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 anans. The few that survive are main iy in Argyllshfre.
 Mcwherter and Mcwhirter are re. ported for Ireland. I have not yet found Mcwherter outside of Amexica. A metathesis or change of position of the T.. making Mae Chuirter, can easily be assumed, as such shift Is frequent. Mcwhirter or Mcwherter , would then be only another way of writing the name, as the pronuncia- ton would be practically unchanged.
 Mae Chruiter signifies the son of the harper
 The prefx Mac, Nc, or NJ is iron, the Old Irish Mace, Irish and Gaelic mac, boy. son. of which tthe history and cognates will be found under Mac Donald in No. 36 of this series.
 The name is derived from the Irish and Gaelic crutire . harper, from the Irish and Gaelic cruit. a harp. This Is the Old Irish crot, Welsh crroth. ii is cognate with the Old Spanish rota Old French rote Oli Frankish hrotta rotta. hrota, rota .psaltery., middle High German rotte. rotten, Tyre Early Enslish crudh. rottae. rot. English snow obsolete) croud. croud te5. A riddle violin Greek Krotalon the Tyre of the bard " "
 The Latin poet srortunatus. of tho sixth century A. D. tells us this in. sLrument was known in Britain as chrotta or rotta.
 Manley, MsuIv.
 The surname ManIey is of local or,. In and indicates that its bearer Iivsd at Manley. "'ea
 m the Domesdav Book of 1oss we nave the earliest mention of one of tnese, the estate so called in Devon- sire. Si. This was at that time held by directly of King William. so it was portion of the crown lands n n lnst county. In the time of King EoWard the Confessor the estate had been held by a Saxon named Alestan- me Domesday form of the name was maneFe- This place Is not mentioned on the Hundred Rolls of 1273.
 The other Manley is a township in the parish of Frodstam, Cheshire. de- irving It's name from an estate within !. on which the family of Sfanley were .esiaent rom the time of Roger Man. ley. in the days of Henry IT, to the sixteenth century. It was nrobahIv from this place that Baldwin de Manle. mentioned twice on the Hundred Rolls (l27S) of Lincolnshire. came.
 Manley signifies the stony fieId,. hence 1t is semantic equivalent of Stanley. The Cheshire ManIey had It's name from quarry of excellent white ~ASS7sOAC AOohQ lHOIc.
 The prototheme of the name ia the cymric maen. Cornish men. Breton mean. rock, stone" which may be cog nate with the Latin moenia "city walls" and Sanskrit minote, "to strengthen, found. establish" :"
 The deuterotheme is the Anglo Saxon leah "heid. meadow. pasture" for which see under Lee in No. s4 of this Series.
 HR.mAar
 Tn the Domesday Book for for Devonshire we find this entry: Idern O(do) ten(et) de Ju(dhei de Totenafs) Manedone, Colb(er)t tenebtat) T(em- pore) R(egis) E(dwardi) ct geId(a) b(at) ptro) dim (ida) hida. Ter(ra) e(s) iii car(ucatas.) rbi s(un)t if cartucae) cu(m) 1 scmo ct fiji viH(an)i bordfario) ct il actrae) pfra)ti ct xxx ac(rae) siluae. Oldm) XIX sol(idos) Modo val(et.)
 'The same Odo holds Mandon of Judhe1 de Tatness. Colbert held 1t in the time of King Edward (the Confes- sor) and paid geld for half hide of land. Tee (cultivated) land is three p1ongh-gate On it are two plourhs serf. three villeins and one bordar. There are two acres of meadow and thirty acres of woodland. Tn former times and also at present 1t is valued at twenty shillings."
 Here we find the earliest mention and description of the Devonshire estate that gave origin to the surname Man don. "the man from Mandon."
 The prototheme is the Cymrie maen "stone. rock" explained under Manley above.
 The deuterotheme is the Old Irish and Goelic dun, Old Cymric din. GaIiic dunos. dunom fortress, fastness, cita- del, especially the fortified hilltop T" The further history of this word is given under Duncan in No. 26 of this series.
 Mandon may then be rendered "the rock fortress, stone fort" etc.
 Price, Rices Reese.
 The surname Price along with it's variants. Preece and Preese. is a Gym ric patronymic from an original Ap- Rhys. "the son of Rhys."
 The origin of the old Welsh map, 'boy, son." cognate with the Irish and Gaelic mac has been given under Mac donald in No. 36 of this series.
 The initial nasal Is lost In Cymric and the word becomes ap or ab,, some- times vap. So Map Rhys would be- come Alp Rhys and In this form was a frequent surname among the Welsh Hereditary surnames are, however. of comparatively recent adoption among this people.
 Until the time of Henry VIII, the