He gazed at his brother-in-law with a new respect, discerning unsuspected indications of noble blood in his grim visage.
"How do you account for the two forms of spelling your family name ?" observed Dr.Ravenshaw.

"The House of Lords will require proof on that point, will they not ?" "I shall be able to satisfy them," returned Robert Turold.

"The first Robert Turold reverted to the Norman spelling when he settled in Suffolk.
Turrald is the corrupted form, doubtless due to early Saxon difficulties with Norman names.

The Saxons were never very glib at Norman-French, and there was no standardized spelling of family names at that period." "It would be interesting to know how the name of Simon came to be bestowed upon the Simon Turrald who fled to Cornwall after Bosworth.

The name is Biblical--not Norman.