is the name of a witness, Charity H----. He--it was a _he_--is the third
child of his parents, two sisters, Faith and Hope, having preceded him.
His full baptismal name is "And Charity," and in his own marriage
certificate his name is so written. In ordinary affairs he is content with
Charity alone (_Notes and Queries_, August 16, 1879). This could not have
happened previous to Queen Anne's reign. Acts-Apostles Pegden's will was
administered upon in 1865. His four elder brothers bore the four
Evangelists' names. This, again, could not well have occurred before the
eighteenth century was in. In Yorkshire directories one may see such
entries as John Berry, and immediately below, Young John Berry. This
represents a common pleasantry at the font among the "tykes," but is
necessarily modern. Nor could "Sir Isaac" or "Sir Robert," as praenomens
to "Newton" or "Peel," have been originated at any distant period.
IV. THE DECAY OF SINGLE PATRONYMICS IN BAPTISM.
The introduction of double baptismal names produced a revolution as
immediate as it was unintentional. It put a stop to what bade fair to
become a universal adoption of patronymics as single baptismal names. This
practice took its rise about the year 1580. It became customary in highly
placed families to christen the eldest son by the name of the landed
estate to which he was heir. Especially was it common when the son
succeeded to property through his mother; then the mother's surname was
his Christian name. With the introduction of second baptismal names, this
custom ceased, and the boy or girl, as the case might be, after a first
orthodox name of Robert or Cecilia, received as a second the patronymic
that before was given alone. Instead of Neville Clarke the name would be
Charles Neville Clarke. From the year 1700, say, this has been a growing
custom, and half our present list of treble names are thus formed.[62]
The custom of giving patronymic names was, for a century at least,
peculiar to England, and is still rare on the Continent. Camden notices
the institution of the practice:
"Whereas in late yeares sirnames have beene given for christian names
among us, and no where else in Christendome: although many dislike it,
for that great inconvenience will ensue: neverthelesse it seemeth to
procede from hearty goodwill and affection of the godfathers, to shew
their love, or from a desire to continue and propagate their owne
names to succeeding ages. And is in no wise to bee disliked, but
rather approoved in those which, matching with heires generall of
worshipfull ancient families, have given those names to their heires,
with a mindefull and thankfull regard of them, as we have now
Pickering, Wotton, Grevill, Varney, Bassingburne, Gawdy, Calthorpe,
Parker, Pecsal, Brocas, Fitz-Raulfe, Chamberlanie, who are the heires
of Pickering, etc."--"Remaines," 1614.
Fuller says--
"Reader, I am confident an instance can hardly be produced of a
surname made christian in England, save since the Reformation....
Since it hath been common."--"Worthies," i. 159, 160.
For two hundred years this custom had the widest popularity among the
higher classes, and from some of our registers there are traces that the
lower orders were about to adopt the practice. In the case of female
heiresses the effect is odd. However, this was got over sometimes by
giving a feminine termination:
"1660, Aug. 28. John Hendon, Knight, of Biddenden in Kent, and
Northamtonia Haward, of Tandridge in Surrey, married."--Streatham,
Surrey.
"1711, Jan. 3. Buried Jermyna, d. of Mr. Edward Tyson, gent."--St.
Dionis Backchurch.
"1699, March 7. Nathaniel Parkhurst and Althamia Smith, of Kensington,
married."
Althamia was daughter of Altham Smyth, barrister, son of Sir Thomas Smyth,
of Hill Hall, Essex (Chester's "Westminster Abbey," p. 173).
But more often they were without the feminine desinence:
"1639, Oct. 18. Buried Essex, daughter of Lord Paget."--Drayton
(Lyson's "Middlesex," p. 42).
Will of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1680 (Doctors' Commons):
"Item: To my daughter _Mallet_, when shee shall have attained the like
age of sixteen, the summe of foure thousand pounds."
The Countess of Rochester was Elizabeth, daughter and heir of John Mallet,
Esq., of Enmore, Somerset.
"1699. Petition of Windebank Coote, widow, to the Lords of the
Treasury, showing that her husband Lambert Coote was a favourite
servant of King Charles II., and left her with a great charge of
children."--"C. Treas. P.," 1697-1702.
"Tamworth, daughter of Sir Roger Martin, of Long Melford, married
Thomas Rookwood (who was born Aug. 18, 1658)."--"Collect. et Top.,"
vol. ii. p. 145.
"1596, Nov. 21. Baptized Cartwright, daughter of Nicholas
Porter."--Aston-sub-Edge, Gloucester.
"1634, April 18. Baptized Steward, daughter of Sir Thomas Stanley,
Knight."--Stepney, London.
"1656, March 24. Douglas Sheffield, daughter of Sir John
Sheffield."--"Lunacy Commissions and Inquisitions," Record Office.
"1709, Feb. 3. Tankerville Chamberlyne, spinster, daughter of Edward
C."--Ditto.
"1601, Feb. Buryed Handforth, d. Thomas Davenport, a soldier in
Ireland."--Stockport Parish Church.
"1610, July 24. Baptized Kenburrow, ye daughter of Dr. Masters, one of
the worshipfull prebendaries."--Cant. Cath.
"1688, March 29. Baptized Tufton, daughter of the Rev. Dr. James
Jefferys, one of the prebendarys of this church."--Cant. Cath.
Even down to the middle of last century the custom was not uncommonly
practised:
"1763, Sep. 15. Thomas Steady, of Chartham, to Chesterton Harnett, of
the precincts of this church, spinster, by licence."--Cant. Cath.
"1759, June 12. Honourable Chatwynd Trumbull, widow."--"Lunacy
Commissions and Inquisitions."
As to the male heirs, we need not furnish illustrations; they would
require too much room:
"Sir Humphry Winch, Solicitor-General to Queen Elizabeth, married
Cicely Onslowe. His eldest son was Onslowe Winch."--"Collect. et
Top.," vol. iii. p. 86.
"Woodrove Foljambe, born Jan. 25, 1648, son of Peter Foljambe. His
mother was Jane Woodrove, of Hope, Derbyshire."--Ditto, p. 88.
How common the practice was becoming among the better-class families the
Canterbury register shall show:
"1601, April 16. Baptized Nevile, the sonne of Edwarde Whitegrave.
"1614, Nov. 28. Baptized Tunstall, sonn of Mr. William Scott, the
sonn-in-lawe to the worshipful Mr. Tunstall, prebendary of this
church.
"1615, May 15. Baptized Dudly, sonn of Mr. Doctor Jacksonn.
"1619, Dec. 16. Baptized Dudley, sonne of Sir John Wiles.
"1624, July 26. Baptized Sydney, sonne of Sirre William Barnes, K{t}."
Dudley was, perhaps, the first surname that obtained a place among
ordinary baptismal names:
"1614, Aug. 17. Christened Dudley, son of Thomas Styles.
"1684, April 17. Christened Dudley, son of Francis and Sarah
Dylate."--St. Dionis Backchurch.
The introduction of surnames at the font permitted private predilections
full play. At Canterbury we naturally find:
"1727, Feb. 22. Buried Cranmer Herris, gent., in ye cloisters."--Cant.
Cath.
"1626, Oct. Baptized Bradford, sonne of Christopher Wilson, of
Limehouse."--Stepney.
Hanover Stirling was a scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1729. A
Scotch Jacobite in London showed some skill in the heat of the great
crisis of 1715:
"1715, June 10. Christened Margaret Jacobina, d. of Mr. Archiball
Johnson, merchant."--St. Dionis Backchurch.[63]
This will be sufficient. The custom is by no means extinct; but, through
the introduction of second baptismal names, the practice is now rare, and
all but entirely confined to boys. Two hundred and fifty years ago, it was
quite as popular with the other sex.
