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green enclosure; hâl-melyn, the green hill; or hâl-mellin, the mill moor; Hamlin may sometimes be the same name.

HAMELYE, HAMLEY. "Hamley of Halwyn, now of St. Columb and Bodmin, whose surname has been written Hamelye, Hamlyn, and Hamblyn, is of great antiquity in Cornwall, where it appears to have been seated before the Norman Conquest." (C. S. Gilbert.) Lower thinks that the name, which he rightly considers the same as Hamlyn, is the Anglo-Norman, Hammeline. If of Cornish origin, it may come from hâl-mellin, the mill moor. But see Hamelin.

HAMLIN, HAMLYN. See Hamley.

HANDER. See Hender.

HANDRA. See Hendra.

HARLYN (De). From Harlyn; from ar-lyn, upon the pool, water, or river.

HAWEISH. There is Hewas in Ladock, and Hewas Water in Creed. Tonkin gives a Matilda de Hewish, who held half of a small fee in Manely in St. Veep, temp. 3 Hen. IV. C. S. Gilbert mentions Hewis as a surname, and says the early residence of the family was at Hewis, in Hartland hundred, Devon, whence it removed to Tremoderet in Duloe.

HAY, HAYE. As Cornish names, from hay, hey, an enclosure or a churchyard. There are places named Hay in Ladock, Quethiock, and St. Breock.

HELBREN. From hâl-bren, the woody hill.

HELIGAN, formerly De Haligan. From helygan, the willows. The manor of Heligan in St. Ewe was anciently the inheritance of the Whitleighs of Efford in Devonshire. Hals writes the name of the hamlet Halliggon; and Tonkin, Heligon. Cf. Haligan in St. Maben.

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