galopin

1) From the French word that gave us ‘to gallop’. In the sixteenth century it was a word for a boy working in a kitchen, a turnspit (OED) but occurs much earlier as a by-name.

1202-8 Robert Galopin, Harthill wapentake.

dates 1202-1208

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