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Article #5942Re: HELP! name searching.
From: Joshua Brandon
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 17:56
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 17:56
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Henry did write: I remember some allusion to Scots borderers for bynames that were both anti-social and often obscene. The source was likely The Steel Bonnets, George MacDonald Fraser (I think, the author of Flashman, but this is non-fiction). The only one that sticks in my mind is David No-Good-Priest. I was looking through an encyclopedia article on some aspect of early Norman-English history recently and noted the surname "Mauclerc", which I assume refers to a lousy scholar.... ---Simon
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Newsgroups: rec.org.sca Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!brunix!doorknob.cs.brown.edu!brandon From: brandon@gauss.math.brown.edu (Joshua Brandon) Subject: Re: HELP! name searching. In-Reply-To: hwt@bcarh11a.BNR.CA's message of 4 Jan 93 05:53:29 GMT Message-ID: <BRANDON.93Jan6125651@gauss.math.brown.edu> Sender: news@cs.brown.edu Organization: Brown University Mathematics Department References: <725367689.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP> <18319@bcars664.bnr.ca> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:56:51 GMT Lines: 12