Both Dudley and Sydney, mentioned above, have been used so frequently that
they have now taken a place in our ordinary list of baptismal names. So
far as Sydney is concerned, the reason is easily explained. The Smith
family have been so fond of commemorating the great Sydney, that it has
spread to other families. Chauncey and Washington occupy the same position
in the United States.
V. THE INFLUENCE OF FOUNDLING NAMES UPON DOUBLE BAPTISMAL NAMES.
One circumstance that contributed to the adoption of two baptismal names
was the christening of foundlings. Having no father or mother to attest
their parentage, being literally anonymous, there sprang up a custom,
about the year 1500, of baptizing these children with a double title; only
the second one was supposed to be the surname, and not a baptismal name at
all. This second name was always a local name, betokening the precise
spot, street, or parish where the child was found. Every old register has
its numerous instances. The foundlings of St. Lawrence Jewry got the
baptismal surname of Lawrence. At All-Hallows, Barking, the entries run:
"A child, out of Priest's Alley, christened Thomas Barkin.
"Christened a child out of Seething Lane, named Charles Parish.
"A child found in Mark Lane, and christened Mark Lane."--Maskell,
"All-Hallows, Barking," p. 62.
At St. Dunstan-in-the-West they are still more diversified:
"1597, M{ch}. 1. Renold Falcon, a childe borne in Falcon Court, bapt.
"1611, May 11. Harbotles Harte, a poor childe found at Hart's dore in
Fewter Lane, bapt.
"1614, March 26. Moses Dunstan, a foundlinge in St. Dunstan's hall,
bapt.
"1618, Jan. 18. Mary Porch, a foundeling, bapt.
"1625, Aug. 7. Roger Middlesex was baptized.
"1627, May 19. Katherine Whitefryers was baptized."
"1610, Nov. Bapt. Elizabeth Christabell, d. of Alice Pennye, begotten
in fornacacion."--Stepney, London.
"1586, May 21. Christening of Peter Grace, sonne of Katherine Davis,
an harlot."--St. Peter, Cornhill.
"1592, Aug. 2. Christening of Roger Peeter, so named of our church;
the mother a rogue, the childe was born the 22{d} July at Mr.
Lecroft's dore."--Ditto.
The baptismal register of St. Dionis Backchurch teems with Dennis, or
Dionys, as the name is entered:
"1623, Aug. 6. Joane Dennis, being laid at Mr. John Parke's doore in
Fanchurch Streete.
"1627, June 3. Denis the Bastard, who was laid in the parish.
"1691, Nov. 19. Ingram Dionis, a fondling taken up in Ingram's
Court."[64]
We see in these registers the origin of the phrase, "It can't be laid at
my door." Doubtless it was not always pleasant to have a little babe,
however helpless, discovered on the doorstep. The gossips would have
their "nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles," if they said nothing upon
the subject. It was a common dodge to leave it on a well-known man's
premises:
"1585, April 23. A man child was laid at Sir Edward Osbourne gate, and
was named Dennis Philpot, and so brought to Christes Ospitall."
The same practice prevails in America. A New York correspondent wrote to
me the other day as follows:--
"One babe, who was found in the vestibule of the City Hall, in this
city (New York), was called John City Hall; another, Thomas Fulton,
was found in Fulton Street in an ash-box; and a third, a fine boy of
about four months, was left in the porch of Christ Church Rectory in
Brooklyn. He was baptized by the name of Parish Church, by the Rev.
Dr. Canfeild, the then rector."
The baptisms of "blackamoors" gave a double christian name, although the
second was counted as a surname:
"Baptized, 1695, M{ch}. 27, John Wearmouth, a Tawny, taken captive,
aged 20."--Bishop Wearmouth (Burns).
"Baptized, 1602-3, March, Christian Ethiopia, borne a
Blackmore."--Stepney.
"Baptized, 1603, July, Charity Lucanoa, a Blackamor from
Ratcliff."--Ditto.
"1744, Sep. 27. Rum John Pritchard, a Indian and Mahomitan, baptized
this day by self at Mr. Pritchard's."--Fleet Registers (Burns).
"1717, ----. Baptized Charles Mustava, a black boy, servant to The
Honble. Lord Hartford."--Preshute, Wilts.
Our forefathers did not seem to perceive it, but in all these cases double
baptismal names were given. It must, however, have had its unfelt
influence in leading up to the new custom, and especially to patronymics
as second names. We are all now familiarized to these double and treble
names. The poorest and the most abject creatures that bring a child to the
font will have their string of grand and high-sounding titles; sometimes
such a mouthful, that the parson's wonder is excited whence they
accumulated them, till wonder is lost in apprehension lest he should fail
to deliver himself of them correctly. The difficulty is increased when the
name is pronounced as the fancy or education of the sponsor dictates. When
one of three names is "Hugginy," the minister may be excused if he fails
to understand all at once that "Eugenie" is intended. Such an incident
occurred about six years ago, and the flustered parson, on a second
inquiry, was not helped by the woman's rejoinder: "Yes, Hugginy; the way
ladies does their 'air, you know."
We must confess we are not anxious to see the new custom--for new it is in
reality--spread; but we fear much it will do so. We have reached the stage
when three baptismal names are almost as common as two; and we cannot but
foresee, if this goes on, that, before the century is out, our present
vestry-books will be compelled to have the space allotted to the font
