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 they had been outlying farm yafds. The prototheme Is the Angio-Saxon tun, sufflciently explained under Pres ton in No. VII, of this series.
 The deuterotheme Is the Anglo r Saxon steal. 'a stall, place. station. The old Morse stafir, a stall. pedestal, shelf and staili. an altar. Old High German stall "a stable Lithuanian i stalas. a table.' old Bulgafiaf, stolu | a stool, a table Greek stele, a | column.i and Sanskrit sthalam. firm | ground. mainland. terrace will suffice | for illustrations The radical is the | Indo- European word for standt hence ! the literal meaning is a standing 1 place. Eustfs, Eastaee.
 The surname Eustis, Eustace. along | with It's variants Eustes. Eustiss. 1 Ewstace. Ubtace. etc, is patronymic, l signhying the son of Eustace.'
 According to the Martyrologiuni of Uadafd, a monk of Paris. about SIS A. 1 D.. the nsfno Eustachius was borne by three early ghristiah nArtyrsi one was a btshop and confessor at Antioch, Syria, connmemoreted July IS; second | was Presbytef in Syria. commemorate i, ed October 12; the third was a Roman soldier. originally named Placidus who 1 with his wife and two children suffer |  the persechtfon under F1adrian. His | | festival was commemorated November | ls
 1t was the last who made the nanie | one of note. Tho legend relates that while engaged in. the chase he was converted by suddenly beholding be- tween the antiers of q deer vision | of the Christ which addressed him and | | called him to suffer greatly. He | vaiiantly espoused the cause of the | l despised Christians, lost wealth and i honors and when forced to flee to pro | | tect his loved ones, lost wife and | 1 children who were carried away by | l who had escaped and gained great | wealth, but during the reign of Hadrian was called to suffer as related l above.
 This valiant soldier saint, for he | was afterwards canonized as St. Eus- , taehius, appealed strongly to the mar | tial spirits of the Middle Ages. His ' | supposed relies were transported to St. | Denys and Bustache was soon l favorlte personal name in France i 1 Eustaduio in Spain, Estacio tu Portn- | 1 gal and Eustazio and Eustachio In | Italy, also enjoyed considerable vogue ,
 The great Italian anatomist Bar | 1 tolomrieo Eustachio forever linked his | surname with his science by his dis- | coVery of the Eustachian tube in the ear and the Eustachian valve in the heart.
 E,istachius IL, Count of Boulogne, | welded Godgifu. daughter of King | AEthelred IL, of England and so made l l the name known on this side of the | Channel Eustachius H. was a l tenant -in-cliief in the DomesdAy and several under tenants bore the name. Eustace. Wistace and Huistace as the English varieusly framed the 1 name. was not rare in the next century. of England. -.
 The surname was we'll established at the time of the Hundred Rolls , Gi2781 and appeared. as fil Eustaehii, i fl. sus1Ace, fil. Ewstaee and Eus- tase.
 Eustis came from England to Massa chusetts 1t Is said, and that family | gave us the revolutionary surgeon who became later Congressmal, Secretary | of War Minister to Holland and GOV errior of his native State.
 Eustis came from France to Louis | jana and that old Creole family gave i its State a Chief Justice, and to the nation lawyer, scholar, educator Senator and Ambassador to France. Greek eustachus, rich in corn. fruit full"
 The prototheme is the Greek GU good, we'll" cognate with the Irish and Gaelic flu. worthy; welsh, gwlw. Cornish guiu, Breton uuiu. Gallic vesa, visu. 'good"; Aveston Vanhus and san- skrit vasus, good"
 The deuterotheme Is a Greek sta chus "an ear of grain" cognate with the Lettish stega, "a long rod or pole" stagl, "a kind of plant" Lithuanian stagaras, dry stalks of plants" Old High German Stanga. German stang, "a pole rod" and stengel a stalk" | AIcOrn, OldcOrn.
 Eustis is 'rich in corn" but Alcorn or 1 AIlcorn as the name is more frequent 1 ly written In England. in spite of ap peat5nces. has no corn at all. He Is one of the apparent misnomers.
 This old surname seefns to be cor rupted form of Alcuin, hence a pat i ronymic meaning "the son of Alcuin."
 The first important and the RreateEt | one to bear the name was the cele | brated scholar Ealhwine, called also Alhwinus, and known to later genera
 tions only as A1culn. He was the most learned man of his age. He spent a number of years at the Court of Char lemagne. which under his guidance became the greatest school Of the times. In genuine old Roman fashion he assumed the triple name Flaccus AL binus Alcuinus. of which the last has l become historical.
 A few other Ealhwines were known I narno and fame were completely eciips- 1 ed by the former. None of them be. | came an Alculn even by name.
 The corruption began early if we charge up to this old name the diverse 1 forms found in the Hundred Rolls of | 1273 and supposed to represent it. These include Halchein, Eldcorn(e) and AL | corn and the counties represented by these were Oxford, Essex and Kent The corrupt form oldcorn is still found in Lancashire.
 The meaning of Ealhwine. which is the original form of the name is "the | hall friend" The "haIl may be the mansion, the palace or the temple as all | three are included in the connotation of the prototheme ealh, from ealgian, "to defend, to protect" The cognates | of this word will be found in the list of cognates to the prototheme of Alex ander in No. XII. of this series. The deuterotheme is the Anglo Saxon wine, "a friend" of which the further history Is given under Good Joe in No. x. of this series. The Allcorns of Sussex are not genu- | inc members of the family. They take their real name Alchorne from 1 the manor of that name in the Parish | of Rotherf1eld, Sussex. where they lived as early as the Fourteenth Cen tury Only within the last tive centu- ] ries we are told. have they corrupted in many instances their own name into | Allcorn. Copyright. 1908. by Samuel Grant oti- phant)