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• Remaines concerning Brittaine, but especially England, and the inhabitants thereof: : their languages, names, syrnames, allusions, anagrammes, armories, moneys, empresses, apparell, artillerie, wise speeches, prouerbes, poesies, epitaphs (Printed by A.[dam] I.[slip] for Symon Waterson, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the crowne in Pauls Church-yard., 1629), by William Camden, Simon Waterson, and Adam Islip (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Romance of the London Directory, by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Toponymics or derivations from local names in English (Appelbergs boktryckeri, 1920), by Gösta Langenfelt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Glossaire etymologique des noms propres de France et d'Angleterre; ethnologie et familiation ... (Aubry, 1870), by Edouard Le Héricher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Englisches Namen-Lexikon ([publisher not identified], 1888), by G. Tanger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Western biographical and geographical names in Chinese : report. (American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1900), by Educational Association of China. Committee on Terminology (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations, by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Gazophylacium anglicanum containing the derivation of English words, proper and common, each in an alphabet distinct : proving the Dutch and Saxon to be the prime fountains : and likewise giving the similar words in most European languages, whereby any of them may be indifferently well learned, and understood : fitted to the capacity of the English reader, that may be curious to know the original of his mother-tongue. (London : Printed by E.H. and W.H., and are to be sold by Randall Taylor ..., 1689), by Stephen Skinner (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Phrases and names, their origins and meanings (J. B. Lippincott company, 1906), by Trench H. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Verba nominalia; or, Words derived from proper names. (Trübner & co., 1866), by Richard Stephen Charnock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phrases and names : their origins and meanings (T.W. Laurie, 1906), by Trench H. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings, by Trench H. Johnson (Gutenberg ebook)

• Remaines concerning Britain (At London : Printed by G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, 1605), by William Camden (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A glossary of dialectal place-nomenclature : to which is appended a list of family surnames pronounced differently from what the spelling suggests (Simpkin, Marshall, 1883., 1883), by Robert Charles Hope (page images at HathiTrust)

• An universal etymological English dictionary; : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue ... And also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words ... Together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases used in our ancient statutes, charters, writs ... and the etymology, and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great Britain ... Also a collection of our most common proverbs ... (Printed for R. Ware, W. Innys and J. Richardson, J. Knapton ... [and 12 others], 1775), by N. Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• An universal etymological English dictionary; : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue ... And also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words ... Together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases used in our ancient statutes, charters, writs ... and the etymology, and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great Britain ... Also a collection of our most common proverbs ... (Printed for R. Ware, W. Innys and J. Richardson, J. and P. Knapton, T. and T. Longman ... [and 12 others], 1770), by N. Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Registration of Business Names Act, 1916; notes and forms, with a copy of the Act (Sweet & Maxwell, ltd. (etc., etc.), 1917), by A. W. Hastings Dauney and Ernest H. Stephens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A restoration of the ancient modes of bestowing names on the rivers, hills, vallies, plains, & settlements of Britain; recorded in no author ... (Printed for G. Dyer (Woolmer, printer;, 1805), by G. Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• British place-names in their historical setting. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ;, 1910), by Edmund McClure and Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Problems of place-name study (The University press, 1929), by A. Mawer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glossarium antiquitatum britannicarum, sive, Syllabus etymologicus antiquitatum veteris Britanniæ atque Iberniæ, temporibus Romanorum (impensis T. Woodward [etc.], 1733), by William Baxter and Edward Lhuyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contributions to literature : historical, antiquarian, and metrical (J.R. Smith, 1854), by Mark Antony Lower (page images at HathiTrust)