names enlarged. As it is, the parson is often at his wits' end how to set
it down.
INDEX.
A
Abacuck, 62, 85, 119
Abdiah, 56
Abdias, 45
Abednego, 53, 63, 87, 190, 191
Abel, 54, 89, 90
Abelot, 90
Abericusgentylis, 223, 224
Abigail, 66, 67, 68, 141
Abner, 53
Abraham, 35, 85
Abstinence, 152, 187
Abuse-not, 162
Accepted, 123, 152, 171, 193
Achsah, 55
Acts-Apostles 58, 227
Adah, 53
Adam, 35
Adcock, 16, 35
Adecock, 15
Adkin, 10, 35
Admiral, 197
Adna, 53
Adoniram, 84, 88
Agatha, 144
Agnes, 43, 93
Aholiab, 45, 85
Aid-on-high, 174
Alathea, 144
Alianora, 23
Alice, 18
Aliot, 28
Alison, 18
Alpheus, 47
Altham, 230
Althamia, 230
Althea, 144
Always, 211
Alydea, 144
Amalasiontha, 60
Amelia, 92
America, 212
Americus, 212
Amery, 108, 212
Amice, 102
Aminadab, 57
Amity, 203, 209
Amor, 137
Amos, 51, 84
Anammeriah, 221
Ananias, 69, 73, 89, 185
And Charity, 227
Angel, 130, 131
Angela, 131
Anger, 155
Anketill, 101, 226
Anna, 23, 35, 48
Anna Maria, 220, 221
Anne, 23, 208
Anne-Mary, 221
Annette, 23
Annora, 23
Annot, 23, 25, 33, 82
Anot, 24
Antipas, 73, 74
Antony, 96
Aphora, 64
Aphra, 64
Aphrah, 63
Appoline, 95
Aquila, 53, 102
Araunah, 57
Arise, 194, 195
Asa, 53
Ashael, 53
Ashes, 63, 181
Assurance, 120
Atcock, 16
Atkin, 10
Atkinson, 13
Audria, 106
Austen, 43
Austin, 103
Avery, 101, 102
Avice, 108
Awdry, 93, 103
Axar, 55
Aymot, 79
Azariah, 53
Azarias, 57, 69
B
Bab, 106, 107
Badcock, 16
Baldwin, 3, 85
Baptist, 35
Barbara, 28, 107
Barbelot, 28
Barijirehah, 60
Barjonah, 57
Barnabas, 45, 205
Barrabas, 74
Bartholomew, 2, 3, 29, 34, 36, 44, 90, 92
Bartelot, 5, 29
Bartle, 5
Bartlett, 29
Barzillai, 53
Bat, 5, 6, 34, 90
Batcock, 5, 14, 16, 34
Bate, 5, 16, 85, 90
Bathsheba, 71, 110
Bathshira, 71
Bathshua, 71
Batkin, 5, 16, 77, 81
Battalion, 179
Batty, 5
Bawcock, 16
Beata, 134, 137, 138
Beatrice, 17
Beatrix, 17, 92
Beelzebub, 75
Belief, 200
Beloved, 173
Ben, 86
Benaiah, 53
Benedict, 94
Benedicta, 94, 138
Bennet, 94
Benjamin, 65
Benoni, 65
Bess, 106, 114, 116
Bessie, 114, 115
Be-steadfast, 163
Be-strong, 161
Betha, 114
Be-thankful, 161, 194
Bethia, 114
Bethsaida, 179
Bethshua, 122
Beton, 17
Betsy, 115
Bett, 114
Betty, 114, 115, 116
Beulah, 178
Bezaleel, 45
Bill, 92
Blaze, 93, 94
Boaz, 69
Bob, 6, 8
Bodkin, 10
Bonaventure, 208
Bradford, 232
Bride, 94
Brownjohn, 8
C
Cain, 54
Caleb, 52, 55, 61, 69
Canaan, 179
Cannon, 211
Caroletta, 112
Carolina, 92, 112
Carolina Wilhelmina Amelia, 92, 221
Caroline, 112
Cartwright, 230
Cassandra, 70
Catharine, 3, 36, 43, 93
Cecilia, 3, 6, 22, 28, 36, 43, 48, 51, 93, 228
Centurian, 178
Cess, 6
Cesselot, 28
Changed, 153
Charity, 67, 140, 141, 154, 199, 202, 204, 227, 234
Charity Lucanoa, 235
Charles, 112, 206
Charles Caractacus Ostorius Maximilian Gustavus Adolphus, 222
Charles James, 215, 216
Charles Maria, 218
Charles Mustava, 235
Charles Neville, 228
Charles Parish, 233
Charlotte, 112
Chatwynd, 231
Chauncey, 206, 207, 233
Cherubin, 170
Chesterton, 231
China, 211
Christ, 76
Christian, 33, 126, 199
Christiana, 199
Christian Ethiopia, 235
Christmas, 211
Christopher, 28
Christophilus, 123
Church-reform, 232
Chylde-of-God, 133
Cibell, 106
Cissot, 22
Clarice, 6
Clemence, 110
Clemency, 142
Cloe, 48
Cock, 14
Col, 34
Cole, 34, 90, 111
Colet, 102
Colin, 19, 31, 80
Colinet, 30, 31
Coll, 6
Collet, 80
Collin, 19
Colling, 19
Collinge, 19
Comfort, 149, 167, 204, 209
Con, 110, 143, 145
Confidence, 149
Consider, 209, 210
Constance, 143
Constancy, 142, 143
Constant, 121, 143, 193, 204
Continent, 123, 200
Cornelius, 69
Cotton, 205
Cranmer, 232
Creatura Christi, 133
Creature, 132, 133
Cressens, 57
Crestolot, 28
Cuss, 23
Cussot, 23, 143
Cust, 23, 143
Custance, 23, 143
D
Dalilah, 57
Damaris, 47, 48, 91
Dameris, 47, 48
Dammeris, 47
Dammy, 91
Dampris, 47
Damris, 47
Dancell-Dallphebo-Marke-Antony-Dallery-Gallery-Cesar, 182
Daniel, 35, 72
Dankin, 35
Dannet, 35
Darcas, 48
David, 6
Daw, 6
Dawkin, 10
Dawks, 13
Dean, 197
Deb, 83, 91
Deborah, 51, 66, 83, 90
Deccon, 20
Degory, 101
Deliverance, 169, 170, 209
Delivery, 169
Dennis, 103, 234
Dennis Philpot, 235
Deodat, 209
Deodatus, 137
Deonata, 137
Depend, 162
Dependance, 209
Desiderata, 137, 202
Desiderius, 137
Desire, 137, 202, 209
Diccon, 19, 82
Dicconson, 20
Dick, 8, 90, 92, 109, 111
Dickens, 13, 20
Dickenson, 13, 20
Dickin, 10, 20
Die-well, 165
Diffidence, 200
Diggon, 20
Digory, 101
Diligence, 148
Dinah, 71, 72, 75, 76
Dionisia, 20, 23
Dionys, 234
Diot, 23
Discipline, 179
Discretion, 199
Dobbin, 19
Dobinet, 30, 33, 82
Do-good, 165, 200
Dogory, 101
Doll, 92, 105, 106, 107, 111
Dolly, 107, 109
Donate, 137
Donation, 209
Donatus, 134, 137
Dora, 107
Dorcas, 47, 48, 61, 119
Do-right, 200
Dorothea, 92, 107
Dorothy, 43, 48, 107
Douce, 22, 107
Doucet, 81
Douglas, 230
Dowcett, 22
Do-well, 165
Dowsabel, 107
Dowse, 107
Dowsett, 22
Drew, 26, 100, 102
Drewcock, 16
Drewet, 26, 81
Drocock, 16
Drusilla, 73
Dudley, 231, 232
Duke, 196
Dun, 111
Dunn, 211
Dust, 63, 124
E
Earl, 197
Easter, 36, 96
Ebbot, 22
Ebed-meleck, 69, 83, 85
Ebenezer, 83
Eden, 179
Edward Alexander, 216
Edward Maria, 217
Elcock, 16
Eleanor, 24
Eleanora, 24
Eleazar, 205
Elena, 18, 24
Eleph, 53
Eliakim, 57
Elias, 2, 28, 35
Elicot, 28
Elihu, 53
Eli-lama-Sabachthani, 57
Eliot, 28
Elisha, 69
Elisot, 28
Eliza, 115, 116
Elizabeth, 113, 116
Elizabeth Christabell, 234
Elizabeth Mary, 220
Elizar, 102
Elkanah, 84
Ellice, 29, 101
Ellicot, 29
Elliot, 28
Ellis, 28, 29, 35
Ellisot, 29
Elnathan, 56, 205
Emanuel, 76, 130, 131, 183
Emery, 108
Emm, 5, 220
