Meaning of sur-name | Babel Free

Examples

“We neede not goe farre for other examples, but looke into our Royall houſe, where ſo many partages, ſo many ſur-names, and ſo many ſeverall titles have ſo encombred-vs, that the originall of the ſtocke is vtterly loſt.”

“To his ſur-name Coriolanus longs more pride / Then pitty to our Prayers.”

“It is likewiſe clear, that thoſe who have Sur-names from Lands in Scotland, are deſcended from ſuch Families as were poſſeſs’d of theſe Lands, when Sur-names were aſſum’d, except ſuch as have of late chang’d the Names of their Lands to their Sur-names, which are generally known in the Neighbourhood.”

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