His powers of recollection have astonishing sweep and verve, and the scope is majestic.Īfter his walk across Europe, Patrick Leigh Fermor lived and travelled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. It is a book of compelling glimpses – not only of the events which were curdling Europe at that time, but also of its resplendent domes and monasteries, its great rivers, the sun on the Bavarian snow, the storks and frogs, the hospitable burgomasters who welcomed him, and that world’s grandeurs and courtesies. A Time of Gifts is the first volume in a trilogy recounting the trip, and takes the reader with him as far as Hungary. This was during the reign King Edward 1st, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 - 1307.In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot – from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul (or Constantinople, as he insisted on calling it). The first known recording of the hereditary surname may be that of Richard Fermor, in the Fees Rolls of the county of Devon, in 1293. This was not a hereditary surname and nor was that of William le Farmere of Cambridge in 1279. Amongst the earliest of all recordings is that of William Le Fermer, in the rolls known as the "Feet of Fines" for the county of Essex in the year 1238. The "farmers" in time became rich in their own right, and then reversed the process by purchasing land themselves on which in the modern sense, they then "farmed". These first farmers would act as brokers for the crown or the major landowners, selecting applicants to work the tenanted lands on the basis usually of who paid most.
Based upon the word "fermier", the name describes an early financier or collector of tithes and taxes, one who specialised in "farming " land leases. Most people are surprised to know that originally the surname had nothing to with actually tilling the soil. This English medieval job descriptive surname, recorded in the spellings of Farmer, Farmar, Fermer and Fermor, is of Olde French pre 10th century origins.
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