Emma, 3, 21, 29, 48, 51, 78, 79, 81
Emmett, 21
Emmot, 5, 8, 21, 27, 29, 78, 79
Emmotson, 21
Emperor, 212
Enecha, 69
Enoch, 69
Enot, 24
Epaphroditus, 69, 85
Epenetus, 57, 69
Ephin, 98
Ephraim, 69, 85
Epiphany, 36, 97
Er, 53
Erasmus, 134
Erastus, 53, 57
Esaias, 69, 72
Esau, 69
Esaye, 102
Essex, 230
Esther, 49, 96
Eugenie, 236
Eunice, 53
Euodias, 56
Eve, 24, 35
Evett, 35
Evot, 24
Evott, 35
Experience, 147, 148, 199, 203, 209
Ezechell, 69
Ezeckiell, 45
Ezekias, 102
Ezekiel, 72, 85, 88
Ezekyell, 46
Ezot, 113
Ezota, 113
F
Faint-not, 124, 158, 159, 194, 211
Faith, 67, 140, 141, 147, 154, 201, 204, 227
Faithful, 154, 199, 211
Faith-my-joy, 126
Fannasibilla, 223
Fare-well, 165, 166
Fauconnet, 31
Fawcett, 81
Fear, 203
Fear-God, 156, 157, 162
Fearing, 209
Fear-not, 122, 159
Fear-the-Lord, 190
Feleaman, 69
Felicity, 149
Fick, 19
Ficken, 19
Figg, 19
Figgess, 19
Figgin, 19
Figgins, 19
Figgs, 19
Fight-the-good-fight-of-faith, 180, 184, 194
Flie-fornication, 176, 194, 200
Forsaken, 176
Fortune, 176, 210
Francis, 75
Francis-Gunsby, 225
Frank, 106, 110
Free-gift, 166, 167, 193
Free-grace, 209
Free-man, 177, 178
Frideswide, 101
Friend, 211
From-above, 124, 167
Fulk, 100, 103
Fulke, 31
G
Gabriel, 131, 140, 183
Gamaliel, 57, 69
Gavin, 100
Gawain, 100
Gawen, 100
Gawin, 50, 100
Gawyn, 33, 103
Geoffrey, 44
George, 11, 111, 113
George William Frederic, 221
Georgi-Anna, 224
Georgina, 92
Gercyon, 69
Gershom, 39, 57, 69
Gersome, 101
Gertrude, 110
Gervase, 101
Gib, 25
Gibb, 6
Gibbet, 25
Gibbin, 19
Gibbing, 19
Gibbon, 19
Gilbert, 25
Gill, 22, 104
Gillian, 3, 22
Gillot, 22
Gillotyne, 32
Gilpin, 19
Given, 137, 209
Give-thanks, 161
Goddard, 101
Godgivu, 2
God-help, 175
Godly, 152, 153
Godric, 2
Goliath, 72
Good-gift, 167
Good-work, 200
Grace, 126, 140, 144, 147, 154, 200, 204
Graceless, 200
Gracious, 153, 172
Grigg, 6
Grissel, 106
Grizill, 103
Guion, 26
Guiot, 26
Guillotin, 32
Gulielma Maria, 218
Gulielma Maria Posthuma, 218
Guy, 3, 26, 51, 80
Gyllian, 103
H
Habakkuk, 56
Hadassah, 49
Hal, 26
Halkin, 11
Hallet, 26
Hamelot, 27
Hameth, 53
Hamilton, 79
Hamlet, 8, 26, 27, 29, 78, 79, 101
Hammett, 101
Hamnet, 26, 27, 29
Hamon, 26, 29, 78
Hamond, 26, 29, 78, 79
Hamonet, 27
Hamynet, 33
Han-cock, 10, 16
Handcock, 16
Handforth, 231
Handmaid, 178, 195
Hankin, 10, 11, 82
Hanna, 35
Hannah, 47, 49, 144
Hanover, 232
Harbotles Harte, 234
Hariph, 53
Harriet, 26
Harriot, 26
Harry, 88, 90, 92, 109
Hate-bad, 200, 211
Hate-evil, 119, 163, 210, 211
Hatill, 163
Have-mercie, 175
Hawkes, 13
Hawkin, 11
Hawkins, 13
Hawks, 13
Heacock, 16
Heavenly-mind, 200
Heber, 53
Helpless, 175
Help-on-high, 160, 174, 181, 189
Henrietta Maria, 215, 216, 218
Henry, 3, 26, 44, 126
Henry Frederick, 215, 217
Henry Postumus, 219
Hephzibah, 53
Hercules, 70
Hester, 35, 48
Hew, 26
Hewet, 26, 81
Hewlett, 28
Hick, 6, 85
Hickin, 35
Higg, 26
Higget, 35
Higgin, 19, 35, 82
Higgot, 26, 35
Hillary, 94
Hiscock, 16
Hitch-cock, 16
Hobb, 6
Hobelot, 28
Hodge, 82, 85, 90
Hold-the-world, 200
Honest, 199
Honora, 92, 145
Honour, 139, 142, 145
Hope, 140, 147, 154, 202, 209, 227
Hopeful, 125, 159, 199
Hope-on-high, 189
Hope-still, 159, 160, 204, 209
Hope-well, 160
Hopkin, 10
Hopkins, 13
Howe-Lee, 225
Hud, 6
Huelot, 28
Huggin, 19
Huggins, 18
Hugginy, 236
Hugh, 6, 18, 19, 26, 28
Hughelot, 28
Hugonet, 31, 32
Huguenin, 31
Huguenot, 32
Hugyn, 18
Humanity, 142
Humble, 152, 200
Humiliation, 151
Humility, 152, 203, 205
Humphrey, 88
Hutchin, 18
Hutchinson, 18
Hyppolitus, 70
I
Ibbetson, 22
Ibbett, 22
Ibbot, 22, 81
Ibbotson, 22
Ichabod, 65, 205
If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned, 156
Immanuel, 42
Increase, 168, 169, 194, 205, 209
Increased, 122, 168, 195
Ingram, 100
Ingram Dionis, 234
Inward, 179
Isaac, 3, 26, 35, 203, 205, 206
Isabella, 3, 22, 48, 51, 81
Isaiah, 52
Issott, 81
Ithamaria, 223
J
Jabez, 40
Jachin, 53
Jack, 2, 6, 8, 26, 90
Jackcock, 8
Jackett, 26
Jacob, 35
Jacolin, 106
Jacomyn, 103, 106
Jacquinot, 31
Jaell, 46, 65
James, 36
James-Smith, 225
Jane, 48, 103, 106
Jannet, 31
Jannetin, 31
Janniting, 31
Jannotin, 31
Japhet, 195
Jeduthan, 53
Jeffcock, 14, 16, 81
Jeffkin, 10
Jehoiada, 53
Jehostiaphat, 85
Jenkin, 8, 11, 33
Jenkinson, 13
Jenks, 13
Jennin, 19
Jenning, 8, 19
Jeremiah, 63, 88, 90
Jeremy, 63, 69, 72, 88
Jermyna, 230
Jerry, 91
Jesus-Christ-came-into-the-world-to-save, 156
Jethro, 101
Jill, 2, 22, 104
Joab, 53
Joan, 103, 106
Joane Dennis, 234
Joane Yorkkoope, 224
Job, 69, 84, 126
Job-rakt-out-of-the-asshes, 181, 184
Joel, 51
Jockaminshaw, 223, 224
John, 2, 3, 7, 35, 36, 110, 111, 112, 126, 197, 208, 215, 226
Johnamaria, 223
John Christopher Burton, 222
John City Hall, 235
Johncock, 16
John Posthumus, 219
John Wearmouth, 235
Jolly, 211
Jonadab, 69
Jonathan, 69, 206
Jordan, 11, 35, 37
Jordanson, 35
Joseph, 35
Joshua, 69
Joskin, 35
Jowett, 22
Joy-againe, 124
Joyce, 67, 103, 107, 114
Joye, 205
Joy-in-sorrow, 174
Juckes, 13
Juckin, 11
Judas, 36
Judas-not-Iscariot, 74
Judd, 6, 11, 35
Jude, 110
Judith, 35, 48, 49
Judkin, 11, 35
Judson, 35
Jukes, 13
Julian, 22
Juliana, 104
Juliet, 22
Junior, 197
Just, 204
Justice, 142
K
Kate, 92, 105, 106
Katherine Whitefryers, 234
Kelita, 53
Kenburrow, 231
Kerenhappuch, 56
Keturah, 57
Keziah, 57
Kit, 86, 87
Knowledge, 199
L
Laetitia, 92, 108
Lais, 70, 71
Lambert, 31
Lamberton, 20
Lambin, 20, 81
Lambinet, 31
Lambkin, 10
Lamblin, 20
Lament, 163, 164, 176
Lamentation, 174, 187
Lamentations, 63
Lamin, 20
Laming, 20
Lammin, 20
Lamming, 20
Lampin, 20
Lampkin, 10
Larkin, 6, 10
Lawrence, 233
Laycock, 15
