HILL. From i-esidence upon one. Its medieval form is Atte-Hill. The Lond. Direct, has more than two hundred traders of this name, besides about one-eighth of that number in the pluralized form of Hills. The most distinguished family of this name, the Hills of Hawkstone (Viscount Hill), deduce themselves from Hugh de la HuUe (' of the Hill '), who held the estate of Court of Hill in the parish of Burford, co. Salop, temp. Richard I. Shirley's Noble and Gentle Men, p. 197. The Hills of Stallington, co. Stafford, are descended from the family of De Monte, of Castle IMorton, co. AVorcester, and they bore that name till the XV. cent., when it was anglicized to Hyll. See Nash's Worcestershire.

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