“It was fashionable for the Clergy (especially if Regulars, Monks, or Friars) to have their ‘surnames’ (for Syr-names they were not) or upper names, because superadded to those given at the Font, from the places of their Nativity … Hence it is that in such cases we seldom charge our margin with other Authors, their ‘Sirname’ being Author enough to avow their births therein.”
Thomas Fuller, Worthies of England, 1662.
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