[ANSTHRLD] help please

Maridonna maridonna at maridonna.com
Mon Jan 16 05:56:55 PST 2006


Maridonna wrote:

> David Knebel wrote:
> 
>> Greetings friends,
>>
>>  I have a client that wishes to document the name Derick Stanley 
>> existing around 1580 England. snip
> 
> "Lists of Foreign Protestants, and Aliens resident in England 
> 1618-1688". From Returns in the State Paper Office. Reprinted for the 
> Royal Historical Society,1968, no ISBN. The Appendix (1618), page 76 
> lists "Derick Helden b. in Hensboroughe in Gulickland, under the Duke of 
> Gulick... in England 30 yeers."
> These are English spellings of foreign names.
> 

Even though this name was used by a person living in England during 
latter part of the 16th C, I just don't see how the spelling your 
client wants could have found its way to common English usage before 
1600 A.D.
-- 
Andrea / Maridonna
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