel of hounds for the Lord Mayors 1 recreation abroad" The Journal Of the Common Council of the City of London under date of December IT, 1907. informs us that a moton to 1907, informs us that 6 motion to was finally carried
 | The surname le Hunte is quite fre- quent on the Hundred. Rolls (1273). Le Hunt and le Honte also occur. But Nicholas Hunter of Yorkshire Is thought to be the only Hunter in this old record. The earlier Domes- day has only Hunta-
 | The noun hunta is usually associat- ed with the nouns hand and hind | (pre-eminently the animal of the chase in England), and with the verb hent and all these derived from an old Teutonic verb represented by the Gothic hinthan. "to seize, capture, etc. Kluge and a few others would add hound" to the list.
 Fletcher.-This occupative surname signifies lone who makes or deals in arrows" occasionally, however "an archer, a bowman"
 l When arrows were a common i'm | strument of warfare, several crafts were connected with their manufac- ture- In chapter K. section i of Acts SS of King Henry VIII (154i) mention Is made of the bowiers. netchers, stringers and arrowhead makers. " From ths we see that one made the bow. whence the surnames Bower, Bowyer, Bowmaker, etc; another made the bow strings. whence the surnames Stringe and StringfelIow; and another made the arrow-heads. the iron tips, whence the surname Ar rowsmith
 of North Durham" page 296 we find an entry for 1542 reading "Payd to the fletcher for fetherynge of a shaffe | of shayffe arroys, etc. 20 d."
 In the York Plays" (1415), the Bowers and Fletchers are associated in the presentation of Peters Denial of Jesus and of Jesus before Gaia phas." So In the old Guild process sions the Bowers and Fletchers al- ways marched together. In the Ex- chequer Issues for 19S Henry ". (i412) we find a payment of L. 14S, IS 6, ito stephen Sedar, fletcher, for 1,7OO sheaves Of arrows
 The surname appears in the Hun dred Rolls (1273) as le Flecher. le shire poll tax list (ls7s) as FIerar. Fletcher, and Fletcher. The name is fairly common in all parts of England l except in the southern counties and in the shires on the east coast between the Thames and the Wash. It's espe- cial home Is in Derbyshire and not tinghamshire.
 hecher. fiechier .arrow-maker, :" from Old French neche. arrow" The latter is Celtic loan word as appears from the Gaelic and Erse fleasg. rod" old Irish fiesc, from proto-Celtic v1eska for vledska, akin to the German wald. English wold, wood. forest.'
 Badger.-This occupative surname indicates that the forbears of those who bear the name were itinerant dealers or hucksters who bought corn and other comestibles and carried them elsewhere to sell. They thus | formed a class of the earlier middle men between the producer (farmer, fisher. etc.) and the consumer The term Is still common in the provincial dialects of England.
 The Early English Guilds" D. 424 has record of the year 1900, from | the oftce of the mayor of Bristol re- specttng "the pagers such as bryngeth whete to towqe, as wele in trowys as otherwise, by lande and by watir." An act of 1562 (Elizabeth KID requires J | oob's law Dictionary (172s) says If any person shall act as a badger without license, he is to forfeit i've pounds
 The surname has the forms Ie Bag ger and le Baggere in the Hundred Rolls and Bagger and Badger in the Yorkshire Poll Tax List (137s.) It is now most frequent in Warwickshire and oxfordshire. In the latter it is | found as early as the Hundred Rolls. in the former 1t appears in the reign of Henry VIII.
 l Badger is an assibilated form of bagger. alluding to the hawker's bag. The English bag, Middle English bagge is from the old Morse bagge, Morse is a loan word from the French and Provencal bagua, bague bundle parcel baggage" French bagga, pack. baggage. etc." bag Spanish baga, burden. load carried by a pack animal" These are derived from the Latin baJulus, "a carrier of packs. etc." bajulare. ito carry" | The cognates are represented in the Cymric beich, burden. pack" Dutch pak. Morse pakke. English pack It is possible that in some cases Badger is a local surname as there is parish so named in Shropshire and l most of the ancient parishes have given rise to surnames. In no early record. so far as the writer knows does the surname appear as de Badger This is presumpttve but by no means | yoeftiua a0afpaf "a aF