Spellings of 'Yeovil'
Spellings of 'Yeovil'
through the ages
There have been a truly surprising number of ways to spell 'Yeovil' through the years - the following list of 70 was compiled by the late Leslie Brooke, with a further fourteen added by me.
My favourite spelling is 'Evil'.
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Spelling |
Year |
Ref |
Spelling |
Year |
Ref |
Spelling |
Year |
Ref |
|
Eevill |
1609 | QS | Eivill | 1642 | CW | Euell | 1635 | BT |
|
Euill |
1610 | SA | Euyll | 1610 | SP | Evel | 1610 | MB |
|
Evell |
1535 | WW | Evil | 1673 | BM | Evill | 1503 | WI |
|
Evyill |
1673 | BL | Evyll | 1535 | WW | Ewell | 1536 | SC |
|
Ewill |
1606 | CC | Eyeavell | 1652 | TT | Eyeavill | 17c | TT |
|
Geuele |
1275 | PA | Gevele | 1262 | MC | Gevell | 1502 | BO |
|
Gifle |
873-89 | AW | Giffle | 1204 | CR | Givela | 1086 | GI |
|
Givele |
1086 | DB | Givell | 1225 | PA | Givelle | TR | |
|
Givile |
1262 | MC | Giuele | 1280 | PA | Gyfle | c950 | AS |
|
Gyuele |
1277 | PA | Gyvel | 12c | WM | Gyvele | 1225 | PA |
|
Ieuele |
1334 | BR | Iovele | 1303 | GD | Ivel | 1533-46 | LI |
|
Ivele |
1315-6 | NV | Ivell | 1633 | TG | Ivla | 1086 | DE |
|
Ivle |
1086 | DB | Jeuele | 1342 | BR | Jevele | 1307 | EL |
|
Jyvele |
1255-6 | FF | Yeavel | 1642 | CW | Yeavell | 1607 | QS |
|
Yeavill |
1617 | ED | Yeaville | 17c | TT | Yeouil | 1695 | RM |
|
Yeovel |
1673 | BM | Yeovell | 1649 | QS | Yeovil | ||
|
Yeovill |
1617 | ED | Yeuele | 1280 | PA | Yeuell | 1463-4 | FF |
|
Yeuelle |
1447 | WI | Yeuyl | 1447 | WI | Yeuyll | 1417 | WI |
|
Yevel |
1311-2 | FF | Yevele | 1306-7 | FF | Yevell | 1411-2 | FF |
|
Yevelle |
1402 | BB | Yevile | 1402 | Yevill | 1452 | WI | |
|
Yeville |
1455 | WI | Yevvell | 13c | WI | Yevyll | 1407 | WI |
|
Yivele |
1335 | WM | Yuele | 1280 | PA | Yvele | 1285-6 | FF |
|
Yvell |
1544 | WI | Yvill | 1532 | WW | Yvyll | 1532 | WW |
|
Zeuele |
1416 | WI | ||||||
|
....
and
added by
me |
||||||||
|
Yeuvell |
1709 | OW | Yewill | 1784 | IN | Ivill | 1558 | PW |
|
Yovell |
1683 | LW | Jevyll | 1558 | HW | Yeaval | 1875 |
MA |
|
Evle |
1860 | WFP | Yavell | 1659 | DW | Yeowell | 1669 |
AD |
| Yeven | 1592 | JH | Yeovile | 1710 | AI | Yeavall |
1687 |
EP |
| Yeaviell | 1654 | Yeoveil | 1684 | WP | ||||
Key to References
| AS = Anglo-Saxon Wills | AW = King Alfred's Will |
| BL = Blome's 1673 Map of Somerset | BB = Bishop Bowett's Register |
| BM = Blome's Magna Britannia | BO = Bishop Oliver King's Register |
| BR = Bishop Ralph's Register | BT = British Traveller 1635 |
| CC = Coryate's 'Crudities' | CR = Close Rolls |
| CW = Civil War Tracts | DB = Domesday Book |
| DE = Domesday Book Exon | ED = Enrolled Deeds |
| EL = Exchequer Lay Subsidies | FF = Feet of Fines |
| GD = Gaol Delivery Roll | GI = Geld Inquest |
| JO = John Ogilby Maps | LI = Leyland's Itineraries |
| MB = Camden's Magna Britannia | MC = Montacute Cartulery |
| NV = Nomina Villarum | PA = Pleas of Assize, Somerset |
| QS = Quarter Sessions Records | RM = Robt Morden's Map of Somerset |
| SA = Saxton's Map of Somerset | SC = Sherborne Churchwardens' Accounts |
| SP = Speed's Map of Somerset | TG = Thomas Gerard's Description |
| TR = Reign of Edward the Confessor | TT = Trade Tokens |
| WI = Somerset Wills | WM = Woborn Muniments |
| WM = Wells Cathedral Manuscripts | WW = Wells Wills |
| OW = Will of John Old the Elder | IN = Apprentice indenture |
| PW = Will of John Phelps | LW = Will of Henry Lavor |
| HW = Will of William Hayne | MA = Memorandum of Agreement |
| WFP = Western Flying Post | DW = Will of Nicholas Day |
| AD = Will of Anne Dixon | JH = Will of John Hacker |
| AI = Register of Apprentices' Indentures | EP = Will of Edward Pitman |
| FP = Will of Francis Pope | WP = Will of William Phelps |