Leah, 47, 66, 69
Learn-wisdom, 119
Learn-wysdome, 163
Lemon, 211
Lemuel, 53
Lesot, 23
Lettice, 23, 48, 108
Life, 209
Lina, 24
Linot, 24
Little, 197
Littlejohn, 8
Live-loose, 200
Lively, 153
Live-well, 164, 200
Living, 170
Louisa, 92
Love, 137, 141, 203
Love-God, 164, 165, 200
Love-lust, 200
Love Venus, 70
Love-well, 165
Luccock, 15
M
Mab, 22
Mabbott, 22
Mabel, 22
Madge, 33, 82
Magdalen, 126
Magnify, 161
Magot, 23
Mahaliel, 57
Mahershalalhashbaz, 41, 58, 120
Major, 196
Makin, 12
Makinson, 12
Malachi, 52, 53, 69
Malkin, 9, 11, 12
Malkynson, 12
Mallet, 230
Manasseh, 40, 203
Margaret, 3, 22
Margaret Jacobina, 232
Margerie, 25, 106
Margett, 22
Margotin, 31
Margott, 23
Maria, 92, 215, 217, 220 223
Marian, 19, 227
Maria Posthuma, 219
Marion, 18, 24
Mariot, 24
Mariotin, 32
Marioton, 31
Mark Lane, 233
Marshall, 197
Martha, 47
Mary, 12, 24, 105, 113, 218, 220
Mary Ann, 220, 227
Mary Given, 137
Mary Josephina Antonietta, 222
Mary Porch, 234
Mat, 95, 110
Matathias, 100
Mathea, 95
Matilda, 3, 21, 48, 81, 106
Matthew, 13, 36, 92
Maud, 12, 48
Maurice, 101
Maycock, 13, 16
Meacock, 13
Meakin, 12
Mehetabell, 66
Melchisedek, 56, 83, 85, 101
Melior, 138
Mephibosheth, 85
Mercy, 110, 142, 154, 199, 209
Meshach, 53, 63
Michael, 131, 183
Michalaliel, 60
Micklejohn, 8
Milcom, 74
Miles, 44, 51
Miracle, 178
Mocock, 15
Mokock, 15
Moll, 106, 111
Mordecai, 57, 63
Mordecay, 69
More-fruite, 124, 167, 168, 194
Morrice, 101
Moses Dunstan, 234
Much-mercy, 122, 170, 194
Mun, 111
Mycock, 16
My-sake, 178
N
Nab, 89, 90
Nan, 92, 104, 105, 111
Nancy, 105, 106
Naphtali, 53
Nat, 91, 206
Nathaniel, 69, 78, 90, 119, 126, 205, 206
Natkin, 78
Nazareth, 179
Ned, 111
Nehemiah, 119, 120
Nell, 106
Neptune, 70
Neriah, 53
Neville, 228, 231
Nichol, 82
Nicholas, 2, 3, 34, 36, 37, 43, 45, 80, 90, 91, 92
Nick, 111
Noah, 35, 69, 195
Noel, 36, 98, 99
No-merit, 122, 170, 174
Northamtonia, 229
Nothing, 211
Nowell, 36, 99
O
Obadiah, 72
Obediah, 51, 61, 69
Obedience, 148
Obey, 162
Oceanus, 208
Olive, 106
Olivia, 92, 106, 221
Onesiphorus, 56, 57, 85
Onslowe, 231
Opportunity, 211
Original, 128, 129
Othniell, 69
Oziell, 69
P
Palcock, 16
Pardon, 209
Paris, 70
Parish Church, 235
Parkin, 34
Parnel, 104
Parratt, 79
Pascal, 36
Pasche, 96
Pascoe, 96
Pash, 11
Pashkin, 11
Pask, 11, 36
Paskin, 11
Patience, 120, 139, 143, 145, 147, 202, 203, 204
Patient, 204
Paul, 36
Payn, 26
Paynet, 26
Paynot, 26
Peaceable, 203
Peacock, 15, 34
Peg, 106
Pelatiah, 57
Peleg, 69
Pentecost, 36, 43, 98
Pepper, 211
Peregrine, 208
Perkin, 11, 34
Perks, 13
Perot, 79
Perrin, 18, 19, 34, 81
Perrinot, 31
Perrot, 34, 79
Perrotin, 31
Perseverance, 149, 187, 204
Persis, 48, 121
Peter, 2, 3, 18, 34, 36, 37, 45, 51, 79, 92, 105
Peter Grace, 234
Petronilla, 105
Pharaoh, 52, 69, 72
Phebe, 48
Philadelphia, 144
Philcock, 81
Philemon, 45, 53, 69
Philip, 2, 3, 26, 36, 37, 51, 90, 92, 95, 113
Philiponet, 31
Phillis, 106
Philpot, 26, 77, 80
Phineas, 52
Phippin, 19, 81
Phip, 85, 90
Pidcock, 15
Pierce, 82
Pierre, 34
Piers, 79
Piety, 199
Pipkin, 11
Pleasant, 177
Pol, 36
Pontius Pilate, 58
Posthuma, 217, 218
Posthumus, 45, 215, 217, 218, 219
Potkin, 11
Praise-God, 119, 156, 157, 158
Presela, 126
Preserved, 173, 210
Prince, 197
Pris, 91
Priscilla, 47, 48, 90, 126
Properjohn, 8
Providence, 178
Pru, 142, 145
Prudence, 129, 142, 145, 155, 199, 202, 209
Prudentia, 92, 142
Purifie, 125
Purkiss, 13
Q
Quod-vult-Deus, 135
R
Rachel, 66, 67, 69, 141
Ralph, 20, 37, 85, 111
Ramoth-Gilead, 54
Raoul, 20
Raoulin, 20
Rawlings, 20
Rawlins, 20
Rawlinson, 20
Rebecca, 45, 51, 66
Redeemed, 136, 193
Redemptus, 136
Rediviva, 136
Reformation, 179
Refrayne, 162
Rejoice, 147, 160, 161, 209
Rejoyce, 122
Reliance, 209
Relictus, 137
Remember, 203, 209
Remembrance, 204
Renata, 136
Renatus, 134, 136
Renewed, 121, 136, 194
Renold Falcon, 234
Renovata, 134, 136
Repent, 153, 162, 175
Repentance, 45, 150, 151, 153, 176, 194
Replenish, 168
Resolved, 203
Restore, 175, 193
Restraint, 187
Returne, 162, 194
Revelation, 191
Revolt, 203
Richard, 3, 28, 37, 44, 46, 103, 110, 119, 131, 184, 195, 205
Richelot, 28
Riches, 177, 210
River, 211
Robelot, 28
Robert, 3, 28, 37, 44, 52, 110, 211, 228
Robbin, 19
Robin, 19, 33
Robinet, 30
Robing, 19
Robinson, 197
Roger, 3, 37, 52, 90, 119
Roger Middlesex, 234
Roger Peeter, 234
Rum John Pritchard, 235
Rutterkin, 10
S
Sabbath, 179
Safe-deliverance, 131, 169
Safe-on-high, 121, 174, 194, 200
Salt, 211
Sampson, 35
Samuel, 205
Sancho, 130
Sander, 15
Sandercock, 15
Sapphira, 73
Sara, 35, 45, 66
Sarah, 51, 205
Saturday, 180
Sea-born, 208
Sea-mercy, 208
Search-the-Scriptures, 200, 210
Search-truth, 200
See-truth, 200
Sehon, 74
Selah, 57, 178
Senchia, 130
Sense, 129, 130
Seraphim, 170
Seth, 69, 102
Seuce, 129
Shadrach, 53, 63
Shadrack, 57
Shallum, 53, 56
Shelah, 53
Shorter, 197
Sib, 92, 105, 106
Sibb, 106
Sibby, 106
Sibilla, 24
Sibot, 24
Sibyl, 105
Sidney, 207
Silcock, 16
Silence, 11, 145, 147, 200
Silkin, 11
Sill, 11, 111, 145, 146
Sim, 6, 33, 82
Simcock, 14, 15
Simkin, 11
Simon, 2, 3, 36, 43, 45, 92, 111
Simpkinson, 13
Sincere, 199
Sin-denie, 122
Sin-deny, 162
Sir Isaac, 197, 227
Sir Robert, 197, 227
Sirs, 54
Sis, 92, 93, 105
Sissot, 22, 81
Something, 211
Sophia, 92, 144, 221
Sorry-for-sin, 122, 153
Sou'wester, 207
Squire, 196
Standfast, 199, 209
Stand-fast-on-high, 174
Stedfast, 121
Stepkin, 10
Sterling, 211
Steward, 230
Subpena, 137
Sudden, 212
Supply, 209
Susan, 48, 49, 106, 129
Susanna, 35
Susey, 129
Sybil, 11, 145
Sydney, 207, 231, 232, 233
Syssot, 22
T
