We neede not goe farre for other examples, but looke into our Royall houſe, where ſo many partages, ſo manyſur-names, and ſo many ſeverall titles have ſo encombred-vs, that the originall of the ſtocke is vtterly loſt.
To hisſur-nameCoriolanus longs more pride / Then pitty to our Prayers.
1720,[Maurice Shelton], “The divers Beginnings of Nobility Dative”, inAn Historical and Critical Essay on the True Rise of Nobility, Political and Civil; from the First Ages of the World, thro’ the Jewish, Grecian, Roman Commonwealths, &c. Down to This Present Time.[…], 2nd edition, volume I, London:[…][T]he Author,page275:
It is likewiſe clear, that thoſe who haveSur-names from Lands inScotland, are deſcended from ſuch Families as were poſſeſs’d of theſe Lands, whenSur-names were aſſum’d, except ſuch as have of late chang’d the Names of their Lands to theirSur-names, which are generally known in the Neighbourhood.
