SCALES

SCALES. Ilardwin de Scalers came in with William the Conqueror, and was ancestor of the noble family of Eschalers, or Scales, who continued in the male line till oG. Henry VI. Kelham's Domesday. The name began to be spelt De Scales about the time of Henry III. It was latinized De Scalariis.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.