_Noble or Workhouse Names_--
"The only three noble names in the county were to be found in the great
house [workhouse]; mine [Berners] was one, the other two were Devereux
and Bohun."--_Lavengro_, iii. 232.
The above extract reminds me of a list of names of the poor about St.
Alban's, which I forwarded some months since, viz. Brax, Brandon, De Amer,
De Ayton, Fitzgerald, Fitz John, Gascoigne, Harcourt, Howard, Lacey,
Stanley, Ratcliffe.