Norman Pedigrees

Your correspondent "B." (No. 14. p. 214.) would probably find part of the information he seeks in *Domesday Book, seu Censualis Willelmi Primi Regis Angliæ*. But query? Is "B." right in supposing the prefix "De" to be *French*? Does it not rather originate in the *Latin*? "Domesday" is written in Latin throughout; and the "de," denoting the place, is there occasionally followed by what seems to be the Latin ablative case. I copy an example:— "Canonici de Hansone ten. l. hida de Sansone," (i.e. loc. in co. Stafford.) Then of the person it is said— "Sanson ten. de rege, &c.... iii. hid. træ in H…