_Mease._--From _Meze_, a messuage[269]. [269] See Blount's Dict. _Hugesson._--Cardinal _Hugezun_ came over as the Pope's Legate, temp. Henry II.[270] [270] Brady's Hist. p. 415. _Dempster._--The Judges of the Isle of Man were called Deemsters[271]. [271] Sacheverell's History of the Island, p. 2. _Eldred._--There was an Archbishop of York of the name of _Aldred_, temp. William the Conqueror. Perhaps contracted from _Alured_, the Latin of Alfred. _Brettell._--There is a Seignory in Normandy of the name of Bretteville. So we have corrupted the name of _Frescheville_ into _Fretwell_. _Belassis._--Something of this name may be seen in Brady's History, p. 196. _Larpent._--From the French, _L'Arpent_; _Arpent_ signifying an acre. We drop the apostrophe. _Duppa._--_De Uphaugh_ and, by apostrophe, _D'Uphaugh_, according to Anthony Wood. _Firmin._--From St. Fermin in France. _Paliser._--An official name of such person or persons who had the care of the pales of a forest[272]. [272] Manwood's Forest Laws. _Ord._--Signifies a Promontory in the Highland; and, I presume, is Erse[273]. [273] Pennant's Tour, p. 158. _Bownas_ and _Bonas_.--Corrupted from _Buchan-Ness_, the seat of the Earl of Errol[274]. [274] Ibid. p. 124. _Ridgeway._--A local term for the way of the ford, or passage over a stream. _Ryd_ and _Rith_ signifying a ford[275]. [275] Hasted's History of Kent. _Fitzherbert._--It is written Filius-Herberti in very old deeds[276]. The _Finches_ were called _Finch-Herbert_ formerly; which led Daniel Earl of Winchelsea to think he was related to the Fitzherberts. Thus Leland: "The Finches that be now, say, that theire propre name is _Hereberte_; and that with mariage of the Finche-Heyre, they tooke the Finche's name, and were called Finche-Herebert, joining booth names[277]." [276] Ex inform. Dom. Gul. Fitzherbert, Baronetti. [277] Itinerary, VI. 52. _Herbert_ of Kent married the heiress of Finch, and took that name as a prefix, which they soon corrupted into _Fitz-herbert_. But the Fitzherberts were a family before the _Finches_ were fledged; and in old deeds the name is given _Filius Herberti_. _Champernoun._--Devonshire: a corruption of _Campernulph_, or _De Campo Arnulphi_; called, says Camden, _Champernoun_[278]. [278] Britannia, col. 35. _Smelt._--Ralph Luvel (or Lovel) an ancestor of the Percivals, was, in the time of King Stephen, called also _Simelt_, for which no reason is given[279]. [279] See Collins's Peerage, 1779, art. _Lovel and Holland_. Names of Men, of Places, and Things, have changed, and by seeming corruption have come right again. Thus, for Men.