Rev. Stephen Bachiler (Classic Reprint)

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The word bachelor has long been a sore puzzle to etymologists, says Lower, in his work on English Surnames.* That the name Bachelor, however Spelled, is the same as the word bachelor, meaning an unmarried man or a college graduate, is unquestioned, but many derivations have been given by different authors to account for the meaning of the word, some most fanciful and even grotesque, others with more probability of correct ness. Knights bachelors were the most ancient, though the lowest order, of knighthood in England.

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