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and probably its corrupted form Gold ledge is of local origin.
 The original home of this name has not yet been definitely nxed, but there Is little doubt that 1t is to be found in the North of England as both of Its themes are especially characgeristic of that district.
 The name signifies "ths yel'ow rond or pooI' and the surna me indicates ono who had his residence at or near such Q pond.
 The protothepe is the M,d6.e Fms fish gull, also spelled sowle, Su,ie. goule and gool meaning yellow, pale" In Scotch this appears as gule.
 We find the noun gullness. meaning yellowness. as early as 1900 in, the Early English Psalter lxvii.14:
 Tn golnes Tor gulness1 of gold to
 The adjective is found a little later In the Evangelium Nicodemi, 70:
 The Jewess-wex all full gull and s'sre."
 The Catholicon Anglicum of 14S3 de- fines guile as pallidus. lividus, etc.
 The word came into English from the Old Morse gulr, yellow" whence also the Danish and Swedish gull. yellow" It is thus coradicate with gold, the yellow metal, and cognate with the NAioc, STCcH SnOOt or corn, blade Of grass" etc, whence our girls name Chloe; also with chole, bile" Latin fel. bile" Lithuanian geltas, Old Slavonic zlutu. Latin helvus, Aves- tan zairis and Sanskrit hari, all mean ing yellow"
 The deuterotheme Is an early middle English variant of the word lake, the Anglo-Saxon lac. Lache Is still found in Cheshire and Yorkshire with the meaning "a small pond. a bog, boggy place." Leach Is the form of the word In Lancashire. Latch and leach arc found on the Scotch side of the Border with the meaning of "bog. miry place."
 A Blacke Lache Is mentioned in a charter of about 1900 as situated in Wilmslow Parish. in East Cheshire, and the name is still applied to a large pond on Lindow Common. Urb-lache and Bar-lache were two boggy places mentioned In Lancashire will of 1868.
 In surnames this lache has become ledge. Compare Blackledge, Cartledge, Depledge, etc.
 The Anglo Saxon lac Is borrowed from the Latin lacus. Take" The cognate AngloSaxon form lagu, lago. was far more frequent. The Old Morse logr Take. water" Irish loch, Cymric lagen. Breton laguenn, Gaelic loch, meaning lake," and the Greek lakkos. pond" tank, pit" are the principal cognates. The radical idea is bend" becoming "a hollow depression.
 Rutledge, Routledge.
 Rutledge is the historical and prin- cipal Irish and American form of a great border surname. of which Rout- ledge Is the prevailing form in Eng land. Other English and Scotch vari- ants are Rutlidge, Ruttlidge. Ruttledge and the corrupted forms Rookledge and Ruckledge. Ireland has also Rutlege and Ruttlege. The name has spread to all parts of the earth. Its prin- cipal home in England Is now Cumber- land and Westmoreland.
 The exact locality that gave ordsin to the name has not been identified, but 1t was in the red chalk district of North England. The name signifies the red pond or pool" and the sur name indicates one who had his resi- dence at or near such a pond-,
 The prototheme Is the APglo-Saxon read. Old Morse rauthr. red The Old Frisian rad. Old Saxon. Middle Dutch and Middle Low German rod, Dutch and Low German rood, Old High German rot, German roth, Swedish and Danish rod and Gothic rauths. all meaning red" are its principal Teu- tonic allies.
 The Latin ruber oscan rufus. Greek
 
 raudas, Old Irish ruedh. Cymric rhudd. Sanskrit rudhiras, all meaning red" are the principal cognates.
 The deuterotheme Is the early Mid dle English variant of the word lake, which has been explained above under Gulledge.
 Douglas.
 Douglass is accounted the most pow erful and widely celebrated family that Scotland has ever produced It's le- gendary founder was the unknown dark k-complexioned and anonymous warrior whose sudden and mysterious appearance turned the tide of battle against Donald Bane of the Western Isles. after he had put to rout the forces of Selvach or Solvathius. King of the Scots, in the eighth century.
 Legend, however, does not always spell history, and so Hume of Gods croft, the historian of the Douglasses. was forced to admit that eve do not know them In the fountain. but in the stream; not in the roof, but in the stemme; for we know not who was the first mean man that did raise himself above the vulgar"
 The origin of the family has since been incontrovertibly established by the researches of Chalmers. who shows that most of the parish of Douglas was granted in 1144 by David I to the Monks of Kelso, that Arnald, the Ab- ed a portion of these lands on Doug las-Water In Lanarkshire to "Theo- baldo Flammatico," l. e.. Theobald the Fleming. to be held in fee and heritage for two marks yearly. that this grant was the first link in the chain of title deeds to Douglasdale, and-that Will liam. son of Theobald. was the first.