Tabitha, 47, 119
Tace, 146, 147
Tacey, 147
Talitha-Cumi, 57
Talkative, 200
Tamar, 71, 72, 75, 76
Tamaris, 47
Tamsin, 109
Tamson, 108
Tamworth, 230
Tankerville, 230
Tebbutt, 26
Tellno, 54
Temperance, 129, 142, 143, 144, 145, 204, 209
Tetsy, 115
Tetty, 115
Thank, 109
Thankful, 123, 171, 172, 173, 200
Thanks, 171, 172
Theobald, 25, 36, 43
Theobalda, 43
Theophania, 97
Theophilus, 69, 126
Tholy, 5
Thomas, 2, 3, 26, 34, 36, 75, 108, 203, 215
Thomas Barkin, 233
Thomasena, 109
Thomaset, 26
Thomas Fulton, 235
Thomas Hill Joseph Napoleon Horatio Bonaparte Swindlehurst Nelson, 222
Thomasin, 109
Thomasine, 108, 110
Thomas Maria, 215
Thomas Posthumus, 215, 219
Thomazin, 109
Thomesin, 109
Thurstan, 102
Thurston, 50
Tib, 6, 25, 43, 104, 106
Tibbe, 25, 26
Tibbett, 25
Tibbin, 19
Tibbitt, 25
Tibet, 25, 33, 82
Tibbot, 25
Tibot, 25, 43
Tiffanie, 97
Tiffany, 36, 97
Tiffeny, 97
Tillett, 21
Tillot, 21
Tillotson, 21
Tim, 6
Timothy, 36
Tipkin, 11
Tippin, 19
Tipping, 19
Tippitt, 25
Tobel, 40
Toll, 29
Tollett, 20
Tollitt, 29
Tolly, 5, 29
Tom, 8, 34, 82, 86, 87, 90, 92, 109, 111, 122
Tomasin, 109
Tomkin, 11, 34
Tonkin, 10
Trial, 187
Tribulation, 120, 147, 185, 186
Trinity, 178
True-heart, 200
Truth, 142, 144, 202
Tryphena, 48, 57
Tryphosa, 48, 57
Tufton, 231
Tunstall, 231
Tyffanie, 97
Tyllot, 21
Typhenie, 97
U
Unfeigned, 172
Unity, 178
Upright, 200
Urias, 102
Ursula, 43, 93
V
Vashni, 53
Venus, 70, 71, 75, 76
Victory, 149
Virginia, 208
Virtue, 148
Vitalis, 132, 133
W
Walter, 3
Warin, 26
Warinot, 26
Washington, 232
Wat, 82, 85, 90
Watchful, 199
Watkin, 9, 11, 77, 81
Watkins, 13
Watt, 6
Weakly, 175
Wealthy, 177, 209, 210
Welcome, 209
What-God-will, 135
Wilcock, 8, 16, 34, 77
Wilkin, 8, 9, 11, 34
Will, 6, 86, 88, 111
Willan, 34
William, 3, 7, 26, 34, 44, 110, 112, 184, 195, 203
William Henry, 220
Willin, 34
Willing, 34
Willot, 8
Wilmot, 8, 26, 34, 80
Windebank, 230
Woodrove, 231
Wrath, 155
Wrestling, 203
Wyatt, 26, 80
Wyon, 26
Y
Young Allen, 197
Young John, 197, 227
Z
Zabulon, 85
Zachary, 46, 69, 88
Zanchy, 130
Zaphnaphpaaneah, 58
Zaphnaphpaaneah Isaiah Obededom Nicodemus Francis Edward, 222
Zeal-for-God, 200
Zeal-of-the-land, 88, 120, 187, 188
Zebulon, 69
Zephaniah, 52, 87
Zerrubabel, 40, 41, 119, 120
Zillah, 53
Zipporah, 66, 86
_Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Limited, London and Beccles._
FOOTNOTES:
[1] This is easily proved. In the wardrobe accounts for Edward IV., 1480,
occur the following items:--
"John Poyntmaker, for pointing of xl. dozen points of silk pointed
with agelettes of laton.
"John Carter, for cariage away of a grete loode of robeux that was
left in the strete.
"To a laborer called Rychard Gardyner working in the gardyne.
"To Alice Shapster for making and washing of xxiiii. sherts, and
xxiiii. stomachers."
Shapster is a feminine form of Shapper or Shaper--one who shaped or cut
out cloths for garments. All these several individuals, having no
particular surname, took or received one from the occupation they
temporarily followed.--"Privy Purse Expenses, Eliz. of York," p. 122.
[2] Any number of such instances might be recorded. Mr. W. C. Leighton, in
_Notes and Queries_, February 23, 1861, notices a deed dated 1347, wherein
two John de Leightons, brothers, occur. Mr. Waters, in his interesting
pamphlet, "Parish Registers" (p. 30), says that Protector Somerset had
three sons christened Edward, born respectively 1529, 1539, and 1548. All
were _living_ at the same time. He adds that John Leland, the antiquary,
had a brother John, and that John White, Bishop of Winchester 1556-1560,
was brother to Sir John White, Knight, Lord Mayor in 1563.
[3] "I also give to the said Robert ... that land which Hobbekin de Bothum
held of me."--Ext. deed of Sir Robert de Stokeport, Knight, 1189-1199:
Earwaker's "East Cheshire," p. 334.
[4] I have seen Stepkin as a surname but once. Lieutenant Charles Stepkin
served under the Duke of Northumberland, in 1640.--Peacock's "Army List of
Roundheads and Cavaliers," p. 78.
[5] _Adekyn_ was the simple and only title of the harper to Prince Edward
in 1306, who attended the _cour pleniere_ held by King Edward at the feast
of Whitsuntide at Westminster.--Chappell, "Popular Music of ye Olden
Time," p. 29.
[6] Sill was the nick form of Sybil and Silas till the seventeenth
century, when the Puritan Silence seized it. I have only seen one instance
of the surname, "John Silkin" being set down as dwelling in Tattenhall,
Cheshire, in 1531 (Earwaker's "East Cheshire," p. 56).
[7] Nevertheless the surname did exist in Yorkshire in Richard II.'s
reign:
"Willelmus Malkynson, and Dionisia uxor ejus, iiii{d}."--W. D. S.
[8] I need not quote, in proof of the popularity of _kin_, our surnames of
Simpkinson, Hopkins, Dickens, Dickenson, Watkins, Hawkins, Jenkinson,
Atkinson, and the rest. I merely mention that the patronymics ending in
_kins_ got abbreviated into _kiss_, and _kes_, and _ks_. Hence the origin
of our Perkes, Purkiss, Hawkes, and Hawks, Dawks, Jenks, Juckes, and Jukes
(Judkins).
[9] In this class we must assuredly place Figgins. In the Hundred Rolls
appears "Ralph, son of Fulchon." Here, of course, is the diminutive of the
once common Fulke. Fick and Figg were the nick forms:
"1 Henry VIII. To Fygge the taborer, 6{d}."--Churchwarden's Books of
Kingston-on-Thames, Brand's "Pop. Ant.," i. 147.
The London Directory has all the forms and corruptions as surnames,
including Fick, Ficken, Figg, Figgs, Figgess, and Figgins.
