Philadelphia.
_Double Christian Names_ (Vol. ix., p. 45.).--It is surely not correct to
say that the earliest instance of two Christian names is in the case of a
person born in 1635. Surely Henry, Prince of Wales, the son of James I., is
an earlier instance. Sir Thomas Strand Fairfax was certainly born before
that date. Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey was probably an earlier instance; and
Sir Robert Bruce Colton, the antiquary, certainly so. Writing at a distance
from my books, I can only appeal to memory; but see Southey's _Common-Place
Book_, vol. i. p. 510. Venables, in his _Travels in Russia_, {233} tells us
that "a Russian has never more than one Christian name, which must be
always that of a saint." To these a patronymic is often added of the
father's name, with the addition _vich_, as in the case of the present
Czar, Nicholas Paulovich, the son of Paul.