The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21


 the Hundred Rolls of l27s and Mich. | olson on the Yorkshire Poll Tax Lis' of 1873 prove beyond the possibiffty of question that the name 10 patrony' mic, and thus confutes the ola etymoi- ogists.
 The name signifies "the son of Mich- ael," This personal name came into English in two forms-the Biblical Michael, whence the surnominal Mich aels, Michaelson, etc, and the French Michel. whence the surnominal Michell once common and still frequent in Cornwall, Mitchell, Mitchelson. etc The change in pronunciation has a curious analogue in such words as | dyke. ditch.
 Michael was a rather frequent name among the Hebrews as would appear | from the fact that ten of the name are recorded in the Scriptures. These were: CD father of the Asherite spy Mum xiii:13; @ and 3 two of the Cad ites I Chronicles v:13; (D eponym of Levitical guild of singers. I Chron vi:40; (5) a family in Isaachat, family of Benjaminites, I Chron. viii:16: CD a chief in Manasseh. who joined David at Ziklag, I. Chron. xii:20; (S) a son of Jehoshaphat. IL Chron. xxi:2. (s) the father of Zeba- diah. Ez. viii:s: Uo) the archangel. | The last appears as one of the chief princes and a tutelary prince. Dan x;13-21; as disputing with Satan for | the body of Moses. Jude g: as mar shalling the hosts of heaven in battle with the dragon, Rev. xii:7. In Jewish | tradition he figures very largely He Is the great advocate Of the Jews. He rescued Abraham from the furnace in- to which Nimrod had cast him, told Abraham of the capture of Lot, pro- tected Sarah from Abimelech. rescued | Lot from the destruction of Sodom, substituted the ram for Isaac at the time of the sacrifice, preserved Jacob from harm at the hands of Laban. led the children of Israel during their forty years of wandering in the Will derness. taught Moses destroyed the army of Sennacherib. etc, etc. In heaven he stands on the right of Gods | throne. as the advocate of Israel and the high priest making atonement for his people and also the viceroy who rules the world.
 In later Christian legend he becomes the especial patron of the Christian warrior, in consequence of which his efigy, clad in armor. was to be seen in almost every church. As soon as the. vogue of saintly names set in. the
 
 | popular. As personal name 1t is not so much in favor in England as In former times. It remains very popu- lar among the Greeks, Slavs and Irish
 Michael means "who is like El?" Fl Is one of the Hebrew names of God. found in many personal and place names as Elijah (Yahoeh is ED Daniel (El is my judge) Samuel (asked of ED Bethel (House of ED. etc
 l The great homo oS Nftt,baIIn ;- in Cornwall. The name is well dis tributed over England. and Scotland south of Aberdeenshire. The West Riding of Yorkshire has the largest proportion outside of Cornwall not only about one-third as many. Sus- sex has nearly as many as Yorkshire.
 Herbert
 The surname Herbert is patro- | nymic from the same personal name and consequently indicates that he who first bore the surname was the son l of Herbert. Thus we find Richard fl. Herbert" on the Hundred Rolls of 1273 as resident in Shropshire.
 The personal name Is of old high German origin~and the first one of note to bear 1t was the Frankish king | Charibert. whose daughter Bertha mar ried, about 575. the Kentish king Aeth- ebert, and brought the Christian doc- Urine to England. In Old High Ger man Charibert was Hariberaht In passing we may note what a favorite the word beraht, bright" was in per sonal names of the time. as 1t is found here in the names of the father, the daughter and the husband
 Aripert I. was King of the Lombards in the seventh century, and Aripert II. in the eighth. The Archbishop oi Cologne about 1000 was the famous St liarebert, and he did much that caus. ed the name to become still more pop. ular.
 It has been asserted that a Norman immigrant introduced this name into England in the days of Edward the Confessor. This Is not true, for Here. heorht or Hereberect is found in the Anglo-Saxon records as early as 687 He was @ priest and hermit, a friend of St. Cuthbert. In 762 Kent had ar abbot Herebeorht. Several others oi the name are on the English record. for the next century and over a dozen before Edward the Confessor wal born.
 Herebeorht, Hariberaht, Herbert Heriberct. Herebertus. Herbertus ,ant Charibert were the variant spellings o, the name in Anglo Saxon England On the continental records the name is found in more than fifty forms. ye, the difference between any two is comparatively slight.
 The ennobled family of Herberts traced their descent from Herbert Count of Vermandois. who came te England with, the Conqueror and be- came a chamberlain to William Rufus The personal name was especially a favorite and fashionable in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The present homo of the surname is in the con- tinuous area of Monmouthshire, Glou- cestershire and Oxfordshire.
 The prototheme Is the Old High Ger. man harl, army" which has been ex. plained under Withers in No. 25 of this series. The deuterotheme is the Old High German beraht. bright H. lustrious," explained under Roberts il No. 15 of the series.
 The name may be interpreted as a tatpurusha meaning the illustrious one of the army" which is practically "the tllustrious warrior" or as a bahu. vrihi, meaning having an illustrious army" which implies conspicuous gen. eralship. Probably the former ia the more likely.
 Copyright. 1909, by Samuel Grant OH.
 phant.
 The way to God Is plain, yet not easy. for it is only they who can stand tests by the waYside who ara ftttad e,