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The paucity of Welsh... «The Welsh Language: A History»
The paucity of Welsh surnames is largely the result of the scarcity of male personal names in use in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Wales. There may be some substance to a doggerel attributed to a Tudor judge:
Take ten, he said, and call them Rice
Another ten and call them Price,
Take fifty more and call them Hughes
A hundred more I’ll dub them Pughes.
Now Roberts name a hundred score
And Williams name a legion more,
And call, he moaned in languid tones,
Call all the others Jones.
