Hmm. According to some sites, the name Lettice is pronounced - Lettice! As in salad.
I have a very very long run of Amy as a name in one branch of the family, back to marriage settlements where the name is spelled Emme! Personally, I am inclined to accept the variant spellings as being phonetic of the time and a good indicator of what the scribe heard.
I have a family named Henshaw, thousands of them. Back in the 1600s, the parish clerk fumbled while writing the w, tried to correct it and made the slopes bigger. It looks like Henshall - and forever after, that is what this branch of the Henshaws were called. If course, it could also have been a tongue tie speech impediment, which makes a w sound like an l. All meant to catch the poor innocent researcher out.
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