• The record interpreter: a collection of abbreviations, Latin words and names used in English historical manuscripts and records. (London, : Stevens and Sons, Limited, 1910., 1910), by Charles Trice Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Homes of family names in Great Britain. (Harrison and Sons, 1890), by H. B. Guppy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Watendleth (W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd., 1928), by J. Rendel Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traces of history in the names of places. With a vocabulary of the roots out of which names of places in England and Wales are formed. (Longmans, Green and co., 1872), by Flavell Edmunds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Local etymology, or, Names of places in the British Isles and in other parts of the world explained & illustrated with notices of surnames and obsolete words. (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849), by W. A. Williamson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The record interpreter: a collection of abbreviations, Latin words and names used in English historical manuscripts and records. (Reeves and Turner, 1892), by Charles Trice Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A restoration of the ancient modes of bestowing names on the rivers, hills, vallies, plains, and settlements of Britain (Printed for G. Dyer, 1805), by G. Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court-hand restored; or, The student's assistant in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc, neatly engraved on twenty-three copper-plates, describing the old law hands, with their contractions and abbreviations. With an appendix; containing the ancient names of places in Great Britain and Ireland; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames; and a glossography of Latin words found in the works of the most eminent lawyers, and other ancient writings ... (H. G. Bohn, 1846), by Andrew Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court-hand restored; or, The student's assistant in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc. (Henry G. Bohn, 1864), by Andrew Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• An universal etymological English dictionary; : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue ... And also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words ... Together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases used in our ancient statutes, charters, writs ... and the etymology, and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great-Britain ... To which is added, a collection of our most common proverbs ... (Printed for J. Buckland, J. Beecroft, W. Strahan, J. Hinton ... [and 30 others], 1773), by N. Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• An universal etymological English dictionary; : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue ... And also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words ... Together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases used in our ancient statutes, charters, writs ... and the etymology, and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great Britain ... Also a collection of our most common proverbs ... (Printed for R. Ware, W. Innys and J. Richardson, J. Knapton ... [and 12 others], 1775), by N. Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court-hand restored : or, The student's assistant in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc., neatly engraved on twenty-three copper plates, describing the old law hands, with their contractions and abbreviations : with an appendix containing the ancient names of places in Great Britain and Ireland, an alphabetical table of ancient surnames, and a glossography of Latin words found in the works of the most eminent lawyers and other ancient writings (Stevens, 1912), by Andrew Wright and Charles Trice Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Insulae Britannicae = the British Isles : their geography, history, and antiquities down to the close of the Roman period / by Arthur William Whatmore. -- (Elliot Stock, 1913), by Arthur William Whatmore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A restoration of the ancient modes of bestowing names on the rivers, hills, vallies, plains, and settlements of Britain; recorded by no ancient, nor explored by any modern author ... (Printed for G. Dyer; [etc., etc.], 1805), by G. Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• United Kingdom, official standard names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names. (Division of Geography, 1950), by United States. Office of Geography and United States Board on Geographic Names (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court-hand restored (Reeves & Turner, 1879), by Andrew Wright and Charles Trice Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court-hand restored; or, The student's assistant, in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc. Neatly engraved on twenty-three copper-plates, describing the old law hands, with their contractions and abbreviations. With an appendix containing the ancient names of places in Great Britain and Ireland; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames; and a glossography of Latin words found in the works of the most eminent lawyers and other ancient writings, but not in any modern dictionaries ... (J. C. Hotten, 1867), by Andrew Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court-hand restored : or, The student's assistant, in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc ... ; describing the old law hands, with their contractions and abbreviations ; with an appendix containing the ancient names of places in Great-Britain and Ireland ; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames ; and a glossography of Latin works ... (Printed for R. Bickerstaff ..., 1815), by Andrew Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• An universal etymological English dictionary; : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue ... And also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words ... Together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases used in our ancient statutes, charters, writs ... and the etymology, and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great-Britain ... To which is added, a collection of our most common proverbs ... (Printed for R. Ware, W. Innys and J. Richardson, J. and P. Knapton ... [and 10 others], 1753), by N. Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The record interpreter: a collection of abbreviations. (Stevens and sons, limited, 1910), by Charles Trice Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Court hand restored, or, The student's assistant in reading old deeds, charters, &c., with an appendix; containing, the ancient names of places in Great Britain and Ireland; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames. And also a glossary of Latin words found in the works of the most eminent lawyers, and other ancient writings, but not in any modern dictionaries ... (Printed for the author, 1786), by Andrew Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cassell's gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland : being a complete topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom. (Cassell, 1899) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The record interpreter: a collection of abbreviations, Latin words and names used in English historical manuscripts and records. (London, : Stevens and Sons, Limited, 1910., 1910), by Charles Trice Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Prænomina; or, The etymology of the principal Christian names of Great Britain and Ireland (Trübner & co., 1882), by Richard Stephen Charnock (page images at HathiTrust)