[10] Guion was not half so popular in England as Guiot. There are
fifty-five Wyatts to three Wyons in the London Directory (1870). If
Spenser had written of Guyon two centuries earlier, this might have been
altered. Guy Fawkes ruined Guy. He can never be so popular again.
[11] Cornwall would naturally be last to be touched by the Reformation.
Hence these old forms were still used to the close of Elizabeth's reign,
as for instance:
"1576, March 24. Baptized Ibbett, d. of Kateryne Collys, bastard.
"1576, July 30. Baptized Isott, d. of Richard Moyle."--St. Columb
Major.
[12] This connection of Scripture name with present circumstance ran out
its full period. In the diary of Samuel Jeake, a well-known Puritan of
Rye, occurs this reference to his son, born August 13, 1688: "At 49
minutes past 11 p.m. exactly (allowing 10' that the sun sets at Rye before
he comes to the level of the horizon, for the watch was set by the
sun-setting), my wife was safely delivered of a son, whom I named
Manasseh, hoping that God had now made me _forget_ all my
toils."--"History of Town and Port of Rye," p. 576. Manasseh =
forgetfulness.
A bishop may be instanced. Aylmer, who succeeded Sandys in the see of
London, was for many years a favourer of Puritanism, and had been one of
the exiles. His sixth son was _Tobel_ (_i.e._ God is good), of Writtle, in
Essex. Archbishop Whitgift was his godfather, and the reason for his
singular appellation was his mother's being overturned in a coach without
injury when she was pregnant (Cooper's "Ath. Cant." ii. 172).
Again: "At Dr. Whitaker's death, his wife is described as being 'partui
vicina,' and a week afterwards her child was christened by the name of
_Jabez_, doubtless for the scriptural reason 'because, she said, I bare
him with sorrow.'"--Cooper's "Ath. Cant." ii. 197.
[13] Esther's other name of Hadassah had a share of favour. So late as
William and Mary's reign we find the name in use:
"1691, May 24. Christened Hadasa, daughter of Arthur Richardson.
"1693, Sep. 4. Christened John, son of Nicholas and Hadassah
Davis."--St. Dionis Backchurch.
[14] In the Lancashire "Church Surveys," 1649-1655, being the first volume
of the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society's publications, edited by
Colonel Fishwick, occur Thurston Brown, Thurston Brere, Thurston Brich, on
one single page of the index.
[15] To tell a lie is to tell a _lee_ in Lancashire.
[16] Several names seem to have been taken directly from the Hebrew
tongue. "Amalasioutha" occurs as a baptismal name in the will of a man
named Corbye, 1594 (Rochester Wills); Barijirehah in that of J. Allen,
1651, and Michalaliel among the Pilgrim Fathers (Hotten).
[17] Colonel Cunningham, in his annotations of the "Alchemist," says,
speaking of the New Englanders bearing the Puritan prejudices with them:
"So deeply was it rooted, that in the rebellion of the colonies a member
of that State seriously proposed to Congress the putting down of the
English language by law, and decreeing the universal adoption of the
Hebrew in its stead."--Vol. ii. p. 33, Jonson's Works.
[18] The following entry is a curiosity:
"1756, May 24. Buried Love Venus Rivers."--St. Peter, Cornhill.
[19] Even Nathaniel may have been a pre-Reformation name, for Grumio says,
"Call forth Nathaniel, Joseph, Nicholas, Philip, Walter, Sugarsop, and the
rest; let their heads be sleekly combed" ("Taming of the Shrew," Act iv.
sc. 1.), where he is manifestly using the old names.
[20] Zachary was the then form of Zachariah, as Jeremy of Jeremiah.
Neither is a nickname.
[21] The story of Cain and Abel would be popularized in the "mysteries."
Abelot was a favourite early pet form (_vide_ "English Surnames," index;
also p. 82).
[22] "Jan, 1537. Item: payed to Blaze for brawdering a payre of sleves for
my lady's grace, xx{s}."--"Privy Purse Expenses, Princess Mary."
[23] Philip is found just as frequently for girls as boys:
"1588, March 15. Baptized Phillip, daughter of John Younge.
"1587, Feb. 7. Baptized Phillip, daughter of James Laurence."--St.
Columb Major.
[24] In the Oxford edition, 1859, is a foot-note: "Appoline was the usual
name in England, as Appoline in France, for Apollonia, a martyr at
Alexandria, who, among other tortures, had all her teeth beaten out."
[25] Mr. Beesley, in his "History of Banbury" (p. 456), curiously enough
speaks of this _Epiphany_ as a Puritan example. I need not say that a
Banbury zealot would have as soon gone to the block as impose such a title
on his child.
[26] Gawain, Gawen, or Gavin lingered till last century in Cumberland and
the Furrness district. The surname of Gunson in the same parts shows that
"Gun" was a popular form. Hence, in the Hundred Rolls, Matilda fil. Gunne
or Eustace Gunnson. The London Directory forms are Gowan, Gowen, and
Gowing:
"1593, Nov. 7. Buried Sarra Bone, wife of Gawen Bone."--St. Dionis
Backchurch.
[27] A good instance of the position in society of Jane and Joan is seen
in Rowley's "A Woman never Vexed," where, in the _dramatis personae_,
_Jane_ is daughter to the London Alderman, and _Joan_ servant-wench to the
Widow. The play was written about 1630.
[28] There seems to have been some difficulty in forming the feminines of
Charles, all of which are modern. Charlotte was known in England before
the queen of George III. made it popular, through the brave Charlet la
Tremouille, Lady Derby; but it was rarely used:
"1670, Oct. 26. Sir Sam{l}. Morland to Carola Harsnet."--Westminster
Abbey.
"1703. Charlotte Eliza, d. of Mr. John Harmand, a French
minister."--Hammersmith.
"9 Will. III. June 29. Caroletta Hasting, defendant."--Decree Rolls,
MSS. Record Office.
Carolina, Englished into Caroline, became for a while the favourite, but
Charlotte ran away with the honours after the beloved princess of that
name died.
[29] Bethia still lingers in certain families, but its origin has
manifestly been forgotten. In _Notes and Queries_, February 23, 1861, Mr.
W. A. Leighton deems the name an incorrect version of the scriptural
Bithiah (1 Chron. iv. 18); while "G.," writing March 9, 1861, evidently
agrees with this conclusion, for after saying that his aunt, a sister, and
two cousins bear it, he adds, "They spell it Bethia and Bathia, instead of
Bithiah, which is the accurate form"! Miss Yonge also is at fault: "The
old name of Bethia, to be found in various English families, probably came
from an ancestral Beth on either Welsh, Scots, or Irish sides." She makes
it Keltic.
The latest instance of Bethia I have seen is the following, on a mural
tablet in Kirkthorpe Church, York:--
"Bethia Atkins, ob. Ap. 16th, 1851, aged 74."
[30] "But the ridicule which falls on this mode of naming children belongs
not to these times only, for the practice was in use long
before."--Harris, "Life of Oliver Cromwell," p. 342.
[31] This child was buried a few days later. From the name given the
father seems to have expected the event.
[32] From 1585 to 1600, that is, in fifteen years, Warbleton register
records more than a hundred examples of eccentric Puritanism.
[33] This name crept into Yorkshire after Accepted Frewen became
archbishop. "Thornton Church is a little episcopal chapel-of-ease, rich in
Nonconformist monuments, as of Accepted Lister, and his friend Dr.
Hale."--Mrs. Gaskell's "Charlotte Bronte," p. 37.
[34] Faith-my-joy was buried June 12, 1602. While the name was Puritan in
the sense that it would never have been given but for the zealots, it was
merely a translation of the Purefoy motto, "Pure Foi ma Joi." Antony
turned it into a spiritual allusion.
