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" After the battle the Duke, on inquiry respecting him, found him severely wounded (the leg and thigh having been struck off). He ordered him the utmost care, and on his recovery gave him lands in Derby in reward for his services, and the leg and thigh... "
English Surnames: An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological ... - Page 3
by Mark Antony Lower - 1849
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Notes and Queries, Volume 95

Electronic journals - 1897 - 670 pages
...thigh cut off, ordered him the utmost oare, and gave him lands, and the leg and thigh in armour cat off for his crest, an honorary badge yet worn by all the Eyres in Eogland. The name is also met with in the Pyrenees, and in France, as in Bordeaux, where we fiad Rae...
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An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names: With an Essay on ...

William Arthur - Names, Personal - 1857 - 326 pages
...inquiry respecting him, found him severely wounded (his leg and thigh having been struck off) ; he ordered him the utmost care, and on his recovery,...reward for his services, and the leg and thigh in armor, cut off, for his crest ; an honorary badge yet worn by all the Eyres in England." BABA. German,...
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The History of the Treman, Tremaine, Truman Family in America ..., Volume 2

Ebenezer Mack Treman - 1901 - 1244 pages
...on inquiry respecting him, found him severely wounded (the leg and thigh having been struck off). He ordered him the utmost care, and on his recovery gave...reward for his services, and the leg and thigh in armor cut off for his crest, an honorary badge yet worn by all the Eyres in England." In Volume 10,...
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The History of the Treman, Tremaine, Truman Family in America ..., Volume 2

Ebenezer Mack Treman - 1901 - 1248 pages
...on his recovery gave him lands in Derby in reward for his services, and the leg and thigh in armor cut off for his crest, an honorary badge yet worn by all the Eyres in England." In Volume 10, ist series of Notes and Queries, is the following, taken from Rhodes' Peak Scenery, page...
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Family Names and Their Story

Sabine Baring-Gould - Names, Personal - 1910 - 438 pages
...inquiry respecting him, found him severely wounded (his leg and thigh having been struck off), and ordered him the utmost care, and on his recovery gave...in armour cut off for his crest, an honorary badge still worn by all the Eyres in England."1 The story is obviously apocryphal. There is no Truelove,...
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