• What's in a woman's name : an address (Lucy Stone League, 1925), by Helena Normanton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family names and their story (Seeley & co., limited, 1910), by S. Baring-Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Homes of family names in Great Britain. (Harrison and Sons, 1890), by H. B. Guppy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family names and their story. (Gale Research Co., 1969), by S. Baring-Gould (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wreath of heraldry, or, A dissertation on symbolic devices : together with the origin of names, Saxon etymologies, etc. (H. George, 1830), by John Thorold (page images at HathiTrust)
• What's in a name? Surnames and their significance. (Swan Sonnenschein, 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court-hand restored; or, The student's assistant in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc, neatly engraved on twenty-three copper-plates, describing the old law hands, with their contractions and abbreviations. With an appendix; containing the ancient names of places in Great Britain and Ireland; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames; and a glossography of Latin words found in the works of the most eminent lawyers, and other ancient writings ... (H. G. Bohn, 1846), by Andrew Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Register of changes of names during the war by deed poll and enrolment as announced in the "London Gazette." (The British Empire Union, 1919), by E. F. Cory Kernick and British Empire Union (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die eigennamen im wortschatze der englischen sprache. (Selbstverlage des Verfassers, 1904), by Julius Baudisch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Remains concerning Britain : their languages, names, surnames, allusions, anagramms, armories, moneys, impresses, apparel, artillerie, wise speeches, proverbs, poesies, epitaphs (Printed for, and sold by, Charles Harper at the Flower de Luce over against St. Dunstan's Church, and John Amery at the Peacock over against Fetter Lane, both in Fleetstreet, 1674), by William Camden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remains concerning Britain (J.R. Smith, 1870), by William Camden, Thomas Moule, Mark Antony Lower, and John Philipot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remains concerning Britain : their languages, names, surnames, allusions, anagramms, armories, moneys, impreses, apparel, artillerie, wise speeches, provervs, poesies, epitaphs (Printed for ... Charles Harper ... and John Amery ..., 1674), by William Camden, Gent W. D., and John Philipot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remaines concerning Brittaine, but especially England, and the inhabitants thereof: : their languages, names, syrnames, allusions, anagrammes, armories, moneys, empresses, apparell, artillerie, wise speeches, prouerbes, poesies, epitaphs (Printed by A.[dam] I.[slip] for Symon Waterson, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the crowne in Pauls Church-yard., 1629), by William Camden, Simon Waterson, and Adam Islip (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family names and their story (Lippincott, 1910), by S. Baring-Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court-hand restored (Reeves & Turner, 1879), by Andrew Wright and Charles Trice Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Surnames of the United Kingdom: a concise etymological dictionary (Eaton Press, 1912), by Henry Harrison and Gyda Pulling Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court-hand restored; or, The student's assistant, in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc. Neatly engraved on twenty-three copper-plates, describing the old law hands, with their contractions and abbreviations. With an appendix containing the ancient names of places in Great Britain and Ireland; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames; and a glossography of Latin words found in the works of the most eminent lawyers and other ancient writings, but not in any modern dictionaries ... (J. C. Hotten, 1867), by Andrew Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court-hand restored : or, The student's assistant, in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc ... ; describing the old law hands, with their contractions and abbreviations ; with an appendix containing the ancient names of places in Great-Britain and Ireland ; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames ; and a glossography of Latin works ... (Printed for R. Bickerstaff ..., 1815), by Andrew Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Court hand restored, or, The student's assistant in reading old deeds, charters, &c., with an appendix; containing, the ancient names of places in Great Britain and Ireland; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames. And also a glossary of Latin words found in the works of the most eminent lawyers, and other ancient writings, but not in any modern dictionaries ... (Printed for the author, 1786), by Andrew Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

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