[35] "On Jan. 28, 17 James I., William Foster ... together with Sir Henry
Burton, Susan Mowne, and James Bynde, and Sanctia or Sence his wife,
joined in conveying to Robert Raunce and Edward Thurland ... a house and
land in Carshalton on trust to sell."--"Bray's Surrey," ii. 513.
[36] Erasmus became a popular baptismal name, and still exists:
"1541, Jan. 3. Baptized Erasmus, sonne of John Lynsey."--St. Peter,
Cornhill.
"1593, Sep. 16. Baptized Erasmus, sonne of John Record, merchaunt
tailor."--Ditto.
"1611, July 18. Buried Erasmus Finche, captaine, of Dover
Castle."--Cant. Cath.
[37] "April 6, 1879, at St. Peter's Thanet, entered into rest, Mary Given
Clarke, aged 71 years."--_Church Times_, April 10, 1879.
[38] The following is curious, although it does not properly belong to
this class:
"1629, July 11. Baptized Subpena, a man childe found at the Subpena
office in Chancery Lane."--St. Dunstan.
[39] _Melior_ was a favourite:--
"1675, April 15. Baptized Melior, d. of Thomas and Melior
Richardson."--Westminster Abbey.
"1664-5, Feb. 22. William Skutt seeks renewal of a wine licence, which
he holds in behalf of his mother-in-law, Melior Allen, of Sarum, at
L10 a year."--"C. S. P. Dom."
"1552, July 11. Baptized Mellior, d. of John James."--St. Columb
Major.
[40] "1661, Sep. 6. Baptized Faith Dionis, Charity Dionis, Grace Dionis,
three foundlings."--St. Dionis, Backchurch.
The _Manchester Evening Mail_, March 22, 1878, says, "At Stanton, near
Ipswich, three girls, having been born at one birth, were baptized Faith,
Hope, and Charity."
[41] Constance had been an old English favourite, its nick and pet forms
being Cust, or Custance, or Cussot (_vide_ "English Surnames," p. 67, 2nd
edition). The Puritan dropped these, but adopted "Constant" and
"Constancy." The more worldly, in the mean time, curtailed it to "Con."
[42] Sophia did not come into England for a century after this. But, while
speaking of Greek names, the most popular was Philadelphia:
"1639, May 3. Buried the Lady Philadelphia Carr."--Hillingdon,
Middlesex.
"1720, Aug. 6. Married William Adams and Philadelphia Saffery."--Cant.
Cath.
"1776, Jan. 5. Buried Philadelphia, wife of John Read."--Blockley,
Glouc.
Whether Penn styled the city he founded after the Church mentioned in the
Apocalypse, or after a friend or kinswoman, or because, interpreted, it
was a Quaker sentiment, I cannot say. But Philadelphia, in James I.'s
reign, had become such a favourite that I have before me over a hundred
instances, after no very careful research. None was needed; it appears in
every register, and lingered on into the present century.
[43] "1658. Mr. Charles Beswicke, minister of the parish ch. of Stockport,
and Sylance Symonds, d. of Mr. Robert Symonds, of Daubever, co. Derby,
published March 28, April 4 and 11, 1658."--Banns, Parish Church,
Stockport.
This Silence was either mother or grandmother to Silence Thyer, but I am
not sure which is the relationship. If grandmother, then there must have
been three generations of "Silences."
[44] "I myself have known some persons in London, and other parts of this
kingdom, who have been christened by the names of Faith, Hope, Charity,
Mercy, Grace, Obedience, Endure, Rejoice, etc."--Brome's "Travels in
England," p. 279.
[45] Repentance lingered longer than I thought. In the churchyard of
Mappowder, Dorset, is a tombstone to the memory of "Repentance, wife of,"
etc. She died within the last twenty years. There is no doubt that these
names found their latest home in Devon and Dorset. The names in Mr.
Blackmore's novels corroborate this.
[46] This is another case of a Puritan name that got into high society.
Accepted Frewen died an archbishop; Humble Ward became first Baron Ward.
His daughter Theodosia married Sir Thomas Brereton, Bart.
[47] "Faithful Teate was minister at Sudbury, Suffolk, at the time Richard
Sibbes, who was born close by, was growing up."--Sibbes' Works, 1. xxvi.
Nichol, 1862.
[48] Antony a Wood says Robert Abbott, minister at Cranbrook, Kent,
published a quarto sermon in 1626, entitled "Be-thankful London and her
Sisters." When we remember that Warbleton in 1626 had at least a dozen
Be-Thankfuls among its inhabitants, and that Cranbrook was within walking
distance, we see where the title of this discourse was got.
[49] Live-well Chapman was a Fifth Monarchy man. There is still extant a
pamphlet headed "A Declaration of several of the Churches of Christ, and
Godly People, in and about the City of London, concerning the Kingly
Interest of Christ, and the Present Sufferings of His Cause, and Saints in
England. Printed for Live-well Chapman, 1654."
[50] These two were twins:
"1589, Oct. 12. Baptized Fre-gyft and Fear-not, ye children of John
Lulham."--Warbleton.
[51] This, no doubt, will be a relative of the well-known Puritan, Comfort
Starr, born in the adjacent hamlet of Ashford.
[52] A tablet in Northiam Church says--
"In memory of Thankfull Frewen, Esq., patron of, and a generous
benefactor to, this Church: who was many years purse-bearer and
afterwards secretary to Lord Keeper Coventry, in the reign of Charles
the First."
A flat stone in the chancel commemorates the second Thankful:
"Hic situs est vir reverendus Thankfull Frewen hujus ecclesiae per
quinquaginta sex annos rector sanctissimus & doctissimus ... obiit
2{do} Septembris, 1749, anno aetatis 81{mo}."
[53] We have already seen that Stephen Vynall had a daughter baptized
No-merit at Warbleton, September 28, 1589. Heley's influence followed him
to Isfield, as this entry proves.
[54] "1723.--Welthiana Bryan."--Nicholl's "Coll. Top. et Gen.," iii. 250.
[55] Pleasant lasted for some time:
"1757, Jan. 11. Married Thomas Dunn and Pleasant Dadd."--Cant. Cath.
[56] A dozen Freemans may be seen within the limits of half that number of
pages in the Finchley registers. Here is one:
"1603, Feb. 26. Baptized Freeman, filius Freeman Page."
[57] That is, he held him crosswise in his arms.
[58] "And here was 'Bartholomew Fayre' acted to-day, which had not been
these forty years, it being so satyricall against Puritanism, they durst
not till now."--Pepys, Sept. 7, 1661.
[59] That some changed their names for titles of more godly import need
not be doubted. William Jenkin says, "I deny not, but in some cases it may
be lawfull to change our names, or forbear to mention them, either by
tongue or pen: but then we should not be put upon such straits by the
badnesse of our actions (as the most are) which we are ashamed to own,
_but by the consideration of God's glory_, or _the Churches good_, or our
own necessary preservation in time of persecution."--"Exposition of Jude,"
1652, p. 7.
[60] A child was baptized, January 10, 1880, in the parish church of
Stone, near Dartford, by the name of Sou'wester. He was named after an
uncle who was born at sea in a south-westerly gale, who received the same
name (_Notes and Queries_, February 7, 1880).
[61] We have already recorded Hate-evil as existing in the Banbury Church
register.
[62] The practice of hyphening names, as a condition of accepting
property, etc., is of recent origin. By this means not a double baptismal,
but a double patronymic, name is formed. But though manifestly increasing,
the number of such double surnames is not yet a large one.
[63] "At Faversham a tradesman in 1847 had a son baptized Church-reform,
and wished for another, to style him No-tithes, but wished in vain."--P.
S. in _Notes and Queries_, February 3, 1866.
[64] Sometimes, however, one was deemed enough, as, for instance,
"Charitye, daughter of the Lord knows who!" This is from Youlgreave,
Derbyshire, but the correspondent of _Notes and Queries_ does not give the
date.
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