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RAUF is a popular name, generally found among villagers. The modern form is Ralph, with intrusive /l /.

The false summoner encourages the "wenches" of his retinue to spy on the populace and to tell him who lay with the men of the town, with the aristocrats like Sir Robert or the villagers like Rauf, FrT 1355-1358.


From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
Published by Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

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