Mauleverer meaning | Last name Mauleverer origin

Mal-levorer, in Latin, Malus leporarius or 'the Bad Hare Hunter.' A gentleman of this county (Yorkshire) being to slip a brace of grey hounds to run for a great wager (Tradition is the author), so held them in the swinge, that they were more likely to strangle themselves than kill the hare: whereupon this surname was fixed on his family. I doubt not but many of this extraction are since as dexterous in the criticisms of hunting as any Nimrod whatsoever." In Domesday Book, however, under Essex, we find— "Terra Adami filii Dur andi de Malis Operibus," which Peter le Neve, Norty king of arms, considers equi. to 'bad workman.' The truth is that the name is purely local-Maulévrier being an ancient viscounty in the arrondissement of Yvetot in Normandy.