Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature

NOTE.

W. D. S. in the Prologue = “Wappentagium de Strafford.”

C. S. P. = “Calendar of State Papers.”

CONTENTS.

	PROLOGUE.
	THE PET-NAME EPOCH IN ENGLAND.
		PAGE
I.	The Paucity of Names after the Conquest	1
II.	Pet Forms	9
	(a.) Kin	9
	(b.) Cock	13
	(c.) On or In	17
	(d.) Ot or Et	21
	(e.) Double Terminatives.	30
III.	Scripture Names already in use at the Reformation	34
	(a.) Mystery Names	34
	(b.) Crusade Names	35
	(c.) The Saints’ Calendar	36
	(d.) Festival Names	36

	CHAPTER I.
	THE HEBREW INVASION.
I.	The March of the Army	38
II.	Popularity of the Old Testament	59
III.	Objectionable Scripture Names	70
IV.	Losses	76
	(a.) The Destruction of Pet Forms	76
	(b.) The Decrease of Nick Forms	82
	(c.) The Decay of Saint and Festival Names	92
	(d.) The Last of some Old Favourites	99
V.	The General Confusion	109

	CHAPTER II.
	PURITAN ECCENTRICITIES.
I.	Introductory	117
II.	Originated by the Presbyterian Clergy	121
III.	Curious Names not Puritan	128
IV.	Instances	134
	(a.) Latin Names	134
	(b.) Grace Names	138
	(c.) Exhortatory Names	155
	(d.) Accidents of Birth	166
	(e.) General	176
V.	A Scoffing World	179
	(a.) The Playwrights	182
	(b.) The Sussex Jury	191
	(c.) Royalists with Puritan Names	194
VI.	Bunyan’s Debt to the Puritans	198
VII.	The Influence of Puritanism on American Nomenclature	201

	EPILOGUE.
	DOUBLE CHRISTIAN NAMES: THEIR RISE AND PROGRESS.
I.	Royal Double Names	213
II.	Conjoined Names	222
III.	Hyphened Names	224
IV.	The Decay of Single Patronymics in Baptism	228
V.	The Influence of Foundling Names upon Double Baptismal Names	233

	Index	239

CURIOSITIES OF PURITAN NOMENCLATURE.

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